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195063635Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1950. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 309pp. Tight square Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper unclipped priced $3.00 at base of front flap very clean and well-preserved Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Postwar novel set in the hills of California's Mother Lode country featuring a cast of local characters described in the jacket copy as "California Tobacco Roaders" into whose midst a sensitive alcoholic city-dweller escapes in search of redemption and self-mastery. This appears to have been the author's only published novel. Uncommon. HANNA 3479. BAIRD California Fiction 2399. Bobbs-Merrill unknown
193716674New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1937. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth cover decoratively stamped in gilt and green; dustjacket; 332pp. Top edge of text block a little dusty else a tight VG copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper worn at edges and with a closed tear to base of front panel; Good or better. Fictionalized account of the author's real-life experiences on San Quentin's Death Row following a wrongful murder conviction. Lamson also published a non-fiction account We Who Are About To Die 1935. Oddly the setting is changed to Washington State Penitentiary for this fictional version. HANNA 2080. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
186261631862. ORATION BY WILLARD B. FARWELL ESQ. POEM BY MISS ELIZA A PITTSINGER. ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE SOCIETY AT THEIR CELEBRATION OF THE TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA INTO THE UNION SEPTEMBER 9TH 1862 BY E.H. WASHBURN ESQ. WITH THE SUTTER RESOLUTIONS. San Francisco: Charles A. Calhoun. 1862. Original printed wrappers stitched. 26 1 pp. Minor soil. Near Fine. <br /> Cowan 595. unknown
229637of California miners by William Wax Studios Redding California. All on the original photographer's printed mount. Each approximately 7 3/4" x 4 3/4". 1. Two men a woman and three young children standing in front of a miner's cabin. 2. Group of eight miners and two Chinese men standing in front of a miner's cabin. 3. Group of 15 miners and a dog dressed in their Sunday's best clothes standing and seated in front of a cabin. 4. Group of 18 men and 1 child standing and seated in front of the general store. 5. Group of 23 men mostly dressed in boots and work clothes standing and seated in front of a shed. A few smoking pipes one holding an ax. 6. Group of 22 men dressed in work clothes boots with lantern on their hats outside of the mine. Provenance: from the estate of Charles H. Segerstrom. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. hardcover
229634with 180 photographs laid down on album leaves. Most photos are 3 3/4" x 4 1/2". Album is 6 1/2" x 9 3/4" black flexible cloth. Very good. ca. 1900-1905. Album of photographs from the family of Charles H. Segerstrom mostly capturing family outings get-togethers vacations the scenic spots of California the town of Sonora etc. Included are excursions to the Big Trees climbing on and passing through them; a large group on an open train crossing a trestle evidently on their way to a picnic or similar event; the ornate Victorian Cliff House in San Francisco which burned in 1907 parades in San Francisco; Sonora including its city hall; Golden Gate Park in San Francisco; various picnics outdoor gatherings etc. A very interesting glimpse at the lives and activities of a prominent wealthy family residing in the Sierra foothills and the California which was their playground. There are occasional notes laid in identifying or speculating on subjects and locations. Provenance: from the estate of Charles H. Segerstrom. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. hardcover
19103105<p>7-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches at furthest points. 8pp including wrappers. Die-cut in the shape of an oak leaf. Top-fold stapled self-wrappers printed in green with white leaf veins black lettering and half-tone photographic illustration. B&w illustrations from photographs on each page. Slight crease to lower edge throughout Peck-Judah stamp to front wrapper. Else fine. Near Fine.</p><p>A glorious promotional booklet for Oakglen Lodge located in Yucaipa -- on the outskirts of what is now the San Bernardino National Forest -- and managed by propietor Miss A.M. Woodford. The booklet touts the resort's many outdoor activities its dining facilities accessibility from Redlands "hardwood floor for dancing" and croquet and tennis courts; the image for these last includes an image of three women holding tennis racquets.</p><p>OCLC locates two holdings at the California Historical Society and UC Davis.</p> [Peck-Judah Co.?] paperback
