[159] Californiana Book Collection

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Seller: californiapapertrails ✉️ (25,546) 100%, Location: Cayucos, California, US, Ships to: US, Item: 224544125438 [159] Californiana Book Collection. A collection of 159 California books & booklets covering both general & specific topics regarding the Golden State.  Among the collection are 135 individual editions/printings and 115 separate titles.  Some of the books displayed in the image may have been sold.  A complete listing & detail description & contents of each available book is listed below.  Besides the books themselves, the collection is noteworthy in that each book has laid in a relevant postally used postcard [PLI].  Every book also includes a collectable postal cover containing some real California gold [CLI].  See the last image as an example.  For each book in the collection, bibliographic info, condition, provenance, as well as all laid in materials are described.  Multiple copies of a particular volume may occasionally be found in the collection, acquired for various reasons, such as overall charm, scarcity, opportunity, etc.  Individual volumes may be purchased separately upon request and approval of terms.  On site inspection of the collection can be arranged and your questions and inquires are certainly welcome.  Local pickup only for the full collection; individual books may be shipped within the U.S. 1. Emma Hildreth Adams.  To and Fro in Southern California.  With Sketches in Arizona and New Mexico.  288 pp.  7 ¼ x 4 ¾, brown pict. cloth, cover gilt-lettered & illus. with two gilt palm trees and ruled & dec. in black, spine lettered, ruled & dec. in gilt.  Cincinnati: W.M.B.C. Press, 1887.  [First edition].  Ref: Rocq 2761.  Prov: Penciled on ffep: W. U.  PLI [U]: Ontario’s Snow Capped Peak.  PM: Riverside & Los Angeles, 1905 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-11 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: very slight wear.  NF. 2. [SOLD]  Edward Madden Ainsworth.  Beckoning Desert [: Impressions of the sunlit land, its people, its miracles old and new. (from dust jacket).  Illustrated by Bill Bender.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, c1962.  [2], 264 + author’s bio [1], [5] pp.  B&W illus.  8 15/16 x 6, two-tone brick & light yellow cloth, spine lettered in orange & white, pict. d/j.  Prov: date stamp on bfep: Oct 20 ’64.  PLI [C]: Terrace of Fabulous Shadow Mountain Club, Palm Desert, California, “Smartest Address on the American Desert.”  PM: San Marino, 1954 [2c].  CLI: 997-10 [1] [AD] [PM: S.F.] [Au].  Cond: Fine in NF d/j. 3. Ed[ward Madden] Ainsworth.  California.  Foreword by Rupert Hughes.  LA: House-Warven, Publishers, 1951.  i-viii, 9-272, [2] pp.  7 15/16 x 5 ¼, green fabricoid, gilt vignette on cover, spine gilt-lettered, pict. d/j.  Prov: blind embossed circular stamp: Public Library, Fullerton, Calif.  PLI [C]: American River between Highways 40 and 50, east of Sacramento, California.  PM: Coloma, 1948 [1c] [Au].  CLI [F], 954-38 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: paper residue on f & bpd; d/j: closed tears tape-repaired.  VG+ in VG d/j. 4. Ed[ward Madden] Ainsworth.  California Jubilee: Nuggets from Many Hidden Veins.  Culver City, CA: Murray & Gee, Inc., 1948.  272 pp.  8 x 5 ¼, beige cloth, cover & spine lettered in blue, pict. d/j.  Prov: author’s inscription on ffep: For Shirley Read with Best Wishes Ed Ainsworth.  PLI [R]: The Location of Sutter’s Mill, Gold Discovered Here by James W. Marshall, Jan. 24, 1848.  PM: Coloma, 1947 [1c] [Au].  CLI [F]: 954-12 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF in NF d/j. 5. [All-Year Club of Southern California].  C. G. Milham.  Southern California: All the Year.  LA: All-Year Club of Southern California, 1924.  36 pp.  B&W photos, color centerfold map.  8 x 6, color pict. wraps, stapled.  PLI [W]: San Gabriel Mission, San Gabriel, California.  PM: Riverside, 1924 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-06 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF.  6. [All-Year Club of Southern California].  Southern California Hotels [cover title].  LA: All-Year Club of Southern California, 1939.  32 pp. [self-wraps].  B&W photos, 2 maps, index.  8 ½ x 5 5/8, pict. wraps, stapled.  PLI [D:SV:Art]: The Blackstone Hotel and Apartments, Long Beach, Calif.  PM: Long Beach, 1937 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-06 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine.  7. [All-Year Club of Southern California].  Official Tourist Guide: Southern California.  LA: All-Year Club of Southern California, 1935.  7th edition.  80 pp.  B&W photos, maps, index.  7 7/8 x 4 ¾, orange printed wraps, stapled.  PLI [D:SV:B&W]: Ray Haller’s 7 Seas, Hollywood’s Smartest Café.  PM: Los Angeles, 1936 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-06 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 8. [All-Year Club of Southern California].  Official Vacation Guide: Southern California.  LA: All-Year Club of Southern California, 1939.  11th edition.  48 pp.  Blue-tone photos.  8 ¾ x 5 7/8, pict. wraps, stapled.  PLI [W:Art]: Nineteenth National Orange Show, San Bernardino, Calif., Feb. 14-24, 1929 [featuring Dolores Del Rio].  PM: Los Angeles, 1929 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-06 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: some wear & sunning.  Good+. 9. [All-Year Club – Official Vacation Guide – 1939 – copy #2].  Laid in [decal]: Southern California, All-Year Club Visitors Bureau.  PLI [L]: Castle Rock, along Roosevelt Highway, California [couple on balcony].  PM: Buffalo, NY, 1941 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-06 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG.   10. [All-Year Club of Southern California].  Official Vacation Guide: Southern California.  LA: All-Year Club of Southern California, 1941.  13th edition.  48 pp.  B&W photos, maps.  8 ¾ x 5 7/8, color pict. wraps, stapled.  PLI [L:LL]: Greetings from California.  PM: Camp Roberts, Oct 6, 1941 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-12 [yellow & black ink] [4P] [AD] [Au].  Cond: minor rubbing to wraps.  NF. 11. [Anonymous]  Wonderful California.  N.p.: Van Noy-Interstate Company, ca. 1915.  [80 pp.] Unpaginated.  Full-page photo-gravures of early California.  8 5/8 x 11 3/8, brown wraps, pict. inset on cover, string-tied.  PLI [D]: On the Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz, On Road of a Thousand Wonders.  PM: Sausalito, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-07 [black ink] [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: all edges yapped.  VG. 12. Jane Apostol.  Southern California Through the Lens of Charles Francis Saunders.  [Separate reprint with new cover from the Historical Society of Southern California, Southern California Quarterly, 1999].  88 pp.  B&W photos & facs., bibliography of Charles F. Saunders published titles.  10 x 6 7/8, pict. wraps.  PLI [D]: Crowds at the Municipal Market, Pacific Park, Long Beach, California.  PM: Long Beach, 1920 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-11 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 13. Gertrude Franklin [Horn] Atherton.  California: An Intimate History.  NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1914.  Published October 1914 “C-Q”.  [Later Issue; 1st Printing= “K-O”].  [8], xi, [1], 330, [4] pp. + plates [46 pp.].  B&W photos & illus., author’s list.  8 ½ x 5 ½, green cloth, cover & spine lettered in black, pict. eps, pict. d/j.  Ref: Cowan II p.22.  Prov: penciled on ffep: B. E. David.  PLI [U]: De La Guerra Mansion, Santa Barbara, Cal.  PM: Los Angeles, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997 [Greetings from California add-on DJ label].  PM: Sacramento, Sep 9, 1950 [4P] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk & d/j: very slight extremity wear.  NF in NF d/j.  Note: uncommon in dust jacket. 14. [SOLD]  Phillip H. Ault.  How to Live in California.  A Guide to Work, Leisure and Retirement, There and in the Southwest.  Illustrated with Photographs.  NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1961.  xii, 298, [2] pp.  + plates [8 pp.].  B&W photographs, appendix, index.  8 x 5 3/8, yellow cloth, spine lettered in black & green, pict. d/j.  Prov: inked former owner’s notes on ffep.  PLI [C:Map]: Greetings from Southern California.  PM: Anaheim, 1961 [3c].  CLI [F]: 997-10 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: edgeworn.  VG in Good+ d/j. 15. [SOLD]  Mary Hunter Austin.  California: The Land of the Sun.  Painted by Sutton Palmer.  Described by Mary Austin.  NY: The Macmillan Company, Autumn, 1914.  viii, 178 pp. + 32 tipped-in color illustrations, folded map, index.  9 1/8 x 6 7/8, green pict. cloth, spine & cover titles reversed out with gilt panels, teg.  Ref: Cowan II p.23, Kurutz II p.12, Rocq 16661.  PLI [D]: Mt. San Bernardino, Elevation 10,630 Ft. 15 Miles Distant [orange grove in foreground].  PM: San Bernardino, 1911 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997 [Greetings from California add-on label].  PM: Sacramento, Sep 9, 1950 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: minor wear.  Lacks d/j else VG+. 16. [SOLD]  Mary Hunter Austin.  The Land of Little Rain.  Boston & New York:  Houghton, Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Published October 1903 [later printing, ca1920’s].  xvi, 281, [3] pp. + 4 plates [8 pp.].  Illus.  8 x 5 3/8, light brown pict. cloth, cover printed in brown & green, spine lettered in brown,, pict. d/j.  Ref.: Caughey, Edwards, Howell 273x, Larson IV-7[ep/vc], Powell 4, Zam80:2x.  PLI [R]: View from new Mt. Whitney Highway across Owens Valley, Alabama Hills, Oldest Formations in the U.S. middle distance, Lone Pine California.  PM: Lone Pine, 1948 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-41 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in NF d/j. 17. [SOLD]  Slim Barnard.  Happy Wanderer Trips.  Southern California, Vol., I. [cover title].  Hollywood, Ca: Slim Barnard Enterprises, n.d. [ca1968].  [104 pp. – unpaginated].  B&W illus., maps.  11 x 8 ½, pict. wraps., stapled.  PLI [L]: Joshua Palms and Red Rock Cliffs [Red Rock Canyon], California Desert.  PM: Los Angeles, 1945 [1c].  CLI [F]: 954-UL, Sunset Magazine, Lane Publishing Co. [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG+. 18. John E. Baur.  The Health Seekers of Southern California, 1870-1900.  San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1959.  xviii, 202, [4] pp.  Bib., index.  9 x 6, butterscotch cloth, spine gilt-lettered, pict. d/j.  Ref: Kurutz II p.170n, Rocq 16191.  2 PLI: #1: [D]: Long Beach Sanitarium, Long Beach, Cal.  PM: Los Angeles, 1912 [1c].  #2: [D:SV]: A View Point from Loma Linda Sanitarium, Loma Linda, California.  PM: Newark, 1914 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: spine has a small bump and is slightly cocked; d/j: spine & top edge sunned.  VG in VG d/j. 19. [SOLD]  Warren A. Beck & David A. Williams.  California: A History of the Golden State.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., c1972.  xvi, 552, [8] pp. + plates [16 pp.].  Ports., illus., maps, bib., index.  9 1/8 x 6, black cloth, spine gilt-lettered, pict. d/j.  Prov: co-author’s [Beck] inscription on title page.  Laid in [info card]: Sir Francis Drake, Explorer.  PLI [C:Map]: Greetings from California, The Golden State. PM: Los Angeles, 1963 [4c].  CLI [F]: 997-22 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond:  Good+ in Good+ d/j.   20. Frederick A. Bisbee.  A California Pilgrimage.  A Souvenir of the United Universalist Conventions, California, 1915.  Boston: The Murray Press, 1915.  [2], [ii], 124 pp.  B&W photos.  7 3/8 x 5 1/8, orange cloth, cover & spine lettered in black.  Prov: penciled on ffep: Eva Chase.  PLI [D]: Court of Flowers, Showing Italian Towers by Night, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.  