Los Angeles: B. R. Baumgardt & Co., 1900. First Edition. Los Angeles: B R. Baumgardt &Co., 1900. Original Cloth First Edition Very Good in (Mylar) DJ 313 pages. Frontis portrait of Shaw. Illustrated with frontis and 7 halftones (listed). Maroon cloth with gilt spine and cover titling. SIGNED by author..... More
Oakland, California: Biobooks, 1945. First Thus. Cloth. (6) 147 pages, colophon. Facsimilies, including General Sherman's hand-drawn map (folding) of gold workings on the American River in 1848. (This map accompanied the report of Col. Mason to President Polk in 1848. Polk's announcement of the gold discovery initiated the Gold Rush.)..... More
Haverford, PA: Headframe Publishing Company, 1978. First Thus. Leather-backed Marbled Boards. 81 pages. Illustrated. Limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is #68. Folding vintage map of California and the Routes to it. Leather-backed marbled paper covered boards. Prologue and Epilogue by Franz R. Dykstra. Designed and printed by..... More
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1939. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 70 pages including colophon. Edition limited to 750 un-numbered copies. Colt Press printer's device and marginal woodcut vignettes by Mallette Dean. 8 1/2" x 11 1/2". Black cloth-backed boards with paper spine label and paper printer's device affixed to front..... More
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1967. First Thus. Cloth. 75 (3) pp. Edition limited to 2350 un-numbered copies. Illustrated from vintage prints from the Bancroft Library. Vintage map endpapers. Introduction by historian Kenneth Johnson. Designed by Lewis Osborne and printed by George Waters of San Francisco. Beige buckram cloth; gilt front..... More
The Book Club of California, 1975. First Edition thus. (6), xii, (4), 34 pages. Illustrated endpapers and in-text illustrations. Introduction by Sister Mary Dominic Ray of Dominican College, San Rafael, Calfirona. Leather backed illustrated boards. Limited to 450 un-numbered copies by Cranium Press. Prospectus laid in. Small octavo. Plain paper..... More
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1951. First Edition. (xv) 107 pages. First Edition. Illustrated. Editied by John Walton Caughey. Limited to 250 un-numbered copies. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. 6 1/2" x 10". An early forty-niner, R. R. Taylor came through Panama and spent much of his argonaut experience in San..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1938. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. (X) 368 pages. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Illustrated including frontispiece in color (Wreck of the Golden Gate), fourteen full-page reproductions of ships, two full-page portraits and several pages of 33 specimens of mail propaganda (cancelled envelopes). Map endpapers. Limited to..... More
