Lewis, Oscar. Lola Montez the Mid-Victorian Bad Girl In California. Signed by the author. Photo available. San Francisco. The Colt Press. Grabhorn. 1938. 70 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Mallette Dean. Typography by Jane Grabhorn. Limited edition of 750 copies. Signed by Oscar Lewis. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $65 |
Book ID: 206750 |
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Lewis, Oscar. One Fifty-Five Sansome. Signed by the author. Being the Story of the Land on Which the Industrial Indemnity Building Stands Today. Photo available. San Francisco. Self published. 1955. 26 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Signed by the author. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $30 |
Book ID: 209739 |
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Lewis, Oscar. Sagebrush Casinos. Signed by the author. The Story of Legal Gambling in Nevada. Photo available. Garden City. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1953. 256 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Signed by the author. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $50 |
Book ID: 209884 |
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Lewis, Oscar. San Francisco Since 1872. A Pictorial History of Seven Decades. With Photographs and Poems from the Collection of Milton S. Ray. Photo available. San Francisco. Ray Oil Burner Company. 1946. 101 pps. 4to. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Art work by Mallette Dean. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $35 |
Book ID: 205870 |
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Lewis, Oscar. Sea Routes to the Gold Fields. Inscribed by the author. The Migration by Water to California in 1849-1852. Photo available. New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 1949. 286 pps. + appendice. Octavo. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Illustrated. Large folding map. Prospectus laid in. Important reference work. Inscribed by the author "For: Dr. A.T. Leonard. Regards & greetings from, Sincerely, Oscar Lewis S.F. 3-5-'49". Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $30 |
Book ID: 203772 |
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Lewis, Oscar. Sketches of Early California. A Collection of Personal Adventures. Photo available. San Francisco. Chronicle Books. 1971. 182 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $25 |
Book ID: 159583 |
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Lewis, Oscar. Sketches of Early California. A Collection of Personal Adventures. Photo available. San Francisco. Chronicle Books. 1971. 182 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine (price clipped) dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $30 |
Book ID: 208607 |
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Lewis, Oscar. Sutter's Fort. Signed by the author. Gateway to the Gold Fields. The Story of Captain John A. Sutter's California Empire. Photo available. Englewood Cliffs. Prentice-Hall. 1966. 224 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Signed by the author. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $40 |
Book ID: 208333 |
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Lewis, Oscar. The Autobiography of the West. Personal Narratives of the Discovery and Settlement of the American West. Photo available. New York. Henry Holt. 1958. 310 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $30 |
Book ID: 208776 |
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Lewis, Oscar. The First 75 Years. The Story of The Book Club of California. 1912-1987. Photo available. San Francisco. Book Club of California. 1987. 55 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $25 |
Book ID: 201864 |
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Lewis, Oscar. The Town That Died Laughing... Austin, Nevada... Renowned Newspaper, the Reese River Reveille. Photo available. Boston. Little, Brown and Co. 1955. 235 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (small owner stamps on end papers) in near fine (spine faded) dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $30 |
Book ID: 221686 |
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Lewis, Oscar. The War in the Far West. Inscribed by the author. 1861-1865. An Informal History of the Part Played by the Western States in the Civil War. Photo available. Garden City. Doubleday. 1961. 263 pps. Octavo. Hard cover. Stated first edition. Important reference work. Inscribed by the author "For: George E. Steinmetz, All the best! Oscar Lewis Feb. 20, '61". Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $35 |
Book ID: 208725 |
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Lewis, Oscar. The Wonderful City of Carrie van Wie. Paintings of San Francisco at the Turn of the Century. Photo available. San Francisco. The Book Club of California. The Grabhorn Press. 1963. Folio. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Color plates. Limited edition of 525 copies. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $85 |
Book ID: 207285 |
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Lewis, Ruth et al. Stories and Legends of Lake County. Photo available. Santa Rosa. Lake County Historic Society. Self published. 1949. 108 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. Revised edition. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $45 |
Book ID: 222543 |
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Leydet, Francois & David Brower (ed). Grand Canyon. Time and River Flowing. Photo available. San Francisco. Sierra Club. 1964. 176 pps. Folio. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). As new.
Price: $100 |
Book ID: 229101 |
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Leydet, Francois. The Last Redwoods and the Parklands of Redwood Creek. Photo available. San Francisco. Sierra Club. 1978. 160 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $45 |
Book ID: 218891 |
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Libecap, Gary D. Owens Valley Revisited. A Reassessment of the West's First Great Water Transfer. Photo available. Stanford. Stanford Economics and Finance. 2007. 209 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 227505 |
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Lich, Glen. The German Texans. Photo available. San Antonio. The University of Texas. Institute of Texan Cultures. 1996. 232 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. Revised edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $25 |
Book ID: 228495 |
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Lieder, Emily Wortis. California's Daughter. Signed by the author. Gertrude Atherton and Her Times. Photo available. Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1991. 402 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Signed by the author. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 191497 |
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Lightfoot, Kent. Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants. The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers. Photo available. Berkeley. University of California Press. 2005. 338 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition thus. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. As new.
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 227610 |
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Lightner, Carrie (ed) & David Storklin. Dude Ranches of The American West. Photo available. Ketchum. Stoecklein Pub. 2004. Folio. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color with photographs by David R. Stoecklein. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $40 |
Book ID: 184395 |
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Lillard, Charles (ed). Warriors of the North Pacific. Missionary Accounts of the Northwest Coast, the Skeena and Stikine Rivers and the Klondike, 1829-1900. Photo available. Victoria. Sono Nis Press. 1984. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Map. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 179087 |
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Lillard, Richard & Mary Wood. Hank Monk and Horace Greeley. An Enduring Episode in Western History. Photo available. Georgetown. Wilmac Press. 1973. 63 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $35 |
Book ID: 221666 |
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Limbaugh, Ronald H. & Willard P. Fuller, Jr. Calaveras Gold. The Impact of Mining on a Mother Lode County. Photo available. Reno. University of Nevada Press. 2004. 404 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $40 |
Book ID: 207062 |
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Limburg, Peter R. Deceived. The Story of the Donner Party. Photo available. Pacifica. Self published. 1998. 249 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). As new.
Price: $40 |
Book ID: 226048 |
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