Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest with a Few Observations
by Dobie, J. Frank
Dallas: University Press and Southern Methodist University, 1943 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Fourth edition. This edition was printed from the plates of the first edition, but with a new title page. Octavo. 111pp. Frontispiece, numerous text illustrations. Light blue wrappers printed in black on front cover. Covers just slightly faded at edges and spine, but a fine copy. The author takes various Southwestern subjects and lists, for each subject, appropriate histories and bibliographies. This work was originally mimeographed for... Read More
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Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest with a few Observations
by Dobie, J. Frank
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1943 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 111pp. Frontispiece, numerous text illustrations. Gray wrappers printed in black on front cover. Covers just slightly toned, light wear to the yapped edges, but a fine copy. The author takes various Southwestern subjects and lists, for each subject, appropriate histories and bibliographies. This work was originally mimeographed for distribution to the author's students. The book is not a true bibliography but an excellent check list with... Read More
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Proverbs In Porcelain. To Which is Added "Au Revoir." A Dramatic Vignette.
by Dobson, Austin
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co. Ltd., 1893 Book. Illus. by Partridge, Bernard. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. First edition with this title. Large paper edition limited to 250 copies, (175 copies for England, 75 copies for America) Hand-numbered, this copy being 11A, one of the 75 copies designated for America. Illustrated with 25 illustrations by Bernard Partridge, comprised of 11 mounted tissue proof engravings and 14 plates on Japanese vellum paper. Rebound in facsimile in dark green cloth with... Read More
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The Road West. Saga of the 35th Parallel
by Dodge, Bertha S.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1980 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. vii, 222pp. Map, photographic portraits and views. Appendices, bibliography and index. Brown cloth. A very fine copy with dust jacket. Dust jacket spine slightly toned, jacket with the slightest of shelfwear. The explorers and immigrants who followed the 35th parallel in their trek across the Southwest, through New Mexico and Arizona. .
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They Would Rule the Valley
by Downey, Sheridan
San Francisco: By the Author, 1947 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. 9¼ x 5¾ inches.[6], 256pp. Numerous photographs. Green cloth lettered in gilt. Previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper, minor bumping to spine ends, else a fine copy with publisher's slipcase with pictorial pastedown. Slipcase with some wear, and missing narrow back panel. Discusses the farms and water resources of the Central Valley of California, and the government's role in water use and allocation.... Read More
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Hunting for Gold...
by Downie, Major William
Palo Alto: American West Publishing Co., 1971 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile printing of the original 1893 edition. xi, 412pp. Illustrations, portraits, plates. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. A fine copy with printed dust jacket. Light wear to dust jacket, This new printing adds an introduction by Robert H. Becker and, most importantly, a complete index. The work contains many interesting illustrations and photographic reproductions. It is considered one of the finest reminiscences of mining life.... Read More
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William Caxton and His Quincentenary
by Dreyfus, John
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1976 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Typophiles edition, thus first. Limited to 700 copies designed by Abe Lerner and printed for the members of The Typophiles. Color frontis plate, facsimiles. Half cloth with decorated boards, gilt-lettering on spine. A very fine copy. A biography of Caxton and a history of his work..
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William Caxton and His Quincentenary
by Dreyfus, John
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1976 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 400 copies (of 1100) designed by Abe Lerner and printed for the members of the Book Club of California at the Press of A. Colish. 12mo. 54, [9]pp. Color frontis, plate, facsimiles. Errata slip tipped-in. Gray cloth, gilt. A very fine copy. The text is an address delivered by John Dreyfus in 1975 at the Grolier Club. Dreyfus provides an historical review of Caxton's contribution... Read More
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All for Love, or, the World Well Lost: A Tragedy
by Dryden, John
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1929 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Quarto and octavo. The second (smaller) volume is a facsimile of the first edition. #5 of 250 copies printed by John Henry Nash. Color plates. Parchment-backed rose boards, spine gilt-lettered, top edges gilt. Complimentary slip tipped-in. Small bookplate, else a fine set housed in a split-level slipcase..