PM: San Francisco, 1915 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997 [Greetings from California add-on label].  PM: Sacramento, Sep 9, 1950 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG+. 21. [SOLD]  Don Blanding.  Mostly California.  Illustrations by the Author.  NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1948.  160 pp. + B&W frontis. port. [2pp].  8 3/16 x 5 11/16, blue cloth, cover decorated with gilt flowers, spine gilt-lettered, floral fep, plain bep, pict. d/j.  Prov: signed by the author on ffep.  PLI [L:BB]: Greetings from California. / Streamliner passing through an Orange Grove, California.  PM: Los Angeles, 1941 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [4P] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: PC.  Fine in NF d/j. 22. [SOLD]  Ben Blow.  California Highways.  A Descriptive Record of Road Development by the State and by Such Counties as have Paved Highways.  San Francisco, 1920.  Printed by H.S. Crocker Co.  [2], xviii, 308 pp. + plates.  B&W photo illus, maps [incl. folded in rear pocket], index.  9 ¼ x 6 1/8, light brown cloth, cover lettered with roadway illus. in gilt, spine gilt-lettered, blue-grey printed d/j with like illus. on upper panel.  PLI [D]: Overlooking Castaic Creek, “Ridge Route” Los Angeles to Bakersfield, California.  PM: Redondo Beach, 1924 [1c].  CLI [E]: NAMW / Grapevine, Calif. / Gateway to the San Joaquin Valley / May 15 - 21, 1938 [Mountains, Highway & Text in purple ink].  PM: Grapevine, May 19, 1938 [1-C23] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF in NF d/j.  Note: quite scarce in dust jacket. 23. George W. Blum [comp.].  The Cyclers’ Guide and Road Book of California.  Containing Map of California in relief with principal Roads, Seven Sectional Maps showing all available Roads for Cyclers from Chico to San Diego, and a Map of Golden Gate Park.  Palo Alto, Ca: Wheelsmith, Inc., nd, [ca2000].  [Facsimile reprint: SF: Geo. W. Blum, 1896].  80 pp.  B&W photos, 8 folded maps laid in, adverts.  8 ½ x 5 ½, blue cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered.  Ref: Rocq 16687x.  PLI [D]: Hotel Vendome, San Jose, Cal.  San Jose, 1910 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-12 [yellow & black ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 24. Francis Borton.  The Call of California And Other Poems of the West.  Riverside, CA, 1922.  Fifth Edition.  Revised and Enlarged.  From the studio of Clyde Browne, Los Angeles.  [2], 96, [2] pp.  6 5/8 x 4 7/8, tan wraps, side-stapled.  PLI [D]: Christmas Greetings from California / California Mission Scene w/Oranges & Poppies and Poem.  PM: San Francisco, 1917 [2-1c].  CLI [F]: 997-08 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: yapped edges; faint damp-stain to upper wrap.  VG. 25. [SOLD]  Ann Martin Bowler.  The History of the Paso Robles Inn.  More Than a Century of Pride.  Loomis, Ca: Oak Lake Press, 2003.  First Printing.  viii, 118 + acknow. [1], [1] pp.  Photos, Illus.  11 x 8 ½, brown fabricoid, cover & spine gilt-lettered, purple patterned pict. e.p.  [3] PLI: #1: [D]: Beautiful California – Hotel El Paso De Robles Hot Springs [Hotel], (On the Road of a Thousand Wonders).  PM: Paso Robles, 1924 [1c];  #2: [W:B&W]: Paso Robles Hot Spings [sic] Hotel, Paso Robles, Calif.  PM: Paso Robles, 1931 [2c];  #3: [L]: The Half-Way Point on Highway 101 Between San Francisco & Los Angeles, Paso Robles Inn, Paso Robles, Calif.  PM: Paso Robles, 1948 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-36 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine.   26. Miss Alice Bradley [comp.].  Sunkist Recipes: Oranges – Lemons.  LA: California Fruit Growers Exchange, 1916.  64 pp.  B&W illus., index.  6 ½ x 4 5/8, color pictorial wraps., stapled.  PLI [L]: Sunkist Oranges – The Box I Promised You from California.  PM: Tucson, AZ, 1949 [1c].  CLI [E]: Orange Blossom Festival, Lindsay, Calif. [Orange Grove & Text in purple ink].  PM: Lindsay, Apr 17, 1948 [1-954] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 27. [SOLD]  Marshall Breeden.  California, All of It.  LA: The Kenmore Publishing Co., 1925.  New and Greatly Revised Edition, published September 1925 [orig: ‘Up, Down and All Around California’, LA: Times-Mirror Press, 1923].  200 pp. + plates [12 pp.].  B&W photos, illus. & maps.  9 1/8 x 6, goldenrod pict. cloth, cover lettered & decorated with Eureka seal in black, spine lettered in black, buff-colored eps, pict. d/j.  Ref: Rocq 16700.  PLI [Leather]: Greetings from Madera, Cal.  PM: Madera [&] Oakdale [&] Knights Ferry, 1906 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-13 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: chip losses.  NF in VG d/j.  28. Marshall Breeden.  The Romantic Southland of California.  Including All of the Region Lying South of Santa Barbara and Bakersfield to the Mexico Line with more than 1,000 California Place Names defined [subtitle on d/j].  LA: The Kenmore Publishing Co., 1928.  207, [1] pp. + plates [64 pp.].  Sepia-tone photos, maps, Spanish-English place name translation list.  9 x 6 1/8, blue cloth, cover gilt-lettered & decorated, spine gilt-lettered, color pict. eps, pict. d/j.  Ref: Rocq 16203.  Prov: bookseller’s sticker on bpd: Bullock’s, Los Angeles, with original price $1.00.  PLI [Leather]: Greetings from Los Angeles, Cal [with 3 Golden Poppies].  PM: Los Angeles, 1906 [1c].  CLI [F]: 1373-36 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: cloth with some extremity wear to bottom edge of front cover, spine gilt slightly rubbed; d/j: slight edgewear.  VG+ in VG+ d/j. 29. George Ward Burton.  Beloved California: A Lyric of the Soul.  Illustrations by A. B. Dodge.  LA: N.p., 1914.  Printing and binding by Times-Mirror Printing & Binding House.  [29], [3] pp. [unpaginated].  B&W illus.  9 ½ x 6 ½, pale green illus. wraps, string-tied.  Ref: Cowan II p. 87.  Prov: inked at top of title page: Compliments of H. A. Unruh.  PLI [D]: A Field of California Poppies in Midwinter.  PM: San Francisco, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-24 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF.  30. George Ward Burton.  Burton’s Book on California and Its Sunlit Skies of Glory.  LA: Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, 1909.  Second Thousand.  [4], x, 160, [2] pp.  B&W photos.  10 1/8 x 6 ¾, blue limp cloth, cover lettered & decorated in gilt.  Ref: Rocq 16207.  PLI [D]: Hotel Raymond in Winter, Pasadena, Cal.  PM: Los Angeles, 1909 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-23 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: minor edgewear.  NF. 31. [California State Board of Trade].  California Resources and Possibilities Seventeen Annual Report of the California State Board of Trade for the Year 1906.  Submitted March 12th, 1907.  SF: California State Board of Trade, [1907].  69, [3] pp.  B&W photos, folded color map tipped in, charts [incl. one fold-out].  9 7/8 x 6 ¾, pict. wraps, side-stapled.  Prov: inked on end blank: Perma-Guard only patented company for Diatomacious Earth in U.S. & Canada.  PLI [D:Map:Art]: The California Girl, The Land of Sunshine and Flowers.  PM: Burlingame, 1910 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-15 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: 1” closed tear to front wrapper edge.  VG. 32. [California State Department of Education].  California History Nugget.  Vol. 5 Nos. 1 – 6 / Oct. 1937 – Mar. 1938 [6 issues].  Sacramento: California Department of Education.  1937-38.  9 x 6, pict. wraps, stapled.  Articles include: The Golden Hinde, Padre Fermin Lasuen, The Manila Galleon, California Poppy, Jedediah Strong Smith, Gabriel Moraga, Manuel Micheltorena, Mission San Luis Obispo, The Customs House, Francisco Garces, Juan Crespi, Coast Redwoods, and more.  PLI [D:Art:Emb]: “California Poppy” The State Flower.  PM: Berkeley, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG+.   33. [Californians, Inc.]  California: Where Life is Better.  SF: Californians, Inc., 1925.  Seventh printing, January 1925 [copyright 1922].  Typography by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco.  48 pp.  Half-tone photos & illus., map.  9 ¼ x 6 1/8, tan pict. wraps, stapled.  PLI [W:Art]: I’ll Eat Oranges For You and You May Throw Snow Balls For Me.  Winter in California / Winter in the East.  PM: Mount Wilson, 1931 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-07 [black ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 34. [Californians, Inc.]  California Wonder Tours: The Book of Golden Vacations.  SF: Californians, Inc., c1925.  [16 pp. – unpaginated, self-wraps].  Sepia-tone photos, map.  9 x 8, pict. wraps, stapled.  PLI [W]: Mirror Lake and Mt. Watkins, Yosemite National Park.  PM: Camp Curry, 1924 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-35 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG+. 35. [SOLD]  Oliver Carlson.  A Mirror for Californians.  [To help Californians understand themselves, and the rest of the world to understand Californians – subtitle on d/j].  Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1941.  First edition.  372 + acknow. [1], [3] pp.  8 3/8 x 5 ¾, red cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, printed d/j.  PLI [W]: The Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, California [The Symphony under the Stars].  PM: Los Angeles, 1934 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-31 [2] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in NF d/j.    36. Herbert Carolan.  Motor Tales and Travels In and Out of California.  NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1936.  i-xviii, 19-241, [3] pp. + 16 plates [32 pp.].  B&W photos.  8 x 5 3/8, blue cloth, cover & spine lettered in yellow, pict. d/j.  PLI [R]: Glimpse from Methodist Steeple, Grass Valley, Cal.  PM: Grass Valley, 1907 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-30 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: slight edgewear.  NF in VG+ d/j. 37. [SOLD]  Harry Carr.  Los Angeles: City of Dreams.  Illustrated by E. H. Suydam.  NY: Grosset & Dunlap, c1935.  [Reprint: orig. pub: D. Appleton-Century Co].  [2], x, 403, [1] pp. + plates [34 pp].  Color frontis + sepia-tone illus, b&w chapter heading illus, index.  8 7/8 x 6, orange cloth, cover blind-stamped, spine gilt-stamped, illus eps, te= orange, pict. d/j.  PLI [L:LL]: Greetings from Los Angeles, California.  PM: Cypress, 1952 [2c].  CLI [F]: 954-40 [2] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: spine sunned.  NF in VG d/j. 38. [SOLD]  Charles Franklin Carter.  Some By-Ways of California.  NY: The Grafton Press, 1902.  [4], vi, 189, [3] pp.  7 3/8 x 5 1/8, light green pict. cloth, cover printed in white, grey & black, teg, spine gilt-lettered, plain light green linen d/j.  Ref: Cowan I p.43, Cowan II p.108, Rocq 16218.  PLI [W:B&W]: Dutton’s Hotel [at Jolon] near King City, Cal.  PM: King City, 1920 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-11 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF in NF d/j.  Note: scarce in dust jacket. 39. [SOLD]  John Walton Caughey.  California.  NY: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1953.  Second edition [1st ed.: 1940].  xiii, [1], 666 pp. + plates [36 pp.].  B&W illus, maps [incl. 1 tipped-in], bib, index.  8 3/8 x 5 5/8, brick cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, pict. d/j.  Ref.: Hanna+, WeberC45x.  Prov: Inked on ffep: To A???? & ???? / With very best wishes from / your father 9 – 30 – 53.  Laid in [info card]: Sir Francis Drake, Explorer.  PLI [C:Map]: [California map multi-view].  PM: San Pedro, 1946 [1c].    CLI [F]: 997-40 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: chipped & sunned on spine.  VG+ in Good+ d/j. 40. [SOLD]  Katherine Chandler.  As California Wild Flowers Grow: Suggestions to Nature Lovers.  SF: Harr Wagner Publications Co., 1922.  132 pp.  B&W photos.  7 ¾ x 5 ½, green cloth, cover lettering outlined in black, spine lettered in black, pict. d/j.  