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Frontier America : the Far West.

By: Fairbanks, Jonathan L.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Museum of Fine Arts: 1975

Seller ID: 8081

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap

Exhibition Catalog. 233 pp., oblong 8vo; cloth in price-clipped pictorial jacket. Photographs and other reproductions throughout, including full page color plates.Frontier America "presented here through pictorial, decorative, and functional arts is life in the western part of the United States, from Missouri to the Pacific Coast."
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[3 Overland Narratives] Travels in California, With Map; Texas, Oregon and California; A Trip Across the Plains and Life in California.

By: FARNHAM, THOMAS JEFFERSON; S. AUGUSTUS MITCHELL; GEO. KELLER, PHYSICIAN TO THE WAYNE COUNTY COMPANY.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Biobooks: 1947; 1948; (1955)

Seller ID: 8895

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition

First two titles limited to 750 copies, third to 500 copies; 8vo; cloth; folding maps in first two titles.
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

By: Fetherstonhaugh, R. C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: N.Y., Carrick & Evans, Inc.: 1938

Seller ID: 4379

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good condition in Good jacket, in protective mylar wrap

322 pp., frontis; 8vo; red cloth in dust jacket. Illustrated with 15 plates comprised of black & white photographs and other reproductions; 5 maps, including four folding. Light wear to cloth; moderate tanning to endpapers near gutter; bookplates on front pastedown and front endpaper. Dust jacket price clipped with yellowing at back panel near spine; light creasing & fading to spine; wear & closed tears at edges up to 1" top front edge; interior tape mends.
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Russian Hill Runt. {2 issues) Vols. 1 - No's. 17 & 20; February and July, 1941

By: FIELD, ELIZABETH, ED.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: San Francisco, By the editor: 1941

Seller ID: 6609

Condition: Good Condition

Newsletter: 8 & 11 pp., stapled sheets folded to 11.25" x 8.75"; printed on coated paper stock; drawings, cartoons, black & white photographs; reproductions; ads. February issue with dime size cigarette burn diminishing through all pages (no burn hole); July issue, staples a bit rusty with offset to pages at staple spots; corners creased; back cover with a small stain at top corner near spine and tanning at extremites.A well crafted and wonderfully entertaining little newsletter, full of San Francisco & Russian Hill culture, history & lore, from tidbits to features. February ...
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Russian Hill Runt. (Four Issues). Vol. 1, no.'s 14,17,19,20.

By: FIELD, ELIZABETH, ED.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: San Francisco, By the editor: 1941

Seller ID: 9127

Condition: Good Condition

Newsletter: 11 pp., stapled sheets folded to 11.25" x 8.75"; printed on coated paper stock; drawings, cartoons, black & white photographs; reproductions; ads. Back cover of July, 1941 is a clip & mail petition to extend Post Street through Laurel Hill Cemetary. Issue 20 with a bit of foxing & soil along bottom edge front page.A well crafted and wonderfully entertaining little newsletter, full of San Francisco & Russian Hill culture, history & lore, from tidbits to features. In this issue: Art Goes Democratic . . . Thanks to W.P.A.; It's Murder! Moderns Threaten Slaughter of Fr...
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Prairie Mountain Sketches.

By: Field, Matthew C.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press: [1957]

Seller ID: 2615

Condition: Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with mylar wrap

239 pp.; 8vo; cloth in pictorial dust jacket; illustrated with b&w reproductions. Very minor wear to jacket at corners; minor soil to white back panel.
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Circles of Life. Katsina Imagery on Hopi Wicker Basketry.

By: Finger, Judith W. & Andrew D. Finger.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Ukiah, CA, Grace Hudson Museum & Sun House: [2006]

Seller ID: 1977

ISBN: 0974030015

Condition: As New

104 pp.; 8" x 10"; pictorial brown wrappers; including more than 100 color images as well as b&w photos."Hopi wicker basketry plaques can be appreciated on many levels. Viewers can admire them as works of art and marvel at their makers’ talents. They can identify a katsina image and glimpse the integral part katsinam play in Hopi life. They can understand these plaques’ importance in sustaining Hopi traditions and the role they have played in Hopi and non-Hopi relations."
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California History, Volume LXXX No. 2/3. The Magazine of the California Historical Society.

By: Fireman, Janet R.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The California Historical Society: Summer / Fall 2001

Seller ID: 4031

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine condition

159 pp. 4to; illustrated wrappers; black & white photographs throughout.Feature articles include: George Freeth: King of the Surfers and California's Forgotten Hero, by Arthur C. Verge, a splendid 23 page piece illustrated with 15 b&w photos. Also, Eternal Light: Visions of Gottardo Piazzoni by Scott A. Shields; Revising the Sesquicentennial Narrative: The Importance of Josiah Royce's "California" for Our Time, by Ronald A. Wells.
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California History Volume 83, Number 3 The Magazine of the California Historical Society.

By: Fireman, Janet R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The California Historical Society: Winter 2006

Seller ID: 9472

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: As New

80 pp. 4to; illustrated wrappers. Still in original shrinkwrap
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California History Volume 84, Number 4 The Magazine of the California Historical Society.

By: Fireman, Janet R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The California Historical Society: Fall 2007

Seller ID: 9474

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine condition

88 pp. 4to; illustrated wrappers; half-tone historical photographs throughout. Several rear pages of notes/book reviews dog-eared at top edge.Including: California History Collections, The Fernery; The House That Russell Built: Bill Russell, the University of San Francisco, and the Winning Streak That Changed College Basketball, by Aram Goudsouzian; In a Climate Like Ours: The California Campuses of Allison & Allison by Sally Sims Stokes. Also Notes and Book Reviews.
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California History Volume 84, Number 2 The Magazine of the California Historical Society.

