[Los Angeles. 1969]. iv,36pp. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers. Minimal edge wear, minor occasional toning. Near fine. A rare business directory intended for use by the African-American community of Los Angeles at the end of the turbulent 1960s. It follows the first issue published for the summer of 1969, and appears.....

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.....

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.....

San Francisco: Henry G. Langley, 1867. xcvi,698,88pp. Later half sheep and printed boards, spine gilt. Spine leather worn and chipped, boards rubbed, cloth tape around edges. Initial and final leaves used as pastedowns. No map present. Bookplate on front pastedown. One leaf with extensive tape repairs, several other with minor.....

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.....

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.

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, Ca. Gazette Print, 1853]. Broadside, 10 3/4 x 8 inches, printed in three columns. A bit of light foxing, mostly in the 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.....

New York. Jan. 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......

San Francisco. 1852. 20pp. Modern paper boards, gilt leather label. Three bookplates on front endpapers. A touch of light foxing and a faint vertical crease. Very good. One of the bookplates on the present copy is that of the noted Vermont collector, Hall Park McCullough. A seminal collection of documents.....

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: 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.....

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.....