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Image for Reports Of Land Cases Determined In The Unites States District Court For The Northern District Of California June Term 1853 To June Term 1858 Inclusive, Volume I.

Reports Of Land Cases Determined In The Unites States District Court For The Northern District Of California June Term 1853 To June Term 1858 Inclusive, Volume I.

By: HOFFMAN, OGDEN.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Yosemite Collections: 1975

Edition: Reprint Edition

Seller ID: 8215

Condition: Fine condition

458 pp., plus 146 pp., appendix, indexes to the ranchos & claimants; 8vo; orange cloth. View more info

Mammy Pleasant's Partner.

By: Holdredge, Helen.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: N.Y., Putnam's: [1954]

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6102

Condition: Fine condition in Very good jacket, in protective mylar

Signed by the author on title page. 300 pp., 8vo; black cloth spine over patterned boards, in dust jacket; black & white photographs, reproductions. Jacket with occassional light wear to eges; two closed tears, up to 1.5" top front edge from spine, and leading corner View more info

From The Gulag To The Killing Fields: Personal Accounts Of Political Violence And Repression In Communist States .

By: HOLLANDER, PAUL, ED.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute: 2006

Seller ID: 8114

ISBN: 1932236783

Condition: As New

lxxviii, 760 pages; 8vo; in dust jacket; maps. Still in original shrinkwrap.Edited by a renowned scholar of communism, this volume gathers together more than 40 dramatic personal memoirs of communist violence and repression from political prisoners across the globe. View more info

From The Gulag To The Killing Fields: Personal Accounts Of Political Violence And Repression In Communist States .

By: HOLLANDER, PAUL, ED.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute: 2006

Seller ID: 8617

ISBN: 1932236783

Condition: Fine condition in Fine jacket

lxxviii, 760 pages; 8vo; in dust jacket; maps. Edited by a renowned scholar of communism, this volume gathers together more than 40 dramatic personal memoirs of communist violence and repression from political prisoners across the globe. View more info

American Individualism.

By: Hoover, Herbert.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page & Co.: 1922

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 3387

Condition: Very Good condition

72 pp.; 12mo; gilt stamped blue cloth, without dust jacket. Gilt dulled particularly on spine; offset tanning from paper laid in at half-title, otherwise a tight, clean copy. View more info

The Farallon Islands, California. A paper read before The National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of California.

By: Hoover, Mildred Brooke.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Stanford, Stanford University Press: 1932

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2348

Condition: Very Good condition

17 pps., map frontis; 8vo; printed brown wrappers; black & white photograph. Very light soil to covers; very light foxing to half-title. View more info

The Prospect Before Her : A History of Women in Western Europe : Volume One 1500-1800.

By: Hufton, Olwen.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: N.Y., Knopf: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2593

ISBN: 0679450300

Condition: Fine condition in Fine jacket

638 pp.; 8vo; paper covered boards in pictorial dust jacket; black & white illustrations, reproductions. View more info

John Walton Caughey. A Bibliography of His Writings.

By: Hundley, Norris Jr.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Glen Dawson: 1961

Edition: Limited Edition

Seller ID: 6824

Condition: Fine condition

200 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, Pasadena. 22 pp.; 12mo; tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt; portrait photo of Caughey on title. View more info

Report on England, November, 1940.

By: Ingersoll, Ralph.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: N.Y., Simon & Schuster: 1940

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 5757

Condition: Very Good condition in Very Good jacket

8vo; cloth with tanning to pastedowns along hinge; in chipped dust jacket with light tanning to white back panel. View more info

Image for In and Out of the Old Missions of California, an Historical and Pictorial Account of The Franciscan Missions. With 142 illustrations from photographs.

In and Out of the Old Missions of California, an Historical and Pictorial Account of The Franciscan Missions. With 142 illustrations from photographs.

By: JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown: 1906

Seller ID: 8854

Condition: Very Good condition

392 pp., pub. ads, tissue frontis; 8vo; green cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt; gilt top edge; plate illustrations. Minor nicks and rubbing to cloth here and there on edges; very faint blotching to rear cover. View more info

Picture This. World War 1 Posters and Visual Culture.

By: JAMES, PEARL, EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: University Of Nebraska Press: 2009

Seller ID: 8107

Condition: Fine condition

398 pp., incl. index, selected bibliography; 8vo; black wrappers; 53 illustrations. View more info

Image for A Texas Ranger.

A Texas Ranger.

By: JENNINGS, N. A.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: N.Y., Scribner's: 1899

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 8432

Condition: Good or better condition

321 pp.; 8vo; pictorial brown cloth, without dust jacket. Light soil to cloth with light strip of stain to back cover; small area of rubbing to red shirt of the 'Ranger' front cover; ownership name of Mrs. Ruth M. Drake in pen front endpaper; small foil label for International Bookfinders lower edge front pastedown.Adams Six-Guns 1173. Basic Texas Books 107. Graff 2208. Howes J100. A Texas Ranger is journalist Napoleon Augustus Jennings's memoir of his youthful ... View more info

Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway.

By: Jonathan Parshall; Anthony Tully.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Potomac Books: 2005

Seller ID: 8052

ISBN: 1574889230

Bookseller Inventory # 002230 View more info

Oh my Country.

