Arcadia Publishing, October 2005. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The Mother Road hauled it all, traversing the American West from Chicago to Santa Monica Beach, the last 350 miles through Southern California. For settlers, Depression-era Okies and Arkies, and post-World War II families bound for suburbia, Route 66 was.....
James Stevenson Publisher, May 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Richard Dillon, whose work on Meriwether Lewis has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, presents California pioneers in short, lively, and informative sketches that capture the special qualities of their unusual and stimulating lives.
University of California Press, February 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney to assist in the first geological survey of the state of California. Brewer was not.....
Da Capo Press, June 1997. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. In this wholly original study, cultural historian and critic David Wyatt uses the story of fire to tell the story of California. Wyatt focuses this "catastrophic history" of his native state on five events.....
Crescent, April 1988. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
California Lure Publishers, January 1946. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good clipped dust jacket.
n.p., n.d., ca 188? First Edition. Trade Paperback. 12 pages. Letters of C. P. Huntington to David D. Colton. First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Covers are separated at spine and pages are split at spine. Stamp in ink of Bancroft Library with stamp of withdrawal. Pamphlet held in.....
California Theatre Council, 1981. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Includes 'Intrigue at Ah-pah' by The Dell'Arte Players. Illustrations in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). A few shallow creases to the covers but a nice, square copy.
Sierra Club, 1928. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Unnumbered, 8 pages. Reprinted from the Sierra Club Bulletin Annual Number, 1928. First edition thus. Very good in wrappers (paperback).Wrappers with some foxing.
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;.....
Ten Mile River Press, 1981. First Edition. Pamphlet. 16 pages. The text of eight commentaries recorded for National Public Radio's All Things Considered. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback).
Energy and Environmental Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, 1977. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 46 pages. With 8 B/W figures. Preprint copy (to be submitted for publication). Asaro used neutron activation analysis to study the plate and found it contained too much zinc and too few impurities to be.....
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).
Byra and Bill Wreden. Printed by Sherwood and Katharine Grover at the Grace Hoper Press, 1974, 2011. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 4 pages. Christmas Greetings from Byra & Bill Wreden, 1974, limited to 300 copies of a clipping from a newspaper of 1949, telling of events in San Franciso, Benicia.....
1874. Ephemera. Three handwritten letters (four pages in all) by Hoitt (1833 - 1905) to San Diego attorney S. S. Sanborn, all dating 1874 (February 10, February 18, and May 18). The letters exhibit both a friendly tone ('how is your family?') and the writer's underlined exasperation ('my tax receipts.....
The Book Club of California. Printed by L-D Allen Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Limited to 250 copies. Allen Press Bibliography, #4. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in brown quarter leather and blue cloth covers with title blind-stamped on spine and decorative stars in gilt on.....
1918. Ephemera. Typed letter signed, dated 21 May 1918, addressed to 'Dear Eddie' (Edward F. O'Day). Letter discusses William's recently published book, 'The Book of High Romance: A Spiritual Autobiography', thanks O'Day for a story on the book, comments on reviews of the book in New York press, sales of.....
Frontera, 1995-1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Issue 1, 48 pages; Issue 2, 48 pages; Issue 32 pages. Issues 1-3 published in San Francisco. Issue 4, 48 pages; Issue 5, 46 pages; Issue 7, 38 pages; Issue 8, 48 pages; Issue 9, 50 pages. Issues 4 and after published in Los.....
Book Club of California, 1935. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 'A series of letters, reproduced in facsimile of twelve distinguished Pacific Coast authors of the past. Each with a comment by a contemporary western writer.' - from from warpper. Limited to 500 copies. Enclosed in a light tan wrapperwith black lettering.....
Book Club of California. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom Castle Press, 1963. Ephemera. Twelve illustrated keepsakes, each 4 pages (single sheets, folded in half). Folders are each near fine. In original printed Book Club of California mailing envelope. Envelope with wear and closed tears.
Book Club of California, 1966. Trade Paperback. Keepsake of 9 folders. Printed by Garbhorn-Hoyem for members of the Book Club of California. 9 folders are near fine. With original printed Book Club of California mailing envelope. Envelope with wear and closed tears.
The Book Club of California. Printed by Grabhorn Press, 1960. Trade Paperback. 12 folders with illustrations. Traces the history of California philately. Designed and printed by Grabhorn Press. Folders are near fine. With original unprinted mailing envelope with wear.
The Book Club of California. Printed by Grabhorn Press, 1960. Trade Paperback. 12 folders with illustrations. Traces the history of California philately. Designed and printed by Grabhorn Press. Folders are near fine. With original printed mailing envelope of Book Club of California. Envelope with wear and closed tears.
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 &.....
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).