1922362523San Pedro CA: Nanka Mie Kenjinkai Southern California Mie Prefectural Society 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. A very scarce Japanese-American history and Who's Who printed in Los Angeles in the Taisho era.<br /> <br /> Many Japanese immigrants to the US participated in organizations centered around their family's native prefecture. This book was published by the Mie Prefectural Association an organization of Japanese immigrants from the central southern coast of Japan. Not surprisingly given their coastal origins a chapter of this book is devoted to fishing. Immigrants from Mie prefecture were also very active in agriculture particularly growing nursery plants and cut flowers. The book includes a fold-out panoramic halftone of the Japanese produce market in Los Angeles.<br /> <br /> About two-thirds of the book is devoted to biographies of residents and their families; more so than other similar books the accompanying photographs often include entire families and not just the male head of household.<br /> <br /> Not in OCLC which records only modern facsimiles or A Buried Past or any other bibliography.<br /> <br /> 56 184 pages. First edition first printing. A near fine copy with minor wear to the publisher's cloth. Errata slip tipped to the rear free endpaper. Nanka Mie Kenjinkai [Southern California Mie Prefectural Society] hardcover
193644218N.P.: 1936. 1936. 28" x 24" sheet folded to 24 panels. 2 bright colorful cover panels showing a woman at the wheel of a car the wind blowing through her hair. 8" x 5 3/4" map of Yosemite National Park 4" x 5 1/4" map of Boulder Dam and Vicinity and 4" x 5 1/4" map of Reno all Copyrighted by the H.M. Gousha Company;mileage chart. 6-panel 1936 map of the United States showing routes national parks and monuments cities etc. Opposite 12 panels offers a 1936 Road Map of Nevada showing roads cities roads under construction lakes etc. along with part of California. Down side edges is a listing of cities and their locations on the map. Wear to folds and with tiny hole to one fold. Very good. 1936. unknown
188042466n.p.: American Scenery series 1880. Photograph. Very Good. Stereoview 9 cm x 18 cm photograph on orange American Scenery mount. No backstamp. "J. J. Reilly No. 201" in pencil on reverse. Some wear around the edges of the card and some very light toning/foxing. A nice shot of this well-known bridge on the Bear River in Grass Valley in Northern California. [American Scenery series] unknown
1930156261N.p.: N.p. 1930. Archive of eight vintage photographs documenting the harvesting processing packaging and shipping of oranges by Sunkist Growers of Orland California circa 1930s. Mimeo snipes on the versos of each and seven with PIX Incorporated and Westport Library stamps on the versos.<br /> <br /> One of the largest marketing cooperatives in the US Sunkist Growers was formed in 1893 a time when citrus acreage had increased in California by over tenfold. Today the company remains one of California's largest landowners and is the largest fresh produce shipper in the US representing more than 6000 members.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine overall. N.p. unknown
12909San Jose CA: Gist & Erdmann Inc. / Panoramic Map Productions 1989. Color printed map on sturdy glossy paper 39 x 26.75 inches. Small piece of old cellophane tape in the upper margin tiny puncture in image area near top-middle portion of the map lightly wrinkled previously rolled. Overall in very good condition. A rare and charming 1989 pictorial cartoon map and calendar of Silicon Valley illustrated by Pham Bach Phi one of at least three such works produced by the artist during the tech boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Copyrighted and published as a joint venture between Gist & Erdmann Inc. and Panoramic Map Productions the view employs an inviting almost pastoral aesthetic that deliberately downplays the burgeoning urban sprawl brought on by the explosion of the computer industry. By depicting major freeways as rustic roads and rendering corporate headquarters in a modest commercial style the artist fosters a small-town atmosphere in a region that was at the time undergoing a radical industrial transformation.<br /> <br /> The poster is populated with company logos and vignettes that celebrate a local economy rapidly centralizing around the technology sector. Notable names include Oracle IBM Apple and Hewlett-Packard practically a "Who's Who" of the era's digital vanguard. The bottom portion of the work is printed with a calendar for the upcoming year of 1990 underscoring the item's original purpose as a functional office product in itself. The year 1990 like most years since the '70s marked the dawn of the digital era in Silicon Valley highlighted by Tim Berners-Lee installation of the first World Wide Web server on a NeXT computer -- Steve Jobs' post-Apple venture -- at CERN. The year also saw the launch of LambdaMOO at Xerox PARC the inaugural Photoshop Invitational in Mountain View and key early developments in 3D graphics and networking that set the stage for the dot-com boom and current computer technologies. Gist & Erdmann, Inc. / Panoramic Map Productions unknown