Prov: inked presentation on ffep: To Marie – Therese Bryner, / my gifted fellow worker / from Katherine Chandler / San Francisco / April 3, 1922.  PLI [D:Art:Emb]: “California Poppy” The State Flower,  PM: Des Moines, IA, 1915 [1c].  CLI [Art]: California "The Land of Sunshine" [Golden Poppies].  PM: Maxwell, 1939 [1-805] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: a bit dusty, chipped.  Fine in VG d/j. 41. [SOLD]  Sydney A. Clark.  Golden Tapestry of California.  Illustrated with Maps and Photographs.  NY: Robert M. McBride and Company, c1937.  First Edition.  xii, 315, [1] pp. + plates [16 pp].  B&W photos, illus, maps, index.  8 1/16 x 5 ½, one-quarter black cloth and orange cloth boards, spine gilt-lettered, te=black, light blue map eps, pict. d/j.  Prov: penciled on ffep: December 25, 1937.  Bookseller’s sticker on bpd: The Emporium.  PLI [L]: Golden Fruit – Winter in California.  PM: Riverside, 1941 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-42 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: general wear; dj: large chip out of head of spine, tape-repaired.  Good+ in Fair d/j.  42. [SOLD] 43. [SOLD]  Edith S. Clements.  Flowers of Coast and Sierra.  With Thirty-two plates in color.  NY: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1928.  xii, 226, [2] pp. + 32 color plates [64 pp.].  Index, authors’ list.  8 ¾ x 6 1/8, black pict. cloth, cover printed in green, red & yellow, spine printed in green.  Ref: Kurutz II p.14.  Prov: bookseller’s sticker on bpd: Robertson, San Francisco.  PLI [D:Art]: California Poppies.  PM: San Jose, 1917 [1c].  CLI [Art]: California "The Land of Sunshine" [Golden Poppies].  PM: San Juan Capistrano, 1939 [1-684] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: spine title faded.  NF. 44. James Conaway.  Napa [: The Story of an American Eden – from the d/j].  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.  A Richard Todd Book.  First Printing.  xiv, 529, [1] pp. + plates.  B&W photos & illus., bib., index.  9 1/8 x 6 1/8, green paper-covered boards, ¼ burgundy cloth backstrip, spine gilt-stamped, map eps, pict. d/j.  Laid in [info card]: The California Wine Industry.  PLI [C]: [Welcome to Napa Valley sign].  PM: Saint Helena, 1969 [6c].  CLI [C]: California Centennial: Napa Co. [County & State Map Outline + Text in blue & red ink].  PM: Napa, Feb 18, 1950 [1-954] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. 45. [SOLD]  James Conaway.  The Far Side of Eden: New Money, Old Land, and the Battle for Napa Valley.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.  [1st printing].  [xiv], 365, [5] pp.  8 15/16 x 6, one-quarter brick cloth and brick paper-covered boards, spine gilt-lettered, map eps, pict. d/j.  Laid in [info card]: The California Wine Industry.  PLI [C]: Louis M. Martini, St. Helena, Napa County, California.  PM: San Francisco, 1966 [4c].  CLI [Adv]: Wine Growers of California.  PM: New York, NY, Mar 5, 1940 [2-805] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. 46. [SOLD]  Steve Crouch.  Steinbeck Country.  Photographs and Words by Steve Crouch.  Palo Alto, Ca: American West Publishing Company, 1973.  192 pp.  Color photos, index, colophon.  11 x 8 ½, beige cloth boards, brown fabricoid backstrip, spine gilt-lettered, tan eps, brown slipcase.  PLI [C]: Poppy Patch [with Mission San Antonio de Padua in distant background].  PM: Los Angeles, 1953 [2-1c].  CLI [F]: 997 [Greetings from California add-on label].  PM: Sacramento, Sep 9, 1950 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: small split to upper channel.  Good+ in NF slipcase. 47. [Juan Francisco Dana].  Touring Topics.  Volume 23. No. 11 (Nov. 1931).  Beverly Hills: Automobile Club of Southern California, 1931.  Incl: ‘Ten Decades on a California Rancho: Random memories of stirring events in the Golden State under three flags.’  By Juan Francisco Dana; As told to John Edwin Hogg.” [Dana Adobe at Nipomo]; ‘Carmel Hours’ by Pauline Schindler / photos by Edward Wester.   12 x 9 1/8, pict. wraps, stapled.  Laid in [Info Card]: The Vaqueros.  PLI [D:Poem]: Christmas Greetings from California [Old Adobe House & Poem].  PM: Tustin, 1931 [1c].  CLI [F: 1725, AC]: Bicentennial First Civil Settlement in Alta, California [Mission Scene & Spanish Missionary & Explorers].  PM: San Jose, Sep 9, 1977 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG.  48. John F. Davis.  California, Romantic and Resourceful: A Plea for the Collection, Preservation and Diffusion of Information Relating to Pacific Coast History.  SF: A. M. Robertson, 1914.  Printed by Taylor, Nash & Taylor, SF.  [4], xi, [1], 80 pp. + 6 plates [12 pp.].  B&W photos & illus. [incl. 2 tipped-in]; appendices: The Love Story of Concha Arguello; Concepcion de Arguello by Bret Harte.  8 x 5 ¼, light brown boards, brown cloth backstrip, cover & spine gilt-lettered.  Ref: Cowan II p.159.  Prov: author’s inked inscription on ffep: “To Robert J. Kerr, a loyal native of California, and a lover of Her history and traditions; from John F. Davis.”  4 PLI: #1: [D]: Colton Hall – First Capitol of California, Monterey.  PM: Morgan Hill, 1911 [1c].  #2: [D]: The Sherman Rose Tree, Monterey, California.  PM: Del Monte, 1912 [1c].  #3: [D]: First Wooden Building in California at Monterey, California (Lumber Shipped from Australia).  PM: Pacific Grove, 1911 [1c].  #4: [U]: Old Custom House, Monterey, Cal.  PM: Fresno, 1905 [1c].  CLI [E]: California Constitution Centennial Ratified Nov. 13, 1849 [Colton Hall & Text in turquoise ink].  PM: Monterey, Nov 13, 1949 [1-954] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 49. [SOLD]  Robert de Roos.  The Thirsty Land: The Story of the Central Valley Project.  [Stanford]: Stanford University Press, c1948.  [2], xii, 265, [1] pp.  B&W photos, maps, index.  9 x 6, beige cloth, cover lettering outlined in red, spine lettered in red, pict. d/j.  Prov: inked on ffep: Charley McKinley / Reed College 1953.  Laid in [brochure]: Central Valley Project California [ca1950].  PLI [R]: Shasta Dam and Shasta Lake, California.  PM: Redding, 1948 [1c].  CLI [E: 49R]: Historical Marker: Shasta County Court House.  PM: Shasta, Jun 12, 1950 [1-989] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF in NF d/j. 50. [SOLD]  Aubrey Drury.  California: An Intimate Guide.  NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, c1935.  Third Edition, “B-M”.  xviii, 592 pp. + colophon [1], [1] + plates [32pp].  B&W photos, maps, index.  8 ½ x 5 ¾, red cloth, cover & spine gold paper label lettered in black, pict. d/j.  PLI [L:LL]: Greetings from California in the Golden West.  PM: Culver City, 1941 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-11 [4P] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: sunned with light chipping.  VG / Good+. 51. Wells Drury & Aubrey Drury.  California Tourist Guide and Handbook.  Authentic Description of Routes of Travel and Points of Interest in California.  Berkeley, Ca: Western Guidebook Company, c1913.  354 pp. + adv [22 pp.].  B&W photos, maps, index.  6 5/8 x 4 ½, red limp cloth, cover & spine lettered in black, ae=pale green, pale green e.p.  PLI [D:Map:Art]: Map and Seal of California “El Dorado”.  PM: Los Angeles, 1909 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-07 [black ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: front cover with slight vertical crease; back cover lightly soiled.  VG. 52. [SOLD]  Robert Luther Duffus.  Queen Calafia’s Island: Facts and Myths About the Golden State.  NY: W. W. Norton & Co., c1965.  First edition / First printing.   256 pp.  Bib.  8 ¼ x 5 5/8, orange cloth, black cloth backstrip, spine gilt-lettered, map eps, pict. d/j.  Prov: bookplate on ffep: Lawrence Clark Powell.  Red ink date stamp on dj upper flap: Aug 3, 1965.  PLI [C:Map]: Here I Am In California, The Golden State.  PM: Atwater, 1963 [5c].  CLI [F]: 997 [Greetings from California add-on label].  PM: Sacramento, Sep 9, 1950 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j.  Note: formerly Lawrence Clark Powell’s copy with bookplate.     53. [SOLD]  Glenn Schroeder Dumke.  The Boom of the Eighties in Southern California.  San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1944.  Printed by Anderson & Ritchie, The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, Ca.  xi, [1], 313, [3] pp. + 9 plates [18 pp.].  B&W photos, appendices, bib., index.  9 x 6, beige paper-covered boards, light green cloth backstrip, cover & spine lettered in black, map eps, printed d/j.  Ref: Kurutz II p.170n, Larson III-403, Rocq 16241.  PLI [D]: Birdseye View of Riverside “The City Beautiful” from Huntington Park.  PM: Santa Monica, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-08 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: spine slightly darkened & soiled.  Fine in VG+ d/j. 54. [SOLD]  Allan Dunn.  Care-Free San Francisco.  SF: A. M. Robertson, 1913.  [3], [vii], 83, [1] pp. + adv. [2 pp.].  B&W photos & illus.  8 5/8 x 5 7/8, orange paper-covered boards, cover illustrated & lettered in black, printed d/j.  Laid in [leaflet]: Fishermen’s Grotto Recipe Book [ca1950s].  3 PLI: #1: [U:Art]: The Golden Gate Showing Fort Point and Lime Point – San Francisco.  PM: San Francisco, Jan. 11, 1906 [1c].  #2: [U:Art]: San Francisco.  PM: Berkeley, 1904 [1c].  #3: [P:Sep:MV]: From the Tavern of Tamalpais, 2500 Feet Above the Sea.  PM: San Francisco, 1900 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-36 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in NF d/j.  Note: uncommon in dust jacket.  55. [SOLD]  William A. Edwards, M.D. and Beatrice Harraden.  Two Health-Seekers in Southern California.  Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1897.  144 pp.  6 ¾ x 4 ¼, green pict. cloth, cover lettered & decorated in dark green, spine lettered in dark green.  Ref: Cowan II p.192.  Prov: bookseller’s sticker on fpd: E. M. Burbeck, Stationer, San Diego, Cal.  PLI [W:Map:Art]: Sunny Southern California.  PM: Los Angeles, 1926 [2c].  CLI [F]: 997-08 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 56. Paul Elder [comp.].  California the Beautiful: Camera Studies by California Artists with Selections in Prose and Verse from Western Writers.  SF: Paul Elder and Company, 1911.  [6], v, [1], 75, [5] pp.  37 sepia-tone photo plates tipped-in.  10 ½ x 7 7/8, brown paper-covered boards, burlap backstrip, sepia tone photo inset on cover, cover gilt-lettered.  Ref: Cowan II p.192, Howell 1520.  Prov: bookseller’s sticker on bpd: The Gift Shop of the Craft Camarata, Santa Barbara, Cal.  PLI [D:Art]: California, The Land of Sunshine, Fruits and Flowers.  PM: [?, Cal, 1913 [1c].  CLI [Art]: California "The Land of Sunshine" [Golden Poppies].  PM: Alton, 1939 [1-805] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: some wear to burlap; minor soiling to rear board.  VG. 57. [SOLD]  Anne B[enson] Fisher.  No More a Stranger.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, c1946.  [First Printing].  [vi], 265, [1] pp.  B&W photos, bib., index.  8 ½ x 5 3/8, tan cloth, cover & spine lettered in brown, pict. e.p., pict. d/j.  Prov: inscribed by author on ffep: For Darrell Small / With all good luck / Sincerely Yours, / Anne B. Fisher.  Bookseller’s sticker on bpd: The Poor Scholar Books – Monterey.  PLI [U]: Robert Louis Stevenson House, Monterey, Cal.  PM: Boston, MA, 1911 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: front flap split, tears, lt. edgewear, a little dusty.  VG in Good d/j. 58. [SOLD]  Anne B[enson] Fisher.  The Salinas: Upside-down River.  Illustrated by Walter K. Fisher.  NY: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1945.  [Wartime edition].  The Rivers of America Series.  xviii, 316, [2] pp.  Author’s list, series list, map, b&w illus., notes, bib., index.  8 x 5 ¼, red cloth, blind-embossed device on cover, spine gilt-lettered over black panel, pict. e.p., pict. d/j.  Ref: Rocq 5505.  