Category: Californiana

California Jubilee

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 040302

1st ed., 1948. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, signed by author Ainsworth as well as the cover artist, Clyde Forsythe and Los Angeles County Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz. The book is in fine condition; the d/w has light wear along the edges and a few nicks at top and bottom of spine.
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[Maps / Tunnels] Report on Additional Transportation Facilities Between Alameda and Oakland, California and Serving the Alameda Naval Air Station [Webster Tube]

By: Calif. Dept. of Public Works

Price: $175.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. Dept. of Public Works : 1941

Seller ID: k221017c

Condition: Good

8.5x11, looseleaf mimeographed report, 30 pp. plus 14 fold-out exhibits, including two foldout maps depicting Oakland and Alameda and a dozen exhibits displaying technical details of the proposed tunnel and tube.The Posey and Webster Street Tubes are two parallel underwater tunnels connecting the cities of Oakland and Alameda, California, running beneath the Oakland Estuary. Both are immersed tubes, constructed by sinking precast concrete segments to a trench in the Estuary floor, then sealing them together to create a tunnel. The Posey Tube, completed in 1928, carries one-way (Oakland-bound) ...
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Pictures of California Floods 1955 - 1956 [portfolio]

By: California State Dept of Education

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Sacramento, California State Dept of Education : 1956

Seller ID: k181231a

40 single plate black & white photographs (8 1/2" x 11"), printed on stiff paper and housed in publisher's printed portfolio folder; accompanied by three page "Teacher's Guide"). Plates are fine; folder has some wear and a few nicks but very good overall; title written in red ink on the spine. The photographs depict the famous CA flooding throughout the north state the week before Christmas --, principally Yuba City and the Feather River, but also other cities and counties -- including a few in the south state. ; a photographic archive of the mainly northern and central California flood even...
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Early Cemeteries of the City of Los Angeles - Los Angeles Miscellany #2

By: Carpenter, Edwin

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Dawson's Book Shop : 1973

Seller ID: 1409

1st ed., limited to 300 copies. 8vo, illustrated boards, 48 pp. Illustrated with contemporary photographs and graphics - LA cemeteries up to the year 1885. Fine, without d/w -- as issued.
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The Founding of Spanish California. The Northwestward Expansion of New Spain, 1687-1783.

By: Chapman, Charles Edward

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Macmillan, New York : 1916

Seller ID: k200814c

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles. 485 pp. [4 advts]. Frontispiece of Viceroy of New Spain, plus 6 maps. Condition: Good; a clean copy, with prior owner’s inked name and address on fep and back cover, rear hinge cracked; moderate wear to boards.
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Mark Twain: The Story of His Life and Work. A Biographical Sketch.

By: CLEMENS, Will M.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The Clemens Publishing Company : 1992

Seller ID: dg121701

1st ed. 12mo, publisher’s printed wrappers with a portrait of Twain on front. 211 pp. First edition. BAL, p. 251. Fair: Internally clean and tight. Covers rubbed at extremites; bottom right corner of front cover and first leaf clipped 1/8”, similar sized crease on next several leaves; covers tanned with some light rubbing. Bindery glue residue on front hinge. Ex-libris Ruth Ann Newport; County Historian for the County of Tuolumne, Ca with her blind stamp at bottom of title page and last leaf.
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Texas Argonauts Isaac H. Duval and the California Gold Rush

By: Dillon, Richard H.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: The Book Club of California : 2987

Seller ID: sbcc1907221f

Condition: New

1st ed., oblong 4to, 10 x 13 inches. 199 pp. Limited to 450 copies. With color illustrations by Charles Shaw, appendix, footnotes, bibliography, index and endpaper maps. Original prospectus laid in. Series: The Book Club of California Publication, No. 186. Quarter natural linen, illustrated paper over boards, printed paper spine label, maps in end-leaves, plain white paper dust-jacket. Isaac Duval (1824-1902) was an American adventurer and businessman prior to becoming a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As a young man, he traveled to Fort Smith, Arkansas, wh...
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A Voyage from Boston to California, 1852

By: Duchow, John Charles

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Kentfield, Mallette, Dean [Allen Press} : 1959

Seller ID: dg17121005

Condition: Fine

4to, quarter cloth, blue on green boards with ocean wave pattern; printed title label on spine. [66] pp. One of 200 unnumbered copies set in Bulmer types and printed on handmade Umbria paper. After a pioneering voyage from Boston to California to seek fame and fortune, Duchow settled in the gold rush town of Columbia where he became a respected journalist and newspaper publisher.
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An Artist Records the California Missions.

