Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1906. Hardcover. An early printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by James to California's second Poet Laureate, Henry Meade Bland (1863-1931), on the half-title. No less an authority on the missions than... More about IN AND OUT OF THE OLD MISSIONS OF CALIFORNIA: An Historical and Pictorial Account of the...
Boston: The Page Company, 1914. Second Impression. Hardcover. Inscribed by James on a prefatory blank leaf. Lavish popular guide to the Golden State's people, places, and history, along with descriptions of its flora and fauna... More about CALIFORNIA ROMANTIC AND BEAUTIFUL
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Groundbreaking academic study by two members of the University of Chicago faculty, concerning the immigration and assimilation of Japanese into California. Following the lifting of Japanese... More about JAPAN AND THE CALIFORNIA PROBLEM
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. This is #129 of 375 copies signed by Harlow and printer Grant Dahlstrom. A significant work of scholarship, which "makes clear that one hundred years passed... More about MAPS AND SURVEYS OF THE PUEBLO LANDS OF LOS ANGELES
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. This paean to the high California desert consists of fourteen sketches based on personal observation following solitary sojourns tramping through desert trails and... More about THE LAND OF LITTLE RAIN
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. "As quoted by Lawrence Clark Powell, in his California Classics, bibliographer and historian Phil Townsend Hanna proclaimed Atherton’s Splendid Idle Forties as 'the finest stories ever..... More about THE SPLENDID IDLE FORTIES: Stories of Old California