Slickrock. The Canyon Country of Southeast Utah. Photographs and commentary by Philip Hyde
San Francisco: Sierra Club, (1971). Hyde, Philip. First edition. Folio, cloth, fine in price-clipped dust jacket. More
CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN AMERICANA
Memoirs and Anecdotes of Early Days in Calistoga
[Calistoga]: Privately printed, 1946. First edition. Original blue cloth, mimeographed. Very good. 54, (11) pp., text on rectos only. Inscribed by the author. Rocq 5854. More
The Gold Rush Song Book.; Comprising a Group of Twenty-five Authentic Ballads as They Were Sung by the Men Who Dug for Gold in California During the Period
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1940. Dean, Mallette. First edition. Oblong 8vo, blue boards, yellow cloth spine. Illustrations from wood cuts by Mallette Dean. A fine copy, in the scarce dust jacket. More
Roughing It
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1872. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt, corners rubbed, almost invisibly rebacked, spine gilt slightly dulled, front cover bright, internally very fresh and clean. Arnold Wilson bookplate. Advertisement present on p. ; state "A" of page 242, both presumed to be the earliest state. BAL 3337..... More
Early California Justice. The History of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California,1849-1944.; Edited by Roy Vernon Sowers
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1948. First edition. Quarto, cloth, fine. One of 400 copies. More
Notes on Upper California. A Journey from Monterey to the Colorado River in 1832
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1951. First edition. Cloth, top of spine bumped, else fine. Number 1 in the Early California Travels Series. One of 200 copies. With the ECTS checklist of the first 37 titles, 1956. More
Duflot de Mofras' Travels on the Pacific Coast.; Translated, Edited and Annotated by Marguerite Eye Wilbur
Santa Ana: The Fine Arts Press, 1937. First edition in English. The first translation (though only of the Pacific Coast portion) of the important French work on the exploration of the Northwest. originally published in 1844 Two volumes, boards with leather spines, spot on lower boards, else fine. Howes Usiana..... More
Collis Potter Huntington
Newport News: The Mariners' Museum, 1954. First edition. Two volumes, original green cloth. spines a trifle faded, tiny rub on endpaper, else fine. More
The Adventures of James Collier.; First Collector of the Port of San Francisco
Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1937. First edition. Cloth, label, edges of spine slightly rubbed. One of 250 copies. More
Scenes de la vie Californienne.; Traduites de l'Allemand par Gustave Revilliod
Geneva: Fick, 1859. Gandon, A. First illustrated edition, and the first edition in French. Original brown cloth, slight rubbing, near fine. This edition contains six fine etchings printed on india paper. The German edition (which was unillustrated) appeared in 1856. This edition follows by three years the rare Leipzig printing;..... More
As I Remember Them
Salt Lake City: 1913. First edition. Original maroon cloth, slight shelf wear, endpapers starting to crack, very good and bright copy. Contemporary newspaper review laid in (it stained a couple of pages). More
The History of Oregon and California, and the other territories on the North-West coast of North America
Boston: Charles C Little and James Brown, 1845. Second edition, revised and corrected. 8vo. ,492 pp. Contemporary marbled boards, backed in cloth, original cloth backstrip preserved, inner hinges reinforced with linen tape. Folding map in fine condition. An excellent, clean copy. Forbes 1529 (1206 for the first edition of 1840)..... More
The Blazed Trail of the Old Frontier. Being the log of the Upper Missouri Historical Expedition....with many illustrations from drawings by Charles M. Russell
New York: McBride, 1926. Russell, Charles M. First edition. Original green cloth, spine a little faded. More
Story of the Spanish Missions of the Middle Southwest
Santa Ana: The Fine Arts Press, 1934. First edition. Boards, erasure mar on front endpaper, otherwise fine. More
Some Reflections of an Early California Governor, Contained in a Short Dictated Memoir, with Notes on an Interview between Governor Low and Hubert Howe Bancroft in 1883.; Edited by Robert H. Becker
Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1959. First edition. Cloth backed boards, a fine copy, one of 310, printed at the Grabhorn Press. G.B. 605; Rocq 6771. More
Journal of a Voyage to California, and Life in the Gold Diggings. And also of a Voyage from California to the Sandwich Islands
Hartford, Conn. E. T. Pease, 1852. First edition. 8vo, 192 pp. Original pictorial wrappers, somewhat rubbed and creased, lacks blank rear endpaper, in a cloth case. "Albert Lyman, a twenty-four year-old merchant from Hartford and member of the Connecticut Mining and Trading Company, arrived in San Francisco on August 6..... More
Poker Alice. Alice Ivers, Duffield, Tubbs, Huckert (1851-1930).; History of a Woman Gambler in the West
Denver: Artcraft Press, 1951. First edition. Quarto, wrappers, edges darkened, else fine, glassine jacket chipped and split. One of 500, numbered and signed. More
The People of the Pueblo or The Story of Sonoma
Sonoma, Calif. W.L. and C.G. Murphy, 1935. First edition. Brown cloth, slight offset on endpapers, fine, in lightly used dust jacket. More
Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the direction of the A.B.C.F.M. performed in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837, containing a description of the geography, climate, and productions, and the number, manner, and customs of the natives.; With a map of the Oregon Territory.
Ithaca, N.Y. Published by the author, 1838. First edition. 8vo, 371pp., folding map. Original light pink blind-stamped muslin, with paper label. Some foxing, and rubbing to the paper label; split in joint neatly repaired, but a very nice copy of a book difficult to find in original state. Folding map..... More
Aurifodina; or, Adventures in the Gold Region
New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849. First edition. "One of the earliest lost-race novels written in America," Bleiler. Inscribed and signed "G.W. Peck" by the author in pencil, dated 1852. Original plain paper boards, lacking spine covering, mild browning and dampstaining throughout. Written to capitalize on the California Gold Rush..... More
Jessie Benton Frémont: A Woman Who Made History.
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1935. First edition. Cloth backed boards, label, fine copy in dust jacket. More
Los Angeles in the Sunny Seventies. A flower from the Golden Land.; Translated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur. Introduction by Phil Townsend Hanna
Los Angeles: Bruce McCallister - Jake Zeitlin, 1929. Cloth backed boards, leather spine label scuffed, else fine. 900 copies printed by Bruce McCallister for Jake Zeitlin. More
Cowboy. Illustrated by the author
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, (1928). First edition. Original orange cloth, blocked in black. A very good copy, with all the lettering and design intact. More
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Riata and Spurs.; The story of a life spent in the saddle as cowboy and detective. Introduction by Gifford Pinchot.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. First edition. First printing, suppressed (not all that effectively), with 276 pages. Original brown cloth, traces of removed bookplate from front pastedown, but a fine copy in a very fresh dust jacket (price clipped, and with small tape repairs at the ends of the spine)... More
Whispering Smith. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
New York: Scribner's, 1906. Wyeth, N.C. First edition. Original red cloth, very slight lean, but a fine copy. More