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California and The WestA Selected List |
Including Overland Journeys, the Gold Rush, Mining, Native Americans, and Railroads. |
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California and The WestA Selected List |
Including Overland Journeys, the Gold Rush, Mining, Native Americans, and Railroads. |
All books are first editions, unless noted otherwise. Specifics on the terms of sale are under Ordering Information. This list was updated 6/28/2009.
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Lower California: A Cruise. The Flight of the Least Petrel. Written on board, by Griffing Bancroft.New York, G.P. Punam's Sons, 1932. 403pp, illustrations, folding map. Remains of small bookseller's label on rear pastedown, else fine with no dustjacket. $45.00
The Padre on Horseback: A Sketch of Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J., Apostle to the Pimas. San Francisco, Sonora Press, 1932. Endpaper maps ,90pp., drawings by William Wilke. Marbled boards with coarse cloth spine and spine lable on a velvet-like material. Fine copy in dustjacket. $85.
Gold Diggers & Camp Followers 1845-1851. The Nevada County Chronicles. Grass Valley, CA, Comstock Bonanza Press, 1982. 1 of 2000 copies. Inscribed and signed by the author. Promotional literature laid in and also an announcement from the Corral of Westerners, Monterey County Chapter announcing the author would be guest speaker at an upcoming meeting. Fine with previous owners label on front pastedown and dustjacket with half-inch closed tear at bottom front and rear panels $30.00.
Atlas of California. Culver City, Pacific Book Center, 1979. iv, 191pp. Fine in Fine dustjacket. $25
Chief Lawyer of the Nez Perce Indians 1796-1876. Glendale, Arthur H. Clark, 1979. Front, illus, 304pp. Blue cloth, gilt spine titles. Light wear at spine head, corners, else Fine. $45.
To California on the Southern Route, 1849: A History and Annotated Bibliography. Spokane, Arthur H. Clark Company, 1998. 178pp., b&w photos., fold. map. Bibliography citing over 130 diaries, journals, and reminiscences along the Southern Trails in 1849. Red cloth. Fine, no dustjacket as issued. 1/750 copies. $37.50.
Mexican Gold Trail: The Journal of a Forty-Niner.Edited by GlennS. Dumke; Preface by Robert Glass Cleland. San Marino, Huntington Library, 1945. Front., illus,, xx, 133pp. Fine in dust jacket with light soiling, closed tear on rear panel. $60.
Yosemite, The Big Trees and the High Sierra: A Selective Bibliography. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California, 1948. Fine in dustjacket with slight sunning, very light wear at head of spine, else Fine. $200.
The Life and Death of a Quicksilver Mine. Los Angeles, Historical Society of southern California, 1958. The sotyr of the Great Western Quicksliver Mine in the Lake/Napa County area in Northern California. Endpaper maps, xv, photos, 150pp. Fine in price clipped dustjacket with tear at lower edge and corner, else very good. $60.00.
The Gila Trail: The Texas Argonauts and the California Gold Rush. Edited and annotated by Richard Dillon. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. xiii, 175pp., illus. Fine in price clipped dustjacket with light wear at top edge, else Fine. Signed by Dillon. $50
Historic Spots in California. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1966. Third edition. Revised by William N. Abeloe. illus, 642pp. Fine in dustjacket with just light wear. $45.00
Buffalo Jones' Forty Years of Adventure. Topeka, KS, Crane & Company, 1899. First Edition. Warmly inscribed by Jones to his friend Alexander Hogeland, Topeka, June 28, 1900. Moderate wear and soiling to covers, but gilt lettering and pictorial vignette on front cover are still relatively bright. Front hinge reinforced. Overall, a very good copy. $165.00.
Escape from Death Valley, as Told by William Lewis Manly and Other '49ers. Reno & Las Vegas, University of Nevada Press, 1987. xvii, illus, maps, 213pp. Fine in fine dustjacket. $35.00.