Prov: inked across top of contents page: Frances Tarpy, Watsonville, May 23, 1945; inked on ffep: Dorothea L. Potter, 1966.  Original book sales receipt laid in [dated 5-23-45]; Wartime news clip laid in.  PLI [R]: Glimpse of Salinas River, Salinas, Cal.  PM: Salinas, 1913 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-11 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: light wear.  NF in VG d/j. 59. Herbert Edward Floercky & Lee Shippey.  California Progress: Great Projects Which Overcome Handicaps of the Past and Prepare the Way for a Greater Future.  [Sacramento]: California State Department of Education, 1936.  California State Text Book.  [iv], 92 pp.  B&W photos, maps.  7 ¾ x 6, silver pict. cloth, cover lettered & illustrated in blue.  Prov: inked on fpd: R. Norton.  PLI [L]: The Golden Gate Bridge as it will appear when completed, San Francisco to Marin County.  PM: San Francisco, 1936 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-32 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 60. William L. Fox.  Driving by Memory.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.  First Edition.  [viii], 172, [4] pp.  B&W photos, bib.  7 ¼ x 6, mustard cloth, spine copper-stamped, pict. d/j.  PLI [C]: Baker, California.  PM: Baker, 1967 [4c].  CLI [F]: 999-24 [1] [AD] [Au] [Ag].  Cond: NF in NF d/j. 61. Robert Freeman.  The Land I Live In and Other Verse.  Pasadena, CA, 1921.  [Freeman was a Baptist minister and moderator of the Synod of California from 1920-21].  [2], [x], 131 + colophon [1] pp.  7 1/8 x 4 7/8, brown paper-covered boards, white cover & spine label lettered in brown, pict. d/j.  PLI [L:LL]: Greetings from California in the Golden West.  PM: Fresno, 1941 [1c].  CLI [F]: 1373-27 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: eps offset; d/j: chipped & darkened.  NF in VG+ d/j. 62. [SOLD]  Zona Gale.  Frank Miller of Mission Inn.  NY: D. Appleton – Century Company, 1938.  xii, 188 pp. + plates [20 pp].  B&W photos, index.  8 1/8 x 5 ½, blue cloth, cover & spine gilt-stamped, pict. d/j.  Laid in [matchcover]: Mission Inn, Riverside, California.  PLI [U]: Mine Host and Hostess, Glenwood Hotel, Riverside, Cal.  PM: Los Angeles, 1905 [1c].  CLI [Adv]: California’s Mission Inn Riverside.  PM: Riverside, 1911 [1-374] [AD] [Au] [with letter enclosed].  Cond: bk: some discoloration at spine ends; some spine gilt lost; d/j: tattered.  VG in Fair d/j. 63. Marjorie Gordon.  Changes in Harmony: An Illustrated History of Yuba and Sutter Counties.  Northridge, CA: Windsor Publications, Inc, c1988.  First Edition.  126, [2] pp.  Color & b&w photos & illus, maps, bib, index.  10 15/16 x 8 3/8, off-white cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, buff eps, pict. d/j.  Prov: author’s inscription on half-title: 25 December 1989 / To Kathy and Alain / With Best Wishes / Marjorie Gordon.  PLI [C]: Marysville, Calif.  PM: Marysville, 1957 [6c].  CLI [F]: 954-35 [4P] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j.  64. [SOLD]  Mina Deane Halsey [a.k.a. M. D. Yeslah].  A Tenderfoot in Southern California.  NY: Printed for the Author by J. J. Little & Ives Co., 1908.  Autographed edition, copy # 5630.  [2], 150, [2] pp.  7 5/8 x 5 1/8, red cloth, cover gilt-lettered & decorated with palm tree vignette, spine gilt-lettered, teg, printed d/j with palm tree vignette, ribbon place marker.  Ref: Rocq 16273.  Prov: inked Christmas presentation on fpd: R. H. Shaw from S. Belden / 1913 Xmas.  PLI [P:MV:Grn]: Mount Lowe Railway.  PM: Echo Mountain, 1903 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-20 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: minor wear.  NF in VG d/j. 65. Mina Deane Halsey.  A Tenderfoot in Southern California (Down to Date).  NY: Desmond Fitzgerald, 1925.  [3] – 162 pp.  B&W head & tailpieces.  7 3/8 x 5 1/8, bluish-grey boards, cover & spine lettered in burgundy, cover vignette [2 palm trees] in burgundy, t.e. burgundy, yellow printed d/j.  Ref: Rocq 16273n.  PLI [D:Sep]: Great Incline, Mt. Lowe, California, 3000 feet long; 1300 feet rise.  PM: Los Angeles, 1912 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-24 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: unopened; boards a bit worn at extremities; d/j: age-toned & chipped.  VG in Good+ d/j.    66. Mina Deane Halsey.  A Tenderfoot in Southern California (Down to Date).  NY: Desmond Fitzgerald, c1912 / ca 1931 per adv on d/j.  Fifteenth Impression [per d/j].  [3] – 162 pp.  B&W head & tailpieces.  7 ½ x 5 1/8, orange boards, cover & spine lettered in blue, cover vignette [2 palm trees] in blue, t.e. orange, lime green pict d/j.  Ref: Rocq 16273n.  PLI [D:Poem]: Greetings from California [people picking poppies near Mt. Lowe].  PM: Long Beach, 1916 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-06 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: minor foxing throughout; d/j: spine sunned, lightly soiled, a bit of edge wear.  VG in Good+ d/j.    67. Mina Deane Halsey.  When East Comes West.  NY: Printed for the Author by J. J. Little & Ives Co., 1909.  Second Installment of  “Bill” series.  [2], [1]-12, [2], 13-24, [2], 25-36, [2], 37-46, [2], 47-62, [2], 63-74, [2], 75-88, [2], 89-96, [2], 97-110 pp. + adv. [2], [6] pp.  7 ½ x 5 1/8, red cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered & decorated, pict. d/j.  PLI [SD]: Pigeon Ranch in California.  PM: Los Angeles, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-08 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: spine age-toned & 2” loss at foot.  Fine in Good d/j. 68. [SOLD]  Norm Hammond.  The Dunites.  Foreword by Taylor Coffman.  Arroyo Grande, CA: South County Historical Society, 1992.  Printed by Haagen Printing, Santa Barbara, CA.  vii, 8-120, [8] pp.  B&W illus., notes.  9 x 6, pict. wraps., maps on inside wrappers.  Laid in [matchcover]: Edgewater Motel, Pismo Beach, Calif. [w/mileages].  PLI [W]: Sand Dunes, Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo County, Calif.  PM: Fresno, 1939 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-09 [1] [AD- "Phil A. Telic"] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 69. Phil Townsend Hanna.  California Through Four Centuries.  A Handbook of Memorable Historical Dates.  With a Foreword by Herbert Eugene Bolton.  Drawings by Raymond P. Winters.  On Murray Hill, NY: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, c1935.  xviii, 212, [2] pp.  B&W illus, index.  7 9/16 x 5 1/8, orange cloth, blue-grey stagecoach illus on cover, spine lettered in blue-grey, te=blue-grey, pict. d/j.  Prov: inked on fpd: Arthur Charles Leva; inked on bpd: Arturo Carlo Leva / Costa Mesa, Calif.  PLI [L:LL]: Greetings from California in the Golden West.  PM: San Bernardino, 1940 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-32 [2] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: pc, slightly darkened, light edgewear.  VG in VG+ d/j.       70. [SOLD]  Corra Harris.  The Happy Pilgrimage.  With Illustrations.  Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927.  [viii], 310, [2] pp. + 12 plates [24 pp.].  B&W photos.  8 1/8 x 5 ¼, green cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered & with gilt device, pict. d/j.  PLI [D: Poem w/oranges & blossoms border]: Greetings from California / Bungalows and Flowers [at Miramar (inset)].  PM: Clay City, IN, 1917 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-12 [yellow & black ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: split, chipped.  Fine in Good d/j. 71. Hildegarde Hawthorne.  Romantic Cities of California.  Illustrated by E. H. Suydam.  NY: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1939.  [First Printing].  xviii, 456, [2] pp. + plates.  Color frontis plus 53 b&w illus, index, artist’s illus. book list.  8 7/8 x 6 ½, brown cloth, cover lettered in blue, spine gilt-lettered and illus. in blue, pict. eps, tan pict. d/j.  Ref: Rocq 16915.  PLI [L:LL]: Greetings from California in the Golden West.  PM: Long Beach, 1942 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: pc & edgewear.  Fine in VG d/j. 72. Hildegarde Hawthorne.  Romantic Cities of California.  Illustrated by E. H. Suydam.  NY: D. Appleton-Century Co., c1939 [Third Printing].  xviii, 456, [2] pp. + plates.  Color frontis plus 53 b&w illus, index, artist’s illus. book list.  8 ¾ x 6 ½, red cloth, cover lettered in blue, spine gilt-lettered, pict. eps, tan pict. d/j.  Ref: Rocq 16915.  PLI [L]: Fiesta Days at Santa Barbara Mission.  PM: Santa Barbara, 1943 [1c].  CLI [F]: 954-38 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: price-clipped; very minor wear.  Fine in VG+ d/j. 73. Adelia Hickman.  In California [wrapper title].  [Poetry]  LA: Union Square Realty, Adelia Hickman, c1911.  [14], [2] pp.  Author photo & illus.  5 ¼ x 4, brown printed wraps, stapled.  PLI [D:Poem]: In California [2 views + poem].  PM: Pasadena, 1937 [1c].  CLI [F]: 999 [Greetings from California add-on label].  PM: Genoa, NV, Jul 14, 1951 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 74. Monica Highland.  Greetings from Southern California.  [A Look at the Past Through Postcards].  Portland, OR: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 1988.  112 pp.  Color postcard illustrations throughout.  9 x 11 3/8, blue fabricoid, spine gilt-lettered, salmon e.p., pict. d/j.  6 PLI: #1: [L:Ser]: Greetings from Southern California Postcard Club.  PM: Los Angeles, 1949 [1c].  #2: [L:Adv]: Hotel Laguna, Laguna Beach, California.  PM: Laguna Beach, 1948 [1c].  #3: [D]: Winter in Eastlake Park, Los Angeles, Cal.  PM: Los Angeles, 1911 [1c].  #4: [W:Adv]: The Samarkand, Persian Hotel, Santa Barbara, California.  PM: Santa Barbara, 1929 [1c].  #5: [L]: Main Street, Looking South, Oceanside, California.  PM: Los Angeles, 1951 [1c].  #6: [L]: Residence of Myrna Loy, near Beverly Hills, California.  PM: Canby, OR, 1943 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-24 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. 75. Mildred Brooke Hoover, Hero Eugene Rensch, Ethel Grace Rensch & William N. Abeloe.  Historic Spots in California.  Third Edition.  Revised by William N. Abeloe.  Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1966.  Third edition. [1st: 3 vols: 1932,33,37; 2nd : 1v, 1948].  xiii, [1], 642 pp.  B&W photos, maps, source notes, index.  10 x 6 ½, light green cloth, spine gilt-lettered over dark green background, brown map e.p., green pict. d/j.  Ref: Caughey, Edwards, see Rocq 16923, Wheat 164x.  PLI [L:LL]: Greetings from California in the Golden West.  PM: Concord, 1947 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-10 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: price-clipped.  Fine in NF d/j.   76. [SOLD]  Katharine Bixby Hotchkis.  Trip with Father.  [SF]: California Historical Society, 1971.  Special Publication Number 48.  500 copies printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, LA.  xii, 43 + colophon [1] pp.  Illus.  9 x 6, orange cloth, cover lettered in red & black, spine lettered in black, pea-green eps.  Laid in: news clip.  PLI [D]: The Boulevard and Hotel Potter, Santa Barbara, Cal.  PM: Chicago, IL, 1914 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-11 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: spine slightly sunned.  NF. 77. [Hotel Barbara Worth].  Hotel Barbara Worth, Monument to Those Who Conquered “La Palma de la Mano de Dios”.  Np, Np, Nd [ca1925].  16pp.  B&W photos & illus.  9 x 6, pict. wraps, stapled.  Prov: Lightly penciled at top of cover: We got this when we took Mr. Jensen & Party to El Centro, Feb 1925.  2 PLI: #1: [W]: Hotel Barbara Worth, El Centro. California.  PM: El Centro, 1928 [2c].  #2: [D]: Harold Bell Wright’s Studio, Meloland, Imperial Valley, Calif.  PM: El Centro, 1915 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-06 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG.       78. Rockwell Dennis Hunt.  California the Golden.  NY: Silver, Burdett and Co., 1911.  Stories of the States series.  xii, 362 pp. + adv [2 pp.] + color map frontis [4 pp.].  