College Station TX: Texas A & M University, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Quarto. (x), 578 pages. Red cloth with gilt lettering to front cover, black & gilt lettering spine label; New copy - as issued without dust jacket in original shrinkwrap. Numerous black & white illustrations; Bibliography and Index. A fascinating... More about James George Thompson, 1803 -1879: Cherokee Trader, Texian, Secessionist
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 225 pp. White cloth with black lettering in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (age toning; light wear to extremities; darkening to spine). The author's first novel "... is a raunchy, funny, swaggering, angry, cocksure book;... More about Wolf: A False Memoir
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American Edition. 8vo. 154, [1] pp. Cream cloth with red lettering to spine in color illustrated dustjacket designed by Warren Chappell. A fine copy in good only dustjacket (front flap separated but present; wear, chips and short closed tears; some loss to spine... More about The Stranger
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Colony, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. 253 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in fine condition. Contains the lines of Mayflower descent, plus a short biography of each current member of the Los Angeles Colony, as well as some members who have transferred to other... More about Los Angeles Colony Mayflower Lineages
Carmel, CA: Cypress Press, 1936. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 7 leaves, single sided. Introduction. 7 intact flower seed packets (unopened) affixed to pages, each accompanied by a title and single stanza of poetry. The packets include seeds for shooting stars, Chinese houses, lupin, mariposa and seasonal mixes and a.... More about California Wild Flowers: A Book of Seeds
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1914. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 281 pp. Illustrations from photographs by W. A. Sharp. Blue pictorial cloth. A very good copy (wear to extremities; previous owner name; light spotting to covers; fading to spine). "A thrilling adventure of a party of eighteen gold seekers who... More about Mad Rush for Gold in Frozen North
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Rand McNally & Company, 1928. First Edition. 8vo. 204 pp. Annotated Bibliography for Teachers of General History of California. Illustrations by Julia Le Count of various scenes throughout California. Pictorial boards in near fine condition (previous owner name & gift inscription; else a near fine... More about Cubby Bears in California
Fullerton, CA: Sultana Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED "Lyman/Join me in a/nostalgic trip back through/the "good old days"/Gene." 8vo. (10), 297 pp. Photo-illustrations. Blue cloth with silver lettering & decoration in publisher's dustjacket. Fine in near fine dustjacket (some agetoning; short closed tear to upper edge; minor wear to..... More about Turnips to T-Bone (in the Cherokee Strip) (INSCRIBED
(Nashville): (Benson Printing Co.), ca. 1922. Original boards. SIGNED by the poet. 8vo. 44 pp. Grey paper covered boards with black lettering. Typed poem titled "The Creed of all Texan Youths" laid in. Previous owner name; light age toning to covers; offsetting inside covers; else a near fine copy. Includes... More about San Gabriel Melodies (SIGNED
Los Angeles: Grafton :Publishing, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED ""From the author/Dr. J. H. Reider." 8vo. xv, [2], 18-196 pp. Double-page map at rear. 14 photo-illustrated plates. Pictorial cloth in near fine condition (faint bookseller stamp inside front board; minor wear to extremities). The author provides an early history of... More about A Digest of Tropical Mexico (SIGNED
Fullerton: Community History Project, Oral History Program, California State University, 1981. First Edition. 4to. 189 pp. Index. Photo-illustrations. Black leatherette with gilt lettering in fine condition. Interviewees for this oral project include long-time Huntington Beach residents Delbert "Bud" Higgins, J. Serman Denny, Helen Tarbox, Bernice Frost, and NeVada Staines. Their... More about Huntington Beach: An Oral History of the Early Development of a Southern California Beach Community
Monterey, CA: Jo Mora Publications, 1942. Color pictographic map. Image size 18 3/8" x 24 1/4". Fine condition. Jo Mora's Carmel-by-the-Sea is one of his most desired maps and over the years has become uncommon. Jo created this map for the people of Carmel including its general history and current... More about Carmel-By-The-Sea Past and Present (Carte/Map
N.p. Published by the author, 1985. First Edition, Limited to unknown number of copies, this being No. 55. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author. 4to. iii, 191 pp. Index. Photo-illustrations, facsimiles, maps, illustrations. Purple leatherette with gold lettering in purple dustjacket. A fine copy. Beverly Louise Hendrickson Waid was a direct... More about My Inherited Destiny: Ten First Families of California (INSCRIBED
