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Sacramento: California State Library Foundation, 2000 Reprint of the 1851 directory with a mass of additional material provided by Kibbey. 336pp. Color frontis, portraits and other illustrations; appendices. Footnotes, bibliographic notes. Green cloth, gilt. A very fine, new copy. The actual directory is reproduced on yellow paper and takes up but 96 pages of this work. Mr. Kibbey then expands upon the original directory and provides a history of Sacramento to 1851; a large section of biographical sketches of selected names contained within the directory; a section in which he provides city street numbers before 1880 and the corresponding new street numbers after that time (after they were changed); a supplement to the original directory using the new style numbering (after 1880); Commander Wilkes' report on his 1841 visit to Sacramento; Larkin's report on his 1848 visit to the gold mines on the American River; Captain Folsom's 1848 report on mining gold; and finally, James McClatchy's… Read More

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969 First edition. Presentation inscription, signed by the author to fellow-author E. Geoffrey Bangs. xxi, [3], 419pp. 15 plates, appendixes, index. Brown cloth. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Previously unpublished letters and journals including a private journal that was omitted from his first book, Etchings of a Whaling Cruise. Also revealed for the first time is his tour of duty as Ambassador to China..

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965 First edition. 218pp. Illustrations from early prints, paintings, photos; index. Brown cloth lettered in gilt and black. A very fine and bright copy with perfect pictorial dust jacket. An excellent biography of Browne, concentrating on his assignment as confidential agent for the U.S. Treasury Department, ferreting out the misdeeds of federal office holders in the nation's outposts of empire in Minnesota, Texas, California, Oregon, and Washington. Browne investigated the manner in which custom-houses, post offices, and other federal offices were being run, wrote reports on the things he saw, and made recommendations - many of which were acted upon..

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965 First edition. 218pp. Illustrations from early prints, paintings, photos; index. Very minor soiling to top edge of text block. A fine copy with fine pictorial dust jacket. Good biography of Browne, concentrating on his assignment as confidential agent for the U.S. Treasury Department, ferreting out the misdeeds of federal office holders in Minnesota, Texas, California, Oregon, and Washington..

Conshohocken: Combined Books, 1994 Revised edition. Cloth-backed boards. Very fine with pictorial dust jacket..

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966 First edition. cloth, gilt-lettering. Illustrated; notes, appendix, index. Some extremely minor fading to the edges of the covers. A fine copy. Dust jacket has creases on inner flaps. A biography of author James Boswell largely culled from his voluminous autobiographical writings..

Portland: Champoeg Press, 1960 The definitive edition, limited to 1450 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. Edited by Charles L. Camp. 352pp. Frontis portrait, 5 plates, 4 maps (2 folding), text illustrations. Red cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover. A very fine and bright copy. An expanded edition of Clyman's reminiscences and diaries, first published in book form in 1928. The author was one of the first white men to traverse South Pass and, in 1826, to circumnavigate the Great Salt Lake. His diaries cover the years 1844-47 and describe his adventures on the Oregon and the Oregon-California Trails, including the time spent in San Francisco in 1845. In 1848 he settled permanently in California, where he died at his Napa ranch in 1881. "This is the only overland journal for this year (1844). The emigration consisted of about 1500 plus a small party led by Elisha Stephens. This was the Stephens-Murphy group that took the Ft. Hall cutoff to California. An important and interesting… Read More

Sacramento: Sacramento County Historical Society, 1958 First edition. ii, 34, [4]pp. Fine copy. One of 500 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. Pioneer stageman in Sacramento and the neighboring mining towns; first mail and transportation system to the Pacific Coast..

San Francisco: San Francisco Corral of Westerners, 1988 First edition. One of 500 copies. 38pp. 3 photographic illustrations including frontispiece portrait. Notes, index. Red cloth. A fine copy. Curtis was with the first Vigilance Committee in San Francisco, 1851. In the late 1850's he participated in the Paiute War in Nevada, held the rank of Major during the Civil War, and later was involved with the Union Pacific Railroad and the Idaho North and South Railroad in Boise..

London: Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1949 First edition. Hudson's Bay Record Society, Volume XII. Printed for subscribers only in a limited edition. Edited and with an introduction by E. E. Rich and A. M. Johnson. Pp. cv, 352, x. Three plates and 16 text illustrations, most printed in red and black. Appendices, index. Blue cloth, gilt. Spine ever so slightly faded, but a very fine, uncut copy. Isham's observations are not primarily concerned with the fur trade, but provide a mine of interesting information on anthropology and natural history. Includes a long section reproducing an Indian/English vocabulary, written in 1743..