B&W photos, illus., maps, index, series advert.  7 ¼ x 4 ¾, tan pict. cloth, cover & spine printed in red & black, back cover blind embossed.  Prov: inked on ffep: “Martha B. Doak, Burlingame School”.  PLI [SD]: Junipero Serra Monument, near Pacific Grove, Cal.  PM: Pacific Grove, 1911 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-36 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 79. [SOLD]  Rockwell Dennis Hunt & Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez.  A Short History of California.  NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1929.  xv, [1], 671, [1] pp. + plates [32 pp.].  B&W photos & illus., maps [incl. 2 folded, tipped-in], appendices, index.  8 ½ x 5 5/8, red ribbed cloth, cover blind-embossed, spine gilt-lettered, pict. d/j.  Ref.: Caughey.  Prov: bookseller’s sticker on bpd: Levinson’s, The Book Store, Sacramento.  PLI [D]: Old Custom House, 1814, Monterey, Cal.  PM: Pacific Grove, 1909 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-09 [1] [AD-“Phil A. Telic”] [Au].  Cond: d/j: wear to top edge.  Fine in Good+ d/j. 80. DeWitt V. Hutchings.  The Story of Mount Rubidoux, Riverside, California.  [Riverside, Ca]: Glenwood Mission Inn, n.d. [ca 1926].  [48 pp. – unpaginated].  B&W photos.  8 3/8 x 6, tan pict. wraps, stapled.  Ref: Rocq 6482.  PLI [W]: Serra Cross, Mt. Rubidoux, Riverside, California.  PM: Santa Monica, 1925 [2c].  CLI [E]: 60th Anniversary of Planting Parent Washington Navel Orange Tree [Oranges & Text in blue-green ink].  PM: Riverside, May 5, 1933 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine.   81. [SOLD]  W. E. Hutchinson.  Byways Around San Francisco Bay.  Illustrated by the Author.  NY & Cincinnati: The Abingdon Press, 1915.  [4], 184, [4] pp.  Ports., illus., photos.  8 x 5 ¼, green pict. cloth, spine gilt-lettered, teg.  Ref: Kurutz II p.13.  Prov: inked on ffep: L. Sisson.  Five postage stamps affixed to fep; news articles pasted to p.109 and to bep.  PLI [D]: Sunset on the Golden Gate, San Francisco, California.  PM: [Little] Shasta, 1911 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-36 [2] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: very minor edgewear.  NF. 82. [SOLD]  W. E. Hutchinson.  Byways Around San Francisco Bay.  Illustrated by the Author.  NY & Cincinnati: The Abingdon Press, 1915.  [4], 184, [4] pp.  Ports., illus., photos.  8 x 5 ¼, blue pict. cloth, spine gilt-lettered, pict. d/j.  Ref: Kurutz II p.13.  PLI [D]: Sunset on the Golden Gate, San Francisco, California.  PM: Fresno, 1911 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-15 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: minor extremity wear; d/j: light chipping & small circular cutout on spine.  VG in VG d/j.  Note: scarce in dust jacket. 83. Leigh Hadley Irvine.  San Luis Obispo County: Its Climate, Scenery, Soil, Resources and Opportunities.  San Luis Obispo, Ca: [Tribune Print], 1915.  48 pp.  B&W photos.  7 5/8 x 5 ¾, color pict. wraps, stapled.  Ref: Rocq 13181.  PLI: [D]: General View of San Luis Obispo, California.  PM: San Luis Obispo, 1912 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-06 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: minor wear & soiling.  VG. 84. Inez Haynes Irwin.  The Californiacs.  SF: A. M. Robertson, 1916.  [First Printing].  Printed by Philopolis Press, San Francisco.  This essay was originally published in Sunset, the Pacific Monthly, February, 1916.  [2], [x], 63, [1] pp.  Color frontis. illus tipped in.  6 ¾, 4 ¼, beige pict. boards, blue cloth backstrip, cover lettered & illustrated in gilt, pict. d/j.  Ref: Cowan II p.306, Kurutz II p.170n, Rocq 9948x.  Prov: penciled on ffep: James Otis.  PLI [D: Poem w/oranges & blossoms border]: Greetings from California / Trip through the Orange Groves.  PM: Los Angeles, 1915 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-36 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: light soiling.  NF in NF d/j. 85. Inez Haynes Irwin.  The Californiacs.  SF: A. M. Robertson, 1916.  Second Printing.  Printed by Philopolis Press, San Francisco.  This essay was originally published in Sunset, the Pacific Monthly, February, 1916.  [2], [x], 63, [1] pp.  Color frontis. illus tipped in.  6 ¾, 4 ¼, tan pict. boards, blue cloth backstrip, gilt cover, pict. d/j.  Ref: Cowan II p.306, Kurutz II p.170n, Rocq 9948x.  Prov: plain ex-libris pasted to fpd: Alfred & Katharine Newman.  PLI [D:Art]: I’ll eat oranges for you (Winter in California) / While you throw Snow Balls for me (Winter in the East).  PM: San Diego, 1912 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-15 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF in VG+ d/j. 86. Inez Haynes Irwin.  The Californiacs.  SF: A. M. Robertson, 1919.  Fourth Printing.  Printed by Philopolis Press, San Francisco.  [6], [x], 63, [1] pp.  Color frontis. illus tipped in.  6 5/8 x 4 ¼, tan pict. boards, cover printed in green, printed d/j.  Ref: Cowan II p.306x, Kurutz II p.170nx, Rocq 9948x [1916 ed].  Prov: inked inscription on ffep: “Dear Sister, / Hoping you will enjoy this very truthful little book.  I wish you a very Happy Christmas. / Sister Emily, 1920.”  PLI [D]: The New Cliff House, San Francisco, Cal.  PM: Parker, SD, 1917 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-12 [yellow & black ink] [1-997 & 1-954] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF in VG+ d/j.  87. Inez Haynes Irwin.  The Californiacs.  SF: A. M. Robertson, 1921.  Printed by Bruce Brough, San Francisco.  [3], [vii], 63, [3] pp.  Color frontis. illus tipped in.  6 ¼ x 4, tan pict. boards, cover printed in green, printed d/j.  Ref: Cowan II p.306x, Kurutz II p.170nx, Rocq 9948x [1916 ed].  Prov: inked on fpd: E. W. Alexander, Jan 24, ’25.  PLI [D:Art]: Christmas and New Year Greetings from California. Cliff House [& Poppies].  PM: Roseville, 1914 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-24 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. 88. Inez Haynes Irwin.  The Californiacs.  SF: A. M. Robertson, 1926.  Printed by Bruce Brough, San Francisco.  [2], [x], 63, [1] pp.  Color frontis. illus tipped in.  6 5/8 x 4, sand-colored pict. boards, cover lettered & illustrated in green, printed d/j.  Ref: Cowan II p.306x, Kurutz II p.170nx, Rocq 9948x [1916 ed].  PLI [D:Emb]: Greetings from the Golden Gate City [Cliff House & California Poppies].  PM: San Francisco, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-07 [green ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in NF d/j.  89. Inez Haynes Irwin.  The Native Son.  SF: A. M. Robertson, 1919.  [2], [v], [1], 69, [3] pp.  Color frontis. illus tipped in.  6 5/8 x 4 ¼, tan dec. boards, cover lettered & decorated in green, printed d/j.  PLI [D:Art]: Panama-Pacific 1915 International Exposition, San Francisco, California.  PM: Newark, 1912 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-26 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in NF d/j. 90. Sara White Isaman.  Tourist Tales of California.  Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1909.  [Second edition; orig. pub: 1907].  224 pp.  B&W illus.  7 ½ x 5 ¼, tan pict. cloth, cover lettered in black with pictorial paper inset; spine gilt-lettered.  Ref: B&G 1290, Cowan II p.306.  Prov: inked on ffep: Mabel E. Montgomery Pasadena, Calif., April 18, 1911.  PLI [U]: Gathering Poppies in California, in Winter Time.  PM: Los Angeles, 1906 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-24 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: some soiling.  Good+. 91. [SOLD]  George Wharton James.  California Romantic and Beautiful.  The History of its Old Missions and of its Indians; A Survey of its Climate, Topography, Deserts, Mountains, Rivers, Valleys, Islands and Coast Line; A Description of its Recreations and Festivals; A Review of its Industries; An Account of its Influence upon Prophets, Poets, Artists and Architects; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the Automobilist, Traveller, Sportsman, Pleasure and Health Seeker.  Boston: The Page Company, October 1914.  First Impression.  See America First Series.  xxv, [1], 433, [3] pp. + plates [144 pp.].  Illus., folded map tipped in, bib., index, series list.  9 3/8 x 6 3/8, blue pict. cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, teg, illus. eps.  Ref: James 6, Kurutz II p.13.  Prov: inked on ffep: Jeanie K. Hyde, January 14, 1915.  PLI [D]: Beautiful California – Mt. St. Helena (Height 4443 feet).  PM: Napa Junction, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-24 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: spine slightly dulled.  VG+. 92. [SOLD]  George Wharton James.  California Romantic and Beautiful.  The History of its Old Missions and of its Indians; A Survey of its Climate, Topography, Deserts, Mountains, Rivers, Valleys, Islands and Coast Line; A Description of its Recreations and Festivals; A Review of its Industries; An Account of its Influence upon Prophets, Poets, Artists and Architects; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the Automobilist, Traveller, Sportsman, Pleasure and Health Seeker.  Boston: The Page Company, November 1914.  Second Impression [1st: Oct. 1914].  See America First Series.  xxv, [1], 433, [3] pp. + plates [144 pp.].  Illus., folded map tipped in, bib., index, series list.  9 3/8 x 6 3/8, blue pict. cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, teg, illus. eps., pict d/j.  Ref: James 6, Kurutz II p.13.  Prov: blind-stamped at bottom of title page: Presentation Copy.  PLI [D:Art]: See America First / Come to California.  PM: Fullerton, 1914 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-21 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: slight edgewear; dj: chipped & dusty.  NF in Good+ d/j.  Note: scarce in dust jacket. 93. [SOLD]  George Wharton James.  Exposition Memories: Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1916.  Introduction by Caroline Remondino Franklin; A Chapter by Bertha Bliss Tyler, and the Prose and Poetic Writings of San Diego writers read at the Exposition.  Pasadena, Ca: The Radiant Life Press, 1917.  216 pp. + plates [32 pp.].  B&W photos of various writers & exposition grounds, index, author’s list.  7 5/8 x 5 3/8, blue pict. cloth, cover & spine gilt lettered & decorated in gilt, blue & grey, teg.  Ref: Kurutz II p.14.  PLI [D]: Greetings from San Diego, Cal. / Panama-California Exposition San Diego 1915.  PM: San Diego, 1913 [1c].  CLI [F]: 773-01 [Spanish Dancers & Text in dark blue & red] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: inner hinges cracked; minor wear.  Good.   94. [SOLD]  George Wharton James.  The Lake of the Sky: Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada.  Its History, Indians, Discovery by Fremont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe, and Much Other Interesting Matter.  Pasadena, CA: George Wharton James, 1915.  [2], xvii, [1], 395, [1] pp. + plates [68 pp.]. + tipped-in folded panoramic & folded map.  B&W photos, map, index.  8 x 5 ¼, green pict. cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, cover & spine decorated in gilt, blue, pale blue & green, teg.  Ref: Kurutz II p.13.  PLI [W:Map]: Map of Lake Tahoe Highways.  PM: Tahoe, 1932 [1c].  CLI [Adv]: Fallen Leaf Lodge.  PM: Fallen Leaf, 1916 [1-332] [AD] [Au] [with letter enclosed].  Cond:  NF.    95. George Wharton James.  The 1910 Trip of the H. M. M. B. A. to California and The Pacific Coast.  SF: Press of Bolte & Braden Company, 1911.  [2], 377 pp. + adv. [4], author’s list [1] pp.  B&W photos, illus., map.  10 x 6 7/8, brown cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, cover gilt-stamped: Compliments of the Palace and Fairmont Hotels, San Francisco.  Ref: Rocq 16953.  PLI [D]: Beautiful California, Hotel El Paso De Robles (On the Road of a Thousand Wonders).  PM: Paso Robles, 1909 [1c].  CLI [C]: Calif. Admitted to Union Sept. 9, 1850 / 1850  1934 [State Map & Text in brown ink].  