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Art of the Gold Rush

Art of the Gold Rush

by Janice Tolhurst Driesbach; Harvey Jones; Katherine Church Holland;

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Bath: University of California Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/as new. A near fine first edition in an as new (fine) dust jacket. Book review laid in. From the library of noted (late) senior researcher for Historical Services, Wells Fargo Bank. Dr. Chandler's signature on front pastedown, otherwise as new (fine).148 pp. Glossy color photographs of artwork. Quarto, 9 x 10 1/4 inches tall. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, Calif., Jan. 24-May 31, 1998; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Calif., June 20-Sept. 13, 1998; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Dec. 30, 1998- Mar. 7, 1999.
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Black Harris

by Jerome Peltier

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Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1986. First Edition. Leather bound. Fine. A fine first edition. Brown leather boards with gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Native American end papers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled at edge of half title. 162 pp. including index. Octavo, 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches tall. .
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The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War

The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War

by Leonard L. Richards

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/fine. A very near fine first edition, as stated. In a fine dust jacket. Blue paper boards under blue quarter cloth. Binding is sturdy and square. Lightest of marginalia in pencil, otherwise fine. 289 pp. : illustrations, maps. Octavo. Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California… Read More
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California A History of the Golden State: from earliest Spanish explorations in the Sixteenth...

California A History of the Golden State: from earliest Spanish explorations in the Sixteenth Century to the present

by Warren A. Beck; David A. Williams

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1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. A near fine first edition in the original unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket was covered in the past with a clear adhesive covering which shows ome creasing..With 34 black and white photgraphs, 17 maps, sources and index. 552pp. including index. Octavo.
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Clemens of the 'Call'. Mark Twain in San Francisco

Clemens of the 'Call'. Mark Twain in San Francisco

by Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens]; ed. by Edgar M. Branch

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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Fine/very good. A fine first edition in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Pictorial covers. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket shows a small square of sunning, label residue, and wear at corners. 335 pp. including index. Quarto. Samuel Clemens was the local reporter for the San Francisco Daily Morning Call from June to October 1864. He wrote many hundreds of items for his newspaper, but nearly all of them have been buried in the files for more than a century. Now "Clemens of the Call" reprints two hundred of them, a rich yield from what is probably the last sizable unmined pocket of Clemens' published writings. The present collection represents a new order of Clemens' journalism... Here, the local reporter Samuel Clemens may be seen writing under pressure and close to fast-breaking events as he covers the news day in and day out... The selections are arranged chronologically within broad topical… Read More
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Ed Quigley, Western Artist
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Ed Quigley, Western Artist

by Carl Gohs

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Portland: Geneva Hale Quigley, ca. 1971. First edition. Leatherette. Near Fine/good +. Near fine first edition. Signed by Quigley with the words "1st Edition," along with gift inscription on first free endpaper. Near fine copy showing minor edge toning. Publisher's morocco-grain cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket is not price-clipped and shows 1971 sale advertisement. DJ has two closed tears on front (2-3") and minor tear on the back cover. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Numerous illustrations of the artist's work, many in color. 168 pp. Large quarto.
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An Editor on the Comstock Lode

An Editor on the Comstock Lode

by Wells Drury; Ella Bishop Drury

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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. A very near fine first edition, with Rinehart colophon present, in a very good dust jacket. Navy blue boards with bright gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Binding is sturdy and square. pages and pastedown show mild toning, otherwise fine. Loss at crown of dust jacket and edgewear. 343 pp., including index. Octavo. Wells Drury, pioneer newspaperman and member of the Nevada House of Representatives, was born September 16, 1851 in New Boston, Illinois. Orphaned while crossing the Oregon Trail in 1852, he was adopted and brought up in Oregon on a Indian reservation on Puget Sound. Drury arrived in San Francisco in 1873. Successful investments in mining concerns in the Comstock in Nevada convinced him to move to Virginia City, where he became one of the editors of the Virginia City Chronicle, the Territorial Enterprise, the Gold Hill News, and the Bodie Daily Miner. As a reporter in the Comstock, Drury knew Mark… Read More
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Express and Stagecoach Days in California From the Gold Rush to the Civil War

