JOHN PEABODY HARRINGTON.
Ramona: A Ballena Press. 1976. First edition. Softcover / binder. 10 3/4'' x 8 1/2''. 58pp. Some light wear and soiling.
New Arrivals
CHUMASH PLACE NAME LISTS.
Berkeley: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY. 1975. First edition. Softcover, binder. 11'' x 8 1/2''. 85pp. Toning to paper covers.
ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE NORTHERN CHANNEL ISLANDS OF CALIFORNIA.
Salinas. Coyote Press. 1993. First edition. Softcover, binder. 11'' x 8 1/2''. 167pp. Small spot on title-page.
THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE CHUMASH INTERACTION SPHERE. Volume 4.
Menlo Park: A Ballena Press / Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 1986. With illustrations by Georgia Lee. First edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4'' x 9''. 457pp. With index. Original cloth/ issued without dust jacket. Previous owners signature on fly-leaf.
THE ORIGINS OF A PACIFIC COAST CHIEFDOM.
Salt Lake City. The University of Utah Press. 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4'' x 8 3/4''. 317pp. Without dust jacket, as issued.
THIRTY-EIGHT THOUSAND MILES OF IMPRESSIONS.
Los Angeles: Hall Publishing Company. 1925. First edition. Softcover. 9'' x 6''. 103pp. Toning and soiling to covers. Wear and creases to cover. Gift inscription and age spotting on fly-leaf. A very delicate book.
A VALIANT ENTERPRISE.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California. 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4'' x 7 1/2''. 383pp. with index. Edition limited to 350 copies. Original green cloth.
PADEREWSKI IN CALIFORNIA.
Desktop Publishing. Tumult Foundation. First edition. Hardcover. 12'' x 8 1/2''. 280pp. with index. Much on early grape culture in Paso Robles, California. Without dust jacket, as issued. Some bumps to cover.
CHINESE CERAMICS.
London: V & A Publishing. 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 11'' X 8 3/4''. 144pp. with index. Lacks dust jacket.
SALVAGING THE PAST : GEORGES HOENTSCHEL AND FRENCH DECORATIVE ARTS FROM THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2013. First edition. Hardcover. 12 1/4'' X 9 1/2''. 285pp. with index.
PSYCHEDELIC ART.
New York: Grove Press. 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 11'' X 8 1/2''. 190pp. With index. With 32 pages of full color reproductions and 110 illustrations in monochrome. The price-clipped dust jacket has general light wear. Book has a faint musty smell.
IMPROBABLE MEMORIES.
Providence, RI: Matrix Publications. 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 9 3/4'' X 12''. 94pp. Most of the photographs are in color. General wear to dust jacket.
INGRES CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION 1867-1967.
Cambridge. Fogg Art Museum, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4'' x 8 3/4''. 257pp. with index. Some wear and soiling to dust jacket.
HENRY DALTON. Southern California Ranchero
Los Angeles: Privately Printed / USC, 1970. Hardcover. Quarto. Dissertation for Doctoral Degree. 231pp. Bound-up typescript. Ownership stamp on paste-down. Minor rubbing to corners and spine edge. In 1977 Jackson's "A British Ranchero in Old California: the Life and Times of Henry Dalton and the Rancho Azusa" was.....
BEAR FLAG LIEUTENANT: The Life Story of Henry L. Ford 1822-1860 Together With Some Reproduction of related and Contemporary Paintings by Alexander Edouart
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1951. Limited edition. Hardcover. Sm. quarto. 86pp. Limited to 250 numbered copies, this one is # 108. Biography of the man who proposed the grizzly bear as Californias state symbol and a participant in the Bear Flag Revolt. Reprinted With Some Changes And Additions From.....
HISTORY OF THE LAW FIRM OF O'MELVENY & MYERS, 1885-1965. (Two volumes)
Los Angeles: Privately Printed/ Grant Dahlstrom, Castle Press, 1966. Hardcover. Two volumes. Octavo. Continuous pagination. 917pp. Incl. index. Fold-out illustration.
MONDRIAN : FLOWERS.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 12'' x 9 1/4''. 80pp. With 75 illustrations, including 57 plates in full color.
VANDERZEE. PHOTOGRAPHER 1886-1983.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 11 3/4'' X 9''. 192pp. With 187 illustrations in duotone. Some toning to pages.
THE PRINTS OF MARTIN LEWIS. A CATALOGUE RAISONNE.
Broxville. M.Hausberg. 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 12'' x 9''. 277pp. With 147 catalogue entries. Each extant print is illustrated and fully annotated.
THE PRINTS OF ELLSWORTH KELLY.
New York: Hudson Hills Press. 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 12 1/4'' X 9 1/2''. 200pp. With index. With 159 colorplates plus 182 duotones. Slight rubbing to dust jacket.
THE CRUISE OF A SCHOONER
Chicago: Privately printed/ Charles Daniel Frey, 1911. Hardcover. Octavo. 265pp. Illustrated from photographs. Pictorial green cloth stamped in white and dark green. Untrimmed. SIGNED by Harris, "Very Truly Yours..." on half-title. Cover surface lightly rubbed and lightly soiled, spine darkened.
BLAZED TRAIL STORIES
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. Hardcover. Octavo. 260pp. plus ads. Color frontispiece by Thomas Fogarty. SIGNED by White on fly-leaf Green cloth with dark green decoration and gilt lettering. Rubbing to spine ends and corners small 1/3" closed tear a bottom of spine. Bookplate of Ingle Barr, (Pacific.....
GOLD
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1913. Hardcover. Octavo. 437pp. plus note and 13pp. Biographic essay by Eugene F. Saxon. Color frontispiece and 3 color illustrations plus line-drawn vignettes throughout by Thomas Fogarty. SIGNED by White on contents page with arrow to an illustrated character. Pictorial green cloth with black.....
THE WESTERNERS
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901. Hardcover. Octavo. 344pp. INSCRIBED," Most Sincerely, Stewart Edward White." Tan cloth with black green and red lettering and design on the front and spine. Deckled edges. Rubbing and some mild fraying to spine ends. Glue stain and book plate on front paste-down. Front.....
BY BUCKBOARD TO BEATTY: The California-Nevada Desert in 1886. Edited, with Introduction and Notes by Anthony L. Lehman.
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 42pp. Limited to 325 copies. Frontispiece of Colonel Thomas Brooks and 7 Illustrations from line drawings by Gene Holtan Grey cloth, title in gilt. The Narrative of Col. Brooks is testament to the enduring fascination of Death Valley. Issued without.....