Los Angeles: Arroyo Guild, 1990. Octavo. 67 pages, 16 pages of ads. Facsimile. One of the highlights of George Whartons James work was this issue which brought together some of the finest designers and artisans of Southern California. Besides his article "Collecting Indian Baskets" and "Hanson Puthuff" is his editorial..... More
(San Fransico, 1941): Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California. Limited Edition. Quarto. 6 preliminary leaves, 74 pages, 4 color plates (including frontispiece) limited to 350 copies. The historical introduction by Edith Coulter shows the interaction of the ships which came for supplies but for whom inner California was..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Wallace Hebberd and Printed by the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley and Son, 1927. Octavo. 499 (1)pp illustrated by James S. Bodero, with a foreword by Arthur M. Ellis. One of the important accounts of early California. Major Bell joined Walker on his Filibustering Expedition. He was also..... More
Quarto. 33pp. and 9 pages. Record of journey from Delaware, Ohio April 2, 1850 to arrival in California on December 8, 1850. with the Delaware Mining Co., by way of St. Louis, St. Joseph, Blue and Platte Rivers, South Pass, Salt Lake City, and Humboldt and Carson Rivers, to Sacramento..... More
Tucson; (2008): The University of Arizona Press. First Edition. Octavo. . First printing.199pp. From 1993 to 2000 the author interviewed and observed Latino youth between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four who lived in a barrio in a city on the California coast. He conducted forty life interviews, selecting six..... More
Los Angeles: California Club, 1997. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in green cloth 183pp. B&W and color photographs. More
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Los Angeles, nd[1918]: American Institute of Banking. First Edition. Octavo. The first issue published by the American Institute of Banking to inform the Southern California region on major changes, recent legislation, personal news of interest and related categories. Neither NUC or OCLC indicates any of these earliest issues are in..... More
New York; (1969): Random House. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 392(1) pages illustrated by the author. Signed and inscribed by the author along with a portrait drawing titled "Old Matador" by the author. A fascinating autobiography of the remarkable bull fighter, portrait painter, journalist, and San Francisco El Matador night..... More
(New York, 1994): HarperCollinsWest. First Edition. Octavo. 212 pages. An original pen and ink sketch of Tahiti where he shared good times with the Buckelews (to whom the sketch is dedicated). Also laid in is a paper drink coaster advertising the book "Name Dropping". The book itself deals with his..... More
San Diego, CA; (2017): Mystic Ink. Thick Quarto. 622 pages. This Conference drew major speakers from William Styron, James Michener, Eudora Welty, Elmore Leonard, and a host of important American writers. Founded by Barnaby and Mary Conrad, it was the favorite of Dr. Seuss (Ted Geisel), Gore Vidal, and Alex..... More
Oakland: Post-Enquirer Publishing Company, 1931. Octavo. 174 pages. Davie was mayor of Oakland from 1895-1897 and from 1915-1931, the longest-serving mayor. During his life, he was a canal boy, law student, butcher, buckaroo, rancher, inventor, actor, opera singer, bouncer, miner, lawyer, crusader, merchant, bookseller, organizer, ship owner and politician. Not..... More
Santa Barbara; (1936): The Schauer Printing Studio. First Edition. Small Quarto. . No pagination. A very nice copy of a poetic lament on the passing of Will Rogers. The frontispiece of Will Rogers looking back is emblematic. Charles M. Russell and Joe De Yong had much in common. Both wound..... More
California;: Biobooks, 1956. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. California relations number 44. Limited to 700 copies. 156pp. illustrated, with a foreword by Jos. A. Sullivan.. First edition of this work was published in 1850 and is a fascinating account of the Gold Rush when it first hit California.A very good copy..... More
Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California.; Grabhorn Press, 1939. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. limited to 1000 copies. color frontispiece, 4 preliminary leaves, 67 [1] pages, color illustrations. Includes feasts and celebrations of various nationalities in U.S. Arranged by month. For example, October includes Pulaski Day..... More
Np./Nd (Los Angeles): Np. Octavo. 75 pages. As automobile use and streetcar ridership skyrocketed, the city introduced the Hill Street tunnels. By 1913 the tunnel had been built and was a fate accomplished but the issue in the case asks: whether the city had the right to do so. Once..... More
(Scottsdale, Az 1985): Desert Wind Publications. First Edition. Quarto. . 106pp. inscribed by the author. beautifully illustrated with full color illustrations. The author traveled to the Baja region for well over twenty years. He has seen and studied the beauty of the land overlooking the degradation of the poor lifestyle..... More
Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1924. Octavo. xv, 432p. index. folding plan, profusely illustrated, cover designed by Ed Borein. One of the great early histories of Yerba Buena before and during its early days as San Francisco. Previous owner's name and small address label to front pastedown and page 51. Bound..... More
Los Angeles; (1972): Cultural Assets Press. First Edition. Octavo. 344pp. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. A biography of a Renaissance Man: The man who said "See America First," who founded The Southwest Museum, who saved many Spanish Missions. Many historical photographs. Bound in brown cloth, spine lettering gilt, one bumped..... More
New York; (1981): Simon and Schuster. First Edition. Octavo. 559pp. illustrated. The story begins witht he grat journey of 30,000 men who rushed to California over the South Pass trail. The reader shares William Swain's day-by-dat experinces hunting buffalo, camping in a wilderness alive with the sounds of hundreds of..... More
San Francisco: Press of Bolte and Braden Co., 1911. First Edition. Quarto. 377 pp. (5) publisher's ads, illustrated with photographic images. H.M.M.B.A. The Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, which was an organization formed in Chicago in 1879 for leading hotel professionals in the United States. This book was written about..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1910. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, 515pp., illustrated with photographic illustrations. This is the story of many heroes from California. Many tell their story in their own words and about those who have been known of their heroism. This work helps to arouse thought, excite desire..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1905. First Edition. Large Octavo. First printing. 392pp., (1) pp. publisher's ad. illustrated with 142 photographic illustrations. The dedication was to his newfound friend, a small, injured sparrow named Scraggles. Scruggles died just as the last pages were written. James had at one time, or..... More
Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1913. First Edition. Octavo. 287pp. frontispiece, illustrated with photographic images. The missions of California were the first outposts of Spanish colonial settlement, beginning with the founding of Mission San Diego in 1769. The interest in the ancient and dilapidated buildings and their history increases with..... More
Pasadena, CA: The Radiant Life Press, 1920. First Edition. Small Octavo. 483pp., This book seeks to help man to will, so that his melancholy, his gloominess, his sadness, his sickness, his fear, his failures will disappear, and he, to, will "Go through life Singing with God". It is a book..... More
Pasadena, California: George Wharton James, 1913. Octavo. 377 pp. (5) publisher's ads, illustrated with photographic images. H.M.M.B.A. The Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, which was an organization formed in Chicago in 1879 for leading hotel professionals in the United States. This book was written about the trip made from those..... More