San Leandro, CA: City of San Leandro, 1971. Softcover. Very Good. 39 pp, with illustrations, subscription form, in original illustrated wrappers. Very light handling wear, internally clean and sound. A compilation of "San Leandro Recollections" articles assembled to celebrate the city's 99th anniversary. (Item #1327)
Centennial Historical Committee, 1969. Softcover. Very Good. 20 pp, with many illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Minimal handling wear, else fine.. A brief history of the community of San Juan Bautista (San Benito County, CA), established by Spanish Missionaries in 1797. (Item #1324)
San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery, 1997. Softcover. Near fine. Exhibition catalogue. 8.5 x 11 inches, 27 pp, with 12 color illustrations. Very light shelf wear to wrappers; contents clean. Includes work by Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, David Park, and Paul Wonner. (Item #1426)
Bishop, CA: Inyo County Board of Supervisors, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. 95 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs, maps. Pictorial boards show light wear to edges, name on front free endpaper, light spotting to edges; text clean and sound. No dust jacket. Well illustrated centennial history of Inyo County, California/. (Item #2056)
San Francisco: Frank Eastman, 1859-1873. Hardcover. Good. Seven volumes bound together. Three-quarter maroon leather over cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Moderate external wear, including staining, chipping to leather and cloth, mild bow to boards. Dampstain to margin of somepages (text unaffected), some damage to endpapers. Binding sound... (Item #2462)
![Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the State of California, at the Sixth, Seventh, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth Annual Convocation[s], Held at the Masonic Hall, in the City of Sacramento and San Francisco](/pictures/thumb/2462_1.JPG?v=1493850434)
New York: C.S. Hammond & Co. 1906. Softcover. Good. 7.25 x 10 inches, oblong. Unpaginated, approximately 35 pp, with illustrations from photographs, map. Paper over spine partially split (but holding), shelf wear and short tears to wrappers; contents clean. One page of German text (titled "Ruin yund neues Leben") on... (Item #1353)
San Leandro, CA: City of San Leandro, 1970. Softcover. Very good. 16 pp, with illustrations, subscription form laid in, in original illustrated wrappers. One of two staples in binding missing, light handling wear to wrappers; contents clean. Periodical created as part of the city's Centennial celebration. Main article in this... (Item #1322)
F.C. Hoogstraat. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Undated, c. 1900. Approximately 100 leaves printed rectos only, primarily b/w illustrations from photographs of buildings and scenes in Redlands, 30 pages of local advertising. 6 x 8 Inches, bound in suede, with tooled design on upper board. One corner heavily rubbed, one... (Item #17067)
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1920. Softcover. Very Good. pp. 47-69, with b/w illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Light handling wear and soiling to wrappers; else clean and sound. College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 325, September, 1920. A report on the ongoing research and experiments... (Item #1406)
Norco, CA: Tales of the Mojave Road, 1989. Hardcover. Very good. 176 pp, with illustrations, index, map endpapers. Light soiling to boards, internals clean and sound. A collection of desert stories extensively illustrated in b/w with illustrations from photographs. "The primary purpose of the book is to get some of... (Item #990)
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. pp. 125-218 + ads. Original printed wrappers, stamped "Property of the Mountaineers" on front cover and first page. Otherwise unmarked, clean and sound, with some chipping and tiny tears at the edges. Articles include "Tehepite Valley" (Muir); "Scrambles About Yosemite"... (Item #14775)
![Sierra Club Bulletin Vol. IX, No. 3, January 1914 [with much on Yosemite]. William Frederic Bade, John Muir, Joseph Le Conte, F. E. Matthes, Marion Randall Parsons, Lena Redington, Willis Linn Jepson, A. Martha Walker.](/pictures/thumb/14775.JPG?v=1474055701)
Bishop, CA: Chalfant Press, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 84 pp, with illustrations from photographs and line drawings. Slight wear to edges, very light spotting to top and fore-edge; else clean and sound. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear. Number 20 of an edition of... (Item #2173)
