Nevada City, California: Nevada County Bank, 1916. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL fully executed Promissory Note dated July 1, 1916 by which Nevada County Bank loaned $2500 to C. W. Chapman, DDS. Signed by Dr. Chapman.The note bears 10 cancelled U. S. Internal Revenue 5 Cent Stamps, Series of..... More
San Rafael, California: Presidio Press, 1977. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. (xx) `263 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated, including one map. Index. Bibliographical Essay. Cloth-backed boards. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". From the jacket flap: "Conquer and Colonize traces the officers and men of Stevenson's Regiment from New York to the..... More
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1951. First Edition. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. (xv) 107 pp. Illustrated. One of 250 un-numbered limited copies. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. 6 1/2" x 10". A collection of 49er R. R. Taylor's well-written letters to his wife concerning his journey from Massachusetts in 1849 to San..... More
Nevada City, California: Legg & Shaw, Circa 1885. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL bill showing purchases made by Chester W. Chapman, DDS, from Legg & Shaw of Main Street, Nevada City, California, during the months of July and August, Circa 1885. Single sheet. 8 1/2" x 14". Printed billhead..... More
Nevada City, California: Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, 1929. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL map of Nevada City, California, published by the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce in 1939. Linen mounted.The image measures 22 1/8" x 33 7/8". The overall piece, with linen border, measures 26" x 38". The..... 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
Grass Valley, California: 1871. First Edition. An indenture deed transferring a quartz gold claim Delano owned in Grass Valley Township, Nevada County, California to the New York Gold Hill Mining Company, for consideration of 10,000 shares of stock in the latter company. A certified copy, with notarial notice affixed. It..... More
Spokane: The Arthur C. Clark Company, 2001. First Edition. Cloth. 320 pp. Illustrated. Appendices. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Brown cloth. Gilt front cover and spine titling. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Detailed and well-researched history of hydraulic gold mining in California, which originated a few hundred yards from where this..... More
Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1967. First Edition. 116 pp. Illustrated from drawings by Daniel Wadsworth Coit, including frontispiece self-portrait. Historical introduction by Editor George P. Hammond. Edition limited to 1250 un-numbered copies, designed and printed by Lawton and Alred Kennedy of San Francisco. Gilt spine titling. Illustrated cloth. 9"..... 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
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1937. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL movie poster for "THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT", the 1937 RKO Radio Pictures film starring Preston Foster, Jean Muir, Van Heflin, Virginia Weidler and Margaret Irving. Based upon the Bret Harte story of the California Gold Rush. Directed by..... More
New York: The Heritage Pess, 1944. First Thus. (xii) 223 pp. Illustrated from art by Fletcher Martin. Introcusction by Oscar Lewis. Publisher's slipcase. Cloth-backed gold metallic paper on boards. 6 1/2" x 10". Thirteen of Harte's stories of the California Gold Rush, including The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1930. First Edition. Cloth-backed marbled boards. (x) 60 pp. Copy #82 of 250 limited copies. Folding frontis map of Southern Mines, 1852. 2 folded reproductions of contemporary lithographs. Facsimile map. Illustrations from photographs. Quoted statements of pioneer miners. Bibliography. Bookplate of Auutomobile Club of Southern..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1930. First Edition. Cloth-backed marbled boards. (x) 60 pp. SIGNED in ink on the limitation page by printer Ed Grabhorn. An un-numbered copy of 250 limited copies. Folding frontis map of Southern Mines, 1852. 2 folded reproductions of contemporary lithographs. Facsimile map. Illustrations from photographs..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1923. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 221 pp. Illustrated. List of Mining Companies. Bibliography. Cloth-backed boards. 10" x 7". Sans dust jacket. From the Preface: "This is the story of the companies of adventurers who left Massachusetts for California to acquire wealth and assist in building a...... More
Denver: The Old West Publishing Company, 1962. First Edition. Illustrated Cloth. (xv) 304 (3) pp. Illustrated, including three folding maps. Edition limited to 1000 un-numbered copies designed and priinted by Lawton Kennedy, San Francisco.Small bookseller's sticker to front pastedown (The Cottage Bookshop. San Rafael, California). Notes. Index. Illustrated cloth. 7"..... 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
New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1911. First Thus. Cloth. (13) 259 pp. Illustrated. Frontispiece from portrait of David C. Broderick with tissue guard. Original purple cloth with gilt front cover and spine titling. 5" x 7 1/2". The copyright page shows that the work was copyrighted in 1911..... More
New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1911. First Thus. Cloth. (13) 259 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink by author Lynch to Richard M. Hotaling on a front free endpaper: "Richard M. Hotaling with remembrances from Jeremiah Lynch / San Francisco Jany. 1912". Illustrated. Frontispiece from portrait of David C. Broderick..... More
New York: Carleton, Publisher, 1863. First Edition. Cloth. (viii) 371 (8 adverts.) pp. Illustrated "With Many Comic Illustrations By Mullen". Brown embossed cloth. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2". Repaired by Coriander Reisbord, including re-backing with original spine laid down (Reisbord's notes laid in). Cataloger's notes affixed to rear pastedown. Per..... More
Nevada City, California: Moore (Photographer), Circa 1900. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL photograph of a young man of the gold country in California. It is an oval photograph, measuring 2 3/4" x 5 1/4", mounted on a black board measuring 5 1/4" x 9". The board is blind-stamped "Moore..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1971. First Thus. Cloth. 86 pp. Adapted for young adults. Prospectus laid in. Edited and with an introduction by Ferol Egan. Illustrated. Margin decorations. Many unopened pages. 5" x 7". Brown cloth with gilt cover and spine titling. Designed and printed by Lawton..... More
New York: Samuel French & Son, 1857. First Edition. Original wrappers. 36 pp. Yellow wrappers. 4 1/2" x 7 1/2". A play about the California Gold Rush, authored by Author/Illustrator/Banker Alonzo Delano, an argonaut who wrote under the name, "Old Block" (Old Block's Sketch Book. Zamorano 80, #29). Delano was..... More
Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. 252 Pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated, including vintage photographs. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4". Cloth. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The definitive biography of John Rollin Ridge, a Cherokee born in 1827, growing up in a tumultuous time for the Cherokee Nation..... More
