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 about Zamorano Select
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by William Donohoo and Gordon J. Van de Water. 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.... More about Zamorano Select (SIGNED
Santa Ynez & Los Angeles: Dos Lindas Publishing, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo. 26, [1] pp. 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 traced his ancestry to... More about California Vaquero Traditions: Luis B. Ortega Master Rawhide Artisan
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
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: 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
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
N.p. Published by the author, 1980. Limited to 100 numbered copies. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author. 4to. iii, 151 pp. Photo-illustrations, facsimiles, maps, illustrations. Red leatherette with gold lettering and blue & gold decoration to front cover. Text block separating from the covers; else a near fine copy. Beverly Louise... More about Dynasty of Dons: A Personalized History of the Castros and Picos (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
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
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
Carmel, CA: Antiquities Research Publications, 1975. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 71 pp. Illustrations; maps. Bibliography. Photographic credits go to Mildred Waltrip and Steve Crouch. Black & white illustrated wrappers in fine condition. An Archaeological History of the Monterey Peninsula. More about Primitives In Paradise: The Monterey Peninsula Indians
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1972. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. 254, [16] pp. Bibliography; List of Ranchos of Monterey County; Index. Many photo illustrations; map endpapers. Fine in near fine dustjacket (fading to spine; minor wear to extremities). A comprehensive and readable account of the history of Monterey, from the Native... More about Monterey: The Presence of the Past
Santa Clara/Spokane: CA. Mission Studies Assn./Arthur H. Clark Co., 2004. First Edition, Limited to 150 Hardcover copies. Hardcover. Octavo, 153 pp. Illustrations. Notes; Glossary; Refereces Cited; Index. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Original tan cloth stamped in burgundy on front cover and spine. Fine condition, as new. The diary and copybook... More about The Diary and Copybook of William E.P. Hartnell: Visitador General of the Missions of Alta...
Kestrel Press: Carmel Valley, CA, 1991. Second Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 737pp. Bibliography; Index. With more than 2700 place name entries, 4000 cross references, 610 bibliographic references and 525 map references and citations. Red cloth with gilt lettering; map endpapers in publisher's red printed dustjacket. Near fine (minor splaying to boards)... More about Monterey County Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary
University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. 1st. Paperback. First Edition. 4to. 160 pp color and black & white illustrations. Stiff color printed paperback in fine condition; as new. still in shrinkwrap. An acclaimed rawhide braider of horse gear, Luis Ortega elevated his craft to collectible art and influenced a generation of... More about Luis Ortega’s Rawhide Artistry: Braiding in the California Tradition
Carmel, CA: Published by the author, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. SIGNED by Sharon Lawrence. 4to. 55 pp. Photo-illustrations of early Carmel.Publisher's photo-illustrated wrappers. small stain to front cover else fine. Louis S. Slevin was the first photographer to shoot a full range of black & white images of the fledgling... More about Old Carmel in Rare Photographs by L.S. Slevin (SIGNED