![MISS BRONZE CALIFORNIA BEAUTY PAGEANT [cover title]. African Americana, California](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM56779.jpg?v=1625588651)
[N.p., likely Los Angeles. 1964]. 28pp., profusely illustrated. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor edge wear, a few tiny edge chips. Tiny amount of chipping to bottom corner of last few leaves. Very good. The official program for the 1964 Miss Bronze California beauty pageant, a beauty contest for single African-American.....
Magdalena Bay, Lower California. Nov. 10, 1870. [4]pp. on a folded folio sheet, including a map on the final page. Small tape repair in fore-edge of first leaf. A bit of offsetting from the masthead and the map. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt.....
San Francisco. 1928. Small quarto. Printed wrapper over boards. One of approximately five hundred copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. The fragile outer wrapper is lightly chipped, with short breaks at the spine fold, boards a bit bumped at corners, with crack at crown of spine fold, internally very good.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, [1962]. Twelve quarto fascicles, with occasional illustrations and typographical embellishments. Enclosed in cloth and board chemise and cloth covered slipcase, with gilt label. First edition of the 26th of the Club's annual keepsakes. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Club, it numbers.....
Washington. 1892. 56pp. Dbd., retaining front wrapper, U.S. Supreme Court stamp on wrapper, else very good. Legal brief for the California & Oregon Land Co., concerning the suit brought against the firm by the U.S. government for alleged fraudulent business actions.
New York: Nesbitt and Co., [ 1861]. Illustrated handbill, 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (sight), printed in red, blue, and black. In fine condition. Matted and framed. A rare and attractive handbill advertising the services of the Andrew Jackson, a clipper ship bound for San Francisco in late 1861.....
New York: Samuel French, [nd, but ca. 1855?]. 19pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. Early American printing of this popular play, first published and produced in London in 1849. Issued as number XXXIII of French's Minor Drama series. The first American edition appeared in 1850 under Taylor's imprint. "The California Gold.....
London & New York: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1899. Slate blue cloth, ruled and lettered in gray, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Portrait. Bookplate. Very slightly shaken, but a very good copy. First edition. "The daughter of a wealthy San Francisco pioneer, a victim of her own impulsiveness and indiscretion, meets.....
London & New York: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1899. Slate blue cloth, ruled and lettered in gray, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Portrait. Bookplate. Moderately shaken and rubbed, 1899 San Francisco ownership inscription on half-title; just a sound copy. First edition. "The daughter of a wealthy San Francisco pioneer, a victim.....
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1900. Pictorial red cloth. Photographs. First edition. Light rubbing to front board, spine cocked and somewhat dull, dusty at edges, but near very good.
"Camp Nusseerabad, India." 1859-1860. [121]pp. of manuscript text, about 15,500 total words. Original three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Boards edgeworn and lightly rubbed. Internally quite clean, neat, and legible. Very good. An interesting unpublished manuscript, this is a novel in the form of an autobiography, purportedly written by an American-born.....
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1861. 350,[6]pp. Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine sunned and extremities a bit frayed, considerable foxing to endsheets, and less so scattered elsewhere, a few small marginal discolorations, a few signatures starting slightly, early ink name on preliminary blank; still a good, sound.....
![COLUMBIA MINING LAWS [caption title]. California Gold Rush](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM46036.jpg?v=1593711690)
[Columbia, Ca. Gazette Print, 1853]. Broadside, 10 3/4 x 8 inches. Printed in three columns. A bit of light foxing, mostly in margins. Near fine. In a folding cloth clamshell case, spine gilt. A rare broadside printing of the laws of the Columbia Mining District in California in 1853, created.....
New York. January 29, 1849. [1]p. of a bifolium, docketed on verso of second bifolium leaf. Mailing folds, slight edge discoloration, else fine. An intriguing note regarding life insurance for a forty-niner traveling to California in 1849 with Henry Webb and John Woodhouse Audubon. The note reads: "Langdon H. Havens.....
San Francisco: Monson, Whitton & Co., 1852. 43pp. Modern half calf and plain paper boards. Text lightly age-toned. Extensive early pencil notes (see below). Very good. The Thomas W. Streeter copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown and his pencil notes on the front free endpaper. A very significant.....
Benicia [i.e. Boston]. 1853. xix,1071pp. Modern buckram, gilt leather labels. Minor dust-soiling, light wear to labels, library shelf label on spine. Ink library stamps on verso of titlepage. Very good. The first compilation of the laws of the state of California. Compiled by S. Garfielde and F.A. Snyder; additionally, Garfielde.....
Sacramento. 1855. x,354pp. Modern buckram, gilt leather labels. Mild toning to edges and spine. Ink library stamps on titlepage, occasional tanning. Very good. Spanish-language edition of the laws of the state of California, passed at the sixth legislative session. The text was translated from English by Agustin Ainsa, the state.....
Sacramento: O.M. Clayes, 1864. lxxxvii,[3],710,[2],16pp. Contemporary pigskin, rebacked in matching style, gilt morocco spine labels. New endpapers. Light stain in lower margin of last few pages, else quite clean internally. Very good. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. Laws and statutes of the state.....
San Jose. 1901. 109pp. Original printed wrappers. Ex-lib, small tears in rear wrapper, else fine. Compiled by the authority of the Board of Supervisors, this pamphlet details laws of the county, including a requirement that anyone selling opium pay a license of fifty dollars per quarter.
Sacramento. 1860. xxx,447,35pp. plus three folding tables. Modern buckram, gilt leather labels. Minor soiling, library shelf label on spine. Ink library stamps on verso of titlepage, light toning. Very good. The session laws for the eleventh California legislature. The last section is the "Annual Report of the Treasurer of the.....
[San Jose, i.e. New York]: J. Winchester, State Printer, 1850. ix,[1],482pp. Half title. Quarto. Modern buckram, gilt leather labels. Minor shelf wear, one label lacking, one chipped. Library ink stamp and embossed blindstamp on titlepage, light foxing. Very good. The first published volume of the statutes of California. Herein are.....
Sacramento. 1858. xx,404,47pp. plus three folding tables. Modern buckram, gilt leather labels. Minor sunning and dust-soiling, library shelf label. Ink library stamps on titlepage, light toning and foxing. Very good. The session laws for the ninth California legislature. The three folding tables record receipts from the Treasury for the last.....
[San Jose] & San Francisco. 1851, 1852. 558; 314pp., with three-page errata bound into the first volume. Modern buckram, gilt leather labels. Minor shelf wear and soiling, slight chipping to labels. Faint ink library stamps and embossed blindstamps on titlepages, a few signatures tanned in first volume, occasional contemporary ink.....
Sacramento. 1855. xv,[1],326pp. plus folding table. Modern buckram, gilt leather labels. Minor soiling, library shelf label on spine. Faint library ink stamp and embossed blindstamp on titlepage, paper remnants on titlepage, minor foxing. Very good. An early volume of session laws, printed in Sacramento in 1855, and comprising the session.....
[New York], San Francisco & Sacramento. 1850-1866. Sixteen volumes. Contemporary legal sheep, leather labels. Some volumes with tender or almost detached hinges. Contemporary and later ownership inscriptions, including those of Walter Norris of Salinas, Lucas F. Smith of Santa Cruz, Victor L. Hicks, Wright & Wright of San Francisco, and.....
