Category: Americana

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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AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE Volume 43 Jul-Dec 1930

By: AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE

Price: $125.00

Publisher: NY, AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE CORP : 1930

Seller ID: k200128c

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: Good

Six issues of approx. 200 pages each. 1st ed.,8vo, black cloth. Approx. 1200 pp. Articles, photographs, diagrams, and advertisements for city planners and municipal managers and buyers. Hundreds of b/w photos depiciting architecture, roads, and vehicles. Condition: Good; text block is very good, clean and tight. Covers with moderate surface wear and soiling but no significant damage. Ex-libris Los Angelis Public Library with its bookplate affixed inside; penciled price of $8, apparently when withdrawn and sold.
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AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE Volume 8 January-June 1913

By: AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE

Price: $125.00

Publisher: NY, AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE : 1913

Seller ID: k200128d

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: Good

1st ed.,8vo, black cloth. 684 pp. Articles, photographs, diagrams, and advertisements for city planners and municipal managers and buyers. Hundreds of b/w photos depiciting architecture, roads, and vehicles. Ex-libris Warner Brothers Studios research library with its paper seal affixed inside front panel; also ex libris Alfred F. Rosenheim, with his bookplate, -- one of the leading architects in Los Angeles in the early part of the 20th century. His major works include the Hellman Building and Second Church of Christ Scientist. Condition: Good; moderate wear to covers, two large chips at top ...
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LOCAL TALES AND HISTORICAL SKETCHES.

By: Bailey, Henry D. B.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: NY: Fishkill Standard : 1874

Seller ID: d17121004

Condition: Good

8vo, dark brown cloth, gilt titles on spine. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Bailey tipped in, 431 pages. Slavery, Freedom, and Ghosts in the Hudson River Valley - a mixture of fact and fable. Good. Rubbed at top bottom of spine, corners; bits of newspaper residue on back cover. Newspaper obituaries of Bailey glued to front end papers. Some damp-staining to flyleaf page with tipped portrait but not affecting the photo. Front hinge weak but intact. Text block otherwise clean and tight with no foxing.
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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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PICTURES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF BRIGHAM YOUNG AND HIS WIVES

By: Crockwell. James H.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Salt Lake Cit, James H. Crockwell : 1900

Seller ID: k200225h

Condition: Good

12mo, violet wraps tied with red ribbon. 40pp + photographs + 4p ads, Undated but circa 1900. "A true and correct statement of the birth, life and death of President Brigham Young, second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. And brief biographies of his twenty six wives and names and number of children born to them". Silver titles. B/W photographs. Interior of text Is clean and tight. Covers faded at extremities, more so on the back; 1.5” closed tear at front binding edge.
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Manual of the Corporation [Common Council] of the City of New York, for 1866

By: D. T. Valentine

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Edmund Jones & Co., NY : 1866

Seller ID: k200329a

Condition: Very good

1st ed., 12mo.. [xvi], 820 pp. Color chromolith title page and 12 city views [4 folding] plus dozens of b/w engravings, 2 folding maps, 2 folding charts, 2 folding signature facsimiles. Rebound in modern tan library binding. The "Manuals of the Corporation" [contain extensive historical and contemporary records of New York City and are an indispensable source of early New York City history. Valentine (1801-1869) served as the Deputy to the Clerk of the Common Council for thirty-seven years. He published these books annually between 1841-1866; they include detailed information on the meeti...
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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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Historia de la Conquista del Nuevo Mundo (9 vols) [History of the Conquest of the New World]

By: Don Antonio de Solis [et al]

Price: $850.00

Publisher: Madrid, Imprenta de Los Hijos de Doña Catalina Piñuela : 1829

Seller ID: 0001

Condition: Good

Nine volumes, 12mo full leather. Most volumes consist of contemporary historical accounts, translated and republished into the Spanish of the time. Contents (full Spanish titles reproduced below): Volume I: History of the Conquest of Mexico. Volumes II, III, IV and V: Royal Commentaries of the origin of the Incas of Peru. Volumes VI and VII: La Florida del Inca, by Hernando de Soto Volumes VIII and IX: Chronological General History of Florida Each volume is between 400-700 pages. Interiors are generally clean and tight; minor foxing to a couple of volumes. Covers are rubbed with so...
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A History of THE ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL From Its Establishment in 1863 to December, 1876; and of The Island of Rock Island, The Site of The Arsenal, From 1804 to 1863. ORDNANCE MEMORANDA NO. 20.

