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185148953Logtown Eldorado County California 1851. SIGNED by McKemson at conclusion. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Bit of age toning. Fold-lines. Later pencil annotation at top noting location of Logtown. Very Good. Single sheet 25 lines of mss ~ 7 words per line ~ 175 words. 2 sums penned to right of sheet. Docket summary to verso. All writing clear & sharp entirely legible. 9-5/8" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/>An interesting & information-laden letter detailing the contractual & financial agreements between two individuals engaged in mining along with sums paid for divers aspects of same to wit: "to John and Peter for pork" .75 "balance on beef to the butcher down Town" 4.15 and "balance on account with King" 9.86. We note athat the value of labor is recognized e.g. "it was agreed by J. S. Bigalow and I that as George was sick most of the time that the cooking that he did should pay his part of the living for which our bebts were principally contracted." <br /> <br />A nice primary source ADs documenting divers aspects of mine life amongs those so practiciing. unknown books
1900569Boston 1900. Very good. 4pp. on a bifolium. Quarto. Previously folded. Light wear along old folds and a couple of short closed tears at lower edge. Rare illustrated prospectus for the potentially fraudulent Bernalillo Oil Company based in Boston and San Diego at the turn of the 20th century. The text promises astounding returns stating that "Few in the East appreciate the stupendous nature of this great industrial awakening and the unparalleled opportunity it affords for large profits on even limited investments." The promoters further advise readers to send away for more complete information about the company's holdings and business plans and provides a list of references to contact for confirmation of their bona fides. Strangely despite its extensive endorsement of the oil industry in California the land it advertises is 6400 acres in New Mexico between Fort Wingate and the Navajo Reservation as is the town of Bernalillo. A 1905 article in the business periodical United States Investor cast serious doubt on the venture writing in response to a query about the trustworthiness of the company that "The stocks have no market value and intrinsically they are not believed to be worth more than the paper they are printed on." We locate only one copy at Yale. unknown books
1916685Chicago 1916. Very good. 12pp. Original pictorial self-wrappers stapled. Small contemporary publisher's notice affixed to front wrap. Light wear and dust soiling. Rare promotional for the Salt Lake Route by rail to Los Angeles and for the attractions of the city itself published circa 1916. The text touts the population and commercial growth of Los Angeles from the turn of the 20th century its many attractions and year-round seasonability. The last leaf provides a summary of ways to arrive on the West Coast via the Salt Lake Route through Las Vegas from Chicago Minneapolis and Denver and prints a full-page map of the route and intermediate stops across Utah Southern Nevada and Southern California. The Salt Lake Route was operated by the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad whose line between the two cities was completed in 1905 under the ownership and direction of Montana mining baron William A. Clark and as a result it was also known informally as the "Clark Road." With many photographic reproductions of Los Angeles and its attractions just after World War I including many of the grand Southern California resorts of the day. Not in OCLC. unknown books
1946503San Francisco 1946. Very good plus. Printed map 12.75 x 21.25 inches. Previously folded. Very light wear. A scarce post-World War II cadastral map that depicts lots in subdivisions of San Carlos California north of Redwood City. The developer of these "Devonshire Properties" Clyde Menke was involved in several legal disputes over the rights to this area but much of what was designed for this neighborhood of San Carlos is still present today. Shaded areas of this "Sales Map No. 17" for the area denote sold lots but much of property was still available. An interesting look at post-war development in the Bay Area; not in OCLC. unknown books
