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
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
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
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
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 and unmolested, except that a former owner..... More
Cat.No: 251401
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
New York: Wilson-Erickson, 1936. vii, 261p., hardbound first edition in diced green cloth boards titled orange, and unclipped dust jacket. Dj has a little edgewear with some chipping at the head, book itself has a little toning to endsheets, a remarkably nice copy: entirely sound, clean and unmarked. Adams 6-Guns..... More
Cat.No: 37792
![Volcano, California; most picturesque of the mother lode towns [subtitle from cover]. Mary Edith...](/pictures/thumb/87584.jpg?v=1517785728)
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
[Berkeley]: [University of California], [1946]. 15p., 6x9.25 inches, very good pamphlet is stapled tan wraps. More
Cat.No: 156124
Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1992. x+109p., boards, no dj, illus., near fine, limited edition of 400. More
Cat.No: 155021
![California's Pioneer Mountaineer of Rabbit Creek. John Thomas Mason's meanderings [&c &c]. Albert...](/pictures/thumb/240995.jpg?v=1565233511)
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
Boston: Richard G. Badger The Gorham Press, 1922. 140p., ownership name in pencil otherwise very good in red cloth with paper title label on spine. Routine daily account of a dispiriting trip; bad weather, couple fights, overoptimistic goldseekers. More
Cat.No: 154917
[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
La Grange, CA: Southern Mines Press, 1973. 44p., 5.5x8.5 inches, preface, footnotes, index, map, illustrations, vintage photos, very good in staplebound wraps. On the old mining town, with brief mentions of Chinese miners and their activities. More
Cat.No: 183249
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
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
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
![The Pony Express,; stories of pioneers and old trails; vol. xxvii nos. 1-11 [#12 lacking], vol....](/pictures/thumb/162499.jpg?v=1529385034)
Sonora CA: the monthly, 1960-1964. Articles and period images, a loosely academic approach, some contemporary coverage; uniform format, newsprint fastenings averaging 16p., mildly and evenly toned, all handleable and largely unblemished, the 57 items as a lot. More
Cat.No: 162499
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
San Francisco: The California Historical Society, 1963. xiii, 168p., frontis and illus., very good in the slightly faded original orange cloth binding, one of a thousand copies, nice Howell-North presswork on laidlined paper. Old San Francisco, reporting Fremont's expeditions, contemporary printeries and papers, Sutter's mill early on in the discovery..... More
Cat.No: 144218
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
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Hardcover. xiv, 321p., preface, notes, bibliographical essay, index, illustrations, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Personal inscription signed and dated June 30 1977 by the author. Yale Western Americana series, 29. More
Cat.No: 155705
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
San Francisco: Pacific Book Auction Galleries, 1995. Hardcover. Four volume set, unpaginated, 8.5x11 inches, catalogs of the four separate auctions held in 1995 & 1996, illustrations, bid sheets at rear, #25/100 copies, fine in blue cloth boards with reproduction of Larson's bookplate affixed front cover, gilt titles on spine. Introductions..... More
Cat.No: 212226
Oakland: The Holmes Book Co., 1972. Hardcover. 101p., illustrated endpapers, frontis-portrait of Jack, 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
