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IMPATIENT WITH DESIRE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion / Voice, (2010.). SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Novel based on the tragedy of the Donner Party, caught by snow in the Sierras in 1846, with some of the survivors resorting to cannibalism to avoid dying from hunger. Using Tamsen Donner's letters and imagined journal entries, this is also the story of a deep love. Double page map, illustrations, author's note and brief bibliography. Publisher's letter bound in. 246 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (as new .)
Book ID: 45646More details Price: $25.00 -
ADVENTURERS AND PROPHETS: American Autobiographers in Mexican California, 1828-1847.
Edition: First printing.
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co. , 1995. Hardcover first edition - An introduction to the lives and memoirs of 11 early American travelers and settlers in California, and of the role the books which these men wrote played in promoting California to Americans back east. The Merchant & Traders included Alfred Robinson, William Heath Davis, and William Dana Phelps; those who came ' Before the Mast' included Richard Henry Dana, and William Henry Thomes; the Mountain Men included James Pattie, Kit Carson, Zenas Leonard and others, and finally the 'Exponents of Empire' included Thomas Jefferson Farnham and Henry Augustus Wise. Volume 24 in the Western Frontiersmen Series. 5 pages of portraits and plates. Bibliography and index. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-87062-2285.
Condition: Fine in red cloth, no dj as issued.
Book ID: 25293More details Price: $40.00 -
OF VINES AND MISSIONS.
Edition: First printing.
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1971. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of poems which recount the history of the chain of nine missions along the California coast from San Antonio de Padua to San Francisco Solano, as well as celebrating the wines made from the descendents of vines the missionaries planted. Illustrated with 45 watercolor paintings by De Grazia. INSCRIBED by Gordon on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 89 pp plus a 2 pp Brief bibliography.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket with some rubbing and chipping to the edges.
Book ID: 91424More details Price: $35.00 -
GPH: An Informal Record of George P. Hammond and his Era in the Bancroft Library.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1965. Hardcover first edition - Published to as a celebration of Hammond's nineteen-year tenure as Director of the Bancroft Library at the University of California. Contributors include Dale L. Morgan, Agapito Rey, Charles L Camp, Robert H. Becker, Warren R. Howell, Robert E. Burke, J. S. Holliday and others..Includes a bibliography of George P. Hammond's writings and as well as reprinting his first published work. Frontispiece portrait, 10 additional sepia-toned pages of reproductions, plates and portraits. Keepsake Number 13, designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. xiii, 119 pp.
Condition: Fine in rust-colored cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, and a facsimile of GPH's initials on the front cover (some pages still unopened.)
Book ID: 33813More details Price: $25.00 -
THE DONNER PARTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: George Braziller, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long narrative poem, which tells the tragic story of the Donner Party - a group of families from Illinois, under the leadership of George Donner, who set out by wagon train in 1846 for California - only to find themselves trapped by early snows in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and in desperation resorting to cannibalism to survive. 254 pp. Dust jacket design by Jeanyee Wong.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some spotting to the topstain)
Book ID: 84745More details Price: $20.00 -
A MEDIC FORTYNINER: Life and Letters of Dr. Reuben Knox 1849-51
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in blue cloth with silver lettering. No dustjacket as issued.
Book ID: 9135More details Price: $30.00 -
PASSAGE TO DRAKES BAY.
Edition: First printing.
NY: Morrow, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel based on the voyage of Sir Francis Drake, his discovery of the Northern California coast in 1579, and interaction between Europeans and American Indians.Jacket and frontispiece by Anne Siberell. ISBN: 0-688-20001X.
Condition: Fine in very good dust- jacket.( Slightly worn from age,price-clipped, one very small open tear on top of spine,one small closed tear on top of spine. Peeled spot on front from sticker being pulled off.)
Book ID: 27794More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ILLUMINATED LANDSCAPE: A Sierra Nevada Anthology.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Rocklin, CA, Santa Clara, CA & Berkeley: Sierra College Press / Santa Clara University / Heyday, (2010). SIGNED first edition - A literary anthology inspired by the Range of Light, combining excerpts from well-known writers such as Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Dame Shirley, Mary Austin, Wallace Stegner, Gary Snyder, T. Coraghessan Boyle, James Houston, Wendy Rose, Ishmael Reed and many others, as well as original works from local authors. "Native Americans, explorers, missionaries, gold seekers, governors, mountain climbers, naturalists, environmentalists, essayists, and poets are all represented with their powerful descriptions and compelling insights into California's grand and glorious mountain range." (Gary F. Kurutz) Foreword by Robert Hanna. Illustrated by Joe Medeiros. INSCRIBED on the half title page by the editor, Gary Noy, and dated in the year of publication. A California Legacy Book. Author index. 447 pp. ISBN: 978-1597141284.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 91256More details Price: $30.00 -
GOLD AND SILVER COLOSSUS: William Morris Stewart and His Southern Bride
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 32689More details Price: $20.00 -
400 CALIFORNIA STREET: A Century Plus Five.
Edition: Second edition. An updated edition of a book originally published in 1964.
San Francisco: Bank of California, 1969. Hardcover - The story of the oldest incorporated commercial bank in the West and its first 105 years in the financial development of the Pacific Coast. Much of the history of the bank, founded by William Ralston, which had D. O. Mills as its first president, is the history of the growth of California during the gold rush era, the beginnings of the transcontinental railroads. Profusely illustrated with photographs. An attractive publication, designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. 106 pages.
Condition: Fine in mustard-colored cloth with gold lettering in a clear acrylic jacket.
Book ID: 15259More details Price: $25.00 -
400 CALIFORNIA STREET: A Century Plus Five.
Edition: Second edition. An updated edition of a book originally published in 1964.
San Francisco: Bank of California, 1969. Hardcover - The story of the oldest incorporated commercial bank in the West and its first 105 years in the financial development of the Pacific Coast. Much of the history of the bank, founded by William Ralston, which had D. O. Mills as its first president, is the history of the growth of California during the gold rush era, the beginnings of the transcontinental railroads. Profusely illustrated with photographs. An attractive publication, designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. 106 pages.
Condition: Very near fine in mustard-colored cloth with gold lettering (crease to lower corner of the first page.).
Book ID: 59177More details Price: $18.00 -
400 CALIFORNIA STREET: The Story of the Bank of California.
Edition: First trade printing.
San Francisco: Bank of California, 1964. Hardcover first edition - The story of the Bank of California, National Association and its first 100 years in the financial development of the Pacific Coast. Much of the history of the bank, founded by William Ralston, which had D. O. Mills as its first president, is the history of the growth of California during the gold rush era, the beginnings of the transcontinental railroads. Profusely illustrated with photographs. An attractive publication, designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. 87 pages.
Condition: Near fine in dark blue cloth with gold lettering in a clear acrylic jacket.
Book ID: 15258More details Price: $25.00 -
CALIFORNIA GOLD: Story of the Rush to Riches.
Edition: Paperback original , not issued in hardcover.
Sonoma, CA: Zanel Publications, 1980. Large format (approx 11 x 8 1/2 inches) in stapled wrappers and illustrated with many vintage photographs. A title in the mini-history series. The story of the Gold Rush towns of the Motherlode in the Sierra foothills - contrasts the towns then and now. Included are Coloma, Auburn, Sutter Creek, Murphys, Volcano, Jamestown, Grass Valley and more. Map. Several pages of advertisements. 64 pages. ISBN: 0-936914-009.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 24298More details Price: $12.50