From the first Spanish explorations in the 16th century, California
was a mysterious place. It was the ultimate destination to fulfill
dreams of adventure and exploration.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1988. Near Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket First Edition. limited to 450. San Francisco: The Book Club of California. 1988. First edition limited to 450 copies printed by The Greenwood Press [6.75x10.5”]. Illustrated gray toned covers and spine with black lettering on white..... Item #12926
San Francisco: Bacon & Company, Book and Job Printers, 1879. Very good. First Edition. 12mo [5x7.5in]; 159 pp.; Dark green cloth covers with stamped gilt lettering and floral design on front, blind stamped rules and floral design on front and back, dark brown clay end papers, all edges trimmed; Minor..... Item #13302
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1990. Near Fine in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. [9.25x6.25in]; ix, 159 pp., Frontispiece of Smith, 24 illustrations and images, index; Black cloth covers with silver lettering on spine, all edges trimmed; minimal shelf wear to covers; Tan dust jacket with dark brown..... Item #13418
New York: International Fiction Library [The MacMillan Company], 1929. Very Good. First Edition. [reprint of 1917 Outing Library reprinting of the 1857 3 Years in California][5x7.5”]; Light brown cloth cover with black ink lettering on front and spine, black double ruled spine and front border with publisher’s device, all edges..... Item #13195
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1864. Very Good. First Edition. [7.75x5.5in]; vii, 436 pp., 150 illustrations by the Author in text and full page; Publishers plum pebbled cloth covers with blind stamped border and design on covers, gilt lettering on spine; Shelf wear to covers, edges and corners with..... Item #13818
Palo Alto, CA: Arthur Lites Press, 1950. Very Good. First Edition. , limited to 1000 copies [9.75x6.5in]; 93 pp., seven color illustrations, ten illustrated initial chapter letters; Pale lime green cloth covers with black lettering on front and spine, and black with yellow background illustration on front; Minor shelf wear..... Item #13338
![Item #12998 A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush; The Letters of Franklin A. Buck [1846 to 1880]....](https://davidspilmanfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket First Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; 1930; First Edition [5.75x8.5”]; Bright green cloth binding with red lettering, device and rules on spine, top edge stained red; Dark yellow dust jacket with deep red lettering and wrap around illustration of mining..... Item #12998
San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1929. Near Fine. First Edition. San Francisco: Taylor & Taylor. , limited [5.25x8”]; Light brown, blue, green marbled covers with maroon cloth back strip, gilt lettering on spine, insert color illustration of pioneer settlers viewing landscape and sunset [”The Promised Land!” from the cover of The..... Item #13258
New York: Wilson-Erickson, Inc, 1936. Near Fine in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. [6.25x9.25”]; Forest green pebbled cloth covers with red ink lettering on front and spine, all edges trimmed; Light brown dust jacket with black lettering in cover and spine, black illustration of landscape with birds and large tree..... Item #13181
San Francisco: John Howell, 1956. Near Fine. First Edition. Lawton Kenndy, Designer. limited to 750 [6.5x9.5”]; Green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, light blue illustration of sailing ship on front, fore edge untrimmed; [2], vi, [1], 170 pp., [2], frontispiece illustration of Robert Field Stockton [prominent in articles]..... Item #13192
![Item #14193 History of the Sierra Nevada; [Designed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy]. Francis P....](https://davidspilmanfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14193.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681253900)
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1965. Near Fine in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. [10.5x7.25in]; xiv, 262 pp., frontispiece color illustration of Tuolumne River by William Keith, 48 images and illustrations in text, five maps of Sierra Nevada, notes and references at end of chapters, index; Dark blue cloth..... Item #14193
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937. Near Fine. First Edition. , limited to 650 copies [11x7.75in]; Brown-burnt orange-violet-silver marbled paper cover with dark brown cloth back strip, tan paper label with black lettering and design, top edge trimmed and other not, rag paper endpapers; [5], [1, facsimile of 1939 title..... Item #13149