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2009 First edition. One of 500 copies handsomely designed and printed in a 4-color lithographic process by The Castle Press. Quarto. 344pp. 208 illustrations, some in color. Notes, bibliography, index. Three-piece binding by Mariana Blau. A very fine copy. A beautiful production, one of the most lavish the Club has produced. A detailed, illustrated examination of Hutchings' life, his ongoing methods of promoting Yosemite and his influence on nineteenth century California literature. The biography includes much new material on Hutchings' hotel-keeping activities, his travels, and his legal fight to preserve his Yosemite land claims. The well-annotated bibliography lists all known publications by Hutchings and well as those he influenced. Most all the items in the bibliography are illustrated..

Georgetown, California: The Talisman Press, 1967 First edition. 558pp. Frontis portrait of Marshall and a portrait of Sutter, both in color, numerous other photographic illustrations; extensive notes, appendices, index. Gold cloth lettered in dark brown. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. This work includes extensive notes to the chapters, an appendix of documents and a full index. Well-written and documented, this work is undoubtedly the most thorough biography of this central figure in the California Gold Rush..

Georgetown, California: The Talisman Press, 1967 Special edition. Limited to 250 copies printed on special paper, specially bound, numbered, boxed and signed by the author. 558pp. Frontis portrait of Marshall and a portrait of Sutter, both in color, 25 illustrations from various sources and 4 facsimile inserts in rear pocket. Facsimile map insert is missing from this copy. Half simulated black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. A fine copy with double slipcase (outer slipcase soiled and spotted). This work includes extensive notes to the chapters, an appendix of documents and a full index, as well as extra inserts in the rear pocket that were not included in the regular edition. Undoubtedly the most thorough biography of this central figure in the California Gold Rush, well-written and documented..

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2008 First edition. One of 275 copies designed and typeset by Patrick Reagh. Small quarto. xiii, [1], 214pp. 31 photographic illustrations, many in color, including portraits, views, numerous title pages and facsimiles, etc. Notes, appendices, index. Purple linen lettered in copper with acetate jacket. A very fine copy. An in-depth study of Towne (1829-1917), one of San Francisco's earliest and most influential commercial printers. Towne produced an enormous volume of printed material in San Francisco during the period 1853-1868 including Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine, Cronise's The Natural Wealth of California, and much more. This work is the first monograph on the subject, based on unique 19th century San Francisco business archives. The exhaustive list of Towne imprints in the Appendices is very important and useful. Original announcement laid in..

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964 First edition by this publisher. Quarto. Illustrated with numerous color and black & white prints. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Light wear to extremities of dust jacket, else a fine copy..

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964 First edition by this publisher. Quarto. Illustrated with numerous color and black & white prints. Gilt-lettered brown buckram cloth. Light wear to extremities of dust jacket, else a fine copy..

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967 First edition. Folio. Photographed and designed by Roloff Beny, text by Anthony Thwaite. 96 color plates tipped-in. Gilt-lettered brown cloth. Very minor fading to top and bottom edges of front cover, else a fine copy in worn, tape-repaired dust jacket. A photographic essay of modern Japan. . Illus. by Beny, Roloff.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1928 First edition. 452pp. Black cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with near fine pictorial dust jacket printed in lavender, orange and black (slight chipping to spine ends of jacket). A novel of the classical age of 5th century, B.C. The story of Alcibiades, the successor to Pericles. "Alcibiades leaps upon the stage as the maddest spirit of Athens, given to wild parties with Hetaerae, rioting in the streets at night, playing the most outrageous pranks conceivable on the elder and more dignified members of society" (jacket). This was the author's sequel to her The Immortal Marriage. Uncommon with the dust jacket..

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1917 First book edition. Printed by Taylor & Taylor of San Francisco. Illustrated with 4 photographs. Stiff cardstock covers with integrated dust jacket. Tan jacket printed in gilt and dark green, color pictorial pastedown on front cover. Very small stain to bottom corner of rear cover, half inch tear to jacket at head of spine. Overall, a fine copy of this fragile and often-trashed book. Story of two little boys (brothers) and their make-believe Civil War, using their sister's boy doll as either Jefferson Davis or Abraham Lincoln, depending on which brother had control on a particular day. On Sundays, the doll was ordered to rest (by the boy's father) and on that particular day was given the common name of "Jefferson Davis Abraham Lincoln Bowe." Scarce, especially in this condition..

San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1935 First edition. One of 1,000 copies. Small quarto. 361pp. Portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Linen-backed boards, paper spine label. A fine very fine and bright copy with lightly worn and chipped printed dust jacket. An engaging biography of one of California's legendary women, the wife of John Charles Fremont. Handsomely printed by John Henry Nash..