San Francisco: Wallace Hebberd, 1963. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Maps, text illustrations. Advance Reservation publisher's slip laid in. Tan cloth with black spine labels & gilt lettering in cream illustrated dustjackets. Fine copies in fine dustjackets. Volumes XVIII through XXIV of Bancroft's Works, "... for the years it... More about History of California 1542-1890 (7 volumes
London: Textile and Art Publications, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. 379, [1] pp. Over 130 works illustrated in 170 colour plates (including full-page bleed details); over 180 other colour illustrations, maps, mono illustrations/line drawings. Map; Bibliography; Glossary; Index. Tan linen cloth with color plate affixed to front cover; housed... More about Magic Feathers, Textile Art from Ancient Peru
Bern: Gallery Kornfield, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. Vol 1: Numbers 1-179; 469 pp. Vol. 2: Numbers 180-373; 470-894 pp. Black & white plates. Includes biography, bibliography, concordance Beckmann List-Hofmaier, concordance Glaser-Hofmaier, concordance Gallwitz-Hofmaier, and, indexes of titles and names in English and German. Purple cloth in illustrated dustjackets... More about Max Beckmann. Catalogue Raisonné of his Prints (2 volumes
Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highway Department. First Edition. Paperback. Large magazine format. 48pp. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions. Color illustrated wraps in fine condition. Includes an 8 page article titled "Men, Myths and Rituals" by Maggie Wilson about Jo Mora's time spent with the Hopis; 6 photo-reproductions... More about Arizona Highways: September, 1979, Vol. 55 No. 9
New York: Barron's, 1938. Hardcover. 8vo. xii, [13], 14-120 pp. Illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettering in color printed dustjacket. Offsetting from dustjacket flaps else fine in very good dustjacket (wear to extremities; short closed tears & creasing to lower edge; some age-toning). Written by "The Trader," noted market analyst... More about Commonsense Speculation
Del Monte, CA: Hotel Del Monte, 1936. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 43 pp. Illustrations. Publisher's color illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (light foxing and age toning to covers; minor wear to extremities). A selection of recipes by famous people including Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Gelett Burgess, Zane Grey... More about Famous Recipes by Famous People: Hotel Del Monte
Oakland, CA: Oakland Museum, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. Tall 8vo. 63pp. Bibliography. Photo-illustrations (some in color). Stiff color printed wraps in fine condition. Catalog for exhibition held at the Oakland Museum October 3 - November 12, 1972. The Society of Six, formed in 1917, were a group of Northern California... More about Society Of Six: William Clapp, August Gay, Selden Gile, Maurice Logan, Louis Siegriest, Bernard...
Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1945. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies, this being #273. Hardcover. 8vo. x, 66pp. Black & white illustrations; fold-out frontispiece illustration. Orange cloth covered boards; gilt illustration to front board; gilt titles to the spine; original dust jacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket... More about Zamorano 80: A Selection of Distinguished California Books Made by the Members of the Zamorano Club
Osaka, Japan: Published by the author, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 36 pp. Text in English & Japanese. Striking color serigraph illustrations accompanied by Earle's poetry. Glossy paper covered boards in color printed dustjacket. Fine in fine dustjacket; still in original plastic sleeve. An unusual title on Earle's works; as... More about Eyvind Earle: 1993.3-1995.12
Carmel, CA: Monterey County Archaeological Society, 1972. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 48 pp. Photographic reproductions. Black & white photo-illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (light spotting to rear cover). Gary Breschini (1946-2018) was a historian and expert on the local area’s Native American people and lands. As an archaeologist... More about The Indians of Monterey Country (SIGNED
Carmel, CA: Monterey County Archaeological Society, 1973. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 55, [1] pp. Photo-reproductions of lost adobes. black & white illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (light rubbing on lower front cover; previous owner stamp). More about Lost Adobes of Monterey County
Carmel, CA: Antiquities Research Publications, 1981. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 55, [1] pp. Illustrations; maps; plot plans. Black & white illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (small previous owner initial; light age toning). More about Bastions by the Bay: New Documentation on the Royal Presidio of Monterey