Bailey, Paul. Polygamy was Better than Monotony (Mormon). Inscribed by the author. To My Grandfathers and Their Plural Wives. Photo available. Los Angeles. Westernlore Press. 1972. 200 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Inscribed by the author "To Walt Wheelock - Fellow Author - Fellow Publisher - Fellow Westerner - Fellow Knight of the E.C.V. - Fellow "Saint" - and Cherished Friend. With my good wish - Sincerely Paul Bailey". Rare in this condition and signed Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $125	Book ID: 207966

Bailey, Richard C. Explorations in Kern. Photo available. Bakersfield. Kern County Historic Society. 1959. 81 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $45	Book ID: 206554

Bailey, Richard C. Heritage of Kern. Photo available. Bakersfield. Kern County Historic Society. 1957. 110 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $40	Book ID: 206553

Bailey, Richard C. Kern County Place Names. Photo available. Bakersfield. Kern County Historic Society. 1967. 28 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $45	Book ID: 206373

Bailey, Richard. An Illustrated History of Bakersfield. Photo available. Woodland Hills. Windsor Pub. 1984. 159 pps. 4to. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in color and black & white. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $25	Book ID: 208213

Bailey, Ronald. Frozen in Silver. The Life & Frontier Photography of P.E. Larson. Photo available. Athens. Ohio University Press. 1998. 287 pps. 4to. Soft cover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $25	Book ID: 211553

Bain, David Haward. Empire Express. Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. Photo available. New York. Viking Press. 1999. 797 pps. Octavo. Hard cover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine (price clipped) dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $25	Book ID: 211889

Bain, David Haward. The Old Iron Road. An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West. Photo available. New York. Viking Press. 2004. 434 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $25	Book ID: 211576

Bain, Robert K. Tracing the Denver South Park & Pacific. A Detailed Mile-by-Mile Guide for Tracing the Roadbed of the Legendary Narrow Gauge Railroad. Photo available. np. Self published. 1997. Octavo. Spiral bound. Revised edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $40	Book ID: 211242

Baird, Joseph Armstrong, Jr. San Francisco Architecture. Time's Wondrous Changes. 1776-1915. Photo available. San Francisco. California Historical Society. 1962. 67 pps. + photos. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Fine copy in glassine wrapper.

Price: $50	Book ID: 205825

Baird, Newton & Robert Greenwood. An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction. 1664-1970. Signed by the authors. Photo available. Georgetown. Talisman Literary Research. 1971. 521 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Important reference work. Signed by the authors. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $125	Book ID: 205812

Baker, Cindy. First in the West: The Sacramento Valley Railroad. Photo available. Sacramento. PAR Environmental Services. 1996. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $20	Book ID: 211247

Baker, Laura Nelson. Ground Afire. The Story of the Death Valley National Monument. Photo available. New York. Atheneum. 1971. 166 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine (lightly faded) dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $40	Book ID: 209434

Baker, William. Running Her Easting Down. The Story of the Cutty Sark and Other Great China Clippers. A Documentary of the Development and History of the British Tea Clippers Culminating with the Building of the Cutty Sark. Photo available. Caldwell. Caxton Printers. 1974. 170 pps. 4to. Hardcover. 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: $75	Book ID: 211968

Bakken, Gordon Morris (ed). Law in the Western United States. Photo available. Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 2000. 560 pps. 4to. Hardcover. First edition. Full number line. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $45	Book ID: 206995

Bakken, Gordon Morris. Practicing Law in Frontier California. Photo available. Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press. 1991. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Important reference work. Fine copy.

Price: $45	Book ID: 208231

Balaam, Dorothy Ross (ed) John Simpson Ross II. A Pioneer Lumberman's Story. Autobiography of John Simpson Ross II. Photo available. Ukiah. Mendocino County Historic Society. 1991. 42 pps. 4to. Soft cover. Reprint. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $30	Book ID: 211217

Balas, Edith. The Mother Goddess in Italian Renaissance Art. Photo available. Pittsburgh. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 2002. 214 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $50	Book ID: 211836

Baldridge, M. A Reminiscence of the Parker H. French Expedition through Texas & Mexico to California in the Spring of 1850. Photo available. Los Angeles. The Zamorano Club. 1959. 52 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Folding map. Important reference work. Limited edition of 300 copies, number 292. Fine copy.

Price: $125	Book ID: 207647

Ballard, Margaret. Coal Mining in The Mt. Diablo Region. Masters Degree Thesis. Photo available. Berkeley. University of California Press. 1931. 96 pps. 4to. Stiff folder. Photo on cover. First edition. Carbon copy manuscript. Important reference work. Signed (in copy) by Herbert E. Bolton. Very rare. About one half of spine edge showing chew marks.

Price: $150	Book ID: 209502

Ballinger, Bill. Lost City of Stone. The Story of Nan Madol, The "Atlantis" of the Pacific. Photo available. New York. Simon and Schuster. 1978. 192 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $20	Book ID: 211801

Bamford, Georgia Loring. Six Racy Madams of Colorado (prostitution). Photo available. Boulder. Johnson Pub. 1965. 64 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine (owner name on end paper) copy.

Price: $15	Book ID: 211369

Bamford, Georgia Loring. The Mystery of Jack London. Some of His Friends. Also a Few Letters. A Reminiscence. Photo available. Oakland. Self published. 1931. 255 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy in near fine (edge chips) dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $45	Book ID: 207250

Bancroft, Anne. The Memorable Lives of Bummer & Lazarus (Citizens of San Francisco). 185? - 1865. Signed by the author. Photo available. Los Angeles. The Ward Ritchie Press. 1939. 26 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Limited edition of 500 copies. Signed by the author. Very rare in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $100	Book ID: 207651

Bancroft, Caroline. Denver's Lively Past. Signed by the author. From a Wild and Woolly Camp to Queen City of the Plains. Photo available. Denver. Bancroft Booklets. 1959. 48 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. Second edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Signed by the author. Near fine copy (light rubbing to covers).

Price: $20	Book ID: 211365