To The Foot of the Rainbow: A Tale of Twenty-Five Hundred Miles of Wandering on Horseback Through the Southwest Enchanted Land. New York, Century, 1927. Green cloth with purple titles. Some soilng to page edges, else a fine, bright, tight copy without dust jacket. $55.00
American Narrow Gauge. San Marino, CA, Golden West Books, 1978. 236pp. photos. Fine in fine price clipped dustjacket. $50.00.
Dog Soldiers, Bear Men and Buffalo Women: A Study of the Societies and Cults of the Plains Indians. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1973. 384pp, illus., some color. Near fine in dustjacket with tears at spine ends, creasing, else very good. Ink name to front free endpaper. $50.00.
Rambles of a Botanist Amont the Plants and Climates of California. Los Angeles, Dawson's Book Shop, 1974.Introduction by Willam F. Kimes. 43pp, illus. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, Pasadena. Green cloth, gilt spine titles, no dustjacket as issued. Light wear at corners, else fine. $22.00.
Ghosts of the Glory Trail: Intimate Glimpses into the Past and Present of 275 Western Ghosttowns. Palm Desert, Desert Magazine Press, 1956. Fine in dustjacket with sunning to spine, else VG. $45
Dainty Spanish Dishes from Sunny California. Oakland, CA, Claremont Publishing Company, 1914. Pictorial wraps. Preface, note by author, table of contents, 48pp. "A Classic from a Native Daugher. Senora Teresa Ynez Pinto, a daughter of the Old and New Worlds, practiced the best culinary traditions of both continents at her sprawling estancia in the nearby San Francisco countryside. A descendant of the grandees of Castile and the nobles of New Spain, she borrowed liberally from both cultures to blend a unique cuisine--Castiliano/Californiano. Shortly after the Great Earthquake and fire, she published some of her recipes in a delightful little volume, which has virtually vanished from sight, except for a treasured number preserved in a few private libraries." Berger, Frances De Talavera. Sumptuous Dining in Gaslight San Francisco 1875 - 1915. New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985.An OCLC search finds this unique and scarce cookbook held in only six libraries in the United States. Softcover bound by staples and glue, with three holes punched on left with gold ribbon. Slight staining to lower cover, else very good. $295.00
An American in California: The Biography of Willam Heath Davis 1822-1909. San Marino, Huntington Library, 1956. x, 155pp. Front. Fine in dust- jacket. $30
The First Forty-Niner and the Golden Tea- Caddy. New York, Minton, Balch & Company, 1925. frontis, 127pp., illus. Cloth & boards. Slight edge wear, Very good. $45
The Private Letters and Diaries of Captain Hall. An Epic of an Argonaut in the California Gold Rush, Oregon Territories, Civl War, and Oil City. Glendale, London Book Company, 1974. 1/14450 copies. 270pp. errata slip. Inscribed and signed by the editor. Fine, no dustjacket as issue. $50.00
Emilo Kosterlitzky: Eagle of Sonora and the Southwest Border. Glendale, Arthur H. Clark, 1970. 344pp, illus. Blue cloth. Fine. $50.00.
History of San Luis Obispo County California with Illustrations and Biographical Sketchesof Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Berkeley, Howell-North Books, 1966. intro, viii, illus., 391pp. Reprint of the 1883 edition. Fine. $85.00.
San Francisco's Literary Frontier. New York, Knopf, 1939. First edition. xxv, illus., 400pps. Fine in very good price clipped dust jacket with usual spine fading, small chip at one corner. $50.
Book of the Hopi. New York, Viking Press, 1963. 2nd printing. Drawings and source material recorded by Oswald White Bear Fredericks. Inscribed and signed by White Bear. Very good with remains of labels to front/rear pastedowns, front/rear endpapers. No dustjacket. $25.00.
The Bonanza Trail: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of the West. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1953. Fine in dustjacket with light wear at spine head and tail, some closed tears, else very good. $45.
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