Long Beach, CA: Christar Publishers, 1984. Softcover. Near fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1932 original, which was distrbuted by the Long Baach Chamber of Commerce. 24 pp, illustrated with b/w photos. Minimal handling wear; about fine. Includes sections on parks and playgrounds, amusements, golf courses, hotels and apartments, beaches, the... (Item #20320)
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)
6 x 9 inches, approx. 150 pp, illustrated, bound in green cloth. A few pages have light pencil marginalia, one page with a short tear, slight cover soiling; very good. An interesting collection of articles on preservation of the redwoods published by John C. Merriam (founder of the Save the... (Item #20448)
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)
Very good. Nineteen original black and white photographs, each measuring 4 x 5 inches (including white border), and each with a handwritten caption on the back identifying the location. All are clear and in very good condition. Fourteen images are of Long Beach locations (e.g., Bank of America, Continental Bakery... (Item #19748)
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)
Sacramento: State Office, 1887. Softcover. Good. Second edition. 8vo, 24 pp, including a full-page map. Original printed wrappers have several small chips and tears, pamphlet has an old vertical folding crease and a quarter-inch in the front wrap that also affects the first three leaves, text has occasional foxing. First... (Item #20149)
Washington: U.S. Geological Survey, 1907. Very good. 10.25 x 13.25 inches, printed in black and red. Map showing San Francisco following the Earthquake and Fire of 1906, showing the boundary of the burned area, as well as the "district covered largely by brick structures" and identifying 48 individual structures. Originally... (Item #19515)
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)
Undated and uncredited albumen photograph (image size 4.75" x 7.75"), identified in a handwritten caption on the mount as Forest City, a town in Sierra County, California, where gold was discovered in 1852. Slight fading and spotting, crack in the glass negative appearing in lower left, but still a clear... (Item #19245)
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)
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)
San Francisco: Sunset Publishing House, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 275 pp, illustrated. Original blue pictorial cloth; no dust jacket. Mild rubbing to extremities and bumping to corners, else fine. No dust jacket. The author was a singer and music teacher in San Francisco. The book provides good detail... (Item #20461)
Santa Barbara, CA: Wallace Hebberd, 1927. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 499 pp + [16] (illustrations), indexed. Foreword by Aurthur M. Ellis, illustrations by James S. Bodrero. Firrst printing of the second edition (first published 1881). Original gilt-decorated green cloth. Spine lettering a bit dulled, brief... (Item #19669)
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)
Western Historical Association, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Volume I ONLY. 602 pp, illustrated. Original blue pebbled cloth boards have a few white paint splatters, spine is lightly sunned. Internally very clean and sound. This volume includes the full history of each county, including chapters on local organizations, churches... (Item #19689)
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)
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, front hinge partially cracked. Embossed library stamp on a.... (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)
San Bernardino, CA: Times Index Press, [1902]. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 130 pp, in original wrappers. Illustrated by Constance Farris. A very good copy, but for the fact that there are two small holes of unknown origin that go through the entire book (see images). These are relatively inoffensive, but... (Item #19890)
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