The Universality Of California History
Literary Licensing, LLC, 1952. Hardcover.
Literary Licensing, LLC, 1952. Hardcover.
John Steinbeck Library, 1984. Trade Paperback. 36 pages.
Native Sons of Golden West, 1956. First Edition. Pamphlet. 15 pages. White was born in San Francisco and became a lawyer and prominent member of the Democratic Party in California. He was the District Attorney for Los Angeles, later a California State Senator and in 1893 a United States Senator.....
Yale University Press, June 2023. Hardcover. A new copy. The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking "A searing survey of '250 years of.....
Yale University Press, June 2023. Hardcover. A new copy. The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking "A searing survey of '250 years of.....
The Huntington Library, January 1966. Hardcover.
Friends of the Bancroft Library and The California Arboretum Foundation, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 11 page eulogy to Susanna Bryant Dakin and her devotion to California history and institutions. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971. Hardcover. A very good copy with no dust jacket.
Library Associates of University Library, Davis, 1971. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 17 pages. Keepsake Number 4. Limited to 750 copies. Saunders was UCSF Chancellor and noted medical historian. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in turquoise wrappers (paperback).
Pony Express History and Art Gallery, 1966. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 14 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in tan illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Southern Pacific Company, [1896]. Pamphlet. Pamphlet, 7 x 14 inches, of 18 pages folded into quarters, 7 x 3.5 inches when folded. Highlights the Hotel del Monte, Santa Cruz, Santa Maria Del Mar, San Jose, Leland Stanford Junior University, Lick Observatory and Mount Hamilton, Paraiso Hot Springs, and El Paso.....
Chronicle Books, October 1988. Trade Paperback.
The Book Club of California. Printed by Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley, 1970. Trade Paperback. 10 folders, 4-6 pp. each, each with one (sometimes two) facsimile color reproductions of postcards mounted on first page. Index includes folders (with facsimiles) of the California Midwinter International Expo, Lewis &.....
Government Printing Office, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 61 pages. Addresses by senators at the unveiling in the United States capitol on March 1, 1931. With biographies of the subjects and sculptors. First edition (first printing). A near fine hardcover copy, no dust jacket. A bit of rust and impression on.....
Simon J. Lubin Society of California, Inc., 1938. Unknown. 33 pages plus 2 page description of the Simon J. Lubin Society of California and its mission and work supporting the rural farmer, the rural worker and the consumer of farm produce. B/W cover photographs and text photograph by Dorothea Lange.....
The Colt Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 32 pages. One of 500 copies. Illustrated with wood engravings by Mallette Dean. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a plain dust jacket, chipped at the spine head and unevenly faded. Former seller's small sticker on the rear pastedown. Copy number.....
Soft Skull, September 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A "must read" debut collection of poetic, linked essays investigating the past and present state of California, its conflicting histories and their impact on a writer's family and life (Los Angeles Times). California has been advertised as a destiny manifested for.....
University of California Press, 1948. Hardcover. 159 pages. 12.5 x 9.5 inches.
The Society of California Pioneers, 1929. Trade Paperback. pp. 119-160. Includes 3 articles on the Ship 'Niantic': 'From New York to San Francisco in 1849...including the voyage from Panama to San Francisco on the Ship Niantic,' by John M. Cushing; 'The Earliest Days of the Niantic,' by F. C. Mathews;.....
The Society of California Pioneers, 1924. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 13 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in pale green wrappers (paperback). Stamp in ink 'Receieved July 20, 1924' on front cover.
1918. Ephemera. Single sheet folded, 7 x 9 inches when folded. Alexander T. Vogelsang was a lawyer and was nominated by Woodrow Wilson and corfirmed as First Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior, serving from 1916-1921. He was a vocal and strong supporter of the Hetch Hetchy project.....
B. B. Redding, State printer, 1855. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 2 pp. The claims of San Jose and others are considered. Disbound. First edition (first printing). Very good copy with staining.
[Type-Ink-Berkeley], 1975. First Edition. Novelty. 252 pages. The book tells some of the personal history of Catherine Webb but covers family history, social changes and family adventures. Part I begins in 1832 and ends in 1911 in Mexico at the time of the Mexican Revolution. Part II begins in 1911.....
P. J. Thomas, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. Two fictional stories based on fact. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Spine faded; edge wear. Inscribed to a previous owner by the author on the first blank: 'with compliments of J. Webster.' Wright III.....
The Book Club of California, 1955. First Edition. Ephemera. A single sheet folded to make four pages; printed on one page only. A short memorial resolution adopted by the club after Jackson's death. Reportedly (per OCLC) only of 20 copies printed by the Allen Press. Paper watermarked Richard de Bas.....