Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1928. This is an ORIGINAL map of the SAN FRANCISCO BAY DISTRICT. 1928. Expertly linen-backed for restoration and ease of handling. 32 1/4" x 26 1/4" plus white border. Color. Note: There is no Golden Gate Bridge. There are two drawn lines representing purposed Bay..... More
Sacramento: A. G. Lee, 1915 (December). First Thus. Original wrappers. 48 pp. Original red stapled wrappers with numerous advertisements. 3" x 5 1/2". Two page map of Sacramento, California. "Merry Christmas To All" on front cover. Numerous advertisements and articles for local businesses throughout. Guide to Sacramento sights of interest..... More
New York: A. Wittemann, 1897. Boards. This is an ORIGINAL booklet of period illustrations from photographs of Sacramento, California, in 1897. Photographs include the Capitol Building, the Senate Room, the Post Office, Sacramento River and Sutter's Fort, among others. Unpaginated (but 36 pages). 5" x 7". Black boards with silver..... More
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1966. First Thus. Cloth. 87 pages. Map Endpapers. Illlustrated primarily from vintage woodcuts. Facsimile of March 3, 1858 front page of the Nevada (City) Democrat, containing the story of the execution of Major Bolin laid in. Soiled plain paper mailing dust wrapper in mylar sleeve is..... More
San Francisco: William P. Wreden, 1968. First Edition. Pictorial boards. 55 pp. Illustrated with highly stylized line drawings by Patricia Oberhaus. Typographic design by Jack Werner Stauffacher, at the Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Set in Monotype Baskerville and Walbaum types; binding by the Schuberth Bookbindery. Limited to 540 unnumbered copies..... More
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969. First Thus. Cloth. 110 pages. Introduction by GeorgeStewart. Illustrated primarily from vintage drawings. Map front endpapers; Loose folded map laid in at rear. Edition limited to 1400 copies, of which this is an un-numbered copy. 7 1/4" x 11". Tan cloth with gilt spine titling..... More
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969. First Thus. Cloth. 110 pages. Introduction by GeorgeStewart. Illustrated primarily from vintage drawings. Map front endpapers; Loose folded map ("Western Territories In The Forties") laid in at rear. Edition limited to 1400 copies, of which this is #903. 7 1/4" x 11". Tan cloth with..... More
NP: Self Published, 1958. First Edition. Original wrappers. 153 pp. Illustrated. Folding map in rear. Bibliography. Index. Original yellow wrappers. 5 1/4" x 8 1/4". Scarce. The well-documented history of a complicated land dispute between settlers and the Southern Pacific Railroad, culminating in a deadly shoot-out which took place near..... More
Ann Arbor: University of New Mexico Press, 1969. First Edition. (xxi) 419 pages. First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Cloth. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Illustrated, including a few drawings by Browne. One of the unique characters of the American West, J. Ross Browne was a custom-house inspector, Indian agent, writer..... More
Los Angeles: Columbia Pictures, 1934. This is an ORIGINAL fully restored, linen-backed three-sheet (41" x 81") movie poster for "THE FIGHTING RANGER" starring Buck Jones, Dorothy Revier, Frank Rice, Bradley Page and Ward Bond. Buck Jones posters from the 1930's are among the most colorful, spectacular and collectible of all..... More
New York: Liveright, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. (xxv) 591 pages. First Trade Edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Custer historian John M. Carroll in brown ink on the title page, "To the Campions with my personal regards / John M. Carroll". Illustrated dust jacket. 7 1/2" x 10". Brown cloth. Notes, Bibliography. Index..... More
Santa Fe: New Mexican Publishing Corporation, 1928. First Edition. Cloth. (viii) 219 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink by Elfego Baca on the front free endpaper: "Albuquerque N.M. March, 21-1932 to my Dear Friend Pat Vigil. Elfego Baca". Pictorial dust jacket (not price-clipped). Illustrated from vintage photographs. Cloth. 6" x 8 3/4"..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1980. First Thus. Cloth-backed patterned boards. (xii) 129 pp. Illustrated, including several from pencil sketches by Dan De Quille. Foreword by Oscar Lewis. Edited with an Introduction by James J. Rawls. Edition limited to 650 un-numbered copies. Printed by Arlen & Clara Louise..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1980. First Thus. Cloth-backed patterned boards. (xii) 129 pp. Prospectus and related material laid in. Illustrated, including several from pencil sketches by Dan De Quille. Foreword by Oscar Lewis. Edited with an Introduction by James J. Rawls. Edition limited to 650 un-numbered copies..... More
