The proud peoples; the heritage and culture of Spanish-speakings peoples in the United States
New York: New American Library, 1973. Mass Market Paperback. ix, 325p., slight on wraps, mildly toned, else in ver good condition. More
Cat.No: 24036
Gold Rush
The Young Miner; or, Tom Nelson in California
San Francisco: Printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco for the Book Club of California, 1965. Hardcover. xxi, 187p., frontispiece, introduction, bibliographical note, illustrated with reproductions of vintage engravings, very good first edition limited to 450 copies, heavy quarter-cloth backing, illustrated tan paper boards, brown..... More
Cat.No: 210883
We Were 49ers! Chilean accounts of the California Gold Rush
Pasadena: Ward Ritchie Press, 1976. Hardcover. xx, 230p., illustrations, introduction, bibliography, very good first edition in cloth boards and dj. A collection of diaries and personal accounts of South American immigrants to California during the Gold Rush. Attractive Ward Ritchie design as usual. More
Cat.No: 12206
A year of mud and gold: San Francisco in letters and diaries, 1849 - 1850
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Hardcover. xxiii, 241p., preface, introduction, street map of San Francisco in 1850, notes, bibliography, index, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Personal inscription signed by the editor. More
Cat.No: 169239
Ray Boynton and the Mother Lode: the Depression Years, The Oakland Museum History Special gallery May 4 through August 15, 1976
Oakland: The Oakland Museum, 1976. Paperback. 62p., 12x8 inches landscape format, introduction, preface, biography, bibliography, remembrances, memoirs, catalog of the exhibition, illustrated with photos and reproductions, very good slim trade catalog in pictorial wraps. Boynton was a WPA artist who visited the Gold Country of California in the 1930s and..... More
Cat.No: 188729
Women's Voices from the Mother Lode; Tales from the California Gold Rush. Original illustrations by Kathleen R. Petersen
Boise ID: Tamarack Books, Inc., 1998. Paperback. 272p., numerous illustrations from period photography, modern sketches, and a line map; a sizeable bibliography and index are supplied. Softbound, a handsome 9x6 inch paperback with a marvellous embossed cover (credited), Condition appears to be fine, except that a former owner has lightly..... More
Cat.No: 251401
California Gold Rush Camps; The Book Club of California 1998 Keepsake [a keepsake in fourteen parts, cover text]
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1998. Fourteen 8.5x11 inch folio leaves folded to quarto brochure format, each with the history of a camp and color illustrations (usually color; several are tipped-in), loose-leaf in decorated green paper pocket. Pocket margin faintly sunned, an else very good clean handful of..... More
Cat.No: 154811
Volcano, California; most picturesque of the mother lode towns [subtitle from cover]
no place: Self-published by the author, 1957. 30p., 5.5x8.5 inches, archival photos throughout moderately well reproduced, very good booklet in stapled yellow pictorial wraps. Researched in all the right places. This may have been Crosley's first book; next year, 1958, she published another [on Coloma], and in 1959 one on..... More
Cat.No: 87584
California's Pioneer Mountaineer of Rabbit Creek. John Thomas Mason's meanderings [&c &c]
San Francisco: Self-published by the author, 1930. Hardcover. 72p., printed on nice alkaline cream-tinted paperstock, illustrated from b&w cuts, period photography, a line map and, in color, a fullpage reproduction of a contemporary print (also to be found on the dust jacket). Hardbound in 9.5x6.5 inch green cloth boards cover-titled..... More
Cat.No: 240995
Bibliography of California Literature. Fiction of the Gold-Rush Period / Drama of the Gold-Rush Period / Poetry of the Gold-Rush Period
[Sacramento]: California Literary Resesarch, 1935. Paperback. 123p., text mimeographed on thick construction paper, badly stapled into 10.5x8.5 plain cardstock wrapper. Spine unrepairably split and chipped, general edgewear and toning of the cheap paper, remains handleable. SERA Project 2-F2-132 (and 3-F2-197). Monograph #8 ( G c-d ). More
Cat.No: 225621
Quest For Deep Gold: The Story Of La Grange, California
La Grange, CA: Southern Mines Press, 1973. 44p., 5.5x8.5 inches, signed by the author, maps, vintage b&w photos, footnotes, index, very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. On the old mining town, with brief mentions of Chinese miners and their activities. More
Cat.No: 208071
A Road From El Dorado; The 1848 Trail Journal of Ephraim Green
Salt Lake City: The Prairie Dog Press, 1991. Pamphlet. 58p., illustrated with a number of facsimiles and a folded map bound in the back (also in facsimile: a repro'd 1849 item with spot-color helps). Stapled 8.5x6 inch wraps, slight signs of handling, nice clean copy of a limited issue, one..... More
Cat.No: 224945
A Road From El Dorado; The 1848 Trail Journal of Ephraim Green
Salt Lake City: The Prairie Dog Press, 1991. Pamphlet. 58p., illustrated with a number of facsimiles and a folded map bound in the back (also in facsimile: a repro'd 1849 item with spot-color helps). Stapled 8.5x6 inch wraps, one of 700 softbound copies (not numbered as were the hardcover and..... More
Cat.No: 224946
A Night at Wingdam by Bret Harte together with a letter from the author to Dr. J. L. Ver Mehr
San Francisco: Published for its members by The Book Club of California, 1936. xi, 10p., calendared paperstock, sepia device on title page (and other decorations) by Henry Shire; first edition in this format. Sewn into 9.5x6.4 inch plain printed wraps, one of 500 copies printed by Plantin Press in Los..... More
Cat.No: 180041
Sacramento and the Trail of '49.