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A Visit to the Russians in 1828. An Episode from the Narrative of...
by Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste Bernard
Silverado: Bohemian Grove, 1946 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First seperate edition. Translated from the French by Charles Franklin Carter. 14, [2]pp. Printed in red and black. Red wrappers printed in white. Minor creasing to upper front corner, else a fine copy. Although not indicated, limited to 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Details this French seaman's visit to the Russian settlement at Fort Ross in Bodega, California [Grabhorn: 426]..
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Max Brand. The Big "Westerner"
by Easton, Robert
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. 9x6 inches. Pp. xii, 330. Color frontispiece portrait, photographic illustrations. Faust bibliography and filmography, index. Lavender cloth. A very fine and bright copy with colorful pictorial dust jacket. "Biography of Frederick Faust (1892 - 1944), best known by his pen name Max Brand, who published over 30 million words: short stories, western, historical romances, murder mysteries, plays, and poetry" (jacket). .
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Overland to California on the Southwest Trail, 1849. Diary of Robert Eccleston
by Eccleston, Robert
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1950 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Quite scarce. One of 750 copies printed at The Westgate Press. Edited by George P. Hammond and Edward H. Howes. 256pp. Frontis, 2 folding maps. Rust cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket spine slightly faded). An account of a 19 year old traveling from Texas to California in the year 1849. Eccleston was a New Yorker who... Read More
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The Mariposa Indian War, 1850-51. Diaries of Robert Eccleston: The California Gold Rush, Yosemite, and the High Sierra.
by Eccleston, Robert
Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 1957 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Edited by C. Gregory Crampton. Pp. [6], vii, [1], 168. Mounted frontispiece portrait, folding map. Bibliography and index. Rust cloth, gilt. Very minor small stain to spine label. A fine copy. An important Gold Rush diary being the record of Eccleston's experiences in the Southern mines during 1850-51. He joined the Mariposa Battalion, explored the Yosemite with the Savage-Bunnell party, the Big Trees,... Read More
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An Account of the Life... of David Brainerd... Missionary to the Indians...and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New Jersey
by Edwards, Jonathan.
Boston: Printed and sold by D. Henchman, 1749 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition of this prime Americana classic, Brainerd had remarkable success with numerous Indian tribes, and left us a diary account that is unequalled. Pp. [2], xii, [18, list of subscribers], 316, [2, ads]. Somewhat later half morocco and marbled boards. Contemporary owner's signature (John Fullerton) to top border of Preface. Upper outer hinges starting, text browned, spotted and stained, upper corner of title leaf repaired... Read More
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The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards. The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837.
by Edwards, Philip Leget
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1932 Book. Fine. Hardcover. One of 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. 48pp. Colored facsimile from an 1837 lithograph of San Francisco. Cloth-backed marbled boards, paper labels on spine and front cover. Fore-edges of endpapers with major offsetting. A fine copy. Treasurer of the Willamette Cattle Company, Edwards arrived in San Francisco on February 29, 1837. He had originally come to Oregon in 1833 with Captain Wyeth's party. This day-by-day narrative ends on September... Read More
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The El Dorado Trail. The Story of the Gold Rush Routes Across Mexico.
by Egan, Ferol
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. Pp. xvi, 313. Notes, bibliography, index. Red cloth. A very fine and bright copy with pictorial dust jacket. Part of the American Trails Series. Covers the old Mexican land routes to the California Gold Rush, and all its perils. From Corpus Christi to Mazatlan, from Parras to Janos, from Vera Cruz to Mexico City and on to Acapulco and San Blas, and the... Read More
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KFRC presents Going Forward with Radio [cover title].
by Ehresman, R. [Compiler and editor].
National Radio Personalities, Publishers: Peoria, Illinois, 1949 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Quarto. 12 x 9 inches. (36)pp, unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. Pictorial wrappers. Stapled binding. Hole in upper gutter corner with decorative string tassel. Minor wear and soiling to wrappers, overall a fine copy. Scarce promotional for KFRC AM radio station in San Francisco. Each page is a collage of photographs by Moulin studios, Chas. M. Hiller, and Romaine studios, interspersed with descriptive text.... Read More
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A Biographical Dictionary, Containing a Brief Account of the First Settlers, and Other Eminent Characters Among the Magistrates, Ministers, Literary and Worthy Men, in New England
by Eliot, John, D.D.