Express and Stagecoach Days in California From the Gold Rush to the Civil War

by Oscar Osburn Winther

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Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1936. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/very good. A very good plus first edition in a very good dust jacket. Buckram cloth binding with green stagecoach motif. Green title stamping on spine. Dust stain to top edge. Red mark on front pastedown. Previous owner's book stamp in red on first free endpaper. Dust jacket has a short closed tear at base of jacket.197 pp. Octavo. Winther was born into a Danish-American family as the youngest of six sons. The novelist Sophus Keith Winther was one of his five brothers. After secondary education at Eugene, Oregon's Eugene High School, Oscar Winther matriculated at the University of Oregon and graduated there in 1925 with a bachelor's degree in history. For several years he worked in canneries and taught high school to save money for graduate school. He became a graduate student in history and graduated in 1928 with an M.A. from Harvard University and in 1934 with a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His… Read More
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First From the Gulf to the Pacific: The Diary of the Kino-Atondo Peninsular Expedition, December...

First From the Gulf to the Pacific: The Diary of the Kino-Atondo Peninsular Expedition, December 14, 1684 - January 13, 1685 (Baja California Travels Series 16)

by Eusebio Francisco Kino; Isidro Otondo y Antillón; W. Michael Mathes, trans.

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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1969. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. A near fine copy limited to 500 printed. Green cloth boards. Mild foxing to top edge. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Frontis. Folding map is pristine. 60 pp. including bibliography. Octavo.
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The Golden Crucible; an Introduction to the History of American California: 1850-1905,... First...

The Golden Crucible; an Introduction to the History of American California: 1850-1905,... First Prize Essay, James D. Phelan Historical Essay Contest Held under the Auspices of the San Francisco Branch, League of American Pen Women

by Blake Ross

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San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1930. Limited Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good/good +. A very good limited edition (1 of 1000 copies,regular edition on India antique paper) in a good plus dust jacket. Brown quarter cloth under green paper boards. Bottom edges worn. Binding is sturdy, tight, and square. Uniform toning to first free endpaper. Deckled pages. Dust jacket showing a scotch tape repair and loss on crown, inner flap, and rear edge. 97 pp. Octavo.
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Golden Gate Country

Golden Gate Country

by Gertrude Atherton

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New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/poor. A good plus first edition, as stated, in a poor dust jacket. Buckram covered boards with brown crest and title stamping on spine. Tape marring rear cover, residue on front cover. Binding is tight, sturdy and square. Map endpapers showing tape residue.Wartime paper announcemnt on copyright page. In a price clipped dust jacket with loss and tears on spine of jacket, running all the way to front flap. 256 pp. including index. An addition to the Folkways Series of regional books that will have added sales on the strength of the author's name. The text varies from most of these books in focusing largely on the past history of that part of California around San Francisco -- a recapitulation of those factors, -- human, racial, national, geographic, that contributed largely to the growth of that most fascinating and most beloved of American cities. To anyone who knows the region, the book will have nostalgic values, it… Read More
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The History of the Sierra Club, 1892-1970

by Michael P. Cohen

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San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine first edition / first printing hardcover. Indigo paper boards with quarter cloth spine with gilt title. Clean and crisp. In a fine dust jacket, with a clear, removable archival cover. Appears to have been unread. 550 pp. Octavo, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 in tall.
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Inaugural Ceremonies at the Opening of the New "Pioneer Hall," Eighth of January, 1863.

Inaugural Ceremonies at the Opening of the New "Pioneer Hall," Eighth of January, 1863.

by Society of California Pioneers

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San Francisco: Alta California Book and Job Office, 1863. First Edition. Original wraps. Very good +. A very good plus, original softcover booklet. Green loose dust cover over string binding. Octavo. Established in 1850, The Society of California Pioneers is dedicated to the study and enjoyment of California art, history, and culture. Founded by individuals arriving in California before 1850 and thriving under the leadership of several generations of their direct descendants, The Society has continuously served the academic community and the public. As the oldest organization west of The Mississippi, The Society opened one of the first libraries in California, as well as a grand hall for meetings, lectures, and social events. Today we operate a museum on The Main Post of The Presidio of San Francisco, free museum education programs, and The Alice Phelan Sullivan research library, all as a nonprofit organization designed to support scholarship and to encourage new interpretations that both… Read More
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Joshua Pilcher: Fur Trader and Indian Agent

Joshua Pilcher: Fur Trader and Indian Agent

by John E Sunder

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Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. Very good plus first edition, as stated. Black cloth with yellow and blue title stamping on spine. Binding is sturdy and square. Offsetting to end papers and pastedowns from older Brodart cover. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. In a very good plus, original, unclipped dust jacket which shows mild wear. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Black and white photos, map. Octavo.
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Los Angeles County Almanac 1975 A Guide to Government  (14th, Fourteenth edition)
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Los Angeles County Almanac 1975 A Guide to Government (14th, Fourteenth edition)

by Ann F. Rowland, ed.