16604Women Education Scrapbook Album. School photo and memory album from girl who attended Los Angeles area Lincoln High School Class of 1927. Reva C. Leslie. My Memories of School Days Album. New York: C. R. Gibson & Company 1924. Original green cloth board covers. 72 pages. Unpaginated. 7 x 10 in. Includes 14 handwritten messages and inscriptions from friends; 3 handwritten entries from album owner documenting her school memories. 73 Gelatin silver print black and white photos of various sizes ranging from 5 x 7 in. to 1 x 1 in. Two newspaper clippings of Leslie as a student. 11 ticket stubs from plays and school events around Los Angeles 1923-1924. Two hand colored cutouts of Kewpie babies a popular type of doll at the time. <br/><br/>Photo and memory album of Reva Leslie a popular high school student in the 1920s who writes about dances parties and clubs. "I can remember the first party I ever attended at Lincoln. I was a scrub and a Sr. asked me to a dance in the evening.I went to a Hi-Jinks. I had oodles of fun there.I went to all the basketball games but one and we sure had a swell team.I went to the Army dance with Raymond and Johnnie introduced me as "Captain" of the Girls Reserves.I even can say I like very much the faculty or at least some of them."<br/><br/>A large class photos identifies Leslis as "me" in addition to friends such as Mabel Payne; and she draws in cartoon figures of schoolmates who missed the class photo. Inscriptions from friends show her likability and kindness. "I hope that we will be pals for many years to come even if we happen to be far apart. My love for you is growing more each day and i hope it will continue on thru the years. I hope you will remember the many days we spent together at parties dances and everywhere we went we were the inseparable sisters I hope you won't object. This scribbling is terrible but your used to that aren't you honey.I want to be considered your very bestest pal. You'll let me won't you dear" Another from an admirer: "I had a good time at all the parties and football games you attended with me and hope you had the same". There are many photos of friends including at the beach and in stage productions; some friend's names are printed in full while other are identified by nicknames such as "Lu" and "Vi" showing the closeness of these bonds.<br/><br/>Leslie was a Class Officer as Secretary and there are many photos of her as an active student including various clubs and photos of her and friends labelled "Three of a kind" and "one of the three muskateers". There's even photos of girls playing playing hockey in school uniforms. Includes a poem about a late night club in which she describes having "oodles of fun": "To the Hi-Jinx the Hi-Jinx of course you'll come. Wear any costume you'll surely have fun. The time will be merry our hearts will be light! Oh come ye lassie and join in the night." The last inscription written from "Eddie Robbins" was notably updated after graduation with the new salutation "To the Dearest Wife". His original message reads: "One friend in a thousand Solomon says is more close than a brother and its worthwhile seeking him half your days if you find him before the others. Nine hundred and ninety nine of them looks for what they can get out of you but the thousandth friend is worth them all and will stick to you. With the whole wide world against you." Very good condition. unknown books
194156134Los Angeles.: Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles. 07- 1941. Color map 30 3/4 x 20 inches on sheet 32 1/2 x 22 inches dissected into 8. Soft crease at four corners small ex-library mark with 1-36-42 on verso. Map is clean and bright. A detailed map including parts of the Wilmington District the San Pedro District Long Beach and the Terminal District. Companies operating at the Port are listed under the following headings: Railroads Fumigation Lumber Carriers Steamship Companies and Agents Operators of Petroleum Carriers Tanker Loading Stations Marine Service Stations Lumber Companies. . Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles. unknown books
1992100591992. 12 linear feet of shelf space. 12 linear feet of shelf space. Hastings Law Journal. University of California Hastings College of the Law. Volumes 1 to 43 1949-1992. Together 50 hardcover books twelve 12 linear feet of shelf space. Ex-library very good. Special $495. UC Hastings' flagship law review has contributed to the advancement of knowledge in legal thinking and case law through scholarly articles written by experts in the legal community. An occasional issue is devoted to a law symposium. Since 1949 Hastings Law Journal has published scholarly articles essays and student Notes on a broad range of legal topics. With close to 100 members HLJ publishes six issues each year reaching a large domestic and international audience. unknown books
