Varney, Philip. Southern California's Best Ghost Towns. A Practical Guide. Photo available. Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 1990. 137 pps. 4to. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $40	Book ID: 210137

Vaughan, Ruben V. & Betta Rebal Figge (ed). Doc's Catalina Diary. Signed by "Doc". Photo available. Los Angeles. Limb Publishig. 1956. 74 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Signed by the author "R. V. "Doc" Vaughan". Very scarce in this condition. Near fine copy (very light shelf wear).

Price: $25	Book ID: 207159

Vaught, David. Cultivating California. Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920. Photo available. Baltimore. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. 280 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: $30	Book ID: 208309

Vedder, Alan C. Furniture of Spanish New Mexico. Photo available. Santa Fe. Sunstone Press. 1982. 4to. Soft cover. Revised edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy.

Price: $25	Book ID: 189826

ven Dyke, Dix & Peter Wild (ed). Daggett. Life in a Mojave Frontier Town. Photo available. Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1997. 186 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine (small date in pen on end paper) copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). As new.

Price: $30	Book ID: 223518

Verardo, Denzil & Jennie. In the Valley of Bottled Poetry. Inscribed by the authors. Napa Valley's Architectural Survivors. Photo available. Pacific Grove. The Boxwood Press. 1983. 68 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Inscribed by the authors "Bed: Best wishes from us to you on your new assignment. Look this over as you drink your wine! Denzil & Jennie". Fine copy.

Price: $35	Book ID: 226781

Verardo, Denzil. The Bale Grist Mill. Symbol of Pioneer Times in Napa Valley. Photo available. Oakland. California State Parks Foundation. 1997. 26 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. Second edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $30	Book ID: 211280

Vestal, Stanley. Joe Meek. The Merry Mountain Man. Photo available. Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press. 1963. 336 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. Reprint. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $20	Book ID: 190856

Vincent, Stephen (ed). Benjamin Wingate. Uncertain Country. The Wingate Letters. San Francisco, California - Meriden. Keepsake 45. Photo available. Berkeley. The Friends of the Bancroft Library. 2000. 95 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $20	Book ID: 221680

Viola, Herman J. Exploring The West. Photo available. Washington. Smithsonian Books. 1987. 256 pps. 4to. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in color and black & white. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $20	Book ID: 137994

Viola, Herman J. Little Bighorn Remembered. The Untold Indian Story of Custer's Last Stand. Photo available. New York. Times Books. 1999. 240 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. Stated 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: $40	Book ID: 219711

Virga, Vincent California. Mapping the Golden State Through History. Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress. Photo available. Guilford. GPP. 2010. 119 pps. Octavo. 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: $25	Book ID: 197150

Virga, Vincent. California. Mapping the Golden State Through History. Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress. Photo available. Guilford. GPP. 2010. 119 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $30	Book ID: 208895

Visscher, William Lightfoot. A Thrilling and Truthful History of The Pony Express, or Blazing the Westward Way and Other Sketches and Incidents of Those Stirring Times. Photo available. Chicago. Charles T. Powner. 1946. 98 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition thus. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (partial dust jacket laid in).

Price: $30	Book ID: 211579

Vogliotti, Gabriel R. The Girls of Nevada. Prostitution in Nevada, from the Roadside Brothels, to the Beauties of Vegas, Told Against a Background of Gambling and Glamour. Photo available. Secaucus. Citadel Press. 1975. 264 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $30	Book ID: 207367

Vogt, Elizabeth. Montecito. California's Garden Paradise. Photo available. Santa Barbara. MIP Publishing. 1993. 275 pps. 4to. 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: $40	Book ID: 207133

Voltmer, Barbara Boyd. Kern County's Courier. 1866-1876. A Newspaper in a Period of Economic and Political Transition. Photo available. Bakersfield. Kern County Historic Society. 1968. 52 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $35	Book ID: 206372

von Berg, Baron Gustav & Henry Miller Madden (translator). From Kapuvar to California. 1893. Travel Letters of Baron Gustav von Berg. Photo available. San Francisco. The Book Club of California. 1979. 4to. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Limited edition of 500 copies. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $40	Book ID: 207485

von Chamisso, Abelbert. A Sojourn at San Francisco Bay. 1816. A Scientist of the Russian Exploring Ship Rurik. Photo available. San Francisco. The Book Club of California. 1936 [1822]. 17 pps. Folio. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Limited edition of 250 copies, Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $250	Book ID: 206453

von der Mehden, Fred R. (ed). The Ethnic Groups of Houston. Photo available. Houston. Rice University Studies. 1984. 240 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. Stated first edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $50	Book ID: 215846

von Euw, Jack & Genoa Shepley. Drawn West. Selections from The Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collections of Early Californian and Western Art and Americana. Photo available. Berkeley. The Bancroft Library. University of California Press. 2004. 197 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $50	Book ID: 215353

von Richthofen, Walter Baron. Cattle-Raising on the Plains. Photo available. New York. D. Appleton and Company. 1885. 102 pps. + ads. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (very light wear).

Price: $650	Book ID: 222270

Vorpahl, Ben Merchant. My Dear Wister. The Frederic Remington-Owen Wister Letters. Photo available. Palo Alto. American West Publishing Company. 1973. 343 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $20	Book ID: 100276

Voynick, Stephen M. Climax. The History of Colorado's Climax Molybdenum Mine. Photo available. Missoula. Mountain Press Pub. 1996. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $20	Book ID: 211025

Voynick, Stephen M. Leadville: A Miner's Epic. Photo available. Missoula. Mountain Press Publishing. 2003. 165 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. Reprint. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $20	Book ID: 227498