Chicago: Rock Island Lines, 1937. Small 4to [32] pp. Photographic illustrations. color illustrated wrappers in fine condition. A striking and early promotional brochure to encourage tourists to visit the Southwest, Arizona and California. Various sites include El Paso, TX; Carlsbad Caverns National Park; Juarez, Mexico; Tucson; Phoeniz; San Diego; Coronado;..... More
Long Beach, CA: Pacific Coast Club, 1926. 1st. Hardcover. Master Edition #651 as stated on a tipped in page, 4to. 282pp. SIGNED by the President and Secretary of the club. Tipped-in color plates; photo-illustrations. Dark green Arts & Crafts style binding in fine condition (light wear to extremities). Includes the..... More
Placerville, CA: Pony Express Courier, June, 1935 - May, 1937. 1st. Paperback. Small folio. Vol. II & III (24 issues). Most issues 16pp. Illustrated. Each volume bound in stiff wraps. Very good condition (light wear & age-toning) internally clean. Monthly publication filled with stories and interviews about & by early..... More
Chicago: Curt Teich & Company published exclusively for The Southern Pacific Lines, 1923. World History. Oblong 8vo. title page, [2pp] listing titles and descriptions for each color image; full-page map depicting much of the United States of America beginning east of Chicago along a line with New Orleans and detailing..... More
[San Francisco, CA]: Southern Pacific Railroad, [1910]. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated with black & white photo-reproductions; photo-plate of the Mallet Compound Freight Engine built for Southern Pacific Sierra Grades; advertisements; includes portraits of Southern Pacific employees as well as the Athletic Association teams. Flexible black..... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1971. First Edition. Folio. 143, [1] pp. Bibliography. Color photographs by Philip Hyde. Two-page color map showing Proposed Highways, Existing Roads, Escalante Wilderness Area, Capitol Reef National Monument, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and Canyonlands National Park. Introduction by John G. Mitchell, Sierra Club Books editor..... More
Washington: G.P.O., 1846. First Edition. 29th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Doc. 438, Serial 477. 8vo. 75pp. 11 lithograph plates; 2 lithographed maps (1 large and folding). Stitched wraps (disbound). Light dampstaining throughout, otherwise fine condition (and scarce thus) in modern cloth case with gilt-lettered morocco label at spine. Scarce first..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED "Cordially Yours, Ramon F. Adams". 8vo. 310 pp. Illustrations. A fine copy in fine dustjacket (spine ever so lightly faded). Much has been written about Billy the Kid, an American Old West outlaw and gunfighter who allegedly killed eight..... More
Big Sur, CA: Big Sur Historical Society, 1981. 1st. Paperback. SIGNED by Addleman and Harrington. Oblong 8vo. 155 pp. Index. Illustrations (many after photographs). Corrections sheet laid in. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers in fine condition (priced inked over on rear cover). A collection of recipes, stories and local history from the..... More
Palo Alto, CA: Western History Association, 1966-1972. First Edition. 4to. Color and black & white illustrations (many in color). Color printed wraps in near fine condition (light rubbing & wear). More
Chicago; St. Louis: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1882. New Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 358 + 285pp. Illustrations; frontispiece at beginning of both parts. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt illustration of a robber on front board; embossed black lettering to front board. A near very good copy..... More
San Francisco: The Argonaut Publishing Company, 1879. 1st. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 288 pp. 6 seating plans of city theaters. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering, ruling & decoration. Contemporary owner name; lacking map else a very good copy of an uncommon title (minor wear to extremities; faint staining to rear..... More
Honolulu: Hawaii Tourist Bureau, 1931. 1st. Paperback. 8vo. 18 pp. 2-page centerfold color map of Maui by Ruth Taylor White. Black & white photo-reproductions. Photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers. Near fine (minor wear to extremities). Features "Old Hawaiian Legends" as told to W.O. Cogswell by Ka'maainas, and "Ka Po Kane Night" by..... More
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1940. First Edition. Presentation Inscription, SIGNED by both authors, with their brands burned into the bottom page edges. 8vo. 242 pp. Illustrations. List of Brand Names at rear. Tan cloth with brown lettering in color illustrated dustjacket. Front flap corners clipped with price $2.50 price..... More
Austin: Madrona Press, 1974. 1st. Hard Cover. Octavo; (xvi), 159 pages. More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 1962. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 400 pp. Photo-reproductions. Color cloth boards. Minor wear & spotting else a near fine copy. More
Np: Associated Telephone Co., 1943. 1st. Paperback. 4to. Various paginations. Illustrations; advertisements. Tan printed wrappers in near fine condition (age toning; minor wear to extremities). Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Mills College, CA: Eucalyptus Press, 1937. 1st. Hardcover. Small quarto. 46pp; pages uncut. Frontispiece mounted portrait. Blue paper boards, lettering and illustration on front board, illustrated endpapers. A near fine copy (slight age toning to front and rear board edges; minor wear to extremities). Atkins' journey aboard the brig, Advance..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. First Edition, first issue with illustratioins printed in dark brown ink. 8vo. xi, 280 pp. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout by E. Boyd Smith. Gilt lettered olive green pictorial cloth, top edges gilt in scarce publisher's rarely seen brown illustrated dustjacket. Previous owner name; minor wear..... More
Sacramento: State Office, 1884. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 555pp. Frontispiece illustration of the Sacramento State Agricultural and Industrial Exposition Building. Purple-red pebbled cloth with gilt lettering and illustration to spine. A near fine copy (fading to spine; minor wear to extremities; decorative advertisement for Pacific Electric Pad Truss adhered inside front..... More
New York: The Bancroft Company, [1886]. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 784pp. Pioneer Register and Index. Brown cloth with paper title label to spine. Volume 5 of the author's History of California, with original title-page removed and a new one substituted. Being that part of the author's series on the history of..... More
New York: The Bancroft Company, [nd. ca 1886-1890]. Hardcover. 8vo. (xvi), 795pp. Pioneer Register and Index. Brown cloth with paper title label to spine. Volume 2 of the author's History of California; issued separately. More
New York: The Bancroft Company, [nd. ca 1886-1890]. Hardcover. 8vo. (xvi), 795pp. Pioneer Register and Index. Brown cloth with paper title label to spine. Volume 3 of the author's History of California; issued separately. More
New York: Century Company, 1930. First edition. 8vo. xv, 410 pp. Foreword by Major Frederick Russell Burnham, Chief of Scouts Under Lord Roberts. Illustrations.Black cloth with red lettering, cartographic endpapers in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (chips at upper corners & spine head; light wear..... More
Los Angeles: Grafton Publishing, 1923. Bartlett, Dana. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. 167pp. Full color tissue-guarded frontispiece illustration; 10 full plate black & white illustrated plates; numerous in-text illustrations by Dana Bartlett. Green cloth covered boards; gilt titles to front board and spine. Light wear to corners and spine ends..... More