New Jersey: Privately Published, 1949. q. Soft cover. Carbon copy for family member. Wrappers. 35 one-sided double-spaced pages plus 12 pages of maps (6pp) and magazine pictures (6pp). Foldout map of United States with author's traced route to California and back to New Jersey. On November 9, 1948, a daughter.....
NY: Duell, Sloan Pearce, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 256pp. Index. Endpaper maps. The "knock" on this copy is that part of the front dj flap is taped to the verso of the ffep. HOWEVER, it is a scarce signed copy, presented to Henry Service (?) Wagner "with.....
Portland: Charles H. Belding, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Quarto/nearly folio size cloth & boards. 186pp. A great display of the fine color landscapes by two fine photographers, the accomplished Ray Atkeson of Oregon & the famous David Muench noted for his photos of the desert and mountain Southwest.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. Hardcover. Attractive gilt-stamped cloth with cover image surrounded by a decorated gilt emblem. 266pp. Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. t.e.g. (top edge gilt). While not the first edition, probably a second or almost immediate printing. A California literary classic. Binding a little slanted, but still very.....
Bancroft, NY, 1907. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo gilt-stamped decorated cloth. 64pp. Signed by Bancroft. Ex-lib with corner piece torn from ffep. No library pocket, but the other usual suspects. Binding sound, but reading copy only. Scarce signed.
Carmel: Ave Maria Bookship & Monitor Pub. 1949. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Printed blue wraps with thin cloth over the stapled binding. 103pp. Illustrated with half-tone photos. A narrative poem about Junipero Serra. Minor stain spots on fore edge of covers & cloth binding area. Good+.
Santa Barbara & SLC: Peregrine Smith, 1976. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 343pp. "Review" written inside front cover. "California - from the 16th century to the present - as seen through the eyes of writers of fiction." Tiny foxing spots fore edge. Near fine.
Berkeley: Howell North, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Decorated 4to orange cloth. 157pp. Abundantly illustrated. Index. Pictorial endpapes. Contents include "The Golden Gate Special. "A very good copy in vg dj. Some mustiness from storage, typical of the paper used in H-N books, so should be aired out.
Berkeley: Garfield Jr. H. S., 1927. First Thus. Soft cover. Three original publications from this junior high school in Berkeley, CA in stapled wrappers: Christmas 1927 (red pictorial wraps), Spring 1928 (light green pictorial wraps), Dec. 1929 (Greenish-blue pictorial wraps. Unpag. Several pages of ads in back of each copy.....
Boston: Murray Press, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Orange cloth.124pp. Illus. A rather romantic, but quite readable account of travel to California. Fine. No dj, probably as issued. Scarce.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Cloth. 294pp. Illus. Index. A terrific group of firsthand accounts of life in the wild & woolly days of the California Gold Rush, compiled by Katherine A. White. Fine in dj with about 1" piece missing around top of back.....
(Sacramento): State of California, 1897. Soft cover. Original large, previously folded $500 reward poster issued by Gov. James H. Budd on January 26, 1897, for apprehension of "some person or persons unknown" for the murder of Jesse Robert Sweet on October 4, 1895, "while driving a team from Lake City.....
Washington, D.C. Acropolis Books, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 263pp. Illus. Appendices. Index. Facsmiles of documents. Tables. Foreword by Robert Rines, President, Academy of Applied Science. Mr. Byrne for several years managed a sasquatch research center at The Dalles, Oregon. This is account of information to date, plus.....
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Co, 1975. q. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Full leather with raised bands with gilt title / year of pub on spine. 401pp. Illus. Index. Inscribed (12 line presentation) by the editor and McKinstry descendant to the fine Chicago book binder Ed Lhotka, the author of.....
San Francisco: CBAG, 1982. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Limited to 100 case bound copies, this being copy #14. Gilt-stamped cloth. Unpag. Illus. Reference books listed in the back. 783 items in the following three lots: Book Club of California, The Grabhorn Press, Various Western Presses. Fine, like new. No dj as issued.....
Butte Valley Star, Dorris, Novermber, 1959. 1959. First Thus. Soft cover. Not a book. Original poster offering reward "for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons stealing or butchering any CATTLE or HORSES belonging to the undersigned." R.L. Meglasson , Secretary, & R.J. Taylor, Secretary.....
L. A. Haynes Foundation, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to hardbound. 240pp. Illus. Charts. Graphs. Tables. Conducted by the Stanford Research Institute. Back cover spotted. Good. No dj. Scarce.
(Alturas): Modoc County Cattlemen's Assoc, 1951. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus. Pictorial wraps. (48pp). Illustrated with brands. Includes history of cattle raising in the county. Slight browning on covers near stapled spine, else fine.
Weaverville: Trinity Co. Hist Soc, 1966. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing this issue. Pictorial orange wraps. 60pp. Illus. Features "The Lynching of the Ruggles Brothers." Several articles/essays including "Beginning of the Big Foot Legend?" Lower front cover corner creased. Else fine.
S. F. Library Assoc of Cal, 1900. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing thus. Printed wraps. 24pp. Officers. Introductory Note. Libraries of California. Libraries of San Francisco. Basic, but noteworthy data on dozens of libraries. LAC #3. Light browning to front cover; some press creases to upper binding. Vg. Scarce.....
(Nevada City), 1907, 1910, 1907. Soft cover. Not a book. Two pieces of ephemera. 1) Senior Class Commencement invitation, Nevada City High School, June 12, 1907. Approx 5" x 6 1/4", engraved on one side. Folded. Vg. 2) Athletic Exhibition notice at Nevada City Athletic Club, April 22, 1910. 2.....
NYC: Grafton, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth. 189pp. Mojave Desert, Ramona, San Juan Bautista, etc. This copy unread as some leaves un-opened. Spine-darkened, thus good only. Cowan p108.
L. A. Grafton, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 368pp. Frontispiece: San Juan Capistrano. A novel of the Spanish mission(s) of early California. Some foxing to page facing front., else near fine. No dj.
Berkeley: U of Cal, 1949. First Thus. Hardcover. 1st printing of cloth edition, reprinted from Pacific Historical Review. 111pp. Former owner's signature / date on ffep. Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Assoc. Special Publication No. 1. Fine in fine dj. Exceptional copy.
NY: Crown, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 208pp. Illus. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Publisher's printed review card laid in with September 6, 1968 publication date. Fine in fine pc dj.