By: Josten, Josef.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Latimer House, Ltd.: [1949]

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 3379

Condition: Very Good condition

255 pp., frontis; 8vo; black cloth, without dust jacket; map endpapers; black & white photographs, reproductions. Very minor wear along spine edge, leading corner tips; minor crease down spine; moderate foxing to foredge; occasional pencil marks, checks, brackets on approx. 5 scattered pages in the latter third of the volume.Signed by the author on title page. Also on title page, an oval rubber stamp for a private library "Anthony W. [Yulis], Received, with d... View more info

The Spanish-American War: A Compact History.

By: Kelller, Alan.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: N.Y., Hawthorne Books: 1969

Edition: 1st Printing

Seller ID: 5394

Condition: Very Good condition in Good jacket, with Mylar Wrap

Inscribed by the author. 258 pp.; 8vo; cloth, with light foxing top edge; in dust jacket with foxing to tip of inside flaps; jagged tear with 2" loss lower front edge. View more info

Image for Outlaw Trail, a History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch, Hole-In-The-Wall, Brown's Wall, Robber's Roost.

Outlaw Trail, a History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch, Hole-In-The-Wall, Brown's Wall, Robber's Roost.

By: Kelly, Charles, with decorations by Bill Fleming.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Salt Lake City, By the author: 1938

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 7286

Condition: Good Condition

[9]. 337 pp., 7 blank leaves; portrait of Bat Masterson after title page; 8vo; dark red cloth lettered in gilt with horse & rider decoration front cover; map endpapers; plates throughout containing period photographs, drawings. Plates collated complete but a few don't conform to the location in list of illustrations page. Cover rubbed at edges; ownership name, Ed Taylor, Kaycee Wyo on front endpaper, found also at top edge of rear chapter heading, with just the name top... View more info

Image for First Directory of Nevada Territory . . . and including, Sketches of the Washoe Silver Mines by Henry De Groot. containing the names of residents in the principal towns ; a historical sketch, the Organic act, and other political matters of interest ; together with a description of all the quartz mills ; reduction works, and all other industrial establishments in the territory ; as also of the leading mining claims; and various mineral discoveries, works of internal improvements, etc, with a table of distances, list of public officers, and other useful information.

First Directory of Nevada Territory . . . and including, Sketches of the Washoe Silver Mines by Henry De Groot. containing the names of residents in the principal towns ; a historical sketch, the Organic act, and other political matters of interest ; together with a description of all the quartz mills ; reduction works, and all other industrial establishments in the territory ; as also of the leading mining claims; and various mineral discoveries, works of internal improvements, etc, with a table of distances, list of public officers, and other useful information.

By: KELLY, J. WELLS, COMPILER; HENRY DE GROOT.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Los Gatos, CA, The Talisman Press: 1962

Edition: Facsimile Reprint

Seller ID: 8807

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

(i cover), ii, front pastedown; iii-(xvii), ads; 266 pp., frontis; 24 pp. (sketchbook); 8vo; black fabrikoid spine lettered in gilt, and paper printed with advertisements over boards; in printed paper jacket. Two sections comprising 24 full page ads within the text; tables & lists. Folding map of Washoe Mines by De Groot. Jacket with a bit of fading bottom edge, minor crease foot of spine. View more info

Image for A History of California Newspapers 1846-1858. Reprinted from the Supplement to the Sacramento Union of December 25, 1858

A History of California Newspapers 1846-1858. Reprinted from the Supplement to the Sacramento Union of December 25, 1858

By: KEMBLE, EDWARD C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Los Gatos, The Talisman Press: 1962

Edition: First Edition Thus

Seller ID: 8450

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

Limited to 750 copies. 398 pp., frontis; 8vo; cloth in printed yellow jacket with faint tanning to top rear extremities.A useful reference to newspaper publishing arranged in chronological order. View more info

Image for [FourTitles] A Kemble Reader, Stories of California, 1846-1848; A Visit to California in 1841; A Sailor's Sketch of the Sacramento Valley in 1842; Recollections of Old Times in California or, California Life in 1843.

[FourTitles] A Kemble Reader, Stories of California, 1846-1848; A Visit to California in 1841; A Sailor's Sketch of the Sacramento Valley in 1842; Recollections of Old Times in California or, California Life in 1843.

By: KEMBLE, EDWARD CLEVELAND; JOSEPH B. CHILES; JOHN YATES; WILLIAM HENRY THOMES.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: The California Historical Society; Friends of the Bancroft Library: 1963;1970;1971; 1974

Seller ID: 8816

Condition: Fine condition

8vo; first title in cloth, three Bancroft keepsakes in printed wrappers. Top leading corner tips bumped on the Kemble, else fine.Four personal reminiscences of life in the Golden State before the Gold Rush. View more info

Image for The Maquis de Custine and His Russia in 1839.

The Maquis de Custine and His Russia in 1839.

By: KENNAN, GEORGE F.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press: 1971

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 8498

ISBN: 0691051879

Condition: Very Good condition in Very Good jacket

145 pp., incl. notes & index; 8vo; cloth in price-clipped jacket. Moderate foxing to rear flap edges of jacket, with a sprinkle to the lower portion of foredge of text block. View more info