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
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
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
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
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
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1917. First Edition. Original wrappers. 154 pp. Illustrated with 43 plates (halftones, tables and graphs); illustrations and maps in text and folding map of Yuba River. Index. Original wrappers. 9" x 11 1/2". Department of the Interior/ United States Geological Survey. Professional Paper 105. This..... 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
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
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
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. First Edition. Cloth. 253 pp. SIGNED in ink by Author Idwall Jones and Illustrator Allen J. Camille on a front free endpaper. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated from 12 line drawings by Camille. Index. Cloth. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". From the..... 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: The Book Club of California, 1997. First Edition. Cloth. 771 pages. SIGNED and dated in ink by author Gary Kurutz on the half-title. Illustrated. one of 1000 un-numbered copies. Original blue cloth with gilt cover vignette. 7 1/4" x10 3/4". Location symbols. List of references consulted. Index. Introduction..... 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
