1932 Souvenir of Long Beach California, Year 'Round Convention and Resort Metropolis of the Pacific Coast
Long Beach, CA: Christar Publishers, 1984. Softcover. Near fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1932 original, which was distrbuted by the Long Baach Chamber of Commerce. 24 pp, illustrated with b/w photos. Minimal handling wear; about fine. Includes sections on parks and playgrounds, amusements, golf courses, hotels and apartments, beaches, the... (Item #20320)
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The Best of San Leandro Recollections, March 1971
San Leandro, CA: City of San Leandro, 1971. Softcover. Very Good. 39 pp, with illustrations, subscription form, in original illustrated wrappers. Very light handling wear, internally clean and sound. A compilation of "San Leandro Recollections" articles assembled to celebrate the city's 99th anniversary.	(Item #1327)
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Bound Collection of Fifteen Publications Regarding the Preservation of the Coastal Redwood Forests of Northern California
6 x 9 inches, approx. 150 pp, illustrated, bound in green cloth. A few pages have light pencil marginalia, one page with a short tear, slight cover soiling; very good. An interesting collection of articles on preservation of the redwoods published by John C. Merriam (founder of the Save the... (Item #20448)
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Centennial Souvenir, 100th Anniversary, Incorporation of the Town of San Juan Bautista, 1869-1069
Centennial Historical Committee, 1969. Softcover. Very Good. 20 pp, with many illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Minimal handling wear, else fine.. A brief history of the community of San Juan Bautista (San Benito County, CA), established by Spanish Missionaries in 1797.0.	(Item #1324)
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Collection of 18 Original Photographs of the Aftermath of the Long Beach, California Earthquake of 1933
Very good. Nineteen original black and white photographs, each measuring 4 x 5 inches (including white border), and each with a handwritten caption on the back identifying the location. All are clear and in very good condition. Fourteen images are of Long Beach locations (e.g., Bank of America, Continental Bakery... (Item #19748)
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Important Bay Area Paintings 1954-1960
San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery, 1997. Softcover. Near fine. Exhibition catalogue. 8.5 x 11 inches, 27 pp, with 12 color illustrations. Very light shelf wear to wrappers; contents clean. Includes work by Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, David Park, and Paul Wonner.	(Item #1426)
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Information for the Use of Yosemite Visitors. Compiled by Commissioners to Manage the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove
Sacramento: State Office, 1887. Softcover. Good. Second edition. 8vo, 24 pp, including a full-page map. Original printed wrappers have several small chips and tears, pamphlet has an old vertical folding crease and a quarter-inch in the front wrap that also affects the first three leaves, text has occasional foxing. First... (Item #20149)
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Masterkey Volume 60, Numbers 2 & 3, Summer / Fall 1986, California's Mexican Heritage
Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1986. Softcover. Near Fine. 56 pp, with illustrations, maps, in original illustrated wrappers. Light shelf wear; else fine. Includes articles on Alta California During the Mission Period, Rancho Life in Alta California, Mexican Americans in Twentieth-Century California; the Barroization of Nineteenth Century Mexican Californians: From Landowners to Laborers.	(Item #3175)
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Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the State of California, at the Sixth, Seventh, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth Annual Convocation[s], Held at the Masonic Hall, in the City of Sacramento and San Francisco
San Francisco: Frank Eastman, 1859-1873. Hardcover. Good. Seven volumes bound together. Three-quarter maroon leather over cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Moderate external wear, including staining, chipping to leather and cloth, mild bow to boards. Dampstain to margin of somepages (text unaffected), some damage to endpapers. Binding sound... (Item #2462)
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Rare Photograph of the Mining Town of Forest City, California, Before it was Destroyed by Fire in 1883
Undated and uncredited albumen photograph (image size 4.75" x 7.75"), identified in a handwritten caption on the mount as Forest City, a town in Sierra County, California, where gold was discovered in 1852. Slight fading and spotting, crack in the glass negative appearing in lower left, but still a clear... (Item #19245)
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The San Francisco Disaster Photographed, Fifty Glimpses of Havoc by Earthquake and Fire
New York: C.S. Hammond & Co., 1906. Softcover. Good. 7.25 x 10 inches, oblong. Unpaginated, approximately 35 pp, with illustrations from photographs, map. Paper over spine partially split (but holding), shelf wear and short tears to wrappers; contents clean. One page of German text (titled "Ruin yund neues Leben") on... (Item #1353)
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San Leandro Recollections, Vol. 2, No. 2, March 1970
San Leandro, CA: City of San Leandro, 1970. Softcover. Very good. 16 pp, with illustrations, subscription form laid in, in original illustrated wrappers. One of two staples in binding missing, light handling wear to wrappers; contents clean. Periodical created as part of the city's Centennial celebration. Main article in this... (Item #1322)
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Adams, Frank
Rice Irrigation Measurements and Experiments in Sacramento Valley 1914 - 1919