New York: Underwood Typewriter Company, 1928. Paperback. 24p, 6x9 inches, illustrated with a dozen portrait photos (contestants) and ads, good booklet in stapled green pictorial wraps. Covers bear some dust and handling-grime, text a few pencilled tic-marks. This booklet contains the copy used in the 1928 International Typewriting Championship Contest..... More
Cat.No: 43042
History of Placer and Nevada Counties, with Biographical Sketches of The Leading Men and Women of the Counties Who Have Been Identified with Their Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present; History by W.B. Lardner and M.J. Brock / Illustrated Complete in One Volume
Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1924. 1,255p., for re-casing. The textblock (including headbands and blanks) is very good, but casing's hinges are broken and its leather backstrip and corners are decayed. Preserved remnants of the spine panel show how titling goes. Endsheets are easily salvageable (but the book's marbling is..... More
Cat.No: 235029
Melissa Coray Peak - The Story. 1998
Sacramento CA: Sierra Chapter, Sons of Utah Pioneers, 1998. Pamphlet. 17p., illustrated with several diagrammatic sketches, two period plus one color portrait photos plus the fine color cover site photo, softbound, a pamphlet in 8.5x5.5 inch glossy white decorated wraps. Slightest edgewear, a few flecks to blank rear cover, a...... More
Cat.No: 299668
Gold: a play in three acts
Oakland: The Holmes Book Co., 1972. Hardcover. 101p., illustrated endpapers, frontis-portrait of London, cast of characters, scenes, very good first edition limited to 1000 copies in green buckram cloth and gilt with lightly worn unclipped gold dj. More
Cat.No: 176507
Edward J. Le Breton; friend and benefactor
Bloomington: Authorhouse, 2005. xi, 257p., introduction, sources, notes, very good first edition in pictorial wraps. Personal inscription signed by the San Francisco lawyer/author. Self-published biography of the San Francisco Franco-American banker and reform politician. More
Cat.No: 149425
Pigtails and gold dust; a panorama of Chinese life in early California
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, 1947. 326p., illustrations from photography, first edition blue cloth boards gilt. Mild edgewear, spine panel somewhat dimmed with handling soil, clean and sound; a good copy. More
Cat.No: 75374
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California's Hidden Gold: nuggets from the State's rich history [signed]
Roseville: Stagecoach Pub. 2002. Paperback. 202p., index, illustrations, personal inscription signed by the author, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 232786
California Gold Rush Merchant: The Journal of Stephen Chapin Davis
San Marino: Huntington Library, 1956. Hardcover. xvii+124p., boards in publisher's acetate dj, near fine. More
Cat.No: 155014
The California Star 1847 - 1848: San Francisco's first newspaper
Mesa: self-published, 1996. Pamphlet. 27p., 5.5x8.5 inches, notes and illustrations, very good first edition pamphlet stapled tan pictorial wraps. Booklet prepared for the sesquicentennial commemoration of the arrival of the ship Brooklyn at Yerba Buena. Story of the newspaper that told the world about the discovery of gold in California..... More
Cat.No: 99645
Juanita
Fresno: Sage-West Publishing Company, May 1971. Pamphlet. 31p. including photos, later printing, 9x6 inch photodecorated wraps. Mild crimping along the spinefold, and back cover bears thumbprints; a fine copy within, no ownerships or any marking. On the only woman lynched during the gold rush; heavily reported at the time and..... More
Cat.No: 15816
Vigilantes in gold rush San Francisco
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985. Hardcover. ix, 272p., illustrated from period photographs; first edition cloth boards in dust jacket. Faint edgewear to dj and a bright green seller's label disfigures the dj illustration, an else quite sound clean unmarked copy. Revisionist interpretation of the Vigilante movement, largely that "merchants saw..... More
Cat.No: 50416