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Long Beach, California, the queen of the Pacific
Julius J. Hecht
/ Los Angeles: Julius J. Hecht 1919
oblong quarto, 18 tipped b&w plates; original string-tied illustrated paper wrappers, plates are fine, covers edge-worn. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: photography western americana california jhh
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Item #: 1066478
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$127.21
Geology and Paleontology of the Santa Maria District, California. Including a summary of the geologic features of producing and potential oil fields.
Woodring, W. P., & M. N. Bramlette.
/ Washington: GPO, 1950
quarto, 185 pp., plates with some folding, 6 color map sheets (five of them form a large geological map of the Santa Maria District), issued as United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 222; REBOUND IN BUCKRAM (hardcover) , ex library else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: California, geology, paleontology
Item #: 1009993
$71.66
Sierra Educational News and Book Review. Vol. Vi, No. 10. December, 1910. Christmas Number
L. E. Armstrong
/ California Council of Education 1910
57 pp., Paperback, light wear to cover edges else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: California education jhh
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Item #: 1009956
$14.66
Sierra Educational News and Book Review. Vol. X, No. 3. March, 1914
Arthur Henry Chamberlain
/ California Council of Education 1914
71 pp., Paperback, minor ink markings to page 187/188 else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: California education jhh
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Item #: 1009955
$13.69
Sierra Educational News and Book Review. Vol. VI, No. 9. November 1910
L. E. Armstrong
/ California Council on Education 1910
63 pp., paperback, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: California education jhh
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Item #: 1009953
$13.71
THIS MEMORIED DAY. THESE VERSES, WRITTEN TO MY WIFE MARIE GRIFFITH TAYLOR IN CELEBRATION OF OUR FIFTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSAY FEBRUARY 4, 1943, ARE PRESENTED TO HER WITH MY DEEPEST AFFECTION
Taylor, Edward Dewitt
/ San Francisco: Taylor & Taylor 1943
inscribed by both Taylors; limited to 75 copies, the typeface designed by Bruce Rogers; 11, [2] pp., original cream colored boards, covers darkened, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books book club of california poetry jcm
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Item #: 1010170
$17.84
California Floods of 1958
California. Department of Water Resources. Division of Design and Construction.
/ Sacramento 1959
x, 44, 2, 6, 2 (Appendix A, Precipitation), 20 (Appendix B, Runoff), 29 folding plates, most of them graphs or perception maps, 11 full page illustrations; pictorial paper wrappers rubbed, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: California, floods, natural disasters, meteorology agriculture
Item #: 933593
$36.61
San Pedro Bay Historical Society Shoreline. Volumes 4#5; 5#3; 6#1; 7#1-2; 8#1-2; 9#1-2; 10#1-2; 11#1-2; 13#1-2 (1977-1986)
Flora Twyman Baker, et al., eds.
/ San Pedro: San Pedro Bay Historical Society 1977
paperbacks, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: western americana genealogy california business geography
Item #: 928378
$40.19
Yachting Year Book of Northern California 1972. Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association. (51st Edition)
Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association.
/ San Francisco: Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association, 1955
400 pp. including advertising material, small illustrations in text; original paper wrappers, library markings, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: yachts, yacht clubs, California
Item #: 860310
$27.02
Letter of the Secretary of the Interior ... in relation to the case of the United states vs. Vincente P. Gomez, involving the claim to the land called Panoche Grande. (Part 3)
United States. Department of the Interior.
/ Washington: GPO, 1869
Part 3 only; 196 pp, issued as 40th Congress, 3d Session, SED 48 Part 3; light extraction roughness at spine, partially age toned, now in self wrappers. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Panoche Grande, California
Item #: 810557
$24.00
Mining Debris in California Rivers. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting A final report upon the system to prevent further injury to the navigable waters of California from mining debris.
Mendell, G. H., et al.
/ Washington: GPO, 1882
first edition; 110 pp., 3 folding maps (mining field, lower Yuba River, lower Bear River); issued as 57th Congress, 1st Session, HED 98; general age toning, first leaf torn with no loss, extraction roughness at spine and now in self wrappers, good only; reports by Lieutenant Colonel Mendell and others on the effects of hydraulic mining in the Sacramento and Joaquin valleys. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: hydraulic mining, environmental impact, California
Item #: 807507
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$102.26
Report of the Attorney General ... relative to the title conveyed to the United States by the city of San Francisco, to Lots No. 5 and 6 in hospital square, in that city.