19252671Various locations including Texas and California 1925. Very good. 35 leaves illustrated with 272 original vernacular photographs of various sizes plus a handful of ephemeral items all mounted. Oblong folio. Contemporary black cloth photograph album gilt titles on front cover string tied. Minor soiling staining and rubbing to boards minor edge wear. An artfully-composed annotated vernacular photograph album documenting the life of a female compiler and her family in Texas and California over about a decade after World War I. The album opens with a few dozen scenes on the Los Rados and Cheyenne pastures of the Q Ranch and in the relevant residences in Channing Texas. The Q Ranch scenes feature cowboys on horseback horse-drawn carriages scenes of cattle rustling and more. The album compiler was most likely a woman living for some time at the Q Ranch; she notes on more than one occasion when people are leaving the ranch for more western locations. For instance in May 1919 the compiler notes when "Em and Norine left for 'Sunny California.'" They include a handful of "Scenes enroute Texas - California" which show mainly scenes in New Mexico. Another series shows pictures memorializing several people "Leaving Channing and us for Husband and Pocatella Idaho." Several photographs from 1921 depict the compiler's experiences at the Union Laundry in Breckenridge Texas; this section also includes several pictures of the Breckenridge Natatorium.<br /> <br /> There are also other western scenes showing a ranch in Harney County Oregon located "miles and miles from no-where." These Oregon pictures depict both men and women working the fields of a farm and ranch in a remote location. The scenes in California record the compiler's time visiting family in San Pedro Inglewood Hermosa Beach and other places in California. Towards the end of the album the compiler notes that she is "Home Again Here at Last Never more to Roam Home Sweet Home" when she arrives in California. Other locations documented here include Juarez Mexico apparently a vacation scenes along the Santa Fe Route in Colorado to California and others.<br /> <br /> Several subjects are identified by name in the present album such as John Quarrles Jr. Jeannie Thomas Louisa Collins Grandmother Millering Katie Braithwaite Rosa Euola and Gladys Dawson and numerous others sometimes only noted by their first names. These names should provide ample opportunity to connect the subjects of the present album to a larger context within the community of North Texas ranching families based in California. unknown
184936792Boston: Bradbury Harmon & Co 1849. Newspaper. Fair. Newspaper. Approximately 21" x 15." 4 pages. Paper has multiple folds several creases and light toning.<br /> <br /> Contents include news from California on two pages; local and regional news around Boston; Political happenings; articles titled "Slices of the West" and "An Episode of the Mexican War"; advertisements for goods to be taken to California; health cure advertisements; and several more advertisements.<br /> <br /> Front page headine reads "Interesting from California" with a correspondent writing "I have some doubts whether the present town of San Francisco will continue to be the place of business. It is situated a few miles from the entrance of the harbor on the side of a hill but the great objection to it as a place of business is that vessels cannot approach the quarter to half a mile of the city." The writer goes on to discuss Gold news stating "Fifty to one hundred dollars a per day is nothing extraordinary for miners to make. Bradbury, Harmon & Co unknown
194837638San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. One of 500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club with engravings by Mallette Dean. Inscribed by David Magee on the last page of his introduction: "For Raymond Black with the best wishes of David Magee." The text of this engaging book was reprinted from Beadle's Half-Dime Library Number 814 February 28 1893. Bound in patterned paper boards with images of playing card suit symbols with a red cloth spine and paper spine label with titling. Light wear to edges and corners of spine. Offsetting to pastedowns and free endpapers. Mallette Dean's red and black illustrations throughout. Missing the called for dust jacket. Otherwise in very good condition. Measures 8.75 x 12.5 inches. 56 pages. PRI/112024. The Book Club of California hardcover
19671707039The Book Club of California 1967. First Edition. hardcover. Used-Very Good. Limited to 450 copies. Tall 4to. Cloth with gilt dec. Profusely illus. Very little shelf-wear. Tight binding. Clean attractive copy. The Book Club of California unknown