By: FORD, Henry Chapman

Price: $75.00

Publisher: The Book Club of California, San Francisco : 1989

Seller ID: sbcc190721d

Condition: New

First edition; one of 450 copies. Edited with an Introduction by Norman Neuerberg. xl, 100 [1] pp. Oblong folio, cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards with printed paper label on spine, in publisher's plain white wrapper. Illustrations & plates from sketches & paintings by Ford, a few in color including tipped-in frontispiece.. Most of Ford's drawings and paintings were executed in the early 1880's. The patterned cloth used in the binding was typical of the wallpapers and decorations found in the California Missions. Prospectus laid in. Condition: A new copy; absolutely pristine but wi...
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AN ESSAY. ON A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC WEST, 1510- 1906 BY ROBERT E. COWAN. With an Original Leaf from the Club's 1914 First Edition.

By: Gary E. Kurutz

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Book Club of California : 1993

Seller ID: vl190723a

Condition: Fine

1st ed. thus, small 4to, 57 pp. One of 390 copies with a tipped in original leaf from the 1914 First Edition of Cowan's work. The Book Club of California, publication 201. Gray cloth boards and paper cover, printed title label on front cover. Pristine copy; gray cloth backed boards with black titles in a fine mylar jacket. This copy inscribed by Kurutz on the front end paper. Prospectus laid in.
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Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of March 2, 1877, a copy of the final report of the operations of the troops in the Modoc country, by General Alvan Gillem (1877)

By: General Alvan Gillem

Price: $135.00

Publisher: [US Government Printing Office, Washington] 1877. : 1877

Seller ID: k210726f

Condition: Good+

First edition, 18 pp. 8vo, stitched wrappers; disbound from a larger volume of serial publications; lacking any wrappers if issued. Special Session, March 5, 1877. Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 1. A detailed account of the fighting between the Modoc Indians and US troops in Northern California during the first half of 1873, following the alleged murder of unarmed peace commissioners sent by President Grant. This includes accounts of battles with Modoc leader Captain Jack and his band near what is now Lava Beds National Monument. Gillem offers both a detailed report on the battles of Sand Butte and D...
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From the Backwoods of Old Tuolumne

By: Grigsby, Russell C.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Stockton CA, Russell C Grigsby : 1943

Seller ID: dg17121605

Condition: Good+

1st ed., 8vo, dark green boards, 154 pp. Grigsby lived in the Tuolumne/Yosemite region of the Sierra Nevada from 1907. This memoirs cover his early years, through the Depression and his work with the California Conservation Corp, through the publication date 1943. Good+: Presents as very good-near fine overall but chip at top of spine results in loss in 1/8” of cloth, lightly rubbed corners. Inscribed by Grigsby on fep to Ruth Ann Newport, County Historian, Tuolumne County CA. Good+ dustwrapper has ½”open tear at top of spine; similar at top back panel, and some light spotting
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The Coast Rangers A Chronicle of Adventures in California

By: J. Ross Browne

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Paisano Press : 1959

Seller ID: dg17121004

Condition: Fine

Large 8vo, ochre linen covered boards with gilt writing on spine with gilt illustration on cover. 86 pages. .Limited edition, # 408 of 500 copies; reprinted from Harper's New Monthly Magazine 1861-62. Fine copy in very good d/w. The book itself is as-new; the dustjacket has light surface wear and several small nicks at edges; no tears or chips, not price-clipped.
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Edward Vischer's Drawings of the California Missions, 1861-1878. With a Biography of the Artist by Jeanne van Nostrand. Introduction by Thomas Albright.

By: Jeanne Van Nostrand

Price: $75.00

Publisher: The Book Club of California : 1982

Seller ID: sbcc190721e

Condition: New

Publications of the Book Club of California, No. 172. Limited to 600 copies, produced by the Arion Press under the direction of Andrew Hoyem. Oblong 4to. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches. 44, 44 plates, [2] pp. Gilt-stamped brown cloth, plain paper dust-jacket; "Vischer is credited The captions to the plates are excerpted from Vischer's own writings. Included in the Rounce & Coffin Club's Exhibition of Western Books. Original prospectus laid in. Condition: A new copy; absolutely pristine but with a couple of small nicks to the publisher’s wrapper; light wear to the prospectus.
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SIGHTS IN THE GOLD REGION AND SCENES BY THE WAY

