San Francisco: San Carlos Park Syndicate. Undated, ca. 1907. Single-page circular, or possibly a removed advertisement, backed on linen. 9 x 6 inches, printed in green and red, illustrated with half-tone photograph of the San Carlos railroad depot. Minor damage to lower left corner; very good. An effusive promotional piece..... Item #21470
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 1797.0. Item #1324
Softcover. Near fine. No publication given, but a note at the back indicates the book was "sponsored by the East Side Thimble Club." 6 x 9 inches, unpaginated, but ca. 60 pp, with photographic illustrations. Minor wear to the cheerful pictorial wrappers, internals fine. An interesting compilation of short articles..... Item #23037
Twenty-seven (27) 8” x 10” photographs showcasing high-end vehicles for rent from the Iowa Garage in Pasadana, California, owned by former race car mechanic Eugene Lajunie (b. 1885). Each photo is accompanied by a typed caption giving the model number, color, some specifications, and the price per day to rent..... Item #20563
Los Angeles: Security Trust & Savings Bank, 1928, 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Two volumes: El Pueblo, 80 pp; La Reina, 208 pp. Both extensively illustrated, both in very good condition in original illustrated wrappers. Some minor soiling and edgewear to the front cover of La Reina. Internals fine..... Item #22380
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Advertising handbill, approximately 8.5 x 5.5 inches, illustrated with a wonderful (or not, depending on your point of view) image of "A Flea Magnified." Some staining, old folding creases. Joseph Fusch trademarked his Eureka Insect Exterminator--guaranteed to kill fleas, flies, mosquitoes, bed bugs, ants , moths, lice, and cockroaches without..... Item #21613
Undated, likely mid-1970s. 34 x 25-inch map showing hundreds of small lots for sale in this subdivision in Weed, near Mount Shasta in Siskyou County. Folding creases, one split along a fold, a few minor notations; very good. Development at Lake Shastina began in 1968 and focused on enticing well-heeled..... Item #21486
Los Angeles: Touring Bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California, 1931. Softcover. Very good. 4.5" x 8", 31 pp, in original stapled wrappers. Light soiling to front cover, otherwise clean and sound. Very good. The Automobile Club of Southern California, founded in 1900, was one of the nation's first..... Item #22090
Very good. Original 6" x 8" black and white photograph on a 10" x 12" mount, captioned "Mairposa Co. Exibit" (sic) and credited "Simon & Robinson Photog." Very good condition, blank on the back. Undated, but ca. 1915 based on the period when Simon & Robinson were active. Their firm..... Item #22999
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
Stockton: Rosensteel-Pulich Printing Co. Softcover. Fine. Undated, but ca. 1927. Four-fold brochure, 4" x 8", with map and two half-tone photographic illustrations. Fine. One copy located in OCLC. Among the "concise poultry facts" provided about San Joaquin County: "350,000 hens laid, in 1926, sufficient eggs to reach in a single..... Item #21886
Washington: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853. Hardcover. Good. 4to, pp vi, 173, complete with 37 folding maps, charts, and tables. Original full-leather binding with red and black spine labels. Volume itself in fair condition -- both boards partially detached; loss of leather at spine ends and along bottom edge; stamps..... Item #22809
Pomona: California State Polytechnic Institute, [1985]. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 8.5 x 8.5 inches, 32 pp, in original stapled wrappers. Corners lightly bumped, minor shelfwear. Inscribed on the title page "To Sonya in appreciation, Cordially, Dione Neutra, X-mas 1985." Richard Neutra (1892-1970) was one of the most influential architects..... Item #21850
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
Softcover. Very good. Title continues: "Business Houses,Schools, Churches, Mines, Mills, etc. ... With Historical Sketch of the County." Facsimile softcover reprint of the 1879 edition published by Wallace W. Ellicott. No publication information given. "Santa Cruz County 1879" handwritten on spine, light staining to edge of text block, otherwise clean..... Item #21758
Los Angeles: 1940. Softcover. Very good. Full title: Souvenir Journal, Annual Ball, Los Angeles Joint Board Cloak and Dressmakers' Union, I.L.G.W.U. T.V.G. Auditorium, Saturday Evening, February Tenth, 1940. 9' x 6", [16] pp., stapled wrappers. Light toning, union ink stamp on front cover; very good. Los Angeles Joint Board Cloak..... Item #22379
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
Santa Barbara, CA: Fithian Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bound in brown cloth boards. Light spotting to top edges of pages, binding is tight, text is clean. Dust jacket has very small chip to top edge of front panel. From the dust..... Item #21072
Chico, CA: Chico Advertiser, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 91 pp, illustrated, in original printed wrappers. Some chipping to paper over spine, pages tanned; very good. Reprints articles by Bidwell first published in the Century Magazine in 189 and 1891. Kurutz 55a: "the vast majority of the text is..... Item #22600
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937. Hardcover. Very good. 11.5" x 7.75", pp ix, 48 pages, paper-covered boards with cloth spine. A little fraying to head of spine, touch of soiling to front board; very good or better. Reprint of the extremely rare 1842 edition, which was first published narrative..... Item #22331
Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press, 1993. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. 476 pp, with illustrations, tables, maps. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a crease to the front flap. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers No. 40. Publisher's description: "The explorers, the gold-seekers, and the settlers..... Item #22260
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
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. xix, 552 pp, with illustrations, folding map, in publisher's blue cloth and original dust jacket. Upper outer corner lightly bumped, else a fine copy. Dust jacket shows some toning, a few tiny tears..... Item #22705
Bakersfield, CA: Kern County Historical Society, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 54 pp, with illustrations, maps, bibliography index. Slight rubbing to spine ends, else a fine copy, in the original dust jacket, which is lightly soiled. History of the Kern River gold mining..... Item #22296