PM: Sacramento, Sep 9, 1934 [1-720] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: slight bow to front cover; light soiling to covers, front hinge loose; rear inner hinge cracked.  Good+. 96. George Wharton James.  Travelers’ Handbook to Southern California.  Published Annually.  Pasadena, CA: George Wharton James, 1904.  507, [1] + index of chapters [2], [2] pp.  B&W illus., adv.  6 x 4 5/8, red limp cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered.  Ref: Cowan IV p.858, Rocq 16291.  PLI [U]: Picking Oranges near Snow Fields, Southern California.  Greetings from Pasadena.  PM: Pasadena, 1905 [1c].  CLI [F]: 954 [Greetings from California add-on label].  PM: Coloma, Jan 24, 1948 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 97. Clifton Johnson.  Highways and Byways of California.  With Excursions into Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Idaho.  Written and Illustrated by Clifton Johnson.  NY: The Macmillan Company, 1915.  Third printing, February 1915 [1st: April 1908; 2nd: Sept 1913].  xiii, [1], 1-181, 181a, 181b, 182-323, [1] pp. + adv [8 pp.]. + plates [126 pp.].  Colorized frontis. & b&w photos, series list.  7 ½ x 5 1/8, green cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, two-tone green vignette on cover, printed eps, te= green.  Publisher’s advert leaflet laid in.  Prov: bookseller’s sticker on bpd: Brentano’s, Booksellers & Stationers, New York.  PLI [D]: El Capitan by Moonlight, Yosemite Valley, California.  PM: Soledad [&] Greenfield, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 740-03 [3] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: slight sunning to spine.  NF.  98. Idwal Jones.  Vines in the Sun: A Journey Through the California Vineyards.  Drawings by Albert J. Camille.  NY: William Morrow & Co., 1949.  253, [3] pp.  B&W illus., index, author’s list.  8 3/8 x 5 5/8, blue-grey cloth, spine title & cover illustration printed in red, pict. d/j.  Ref: Hanna, Larson IV-166, Rocq 16958.  Laid in: To-Kalon Wine Co. purchases receipt, dated Feb. 2nd, 1914.  PLI [C:Map]: The Wine Country of Northern California is a land of enchanting beauty, lovely hillside vineyards, famous old wineries.  PM: San Diego, 1954 [2c].  CLI [E]: National Air Mail Week, May 15 to May 21 [1938], Saint Helena, Calif. “The Dry Wine Center of the World” [2 men at wine press illus. in blue ink].  PM: Saint Helena, May 15, 1938 [1-C23] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. 99. [Idwal Jones – Vines in the Sun – copy #2].  Laid in [matchcover]: Mission Bell Special Reserve Wines, K. Arakelian, Inc, Madera, California [ca1950s].  PLI [Art]: [Poem & Cluster of Grapes illustration, c1913].  PM: Pasadena, 1952 [2c] [Pasadena Postcard Club].  CLI [E]: California Bear Flag Centennial Celebration, Sonoma, California, June 14-15-16 [California Republic flag & text in purple ink].  PM: Sonoma, Jun 14, 1946 [1-939] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: light chipping to head of spine.  Fine in NF d/j. 100. [SOLD]  David Starr Jordan.  California and the Californians and The Alps of King – Kern Divide.  SF: The Whitaker-Ray Company, 1903.  New Edition.  [iv], 63, [1] pp.  B&W photo illus.  8 3/8 x 5 ¾, one-quarter burgundy cloth and boards, front cover paper label.  Prov: inked on ffep: F. E. Berge, M.D.  PLI [D]: Greeting from California.  “I’ll eat Oranges for you, and you may throw snow-balls for me”.  PM: Los Angeles, 1913 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [2] [AD] [Au].  Cond: sunning to upper portion of boards and spine.  VG. 101. Joseph Russell Knowland.  California, a Landmark History: Story of the Preservation and Marking of Early Day Shrines.  Oakland, CA: Privately printed, 1941.  Printed by the Tribune Press, Oakland.  xviii, 245, [1] pp. + plates [96 pp.].  B&W photos, landmarks list, index.  8 5/8 x 5 ¾, blue cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered & vignettes, patterned eps, pict. d/j.  Ref: Rocq 16974.  PLI [D:Sep]: The Palo Alto Tree, Palo Alto, Cal.  PM: Palo Alto, 1911 [2c].  CLI [F]: 954-33 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in NF d/j. 102. Gary F. Kurutz.  Benjamin C. Truman: California Booster & Bon Vivant.  SF: The Book Club of California, 1984.  600 copies printed at The Grace Hoper Press.  [6], vi, 3-89 + colophon [1], [4] pp.  Illus., bib., Truman publications checklist.  8 ¾ x 5 ¾, blue-green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, plain white shipping wrapper.  Ref.: BCC 176.  PLI [D]: Home in a California Orange Grove, On the Road of a Thousand Wonders, Southern Pacific.  PM: Los Angeles, 1919 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-05 [greenish-black ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine s/w. 103. KD Kurutz & Gary F. Kurutz.  California Calls You: The Art of Promoting the Golden State 1870 to 1940.  Sausalito, CA: Windgate Press, 2000.  Second Printing [1st: 2000].  172 pp.  Color reproductions, artist biographies, bib., index.  10 x 10, grey cloth, spine silver-lettered, peach-colored eps, pict. d/j.  Two Book Club of California exhibition and reception cards laid in.  2 PLI: #1: [L:LL]: Greetings from California in the Golden West.  PM: South Gate, 1944 [1c] [label master].  #2: [C]: Oranges and Snow.  PM: Lakewood, 1968 [6c].  CLI [F]: 997 [Uncacheted with DJ label].  PM: Sacramento, Sep 9, 1950 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. [full label] 104. Macy H. Lapham.  Crisscross Trails: Narrative of a Soil Surveyor.  Foreword by Charles E. Kellogg.  Berkeley, CA: Willis E. Berg, 1949.  x, 246 pp.  B&W photos, bib.  8 ½ x 5 3/8, green cloth, spine lettered in yellow-green.  PLI [L]: Joshua Trees and Wild Flowers on the Desert in Springtime.  PM: Santa Maria, 1942 [1c].  CLI [Art]: California "The Land of Sunshine" [Golden Poppies].  PM: Los Angeles, May 12, 1949 [2-807] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 105. Walter Lindley & J. P. Widney.  California of the South: Its Physical Geography, Climate, Resources, Routes of Travel, and Health Resorts.  Being a Complete Guide-Book to Southern California; With Maps and Numerous Illustrations.  NY:  D. Appleton and Company, 1888.  [First edition / first issue].  [4], viii, 377, [1] pp. + adv [4], [2] pp. + 2 unpag. plates [4 pp.].  B&W photos & illus, 3 folded maps [2 in color], various lists, appendix [incl. Southern Pacific Railway table of mileages].  7 ½ x 5, red pict. cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, cover ruled & decorated with a Century Plant in black; spine ruled in black, patt. eps.  Ref: Cowan I p.142, Cowan II p.393, Rocq 16309.  PLI [SD]: A typical Cal. scene, Oranges, Roses, and Century plant in bloom, near Pomona, Cal.  PM: Pomona, 1907 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-33 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: some soiling & slight sunning to spine. VG+. 106. Walter Lindley & J. P. Widney.  California of the South: Its Physical Geography, Climate, Mineral Springs, Resources, Routes of Travel, and Health Resorts.  Being a Complete Guide-Book to Southern California; With Maps and Numerous Illustrations.  Third Edition.  Rewritten and Printed from New Plates.  NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1896.  [2], xii, 335, [3] pp. + plates.  B&W illus., folded map tipped to pp. 305, appendix, index.  7 7/16 x 4 15/16, red cloth, cover decorated with Century Plant and band in black, cover & spine gilt-lettered, pale yellow eps.  PLI [D]: Century Plant in Bloom.  PM: Pomona, 1907 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-24 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine.   107. [SOLD]  Jill Livingston.  That Ribbon of Highway I: Highway 99 From the Oregon Border to the State Capital.  Photographs By Kathryn Golden Maloof.  Klamath River, CA: Living Gold Press, 2000.  Second Edition [1-1: 1996; 1-2: 1998].  [iv], 211, [i] pp.  B&W photos & illus, maps, bib.  6 x 8, pict. wraps.  PLI [L]: Rio Rancho Motel, U.S. 99[-E], Marysville, Calif.  PM: Oroville, 1953 [2c].  CLI [F]: 1025-03 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 108. [SOLD]  Jill Livingston.  That Ribbon of Highway II: Highway 99 From the State Capital to the Mexican Border.  Photographs By Kathryn Golden Maloof.  Klamath River, CA: Living Gold Press, 1998.  [vi], 210 pp.  B&W photos & illus., maps, bib., advert, + addendum slip pasted to inside rear wrapper.  6 x 8, white pict. wraps.  Laid in [matchcover]: The Big Glass [Orange Juice], Greenfield, Calif., 8 Miles So. of Bakersfield on Hiway 99.  PLI [C]: The Fresno Sands Motel.  PM: Madera, 1957 [2c].  CLI [F]: 1025-04 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 109. [Los Angeles County].  Los Angeles Today.  August, 1920.  LA: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1920.  Copyright by Neuner Corporation, Los Angeles, 1920.  32 pp.  Colorized photos.  6 ¾ x 5 1/8, color pict. wraps, stapled.  Ref: See Kurutz II p.161.  PLI [D]: Interior of Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, Cal.  PM: Los Angeles, 1910 [1c].  CLI [F]: 954-32 [purple & green ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 110. [Los Angeles County].  Los Angeles County California.  Compiled and Written by Howard S. Nichols.  LA: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1927.  52 pp.  B&W photos.  10 x 6 ¾, color pict. wraps, stapled.  Ref: See Kurutz II p.55.  PLI [D]: Los Angeles, Cal., Chamber of Commerce Building.  PM: Los Angeles, 1912 [1c].  CLI [F]: 954-32 [black & red ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 111. [Los Angeles County].  Los Angeles County California.  LA: Los Angeles County Chamber of Commerce, ca1940.  [64] pp.  B&W photos & illus.  7 ½ x 5 ¼, pict. wraps, stapled.  PLI [W]: Coast Highway at Castellammare, near Santa Monica, California.  PM: Los Angeles, 1934 [1c].  CLI [F]: 954-32 [black & orange ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: light wear.  VG+.   112. [Los Angeles County].  Los Angeles To-Day, City and County.  LA: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, [ca 1927].  Printed by Neuner Corporation, Los Angeles.  48 pp.  B&W photos & illus.  9 x 6, color pictorial wraps, raised gilt lettering on cover, stapled.  Ref: see Kurutz II p.161.  PLI [D]: Interior of Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, Cal.  PM: Los Angeles, 1912 [1c].  CLI [F]: 954-32 [red & purple ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 113. [Los Angeles County].  Los Angeles County California To-day.  150 Anniversary.  Los Angeles: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, ca1931.  64 pp.  B&W photo illus, maps, index.  9 x 6, pict. wraps, stapled.  PLI [D]: A Modern California Adobe Home.  PM: Los Angeles, 1923 [1c].  CLI [F]: 954-61 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG+. 114. [SOLD]  [Los Angeles Times].  Southern California’s Standard Guide Book By the Los Angeles Times, 1910.  The Only Complete Guide of the Kind Ever Published.  Handbook for Residents and Tourists: Being a Timely Directory Conveying Important Information Concerning the Southern Pacific Coast.  Maps and Illustrations; Showing Automobile, Railroad, Trolley and Mountain Routes.  LA: The Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House [Los Angeles Times – per cover], 1910.  [2], [iv], 231, [1] pp. + 3 folded maps tipped in.  6 ¾ x 5 1/8, red limp cloth, cover gilt-lettered.  PLI [D]: Canal Scene at Venice of America; As Seen by the Balloon Route Excursionists.  PM: Venice, 1910 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-06 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: some wear to limp covers; cover gilt dulled.  Good+. 115. Charles F. Lummis [ed.].  Land of Sunshine: A Magazine of California and the Southwest.  October 1897, Vol. VII, No. 5. “The Gold Rush”.  Los Angeles: Land of Sunshine Publishing Co., 1897.  [vi], pp. 181-223, [15] pp.  B&W photos & illus, ads, article: ’48 and ’98 by Juan Del Rio.  9 x 6, pict, wraps, stapled.  