Boston: Cushing and Appleton, Salem, and Edward Oliver, 1809 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo. Original calf binding, with early rebacking in leather. Front and rear inner hinges reinforced, wear to corners and chipping to spine, some internal browning. Overall, a very good copy. A biographical dictionary of the first settlers in New England..
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Shanghai Pierce, a Fair Likeness
by Emmett, Chris
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953 Book. Illus. by Eggenhoffer, Nick. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Pp. xiii, [1], 326. Illustrations by Nick Eggenhoffer, photographs of views and portraits, 3 maps. Bibliography and index. Brown cloth lettered on spine in brown on a yellow background. The slightest of rubbing to spine ends and corners. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, light wear to top edge). A well-written biography of... Read More
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Notes on a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers.
by EMORY, W.H.
"A library of Western Americana is incomplete without it" With the (incredibly) large folding map Quarto. 9¼ x 5½. 416pp. Text illustrations, 40 plates, 3 plans and large folding map. Collated complete. Rebound in brown mottled calf with gilt lettering on spine. With just a minimum of scattered foxing and toning, the plates very clean and bright. Early owner's signature at top of title page. Three-inch tear to interior edge of large folding map. Overall, a neat, fine copy. First edition, Senate... Read More
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Tendril in the Mesh
by Everson, William
(n.p.): Cayucos Books, 1973 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First edition. SIGNED by the author. Number 20 of 250 copies designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. 4to. Unpaginated. Leather spine, decorated brown and yellow boards. Light wear to head of spine, light scuffing to edges of spine, else a fine copy. Printed throughout in gold, brown and black with Goudy Thirty type..
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Early Printing in California from Its Beginning in the Mexican Territory to Statehood...
by Fahey, Herbert
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Limited to 400 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. Folio. ix, 142pp. 16 plates of samples; frontis portrait. Green and black two-tone cloth, red morocco spine label. A very fine copy. An important and scholarly study on printing in California from the Mexican period (1821) to statehood, September 9, 1850. Includes a bibliography of imprints, list of newspapers, list of presses, and bibliographic... Read More
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A Financial History of California. Public Revenues, Debts, and Expenditures.
by FANKHAUSER, William C.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1913 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Tall octavo. [2], 101-408pp. plus 4pp. index. 4 folding tables. Bibliography, index. Publisher's gray wrappers printed in black. Fore-edge of front wrapper and upper corner of rear wrapper with some curling and chipping, spine a bit darkened, else a fine copy. First edition. Scarce. Covers the early Spanish period (Spanish revenue laws, Mexican commercial regulations, etc.); an entire section of the decade of experimentation, 1850's (temporary state loan... Read More
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Mount Olympus
by Farquhar, Francis P. and Aristides E. Phoutrides
San Francisco: Johnck & Seeger, 1929 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First edition by this publisher. Limited to 950 copies designed and printed by Johnck & Seeger and S.T. Farquhar. Signed by publisher Harold Seeger. Small quarto. Black and white photographs and 2 illustrated maps, one folding out. Bibliography on Mount Olympus. Bound in printed tan wrappers. Edges a bit rubbed and very minor bumping to lower corner of some pages, else a fine copy. A history of... Read More
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Ninety Years of Education in California, 1846-1936. A Presentation of Educational Movements And their Outcome in Education Today
by Ferrier, William Warren
Berkeley: Sather Gate Book Shop, 1937 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. Pp. xv, 413. Index. Gilt-lettered navy cloth.Light offsetting to endpapers, else a fine copy with dust jacket (jacket with waterstain to right edge, and with large portion of top rear edge chipped away. First edition. An overview of the history and development of education in California, both of elementary education and colleges and vocational schools. Constitutional and Legislative Provision; First Public... Read More
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