Santa Ynez & Los Angeles: Dos Lindas Publishing, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo. 26, [1] pp. SIGNED by the authors. Photo-illustrations (most in color). Stiff color printed wrappers in fine condition. Luis B. Ortega (1897-1995) is known as the world’s best and foremost rawhide braider. A fifth generation Californian, Ortega... More
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 169pp; one of 350 copies printed by Peter Rutledge Koch. New copy in publisher's black cloth with tipped-in color facsimiles of many of the works selected; index. Introduction by Gary F. Kurutz, Principal Librarian, Special Collections, California State Library; Forward by... More
[Del Monte, CA]: [Del Monte Properties Company], ca. 1920s. First Edition. Original wrappers. Tall 8vo. tri-fold brochure (9" x 4", folded). 8 unnumbered pages (including covers). Color and black & white illustrations; double-page center map of the Monterey Peninsula showing Pebble Beach; Monterey Peninsula Country Club; Pacific Grove; Old Monterey;... More
San Francisco: [Spring Valley Water Company], January 9, 1907. First Edition. 8vo. 11 leaves, printed single sided on oilskin paper, stapled. No covers (perhaps as issued?). Lacking one staple else fine. A report to shareholders describing the impacts to the water supply & company following the San Francisco 1906 earthquake... More
Carmel, CA: Rev. Raymond Mestres, Carmel Mission, 1924. 1st. Original wrappers. First printing. 8vo. Single sheet folded with cover photo-illustration of the Serra sarcophagus created by Jo Mora and detailed agenda for the day program of pageantry and celebration "... to do honor to the memory of the founder of... More
Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; xviii, 280pp. First Edition in illustrated boards, spine lettered in gilt. A Near Fine copy (many unopened pages,several roughly separated at rear) protected in publisher's mylar (a few large chips laid in). One of 1250 copies designed and printed by... More
San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation inscription from famed Calfornia bookseller John Howell. Octavo; 16 pp. With a cover in color after the painting by H.J. Breuer and illustrations after photographs by W.E. Dassonville. Gilt-stamped blue dustjacket with color plate depicting Yosemite Valley on front cover; gilt..... More
Yosemite Valley, CA: Published by the author, 1904. First Edition. Original wrappers. 12mo. 110 pp; [20 pp advertisements]. Illustrated by drawings from Chris. Jorgensen, and 26 photographs by Boysen, Dove, Fiske, and Foley. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Taber. Stiff tan illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (Light wear... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First English Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 236 pp; [28 + 4 pp advertisements]. Printed by Charles Dickens and Evans, Crystal Palace Press. Publishers black stamped blue cloth; brown endpapers. Some wear to extremities; bumping to corners; slight lean to spine; lower rear hinge cracking; else... More
[Santa Cruz, CA]: State of California, Department of Public Works, [June 23, 1922]. First Edition. Original wrappers. Large 8vo. 55 pp. 4 maps. Original printed wrappers. On page 41 are ink signatures of five members of the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce, Committee on Highway Terminals and Skyline Boulevard. On... More
Boston: The Roxburgh Publishing Co., 1923. First Edition. Original cloth. INSCRIBED "With kindest regards/of the author/John C. Shay/Los Angeles, 1924." 8vo. 142 pp. Original navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Minor wear to extremities else a fine copy. Being the actual experiences and observations of... More
San Francisco: Bohemian Club, May 9, 1918. First Edition. Original wrappers. Single sheet folded program for San Francisco's Bohemian Club Spring House-Cleaning Jinks. Distinctive Jo Mora illustration on front cover. Lyrics by George Sterling. A fine copy; the only copy of this Mora illustration that we've seen and no copy... More
Monterey, CA: T. F. Perry, 1906. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 153 pp. Illustrations. Table of contents. Illustrated with local business advertisements. A few pink leaves within, not included in the pagination, one of which is a map of downtown Monterey. Printed at the Office of the Daily Review. Brown... More