An archive of scarce flyers and newsletters dating from the mid-1960s concerning labor actions in California’s Central Valley in support of efforts by the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) to organize California’s beleaguered farmworkers. The..... More
Oakland, California: Published for E.S. Babcock, Manager, by the Pacific Press Publishing Co., circa 1895. Wraps. 32 p. Oblong octavo. Bound with a sting tie in the original printed white paper wrappers (9” x 6”)..... More
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1963. Hardcover. Reproduced in Facsimile, with an Introduction by Ward Ritchie and early Commentaries by J.M. Guinn. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1963. First edition thus, limited to..... More
San Francisco: Pacific States Telephone Companies, 1899. Hardcover. Scarce telephone directory for California, Oregon, and Washington from the end of the 19th century, with the names, numbers, and addresses of nearly 45,000 individuals. Of particular..... More
[Mayfield, California]: Mayfield News, 1910. Wraps. Before there was Palo Alto, there was Mayfield. Founded in the 1850s, it was one of several small communities interspersed among the rural farmland of the 19th century San..... More
Monterey Park, California: R.L. Polk & Co., 1965. Hardcover. Contains: buyer's guide and a complete classified business directory; alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens; complete street and avenue guide, including a list of..... More
Balboa, California: Newport Harbor Chamber of Commerce, 1941. Pamphlet. Illustrated with black and white photographs by Dorsey-Hitchcock-Sawyer-King and a full color map by Claude G. Putnam. Printed in color on both sides of a 18..... More
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
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
San Francisco: The History Company, Publicadores, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce Spanish language schoolbook, with lessons modeled after those in early American primers. Bancroft (1832-1918) is best known for his monumental 39-volume history of the..... More
New York and London: The Century Co., 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Documents the influence of stagelines on the development of California and the West, with information on Tom Bell and other early stage robbers. Captain..... More
New York and London: The Century Co., 1930. Hardcover. Second printing. Documents the influence of stagelines on the development of California and the West, with information on Tom Bell and other early stage robbers. Captain..... More
San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 100 copies printed by the Arion Press. A companion to William C. Bark's work covering the Camp's first thirty-five years. Includes sixteen photographs. Octavo. Original..... More
Placerville, California: The Davis Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Lillian Wagner Beach. Frontispiece portrait. Placerville, California: The Davis Press, 1936. First edition. Signed and dated by Beach on the frontispiece. Octavo. Original green..... More
Pasadena, California: Ward Ritchie Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 230 p. 26 textual illustrations and photos. Pasadena, CA: Ward Ritchie Press, 1976. First edition. Eyewitness accounts of California during the Gold Rush from a fresh..... More
Los Angeles: Helen Gilman Bowen, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 189 p. Eight photographs, with a map and sketch by Ernest Maxwell. First edition, printed at The Plantin Press. Based on the actual diary of Helen..... More
Chicago: The Western Historical Association, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with engraved portraits, etc. 1528 p. Quarto, three volumes. Original pebbled blue cloth bindings, with gilt titles. Internally crisp and clean. The spines are sun..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 42 p. Illustrated with a portrait of the author, a tipped-in facsimile, and textual sketches. First edition, limited to 400 copies printed at The..... More
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Edited and with an Introduction by John W. Caughey. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1959. First edition thus. Buffum, an officer in the New..... More
San Francisco: Fearon Publishers, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 166 p. Numerous textual photographs. Signed by Cain on the title page. Octavo. Original yellow cloth binding, with black titles. Internally crisp and clean. The bottom corners..... More
An album containing thirty 4" x 4" black and white photographs of Catalina Island at the turn of the century. Four of the photographs are laid in; the rest are secured in the album with..... More
Los Angeles: California Orchard Company, 1921. Mimeographed on nine sheets of 8 ½" x 11" paper, with the company letterhead at the top of the first leaf. Annual report to the stockholders of the California..... More
San Francisco: F.M. Nonaka & Co., circa 1955. Wraps. A small Japanese paper sample book issued by F.M. Nonaka & Co. in San Francisco, circa 1955. The pocket-size booklet (4” x 6”) contains eight samples..... More
A holographic diary and journal written in 1914 by a young California woman from Rio Bravo, California, a former settlement in Kern County, along the Santa Fe railroad near Bakersfield. The 50-page journal begins on..... More
A small collection of photographs and other material associated with Lake Gregory Dam and nearby Crestline, California during the 1930s. Lake Gregory is a man-made lake in Crestline, an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County..... More