Ref: Powell 25.  PLI [D:Art]: California, The Land of Sunshine, Fruits and Flowers [oranges & poppies].  PM: Long Beach, 1914 [1c].  CLI [Art]: California "The Land of Sunshine" [Golden Poppies].  PM: South Gate, Nov 9, 1938 [1-807] [AD] [Au].  Cond: general wear.  Good.   116. Alexander George McAdie.  The Clouds and Fogs of San Francisco.  SF: A. M. Robertson, 1912.  [xii], 106, [2] pp.  B&W photos, color frontis. illus.  8 1/8 x 5 5/8, grey boards, cover lettered & decorated in gilt, spine gilt-lettered, pict. d/j.  Ref: Cowan II p.402.  PLI [D]: Above the Clouds, Mt. Tamalpais, Cal.  PM: Tamalpais, 1907 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-15 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: spine age-toned.  Fine in NF d/j.  Note: scarce in dust jacket.   117. [SOLD]  Gordon T. McClelland & Jay T. Last.  California Orange Box Labels: An Illustrated History.  Beverly Hills, CA: Hillcrest Press, Inc., c1985.  [ii], 133, [1] pp.  Color orange box label illustrations, index.  11 x 8 ½, tan cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, tan eps, pict. d/j.  Ref: Kurutz II p.170n.  PLI [D:Art]: I am Sending You a Box of Oranges from California.  PM: Banning, 1912 [1c].  CLI [Art]: California [Oranges & Snow Capped Peak].  PM: Camp Haan, Aug 5, 1944 [free] [AD] [Au] [with letter enclosed].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. 118. [SOLD]  James D. McClure.  California Landmarks: A Photographic Guide to the State’s Historic Spots.  Text, Maps and Photographs by James D. McClure.  Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press, 1948.  [First printing].  [2], xvi, 149, [1] pp.  B&W photos, maps, index.  9 ¾ x 6 ¾, green cloth, cover & spine lettered in black, map e.p., pict. d/j.  Ref: Rocq 17001.  Prov: Signed by the author on blank prelim: 9 / 13 / 49, Sincerely, Jim McClure.  Inked on fpd: George W. Beattie.  PLI [D]: First Custom House in California, Monterey, Cal.  PM: Santa Cruz, 1910 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-33 [4P] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. 119. John Steven McGroarty.  California: Its History and Romance.  LA: Grafton Publishing Co., 1911.  [First edition].  Printed by Press of the West Coast Magazine, Los Angeles.  [4], [ix], [1], 393, [1] pp. + plates [22 pp.].  B&W photos, map, appendix, index.  9 ¼ x 6 ¼, green cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, teg.  Ref: Caughey, Cowan II p.407, Howell 628, WeberM p.65n.  Prov: bookstore [used] sticker on fpd: Susan Heller, Out-of-Print & Rare Books, Cleveland, Ohio.  PLI [D:Sep]: Entrance to Mission Playhouse view from Street. / The Mission Play by John Steven McGroarty…  PM: San Gabriel, 1915 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: largely unopened.  Fine.   120. John Steven McGroarty.  Southern California; Comprising the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura.  [Np.]: Southern California Panama Expositions Commission, c1914.  263, [1] pp.  Sepia-tone photos throughout.  10 7/8 x 7 1/8, pict. wraps, cover lettered in raised gilt, plain brown box.  PLI [D]: Gathering Poppies, Southern California.  PM: Los Angeles, 1913 [1c].  CLI [Art]: California "The Land of Sunshine" [Golden Poppies].  PM: Long Beach, Apr 11, 1941 [3-806] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine box. 121. [SOLD]  Carey McWilliams.  California: The Great Exception.  NY: Current Books, Inc., A. A. Wyn, Publisher, 1949.  xiii, [1], 377, [1] pp.  Index.  9 x 6, blue cloth, spine lettered in yellow, pict. d/j.  PLI [D:Art]: Golden Poppy, California State Flower [and Poem].  PM: Los Angeles, 1911 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-10 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: chipped at extremities & sunned on spine.  NF in Good+ d/j. 122. [SOLD[  Carey McWilliams.  Southern California Country: An Island on the Land.  NY: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, c1946.  Second Printing.  American Folkways series, edited by Erskine Caldwell.  xii, 387, [1] pp.  Series list, index.  8 ¼ x 5 5/8, green cloth, spine gilt-lettered over black panel, map eps, pict. d/j w/series advert.  Ref: Rocq 16328.  Prov: Inked on ffep: To B N? A, Christmas – 46.  PLI [L]: Oranges and Snow Capped Mountains.  PM: Antioch, 1941 [1c].  CLI [F-PM: Los Angeles]: 997-10 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: chipped.  VG in VG d/j. 123. Edwin Markham.  California the Wonderful: Her Romantic History, Her Picturesque People, Her Wild Shores, Her Desert Mystery, Her Valley Loveliness, Her Mountain Glory, Including Her Varied Resources, Her Commercial Greatness, Her Intellectual Achievements, Her Expanding Hopes, with Glimpses of Oregon and Washington, Her Northern Neighbors.  NY: Hearst’s International Library Co., 1914.  Printed by the Quinn & Boden Co. Press, Rahway, NJ.  xvi, 400 pp. + plates [66 pp.].  B&W photos, illus., color map, index.  8 1/8 x 5 ½, brick pict. cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered.  Ref: Howell 1573, Kurutz II p.15.  PLI [D:Art]: Christmas Greetings From ___ Suisun [California Poppies].  PM: Dixon, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-02 [black ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: light extremity wear.  VG+. 124. [SOLD]  Joaquin Miller.  Shadows of Shasta.  Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1881.  [2], 184 pp. + ads [16], [2] pp.  6 15/16 x 4 11/16, dark chocolate cloth, spine gilt-stamped, dark chocolate eps.  Prov: bookplate on fdp: Ex Libris / E.P. Wheaton.  PLI [D]: Joaquin Miller, “The Poet of the Sierras” at his home near Oakland, California.  PM: San Rafael, 1909 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-15 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG+. 125. [SOLD]  Joaquin Miller.  Songs of the Sierras.  Toronto: The Canadian News and Publishing Co., 1871.  200 pp.  8 9/16 x 5 5/16, green cloth, cover with gilt bear & black-lined borders, spine gilt-lettered, dark green eps.  PLI [U]: Joaquin Miller,  “The Poet of the Sierras” at his home near Oakland, California.  PM: Berkeley, 1905 [1c].  CLI [C] [M.W. Beck]: 101st Anniversary California Statehood September 9th 1850 1951 [State Map, Tunnel Tree & Text in brown & green ink].  PM: Sacramento Sep 9, 1951 [1-954] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Good+. 126. [SOLD]  Max Carlton Miller.  It Must Be the Climate.  NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1941.  First edition.  California Edition, Autographed by the Author.  262, [2] pp. + signature leaf [2 pp.].  Author’s list.  9 ¼ x 6 ¼, orange cloth, cover & spine lettered in black, t.e. orange, pict. d/j.  Ref: Rocq 16340.  PLI [L]: Low Tide [California sunset over the Pacific Ocean].  PM: Pacific Grove, 1939 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-24 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. 127. [Edward H. Mitchell].  California View Book.  SF: Edward H. Mitchell, ca1910.  [64 pp.]  Unpaginated.  31 half-tone photos.  No text.  Oblong, 5 5/8 x 8 ¾, blue pict. cloth, cover lettered in green & illustrated with California Poppies in goldenrod & green, floral eps.  PLI [U]: Midway [Lone Cypress] Point, Near Monterey, California.  PM: Pacific Grove, 1905 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: very slight wear.  NF. 128. [SOLD]  Sydney B. Mitchell.  From a Sunset Garden: Essays for any Adventurous Gardener.  NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1938.  [2], xiv, 337, [1] pp. + plates [16 pp.].  B&W photos, index.  7 ¾ x 5 3/8, turquoise cloth, cover & spine vignettes & spine lettered in blue, pict. d./j.  PLI [D]: A Los Angeles Home [& Entranceway Garden]. PM: Los Angeles, 1913 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-07 [green ink] [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk; cloth is faded; d/j: chipped & darkened.  Good in Good d/j. 129. [SOLD]  Sydney B. Mitchell.  Gardening in California: A Guide for the Amateur on the Pacific Slope.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1936.  xii, 323, [1] pp. + plates [16 pp.].  B&W photo illustrations, index.  7 7/16 x 5 1/8, ribbed blue cloth, cover blind-lettered, spine lettered in white, pict. d/j.  Prov: bookseller’s sticker on rear d/j flap: Bullock’s Los Angeles.  PLI [D]: California Garden Scene, where the Flowers Bloom the Year Round.  PM: Chicago, IL, 1924 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-24 [2] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: price-clipped, spine darkened, chipped.  VG in Good d/j.   130. Gertrude Mott (Mrs. Frank K. Mott).  A Handbook for Californiacs.  A Key to Meaning and Pronunciation of Spanish and Indian Place Names.  With Foreword by Herbert E. Bolton.  SF: Harr Wagner Publishing Company, 1926.  xii, 104 pp.  6 ¾ x 4 3/8, brown dec. cloth, cover vignette & title printed in orange & black, spine lettered in black.  Ref: Cowan IV p.877, Rocq 17034.  Prov: bookplate on fpd: Isabel Linton Jones, May 28, 1939.  Penciled former owner on ffep: Olive S. Wildman.  PLI [D]: Oranges and Snow, Southern California.  PM: Pasadena, 1920 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 131. [SOLD]  John Muir.  The Mountains of California.  Illustrated from Preliminary Sketches and Photographs furnished by the Author.  NY: The Century Co., 1917.  New and Enlarged Edition [1st pub: 1894].  [2], xiv, 389, [3] pp. + plates [32 pp.].  B&W photos & illus., maps, index.  7 ¾ x 5 3/8, tan pict. cloth, cover lettered in black & decorated in gilt & black; spine lettered & decorated in black, pict. d/j w/adv.  Ref: Caughey, see Cowan II p.446 [1894], Powell 12, Rocq 16606, Zam80:56x.  Prov: inked on ffep: “To Elizabeth, Our trip in print, Ernest”.  PLI [U]: View from Inspiration Point, Yosemite, Cal.  PM: Yosemite, 1905 [1c].  CLI [F]: 1245-03 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: worn & fragile.  VG+ in Good d/j.      132. [SOLD]  John Muir.  My First Summer in the Sierra.  With illustrations from drawings made by the Author in 1869, and Frontispiece from a Photograph by Herbert W. Gleason.  Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911.  Published June 1911.  [viii], 354, [2] pp. + frontis. [2 pp.].  B&W illus.  8 x 5 ½, green pict. cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered.  Ref: Cowan II p.443, Kurutz II p.14, Larson III-111, Rocq 16607.  PLI [U]: Three Brothers, Yosemite Valley, Cal.  PM: Yosemite [&] San Francisco, 1903 [1c].  CLI [F]: 1245-01 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: spine slightly dulled.  VG+. 133. [SOLD]  John Muir.  My First Summer in the Sierra.  With illustrations from drawings made by the Author in 1869, and Frontispiece from a Photograph by Herbert W. Gleason.  Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911.  Published June 1911 [later issue].  [viii], 354, [2] pp. + frontis. [2 pp.].  B&W illus.  8 x 5 ½, green cloth, cover blind stamped & embossed, spine gilt-lettered, pict. d/j.  Ref: Cowan II p.443, Kurutz II p.14, Larson III-111, Rocq 16607.  PLI [U]: El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, Cal.  PM: Lincoln, NE, 1907 [1c].  CLI [F]: 1245-15 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: top edge dusty; d/j: price clipped, dusty, corner chips.  NF in VG+ d/j. 134. [SOLD]  John Muir.  Notes of My Journeying in California’s Northern Mountains.  [Ashland, OR]: Lewis Osborne, 1974.  #328 of 700 copies.  78 pp. + illus. list & colophon [2] pp.  B&W illus, notes.  10 ½ x 7, grey-green buckram, blue bird vignette on cover, spine lettered in blue, blue-green feps; map beps; plain white shipping wrapper.  Prov: ink-stamped on half title: Erik A. Erikson / Route 4, Box 128 / Poulsbo, Wash. 98370.  PLI [U]: Muir’s Butte, near Mt. Shasta, Calif.  PM: Klamatho_?, Cal., 1907 [1c].  CLI [F]: 1245-10 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG+ in VG+ s/w. 135. [SOLD]  John Muir.  Two Essays on The Forests and Lakes of the Sierra Nevada.  