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San Francisco:: Bank of California,, 1969.. Hardcover -. Fine in mustard-colored cloth with gold lettering in a clear acrylic jacket.. Second edition. An updated edition of a book originally published in 1964. 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.

San Francisco:: Bank of California,, 1964.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in dark blue cloth with gold lettering in a clear acrylic jacket.. First trade printing. 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.

San Francisco:: Bank of California,, 1969.. Hardcover -. Very near fine in mustard-colored cloth with gold lettering (crease to lower corner of the first page.).. Second edition. An updated edition of a book originally published in 1964. 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.

Garden City, New York:: Doubleday,, 1947.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good+ in a fair dust jacket, with some some overall edgewear.. First printing. Written when the author was 80, this is the story of an orthodox American Jewish family in late 19th century San Francisco, and a memoir of the author's childhood. As a young woman, Levy went to Paris with Alice B. Toklas (her neighbor on O'Farrell Street), and was part of the circle of artists & bohemians which included Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Matisse and others, and where she began assembling a remarkable collection of the works of modern French artists

Garden City, New York:: Doubleday,, 1947.. Hardcover first edition -. Good in tan cloth, lacking the dj (prev owner's signature). First printing. Written when the author was 80, this is the story of an orthodox American Jewish family in late 19th century San Francisco, and a memoir of the author's childhood. As a young woman, Levy went to Paris with Alice B. Toklas (her neighbor on O'Farrell Street), and was part of the circle of artists & bohemians which included Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Matisse and others, and where she began assembling a remarkable collection of the works of modern French artists

Lancaster, PA:: The Jaques Cattell Press,, 1942 (1944.). Hardcover -. Near fine in light green cloth with a poor dustjacket (many chips, separated into 2 pieces along the spine fold). . 2nd printing. Illustrated with many photographs and charts throughout. The final section is a guide for tourists called 'geology from a motor car.' Glossary, bibliography, index. 438 pages. Printed on high quality glossy paper.

Berkeley, CA:: Counterpoint, , (2019). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A chronicle of the author's "650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California. Led by Gaspar de Portol in 1769, the expedition sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real.. . For twelve weeks, with just a backpack and a tent, he trekked through stretches of California both lonely and urban, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespi." SIGNED on the title page and dated in year of publication. 404 pp.

Berkeley, CA:: Counterpoint, , (2019). SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner of back cover bumped).. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A chronicle of the author's "650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California. Led by Gaspar de Portol in 1769, the expedition sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real.. . For twelve weeks, with just a backpack and a tent, he trekked through stretches of California both lonely and urban, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespi." SIGNED on the title page. 404 pp.

Rancho Cordova, California:: Landmark Enterprises,, (1985.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, still in shrinkwrap.). First printing. Autobiography covering five decades of working as a topographer for the US Geological Survey, across 22 Western states and the territory of Hawaii, spanning two world wars, the Depression, and the coming of age of modern topographic mapping (in fact, Druhot was one of the pioneers of the use of aerial photography in topography.) Also includes information about his wife, and his family, who traveled with him throughout the West - to mining country in California (the mother lode, but also Sonoma County and more), Montana, Utah, Arizona and more - - even a chapter on mapping the Olympics. Includes photographs taken by the author that illustrate much about the life on the traveling survey crews of the early 20th century, and it has a picture of the official USGS wagon wheel survey techniques. Endpaper maps of Oahu, Hawaii. Brief… Read More

New York:: Crown,, (2008). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book which "evokes the original 'crime of the century' [the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building on Oct 1, 1910] and an aftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself - a seminal episode in America's history that would spark national debate and draw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, and industry-shaping filmmaker D. W. Griffith." Cast of characters, photographs, notes on sources. 339 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

San Marino, CA:: The Huntington Library,, 1949.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a slightly edgeworn dustjacket (price-clipped, a few small chips missing). First printing. According to family tradition, Mary Jane Megquier was the first white woman to cross the Isthmus of Panama during the Gold Rush, She left her home in Winthrop, Maine to accompany her husband, a physician, to San Francisco. Illustrations. 99 pages. Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press.

New York:: Prentice-Hall,, (1972.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket.. First edition. The author's first novel (preceded by many plays written in collaboration with her husband Edwin Schoell), set in 1849 as gold fever sweeps the nation - follows the stories of 5 young people as they come to California as part of the great gold rush. 436 pp. Map endpapers with the ithmus route in the front and the overland route in the back.

