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

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

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

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

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

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

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, one of 700 softbound copies (not numbered as were the hardcover and..... More

Cat.No: 224946

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

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

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

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

Quincy CA: for the author by Forest Printing, 1996. Unpaginated preliminaries, 90p., illustrated with period snapshots, first edition trade-size wraps, a very good copy. Chapters on the populations of Oroville, Chico, Marysville, Clipper Mills, Susanville, La Porte, Northern and Eastern Plumas County, American Valley-Quincy, Meadow Valley-Silver Creek. More

Cat.No: 175601