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1920. Softcover. Very Good. pp. 47-69, with b/w illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Light handling wear and soiling to wrappers; else clean and sound. College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 325, September, 1920. A report on the ongoing research and experiments... (Item #1406)
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[AGRICULTURE] Cooke, Matthew
A Treatise on the Insects Injurious to Fruit and Fruit Trees of the State of California, and Remedies Recommended for their Extermination
Sacramento: State Office, 1881. 72 pp, illustrated with small wood engravings, in original lavender printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine, old tears and tape repairs to back wrapper, else very good. Matthew Cooke was in the business of manufacturing fruit boxes in the 1870s when California's apple crop was devastated... (Item #20560)
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Alverson, Margaret Blake
Sixty Years of California Song
San Francisco: Sunset Publishing House, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 275 pp, illustrated. Original blue pictorial cloth; no dust jacket. Mild rubbing to extremities and bumping to corners, else fine. No dust jacket. The author was a singer and music teacher in San Francisco. The book provides good detail... (Item #20461)
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Bledsoe, Benjamin F., Judge
United States of America, Plaintiff, Vs. Southern Pacific Company, et al., Defendants, Opinion of Judge Bledsoe
1919. Softcover. Very Good. 22 pp, in original wrappers. Light handling wear to wrappers, old horizontal crease; contents clean and sound. Text of the resolution of a lawsuit grought by the United States Govenment over oil-bearing lands in California granted to Southern Pacific Railroad. The Government argued that Southern Pacific... (Item #1495)
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Boscana, Geronimo; Robinson, Alfred (Translator); Harrington, John P. (Annotations); Bright, William (Preface)
Chinigchinich, A Revised and Annotated Version of Alfred Robinson's Translation of Father Geronimo Bosana's Historical Account of the Belief, Usages, Customs and Extravagancies of the Indians of the Mission of San Juan Capistrano called the Acagchemem Tribe
Banning, CA: Malki Museum Press, 1978. Hardcover. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Classics in California Anthropology 3, reprinted from the edition published by the Fine Arts Press, Santa Ana, in 1933. 9 x 12 inches, 247 pp, with 11 illustrations and maps, annotations, bibliography. Original brown cloth. Minimal... (Item #15770)
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Brown, Jim; Careaga, Rand
Riding the Line, The United States Customs Service in San Diego, 1885-1930, A Documentary History
Washington DC: Department of the Treasury, United States Customs Service Pacific Region, 1991. Softcover. Near Fine. v, 88 pp, with illustrations, in original wrappers. One light crease to outer bottom corner of rear cover; else fine.	(Item #3174)
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Brown, John; Boyd, James
History of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, Volume I
Western Historical Association, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Volume I ONLY. 602 pp, illustrated. Original blue pebbled cloth boards have a few white paint splatters, spine is lightly sunned. Internally very clean and sound. This volume includes the full history of each county, including chapters on local organizations, churches... (Item #19689)
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Burrus, Ernest J. (editor); Ducrue, Benno
Ducrue's Account of the Expulsion of the Jesuits from Lower California (1767-1769), An Annotated English Translation of Benno Ducrue's Relation Expulsionis
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. Blue cloth boards stamped on the spine in gilt; no dust jacket... (Item #18544)
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Burrus, Ernest J. (editor); Ducrue, Benno [SIGNED]
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. A fine copy bound in 3/4 red leather and marbled boards; signed by... (Item #17389)
Burton, Richard F.
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862. First American Edition. Hardcover. good. 8vo, xii, [4], 574+ [2] ads. Illustrated with engravings; 3 maps on one folding sheet. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine darkened, fraying to spine ends, corners rubbed, front hinge partially cracked. Embossed library stamp on a.... (Item #13758)
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Byrne, Henry L.; Bryant, Dolores Waldorf (Editors)
Quarterly of the Society of California Pioneers, Volume 1, No. IV.
San Francisco: Society of California Pioneers, 1924. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 45 pp, w/3 illustrations. Original stapled wrappers are sunned and lightly soiled, and "The Rush of '49" (the title of the issue's main article) has been written across the top of the front cover in pencil. Contents clean... (Item #14557)
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Caballeria, Father Juan
History of San Bernardino Valley from the Padres to the Pioneers, 1810-1851
San Bernardino, CA: Times Index Press, [1902]. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 130 pp, in original wrappers. Illustrated by Constance Farris. A very good copy, but for the fact that there are two small holes of unknown origin that go through the entire book (see images). These are relatively inoffensive, but... (Item #19890)
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Casebier, Dennis G.
Fort Pah-Ute California
Norco, CA: Tales of the Mojave Road Publishing, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Tales of the Mojave Road Number Four, September 1974. 160 pp, with index, illustrations, map endpapers. Original printed wrappers. Clean, tightly bound, unmarked. From the Foreword: "It is true that the army never established an official fort... (Item #14370)
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