Padual Hills theatre. The collection includes: 2 issues of PADUA HILLS NEWS NOTES, dated October 17 & November 14, 1946. Chatty 4 pg. illustrated newsletters on doings around the theater and upcoming performances. Occasionally, the news touches upon larger, political issues and travel stories. Tri-fold brochure PADUA HILLS THEATRE: MEXICAN..... More
San Francisco: The California Historical Society, 1968. First Edition. Large quarto. 100pp. Designed by Adrian Wilson. Forty plates (many in color), notes on the pictures and artists, index. Orange cloth, gilt. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (spine slightly tanned). "... pictorial history of the Monterey settlement from shortly..... More
[Los Angeles]: Westways, 1956. Original wrappers. First Edition. Produced by the Automobile Club of Southern California. Large folding color map 46" x 32." Cartography by Lowell Butler; drawings by Ken Sawyer. Illustrated title page and "Note of Explanation" on verso. Slight age toning; else a near fine copy. Map insets..... More
Np: [1955]. Reprinted from The Pacific Spectator, Volume IX, No. 4, Autumn 1955. INSCRIBED by the author to his brother. 8vo. [12] pp. Blue printed staplebound wrappers in fine condition. "This article was delivered in an abbreviated version before the Mississippi Valley Historical Association at madison, Wisconsin, in April 1954..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967. First Edition, Limited #198 of 350 copies. SIGNED by Herb Caen and Dong Kingman. 4to. 191 pp. Illustrations by Kingman, many in color. Tan cloth with red lettering to spine in publisher's tan cloth slipcase with cream title label on front cover. Fine in near..... More
San Francisco: Published by The Argonaut, 1878, 1880. First Edition. Folio. Each issue has 16 pp. Illustrations, including many business advertisements. Vol. II bound in half black leather spine over black pebbled cloth boards; gilt ruling & lettering to spine in good condition (boards holding by string; wear to spine..... More
New York: Random House, 1939. Limited Edition. Folio (14 3/4 x 11 1/2"). Not paginated. Color reproductions of 28 drawings made in 1846 - 1847 by Wm. Meyers, gunner on the U.S. sloop-of-war "Dale". Descriptive text by Capt. Dudley W. Knox. Introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Printed at the Grabhorn..... More
United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils [and] California Agricultural Experiment Station. 1925. Large folding color map (42 x 38"). Base map from U.S. Geological Survey sheets. 2" split at lower edge foldline; 2 small splits at interior folds; short tape on verso; else a fine copy..... More
Monterey, CA: PBL Press, 1995. First Edition. INSCRIBED "For *** who knows of the Monterey Gym. Coach Ed Larsh." Square 8vo. x, 276pp. Photo-illustrations. Dark grey cloth in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket, as new. An oral history of the many friends of Ed Ricketts and..... More
El Centro, CA. Desert Magazine Press, 1950. Second Edition. Small 4to. 80 pp. With Introduction by Hugh Lacy and Foreword by Randall Henderson. Reproductions of Ruess' woodcuts and photographs of him and his travels, including color frontispiece. Tan cloth with brown lettering in orange & dark green illustrated dustjacket. Light..... More
[Pebble Beach, CA]: Monterey Peninsula Country Club, 1975. First Edition. Quarto; 127 pages in original white gilt stamped leatherette with green lettering. Darkening to covers else a fine copy. A retrospective of the club's first fifty years. Color pictorial endpapers of a photograph of the club house and painting of..... More
Santa Ana, CA: Orange County Historical Society, 1965. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies designed and printed by Pioneer Press. 8vo. 24 pp. Includes list of Historical Writings of Terry Elmo Stephenson. Gold printed wrappers in fine condition. An address delivered on November 12, 1964, before the Orange County Historical..... More
Elsinore, CA: Printed by Mayhall Print Shop, 1971. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. SIGNED "Best Wishes, Charles D. Swanner." 8vo. 77 pp. Photo-reproductions. Cream illustrated softcover in near fine condition (light tanning to covers; offset from paper inside front covers). A narrative of the author's early life and a...... More
Santa Ana, CA: Pioneer Press, 1962. First Edition. Orange County Pioneer Series No. 1. 8vo. 18 pp. Cream printed wrappers with an illustration of a Washington hand press on the front cover. Near fine condition (light tanning to covers). Biographical reference work on George W. Barter, editor of the Anaheim..... More
"An authorized republication by the author from the 1994 book: Origins & destinations: 41 essays on Chinese America / a joint project of Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and UCLA Asian American Studies Center." 1994. 8vo. Pages 189 - 205. Bibliography. Red printed wrappers in near fine condition (small..... More
Yorba Linda, CA: Shumway Family History Services, 1989. Centennial Edition, Limited to 40 copies, this being #31, SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 24, [2] pp, text single-sided. Bibliography. Grey cloth with silver lettering. Fine condition, as new. In this work, the author explores the positive and negative effects which the..... More
Yorba Linda, CA: Shumway Family History Services, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. 28, [2] pp, text single-sided. Bibliography. Grey cloth with silver lettering. Fine condition, as new. The Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads brought the first Chinese into Southern California to lay track as the companies crisscrossed the area with..... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Co., 1915. First Edition. 12mo, 13 pages. Two tipped in plates, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Light wear to extremities; slight fading to spine; small tape ghosts inside front cover; else a near fine copy of Bernard Maybeck's only book. More
New York: Coward-McCann, 1932. First Edition. 8vo. 304 pp. Tan cloth in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket designed by Politzer. A near fine copy (previous owner decorative bookplate) in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities). "This book has become the most widely read account of Murieta's life, perhaps because it..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973 - 1997. All First Editions except "Inventing the Dream" which is the second printing. Includes the first five volumes in Starr's History of California series, each INSCRIBED to the same people by the author. 8vo. Various paginations. Illustrations. Index. Hardcovers in color illustrated dustjackets..... More
Carmel, CA: Publisher not identified, ca. 1920s. 3 1/4 x 5 3/4". [4] pp. Color illustrations; map on rear cover. Color illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (lengthwise creasing; minor wear). Scare tourist brochure for the iconic Highlands Inn located on the coast south of Carmel. More
Los Angeles: Times Mirror Printing and Binding House, 1913. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. 37 pp text (including 5 full-age photographic plates; 96 full-page photographic plates with titles. fold-out map of the Aqueduct. Color illustrated wrappers in very good condition (wear to edges; some darkening to covers); folding map is in..... More
Los Angeles: Department of Public Service, 1916. First Edition. 4to. 319, [13 pp Index] pp. Black & white frontispiece portrait of William Mulholland; numerous full-page black & -white photographic illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, index, 24 folding maps, charts, and plans in a pocket inside the rear cover, including a large..... More
Hong Kong: Libra Press, (1983). First Edition, Limited to 350 copies. 8vo. 133 pp. Black covers with gilt lettering to spine in publisher's pale pink & black dustjacket. A fine copy. The author, Monsignor Francis J. Weber, is a distinguished Catholic scholar, an Honorary Chaplain to His Holiness the Pope..... More
Hong Kong: Libra Press, (1975). First Edition. 8vo. 193 pp. Black covers with gilt lettering to spine in publisher's orange & black dustjacket. A fine copy, with a hint of fading to spine. The author, Monsignor Francis J. Weber, is a distinguished Catholic scholar, an Honorary Chaplain to His Holiness..... More