Palo Alto, California:: Lewis Osborne,, 1967.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in bright blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and an image of a ship under sail on the front cover. No dust jacket.. Limited first edition. Foreword by Kenneth M. Johnson. A young New York doctor's account of his 194 day voyage around Cape Horn, mainly drawn from his letters to friends and his journal. Among the other 96 passengers were Mark Hopkins, J. Ross Browne, and A.S. Marvin, who went on to co-found Marvin & Hitchcock, the prominent San Francisco booksellers. In his later life, Stillman became an important figure in the development of Southern California's wine industry. An attractive production illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, a map on the front endpapers, and drawings and engravings from the collections of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, the Peabody Museum, and the Bancroft Library of the University of California. Number 451 of 1950 individually numbered copies. 92 pp.

Cambridge, MA:: The MIT Press,, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. A book in which the author combines "a reporter's instinct for a good interview with traditional archaeological training [to bring] the perspectives of the past and the future to the story of Silicon Valley's present material culture. She traveled the area in 2000, a period when people's fortunes could change overnight. She describes a computer's rapid trajectory from useful tool to machine to be junked to collector's item. She explores the sense that whatever one has is instantly superseded by the next new thing -- and the effect this has on economic and social values. She tells stories from a place where fruit-pickers now recycle silicon chips and where more money can be made babysitting for post-IPO couples than working in a factory. The ways that people are working and adapting, are becoming wealthy or barely getting by, are visible in the… Read More

New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (1974). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in dark blue cloth in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped, some edgewear to dj) .. First printing. A study of twelve families living in Ramona Heights in Orange County - a section of California considered in the seventies as a "paradise for arch-conservatives" but, as this book reveals, an area which is not monolithic and where one can find a diversity of views. Index. xii, 322 pp.

San Francisco:: Friends of the Earth Foundation,, 1983.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in burgundy cloth with a color photograph pasted on front cover, silver titles on spine, issued without a dust jacket. Uncommon in the hardcover edition, and especially so signed. . First printing. Catalog for photography exhibition in 1983 with text by by Stephen Johnson. Includes photographs from 1915 to 1982 by Ansel Adams, Robert Dawson, Brett Weston, Galen Rowell, Stephen Johnson and many others. Most are in black and white, but there is a significant number in full color also. Includes a 2 page inventory of the photographs. One of only 500 copies bound in cloth (out of a total edition of 5000). SIGNED and dated on the front endpaper by Johnson with the words "best wishes." Map, information about Mono Lake. Oblong format, 80 pp.

New York:: Greenwood Press,, (1969). Hardcover -. Very near fine in turquoise cloth with gold lettering on spine (lettering slightly dulled), no dust jacket as issued. . Facsimile edition. "With Historical Notices of the Effects of the American Mines on European Prices in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries in a Series of Letters." Folded chart as frontispiece. A facsimile reprint of work originally published in 1853 by Oliver & Boyd. xiii, 279 pp.

San Francisco:: Book Club of California., 1940.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in beige boards with dark brown illustrations. . Limited first edition. Anthology of poems about early California arranged in three sections: The Period of Spain and Mexico, Days of the 'Forty-nine, and San Francisco. Among the poets included are Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Gelett Burgess, Bayard Taylor, Joaquin Miller and others. Very attractively illustrated by Barse Miller with hillside scenes of San Francisco on the endpapers continued on double facing pages preceding the title page and after the final page of text. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies by the Ward Ritchie Press. x, 46.

n.p.: By the author,, n.d. (ca 1999.). SIGNED -. Near fine in stiff illustrated white wrappers (small peeled spot on back cover from sticker removal.). Trade paperback. A collection of ten narrative poems about the gold rush era and the early miners in California - including Daniel Dancer, Rough & Ready, Niel Tecter, Irish Sam, Annie Jams, Sinbad Mine, Golden Guests, Alleghany Lu, John Gomes and Fanny. "From Mariposa and Chinese Slough north to Weaverwille/ The fabric of a thousand towns was weaved with threads of gold... / Gravel gold from the Rubicon, quartz gold from Mokelumne Hill/ Gold in the dreams of the timid, gold in the schemes of the bold." Illustrated throughout with drawings by Larry Schuman. SIGNED and dated by the author inside the front cover. 59 pp.

New York:: Random House,, (2002.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Fascinating account of the story of the fight against the bubonic plague epidemic that hit San Francisco (first in Chinatown) between 1900 and 1905, and returned after the earthquake of 1906 and the efforts of Dr. Joseph Kinyoun, who was unsucessful, and later of Dr. Rupert Blue, who was sucessful in keeping the plague under control and limiting the number of deaths - but who was not able to stop it from escaping the city, where it crossed over to the wild population of squirrels and other ground rodents, and remains endemic in the Sierras and in the Southwest to this date. Selected as one of the best books of 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle Notes and bibliography. Illustrated with photographs, 276 pp.