By: Johnson, Theodore T(aylor)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Baker & Scribner, New York : 1850

Seller ID: k191118e

Condition: Good Ex-lib

2d ed. revised and enlarged. 8vo, violet embossed cloth. xii + 324pp. An account of the gold rush and gold fields, starting with embarkment from New York to Panama and then from Panama to California. Kurutz [363a] -- calls this book, "one of the earliest, liveliest, and most detailed accounts of the Gold Rush." Ex-lib with call number on spine, several inked and penciled notations on dedication page; pocket or residue. A clean tight copy overall, with scattered foxing and faint soiling throughout. Covers somewhat faded, with wear to corners and spine ends; discoloration in gutter
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Bancroft's] Hand-book Almanac for the Pacific States: An Official Register and Business Directory of the States and Territories of California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho and Arizona; and the Colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, for the Year 1864

By: Knight, William H.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: San Francisco, H.H. Bancroft and Company : 1864

Seller ID: m210411a

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good-

4.25" x 6.5", [4] advts. pp 440 + [9] (advts), with additional advertising printed on endpapers. Third and final year of publication for this short-lived series. Includes considerable detail on each state or territory's government (listing elected and appointed officials at the state and county levels), post offices, courts, justices of the peace, schools, banks, churches and ministers, etc. Includes a 14-page narrative section by Alexander B. Taylor describing the "History and Present Condition of the Indian Tribes of California" which does not appear in the 1862 or 1863 editions. Sabin 3143;...
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The Fremont Cannon / High Up and Far Back / Unravelling the Puzzle of the brass conon abandoned in 1844 and never recovered from California's Sierra Nevada

By: Lewis, Ernest Allen

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Glendale CA, Arthur H. Clark Company : 1981

Seller ID: 31801

1st ed. "The Fremont Cannon" is Volumn 11 in the Frontier Military Series. This book covers J.J. Fremont's attempt to bring a brass cannon from the Mississippi River to California. The effort failed and the cannon has been lost to history. The prevalent theories at that the cannon was buried somewhere on the east slope of the Sierra Nevadas and never found or that the cannon was dug-up by Native Americans and dumped into one of the deep remote canyons found on the eastern slopes of the Sierras. New copy; book is pristine but it has been in storage and the d/w has some light soiling, light shel...
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Lockwood, Charles A. & Adamson, Hans Christian

By: Lockwood, Charles A. & Adamson, Hans Christian

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Chilton : 1960

Seller ID: k211215a

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First edition. 243pp. Illus. The Honda Point disaster is the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships. On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers ran aground at Honda Point, a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel. Twenty-three sailors died in the disaster. This history of the incident is a relatively common and inexpensive book. But accompanying it are 13 vintage 3x5" b/w photographs, 8 original b/w negatives with different images, and 9 b/w photos from the negatives, possibly printed later. The book is good in d/w. The photos were apparently taken by an...
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Reflections of a California Governor.

By: Low, Governor Frederick F.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Sacramento, Sacramento Book Collectors Club, : 1959

Seller ID: 000254

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Fine

The texts of a "Memoir" (1877-1878) and an interview (1883) between Low and H.H. Bancroft, in which the ninth governor of California (1863-1867) reflected on his business and political life, with particular emphasis on the Gold Rush, the railroads, and the question of Chinese immigration. Club publication number 7. Limited to 310 copies, printed by the Grabhorn Press. 78 pp. Edited, with Preface and Notes by Robert H. Becker. Quarto. Pp. xiii, [1], 78. Frontis portrait in color. Initials printed in red, yellow and black. Notes, index. Half tan linen over red patterned boards, leather spine la...
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Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican with a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; and Notices of New Mexico and California.

By: Mayer, Brantz.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Hartford, S. Drake and Company : 1852

Seller ID: k1707057

Second edition. Two volumes bound in one. Vol I 433 pos; Vol II 398 pgs. Portrait, one map, and 11 plates in volume 1; portrait, 34 plates an map in volume II. Publisher's blind-stamped calf, gilt spine, marbled edges and end papers. Heavily rubbed with wear to edges. Prior owner's name in gilt on front cover. Front hinge cracked. Vintage Ex-lib with labels on front paste-down blacked out and a library inventory label on deep. Text block clean and tight with scattered light foxing throughout.
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Category: Californiana