Heyday, March 2017. Trade Paperback. At the intersection of plants and politics, Trees in Paradise is an examination of ecological mythmaking and conquest. The first Americans who looked out over California saw arid grasslands and chaparral, and over the course of generations, they remade those landscapes according to the aesthetic.....
TwoDot, September 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Unearth the Mysteries of Those Who Lie Beneath the Oldest Graveyards in the Golden State In each of California's 58 counties there are hundreds (and hundreds) of cemeteries, burial sites, and abandoned graveyards, some tucked away behind storefronts or under paved streets.....
TwoDot, September 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Unearth the Mysteries of Those Who Lie Beneath the Oldest Graveyards in the Golden State In each of California's 58 counties there are hundreds (and hundreds) of cemeteries, burial sites, and abandoned graveyards, some tucked away behind storefronts or under paved streets.....
TwoDot, September 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Unearth the Mysteries of Those Who Lie Beneath the Oldest Graveyards in the Golden State In each of California's 58 counties there are hundreds (and hundreds) of cemeteries, burial sites, and abandoned graveyards, some tucked away behind storefronts or under paved streets.....
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).
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.
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).
California Historical Society, 1956-1957. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8 issues complete. First edition (first printing). Fine copies in wrappers.
n.p., [1913]. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 48 pages. Thomas Fox was a prominent Democratic politician in California. Woodrow Wilson nominated him for the position of state Postmaster in 1913. The nomination drew many objections, some printed here, characterizing Fox as a 'corporate tool' of and 'head of the Southern Pacific'.....
The Society of California Pioneers, 1929. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Pages 175-209. Contents: Herman Knoche, Almost Pioneers; Forest City (B/W illustration); Michigan Bar (B/W illustration); La Porte (B/W illustration); Flora Alice Wright, Governor Richard Barnes Mason and the Civil Fund; Oliver P. Stidger, Let a Monument Be Builded. First edition.....
The Society of California Pioneers, 1924. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 68 pages. Contents: Foreword, Brief History of San Francisco Lands, and The Life of James Lick. Portrait of Lick opposite the contents page. First edition (first printing). Very good in blue wrappers (paperback). Hand-corrections in ink to foreword. Mild fading.....
U. S. Forest Service, n.d., ca. 1920s. Trade Paperback. Unnumbered, 30 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
1915. Ephemera. Single sheet, 8.5 x 11 inches. William P. Lawlor (1854-1926) was a associate justice of the California Supreme Court 1915-1926. Typed letter signed on Supreme Court of California, William P. Lawlor letterhead, dated April 26th, 1915, addressed to Edward F. O'Day. Letter forwards a typed comment by Franklin.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
1952. Ephemera. Walter Morris Hart (1872-1964) was on the English faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1895 to his retirement in 1943. He was Dean of the University in 1923 and Vice-President in 1925. He established on of the outstanding English departments in the nation. Autograph letter signed.....
1885. Trade Paperback. 4 page letter. J. P. Dunn was Controller, State of California, 1883-1891. Edward C. Marshall was the Attorney General of California from 1883-1887. Autograph letter signed, 4-pages, on Controller's Department, State of California letterhead, dated Nov. 19, 1885 from 'Clark.' Letter is responding to a request from.....
Arthur H Clark, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 560 pages. A historical account of a rebellion by American settlers in the Sacramento valley of California against the Mexican authorities. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy with a red mark to page edges in a very good dust jacket with fading.....
United Spanish War Veterans, 1950. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 94 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in blue wrappers (paperback). With typed addressed mailing envelope with printed return address.
Book Club of California, 1939. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Six booklets, issued bimonthly during 1939 to members of the Book Club of California. Includes: Chester Bailey Fernald, 'The Gentleman in the Barrel;' W.H. Rhodes, 'The Caes of Summerfield;' Henry Sienkiewicz, 'Orso;' Joseph T. Goodman,'The Trumpet Comes to Pickeye;' W.C. Morrow.....
M. E. I. Allen, 1912. Pamphlet.
University of California, 1911. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 358 pages. Includes: The Portola Expedition of 1769-1770, Diary of Vicente Vila; Expedition to San Francisco Bay in 1770, Diary of Pedro Fages; The Portola Expedition of 1769-70, Diary of Miguel Costanso; Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851.....
n.d. Trade Paperback. Two page letter on folded sheet, 4.5 x 7 inches when folded. 'Thursday 9 th (no year) / Dear Mrs. (name crossed out in ink) / There is danger that ____ and corrupt cliques will get control of our City Council, and in effect begin to try.....
Book Club of California. Printed by Patrick Reagh, Glendale, 1984. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 35 pages plus 1 page bibliography. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in tan wrappers (paperback).