![An Unnatural History of Death Valley, With Reflections on the Valley's Varmints, Virgins, Vandals and Visionaries [SIGNED]. Paul Bailey, Billy Bender, Illustrator.](/pictures/thumb/2173.JPG?v=1491699150)
Death Valley, CA: Death Valley '49ers, 1962. Softcover. Very Good. 39 pp, with illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Minimal handling wear, light sunning to spine; else clean and sound. Signed by Ardis Manly Walker on title page. (Item #2336)
![Searles Lake Borax 1862-1962, The Centennial of the John W. Searles Borax Discovery [SIGNED]. L. Burr Belden, Ardis Manly Walker.](/pictures/thumb/2336.JPG?v=1491003729)
New York: Vantage Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 97 pp, with maps and illustrations. Spotting to top edge; else clean and sound. Dust jacket has some creases and short tears and is lightly sunned at the spine. From the dust jacket: "This... (Item #1367)
1919. Softcover. Very Good. 22 pp, in original wrappers. Light handling wear to wrappers, old horizontal crease; contents clean and sound. Text of the resolution of a lawsuit grought by the United States Govenment over oil-bearing lands in California granted to Southern Pacific Railroad. The Government argued that Southern Pacific... (Item #1495)
Banning, CA: Malki Museum Press, 1978. Hardcover. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Classics in California Anthropology 3, reprinted from the edition published by the Fine Arts Press, Santa Ana, in 1933. 9 x 12 inches, 247 pp, with 11 illustrations and maps, annotations, bibliography. Original brown cloth. Minimal... (Item #15770)
Los Angeles: Neuner Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 263 pp with frontispiece and 19 plates. Paper over hinges split, but hinges still secure. Edgewear to boards, a few pages with marginal tears, light foxing to illustrations and surrounding pages; else clean and sound. No dust jacket. "Compliments of... (Item #2209)
![Memory Pictures, An Autobiography [SIGNED]. John Hyde Braly.](/pictures/thumb/2209.JPG?v=1496447704)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1942]. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. xix, 631 pp, with 200 illustrations, including 10 in full color. Fine copy in dust jacket that has a few chips and short tears. Biography of William Keith, Scottish-American painter famous for his California landscapes. (Item #1866)
San Francisco: Powell Publishing, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. 465 pp + illustrations, with facsimile autographs of California pioneers, frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, bibliography, index. Part of the series "California," edited by John Russell McCarthy. Light wear to boards, light sunning to spine, internals clean and sound. No dust jacket. "I have... (Item #276)
Los Angeles: Round Table West, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 192 pp, indexed and extensively illustrated in black and white. Slight rubbing to gold cloth boards, but still a fine copy. Inscribed on the title page "To ____: Please enjoy! Warm regards, Margaret B." Laid in are a folded brochure... (Item #13859)
Bakersfield, CA: Cardon House, 1963. Softcover. Near fine. 78 pp, with illustrations, map, in orignal stapled wrappers. "A Pre-Centennial Publication In Limited Edition." Wrappers show slight wear; contents clean and sound. A history of early Kern County including details of daily life, gold mines, agriculture, roads, food prices, first elections... (Item #15001)
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. Blue cloth boards stamped on the spine in gilt; no dust jacket... (Item #18544)
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. A fine copy bound in 3/4 red leather and marbled boards; signed by... (Item #17389)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862. First American Edition. Hardcover. good. 8vo, xii, [4], 574+ [2] ads. Illustrated with engravings; 3 maps on one folding sheet. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine darkened, fraying to spine ends, corners rubbed, small repair to front hinge. Embossed library stamp on... (Item #13758)
San Francisco: Society of California Pioneers, 1924. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 45 pp, w/3 illustrations. Original stapled wrappers are sunned and lightly soiled, and "The Rush of '49" (the title of the issue's main article) has been written across the top of the front cover in pencil. Contents clean... (Item #14557)
