Search Results: Titles starting with C from California Bookseller - J. R. Aboud

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. 1911. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Pictorial Cloth. First Edition. Pictorial green cloth with the lightest of aging to spine. Otherwise a crisp copy with the photos and frontis in fine, bright condition. Front hinge starting. Jacket with 1/8" chips to head and tail of spine and some creasing to the strong craft- quality paper that the original jacket is printed on. The cover and jacket illustration is unsigned and depicts a charming forest scene in which a young man axes his way through a sizeable log as smoke curles from the cabin's chimney. Chapters on Trout, The Ethical code and 'California John'. Much on the Sierras, the Mono Divide and big country of The California Crest Trail. Amer. 1sts, Baird/Greenwood, dj., fiction, literature, moutains, camping, hiking. Stewart Edward White was a widely read and well traveled California author. American 1sts, Cowan. (Some of White's early books are interesting in that none… Read More

First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. Huntington Lib, 1956. 2nd enlarged ed. illus. reprod. of important California sites. Western Art. Western Americana

Placerville, California: Hutchings, 1854. First Edition. . No Binding. Very Good +. C Nahl. An informative and wonderfully pictorial Letter Sheet of the California Indians in a period of decline and stress, who's customs and daily habits of dress, gathering, transportation and entertainment were little studied or understood. Hutchings letter Sheet (as well as other letter sheets of the period) were intended to be sent to loved ones in the east where they informed the rest of the world what and how the native Californian lived. Thankfully we have Hutchiings rendering today to aid our renewed interest in our native state. This copy with light creases and small spotting otherwise a near fine copy in blue wove, unrestored and with no tears, chips or holes. A single sheet with no signs of a blank folding leaf having been removed or ever present.

Santa Barbara: Bellerophon, 1989. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Fine reproductions of Millers drawings of the missions and an interesting text of his observations of the sights and preservation of the early California buildings. Size: Quarto

Berkeley, Calif.: New York Graphic Society, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bright jacket with very light edge wear to outer fold and extremites. volume with light stains to the end papers and scuff to lower spine edge. Collectible copy.

New York: Kinsey, 1935. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Good. Bright black cloth and crisp gold printing to front and spine panels. Jacket bright and unfaded with edge wear and tape repair to the back panel. Still, an attractive copy.

New York: Rinehart, 1948. First Edition. . Hardcover. Nearly Fine/Very Good. Tan cloth with light soiling o/w fine. Jacket with edge wear at spine tips and lower edge. A nice collectible copy.

Book Club of California, 1993. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/None Issued. Fine bright copy in maroon cloth. Prospectus laid in . Nice copy.

Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1947. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine./Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo. Red cloth with black printing. Jacket printed in black and red. Light edge wear otherwise bright and crisp. the trade with china was an out growth of the fur trade in otter pelts which were plentiful in California and prized in the orient. Much on the local history and politics of the 1820s and 1830s along the California coast.

First Edition. . Hardcover. A Fine Copy.. First Edition. San Francisco,1955. white paper boards, 19p., Fine. Fine Press. California. Literture. Fiction.

New York: Appleton, 1901. First Edition. . Soft cover. Good/Original Wrappers. First edition of the authors First Book in the scarce wrappers binding as compared to the usual rust colored cloth binding. Lacking The Rear Wrapper.complete with the 14 page Appleton advertisements in the rear. A Nice example of the authors initial book. a romace taking place in the Black Hills of South Dakota. (I can supply a black and white copy of the ads on the two leaves of the back wrapper if you would like to have the text.) Size: Octavo

London: Allison & Busby, 1982. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Ellroy's second book and difficult in fine condition. A spectacular copy, boldly signed " To Art Stone.L.A. 1951.in Blood " No tears, creases, bumps, or chips of any kind. First edition and first English edition. Size: Octavo

San Francisco: Pioneer Press, 1937. First Edition. . Hardcover. Nearly Fine/Very Good. Photographs Reproducing Original Prints and Portraits. Clark's Point, now Fort Mason, was a pivotal entry point to San Franciso for military personel and civilian commerce. Includes historical information on Lone Mountain and it's cemetery. A fine copy fore some light scuffing to the spine ends. DUST JACKET, being some what scarce, has chips at the head and tail of spine and occasional edge wear. Charming early gold rush lithographs reproduced on the jacket panels. Overall, a pleasing copy. Size: Large Octavo

New York: Harper and Row, 1989. First Edition, Signed by the Author. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Eric Fowler. Poignant short stories comprise this slim volume which is the Authors First Book. Fine copy. Book is fresh and never had the spine tested or read. Dust Jacket is fine, not clipped, no creases, tears, chips or markings. Signed by Author "To Pete G. " below his name on the title page. A sharp copy ! Size: Octavo

First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. New York, 1942. Fine copy in yellow cloth in a near fine jacket with small chips. Another of Corle's fine desert stories. mining, california, fiction, west. americana.

New York: Cosmopolitan, 1924. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Bright red cloth with minor soiling in a Jacket with very light scuffing at the extremities and a photo of the author on the back panel. Wilson was a popular man about Carmel and Big Sur and who's daughter posed for and married famed photographer Edward Weston.

New York: MacAulay, 1935. First Edition in Dust Jacket. . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Bound in dark cloth and printed in red, the volume is cocked, internally quite nice and clean if a bit mellowed. DUST JACKET is bright (unfaded) and clean with 3/8" chips to head and tail of spine and is Not Price Clipped. Frederick Faust wrote as Max Brand and, for two mystery novels, as Walter Butler. A prodigious writer and a clever mind filled with stories, Faust seldom wrote or placed his stories in California. Although growing up in the Central Valley and working in San Francisco, his stories tell little of his roots in the Goledn State. Cross Over Nine and Night Flower are two of his elusive Mystery thrillers. Size: Octavo

New York: Harpers, 1929. First Edition, Later Printing - Signed. . Hardcover. Fine Crisp/Very Good. Fine red cloth, bright yellow printing and photographs in fine condition. Signed by the author on the front free fly leaf. Printed 2 months after the first edition as indicated by Harpers "I-G" raher than "G-D". Jacket is price clipped with some chipping .still a nice copy with a valued signature of a venerable California fishing family. Size: Octavo

New York, 1925. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Good. First Edition. New York,1925. Green cloth fine in a good, bright pictorial dust jacket. Spine faded and chip at upper spine fold. Still a colletible copy of the art deco jacket. 1st edition. dj. fiction, california, women.