Bear, John and David Gregory. Mendocino. Signed by author and artist. Limited edition. Photo available. Urbana. Mendocino Book Partnership. 1986. 95 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. Stated first edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Limited edition of 300 copies, number 101. Signed by the author and artist. Fine copy in fine slip case.
Price: $75 |
Book ID: 207413 |
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Beard, Yolande S. The Wappo. A Report. Signed by the author. Photo available. St. Helena. Self published. 1977. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Signed by the author. Fine copy.
Price: $25 |
Book ID: 207602 |
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Beauchamp, Jean Moores & Mabel Moores Frisbie. Shasta: The Queen City. Photo available. San Francisco. Shasta Historical Society. 1973. 96 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $50 |
Book ID: 208373 |
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Bechtel, W.A. & Robert Ingram. A Builder and His Family. 1898-1948. Photo available. San Francisco. Privately Printed. 1949. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Limited edition of 500 copies. Fine copy.
Price: $150 |
Book ID: 207700 |
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Becker, Robert H. Designs on the Land. Disenos of California Ranchos and Their Makers. Photo available. San Francisco. Book Club of California. Printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. 1969. Oblong folio. Suede spine over cloth covered boards. First edition. Illustrated. Maps. Limited edition of 500 copies. Fine copy.
Price: $250 |
Book ID: 206738 |
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Becker, Robert H. Disenos of California Ranchos. Maps of Thirty-Seven Land Grants (1822-1846). From the Records of The United States District Court. San Francisco. Photo available. San Francisco. The Book Club of California. The Grabhorn Press. 1964. Folio. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Folding maps Important reference work. Fine copy.
Price: $500 |
Book ID: 207283 |
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Becker, Robert H. Thomas Christy's Road Across the Plains. A Guide to the Route From Mormon Crossing, Now Omaha, Nebraska, to the City of Sacramento, California. Via the North Side of the Platte River to Fort Laramie; Thence to Casper, Wyoming; Following the Sweetwater River to South Pass,,, Over the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Famous Gold Diggings in California... Summer of 1850... Photo available. Denver. Old West Publishing Co. Fred Rosenstock. 1969. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Maps. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $50 |
Book ID: 206858 |
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Beckwourth, James P. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth. Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer in the Great Wild West. The Smiling Pioneer. Photo available. Westwood Village. U.S. Library Association. 1932 [1856]. 87 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Important reference work. Rare. Fine copy.
Price: $50 |
Book ID: 206402 |
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Beckwourth, James P. [T.D. Bonner] & Harry Carr. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth. Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer in the Great Wild West. The Smiling Pioneer. Photo available. Los Angeles. The U.S. Library Associatoin. 1932. 87 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Important reference work. Fine copy in glassine wrapper.
Price: $50 |
Book ID: 208272 |
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Beckwourth, James P. & T.D. Bonner. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth. Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer in the Great Wild West. The Smiling Pioneer. Photo available. Los Angeles. U.S. Library Assoc. 1932. 67 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Important reference work. Fine copy.
Price: $50 |
Book ID: 207345 |
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Bedford, John. English Crystal Glass. Photo available. New York. Walker and Company. 1966. 64 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy.
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 207386 |
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Beebe, Lucius and Charles Clegg. Legends of the Comstock Lode. Photo available. Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1950. 77 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. Stated first edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $30 |
Book ID: 208229 |
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Beebe, Lucius and Charles Clegg. Virginia & Truckee. A Story of Virginia City and Comstock Times. Photo available. Oakland. Grahame H. Hardy. 1949. 71 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $25 |
Book ID: 206542 |
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Beebe, Lucius. Mansions on Rails. Signed, limited edition. The Folklore of the Private Railway Car. Photo available. Berkeley. Howell-North Publishers. 1959. 382 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Limited edition of 1950 copies, number 771. Inscribed by the author :To F.T. Monteagh with all good will Lucius Beebe Virginia City 1959" Signed again on limitation page. Fine copy in glassine wrapper in fine slip case.
Price: $85 |
Book ID: 207417 |
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Beebe, Lucius. The Overland Limited. Photo available. Berkeley. Howell-North. 1963. 157 pps. 4to. Hardcover. First edition. Fine copy in fine (very light sunning to edges) dust jacket (in mylar). Fine copy in near fine (very light shelf wear) dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $40 |
Book ID: 206999 |
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Beebe, Lucius. The Provocative Pen of Lucius Beebe, Esq. Photo available. San Francisco. Chronicle Pub. Co. 1966. 275 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $25 |
Book ID: 208343 |
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Beechey, Captain F.W. & Edith M. Coulter (introduction). An Account of a Visit of California. 1826-27. Reprinted from a Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom Under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, In 1825, '26, '27, '28. Photo available. San Francisco. The Book Club of California. The Grabhorn Press. 1941. 4to. Gilt decorated vellum spine. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Limited edition of 350 copies. Near fine copy (very light shelf wear, minor wear at tip of spine).
Price: $125 |
Book ID: 207274 |
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Belden, Josiah. Josiah Belden. 1841. California Overland Pioneer: His Memoir and Early Letters. Photo available. Georgetown. Talisman Press. 1962. 150 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Limited to 750 copies. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $45 |
Book ID: 206678 |
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Belden, L. Burr. Mines of Death Valley. Photo available. Glendale. La Siesta Press. 1966. 72 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy.
Price: $30 |
Book ID: 206824 |
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Bell, Horace & Ward Ritchie. Reminiscences of a Ranger or Early Times in Southern California. 3 volumes. Photo available. Los Angeles. Anderson, Ritchie & Simon. 1965. Octavos. Gilt decorated hard covers. First edition thus. Three volumes. Illustrated by Gene Holtan. Important reference work. Limited edition of 1200 copies, number 1119. Very scarce 3 volume set. Fine copies in fine slip cases.
Price: $225 |
Book ID: 207821 |
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Bell, Major Horace & Dewey and Nola Mosier (eds). Tales of the Trinity. Signed, limited edition. Photo available. Weaverville. Trinity County Historic Society. 1983. 55 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Limited edition of 100 copies, number 13. Signed by the authors. Fine copy in glassine wrapper.
Price: $100 |
Book ID: 207743 |
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Bell, Major Horace & Dewey and Nola Mosier (eds). Tales of the Trinity. Signed, limited edition. Photo available. Weaverville. Trinity County Historic Society. 1983. 55 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Limited edition of 100 copies, number 34. Signed by the authors. Fine copy in glassine wrapper.
Price: $100 |
Book ID: 207879 |
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Bell, Major Horace. On the Old West Coast. Being Further Reminiscences of a Ranger. Photo available. New York. William Morrow. 1930. 330 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy in near fine (very light shelf wear) dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $50 |
Book ID: 208537 |
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Bell, Major Horace. Reminiscences of a Ranger or, Early Times in Southern California. Photo available. Los Angeles. Yarnell, Caystile & Mathes, Printers. 1881. 457 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard covers. Embossed boards. First edition. Important reference work. Rare in this condition. Near fine copy. Bright copy. Light foxing to preliminaries, edges. One signature sprung. In cloth dust jacket.
Price: $450 |
Book ID: 208172 |
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Belous, Russell E. (ed). A Guide and Catalogue of the California Hall at the Los Angeles County Museum. With a Running Historical Text: California: The Dream of Paradise. Photo available. Los Angeles. Los Angeles County Museum. 1964. 147 pps. 4to. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy.
Price: $25 |
Book ID: 208305 |
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