1992100791992. 14 linear feet of shelf space. 14 linear feet of shelf space. Southern California Law Review. University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Volumes 1 to 66-1 1927-1992. Vols. 1 to 65 hardcover 1927-1992; Vols. 66-1 original paper issues Nov. 1992. Various blue bindings. Together 76 books fourteen 14 linear feet of shelf space. Special $495. The Southern California Law Review is the flagship scholarly journal of the USC Gould School of Law. The law review was established in 1927 and its students publish six issues in each annual volume. Each issue normally contains several articles written by outside contributors and several notes written by students from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. The Law Review strives to publish articles on a wide range of topics and to serve all segments of the legal community. In addition the Law Review frequently hosts a forum in order to explore timely or controversial areas of law. unknown books
1998276131998. Southern California Law Review. Los Angeles: USC Law Center. Vols. 1 to 71. 1927-1998. Hardcover. Cloth various bindings ex-library. Vols. 1-40 with small white library shelf location numbers at foot of spine. Eighteen 18 linear feet of shelf space. Special $495. unknown books
1969List901Los Angeles 1969. First Edition. Two long mimeographed sheets text on rectos and versos. Very good with some normal wear. Very Good. An uncommon Black Panther newsletter from the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panthers dealing with the case of Nathaniel Clark who was killed by his wife following an altercation. Though the newsletter claims the killing was done by "counter-revolutionary elements. manifested in the form of a woman who claimed to be Nate's wife" it was in fact his wife who killed him and only being seventeen at the time she was tried in juvenile court where the death was ruled to be involuntary manslaughter. unknown books
1880251884Washington D.C. 1880. Folding table folding plate and seven folding maps and plates. iii 2 690 pp. Library buckram gilt label. Binding lightly rubbed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Light wear and soiling to titlepage; last few leaves with small tears to edges. Folding plate torn but present. Maps backed with linen. Several institutional ink stamps in margins of text. Good. Folding table folding plate and seven folding maps and plates. iii 2 690 pp. House Executive Document No. 46 46th Congress 2nd Session. The Public Land Commission was first created after the discovery of gold in California as a means to determine the validity of Spanish land grants in the area. This report addresses issues of public land as they relate to timber and other natural resources. The maps show Kern County California as well as two ranches located nearby and irrigation methods. unknown books
19081828Santa Cruz: Sentinel Press 1908. Very good. 68pp. 12mo. Original printed wrappers stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Light biopredation to upper corner of last few leaves. In a custom cloth folder. A handsome promotional work published by the Santa Cruz Board of Trade extensively illustrated with half tone views of the area. The text lauds the natural beauty and resources of Santa Cruz including the agricultural and climate advantages. More than half the volume is comprised of illustrations. Relatively scarce with only a handful of copies in OCLC. Rocq 14389. Sentinel Press unknown books
185029407San Jose printed in New York: J. Winchester State Printer 1850. Quarto. ix 1 482pp. Half title. Modern buckram gilt leather labels. Minor shelf wear one label lacking one chipped. Library ink stamp and embossed blindstamp on titlepage light foxing.<br/> <br/>The first published volume of the statutes of California.<br/> <br/>Herein are contained some of the basic laws establishing the government and civil operations of the state including naturalization laws the acts incorporating San Francisco Sacramento Los Angeles and other cities and acts regarding the militia internal improvements marriage rights etc. Although the titlepage contains a San Jose imprint these laws were actually printed in New York. "The Legislature of 1850 in consideration of having the Statutes and Journals printed at a reduction of 50% from the price of its contract with the State Printer agreed to allow them to be printed in the east. When Winchester received his appointment he agreed to this condition and had them printed in New York by J. Craighead of Fulton Street" - Wagner.<br/> <br/>Cowan p.610; Greenwood 167 ref; Wagner California Imprints 147. J. Winchester, State Printer unknown books