By: Fireman, Janet R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The California Historical Society: Winter 2006-2007

Seller ID: 9475

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: As New

4to; illustrated wrappers; half-tone historical photographs throughout. Still in original shrinkwrap.
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GOOD LIFE IN HARD TIMES.

By: Flamm, Jerry.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Chronicle Pub. Co.: n.d.(1976)

Seller ID: 206

Good+ Back cover wear, light stain to rear end paper San Francisco in the 1920's and 30's
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Image for The First Californiac. Being a Reprint of Prospects of California Written by Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 Issue of The California Star, San Francisco's First Newspaper, of Which Samuel Brannan Was the Publisher.

The First Californiac. Being a Reprint of Prospects of California Written by Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 Issue of The California Star, San Francisco's First Newspaper, of Which Samuel Brannan Was the Publisher.

By: FOURGEAUD, DR. VICTOR H. PROLEGOMENON BY CARROLL D. HALL.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The Press of Lewis and Dorothy Allen: 1942

Seller ID: 8998

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

This book is one of an edition limited to 225 copies, designed, hand-set and printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen; Pen and ink drawings by Lawrence E. Walker. 44 pp.; 12mo; calf-backed speckled light blue paper over boards with front cover vignette; spine stamped in blind. Plain paper sticker (1.5") covering part of front pastedown; tanning to gutters; covers a bit darkened near front edges; faint dime sized spot rear cover near front edge; leading corners bumped.Victor Fourgeaud(1815-75), South Carolina born doctor, who went from Missouri to San Francisco in '47 to practice medicine...
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Mother Lode Race Incident. Letters between two lodges of the I.O.O.F. regarding alleged misconduct on the part of a member.

By: FOX, THERON, EDITOR AND INTRODUCTION.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: San Jose, Harlan-Young Press: 1966

Seller ID: 8449

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in Good dj, in Mylar Wrapper

400 copies printed. 8vo; cloth, in tan jacket with moderate soil; 1.5" closed tear front top corner near spine.Lodge life in the Gold Rush depicted in a series of letters between two members of the International Order of Odd Fellows.
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SCOTLAND'S ROYAL LINE The Tragic House of Stuart with a Personal Biography of that Hero of Romance and Misfortune Prince Charles Edward.

By: Francis, Grant R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Dutton: 1929

Seller ID: 7672

Condition: Very Good condition

Red cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated with frontis & plates containing reproductions of portraits. Spine gilt dulled; bookplate of Lulu Leppo of Santa Rosa, CA on front pastedown with her ownership signature on front endpaper.
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Image for [4 Titles] (I.) Facsimile Reproduction, Imperial Fresno (II.) Heritage Fresno, Homes and People (III.) A Portrait of Fresno, 1885 to 1985 (IV) M. Theo Kearney, Prince of Fresno.

[4 Titles] (I.) Facsimile Reproduction, Imperial Fresno (II.) Heritage Fresno, Homes and People (III.) A Portrait of Fresno, 1885 to 1985 (IV) M. Theo Kearney, Prince of Fresno.

By: Fresno City & County Historical Society; American Assoc. of University Women; Centennial History Committee; Schyler Rehart & William K. Patterson.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Fresno, FC&CHS; Assoc. University Women; Centennial Committee;: 1975-88

Seller ID: 9706

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine condition

All 4to; hardcover but for Kearney; all illustrated with historical photographs. Gilt lettering front cover of Imperial Fresno 'tarnished'; some fading to extremities on Heritage Fresno. Else fine.
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century. A Facsimile of the 1845 Edition. With an introduction by Madeleine B. Stern.

By: FULLER, S. MARGARET.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina Press: 1980

Seller ID: 9216

ISBN: 0872493865

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap

225 pp., includes new indexes; 12mo; gilt lettered blue cloth back and paper over boards; in black dust jacket with minor rubbing. Margaret Fuller (1810-50) was a Bostonian intellectual, a friend of Emerson and Hawthorne, the editor of the principal journal of the transcendentalist movement, and the author of several books.
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Saratoga, The Decisive Battle.

By: FURNEAUX, RUPERT.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1971

Seller ID: 8106

ISBN: 0049730053

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap

304 pp., frontis; incl. index, bibliography; 8vo cloth in pictorial brown jacket with trivial wear at edges; illustrations, maps.
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[Two Titles] The History Today Companion to British History, and Who's Who in British History.

By: GARDINER, JULIET, NEIL WENBORN, EDITORS.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Collins & Brown: 1995

Seller ID: 8623

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

Thick octavos; cloth in dust jackets. Both as new, Who's Who still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
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Handbill announcing free lecture, and a series of six lessons.

By: Garland Anderson.

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: 4270

Condition: Near Fine condition

Handbill of light blue paper stock; folded to 4p., 8.5" x 5.5", printed on all sides, advertising lectures by Garland Anderson, with his portrait photo on front page. Dated 1935 in pencil upper margin by previous owner. Top leading corner tips minor dog-ear.A pioneer playwright and moralistic philosopher of constructive thinking, Garland Anderson was the first African American known to have a serious full-length drama produced on Broadway. Active in the theatre for over 10 years during the 1920s and 1930s, he achieved national prominence as “the San Francisco Bellhop Playwri...
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