The California Mission Story
Berkeley: Mike Roberts Color Production, 1951. 24p. 9x6 inches oblong, map, color photos, brochure with color photos, printed in the 1960s, stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 71587
California Missions
California Missions: two leaflets and a brochure for Old San Juan Bautista Mission, Mission San Jose de Guadalupe & the Basilica of Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo
[various]: [various Missions], [1960s]. Two leaflets, 5.5x8.5 inches printed one side only and one four-panel brochure folded to 5.5x7.5 inches, ink dates added on two stating June 21, 1960 & 5/13/61 otherwise very good. The leaflets contain points of interest and brief sketches of the histories as well as fervent..... More
Cat.No: 240138
La Fiesta de San Luis Obispo / May 14-19 1991 [pinback button]
San Luis Obispo, CA: 1991. 2.25 inch diameter pin depicting a mariachi band in front of the local mission. More
Cat.No: 207100
Mission Dolores. Founded 1776 [brochure]
San Francisco: Dolores Press, n.d. 3.5x5 inch, four-panel brochure for visitors to the Mission, listing various points of interest inside and important dates. Depiction of the older part of the Mission on the front panel. More
Cat.No: 200886
Mission San Juan Capistrano Cultural Center; Visitor's Guide
San Juan Capistrano: the mission, n.d., circa 1970. Single leaf of buff stock printed sepia, folded five times to make an 8.5x3.5 inch brochure, two panels of which can be folded up into an envelope for membership and money. Illustrated with a couple of photos and a diagrammatic site map;..... More
Cat.No: 214533
Mission Santa Barbara; queen of the missions, based on a text by Maynard Geiger
Santa Barbara: Franciscan Fathers of California, 2001. 32p., 8.25x11 inches, profusely illustrated, revised from the the 1986 edition, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 101976
Mission to California
San Francisco: International Industrial Conference, 1965. 11p.+ 5p, 7.24x10.5 inches, illustrations, designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, very good booklet in stapled pictorial white wraps with cover design by James Sanford. On the early history of California and guide to Bay Area Californiana, printed for the Conference. More
Cat.No: 73861
Paso Robles Hot Springs
Paso Robles CA: Southern Pacific / the Hotel & Bathhouse, approx 1912. Pamphlet. 52p., glazed alkaline paperstock with captioned b&w photo-reproductions throughout, perhaps half of which show bathing apparatus and persons (male & female) in treatment. Softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch stapled color pictorial wraps. The staples have failed and have..... More
Cat.No: 284085
Sonoma, California's Mission San Francisco Solano; this booklet illustrates the story of California's most northerly mission which was founded July 4, 1823
Sonoma: Mission Sesquicentennial Commission, 1973. 32p.,9x6 inches landscape layout, foreword, profusely illustrated with b&w drawings, plans, and photographs, very good booklet in stapled tan pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 83717
Visit Mission San Luis Rey, founded 1798, "King of the MIssions." One hour south of Disneyland
no city: the church, no date, circa 1970. Single sheet, 9x12 inches, printed in three colors and folded twice to make an upright 9x4 brochure illustrated with b&w photographs, spot-color map, sketches and brief texts. Bears one transverse crease by owner, faint signs of handling, a good copy of a...... More
Cat.No: 214788
Welcome to ...Old Mission Santa Inés
Solvang: n. pub. [196-?]. Eight-panel. 3.25x7.75 inches, folded illustrated brochure with mild tonining. More
Cat.No: 107315
Welcome to the Basilica of Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo [brochure] Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Carmel: the Mission, [197-?]. 4p., 5.5x8.5 inch brochure on tan stock with cover drawing and plan/map on rear. More
Cat.No: 101824
The Tree at the Center of the World; story of the California missions, design and photography by the author
Santa Barbara: Ross-Erikson PUblishers, 1980. Paperback. 321p., 8.5x9 inches, introduction, appendix, selected bibliography, index, illustrated with maps and photos, very good first edition trade paperback in tan pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 66093
Missions of California; compiled from a series of articles in P.G. and E. PROGRESS
San Francisco: Pacific Gas and Electric Company, 1970. 40p., 7.5x10.25 inches, illustrated with photos and figures and a map of the Missions of California, very good booklet in stapled tan pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 24062
The Mission and the Man: the story of San Juan Capistrano
Pasadena: San Pasqual Press, 1939. Hardcover. 40p., bookplate, frontis, decorative chapter caps, offsetting to several pages due to newspaper clippings (removed) first edition in illustrated cloth. Simple hagiography. More
Cat.No: 32810
Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores)
Vashon, WA: Merryant Publishing, 1988. 24p., 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrated with drawings and plans, very good booklet in stapled tan pictorial wraps. The Missions: California's Heritage #6. More
Cat.No: 166501
Mission San Francisco Solano
Vashon, WA: Merryant Publishing, 1988. Pamphlet. 24p., 5.5x8.5 inches, sketch illustrations and a floor-plan, very good booklet in stapled tan pictorial wraps. The Missions: California's Heritage #21. More
Cat.No: 214535
Motorland vol. 68, #6, June 1951; your emergency road service & a visit to old California Missions
San Mateo, CA: California State Automobile Association, 1951. Magazine. 27p, 5.75x8.75 inches, photos, several of California Missions, lightly-used digest-size magazine in stapled blue pictorial wraps. CSAA's monthly magazine - Visit the old Missions of CA. More
Cat.No: 174709
Motorland vol., 68. # 5, May 1951; visits to the old missions of California
San Mateo, CA: California State Automobile Association, 1951. Magazine. 27p, 5.75x8.75 inches, photos of several Missions, auto accidents, landscapes etc., lightly-worn digest-size magazine in stapled pictorial pink and white wraps with two-inch tear at top of spine, mildly soiled. CSAA's monthly magazine - Visit the old Missions of CA. More
Cat.No: 174708
The story of Mission San Antonio de Pala. Second printing.
Balboa Island, CA: Paisano Press, 1967. Pamphlet. 40p., 8.25x5.5 inches oblong, illustrations, map at rear, very good guide booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. First issued in 1959. More
Cat.No: 214534
A Historical Guide to San Rafael Arcangel (Mission San Rafael - cover title)
San Rafael: Northern California Shopper, 1996. 32p., 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrated with drawings and plans, bibliography, very good in original stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 108287
This Is Claremont.
Claremont CA: Saunders Press, Publishers, 1941. Hardcover. x, 147p., illustrated with doublespread photo of city and its surround (as endsheets, duplicated) and with the few simple woodcut sketches that decorate the dust jacket, first edition hardbound in 8x5.5 inch green cloth boards titled black. Book itself is virtually fine (sound..... More
Cat.No: 306038
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Guide to Old San Juan [brochure & map]
San Juan Capistrano: Downtown Merchants, no date. 12 panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches, history of San Juan Capistrano with a fold-out elevated map of the shopping district by Eding which displays various shops, restaurants and hotels, on rear panel a simple map of directions between Los Angeles and Tijuana..... More
Cat.No: 258345
La Purisima Mission: a pictorial history
Sacramento: California Department of Parks and Recreation, 1987. Magazine. 32p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with drawings and photographs, booklet in stapled lightly worn tan pictorial wraps. Deals primarily with the Spanish period. More
Cat.No: 162062
The Peraltas; Spanish pioneers and the first family of the East Bay
Oakland: Peralta Hospital, 1971. Paperback. 29p. + 7p. illus., a 7x10 inch softbound, inscribed by Fibel, plain brown wraps titled gilt, a nice design by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. The Yapp edges are a little crimped, else excellent: sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 73054