1850WRCAM44158ASan Jose i.e. New York: J. Winchester State Printer 1850. ix1482pp. Half title. Quarto. Modern buckram gilt leather labels. Minor shelf wear one label lacking one chipped. Library ink stamp and embossed blindstamp on titlepage light foxing. Very good. The first published volume of the statutes of California. Herein are contained some of the basic laws establishing the government and civil operations of the state including naturalization laws the acts incorporating San Francisco Sacramento Los Angeles and other cities and acts regarding the militia internal improvements marriage rights etc. Although the titlepage contains a San Jose imprint these laws were actually printed in New York. "The Legislature of 1850 in consideration of having the Statutes and Journals printed at a reduction of 50% from the price of its contract with the State Printer agreed to allow them to be printed in the east. When Winchester received his appointment he agreed to this condition and had them printed in New York by J. Craighead of Fulton Street" - Wagner. COWAN p.610. WAGNER CALIFORNIA IMPRINTS 147. GREENWOOD 167 ref. J. Winchester, State Printer hardcover books
1854714161854. Sacramento: B. Redding 1854. Sacramento: B. Redding 1854. 1854 California Session Laws in Spanish California. Mauriz H. Gomez Translator. Leyes de California Aprobadas en la Quinta Sesion de la Lejislatura que Comenzo en Benicia el Cuatro de Enero de 1854 Y Concluyo en Sacramento el Quince de Mayo del Mismo Ano. Traducidas del Ingles por H. Gomez Mauriz Traductor del Estado. Sacramento: B. Redding 1854. iv 223 pp. Octavo 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Early 20th-century cloth red and black lettering pieces and small library shelf label to foot of spine endpapers renewed. A few finger smudges some soiling to rear board. Moderate toning to text light foxing in places small library stamps to title page a few library marks to its verso. $500. Spanish-language edition of laws passed at the fifth legislative session. Early California statutes were issued in English and Spanish as required by a provision in the state constitution. In 1849 when it was drafted Spanish was the native language of around 13000 of California's nearly 100000 residents many of them recent arrivals due to the gold rush. OCLC locates 10 copies 2 in law libraries University of Michigan Yale. Babbitt Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 22. unknown books
1930964Aurora Mo: Midwest Map Company 1930. Very good. Folding map 22 x 17 inches. Old fold lines some light wear. Folding highway map of California and Nevada with extensive advertising for the Tulare Motor Inn in Tulare California. The advertising section is printed in red while the rest of the map is printed in blue. The map key delineates paved improved and earth roads as well as connecting county roads. Interestingly almost none of Nevada's roads are paved; the stretch of road from Carmel to San Simeon through Big Sur is a combination of improved and unpaved. Numerous small towns are marked as are national parks. It seems likely that the general map information was printed with space left for custom sponsorship such as that of the Tulare Motor Inn on the present example. One copy in OCLC at Cornell University. Midwest Map Company unknown books
18901685San Francisco 1890. Good. Twelve handbills each approximately 9 x 6 inches plus 7pp. pamphlet and three small promotional cards. Mounted to card backings. Several chips and short closed tears at edges. Tanned. An interesting series of twelve small broadsides or handbills relating to the 1890 California state elections in which the Democrats attempt to remind various county residents of expenditures made on their behalf in the last legislature and the party's role in those outlays. The particular problem that these flyers attempt to dispute is the increase in state taxes which they argue is vastly offset by the benefits that these counties received. A typical broadside addressed "To the Voters of Mendocino County" reads thus:<br /><br />"Your State taxes for the fiscal year ending June 30 1889 were $78285.70. The next year they were $8507691. The difference -- $6791.21 -- represents your payments on account of the 'extravagance of the last legislature.' That extravagance consisted of appropriations for public institutions of which Mendocino's share is $350000 for the new Insane Asylum at Ukiah. Your Democratic Senator and Assemblymen secured that institution for you and to obtain it they had to consent to similar expenditures in other parts of the state. This cost you $6791.21 the first year and it brings you $350000 at the start and the prospect of regular appropriations of about $100000 a year hereafter. If Senator Yell Assemblyman Seawell and the Democratic Legislature did wrong in imposing this burden on the State for the benefit of Mendocino county vote against the Democratic ticket."<br /><br />Handbills with similar language addressed to the voters of Sacramento Napa Marin San Joaquin Amador Sonoma Butte Santa Clara Alameda San Bernardino Los Angeles and Orange Counties are also included in this group as are a pamphlet and three cards from the Young Men's Democratic League in San Francisco regarding more national issues. Despite or perhaps because of this innovative strategy to challenge voters to support the other party Democrats were not generally successful in the 1890 election in California. books
