Pike, Donald. Anasazi. Ancient People of the Rock. Photo available. Palo Alto. American West Pub. 1986. 192 pps. 4to. Soft cover. Reprint. Photographs by David Muench. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $20	Book ID: 144507

Pike, Zebulon Montgomery. Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of That River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-Eastern Provinces of New Spain. Photo available. London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 1811. 436 pps. Folio. Gilt decorated hard cover. Professionally rebound in leather. Top edge gilt. First edition. Zebulon Pike's landmark account of early American exploration. Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America details Pike's 1805Ð1807 expeditions up the Mississippi and into the American Southwest, including one of the earliest American descriptions of the Spanish borderlands. A foundational work of Western Americana. Large, folding map. Very scarce in this condition. Edges trimmed (not affecting text). Fine copy. Very tight copy.

Price: $7,500	Book ID: 236052

Pilling, George. A Walk Around Visalia. Photo available. Visilia. Sound Stories. 2011. 98 pps. 4to. Soft cover. Stated first edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $30	Book ID: 229218

Pinheiro, Aileen F. (compiler) & Lena Taylor. The Heritage of Baldwin Park. Photo available. Baldwin Park. Baldwin Park Historic Society. 1981. 372 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $50	Book ID: 209662

Pinheiro, Aileen F. (compiler) & Lena Taylor. The Heritage of Baldwin Park. Signed by the author. Photo available. Baldwin Park. Baldwin Park Historic Society. 1981. 372 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Signed by the author. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $65	Book ID: 206573

Pinkerton, Allan. Thirty Years a Detective. Crims, Crminals and the Pinkertons. Photo available. Warwick. 1500 Books. 2007. 485 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition thus. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $20	Book ID: 205953

Pinkerton, Elizabeth. History Happened Here. Book 2 - Fields, Farms, Schools. Stories of Elk Grove, Sloughhouse, Sheldon, Franklin, Florin, Wilton, Laguna Creek. And Other Places in South Sacramento County, California. Photo available. Elk Grove. Laguna. 2002. 437 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $20	Book ID: 192825

Pinkerton, Elizabeth. History Happened Here. Inscribed by the author. Book 1: River - Oaks - Gold. Stories of Elk Grove, Sloughhouse, Sheldon, Franklin, Florin, Wilton, Laguna Creek and Other Places in South Sacramento County, California. Photo available. Elk Grove. Laguna. 2000. 362 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Inscribed by the author "Best wishes Elizabeth Pinkerton". Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $30	Book ID: 232519

Pinkerton, Scott & Leroy Radanovich. Maripose County Courthouse. Signed, limited edition "Shrine to Justice". A History. Photo available. Mariposa. Mariposa Heritage Press. 1989. 92 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Limited edition, number 658. Signed by the author and photographer. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $40	Book ID: 208118

Pinkerton, Scott. Mariposa County Courthouse "Shrine to Justice". A History. Photo available. Mariposa. Mariposa Heritage Press. 1989. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $20	Book ID: 165750

Pinney, Thomas. John Ignatius Bleasdale: A Friend of Wine in New Worlds. Photo available. San Francisco. The Book Club of California. 2006. 67 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $35	Book ID: 206275

Pirtle, Caleb. XIT. Being a New and Original Exploration, In Art and Words, Into the Life and Times of the American Cowboy. Photo available. Birmingham. Oxmoor House. 1975. Folio. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in color and black & white. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Near fine copy (very light shelf wear).

Price: $35	Book ID: 188546

Pirtle, Caleb. XIT. Limited edition. Signed by the Author. Being a New and Original Exploration, In Art and Words, Into the Life and Times of the American Cowboy. Photo available. Birmingham. Oxmoor House. 1975. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. Half leather. Stated first edition. Illustrated in color and black & white. Limited edition (number 10,470 of 50,000 copies). Signed bookplate. Fine copy (light remnants of jacket on spine) in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $75	Book ID: 212508

Pirtle, Caleb. XIT. Signed by the Author. Being a New and Original Exploration, In Art and Words, Into the Life and Times of the American Cowboy. Photo available. Birmingham. Oxmoor House. 1975. Folio. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in color and black & white. Limited edition (number 5985 of 50,000 copies). Signed bookplate. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $75	Book ID: 138214

Pitt, Leonard. California Controversies. Major Issues in the History of the State. Photo available. New York. Scott, Foresman. 1968. Octavo. Soft cover. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Near fine copy (very light shelf wear).

Price: $20	Book ID: 132461

Pittman, Ruth. Roadside History of California. Photo available. Missoula. Mountain Press Pub. 1995. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $20	Book ID: 187538

Pizer, Donald & Hamlin Garland. Hamlin Garland's Diaries. Photo available. San Marino. The Huntington Library. 1968. 281 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in near fine (very light shelf wear) dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $20	Book ID: 195941

Plain, Nancy. Light on the Prairie. Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days. Photo available. Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press. 2012. 113 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $25	Book ID: 213717

Plain, Nancy. Light on the Prairie. Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days. Photo available. Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press. 2012. 113 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $20	Book ID: 215908

Plank, Howard R. The Central Sacramento Valley Story. Reclamation, Irrigation, Farms, Rice, and Machinery. Photo available. np. Self published. 2011. 555 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $25	Book ID: 222004

Platt, P.L. and N. Slater, A.M. Travelers' Guide Across the Plains Upon the Overland Route to California. Photo available. San Francisco. John Howell Books. 1963. 59 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition thus. Facsimiles of original title page and folding map tipped in. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in glassine wrapper.

Price: $150	Book ID: 206475

Poague, William Thomas & Monroe F. Cockrell. Gunner With Stonewall. Reminiscences of William Thomas Poague. Photo available. Wilmington. Broadfoot Publishing Co. 1989. 181 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition thus. Illustrated. Important reference work. "The Military Campaigns of Stonewall Jackson" laid in. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $25	Book ID: 198694

Poett, A. Dibble. Rancho San Julian. The Story of a California Ranch and Its People. Photo available. Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara Historic Society. Fifthian Press. 1991. 233 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). As new.

Price: $65	Book ID: 235171

Pogue, Joseph. Turquoise. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. Volume XII. Part II. Second Memoir, Third Memoir. Photo available. Glorieta. Rio Grande Press. 1973. 4to. Hardcover. Reprint. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (name on end paper).

Price: $35	Book ID: 183672

Pogue, Joseph. Turquoise. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. Volume XII. Part II. Second Memoir, Third Memoir. Photo available. Glorieta. Rio Grande Press. 1973. 4to. Hardcover. Reprint. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (very light soiling to covers).

Price: $35	Book ID: 231221