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
Eight (8) glossy 8x10 b&w photos from the negative of San Francisco scenes and other California visuals [sold as a small lot]
San Francisco: unpublished, n.d., mid-1920s. Photographs. Professional work, in focus and well-composed; harbor scenes (fishing boats and a freighter) including one taken from a Palace of the Legion terrace (no bridges), a good mission shot (not local to SF), a mystery castle, one mid-1920s auto (square coachwork, two-door) in a...... More
Cat.No: 313105
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
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San Diego de Alcala, California's First Mission [cover title]. A History of the Basilica Mission San Diego de Alcala The First Church of California Presented in the Bicentennial Year The 200th Anniversary of the Re-establishment of California's First Mission by Fray Junipero Serra
San Diego: the church, 1776. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about twenty pages, an 11x8.5 inch pamphlet nicely illustrated in clear sepia with photographs, a simple line map and some drawings. Immaculate copy: sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 327997
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
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
Doomed to Fail: Gaspar de Portolá's First California Appointees
San Diego, CA: Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias, San Diego State University, 1989. Pamphlet. vi, 36p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, small spot of foxing on front wrap, else very good condition. Border Studies Series, 2. More
Cat.No: 346813
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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
World Conference on Records; Preserving Our Heritage. August6 12-15, 1980 Volume 9: Latin-American and Iberian Family and Local History
Salt Lake City: USA Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1980. Paperback. Texts of 13 or 14 papers and panels variously paginated, softbound in substantial 10.5x8 inch dark blue wraps, one of a series, this complete in itself, Mild edgewear, back cover bears..... More
Cat.No: 228709
The California of the Padres or, footprints of ancient communism
San Francisco: I. N. Choynski, 1875. 41p., 5.75x8.5 inches, very good sewn text-block in wraps printed with text enclosed in a cartouche. Entire cover sheet is detached and the spine fold torn several inches top and bottom (but holding, and otherwise intact); as is. Published by San Francisco bookseller I...... More
Cat.No: 138798
San Juan Capistrano Mission Chapels and Cemetery
Northridge: Padre Press for the California Mission Studies Association, 1993. 17p., 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrated with photos, plans and figures, very good first edition booklet in stapled glossy yellow pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 218475
Dos Californios; about one of the most important events recorded in the historical annals of Alta California, that cradle of heroes and heroines, in one of the last years of the rule of the King of Spain
Santa Barbara: Bellerophon Books, 1978. Paperback. [52p] 8.5x11 inches, children's historical coloring book, bilingual text in English and Spanish, slightly worn stapled pictorial wraps, these in color. More
Cat.No: 151407