Recent Arrivals from Reasonable Books

"American Ballads and Folk Songs" by John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax, fwd. George Lyman Kittredge, New York, Macmillan Company, 1934, 625 pp. 8vo. (10.25" x 8"). First printing. VG+. No DJ. Limited first printing of 500 numbered copies (numbered 348), signed by the authors. Tight and square with unbumped corners and very minor sunning to top of front and back… Read more about this item

Tailings Of Butte Creek Canyon 1833-1971: A History Of Big Butte And Little Butte Canyons by Lois H. Colman. Sacramento, Centerville Recreation and Historical Association, 1972, 236 pp. 8vo. Stated first edition. VG+. No DJ. Signed "Lois H. Colman August 4, 1979" on flyleaf. Author's name misspelled "Coleman" on spine. Spine tail bumped, otherwise the corners are sharp and the… Read more about this item

1st Edition in good condition; dust jacket clipped. Author signed and dated 1975. Personalized inscription inside front cover. No foxing. No other markings, bumps or chips.

Mother Lode Narratives, Jessie Benton Fremont, Ashland, Lewis Osborne, 1970, 159pp., 16mo. First edition thus, 400/650 copies. Condition: Good. Small owner's bookplate pasted inside front flyleaf. Minor scuff to bottom of front cover, front cover bent outward (not creased).

The Amateur Emigrant, With Some First Impressions of America: Part Two America The Emigrant Train, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ashland, Lewis Osborne, 1977, 109pp., 8vo. Railroad map included. First edition thus, 82/600 copies. Condition: Very Good+. Small owner's bookplate pasted inside front cover. A sometimes humorous account of Stevenson's travel from Scotland across America to California in 1879.

Rambles in King's River Country, John Muir, Ashland, Lewis Osborne, 1977, 58pp., 8vo. First edition thus, 71/600 copies. Condition: Very Good+. Small owner's bookplate pasted inside front flyleaf.

The Life and Times of the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise: Being Reminiscences of Five Distinguished Comstock Journalists, Oscar Lewis ed., Ashland, Lewis Osborne, 1971, 53pp., Royal 8vo. First edition thus, 132/500 copies. Condition: Very Good+. Small owner's bookplate pasted inside front cover, otherwise tight, sharp, square.

A Cavalryman in Indian Country, Capt. Camillus Carr, Ashland, Lewis Osborne, 1974, 55pp., Imperial 8vo. First edition thus, 101/600 copies. Condition: Good+. Front corners bumped. Small owner's bookplate pasted inside front cover.

A Dangerous Journey, J. Ross Browne, Ashland, Lewis Osborne, 1972, 84pp., Super 8vo. First edition thus, 158/600 copies. Condition: Very Good+. Small owner's bookplate pasted inside front cover, otherwise tight, sharp, square.

The Overland Diary of Wilson Price Hunt, Wilson Price Hunt trans. Hoyt C. Franchere, Ashland, The Oregon Book Society, 1973, 167pp., Super 8vo. First edition thus, 600 copies. Condition: Very Good+. Small owner's bookplate inside front cover, otherwise nearly fine.

Baptism in Oil, Stephen F. Peckham in Southern California 1865-66, Gerald T. White, San Francisco, The Book Club of California, 1984, 138pp., Super 8vo. First edition thus, 500 copies. Condition: Very Good+. Small owner's bookplate inside front cover.

The Big Oak Flat Road: An Account of Freighting from Stockton to Yosemite Valley, Irene D. Paden and Margaret E. Schlichtmann, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Natural History Association,1959, 356 pp., 8vo. Condition: Very Good+. Small owner's bookplate pasted inside front flyleaf. Fine fold-out maps.

The Huse Journal: Santa Barbara in the 1850s by Charles Enoch Huse edited by Edith Bond Conley Translated by Francis Price, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Historical Society, 1977, 279pp., 8vo. First edition thus, 500 copies. Condition: Very Good+. Small owner's bookplate pasted inside front flyleaf. Huse lived in Santa Barbara from 1852 until he retired to spend his final years… Read more about this item

Notices & Voyages of the Famed Quebec Mission to the Pacific Northwest, Portland, Champoeg Press for the Oregon Historical Society, 1956, 250pp., 8vo. First edition thus, 1000 copies printed. Condition Very Good. Folded reproduction and map intact. Very minor bumping, binding tight. Small owner's bookplate pasted inside front cover.

The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West. Biographical sketches of the participants by scholars of the subject and with introductions by the editor under the editorial supervision of LeRoy R. Hafen, Glendale, California, Arthur H. Clark Company, 10 volumes complete I to X, 1965-1972, approx. 400 pp., 8vo. First editions. Condition: Good. Bookplate in each volume… Read more about this item

Three Years in California, Rev. Walter Colton, U. S. N., New York, A. S. Barnes & Co., 1850, 456 pp., 12mo. First edition. Fair+ condition. Embossed cloth binding with gilt-stamped cover (California state seal) and spine. Rubbed, bumped, chipped, with foxing and blurred inscription, "Sylvester Hosmer Book $6.29[?] Sylvester Hosmer Book Bought Sept. 1850". Inscription on front pastedown reads, "J.… Read more about this item

History of South America and Mexico; comprising their discovery, geography, politics, commerce and revolutions…A geographical and historical view of Texas, with a detailed account of the Texian Revolution and War, John M. Niles and L. T. Pease, Hartford, H. Huntington, Jun. 1838, 370 pp. & 230 pp., 8vo. Fair condition. Both maps missing. Leather binding with gilt lettering and decoration… Read more about this item

Limited edition of 250 copies. Copy #57. Signed by author Grover Loening. First edition. 1973. Published by New York Graphic Society. (New York). Dust jacket has been price clipped. Slipcover in good condition with some fading.

Excellent condition with the exception of a few notes and underlines.

The Earth's Face and Human Destiny by Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, Emmaus Pennsylvania, Rodale Press, 1947, 183 pp., 8vo. First edition (not stated). Condition: Very Good. DJ good condition, 3" tear front-upper fold, bright cover illustration, chipped, price ($2.75) unclipped, covered. Pages yellowed with age, otherwise in very clean and readable with only small sellers' marks in pencil on front flyleaf. Beige… Read more about this item