189949476Los Angeles: Joseph P. Knapp 1899. 1899. First edition. 5-1/2" x 10-1/2" sheet folded to 6 panels. Illustrations. A vintage advertising brochure featuring women's fashions including Silk Frocks Easter Hats Spring Coats and Sportswear along with pricing. In 195 John Joseph Haggarty opened the New York Cloak and Suit House a small exclusive women’s clothing store. He did so by securing a building on Broadway in the center of the Los Angeles business district and there laid the foundation for one of the most successful businesses in the commercial history of the city. Having become an esteemed leader in the industry after just a few short years he expanded his business with the opening of Paris Cloak and Suit House. He and his wife made annual trips to New York and Paris to bring the current fashion trends to the West Coast. When this venture had proved a success due in large measure to his expert knowledge of the business Haggarty purchased a controlling interest in another large house known as the Paris Cloak and Suit House. Into it he brought besides capital the wide experience and natural business ability which had made him a success in life. He was regarded as one of the shrewdest business and one of the most accomplished buyers in the foreign and domestic markets. Minor tanning else very good. Joseph P. Knapp, 1899. hardcover
189655632San Francisco CA: Girls’ High School 1896. 8vo. 2 15 1 pp. Numerous text illustrations illust. ads. Colour-illustrated softcovers front cover art showing a devil dancing with girl in white and rear cover featuring beautifully rendered Victorian woman in red & black dress polk-a-dot umbrella reminiscent of Denslow signed E. Pitchford slight shelfwear NF. First edition of this exceedingly scarce theatre program for a satirical production about a California girl’s struggle to learn French featuring the delightful illustrations of fellow Girls’ High School students Emily H. Pitchford Hussey 1878-1956 whose artwork is reminiscent of W.W. Denslow and Ethel Frances Hanks 1878-1952. This wonderful 19th-century program also features ads vor City of Paris Dry Goods at G. Verdier & Co. Moss Gloves on Market and Newman & Levinson bathing suits for women on 209 Sutter St. Girls High School was founded in 1864 and by 1896 was located in a four-story red brick building at Geary O’Farrel & Scott nearly leveled in 1906 Fire & Earthquake. No copies located in Worldcat. Girls’ High School, paperback
41283San Fernando CA: Silver Moon. Ephemera. 1930s-1940s. Fruit crate label advertising Sunkist grade lemons. Vintage color lithograph. Measures 22.3 x 31.8 cm. In fine condition. Silver Moon unknown
1925D00633Publisher 1925-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Vol 52 leatherbound college yearbook Univ of California heave wear to spine & edges cracking/splitting at edge of spine but binding holding fine contents are in excellent condition Priority shipping not available due to size. Publisher hardcover
193548585N.P.: Privately printed 1935. 1935. TRADE CATALOG. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. Front wrapper shows picture of cowboy astride a standing horse. Rear wrapper shows picture of John E. Olsen owner of Nugget Ranch on a D.E. Walker Saddle. 128 pp. Foreword by Peter B. Kyne. Catalog profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. Parcel post rate chart. Index. Picture of C. M. Russell and three drawings by him. 6 sketches by Lee M. Rice. Catalog depicts and offers for sale saddles scabbards holsters and cartridge belts boots chaps leather jackets and chinks gloves trousers shirts hats buckle sets face pieces conchas saddle trimmings headstalls collars reins bits spurs etc. 3/4" closed tear to edge of first several pages along with soiling and wear from use. Wrappers and spine tanned and worn with 1" chip to toe of spine. Page 51 and edge of front wrapper with tears that have been repaired with cellophane tape. Good. Privately printed, 1935. hardcover
1890List2871Oregon Washington and California 1890. One forty-two page photo album with 9 ½ x 7 inch pages; 109 total photographs with eighteen 4 x 7 inch and larger and ninety-one 3 ½ x 3 ½ inch. Larger photographs captioned on negative and likely purchased while smaller ones are original. Album pages with chipping at corners and some repair with tape; photographs with some wear and very good to excellent contrast; overall very good to excellent. A photo album from two trips taken by an unknown tourist one around the Pacific Northwest and the other in central and southern California with written captions describing location and subject matter. The California trip starts in San Francisco and includes shots of Monterey “Mexicans at Los Angeles†and many of the Santa Barbara Mission and San Diego. <br /> <br /> The Pacific Northwest photos show scenery around Mts. Hood and Rainier including from the recently-built Cloud Cap Hotel; the Columbia River Paradise Valley American Lake and others. There are also shots of the Hotel Groe built in 1893 and Kernahan home in Pierce County Washington – James Kernahan was one of the earliest Euro-Americans to homestead in the region arriving in the area in the late 1880s. The Kernahan family is mentioned in an account told by John Muir’s photographer of summiting Mt. Rainier with John Muir in 1888.1 Further towards Rainier there are shots of the Longmire buildings built in about 1884.