The California Diary of Faxon Dean Atherton 1836-1839 (Special Publication No. 39) by Faxon Dean Atherton; Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. [Editor] - 1964-01-01

Hardcover. Very good. California Historical Society, 1964, 246 pages, 1 of 1550 copies, hardcover in a very good dust jacket, no underlining or owner's mark, smudge on front cover.

San Francisco.: California Historical Society. The Ward Ritchie Press. , 1964.. First edition.. Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy in fine slip case.. Octavo.. Illustrated. Important reference work.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1964. Hardcover, gray cloth lettered in gold on spine and large gold stamped decoration on covers, in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 246pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with half-tones and large fold-out map. Edited, with an introduction by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Some age toning and finger soiling to dust-jacket. Book is clean, square, and unmarked. This first edition is limited to 1,550 copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. A fine copy in a good or better dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

San Francisco, California Historical Society, 1964.. xxxii+246pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. One large fold-out map. B&W plates. A very good copy.. Limited edition.

San Francisco: California historical society , 1964. An historically important document describing Alta California in the 1830's. Takes up where Richard Henry Dana leaves off in his classic 'Two Years Before the Mast'. LIMITED EDITION OF 1550 COPIES PRINTED BY THE WARD RITCHIE PRESS. Grey-blue cloth with embossed gilt decorative device to both covers. Illustrated and with a fold-out 1830 map of Alta California. Fine copy, very crisp and bright. The dustjacket spine is age toned. This copy with the ownership SIGNATURE OF JEAN BETHELL. Jean Bethell was Erle Stanlley Gardner's longtime secretary and later wife, and the inspiration for the character Della Street. . Limited. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Pages 246 pp. Cloth. First edition. Lacks dust jacket, else fine condition.

San Fran:: California Historical Society, 1964. limited, deluxe edition, SIGNED by the editor.. hardcover. #240 of 325 copies printed on Curtis rag paper. near fine in very good slipcase. large 8vo. xxxii+246+1 pages. color frontis plate. plates & maps, six fold-out. 17 page bibliography. gilt decorated blue/grey cloth.. short split to cloth at front inner hinge. some light and uneven fading to slipcase. Family run used bookstore open to the public since 1988. 30 Years of Bookselling Experience backing the careful selection and description of each book we offer.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1964 First edition. One of 325 copies of the Deluxe Edition, printed on rag paper, numbered and signed by the editor. Edited with an introduction by Doyce B. Nunis. xxxii, 246pp. Frontis portrait, maps, illustrations, folding map, facsimiles (some folding). Extensive chapter notes and bibliography, index. Gilt-lettered and decorated cloth. A very fine copy with lightly faded publisher's slipcase. Father-in-law of Gertrude Atherton, namesake of Atherton, California (San Mateo county), etc. Atherton was a young man from New England in the early 1830's and an employee of a Santa Barbara merchant which brought him into intimate contact with the administrators of the secularized missions, the native inhabitants and the growing number of American settlers and visitors. He vividly recorded much of the political turmoil, civil-religious conflict, mushrooming trade, and foreign penetration of early Mexican California. His diary of those three years is… Read More