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Booklet. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed by Author(s).

First printing. The "heart" of this empire is central California, especially the San Joaquin Delta and Stockton. This begins with a history of Mexican exploration of the area, and continues with the career of Charles M. Weber, the discovery of gold, and gold mining, the development of mail service with Wells Fargo - and Black Bart's last holdup - and includes a final chapter on the bridges of the San Francisco Bay. Illustrated with 20 plates, including one folding map. Edited by James A. Metcalf with the Spanish terms, phrases and translations edited by Marie Aldazabal. INSCRIBED on the title page with the comment that this copy is one of 300 from the first run of the first printing, and dated in 1939. Bibliography. 319 pp. Near fine in textured violet cloth in a good only dust jacket with overall chipping and edgewear.…

First Edition. First Edition. Very Good condition. Previous owner wrote "Happy Birthday" but nothing else, so if you buy it, consider it a birthday gift.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. This first edition is in very good condition but lacks the dust jacket as issued. The brown cloth cover is in bright condition with only a noticeable bump to the top right corner and several very small reddish specks on the lower spine to note as cover issues. The interior has one defect to note - one signature of four numbered pages has pulled free of the binding but is present and is in its proper location. There is a previous owners book plate in the front, otherwise, the interior is in all but fine condition. The authors' picture, opposite the title page, carries an inscription from the author dated December 4, 1938. This book offers a good general history of California's San Joaquin Valley beginning with the early exploration by the Spanish and moving into the Mexican period. The book has considerable information on the American period beginning with John Marsh and Charles Webber. The book contains twenty illustration with both sketches and photographs and the very nice folded map on page thirty-one is present and in fine condition. 316 pages. Inscribed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN . B0006AOCTE Hardback. First Printing as signified by the date 1938 on both the title and copyright page with no other later dates or later printings listed. Half of the free front endpaper has a very nice personalized inscription to the previous owner frpm the author, dated 1943. Otherwise book is a Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good plus condition. Scarce dustjacket is present and in fair condition with front dustjackert flsp missing and large chip out of the base of the spine. The dustjacket has been placed in a Brodart protective cover by us to protect it and it looks much better than described. . This does not affect the dustjacket in any way, as all taping is done on the outside of the protector. No Signature.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed 318pp, plates, maps nice 6-Guns #1057 Tells of Black Bart's last holdup and capture. California gold rush, railroads, etc.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. First Trade Edition. Author's first book tells the story of California's "Bear Flag Revolt,'' the short-lived rebellion of 1846 in which American settlers in the Sacramento Valley rebelled against Mexican authorities & raised their flag over the Republic of California, which, within days, was attacked by opposing forces who claimed the region for the United States. Focus here is on the relatively unknown role of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo who served under 3 separate nations in CA. Orig. published in a blue buckram in a limited edition in 1941, this is apparently the First Trade Edition, SIGNED by the AUTHOR (with 1947 date) to ffep. It is also an association copy, with a gift inscription & signature inside front cover by "Josephine.your State Treasurer & Friend,'' in memory of the recipient's "official visit to Court Valley's #818. October 1947." In 374 pages, with duotone photos throughout, this hardcover book has rich burgundy cloth over boards with bright gilt crest & lettering to front & spine. Condition is Near Fine, marred only by mild corner bumping. Else, very clean, binding strong & straight, hinges secure, pages off-white with a hint of tanning around outer edges. The unclipped DJ (orig. $2.50 price intact to front flap) is VG+: bright with negligible edgewear & slight darkening; nicely protected in new mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 248, xvi pages, [18] pages of plates : illustrations (4 color), 1 fold-out ; portrait ; 21 cm. ; green and orange cloth with designs ; no dustjacket ; OCLC: 9504907 ; LC: SB411 ; Dewey: 583.305 ; Contents: The early rose / Frank W Halliday -- The rose on the air / J Horace McFarland -- The Allentown rose-garden / C Chester Yost -- More municipal rose-gardens / Robert Pyle -- The garden value of rose species / E H M Cox -- The committee on old roses / Mrs. Francis King -- The duties of the old-rose committee / Stephen F Hamblin -- The old roses of California -- Francis E Lester -- Breeding new roses / George C Thomas -- Rose-breeding in Rhode Island / Josephine Brownell, Walter D Brownell -- A rose foundation / William Crocker -- Breeding better roses / Rev George A Schoener -- Roses from your ice-box / Persis Smallwood Crocker -- The wax treatment for dormant plants / James A Neilson -- The canker scare / R Marion Hatton -- Rose-disease investigations / L M Massey, Bruce Parsons -- The Central East, a symposium -- Roses along Lake Erie: Mentor, Sandusky, Toledo / Melvin E Wyant, Harry B Neumeyer, Paul Fakehany, Charles G Smith -- Roses in and around Detroit / E Genevieve Gillette -- Southeastern Ohio / Mrs. John B Wagner -- Along the Ohio River / Marie Bauer -- Roses in Cincinnati / R J Conners -- Roses in the Blue Grass /. C S Crouse, Maude M Crouse -- Roses in Eastern Indiana / Alexander McGalliard -- No roses without work / Mrs W D Bostick -- Protecting roses in Indiana / Mrs Berenice M Harrison -- Roses in Northern Indiana / A L Hubbard -- Time of planting and winter protection in Michigan / Charles M Greenway -- Roses can be grown in Illinois / E I Lanter -- Roses near the Mississippi / Dr. Ralph Graham -- Roses in industrial Illinois / Perry Wilson -- Roses in "Egypt" / Hon. Kent E Keller -- The rose-mindedness of Ontario / J Horace McFarland -- Roses in the Rocky Mountains / Maud Chegwidden -- Rugosa roses on a Kansas farm / Carol L Martin -- Why I prefer Spring planting / Agnes Fules Huntington -- Caring for a small rose-garden / Mrs Louis Hurd -- The modern way of feeding roses / Dr G J Raleigh -- Abolishing rose-bugs / Ruth O Ericson -- Failure and success in rose-growing / G F Middleton -- My lifetime with roses / E Gurney Hill -- Tributes to Ernest Henry Wilson -- Wilson, the explorer and teacher / Richardson Wright -- Wilson, the lover of plants / E H M Cox -- Frederick Loveless Atkins / Leonard Barron -- Three fine rose men pass on -- J C N Forestier / J H Nicolas -- John Hickman Dunlop / A J Webster -- Sing Sing's rose man / Lewis E Lawes -- Abyssinia as a land of roses / Franklin P Adams -- Roses in Brazil / Eudoro Ramos Costa -- The 1920 rose summer in Europe / J H Nicolas -- The American Rose Society in Europe / Robert Pyle -- The international rose test-gardens / Dr SPencer S Sulliger -- Roses abroad -- Name, names, names / E S Trott -- Proof of the pudding, 1931 -- Radio rose talks -- Rose notes -- New roses of the world ; wear to covers, else G. Book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Edited by Pauline Santoro. Octavo. 374pp. Red decorated cloth gilt. About fine in nice, near fine dust jacket. Story of The Bear Flag Revolt in California. Scarce in jacket.

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, (1968). 183pp. Sm. 8vo. Hardcover in cloth with dust jacket. A very good and handsome copy. First edition, first printing of this privately-printed historical novel on the Trahern Party of 1853, travelers from Victoria, Texas to Stockton, California.