San Francisco: The Santa Cruz Board of Trade, 1905. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. Unpaginated (34). Illustrated from vintage B/W photographs. Printed by The Sunset Press, San Francisco. Brown illustrated stapled wrappers. 4 1/2" x 7 1/4". A small handsome booklet extolling the many virtues of the City of Santa Cruz..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869. First Edition. Original Cloth. 535 (4 Harper adverts.) pp. Profusely illustrated from drawings by the Author. Original maroon cloth with gilt spine titling. 4 3/4" x 7 1/2". The first 29 chapters describe Browne's 1864 trip through Arizona with his friend Charles D. Poston..... More
San Francisco: California Division of Mines, 1948. First Edition. Cloth. 164 pp. Profusely illustrated from period photographs (some in color) and maps (many including geologic information). Original cloth. 8 3/4" x 11 1/4". Contains information concerning mines then still in operation. Per the Letter of Transmittal: "Bulletin 141 is a...... More
San Francisco: Yuba Manufacturing Company, 1925. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL Christmas and New Year Card printed for the Yuba Manufacturing Company by fine printer John Henry Nash of San Francisco. This is a single fold card, printed on the front a back, with a blank interior. 8 3/4"..... More
Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1959. 327 pages. Illustrated including a folding map: "Central California About1880". Bibliography. Index. Original brown cloth. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Several pages unopened. A well-detailed history of hydraulic gold mining in California, from its inception, the battles between the foothill miner and..... More
Grass Valley-Nevada City: The Union Publishing Company, 1949. First Edition. Cloth. (12) 167 (2) pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author Edmund Kinyon (at age 85) in ink on the verso of a front free endpaper, "To Lee M. Merriman / Compliments of W. F. Prisk / Edmund Kinyon". (Note: William F. Prisk..... More
Hollywood: Monogram Pictures, 1940. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL one-sheet movie poster for "QUEEN OF THE YUKON", a 1940 Monogram Pictures film starring Irene Rich, Charles Bickford, June Carlson, and Dave O'Brien. It has been professionally linen-backed. 27" x 40", with a 2" white linen-backed perimeter border. Based on..... More
Sutter Creek, California: Gold Country Enterprises, 1991. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. (xii) 251 pages. SIGNED in ink by Author Mace on the title page. #302 of 500 limited copies. Profusely illustrated from vintage photographs, drawings and 22 maps. Bibliography. Index. Illustrated wrappers. 8 3/8" x 10 7/8". A definitive history..... More
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. First Edition. Boards. (xvii) 297 pages. First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Small octavo. Boards. Volume 19 of the Oklahoma Western Biographies. Illustrated primarily from vintage photographs and Ms. Foote's illustrations. The biography of a pioneer author and Illustrator, the wife of a prominent..... More
