[Pasadena, CA]: Printed by Norman Clayton for the Zamorano Club, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo, 64 pp. Number 63 of 75 subscriber copies (of a total run of 125 copies) bound in quarter brown leather and purple cloth, and signed on the colophon by all of the contributors as..... Item #21899
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
San Francisco: H.H. Bancroft & Company, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 704 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece, index. Rebound in blue cloth with leather spine label. Light shelf wear and bumping to corners, small bookplate on front pastedown; otherwise clean and sound. The subtitle sums it up: "Comprising choice..... Item #2958
[1934]. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in a Fair dust jacket. Original orange cloth boards with black lettering. Sunning to spine, some old water staining to boards (not affecting contents), binding tight, text clean. Dust jacket heavily worn and chipped, with a long tear repaired and other short ones internally with..... Item #21452
Trabuco Canyon, CA: California Classics, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. xiv, 414 pp, with illustrations, index, illustrated endpapers. Signed by author on flyleaf. Light dust soiling to top edge; else fine. Dust jacket shows shelf wear with some chips (one large) and tears. This volume..... Item #2863
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Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1909. Softcover. Near fine. 59 pp, with frontispiece. Wrappers trimmed (by printer) 1/8 inch shorter than text block. Otherwise a fine copy. Text is in English and Spanish. "The document here printed for the first time contains the diary of Captain Gaspar de Portolá from..... Item #20157
San Bernardino, CA: San Bernardino County Museum Association, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 499 pp, approx. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. Spine sunned, base of spine bumped, otherwise sound and clean. Includes images of the brands recorded in San Bernardino County between 1853 and 1917, with an index of owners..... Item #20806
Essex, CA: Tales of the Mojave Road, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. 208 pp, with illustrations, index, illustrated map endpapers. Fine copy, with no jacket (as issued). Hart was a short-lived gold mining town located in the Mojave desert, in San Bernardino County, California. It existed between 1908 and 1915. According..... Item #1090
Galt, CA: Laurel Hill Press, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Stapled pamphlet, ca. 6 x 9 inches, 24pp, in original blue printed wrappers. Minor handling wear, about fine. Copy 86 of 200 hand-printed and bound by the author. One of a series Sperry wrote on different Mexican land grants..... Item #22355
San Mateo, CA: Alec Stern Studio, 1959. Softcover. Very Good. 12 pp (unpaginated), with illustrations (2 in color), in original illustrated wrappers. Light handling wear; else clean and sound. A series of full page illustrations, with short introductory text. Item #1323
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi, 529 pp, with bibliography, index. Light shelf wear to exterior including rubbed corners, ownership markings ("property of Retail Clerks Union Local 770") on front free endpaper; text clean. No dust jacket. A volume in the Publications of..... Item #3168
San Francisco: A. Roman, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 123 pp, in publisher's blue pebbled cloth with gilt letter on spine and upper boards. A good copy with some soiling and corner wear to boards, a few stains to title page. Small penciled ownership signature of Orange County (CA) historian..... Item #19346
Berkeley and San Francisco: Western Star Press, 1971. Softcover. Very good. Trade paperback, 81 pp. Light handling wear; very good. Describes the research and conclusions of a two-year, grant-funded study of the SFPD that found numerous systemic problems. The Introduction lays out the broad (and familiar) issue quite well: "The..... Item #21111
Santa Rosa, Cal. Sonoma Democrat Publishing Company, 1896. First Edition. 34 pp, illustrated, in original pale orange wrappers printed in black and red. Toning and light dust soilng at edges of wrappers, all else very good. "Fort Ross was established by the Russian-American Fur Company in 1812 for the threefold..... Item #22670
San Francisco: H.H. Bancroft & Company, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi, 657 pp, with index. Rebound in brown buckram. Some scattered foxing, mostly limited to the margins. Eberstadt: Tuthill was long editor of the San Francisco “Bulletin.” His account of events that led to the formation of vigilance..... Item #3051
San Francisco: Powell Publishing, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 413 pp, with illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index, illustrated endpapers. One corner bumped, else fine. Dust jacket sunned at the spine, with chipping at the head and corners; in mylar. A volume in the California..... Item #1048
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Libra Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. One of 350 copies issued. ix, 229 pp, illustrated. Bound in blue cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. Previous owner's name and date written on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in fine jacket. History..... Item #19767
San Francisco: Bacon & Company, 1882. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. xvi, 255 pp, with frontis portrait of the author, in original red cloth boards. Spine sunned, boards edgeworn, foxing to frontispiece, owner's signature on front flyleaf. Binding sound, text clean. Narrative of missionary work in early San Francisco. The author..... Item #13879
New York: Da Capo Press, 1969. Hardcover. Near fine. Reprint of the University of California Press edition of 1921. 543 pp, with index and bibliography, 4 illustrations. Bound in blue cloth; no dust jacket. Light bumping to upper corners, stamp of Da Capo Press on rear endpaper, else fine. From..... Item #14425
Washington: Gideon & Co., 1850. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 28 pp, in original sewn self-wrappers (not disbound from a larger volume as often found). Light foxing; very good. "Winthrop emphatically advocates the immediate admission of California and exhorts Congress to refrain from the injustice of omnibus tactics which would..... Item #20826
San Francisco: Burton H. Wolfe, 1960. 8.5 x 11 inches, 24 pp. Stapled wrappers. Paper toned, with chipping and tears to top edge. Scarce issue of this short-lived publication from self-proclaimed muckraker Burton Wolfe, who went on to write books on the Hippie movement, Satanist Anton LeVey, Hitler and the..... Item #18537
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Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x, [13]-386, in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends, corners rubbed through, slightly shaken, but still a better than average copy of this title, which is often found in poor condition. Hill (1910): The ships made port in..... Item #20650
