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"The Lion of the Vigilantes": William T. Coleman and the Life of Old San Francisco

Scherer, James A.B.

Indianapolis`: Bobbs-Merrill, (1939). Original cloth, fine in dust jacket. ... more info

Price: $50.00

A Cannoneer in Navajo Country. Journal of Private Josiah M. Rice, 1851.: Edited by Richard H. Dillon

Rice, Josiah M.

Denver: Old West Publishing Company / Fred A. Rosenstock, 1970. Boards, fine in dust jacket. Limited to 1500 copies. ... more info

Price: $25.00

A Facsimile Edition of California's First Book Reglamento Provicional: Printed at Monterey in 1834 by Agustin V. Zamorano. Translation by Ramon Ruiz and Theresa Vigil. A note on the printing by George L. Harding

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1954. Cloth, spine slightly faded, else fine. Facsimile in back cover pocket. One of 400 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. ... more info

Price: $40.00

A Handbook of the Trees of California.

Eastwood, Alice.

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1905. 80 pp., plus 57 plates. Publisher's brown cloth, spine gilt, original front and back wrappers bound in (front now detached). Bookplate and blindstamps of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Rare. The last book printed at the pioneer San Francisco printing firm of Edward Bosqui before the fire of April 1906 destroyed their plant. ... more info

Price: $1,250.00

A Journey to California.

Bidwell, John.

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937. Original cloth backed boards, fine in dust jacket. ... more info

Price: $100.00

A Lady's Visit to California 1853.

Pfeiffer, Ida.

Oakland: Biobooks, 1950. Cloth, spine slightly faded, else fine. One of 500 printed at The Black Vine Press. Kurutz 501h. ... more info

Price: $35.00

A Landsman's Voyage to California.: Being the account, compiled from letters and the journal of Joseph Kendall, of the voyage 'round the Horn of the Bark Canton from New York Harbor to San Francisco Bay in the year 1849

Kendall, Joseph.

San Francisco: Privately published, 1935. Cloth backed boards, fine. One of 200 copies printed by Taylor & Taylor. Presentation card from the publisher affixed to front endpaper. Kurutz 373. ... more info

Price: $150.00

A Letter from Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearney, San Diego, Upper California, January Thirtieth 1847.

Kearney, Stephen W.

Carmel: Thomas W. Norris, 1950. 8 pp. Wrappers, fine. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. ... more info

Price: $20.00

A Map of California Showing its Delineation at Various Periods.: With an explanation compiled from various sources by Duncan H. Olmsted

Olmsted, Duncan H.

San Francisco: (1966). Wrappers, one of 225 copies. Fine ... more info

Price: $25.00

A Navajo Sketch Book by Don Perceval with a descriptive text by Clay Lockett.

Perceval, Don; Lockett, Clay.

Flagstaff, Ariz.: Northland Press, 1962. Cloth. Fine, in trifle used dust jacket. ... more info

Price: $35.00

A Report Upon the Boreal Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California.

Smiley, Frank Jason.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1921. Wrappers, faded and with some coffee colored dampstaing on the back cover, and endpaper. Otherwise very nice. ... more info

Price: $30.00

A Sojourn in California by the King's Orphan: Travels and Sketches of G.M. Waseurtz of Sandels, a Swedish Gentleman who Visited California in 1841-1843.

Waseurtz, G.M.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California and the Society of California Pioneers, 1945. Cloth backed boards, corners slightly bumped. One of 300 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. G.B. 417. ... more info

Price: $125.00

A Treasury of Western Folklore. Foreword by Bernard DeVoto.

Botkin, B.A. (ed.).

New York: Crown, (1951). Cloth, fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Signed by the editor. ... more info

Price: $75.00

A Western Panorama 1849-1875. The travels, writings and influence of J. Ross Browne on the Pacific Coast, and in Texas, Nevada, Arizona and Baja California, as the first Mining Commissioner and Minister to China.

Goodman, David Michael.

Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1966. Original red cloth, fine copy. ... more info

Price: $50.00

A Work of Giants. Building the First Transcontinental Railroad.

Griswold, Wesley S.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1962). Half cloth, fine in lightly used dust jacket. ... more info

Price: $15.00

Adobe Days.

Bixby-Smith, Sarah.

Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1926. Cloth backed boards, label slightly stained, else fine. ... more info

Price: $25.00

Adobe Days. A Book of California Memories. Revised Edition.

Bixby-Smith, Sarah.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1926. Cloth backed boards, corners slightly worn, else fine. ... more info

Price: $25.00

Adolph Sutro.: Illustrated by Carl Dahlgren

Holmes, Eugenia Kellogg.

San Francisco: 1895. Original cloth, gilt, fine and bright. ... more info

Price: $75.00

Alonzo Delano's California Correspondence.: Being letters hitherton uncollected from the Ottawa (Illinois) Free Trader and the New Orleans True Delta, 1849-1852.Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Irving McKee. Maps by Stewart Mitchell. Decorations by Harry O. Diamond.

Delano, Alonzo.

Sacramento Book Collectors Cl Cloth, very good, issued without printed jacket. First edition, one of 310 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom. Publication No. 5 of the Sacramento Book Collectors Club. Kurutz 176. ... more info

Price: $150.00

An Artist Records the California Missions.

Ford, Henry Chapman.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1989. Cloth backed boards, 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, 100 pp., 66 black and white and 7 color illustrations. One of 450 copies, printed by Patrick Reagh. Fine, original plain jacket. ... more info

Price: $60.00