San Francisco: Bank of America, 1956. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL folded sheet booklet: "GUIDE TO THE MOTHER LODE. MARIPOSA TO SIERRAVILLE", 1956. Illustrated from photographs and drawings. Folded: 3 3/4" x 8 3/4". Unfolded: 17 1/2" x 15 1/4". It unfolds to show a map of the California..... 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
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: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. First Thus. Cloth-backed Marbled Boards. (xii) 138 (7) pages. First Thus. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Seven illustrations reproduced from Annals of San Francisco. Folded map from plan map of San Francisco streets in 1846. One of 500 regular copies. Laid in is the..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. First Thus. Cloth-backed Marbled Boards. (xii) 138 (7) pages. First Thus. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Seven illustrations reproduced from Annals of San Francisco. Folded map from plan map of San Francisco streets in 1846. One of 500 regular copies. Laid in is the..... More
Stanford, California: James Ladd Delkin, 1947. California Centennial Edition. Cloth. (xvi) 192 (1) pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Frontispiece Map of Gold Country. Brown cloth. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". Per Oscar Lewis, this book "...has remained among the most entertaining of the many narratives picturing mining..... 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
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First Borzoi Editon. Cloth. (xxix) 216 (1) pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Introduction by Carl I. Wheat. Illustrated from contemporary lithographs and woodcuts. Endpaper map of Feather and Yuba River country. Cloth. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". A series of 23 letters from the California..... More
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1969. First Edition. Cloth-backed cloth. (xviii) 446 pp. SIGNED in ink by Author, banker and historian Clarke on the half-title. Illustrated dust jacket. Letter form California Historical Society and Prospectus from Lane Magazine & Book Company laid in. Map endpapers. Illustated from period photographs, including..... 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
San Francisco: The Author, 1954. First Edition. Cloth-backed Patterned boards. (v) 302 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by the auhor in ink on a front free endpaper: "To my friends Dr. J. N. Henry and Mrs. Ruth C. Henry / November 1954 / R. H. Cross". Illustrated including from vintage photographs. Map of..... 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
Nevada City, California: Berliner & McGinnis, 1948. 1st Edition. Cloth. (xi) (1) 64pp. A presentation copy to Nevada City leading citizen George Calanan, signed by author H.P. Davis on a front free endpaper: "To George Calanan who, in his forty-three years of public life, has emulated the courage resourcefulness and..... 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 ORIGINAL 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..... 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
San Francisco: The Pioneer Press, 1987. First Edition. Leather backed marbled boards. (14) 56 (7); (x) 76 (4) pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated. Bookplate of California bibliophile Roger K. Larson affixed to front pastedown. Leatherbacked marbled boards. Gilt spine titling. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Two books in one. The..... More
San Francisco: Ransohoffs, 1948. First Thus. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. 25pp. Four illustrations by Mallette Dean. Limited to 300 un-numbered copies byThe Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Handset Bauer Bodoni types. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. 13" x 9 3/4". A classic tale of the California Gold Rush, for which Bret Harte was famous..... 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
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. SIGNED in ink on the limitation page by 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. Quoted..... 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..... More