<br /> <br /> Four interesting shots from Puyallup also in Pierce County are worth mentioning. Two show hops fields one a line of tents identified as belonging to the “Indians†and one of an “Old Indian woman†standing barefoot on train tracks. Before 1892 growing hops drove the economy of Pullyup; Indigenous people would travel from the US and Canada to Pullyup to work the harvest.2 These photographs likely postdate the hops crash.<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of the Pacific Northwest and California and especially of Pierce County Washington.<br /> <br /> 1 “John Muir’s Ascent of Mt. Rainier As Recorded by his Photographer A. C. Warner†The Mountaineer 50 no. 1 1956: 38–45.<br /> 2 Hans Zeiger “Indigenous Hop Pickers in Western Washington†HistoryLink October 3 2021 https://www.historylink.org/file/21295. unknown
188241933N.P.: Privately printed 1882. 1882. TRADE CATALOG. First edition. 9" x 6" in brown pictorial wrappers showing an illustration of a puttee and legging. Title and border in orange ink. 15pp. Illustrations. Western Leather Company was a US Government Quartermaster's contractor from 1914 thru World Wars 1 & 2 Korean War and into the Vietnam War. During that time they manufactured holsters belts leggings and assorted GI pieces of leather and canvas. This pamphlet offers 15 pages of officer aviator motorcycle women's and civilian canvas leggings & leather puttees. Description colors offered and pricing for each piece. Light soiling to very top edge of all pages else near fine. Privately printed, 1882. hardcover
19002262431900. of J. M. Crook's ranch. Two men with plow four horses two women and a child in front of the ranch house with barn to the side. Note the large avocado tree. Photograph is by C.M. Balding Whittier California; 7" x 4 1/4" on heavy mount 10 1/8" x 8"; very good ca. 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. hardcover
190063607Boston: Little Brown & Co. 1900. Two vols. 8vo. xxv 5 310; 6 308 pp. Both titles in red & black. Frontisp. in both vols numerous plates colour plates w/ titled & extra tissue guards from drawings by Sandham. Uniformly bound in blue decorated publisher’s cloth Arts & Crafts motif cover art on both vols. by Amy Sacker w/ initials at the lower fore-edge t.e.g. dark brown clay-sized endpapers t.e.g. slight shelfwear still a NF set. First Monterey Edition of this classic novel championing the plight of the American Indian in Southern California which Jackson herself called “sugar-coating of the pill†of her polemical mission to engender in Americans a reconsideration of the genocide and land theft outrages against the Indigenous Peoples in California. Issued following her groundbreaking and searing “Century of Dishonor†and “Report of the Condition and Needs of the Mission Indians of California†in 1881 & 1883 she hoped to persuade a change in public policy and opinion but unfortunately she was without a “genuine sympathizer†among the whites in the entire West and even Teddy Roosevelt who included her among the ‘hysterical sentimentalists.†Jackson’s 1830-1885 Ramona became a runaway cultural phenomenon and not only inspired in popular conception a fantasy vision of Mission California but became a costume drama rather than the biting history of her “Century of Dishonor.†See: Matthew Wills Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona Did What Her Nonfiction Couldn’t JSTOR Daily Nov. 4 2019; Zamorano 80 No. 46; Elaine Katz Women & The American West 1988 141-145. Little, Brown & Co,. hardcover
19701477Oakland: Miss America Pageant / Oakland Junior Chamber of Commerce 1970. Good. 11" x 8-1/2". Unpaginated approx. 40 pp. Photographically illustrated color wrappers title printed in black to front cover stapled. Color illustrations to inside covers heavily illustrated in b/w throughout. Light soiling and wear to wrappers short tear to foot of front cover minor bumping to upper corner of some leaves. Program for the 1970 Miss Oakland Pageant with additional material on the national 1970 Miss America pageant winners. Features portraits of the Oakland contestants judges the past winner and the 1970 Miss California local advertising images of the national contestants etc. The Oakland contestants are a notably diverse group particularly compared to the national ones.Not found in commerce or OCLC as of Sept. 2019. [Miss America Pageant / Oakland Junior Chamber of Commerce] unknown
