San Francisco. Whitton, Towne & Co., Printers, Excelsior Steam Presses, 1856. Hardcover. "Second Edition, with an Appendix". Worn and stained red cloth covers, with significant cracking to the covering of the spine and loss to the tail, exposing the gatherings. Previous owner's marks on free endpaper and flyleaf. Foxing throughout.....

Juneau, Alaska: Daily Empire Print, 1913. Hardcover. "Passed at the First Regular Session of the Territorial Legislature, Convened at Juneau, the Capital, on the Third Day of March, 1913, and Adjourned Sine Die, the First Day of May, 1913." Poor binding, as often, with substantial loss to the outer layer.....

Virginia, Nev. F. Boegle, 1889. Soft cover. An early tourist's guide to Nevada, with a focus on the Comstock Mines but expanding to cover the rest of the state. From the introduction: "The central idea in the preparation of this little book has been to give, as concisely as possible.....

Frederick A. Stokes, 1902. Hardcover. Text by Therese O. Deming, illustrations by Edwin Willard Deming. Yellow cloth covers with inlaid illustration on front are rubbed but fully intact. First few pages are beginning to crack at the hinge but are also intact.

Fletcher Family Foundation, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes in two: : A New Route to the California Gold Fields; Another New Route to the California Gold Fields; and Emigrants, Goldseekers, Cattle Drives and Outlaws. Both volumes signed (on different occasions) by the Fletchers. The illustrated red cloth boards are.....

Macmillan, 1910. Hardcover. American feminist Gertrude Atherton wrote this novel which follows Margaret Hill, a singer, into a dramatic love triangle. 7.75" x 5.25". Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Signed by Atherton on full-title page. Vii, 466 pages, 4 pages ads. Corners of boards.....

The Book Club of California, 1931. Special Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies. Folio, natural morocco backstrip with four raised bands, stamped in blind, tan cloth boards. Seven small drawings, sixteen full-page drawings, and two folding maps. Also includes the one-page letter announcing the publication of volume in.....

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Scarry, Richard. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A charming Little Golden Book, illustrated by Richard Scarry, with a jigsaw puzzle included in the rear cover. A later "B" printing. Puzzle complete and untouched, slight wear to corners, pages bright and unmarked. Small tear just beginning at.....

Quarter-Circle T V [Frank King's Arizona Brand], 1946. Russell, Charles M. 1st Edition. Hardcover. With a long inscription from the author on the copyright page, to "My friend S.D. Platford of the Los Angeles County Flood Control, who has dome good work in helping the U.S. Indians...". This is likely.....

New York: James Miller, 1869. Hardcover. Captain Michael James Box of the Texan Rangers compiled this "account of the mineral resources of Mexico" over ten years, to inform Americans interested in moving west. The book contains a guide to the "mineral treasures" of Durango, Chihuahua, Sierra Nevada, Sinaloa, Sonora, and.....

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1880. Hardcover. With bookplate of noted ornithologist Ruthven Deane. Illustrated, the American edition of 1880 appearing the year after the London edition of 1879. Attractive illustrated boards, with moose, bison, bear and birds, with slight fraying at the corners and extremities. Both free endpapers.....

Fresno, California: Academy Library Guild, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First editions of A.R. Rojas's collections of stories of the California Vaqueros, published in 1953 and 1958. Wear to the edges of the illustrated dust jackets, with a loss in the center of the jacket of the second volume. Prior owner's.....

Los Angeles, CA, USA: The Times Mirror Press, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this biography of Tom Mix, star of many early western films, detailing his time as a cowboy, rancher, sheriff, and finally actor.There is some slight wear to the head and tail of the spine, the.....