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The Republican Central Committee of Los Angeles County, 1975. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good +. First edition thus. Very Good + Hard bound in beige cushioned book cloth. Tight binding, no marks, no soiling. Closed tear to tail of joint caused by bumping of cover. Ill. w/ maps, plans, charts, graphs. 280 pp. Small quarto, 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall.
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Men of California
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Men of California

by Wellington C. Wolfe, ed.

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San Francisco: Pacific Art Company, 1901. First Edition. Leather bound. Very good/none as issued. A gorgeous first edition in full pebbled leather boards. Maroon pebbled leather boards with bright gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Rubbing to joints and bottom edge. Corners bumped, rubbed. Shelfwear to crown and foot. Binding is sturdy and square. All edges bright gilt. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Stamp of Frank Marston, The Original Creamerie on verso of first free endpaper with note pointing to his photo in the book. All plates present. Tissue guards fine. Page 440 has a small fold and miniscule tear on the fore edge. 440 pp. including the address directory. Octavo, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches tall. Includes portraits of Jack London, Lippincott, Pinkerton, Ambrose Bierce; Hubert Howe Bancroft, Charles Lummis, Joaquin Miller and other famous Californians.
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Missionary in Sonora, The Travel Reports of Joseph Och, S.J. 1755-1767

Missionary in Sonora, The Travel Reports of Joseph Och, S.J. 1755-1767

by Joseph Och, S.J.; Theodore E. Treutlein, trans.

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San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1965. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/very good. A near fine first edition. Brown quarter cloth under yellow cloth boards with gilt motif. Gilt title stamping on spine. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. In a very good, original, unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket showing a 1 inch closed tear and a crease. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with maps and drawings. 196 pp. including index. Octavo. Och's comments on Spanish life and customs, both in the Old World and in the New, provide many a gem of human interest. He finds fault with the Spanish people for their failure to take advantage of business opportunities, with Spanish officials for graft and greed, with Spanish sea captains for inefficiency, and with Spanish miners for waste and incompetence. But ultimately he gives the Spanish their due: "I must admit that in my fourteen… Read More
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The Poetical Works of Bret Harte Including Some Later Verses

The Poetical Works of Bret Harte Including Some Later Verses

by Bret Harte

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London: Chatto and Windus, 1911. Early Printing. Cloth. Very good +/none as issued. A very good plus "fine paper edition." Red cloth boards with gillt title stamping on spine. Gilt top edge. Previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper. Toning to endpapers. No other flaws. 388 pp. 4&1/4 x 6&1/2 inches tall, 18mo. Bret Harte (born Francis Brett Hart; August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials and magazine sketches." --- Wikipedia
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Portrait of the Old West; with a biographical check list of western artists

by Harold McCracken

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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1952. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/missing. Near Fine/missing dust jacket. A near fine, stated first edition hardcover in teal boards with gilt stamp of cow skull on cover and title on spine. With photos, color plates, b/w plates, sketches, and other illustrations throughout by Frederic Remington, Paul Kane, George Caitlin, John Mix Stanley, and others. 232 pp. including index. Small quarto, 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches tall.
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Reproduction of Thompson and West's History of Sacramento County California With...

Reproduction of Thompson and West's History of Sacramento County California With Illustrations With Introduction By Allan R. Ottley With Illustrations of Its Scenery, Residences, Public Buildings, Fine Blocks, and Manufactories

by George F. Wright; Allan R. Ottley (Introduction)

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Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1960. Facsimile. Hardcover. Fine/missing. A fine facsimile of Thompson & West's 1880 edition. Black cloth with bright gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Binding is sturdy and square. Gift inscription on front pastedown. Pristine color foldout map of Sacramento County. Missing dust jacket. Long folio, 14 x 11 inches tall.
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