By: Flagler, Maj. D.W.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1877

Seller ID: 1231

1st ed., 485 pp., plus 13 fold-out plates, one photographic plate, and a fold-out frontispiece. Rebound in maroon cloth. Text block is clean and tight with no foxing. One of the plates is split in half but intact. some of the other plates have small tears or stains, but not affecting image. Frontispiece is detached.
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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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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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Lincoln in the Political Circus

By: Gernon, Blaine Brooks

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Black Cat Press : 1936

Seller ID: g1010

1st ed., in d/w, limited to 1000 copies. A critical study of Abraham Lincoln's political relationships, with previously unpublished election materials. Some light soiling along top edge and pencil erasures on ffep where a price was apparently removed, otherwise a fine copy. Dustjacket is fair only with several large open tears and darkened spine.
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AFFAIRS IN OREGON. Letter from the Secretary of War Communicating.Correspondence with General Harney, Relating to Affairs in the Department of Oregon

By: Harney, Brig. General William S.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: House of Represedntatives, HED 65, 36-1 : 1860

Seller ID: k200225a

Condition: Fair

8vo, 269 pp. Lacking original wrappers -- but complete. A clean, tight copy with some light toning to the first twenty pages. Practically no foxing. A collection of data and correspondence concerning San Juan Island; details the claims of British subjects and developments in "the war against the Indians of Washington and Oregon territories." Important contemporary material on the territory Washington at the outbreak of the Civil War.
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COLLECTION OF 10 ORIGINAL ISSUES OF THE NILES WEEKLY REGISTER, Mar-June 1815.

By: Hezekiah Niles

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Baltimore, H. Niles : 1815

Seller ID: k210331c

Binding: Loose sheets

Condition: Good

Small format (approximately 6x9) newspaper, original and complete but disbound from a larger volume. Each issue 16 pp. consecutively numbered.The Niles Weekly Register was a national magazine published in Baltimore from 1811 to 1848. The most widely circulated magazine of its time, the Register was the nation's first weekly newsmagazine and exerted a powerful influence on the early national discourse. This is a broken run of ten issues from March 25-April 8 [3]; May 6-May 13 [2], and June 3-June 24 [5]. Contents include extensive news and commentary on the final weeks of the War of 1812, the...
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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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Image for 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

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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Image for 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

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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Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled at Philadelphia in the Year 1787, for the Purpose of Forming the Constitution on the United States of America

By: Martin, Luther

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, Alston Mygatt : 1838

Seller ID: 1067

"From The Notes Taken By The Late Robert Yates, Esq. Chief Justice Of New York, And Copied By John Lansing, Jun. Esq. Late Chancellor Of That State, Members Of That Convention Including The Genuine Information Laid Before The Legislature Of Maryland By Luther Martin, Esq. Then Attorney General Of That State, And A Member Of The Same Convention Also, Other Historical Documents Relative To The Federal Compact Of The North American Union." This is a later printing; first published in 1821. Fair condition: Interior is very sound and clean with no loose signatures but some light foxing. Front and ...
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John A. Sutter Jr., Statement Regarding Early California Experiences

By: Ottley, Allan R. , Ed.

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Sacramento, Sacramento Book Collectors Club : 1943

Seller ID: m210915e

Condition: Fine

The club's second publication. John Sutter Jr was the eldest son of Capt. John Sutter; he managed the Sutter properties during most of the critical period between 1848 and 1851, and was himself the founder of the city of Sacramento. By 18952, the Sutter holdings had all been lost, and Sutter Jr was a penniless exile in Mexico. He returned to California early in 1855 hoping to retrieve some of his lost fortune. Here, published for the first time, is the story of his life in California, telling how the property was lost and how he had been drugged and swindled. A few months after writing th...
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Category: Americana