FIFTEEN DECISIVE EVENTS OF CALIFORNIA HISTORY
Los Angeles, CA: Historical Society of Southern California, 1959 Fine. First edition. Black cloth over bds. with green lettering on spine and front cover, with events listed chronologically on endpapers. .... more information
Price: 27.80 USD
Sacramento: California State Dept. of Education, 1937, 2-page color map frontis, b/w photo illus. Small 8vo. Decorative cloth. x, 402, xviii p. Reference Material. Pronunciation & definition of words of foreign origin. Index . California State Series. First Edition. Very light wear at extremities; else Fine. .... more information
Price: 18.50 USD
[No place]:: [Privately printed for Rockwell Hunt by Harvey E. Scudder, Printer of Stockton],, 1957. 8.75" x 6". 11pp. Stapled wrapper with a printed label mounted on the front cover. Near fine condition. Limited edition, one of only 500 copies. This copy signed and inscribed by Hunt in 1957 on the final page of text to Pacific Northwest historia and author Bruce Le Roy. With a nicely designed title page featuring an illustration of a mountain tree printed in red. The reverse of the title page features a reproduction of what appears to be a bookplate, designed by Anthony Euwer. Hunt was an eminent California historian, a professor at the University of Southern California and.... more information
Price: 25.00 USD
"Mr. california": Autobiography of Rockwell D. Hunt
San Francisco: Fearon, 1956, Very Good/N/a. 1st. Signed by Author. Blue cloth lightly worn, edges lightly frayed, corners show minor bumping. Book is boldly INSCRIBED by the author on FFE. .... more information
Price: 25.00 USD
JOHN BIDWELL, PRINCE OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1946 First edition, second printing. A biography of one of California's most eminent pioneers. Wheat: Gold Rush, 108. 463 pages with illustrations. Map endpapers. Bound in original blue cloth with lettering stamped in gilt. Fine in near fine dust jacket mildly toned. .... more information
Price: 45.00 USD
New York: Exposition Press, 1951 First edition, first printing. 79 pages. Bound in original red cloth with lettering in black. Fine in very good dust jacket with several chips along the top edge. .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
Los Angeles: Univresity of Southern California, 1930 g. First edition. 8vo. xv,109pp. Quarter cloth over paper-covered decorated boards. Some discoloration and scuffing to boards. Wear to edges and corners. "This book is intended as a memento of the Semicentennial of the University of Southern California. It cannot lay claim to being a history, yet much of its contents is of historical character; it is not a catalogue, though in it are found many hints of catalogue material; it is not propaganda, although it is designed to stimulate interest." Illustrated with b/w drawings on tan background. Binding good, interior in very good condition. .... more information
Price: 50.00 USD
New York: Exposition Press, 1951 First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 79pp. Very Good, some dampstaining to front pastedown, in Good dj, chips to bottom edge of front panel and top edge of rear panel at spine. .... more information
Price: 10.00 USD
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OXCART TO AIRPLANE ("Hoofs, Wheels and Wings by Hunt, and "By Sea to California" by Ament)
Powell Publ. Co: Los Angeles (1929). 10.5 x 7", finely bound in brown crushed morocco w/gilt stamping, spine labels, teg, 458 w/index, outer hinges starting, extremities a bit worn, one spine label faded, waterstaining on lower margins else vg. DeLuxe Edition, LIMITED TO 387 NUMBERED COPIES, THIS IS #88 (FOR ANITA ZABALA HOWARD), SIGNED BY FOUR PIONEERS: STAGECOACH DRIVER SAM JOBE, LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER CHARLES TROTT, PONY EXPRESS RIDER WILLIAM CAMPBELL, AND SHIP CAPTAIN I. N. HIBBARD. Volume VI of the "California" Series. .... more information
Price: 195.00 USD
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1932 Later printing; xlvii, 569, x, 590, 580, 579p., numerous mugshots reproduced variously in halftone and photoengraving; thick boards cameo-decorated in relief; light shelfwear. Later printing, in four volumes, of what was originally a five-volume set .... more information
Price: 125.00 USD
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1926 5 volumes, dampstain at base of vol. 1, 569p. + 590p. + 499p. + 504p. + 536p., minor wear. .... more information
Price: 125.00 USD
California in the Making: Essays and Papers in California History (Signed)
The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1953 Good.
Price: 10.00 USD
