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Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1965 First edition. x, 278pp. Photographs, map. Bibliography, index. Yellow pictorial cloth. A very fine copy with very slightly chipped and rubbed pictorial dust jacket. Gold Rush towns and camps of the central, southern and northern mines; the sagebrush camps of eastern California, etc. A well-written narrative illustrated with period photographs.. ... more information

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1989 Limited first edition, signed by the author. Published by the Franklin Library exclusively for subscribers of "The Signed First Edition Society." Bound in brown leather, lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. A very fine, as new copy. An extremely handsome edition of this modern classic.. ... more information

Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1945 First edition. 559pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt. A fine copy with dust jacket (jacket spine slightly darkened). An exhaustive guide to the documents in the French Foreign Office and other repositories, and to printed materials relating to the French interest in California from 1786 to 1849. An excellent resource. [Rocq: 17039; Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush: 149].. ... more information

Berne: Kummerly and Frey, 1962 First American edition. Quarto. A fine copy with dust jacket. A study of the history and culture of Egypt.. ... more information

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1947 First book edition. 56pp. Frontispiece, 15 plates, text illustrations. Gilt-lettered red cloth. A fine copy. The three articles included are: "Sutter's Sawmill," by Aubrey Neasham, "Archaeological Investigation of Sutter Sawmill Site in 1947," by Robert F. Heizer, and "Artifacts from the Excavation of Sutter's Sawmill, 1947," by Franklin Fenenga. With an introduction by Joseph R. Knowland.. ... more information

Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1980 First American edition. Stiff wrappers (softbound). Corners worn, light rubbing to bottom front edge. Some minor pencil markings throughout. A very good copy. Considered the definitive reference on mountaineering. . ... more information

New York: Dorset Press, 1972 First edition. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A collection of accounts from the journals of famous Antarctic explorers as James Cook, Richard E Byrd, Edmund Hillary and others.. ... more information

San Francisco: Sierra Club Book, 1980 First edition. Illustrated with color photographs by the author.Blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket with very mior wear to edges of spine. The narrative of the author's third trip beyond Cape Horn.. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937 First edition. Illustrated throughout with numerous black & white photos. Spine-ends rubbed, else a fine copy. A study of the rituals and customs of Hopi Indians in the South Western United States.. ... more information

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003 Black & white photographic illustrations. Gray cloth with silver lettering to spine. A fine copy. Included as a free bonus is Little Blue Book No. 1498, "Missouri University Sex Questionnaire and Its Significance," by L.M. Birkhead.. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973 Cloth. Owner's stamp on endpaper, else a very fine copy with price-clipped and faded pictorial dust jacket. Fourteen selected chapters taken from the author's eight-volume "Ordeal of the Union.". ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928 2 volumes. First edition. Pp. ix, 344 + viii, 345-738. Frontis portrait in each volume, 62 plates; appendix and index. Gilt-lettered blue cloth. Bookplate in each volume. A fine set. An excellent biography of Frémont, based primarily upon original sources. It covers his entire career while providing a picture of America in the first half of the nineteenth century. It also gives a portrait of Jessie Benton Frémont and her influence on her husband... more information

Washington D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1996 Octavo. Black and white illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. Black boards. A very fine copy in very fine pictorial dust jacket.. ... more information

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963 First edition. 175pp. 87 black & white photographs. A fine copy with dust jacket (a bit of minor staining to edges of jacket). The scarce biography of Ansel Adams, covering the period 1902-1938. Text by Newhall and from the correspondence between Adams and the great names of photography.. ... more information

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963 Folio. 175pp. 87 black & white photographs. Green cloth, gilt. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (two short edge tears and with top edge slightly rough). The scarce biography of Ansel Adams, covering the period 1902-1938. Text by Newhall and from the correspondence between Adams and the great names of photography.. ... more information

Berkeley: Howell-North, 1971 First edition. Presentation, signed by the author. 304pp. Color frontis, illustrated from photographs. Green cloth lettered in black. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Narrative of the voyage of the last Tyne River side-lever steam paddle-wheel tug afloat. Covers the reconstruction of the tug, planning, etc., etc., and the six-month, 11,000 mile journey from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne to San Francisco, 1969-1970. Includes 97 photographs of the crew and the voyage, diagrams and ma... more information

London: Thames & Hudson, 1987 Large octavo. 367pp. 725 illustrations, 16 in color. Blue boards with silver lettering and decoration on spine and front cover. A very fine copy in very fine pictorial dust jacket. 2373 entries, relating to British and North American wares, decorative techniques and styles, and leading designers and makers, principally from c. 1500 to the present.. ... more information

Cambridge: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1951 Small octavo. Bound in red cloth. Faded at spine, some soiling to covers, pencil markings throughout. Overall a very good copy. A study of architecture from a philosophical viewpoint.. ... more information

Mason City, Iowa: Savas Publishing Co., 2000 Cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket.. First Edition. ... more information

San Francisco: Printed for Herbert Rothchild for members of the Roxburghe Club, 1928 One of 150 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Edited by Peter Bissenschwitz. Tall quarto. Pp. [6], 9, [3]. Title page printed in black and red. Handset Janson type, Black cloth-backed gray boards. Small bookplate on inner cover, very minor wear to foot of spine. A fine copy. The "Printer's Note" at the end notes that "The Department of Literary Research of the Grabhorn Press cannot vouch for the authen... more information