New York: Macmillan, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 106 pp + publisher's ads, with maps and illustrations from photographs. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt; no dust jacket. Some dark staining to front cover. Binding sound, text clean. Rocq 2200. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 142 "The book ably presents..... Item #20809
Boston: James Osgood, 1879. Hardcover. Very good-. Sixth edition, with maps and revisions. 308 pp, with two colored folding maps, bound in green cloth with beveled edges. Bookplate of the Second Baptist Church, St. Louis, on front endpaper, otherwise clean. Some wear to extremities, spine lean, paper over rear hinge..... Item #20655
Glendale, CA: La Siesta Press, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine. 72 pp, with illustrations, maps, index, map endpapers. Light wear to edges; else fine. Signed by author on title page. #168/173 copies. Includes four routes: Mariposa to Jamestown, Sonora to Jackson, Sutter Creek to Coloma, and Auburn to Downieville. Item #2946
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Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Westerners, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. 211 pp, with illustrations, index. Light spotting to top edge, very light wear to edges; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. One of an edition of 500. Includes contributions from Clifford M. Drury ("California's Gold Rush Churches"), E.I.Edwards ("Death..... Item #1300
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. #137 of 300 copies, signed by both authors in pencil on the colophon. 193 pp, with color frontispiece, illustrations in black and white. Light dust spotting to top edge of text block, slight fading to top inch of rear..... Item #20494
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Sonora: Mother Lode Press, 1963. Softcover. Near fine. 96 pp, with illustrations, maps, and bibliography. Folding map laid in. Front cover lightly soiled; contents clean. Item #14878
Capitola, CA: Capitola Book Company, 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. xv, 550 pp, with maps, illustrations, references, index. Light wear to edges; else fine. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. "This first-ever study of the Chinese in the Monterey Bay Region traces their history from..... Item #3158
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Number 108 of a limited edition of 150 copies, signed by Lyman on the limitation page. 394 pp, illustrated with plates from photographs, paintings and engravings, and with four folding facsimile letters not found in the trade edition. Two-toned..... Item #19662
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 368 pp, illustrated. Original red cloth, no dust jacket. Some minor insect damage to boards, internals fine. Signed by Lyman (without inscription) on the half-title page. William Chapman Ralston became one of the richest men in California by monopolizing..... Item #20515
![Ralston's Ring, California Plunders the Comstock Lode [SIGNED]. George D. Lyman](/pictures/thumb/20515.jpg?v=1555622295)
Geo. Rice & Sons, 1904. Hardcover. Good. Third revised edition. 172 pp + illustrations + advertisements, with index. Front hinge cracked, general wear to boards with large chip missing from mounted illustration; contents clean. No dust jacket. From the Preface: "The object of this little volume is to meet and..... Item #1782
Los Gatos, CA: Talisman Press, 1960. Hardcover. Near fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 219 pp, with index, map endpapers. edited by Dale L. Morgan. A near fine copy with slight edgewear, previous owner's name written front free endpaper. Dust jacket has some closed tears repaired on the inside..... Item #2564
Los Angeles: 1925. First Edition. 106 pp, with illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers with embossed lettering. Edges chipped, some staining to front cover. Text clean, binding tight. Founded in 1893 as the Southern California Fruit Exchange in Claremont, "the exchange soon included growers and groves in Riverside in Riverside..... Item #19933
Bakersfield, CA: Kern County Historical Society and the County of Kern, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 84 pp, with bibliography, illustrations, maps of Spanish explorations and Mexican Land Grants. One small stain on front board, else a fine copy, in a clean dust..... Item #14643
San Francisco: John Howell, 1961. Hardcover. Fine. xvii, 114 pp + folding maps. Fine copy in original clear plastic jacket, which has a long tear to the rear panel. Second edition, one of 1000 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. José Longinos Martínez (1756-1802) was a Spanish naturalist whose..... Item #3185
Napa City, CA: Reporter Publishing House, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 356 pp, with frontispiece and 28 additional illustrations, some full-page. Original rust-colored cloth boards and heavily worn, with several tears in the cloth and places where the underlying cardboard is visible. Spine lettering is faded, some foxing to endpapers..... Item #2928
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good in a good dust jacket. xx, 388 pp + illustrations, with index. Light wear and soiling to boards; text clean. Dust jacket shows has a large tear to the front panel, toning, price clipped. "Urban Los Angeles is the setting..... Item #3160
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 337 pp, with index, bibliography, illustrations. Both book and jacket as new. Laid in is a photocopy of a lengthy typed letter, dated 1991, from historian Doyce Nunis, offering a considered critique of the book..... Item #14427
Norco, CA: Tales of the Mojave Road, 1984. Hardcover. Fine. 137 pp, with illustrations, maps, index, map tipped in on rear pastedown, illustrated endpapers. A fine copy. Account of homesteading in the high desert of the East Mojave. The Sharps filed their claim in 1913. As was the case with..... Item #1088
Modern three-ring binder containing 27 black and white 8” x 10” photographs showcasing high-end vehicles for rent from the Iowa Garage, owned by former race car mechanic Eugene Lajunie of Pasadena. Each photo is accompanied by a typed caption giving the model number, color, some specifications, and the price per..... Item #20563
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 309 pp, with index, illustrated endpapers. Light wear to edges, contents clean and sound. Dust jacket has a chip missing from head of spine and some rubbing. "The dramatic story of Southern..... Item #2234
Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1995. Softcover. Near Fine. Trade paperback, 182 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs, maps. Name written on front inside cover, minimal handling wear; else fine. Contains four essays on William Mullholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster of 1928, by J. David Rogers..... Item #1812
Los Angeles: The Westerners, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. 180, with illustrations, bibliography, index, illustrated endpapers. Minimal soiling/toning to top edge; else fine, in clear glassine wrapper. Silver anniversary publication celebrating the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners. Accounts of the 1856 Vigilance Committee, reprinted from 19th century periodicals. Item #1345
San Francisco: Recorder Printing and Publishing Company, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 9 x 12 inches, 133 pp., with color frontispiece, occasional line drawings in the text. Original gray cloth boards slightly bumped at corners, internals clean and sound. No dust jacket (likely as issued). O'Shaughnessy (1864-1934) was city..... Item #20749
County of Orange Environmental Management Agency, Advance Planning Division, 1982. Softcover. Very good. Two volumes, bound reports on complex land use issues in rapidly-developing Orange County, California in the 1980s. Volume I approx. 40 pp, Volume II approx. 50 pp. Both with many tables, charts, maps. According to the text..... Item #20568
Newport Beach and Fullerton, CA: Boyle Engineering Corporation and Weston Pringle and Associates, 1981. Softcover. Very good. 8.5 x 11, comb binding. Not paginated, but ca. 75 pages, printed rectos only. Includes a section of color illustrations and several flow charts. A photocopy of the Orange County Transportation Commission's Request..... Item #20569