19061023Whittier: Board of Trade 1906. Very good. 16pp. Oblong octavo. Original printed wrappers stapled. Light soiling and wear. Published less than twenty years after Whittier was founded by Quakers this promotional work proudly proclaims that "there is now town of its size that will rank higher in intelligence morality and progressiveness." Just fourteen miles from Los Angeles with a population of about 4000 people Whittier boasted easy access by rail a college hospital library an abundance of water and a budding oil industry. It did not have saloons and "consequently no need of a jail; and no paupers." Illustrated throughout with half tones including a panoramic bird's eye view of the town. Relatively scarce with only four copies located in OCLC at UC San Diego UC Berkeley Swarthmore College and the Merrimack Valley Library. Board of Trade unknown books
1890WRCAM44132Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company 1890. 898pp. plus thirty-five photographic plates. Thick quarto. Original pictorial pigskin stamped in gilt and blind spine gilt a.e.g. Some minor scuffing and wear to the binding. Very clean internally. Very good overall. A massive history of southern California encompassing San Diego San Bernardino Los Angeles and Orange counties as well as Baja California. Individual communities are discussed as are agricultural development and infrastructure. The history is followed by hundreds of biographical sketches of notable citizens. A very useful historical record of southern California in the late nineteenth century. The Lewis Publishing Company unknown books
WRCAM47023Monterey 1875. 1284129-152pp. Square 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers soiled edgeworn and lightly creased. Previous owner's blindstamp on titlepage. Pages opened roughly in a few instances causing closed tears in lower gutter but not costing any text. Good. In a cloth chemise and a narrow quarto-sized slipcase gilt leather label. An early promotional pamphlet for Monterey and surrounding region produced before the onslaught of highly-illustrated promotionals that characterized the turn of the century. The text gives a history of Monterey a guide for the visitor and descriptions of the resources of the surrounding area including Carmel Pacific Grove Cyrpess Point Hollister Salinas Castroville etc. - areas renowned either for their natural beauty and agricultural productivity. The brief sketches of the smaller communities also include information on local businesses and government officials. Both Cowan and Howes give a pagination of 128 pages. In our copy the text on page 127 ends with four- line erratum and page 128 contains ads. This is followed by advertisement pages numbered 1- 4 followed by another series of ads with pages numbered 129-152 indicating that there are at least two issues of this work. A copy such as ours with several more advertisement pages would seem to be preferred. COWAN p.438. ROCQ 5512. HOWES M738. hardcover books
1933806Aurora Mo: Mid-West Map Company 1933. Good. Folding map 21.75 x 17 inches. Printed in blue. Light wear and soiling some faint dampstaining. Tape repairs at central corner folds on verso. Folding highway map of California and Nevada with extensive advertising for the Palms Tourist Camp in Los Angeles. The map key delineates paved graded and unimproved roads as well as connecting county roads. Interestingly much of the Pacific Coast Highway is identified as either graded or unimproved and almost none of Nevada's roads are paved. Numerous small towns are marked as are national parks. It seems likely that the general map information was printed with space left for custom sponsorship such as that of the Palms Tourist Camp on the present example. One copy in OCLC at Cornell University. Mid-West Map Company unknown books
