SF: The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Life, 1985. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 119pp. Illus. Presenation signed by Alf to "Morris." A somewhat unusual memoir of the doctor's travels in the Western US, Australia, and the Galapagos with geological observations, also on flora and fauna. In.....
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.....
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.
Pasadena: Ward Ritchie Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 230pp. Illus. Bibliography. Review copy with nice laid in printed card of the publisher, & publisher's folded promo sheet. Tad bit of fore edge foxing & dj fold edge foxing. Upper front cover corner bumped. Vg in vg dj.
NY: William Morrow, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth with printed paper title labels on cover & spine. 336pp. Illus. Notes. Index. Illustrated endpapers. fos. From the dj: "Starting his California career as a young miner in 1850, (Bell) played successively the roles of ranger, soldier, lawyer and editor.".....
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.
Happy Camp: Mosaic Press, 2011. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to color illustrated plastic comb-bound wraps. 216pp. Illustrated with drawings. Index. Map of the Klamath River area. This is a book of recipe's from the sasquatch country of Northern California. "Your new CookBook Helps us BUY the Old Town Park" on.....
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.....
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.
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.
n.p. The Clinker Press, 2008. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine, letter press printed wraps with titles in red. (8pp). "Printed for the delectation or detestation of the members of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs..." Fine, like new.
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.
Los Angeles: Haynes Foundation, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 240pp. Graphs & Charts. Bibliography. Browning to edges of cover. Still a very good copy. No dj.
NY: Knopf, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 388pp. Illus. Maps. Appendix. Index. Endpaper maps. Fine in good pc dj which has a narrow open tear on the back panel/spine (about 1" long) + one closed tear top edge back panel.
S. F. Francis Valentine & Co, 1879. First Edition. Soft cover. Original publication. Printed wraps. 23pp. (sewn; title page detached). Former owner's description: "... addressed the injustice of the railway system, focusing on the need to have them contribute their fair share to locally used taxes, and to give reasonable.....