San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1919. Near Fine. First Edition. William Smythe, Illus. Signed by Publisher, #184 of 250 limited printing [10.5x7.5in]; [5], 5a-10a [Forward], xvi, 372 pp.,10 lithographic color plates, including frontispiece of Father Antonio Peyri, woodcut illustration in text, fold out colored map of Pacific Coast from Panama..... Item #13788
San Francisco: The Press of Lewis and Dorothy Allen, 1942. Very Good. First Edition. Lawrence E. Walker, Illustrator. limited to 225 [6.25x7.25”]; Pale green flaked cloth on covers with quarter calf backstrip, stamped light brown ink lettering on spine with three raised ribs, green ink illustration of settler family on..... Item #13211
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Very Good. First Edition. Limited to 550 copies, [11x7.75`in]; [3], xiv, 45 pp., [1] colophon, [3], color frontispiece and two full page lithographs, fifteen reproductions of maps, two fold out, broadsides, letter paper and lithographs on colored paper; Burgundy paper boards with burgundy cloth..... Item #13548
San Francisco: Sunset Publishing House, 1920. Very Good. First Edition. [6.5x3.75in]; 98 pp., three maps - 'Aeroplane' view of Valley features, Yosemite Village and Valley roads, and fold out at rear of Yosemite Valley roads and trails to adjacent regions and contours; Brown pebbled paper wrappers of two staple/glue binding..... Item #14012
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921. Very Good. First Edition. [7.5x4.75in];xiii, 347 pp., frontispiece image of Yosemite Valley, 26 plates of black and white images of the geology, plants and animals, map of Yosemite National Park; Forest green cloth covers with black lettering on spine and front, black illustration of..... Item #14009
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1951. Near Fine in None Issued dust-jacket First Edition. Item #11698
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. Fine in Fine dust-jacket First Edition, 1st Printing. [9.5x6.5in]; 559 pp., 43 illustrations and images, 13 maps, appendix, notes, sources and index; Dark brown quarter cloth with speckled tan paper covers, light gilt lettering on spine, brown and tan map of William Swain's route..... Item #13305
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1923. Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket 2nd Printing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 1923; First Edition, Second Printing [7x9.75”]; Dark blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine; Mustard yellow dust jacket with black lettering on spine, yellow lettering on field of black and illustration..... Item #12991
![Item #13803 James Mason Hutchings of Yo Semite; A Biography and Bibliography [with Prospectus]....](https://davidspilmanfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13803.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1653687760)
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2009. Fine. First Edition. Signed, Limited to 500 copies, Large Quarto [13.25x10in]; xv, 324 pp., frontispiece of Kings River Canyon view of Mt. Hutchings, 92 images and illustrations, some in color throughout text, extensive appendices, endnotes, references, bibliography and index; Forest green linen..... Item #13803
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1962. Near Fine in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. J.O.H Cosgrave II, Illust. , signed [6.25x9.25”] Brick-red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, all edges trimmed; Dust jacket has colorful illustration by J. O’H Cosgrave II of San Francisco California street scene with..... Item #13179
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1962. Near Fine in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. J.O.H Cosgrave II, Illust. [6.25x9.25in] Brick-red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, all edges trimmed; Dust jacket has colorful illustration by J. O’H Cosgrave II of San Francisco California street scene with cable cars..... Item #13294
Menlo Park, CA: Lane Publishing Co., 1957. Very Good. First Edition, 1st Printing. [March][8.5x11”]; Burnt orange cloth cover and black spine with gold ink lettering on spine, black and white facsimiles of Hutchings magazine pages [Hutching’s California Scenes - Methods of Mining and Miner’s Life - Illustrated]; [7], 8-101 pp...... Item #13287
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1855. Very Good. First Edition. [9x6in]; x, [2], 443 pp., eight colored lithograph plates by Hanhart and Marryat including frontispiece, eighteen woodcuts in text, index; Red leather calf half bound with marbled paper covers, five raised bands, gilt rule and lettering with ornamentation in..... Item #13124