1927WRCAM56708N.p. likely Pasadena 1927. 12pp. Pictorial self-wrappers stapled. Minor creasing and toning. Very good. A rare ephemeral program for a concert held at the Rose Bowl on Sunday September 28 likely 1927 featuring African-American performers. The program identifies the origin of the concert: "Learning that the only Professional Community Musical Organization in Pasadena was making its final stage appearance owing to lack of funds we the Colored Citizens of Pasadena determined to give a benefit concert for the Pasadena Municipal Band as a matter of civic pride in our City." The performers include the band itself followed by the Etude Ethiopian Chorus and soloists Cora Leverda Morrow and Mattie Duckett. The Etude Ethiopian Chorus was managed by Freita Shaw. Both Shaw and Duckett who was also the business manager for the group are pictured on a page describing the Chorus. There are also committee listings for the Colored Citizens Presentation Committee passages regarding the importance of music to the African- American community and a program of the songs performed at the benefit concert including James Weldon Johnson's "Life Every Voice and Sing" described by the NAACP in 1919 as "the Negro national anthem". The program text is interspersed throughout with advertisements for local businesses including the Bickley Printing Company of Pasadena who most likely printed the program the printer always gets an ad in the local program. OCLC seems to be silent on this publication. unknown books
1870WRCAM44211Magdalena Bay Lower California 1870. 4pp. on a folded folio sheet including a map on the final page. Small tape repair in fore-edge of first leaf. A bit of offsetting from the masthead and the map. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding case spine gilt. The second and final issue of this scarce Baja California newspaper of which only two issues were ever published. Meant to be published weekly the first issue was dated Oct. 12 1870 and was followed by the present number. It was published by the "exploring and colonizing expedition of the Lower California Co. at the projected City of Cortez Magdalena Bay Lower California." The map shows the California coast from San Francisco south to the tip of Baja with steamship routes and the location of Magdalena Bay. The text records the comings and goings of steamships improvements taking place at the colony advantages available to settlers testimonials as to the veracity of the text advertisements and an ad promising free land to the first 1000 colonists. "A curious Baja California item.quite typical of a great deal of promotional literature and ephemera which appeared during the 1870's and 1880's" - Barrett. BARRETT 1525. hardcover books
18906029101890 1890. Photograph is by Wm. Wax/Universal Art Studio on heavy weight stock and is on the original photographer's mount with bevelled edge. Image is 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" on mount 9 3/4" x 6 7/8"; Fine fresh. Great outdoor shot of ten unidentified men in baseball attire together with their manager dressed in coat and tie. With catcher's gear ball and 2 bats in foreground. Six players holding their gloves. Columbia is located in Tuolumne County. Hardcover. Fine. 1890 hardcover books
1937UK615-002San Francisco CA:: Book Club of California 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Series: Book Club of California Publication No. 51. LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies this is one of 265 regular copies handset in Franciscan type on machine made paper. Folio. 15 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches. ii xxii 2 pp. Title-page and text printed in red and black double-column 4 hand-colored initials 3 in blue red and gilt 1 in blue red and yellow tipped-in King James Bible leaf with the text of Zechariah Chapter 11 verse 8 through Chapter 14 verse 8 printer's device on the colophon; text clean unmarked except for a pencil notation on page XV that records the passage on the leaf. Quarter tan cloth cloth sides printed paper spine label titled in red; binding square and tight mild shelf wear and foxing to the cloth sides corners lightly bumped end-papers with modest toning offsetting associated with the bookplate. Black-leather bookplate of H. L. Doolittle 1882-1974 Pasadena collector on the front paste-down. Very Good. Printed by the Grabhorn Press the original leaf contains text from Zechariah. This leaf comes from the "She" Bible of 1611 that contains the incorrect text of Ruth Chapter 3 verse 15 "And she went into the citie." "An extremely handsome book which drew praise from both contributing essayists and many Book Club of California members some of whom found in this volume a relief from the Western Americana theme which had predominated in the Club's publications of the previous five years." Magee. REFERENCES: De Hamel and Silver Disbound & Dispersed No. 72; Heller & Magee Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1915-1940 No. 275; Magee The Hundredth Book No. 51. Book Club of California, hardcover books
