New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Two Volumes. Vol. One: (lxxxviii) 630 pp.; Vol. 2: (viii) 631-1404 pp. Actor/Bibliophile Jean Hersholt's copies, with his bookplate and library reference on the front pastedown of each volume. Edited by Georgia Willis Read and Ruth Gaines. Foreword by F...... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Second edition. Cloth-backed boards. 100 (7) pages. Illustrated from colored drawings by Arvilla Parker. Introduction and notes by Charles L. Camp. Edited by Douglas S. Watson. Octavo. One of 500 copies. #7 of the Rare America Series printed and published by The Grabhorn Press..... More
Oakland: Biobooks, 1955. First Thus. Cloth. (x) 44 (4) pp. Edition limited to 500 un-nimbered copies. "First California Edition", printed by Times-Star Press, Alameda, California. California Relations Series, 39. Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. After the rare 1851 edition in the Huntington Library. Brown cloth; gilt front cover titling. 6..... More
San Francisco: A. Carlisle & Co., 1922. Thirteenth Edition. Cloth. 261 pp. Two (2) black and white amateur photographs and handwritten text created in1922 regarding (1) The Pioneer (Donner) Monument; and (2) Donner Pass dirt road (which became Highway 80) tipped in to free front endpaper. This was presumably the..... More
New York: Edward Eberstadt, 1926. First Edition thus. Cloth-backed boards. 125 (1) pages. Edited and with Historical notes and an Introduction by Edward Eberstadt. Cloth-backed boards with gold cover and spine titling. 6 1/2" x 9 3/4". Printed at The Kelmscott Press, New York. Frontis portrait of Judge Sawyer. Limited..... More
New York: Edward Eberstadt, 1926. First Edition thus. Cloth-backed boards. 125 (1) pages. Edited and with Historical notes and an Introduction by Edward Eberstadt. Cloth-backed boards with gold cover and spine titling. 6 1/2" x 9 3/4". Printed at The Kelmscott Press, New York. Frontis portrait of Judge Sawyer. Limited..... More
Los Angeles: B. R. Baumgardt & Co., 1900. First Edition. Original Cloth. 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..... 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
New York: The McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. (15) 331 (1) pp. Illustrated dust jacket, with $6.95 price. Illustrated, including maps of The Moromon Trail. Index. Purple cloth.6 1/4" x 9 1/4". One of The American Trail Series, edited by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Per the jacket blurb..... More
Salem, Oregon: Oregon Teachers Monthly, 1909. Revised and Abridged Edition. Original wrappers. 119 pages. Portrait of Olive Oatman at 16 from woodcut. Edition Revised and abridged by Chas. H. Jones. This is American bibliophile Frank C. Deering's copy, with his leather bookplate affixed to the verso of the front cover..... More
San Francisco: John Howell - Books, 1982. Fourth Edition. Cloth. (xx)745 pages. Illustrated, primarily from photographs of described publications. This is the Fourth Edition which has been Revised, Enlarged and Edited by Robert H., Becker. Index. 7" x 10 1/2". Brown cloth. The revised and enlarged edition of the definitve..... More
Oakland: DeWitt & Snelling, 1913. First Edition. Original wraps. 48 pp. Frontispiece portrait of author from a photograph. Printed wrappers. 6" x9". In a custom board folder. Author Wooley travelled overland from Vermont to California in the Gold Rush. In San Francisco, he became a member of the Vigilance Committee..... More
