Californiana from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

1st printing. 8vo, Brick red cloth. Limited to 160 copies. The club's second publication. John Sutter Jr was the eldest son of Capt. John Sutter; he managed the Sutter properties during most of the critical period between 1848 and 1851, and was himself the founder of the city of Sacramento. By 18952, the Sutter holdings had all been… Read more about this item

9 pp. (8¾x5¾"), previously bound. First Edition. ##### Document 9, 1855. Report on the sale of the interest of the State of California in the property within the water line in front of San Francisco [known as water lots]. The sales occurred between September 1853 and October 1854. The appendices list the blocks and properties, the buyers, the dates, and the prices… Read more about this item

Thick 4to, 3/4 brown leather, marbled boards. 1056 pp. Willis moved from the east coast to Sacramento county in 1871, where he engaged in farming near Elk Grove, and teaching, until 1892. He then became a member of the editorial staff of the Record-Union, and continued the association for thirteen years. In 1879 he was tendered an appointment on the… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop. 1973. 1st ed.. 1st ed., limited to 300 copies. 8vo, illustrated boards, 48 pp. Illustrated with contemporary photographs and graphics - LA cemet eries up to the year 1885. Fine, without d/w -- as issued. .

The Book Club of California, San Francisco. New. 1989. 1st edition. First edition; one of 450 copies. Edited with an Introduction by Norman Neuerberg. xl, 100 [1] pp. Oblong folio, cloth-backed deco rated paper-covered boards with printed paper label on spine, in publisher's plain white wrapper. Illustrations & plates from sket ches & paintings by Ford, a few… Read more about this item

Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club,. Fine. Decorative Cloth. 1959. First Thus. The texts of a "Memoir" (1877-1878) and an interview (1883) betwe en Low and H.H. Bancroft, in which the ninth governor of Californ ia (1863-1867) reflected on his business and political life, with particular emphasis on the Gold Rush, the railroads, and the que stion of Chinese immigration.… Read more about this item

Sacramento: H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers. 1869. 1st ed.. 8vo, cardboard covers with advtg, 275 pp. Lists of Post Offices on the Pacific Coast, Money Order Offices, General Directory, City Business Directory, State Offices, Sacramento City Government, County Directory, local history and statistics, hundreds of advts. Ex Libris William Neely Johnson, with his signature on p… Read more about this item

NY: The New York Tribune . Very good. 1848. 1st ed. California Gold. Important Official Report. In The New York Tribune for December 8, 1848, published by Horace Greeley and Thomas McElrath. Original elephant folio newspaper, 4pp. complete, the report on p. 3. Colonel Richard B. Masonâs famous report of his trip to newly discovered placers. It ranks… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: UAW Western Region Six. 1969. 1st ed.. 24pp, Union offprint from the June 21 and June 28, 1969 issues of the New Yorker. The origin of what would later be expanded to Sa l Si Puedes. Fine and bright in stapled wrappers; no tears, chips or markings. Signed . t cover. The only copy we… Read more about this item

Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles. 1974. 1st.. 8vo, decorated boards, black cloth spine w/ gilt titles, 82 pages , illustrated w/b&w photos. No. IV in the series ‘Los Angeles Miscellany’. A classic work of urban archeology. Very good: A c lean, tight copy with near fine appearance overall, but with rubb ed and slightly chipped corners. .… Read more about this item

Paisano Press. Fine. 1959. 1st ed. Large 8vo, ochre linen covered boards with gilt writing on spine with gilt illustration on cover. 86 pages. .Limited edition, # 40 8 of 500 copies; reprinted from Harper's New Monthly Magazine 186 1-62. Fine copy in very good d/w. The book itself is as-new; the dustjacket has light surface wear… Read more about this item

Baker & Scribner, New York. Good Ex-lib. 1850. 2d ed.. 2d ed. revised and enlarged. 8vo, violet embossed cloth. xii + 32 4pp. An account of the gold rush and gold fields, starting with embarkment from New York to Panama and then from Panama to Califo rnia. Kurutz [363a] -- calls this book, "one of the earliest, liv… Read more about this item

San Diego: Don Diego's Libreria. Very Good-Near Fine. 1964. 1st ed.. The Journal of Padre Serra, From Loreto, the Capital of Baja Cali fornia, to San Diego, Capital of the New Establishments of Alta C alifornia in three months and three days March 28 to July 1, 1769 . Including San Diego's Great Water Rights Document Now Published for… Read more about this item

Stockton CA: Russell C Grigsby. Good+. 1943. 1st ed.. 1st ed., 8vo, dark green boards, 154 pp. Grigsby lived in the Tuo lumne/Yosemite region of the Sierra Nevada from 1907. This memoir s cover his early years, through the Depression and his work with the California Conservation Corp, through the publication date 1 943. Good+: Presents as very good-near… Read more about this item

Sacramento: California State Dept of Education. 1956. 1st ed.. 40 single plate black & white photographs (8 1/2" x 11"), printed on stiff paper and housed in publisher's printed portfolio folde r; accompanied by three page "Teacher's Guide"). Plates are fine ; folder has some wear and a few nicks but very good overall; tit le written in… Read more about this item

Macmillan, New York. Good. Hardcover. 1916. 1st ed.. 1st ed., 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles. 485 pp. [4 advts]. Frontis piece of Viceroy of New Spain, plus 6 maps. Condition: Good; a c lean copy, with prior owner’s inked name and address on fep and back cover, rear hinge cracked; moderate wear to boards. .

Book Club of California. Fine. 1993. 1st thus.. Inscribed by author Gary Kurutz . 1st ed. thus, small 4to, 57 pp. One of 390 copies with a tipped in original leaf from the 1914 First Edition of Cowan's work. The Book Club of California, publication 201. Gray cloth boards and paper cover, printed title label on… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Clemens Publishing Company. 1992. 1st ed.. 1st ed. 12mo, publisher’s printed wrappers with a portrait of T wain on front. 211 pp. First edition. BAL, p. 251. Fair: Internal ly clean and tight. Covers rubbed at extremites; bottom right cor ner of front cover and first leaf clipped 1/8”, similar sized c rease on next several leaves;… Read more about this item

The Book Club of California. New. 2987. 1st edition. 1st ed., oblong 4to, 10 x 13 inches. 199 pp. Limited to 450 copie s. With color illustrations by Charles Shaw, appendix, footnotes, bibliography, index and endpaper maps. Original prospectus laid in. . uarter natural linen, illustrated paper over boards, printed pape r spine label, maps in end-leaves,… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Printed for Anna Lee Marston by Johnck and Seeger. 1928. 1st. First edition. 8vo. Original 1/2 dark blue cloth stamped in gilt over light blue boards.279 pages + 2 page genealogy chart. Color frontispiece and 15 b/w photogravures. No signatures or bookplate s. One of 300 copies, this copy unnumbered but with the very scar ce… Read more about this item