San Francisco: The Westgate Press, 1931. First Thus. Leather backed marbled boards. (xviii) 96 pp. Limited edition. One of 475 un-numbered copies printed at The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Illustrated from seven contemporary facsimile lithographs on folded blue paper; one facsimile pamphlet, inserted. Green suede-backed marbled boards. 8 5/8" x...... More
Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1992. First Edition, Stated. Cloth-backed Boards. (x) 109 (1) pp. Prospectus laid in.Translated and edited by Mary Grace Paquette, One of 400 un-numbered copies. Designed by Susan Acker and Mary McDermott at the Feathered Serpent Press. Illustrated. Index. Cloth-backed boards; gilt spine titling. 6 1/4"..... More
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1975. First Edition. Cloth. (xiv) 457[1] pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink By Author Jeff Dykes. Illustrated dust jacket. Cloth. Quarto. Profusely illustrated, including 13 color plates. A valuable bibliographic tool, listing books and exhibition catalogues for fifty Western artists, including Remington, Lea, Mora, Santee, Schreyvogel, Dixon and Will..... More
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1975. 1957 University of Utah Edition. Cloth. (vii)168 pages. Sans dust jacket. Folding map of The Mariposa Indian War, showing the campaigns of the Mariposa Battalion, in and around Yosemite. Cloth. 7" x 10 1/4". Many unopened pages. Tipped in frontispiece portrait from..... More
Portland: Richard Abel & Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Cloth. 140 pp. Annotated by William F. Heintz. Foreword by Thomas W. Chinn, a Founder and First President, Chinese Historical Society of America. Two Illustrations. One of 1000 un-numbered copies. Designed and printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy. Orange cloth. Index..... More
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. (vi) 7-153 pp. First edition, first printing with publisher's monogram on title page and "S.T.K" for "T.S.K" on page 136. Green cloth; gilt spine and cover titling. 4 1/2" x 7". No jacket as issued. B`rown endpapers. Bret Harte..... More
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1927. First Trade Edition. (x) (2) 221 pp. Printed dust jacket. Illustrated, including frontispiece portrait from Loren Barton drawing of William Griffith Henshaw; facsimilies of Spanish land grant and Warner documents and maps. Preface by Professor Herbert E. Bolton. Red cloth. 7 1/2" x 10 3/4"..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923. Photoplay Edition. Cloth. 429 (8 ads.). Illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth; black cover and spine titling. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2". Illustrated from black and white stills "from the photoplay". From the 1924 silent movie "NORTH OF 36", produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed..... More
Palo Alto: Lewis Orborne, 1969. First Thus. Illustrated Cloth. 51pp. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. #1085 of a limited edition of 1400 copies. Illustrated, including several from fine pencil drawings of pre-earthquake San Francisco by Vernon Howe Bailey. Map of period San Francisco as front endpapers. Brown illustrated cloth.7" x 10..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2009. First Edition. Cloth-backed cloth. (xv) (1) 324 (3) pp. 208 illustrations, some in color. Color illustrated endpapers. One of 500 un-numbered copies designed and printed by Castle Press of Pasadena. Black cloth backed green cloth. Silver spite titling; paper titling on front..... More
Boston: Eastern Book Company, 1881. First Edition. 416 pp. Illustrated from woodcut plates. Ilustrated cloth with gilt titling. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2". Author Dio Lewis was a physician who journeyed west for adventures after practicing medicine in the East for more than thirty years. He writes of his three..... More