Black, J. S., United States Attorney General
/ Washington: 1859
first edition; 36 pp, issued as 35th Congress, 2d Session, SED 20; light extraction roughness at spine and light general age toning, now in self wrappers; an attempt to establish clear title to the land acquired by the Federal Government from the City of San Francisco that came into possession of it at a Sheriff's Sale. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: San Francisco, California, United States Marine Hospital on Rincon Point
Item #: 803615
$14.56
Letter of the Attorney General, Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of the 5th Instant, Correspondence and Papers Relative to the Case of the United States vs. Vicente P. Gomez, Involving the Claims to the Land Called "Panoche G
William M. Evarts.
/ Washington: GPO 1890
32 2 pp., published as 40TH CONG., 3RD SESS., Senate Executive Document #48, EXTRACTED FROM larger bound volume, good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Americana California History Real Estate
Item #: 798652
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$144.68
Expenditures on Account of Private Land Claims in California: Message from the Presdient of the United States, Communicating, etc., a Statement, etc., in the Disposal of Private Land Claims of California, &c.
James Buchanan.
/ Washington: 1860
56 pp., self wrappers, extracted from larger bound volume, issued as 36th Cong., 1st Sess., House (Executive) Document #84, some age toning, overall good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Americana Geography PL California
Item #: 788531
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$121.85
The Avalon. A Monthly Literary Magazine. Vol. II, No. 2. August, 1879. Editors: James T. Noon, Nich. P. Wynne James H. Barry.
Noon, James T., et al.
/ San Francisco: The Avalon Publishing Company 1897
Volume 2, Number 2 only; [32] pp, paper wrappers darkened and frayed with a short tear near center of spine but no loss, light general age toning to interior, good; a publication conducted by the San Francisco Literary and Dramatic Society, a fairly small group with about fifty members; articles are short and most make an attempt at humor although the one on the Mormons is fairly mean spirited. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: San Francisco Literary and Dramatic Society, California, literary societies
Item #: 784092
$16.53
California Statistical Review, 1994
California Thoroughbred Breeders Association.
/ Arcadia: California Thoroughbred Breeders Association 1994
212 pp., oversize paperback, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: thoroughbred horses, horse racing, horseracing, California, HTM HRQ
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Item #: 775693
$10.53
Physical and Chemical Properties of the Petroleums of the San Joaquin Valley of California ... (United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines Bulletin 19)
Allen, Irving C., & W. A. Jacobs.
/ Washington: GPO, 1911
60 pp., 2 plates; library markings and light general age toning, sound and good in original paper wrappers; includes a chapter on natural gas in Southern California by G. A. Burrell. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: petroleum, California
Item #: 772081
$3.91
California - Customs: Message from the President of the United States, Respecting the Amount of Money Collected from Customs in California.
Zachary Taylor.
/ Washington: 1850
13 pp., published as 31st Cong., 1st Sess., House Executive Document 72, first leaf torn at upper right corner very slightly affecting text, else about good,. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: California Public revenue Government
Item #: 772414
$33.77
Souvenir. Sixth Biennial Convention of the Grand International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and G. J. A.; Los Angele, Cal., May 11th, 1904.
Martin, R. C., comp.
/ Los Angeles: Kingsley, Moles & Collins Co.), printers, 1904
oblong quarto, unpaginated but substantial (approximately 190 pages) and illustrated throughout, has some material of special interest to railroad men but mostly on the more general attractions of Southern California for the tourist and very little on the convention itself; color pictorial paper wrappers featuring a standing bear with red sash and bow holding an armload of yellow flowers darkened and badly chipped at spine, back cover and late leaves chipped at bottom margin but no letters on images touched, good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: travel, railroads, Southern California, RTX
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Item #: 769071
$59.95
Lenora King Berry's Southwest Blue Book 1960. Original society directory for Southern California listing names, addresses, telephone numbers, names of clubs and their officers
Gloria Berry Duthie
/ Gloria Berry Duthie 1959
660 pp., hardcover, minor ownership markings, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: reference, htm California
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Item #: 751515
$24.30