Los Angeles: Brewster Maps, circa 1966. Hardcover. The first three of four volumes in the atlas (the fourth covers the northeast corner of the San Fernando Valley). As with much of Southern California, the Second..... More
Los Angeles: Atwood & Ferguson, 1883. Hardcover. A rare survivor, not in Quebedeaux, this early directory was published just two years after the Los Angeles Times began publication and a year prior to the arrival..... More
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
Denver, Colorado: Fred A. Rosenstock, The Old West Publishing Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 1250 copies. Pritchard (1816-62), a veteran of the Mexican War, set out from Petersborough, Kentucky on April 10, 1849..... More
San Francisco: George Fields, 1935. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. Having emigrated to California in 1844, Marshall (1810-85) discovered gold on the American River while working to deepen the tailrace..... More
Los Angeles and Palo Alto: Dawson's Book Shop and William P. Wreden, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 300 copies. A comprehensive sequel to Francis P. Farquhar's Yosemite, the Big Trees and the High Sierra..... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937. Hardcover. Limited to 650 copies. "British merchant Alexander Forbes wrote the first book published in English relating exclusively to California. His narrative, as observed by Hubert Howe Bancroft, was..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 350 copies. A Breton sea captain, Duhaut-Cilly (1790-1849) was possibly the first outlander to become intimately acquainted with Spanish California. He seems..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 450 copies. "Grapevines and wineries do not tell the whole story of the Napa Valley, and this history covers the settlement of..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 450 copies printed by Mallette Dean. N and C are Nora Dibble and the fourteen-year-old author of this journal which recounts Ms..... More
Los Gatos, California: Talisman Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in book form, originally published as an extensive supplement to the Sacramento Union of December 25, 1858. Limited to 750 copies. This copy is..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 200 copies printed by W.M. Cheney at The Auk Press. An annotated bibliography. Layne (1885-1952) was a leading authority on Californiana and a contributor..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. This is book number 138 of 300 copies signed by the authors. A descriptive bibliography of the collection formed by Clifton F. Smith. Quarto: xiv, 193..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 450 copies. "...of the twenty-three states that sponsored printmaking under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (FAP), California..... More
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. A detailed history of oil exploration in California's San Joaquin Valley, based on interviews with several hundred oil field pioneers and the author's extensive research..... More
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's second book. Adapted by Monte M. Katterjohn, this novel served as the basis for the 1922 George Melford silent film starring Rudolph Valentino..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. This is Number 281 of 600 copies printed by John Henry Nash. "...a real contribution to California literature. It represents the best of the..... More
San Marino, California: The Huntington Library, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Maynard Geiger on the front flyleaf. The culmination of twenty-five years of labor, this indispensable work presents biographies of 142 Franciscan priests who..... More
San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. This is No. 148 of 200 copies. "This letter of Miguel Costanso to Don Melchor de Peramas relays word from Fray Crespi at San Diego and..... More
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 300 copies. "Joseph Heco's work is unique in the perspective he brings to mid-nineteenth-century California. He was apparently the only Japanese to have come to..... More
San Francisco: Cross & Brandt, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. Historical study of California's early roadside inns and..... More
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 750 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. Following his participation in Cortes' conquest of Mexico, Cabrillo was sent by Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza to try..... More
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Irvine, California: Westphal Publishing, 1982 and 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. The first comprehensive study of the plein air, or outdoor, painters working in California from the 1890s through the 1930s. While their styles reflect a...... More