Category: California

A Tree Called Moses. Drawings by Penelope Naylor.

By: Baker, Laura Nelson.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Atheneum, 1967.

Seller ID: 28343a

3rd printing. Octavo, cloth, 69 pp. Illus. Near-Fine in a slightly chipped dust jacket.
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American Ecclesiastes: The Stories of James Pattie.

By: Batman, Richard.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1984].

Seller ID: 28404

1st edition. Octavo, cloth & boards, 378 pp. Plates, maps. Very Good; some stains along edges of text block, in a Near-Fine dust jacket.
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San Francisco's Golden Era: A Picture Story of San Francisco before the Fire.

By: Beebe, Lucius and CHarles Clegg.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1960.

Seller ID: 00210s

Quarto, gold illus. cloth (hardcover), 255 pp. Very Good+, with former owner signature. Illustrated. Contents: Foreword; The Comstock; The Age of Leisurely Transport; The Cables; Promontory; Wells, Fargo & Co.; night Life; Lucky Baldwin; Newspapers; Fire Department; Resorts; The Palace; Public and Private Luxury; Chinatown; Index.
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At Great Price: The Story of Tamsen Donner.

By: Chapman, Mabel.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: North Hills, CA: Mabel Chapman, [1992].

Seller ID: 00040s

Octavo, softbound, ii, 152 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner signature. From Foreword: ÒAt Great Price is an historical novel. It is the true story of the last year in the life of Tamsen Donner (1802-1847); writer, educator, feminist, wife and mother. It is the story of her experiences on a cut-off trail to California and while snowbound on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevadas. She was one of a group of emigrants heading west from St. Louis and elsewhere to seek a new life in California. It is also the story of courageous personal choices made, for better or worse, out of a sense of c...
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Pasadena Tournament of Roses Pictorial: January 1, 1940, Commemorating 51st Annual Tournament of Roses.

By: City of Pasadena, California.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Pasadena, California: Login Printing & Binding Co., 1940.

Seller ID: 51151fd

Quarto, color-illustrated wrappers, stapled, 34 pp. Photos throughout, some in color. Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy share Grand Marshal's honors. USC defeated Tennessee in the football game. Very Good in original illustrated mailing envelope. Rose Bowl Parade.
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Wonderful California.

By: Curt Teich & Co.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chicago: Published for The Van Noy-Interstate Company, n.d. [ca. 1915].

Seller ID: 51154fd

Oblong quarto, stiff wrappers with photo. illus. on front cover, string-tied, [80] pp. Photos throughout. Very Good.
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Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific. Library of Early American Business and Industry.

By: Daggett, Stuart.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York: Augustus M Kelley, 1966.

Seller ID: 3845bd

Reprint of the 1922 edition. Octavo, gray cloth (hardcover), vi, 470 pp. Plates, maps. Fine.
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California: A Guide to the Golden State. New Revised Edition; Harry Hanse, Editor. Originally Compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of California.

By: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of California. Hansen, Harry; Ed. of New Revised Edition.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: Hastings House, (1973).

Seller ID: 192fdi

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), xix + 733 pp. Neatly inked notations to ffep; otherwise, Near-Fine, in Very Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges.
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The Rodeo and Tales of Pioneer Life in California.

By: Findley, William H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Arroyo Grande, Calif.: Hubbard Printing, 1973.

Seller ID: 28333a

1st edition. Quarto, stiff wrappers, stapled, [63] pp. Near-Fine.
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Monterey: The Presence of the Past.

By: Fink, Augusta.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco: Chronicle Books, [1972].

Seller ID: 27233

1st edition. Octavo, cloth, 254, [xv] pp. Photos. Former-owner inscription and bookplate; otherwise Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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A Tenderfoot in Southern California.

By: Halsey, Mina Deane.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Printed for the Author by J. J. Little & Ives Co., 1914.

Seller ID: 70620s

Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, uncut, 162 pp. Very Good+, with light edgewear and rubbing to covers. Illustrated.
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In and Out of The Old Missions of California: An Historical and Pictorial Account of The Franciscan Missions. With 142 Illustrations from Photographs.

By: James, George Wharton.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. First Edition.

Seller ID: 8962gcs

Octavo, illustrated green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decorations to upper cover, top edge gilt, tissue-protected frontis., 392 pp + advertisements. Illustrations. Very Good+, with light wear to covers.
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San Francisco Bay: A Pictorial Maritime History.

By: Kemble, John Haskell.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Bonanza Books, MCMZLVII.

Seller ID: 00523sc

Quarto, blue cloth, (hardcover), xv, 193 pp. Near-Fine, with slight age darkening to endpapers, in a Fine dust jacket. ÒThis is history presented in a fascinating pictorial style and every effort has been made to present an interesting and well-rounded treatment whihc depits the history of the bay, its people, cities and towns, watercraft and commerce. The introductory text and extensive picture captions act as the bond which connects and brings the many illustrations to life on the printed pages of this magnificent book. The illustrations in this volume are the examples of numerous photog...
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Old San Francisco: The Biography of a City, From Early Days to the Earthquake.

By: Muscatine, Doris.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1975).

Seller ID: 9504gcs

Octavo, terra cotta cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, 480 pp. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: For those who live there, for those who have visited and for those who have only heard its name, San Francisco exercises a special kind of romance. Certainly few cities have, in such a short period of existence, seen more history, drama, violence and color. An outpost of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, when thousands of miles separated it from any other center of comparable size, it grew up in fierce independence, making ...
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We, People of America and How We Ended Poverty: A True Story of the Future.

By: Sinclair, Upton.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Pasadena, CA: National EPIC League, [1936].

Seller ID: 3577bd

Octavo, stiff printed wrappers, stapled, 64 pp. Very Good.
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Sketches of Old Sacramento: A Tribute to Joseph A. McGowan.

By: Smith, Jesse M., ed.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Sacramento: Sacramento County Historical Society, (1976). First Edition. Limited edition, unnumbered.

Seller ID: 4272bd

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), [viii], 244 pp. Portraints, illustrations. Very Good in mylar protected dust jacket.
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Stagecoach Days in Santa Barbara County.

By: Tompkins, Walker A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara: McNally & Loftin, West, 1982.

Seller ID: vas4199

Octavo, paperbound (stiff red, full-color illus. wrappers), 135 pp. Near-Fine. From lower cover: This illustrated book by Walker A. Tompkins takes a lighthearted look at the 40-year period between 1861 and 1901 when stagecoaches rolled over Gaviota and San Marcos passes to link the pioneer settlements of the county's coastal and inland valleys. Many of the century-old photographs have never been published. Meet the old-time stage drivers; visit the relay stations of long ago. you'll find mirth and pathos in the true tales of highway robberies, along with legends of bygone days -- all cem...
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Year Book of The Tuesday Afternoon Club, Glendale, California, 1933-1934.

By: Tuesday Afternoon Club, Glendale, California.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Glendale, California: Tuesday Afternoon Club, 1933.

Seller ID: 3217qsl

Octavo, stiff wrappers, stapled, 63 pp. Tipped-in portrait of the club's president. Very Good. Woman's club.
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Category: California