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
Denver, Colorado: The Smith-Brooks Company, 1906. Hardcover. The great San Francisco earthquake struck in the morning on April 18, 1906 and aftershocks would come for the next few hours, followed by three days filled with..... More
Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1921. Hardcover. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Monumental history of Orange County, California, gathering a vast array of information about the land, its people, industry, and resources. Includes chapters on..... 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: San Pasqual Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. "George and Helen Beattie's meticulously researched history of the Inland Empire - the urban areas of today's Riverside and San Bernardino Counties - extends from the..... 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
Santa Barbara, California: Wallace Hebberd, 1927. Second Edition. Hardcover. Bell (1830-1918) was an incendiary attorney who was fond of the seamier side of life. This true account of the lawless days of Los Angeles during..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. "Juan Bautista de Anza (1735-88) was the foremost land explorer in Spanish California. With his expedition of 1774 he opened up the land route between the..... More
Banning, California: Malki Museum Press, 1978. Hardcover. Reprinted from the 1933 Fine Arts Press edition, with a annotations by John P. Harrington and a new Preface by William Bright. Classics in California Anthropology, 3. Quarto..... 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
Richardson, Texas: The Havilah Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Rodman W. Paul. Frontispiece map, with eight plates. Richardson, Texas: The Havilah Press, 1972. First edition, limited to 1,500 copies. With a chronological scope..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Brewer (1828-1910), who served as Josiah D. Whitney's principal assistant and field leader of the California Geological Survey in the early 1860s, wrote a series of..... More
Chicago: The Western Historical Association, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 1528 p. Three volumes. Illustrated with engraved portraits, etc. Quarto. Original pebbled blue cloth bindings, with gilt titles. Internally crisp and clean. The spines are a...... 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
Boston: John P. Jewett, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. As the commercial agent for several major mercantile houses in New York, Elisha Smith Capron traveled to California via Nicaragua in 1853, visiting the principal cities and..... More
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 321 p. Four illustrations, with vignettes by W.R. Cameron. Detailed history of the discovery of gold in California and its subsequent influence on..... More