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Sacramento: H.A. Weaver & Co., Steam Book and Job Printers, 1873. 7, [1 blank] pp. Last page prints the People's Union Independent Anti-Monopoly Ticket, for State Senate and Assemblymen. Very Good. Booth was elected Governor of California in 1871, campaigning as a Republican and with support from African Americans. In 1875, he resigned his office and, with the… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Printed at the American Flag Office, 1866. 23, [1 blank] pp. Stitched. Each page printed in two columns. Very Good. California's Specific Contract Law required that, when a contract specified the currency in which a debtor must pay a debt, the debtor was required to pay in the currency so specified. At this time, the United… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Allied Printers, 212 Leavenworth St., 1907. Printed broadside, 7-1/2" X 11." Uniformly toned. Several short closed tears [no loss] with contemporary repairs on blank verso. Good+. Each of the broadside's six questions is preceded by a question mark. San Francisco's 1907 streetcar strike was notable for its violence and disruptions. It resulted in 31 deaths… Read more about this item

Oakland, Cal.: Thompson & West, 1880. Oblong 4to. Original roan-backed green cloth [hinges weak, text block nearly separated]. Engraved title on front cover, surrounded by gilt border. 192pp plus many unpaginated, engraved plate illustrations, collated complete. Engraved, handcolored map of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona, dated 1880, "Prepared at H.H. Lloyd & Co's Map Establishment New York." Text with… Read more about this item

New York: Nesbit & Co., Printers, 1860. Brilliantly colored clipper ship card, oblong 4" x 6-5/8." Slight abrasion to several letters of "Printers, N.Y." in imprint. A couple of small spots. Mounting remnants on blank verso. Very Good.

0San Francisco: Bradley & Rulofson, Photographers, 1880. Albumen photograph, 4-1/2" x 5-3/4", reproducing an early California print, mounted on stiff 8" x 10" board. Image surrounded by gilt border. "Bradley & Rulofson, Photographers, S.F." printed beneath image, within the border. Below the border is printed "San Francisco, 1849. Drawn on the Spot by Henry Firks, for W.H. Jones, Esq.… Read more about this item

[Washington]: Special Session. SD2, 1849. 85, [3 blanks] pp. Disbound, else Very Good. "This report is the first extended publication of the journal of the officer commanding the Mormon Battalion as it marched from New Mexico to California" [Wagner-Camp]. It is "the first publication of the journal in full" [Cowan]. "Only extracts from it had been included… Read more about this item

[np, 1856. 4pp. Edges chipped with occasional slight loss. Good only. Caption title [as issued]. Printed in double columns. "Let us impartially examine the evidence." True, "in one of his exploring expeditions he made a cross upon a rock"; but even though "he was married by a Catholic Priest," these facts don't make him a Catholic.… Read more about this item

1875. CONTAINING A LIST OF EXHIBITORS, THEIR LOCATION, AND ARTICLES THEY EXHIBIT. San Francisco: Published by L.L. Paulson. 1875. Original printed wrappers [light spotting and wear], stitched, 48pp. Many advertisements, generally illustrated. Clean text, Very Good. Based in San Francisco, the Mechanics' Institute was founded in March 1855. The Catalogue is a booster for San Francisco. "Hugo has said… Read more about this item

New York: Currier, 1856. Hand-colored broadside lithograph, 10" x 14." "From a Photograph by Brady taken June 1856" is printed beneath Fremont's portrait. Light discoloration beneath the portrait, the "F" in Fremont lightly abraded. Else Very Good. Fremont is seated in a blue chair in front of flowing purple drapes and a yellow cord. In June 1856… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Phillips & Van Orden Co., 1910. Original green title wrappers. [10], 261, [3 blanks], xxxv, [1 blank] pp, as issued. Text on glossy paper. Mild wrapper wear, Near Fine. Ruef was indicted and convicted of offering a bribe to a San Francisco Supervisor in order to grant the United Railroads of San Francisco a franchise for… Read more about this item

[San Francisco?, 1877. 44pp, sewn, original printed wrappers [light dusting and minor wear]. Very Good. Laid in at the end is a one page Memorandum of the Court on Motion for Injunction, by Judge Dwinelle. Cohen was a leader of California's early Jewish community, a prominent attorney, and a railroad promoter. Here he takes on the Town… Read more about this item

[Santa Rosa, 1885. Engraved invitation, top flap with color illustration of American flag. Bottom half in several elegant type styles and fonts. "Grover Cleveland" in manuscript. Mild wear, Very Good. [offered with] REGULATIONS OF THE GRAND MILITARY CARNIVAL OF CO. E. 5TH INF. REG. N.G.C. AT ARMORY RINK, SANTA ROSA, THANKSGIVING EVENING, 1885. Small broadside, 3-1/2" x 5-3/4" on… Read more about this item

[Oakland CA, 1881. 21, 3 pp. Frontis portrait of Dr. LeFevre. Stitched in original printed pink wrappers. Light wrapper wear [couple of closed margin tears, wear along spine, slight discoloration]. A pristine text. Near Fine. The final three pages print the prospectus of Family's Defender, "An Independent, Non-Partisan, Non-Sectarian, Monthly Magazine and Educational Review." "This is another case… Read more about this item

San Francisco: W.A. Slocum, 1882. xiii, [5], [17] - 710 pp, as issued. With photo illustration frontis and numerous other plates, all as listed, some with facsimile signatures. Occasional minor spotting. Attractive modern quarter calf and marbled paper over boards. Raised spine bands and gilt spine title. Very Good plus. This is the first of several editions.… Read more about this item

[np. San Francisco?, 1893. 198pp. Bound in original publisher's blue cloth, with gilt-lettered title stamped on spine [light rubbing at the extremities]. Repair to blank endpaper. Very Good. Gorham was, as stated in the Publisher's Note, "a lifelong friend of Justice Field," and spent much of his career in Justice Field's courts. He tells the unusual story of… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: M'Gill & Witherow, 1872. [8], 66, 988 pp. Light foxing. Bound in red pebbled cloth, with gilt-decorated title and decoration on front cover, gilt-lettered spine title. All edges gilt. Minor wear, Very Good. Sutro, a mining engineer, became fabulously wealthy by accomplishing the difficult task of building a tunnel though the Nevada mountains. He moved to… Read more about this item

San Francisco, 1970. The group is a representative sampling of radical political literature in the Bay Area during this period. Several issues of THE CRISIS, by the Socialist Labor Committee; critiques of the ongoing Vietnam War; "The Truth About INFLATION; "Capitalism Can't Last Forever;" "Brinksmanship in Southeast Asia," with a cartoon rendering of Nixon; pamphlets touting candidates for office;… Read more about this item

[Philadelphia]: Putnam Brothers, 1856. [4]pp letter, with portrait of Fremont in the upper left corner of the first page. The letter is dated August 1861, with purely personal and family content; ink manuscript writing is faded but legible [with some difficulty]. [offered with] FREMONT CAMPAIGN ENVELOPE, Fremont portrait in upper left, New Haven postal cancel and three cent stamp,… Read more about this item

One sheet, with Fremont portrait within a wreath in upper left corner. Browning along left margin, slightly touching the portrait. Else Very Good. The letter, written from North Enfield on September 19 by E.B. Hause, contains purely personal content. Milgram JF 46.