2000. Hardcover. Very Good. University of San Diego Master's Thesis. 8.5 x 11 inches, bound in blue buckram, vii, 141 pp + notes, with maps, illustrations, bibliography. A few pencil annotations, all else very good. Includes chapters on the Historiography of Women and Power in Alta California, California Indian Women..... Item #3220
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1954. Hardcover. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. First American edition, signed on the front free endpaper by expedition members Edmund Hillary, George Lowe, and Charles Evans, and the London Times correspondent James Morris (now Jan Morris), who accompanied the party. xx, 300 pp..... Item #21020
London: Methuen, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. fine in a very good dust jacket. 210 pp, indexed. A fine copy in original green cloth. Dust jacket is toned and lightly worn at the edges. Hyamson (1875-1954) was a British Zionist who served as chief immigration officer in the British Mandate of..... Item #15798
Seven signed manuscript letters on United States Internal Revenue letterhead, each on is on a single sheet, ranging in length from approximately 50 to 100 words. Old folding creases, minor spotting; very good. The Internal Revenue Service was created in 1862, when an income tax was enacted to help fund..... Item #20048
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. xxiii, 940, + ads, with many plates (including one folding panorama), portraits, and five folding maps. Plates are from photos by the author and drawings by R.W. Macbeth, Clifford Carleton, Harry C. Edwards, E.F.W. Frohawk. Original blue..... Item #20473
Cincinnati: Elm Street Printing Company, 1881. Softcover. Good. Single issue of this periodical (which was in the midst of undergoing a name change to better reflect its broad content) dated December 1881. pp 401-428, including index for the entire year. Includes much content on the state of missions and living..... Item #20779
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 7.25 x 10.25 inches, 213 pp text + numerous illustrations, including 32 color plates and many b/w photographs. Original beige buckram boards, top edge gilt. Lightly rubbed at the extremities, two small archival repairs to the half title page, else fine..... Item #16946
Pasadena, CA: Radiant Life Press, 1917. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo, pp. 48 + 7 b/w plates, in original stapled pictorial wrappers. Some chipping and tiny tears to wrappers;contents clean. James first saw Captain, a performing horse owned by W.A. Sigsbee of Chicago, at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San..... Item #18962
Pasadena, CA: Radiant Life Press, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 216 pp. indexed and illustrated, in original decorative cloth boards. Light rubbing to extremities, else fine. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Bertha Bliss Tyler, author of the chapter recounting "George Wharton James Day." A record of the..... Item #20841
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Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 345 pp + numerous b/w illustrations from photographs, index, illustrated endpapers. Original giraffe-patterned cloth boards, sunned at the spine and with moderate shelfwear. Text clean, binding sound. No dust jacket. Inscribed on the half-title page "to M.S. Slocum with..... Item #20072
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[Palo Alto, CA]: Dramatists' Alliance of Stanford University, 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 106 pp, ca. 8.5 x 11 inches, original illustrated wrappers. Moderate handling wear, including creasing to cover resulting from a binding error; very good. Second volume in the Coester Series of Translations from the drama of..... Item #20734
Salt Lake City, UT: Privately printed for the author by Western Printing Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Copy 274 of a limited edition of 350. 128 pp, indexed, illustrated. Bound in textured green cloth with embossed illustration of a covered wagon. Lower corners bumped and rubbed, mild wear..... Item #21413
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
London: Macmillan, 1881. Hardcover. Near fine. 5" x 7", xi, 245 pp, with 12 color plates and additional illustrations in the text. Attractive full-red leather prize binding, with spine in six compartments tooled in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Inscribed "J. Royden, Classics, Class I, Yarlet, Christmas 1884" on the..... Item #14264
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Boston: George A. Chapman, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 132 pp, in original plain brown cloth. Some chips in cloth at spine, front board just holding on, moderate foxing throughout. Small label "Coll. Immac. Conc. S.J." on front pastedown. A scarce account by the last man jailed in the..... Item #18533
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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Washington, DC: Press of Byron S. Adams, 1912. 6 x 9.25 inches, 72 pp, with chromolithograph frontispiece, many b/w illustrations from photographs. Near fine, with mild edgewear to wrappers. Stamp of the Bolivan Consulate in San Francisco on front endpaper. An attractive informational booklet aimed at potential investors, with description..... Item #18158
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1964. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. 90 pp text + index, bibliography and 96 b/w plates; several plans in the text. Publisher's brown cloth w/gilt lettering on spine. As new, in a clean dust jacket with just a touch of shelf wear..... Item #16324
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey/Carey & Lea, 1829-1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Complete set of 13 volumes in original rose-colored cloth. Mild to moderate foxing (depending on the volume), but no markings or loss of text. Spines partially or fully perished on some volumes, some with the letters covered in..... Item #14202
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Washington: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1865. Very good. Single leaf, 5 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches, possibly originally issued with two leaves, the second being blank. 1.5 pages of text, signed in print by Lincoln, William Seward, and E.D. Townsend. Faint folding creases; near fine. Issued March 11, 1865..... Item #21167
Concord, NH: Daniel Cooledge, 1813. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition (first published 1809). 16mo, 143 pp, with wonderful wood-engraved sheep vignette on title page. Contemporary binding of calf-backed marbled boards with black spine label. Bookplate of Catholic priest and book collector Joseph M. Gleason on front pastedown. Five-digit number ink-stamped..... Item #21533
Sturgis & Walton: New York, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xv, 326 pp, in original pictorial cloth boards. No dust jacket. Corners rubbed through, some soiling to front board, paper over hinges cracked, but still sound and internally clean. Wiki: "In November 1910 the anthology, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier..... Item #21225
New York: Welch, Fracker Company, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. First edition in English. 12mo, 343 pp, illustrated by Benjamin Constant and Aime Marot. Publisher's green cloth with decoration in gilt, image of a warrior on horseback on front board. Mild rubbing to extremities, a few pages chipped at..... Item #14049
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1865. Hardcover. Good+. Early edition (first published 1861). 9.5 x 6 inches, 144 pp + 60 beautiful chromolithographed plates. Publisher's blue cloth binding decorated in gilt, all edges gilt. Chipping to cloth at spine ends, corners rubbed through. Binding sound, text and plates clean and bright..... Item #21519
California: Historic Record Company. Hardcover. Good. Undated, ca. 1927. Title continues "Containing also short, well-written personal sketches of many men and women, deceased and living, who by their own unaided efforts have made this one of the foremost sections of the State." 10.5 inches, 983 pp, with illustrations from photographs..... Item #21243
