Glendale, CA / Santa Barbara: Arthur H. Clark Company / Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 1929. First Edition. 8vo. xvii, 452pp. Illustrated with 78 plates; 1 large folding map. Index. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. An exceptionally fine copy. A Synopsis of the Results of Four Years of Intensive..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. 8vo. xix, 471 pp. Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 4 maps; photo-reproductions. Tan cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy. A engrossing biography on Tiburcio Vasquez who along with Joaquin Murrieta is America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. More
Santa Cruz, CA: Bear State Books, 1976. First Edition. Small 4to. 293 pp. Black & white photo-reproductions; drawings by Joe Rodriquez. Tan cloth with red illustration to front board and red lettering; map endpapers. Small stain inside front board; else a fine copy. The history of Rancho El Tejon and..... More
Santa Cruz, CA: Bear State Books, 1980. First Edition. Small 4to. 685 pp. Index. Color frontispiece portrait of Murrieta; black & white photo-reproductions; maps; drawings by Joe Rodriquez. Tan cloth with gilt illustration to front cover and gilt lettering to spine; illustrated endpapers. A fine copy. Biography of Joaquín Murieta..... More
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1938. First edition. 4to. 182pp. Illustrations by Hernando Villa. Orange cloth with black lettering to spine in scarce pictorial dustjacket. Minor wear to lower corners else fine in very good dustjacket (chips along upper edge; cover separated along front joint & flap; darkening to spine). One..... More
boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. SIGNED on the half-title page by Ansel Adams. Large 8vo. 132 pp. Index. 64 black & white photographs. Tan cloth in publisher's photo-illustrated dustjacket. Light foxing' previous owner name else near fine. Selections from the Works of John Muir. "Mr. Adams has chosen phrases from Muir..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. First Edition, Limited to 550 numbered copies. Hardcover. Large paper edition printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge. 4to. 220pp. Index. Hand-colored photogravure frontispiece (with printed tissue guard) of a painting by Amelia M. Watson titled 'A Florida Sunset.' 17 plates, including map, tipped in. Green..... More
boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. First Edition. SIGNED on the half-title page by Ansel Adams. Large 8vo. 132 pp. Index. 64 black & white photographs. Tan cloth in publisher's photo-illustrated dustjacket. Near fine (faint spotting to rear cover; small bump to upper rear edge) in near fine dustjacket with a hint..... More
New York: The Press of the Pioneers, 1935. First Edition. 8vo. x, [6], 526 pp. Bibliography; list of Pioneers of Tuolumne County; list of Towns and Camps of Tuolumne Region. Photo-illustrated plates. A fine copy in fine dustjacket (two small chips to upper edge). The history of early Tuolumne County..... More
Pasadena, CA: Published by the author, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by George Wharton James in ink on the half-title, together with a tipped in presentation fragment signed by Ethelinda M. James. "To the 'Burroughses', To recall the joyful days of Burroughs' Camp. Ethelinda M. James." "The 'Big Brother' was..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1922. 13th Printing, New and Enlarged Edition. 8vo. xiv, 389 pp. Index. Illustrations. Tan cloth with black & gilt decoration, black lettering in publisher's cream illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (small chip to upper front corner; minor wear to extremities). "Muir..... More