Ashland, OR: Lewis Osborne, 1971.  # 188 of 1000 copies.  61, [1] + illus. list & colophon [2] pp.  B&W port. & illus.  10 ½ x 6 7/8, pale green buckram, gilt deer on front cover, spine gilt-lettered, pale green eps., plain white shipping wrapper.  PLI [L]: Yosemite National Park / View from Observation Point at Wawona Tunnel.  PM: Camp Curry, 1938 [1c].  CLI [E]: Dedication Yosemite Wawona Tunnel, June 10, 1933 [Tunnel view of Yosemite Valley in green ink].  PM: Yosemite National Park, Jun 10, 1933 [2-684] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in NF s/w. 136. [SOLD]  John Muir.  Two Essays on The Sights & Sounds of the Sierra Nevada.  Ashland, OR: Lewis Osborne, 1973.  # 312 of 1000 copies.  [2], 55, [1] + illus. list [1], [1] + colophon [1], [3] pp.  B&W illus.  10 ½ x 7, pales green buckram, gilt bird on cover, spine gilt-lettered, fep map, bep ms. facs., plain white shipping wrapper.  PLI [D]: Grizzly Giant, 224 feet high, 31 feet diameter, Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, Calif.  PM: San Gabriel, 1927 [2c].  CLI [F]: 1245-10 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in NF s/w. 137. [SOLD]  Thomas Dowler Murphy.  On Sunset Highways: A Book of Motor Rambles in California.  With Sixteen illustrations in color from original paintings, mainly by California artists, and forty duogravures from photographs.  Also Automobile Club of Southern California road map of state.  Boston: The Page Company, 1915.  First Impression, January 1915.  [2], [xii], 376 pp. + advert [iv], [4] + plates.  Illus., folded map tipped-in.  7 ¾ x 5 ½, blue pict. cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered.  Ref: Kurutz II p13x.  Inscribed by the author on ffep.  PLI [D]: Old Adobe House on El Camino Real [at San Miguel], in California.  PM: Pioneer, OR, 1909 [1c].  CLI [C] [H.E. Richmond]: Sesquicentennial of Fr. Junipero Serra / San Carlos Borromeo (El Carmelo) [Mission, El Camino Real Bell & Text in red].  PM: Carmel, Jun 3, 1935 [1-720] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 138. [SOLD]  Thomas Dowler Murphy.  On Sunset Highways: A Book of Motor Rambles in California.  With Sixteen illustrations in color from original paintings, mainly by California artists, and thirty-two duogravures from photographs.  Also road map covering entire state.  Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1921.  New and Revised Edition [orig. pub: 1915].  See America First Series.  [x], 379, [1] pp. + 48 plates [96 pp.].  Illus., folded map tipped-in, index, series advert.  9 3/8 x 6 ¼, green pict. cloth, cover & spine printed & decorated in green, orange & gilt, pict. d/j.  Ref: Kurutz II p.13.  Prov: Inked on ffep: J. Clifford Parr, 205 Sycamore St., Manteca, Calif.  PLI [D:B&W]: Senorita Bonifacio in the Sherman Rose Tea Garden, Monterey, Cal.  PM: Pacific Grove, 1919 [1c].  CLI [C]: Monterey Co. Fair / Centennial / Colton Hall / Constitution Convention 1849 - 1949 [Colton Hall & Text in gilt ink].  PM: Monterey, Aug 27, 1949 [1-946] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j.  Note: scarce in dust jacket. 139. [SOLD]  Thomas Dowler Murphy.  Three Wonderlands of the American West: Being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone Park, the Yosemite National Park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the Great American West.  With sixteen reproductions in color from original paintings by Thomas Moran, N.A. and thirty-two duogravures from photographs.  Also maps of the Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon regions.  Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1912.  First Impression, January, 1912.  [xii], 180 pp. + plates.  B&W photos, color illus., maps, index, author’s list.  9 ¼ x 6 ¼, light green pict. cloth, cover & spine printed & decorated in dark green & gilt, teg, pict. d/j.  Ref: Cowan II p.448, Kurutz II p.170n, Larson III-133.  PLI [W]: The Fire Fall, Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park.  PM: Yosemite Nat’l Park, 1930 [1c].  CLI [F]: 740-03 [3] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF in NF d/j.  Note: uncommon in dust jacket. 140. Ken Murray.  The Golden Days of San Simeon.  Foreword by Ronald Reagan.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973.  [7th Printing].  [2], xi, [1], 163, [1] pp.  B&W photos, index.  10 1/8 x 7, blue cloth boards, light green cloth backstrip, cover gilt-lettered, spine lettered in blue, pict. d/j.  PLI [C]: Hearst Castle.  PM: Monterey, 1964 [5c].  CLI [F]: 997-12 [yellow & black ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. 141. Evelyn Neuenburg.  California Lure: The Golden State in Pictures.  Prologue and Epilogue By Oscar Lewis.  Pasadena, Ca: California Lure Publishers, 1946.  [Variant binding edition - there was also a Centennial Edition published the same year].  311, [1] pp.  B&W photos, index.  8 ¼ x 5 ½, white buckram boards, brown buckram backstrip, cover & spine gilt-lettered, pict. e.p., pict. d/j.  Ref: Rocq 17043.  Prov: bookseller’s sticker on bpd: Books, Kendrick Bellamy, Denver.  PLI [L]: Sutter’s Fort and St. Francis Church, Sacramento, California.  PM: Sacramento, 1945 [1c] [Au].  CLI [F]: 997-36 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. 142. Evelyn Neuenburg.  California Lure: The Golden State in Pictures.  Prologue and Epilogue By Oscar Lewis.  Pasadena, Ca: California Lure Publishers, 1946.  Centennial Edition [per dust jacket].  311, [1] pp.  B&W photos, index.  8 1/8 x 5 ½, dark green cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, pict. e.p., pict. d/j.  Ref: Rocq 17043.  PLI [L]: The Fire Fall from Glacier Point, [Camp Curry], Yosemite National Park.  PM: Yosemite Lodge, 1946 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-09 [1] [AD-“Phil A. Telic”] [Au].  Cond: d/j: some extremity wear.  Fine in Good+ d/j. 143. Evelyn Neuenburg.  California Lure: The Golden State in Pictures.  Prologue and Epilogue By Oscar Lewis.  San Carlos, Ca: Brown & Nourse Publishers, 1953.  Second Printing, Revised [1st: 1946].  Centennial Edition [per dust jacket].  311, [1] pp.  B&W photos, index.  8 1/8 x 5 3/8, grey cloth, cover & spine lettered in black, pict. eps, pict. d/j.  Ref: see Rocq 17043 [1946 ed.].  Prov: bookseller’s sticker on front flap of d/j: The Bookshelf, Santa Barbara, California.  PLI [L]: Towering Redwoods at Richardson’s Grove, Redwood Highway, California.  PM: Florence, 1953 [3c].  CLI [F]: 997-09 [1] [AD-“Phil A. Telic”] [Au].  Cond: Fine in NF d/j. 144. Loren Nicholson.  Old Picture Postcards: A Historic Journey along California’s Central Coast.  San Jose, Ca: California Heritage Publishing Associates, c1989.  144 pp.  B&W photos, illus., maps.  11 x 8 ½, pict. wraps.  Prov: author’s inscription on inside front wrapper: To Richard & Joanne Gingras, With Very Best Wishes, Loren Nicholson.  PLI [D:HC]: Restaurante El Paseo, Santa Barbara, California.  PM: Santa Barbara, 1941 [1c].  CLI [F]: 1373-17 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine.  145. Charles Nordhoff.  California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence.  A Book for Travellers and Settlers.  NY: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1872.  255, [3] pp.  B&W illus., maps, appendix.  8 7/8 x 6 ½, green cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered and decorated in black, chocolate brown eps.  Ref: Cowan I p.162 [1874], Cowan II p.455 [1873], Kurutz II p.6, Rocq 17051.  Prov: penciled name on preface page: Chris A. Stillman.  PLI [U]: Donner Lake, California, Ogden Route, S.P.R.R.  PM: Berkeley, 1907 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-38 [blue & red ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: minor extremity wear.  NF. 146. Gordon W. Norris.  Golden Empire [poetry].  Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc, c1949.  96 pp.  8 x 5 9/16, yellow cloth, spine lettered in red, pict. d/j.  PLI [L:LL]: Greetings from California in the Golden West.  PM: Sacramento, 1945 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-35 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: tape-repaired.  VG in Good+ d/j. 147. Kathleen Norris.  My California.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933.  First Edition.  [viii], 38, [2] pp.  7 ½ x 5 1/8, poppy colored boards, black cloth backstrip, pict. paper label inset on front cover, onion skin shipping wrapper.  Prov: bookseller’s sticker on bpd: The White House 25 cents.  Laid in [news clip]: Kathleen Norris quotation.  PLI [L]: Home of Kathleen Norris, Palo Alto, California.  PM: San Francisco, 1938 [1c].  CLI [E]: Butterfield Stages Centennial 1858 - 1958, Palo Alto, California [Palo Alto Tree, Stagecoach & Text in purple ink].  PM; Palo Alto, Oct 10, 1958 [1-1115] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: edgewear; s/w: chipped.  VG+ in Good s/w.  Note: uncommon with publisher’s shipping wrapper. 148. [SOLD]  Sal Noto [editor & introducer].  Jack London’s California.  The Golden Poppy and Other Writings.  NY: Beaufort Books, 1986.  First Edition / First Printing.  xix, [1], 156 pp.  B&W photos.  9 x 6, beige cloth, spine copper-lettered, pict. d/j.  PLI [R]: “Valley of the Moon”, Jack London Ranch in background, Glen Ellen, Calif.  PM: Sonoma, 1949 [1c].  CLI [F, 2182, Unk]: Jack London [picture cachet matching stamp] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. 149. [SOLD] 150. Katharine D. Osbourne.  Robert Louis Stevenson in California.  With Sixty-nine Illustrations.  Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1911.  viii, 113, [3] pp. + brown-tone photo illus plates.  9 1/8 x 6 ¼, off-white paper-covered wraps, upper wrap gilt-lettered with blind-embossed sailing ship on white paper label, spine gilt-lettered on two paper labels, teg, brown box with printed paper label.  PLI [D:HC]: Robert Louis Stevenson House, Monterey, Cal.  PM: Del Monte, 1936 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: box has broken pieces.  VG+ in Fair box.  Note: uncommon in publisher’s box. 151. [SOLD]  Mary Elizabeth Parsons.  The Wild Flowers of California; Their Names, Haunts, and Habits.  Illustrated by Margaret Warriner Buck.  SF: California School Book Depository, 1925.  Twenty-Second Thousand.  Revised and Corrected [orig. pub.: Wm. Doxey, 1897].  [4], cvi, 417, [1] pp.  B&W illus., glossary, index.  7 5/8 x 5 ¼, olive green pict. cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered and decorated in dark green & gilt, pict. d/j.  PLI [D]: A Field of California Poppies in Midwinter.  PM: San Jose, 1910 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-24 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in VG+ d/j. 152. [Peck’s Tourist Bureau].  Touring California: Attractions, Hotel & Pleasure Resorts, and How They Are Reached [cover title].  SF: Peck’s Tourist Bureau Co., Inc., July 1904.  Vol. IV No. 1.  Published Monthly.  Printed by The Tomoye Press, SF.  114 pp.  B&W photos, adverts.  6 ¾ x 4 ¼, pict. wraps.  PLI [U]: Byron Hot Springs, California, America’s Greatest Spa.  PM: Byron Hot Springs, March 4, 1906 [2c].  CLI [F]: 997-15 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 153. Lizzie Cross Peckham.  Poems. [cover title: Souvenir of California.  Poems].  LA: Pvt ptg, 1905.  [4], 61, [3] pp.  B&W port. + 1 illus.  6 ¾ x 5, maroon pict. cloth, cover gilt-lettered & gilt-decorated with California Golden Poppies, dec. ep.  PLI [D]: Greetings from California [Poppies and Poem].  PM: Los Angeles, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-36 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 154. [SOLD]  Ernest Clifford Peixotto.  Romantic California.  Illustrations by the Author.  NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, October 1910.  [2], xiv, 219, [1] pp. + plates [40 pp.].  Text & full-page B&W illustrations.  8 ¾ x 6 ¼, green dec. cloth with color pict. inset of Mission San Luis Rey, spine gilt-lettered, map & pict. eps, teg.  Ref: see Cowan II p.478 [1917], Kurutz II p.13, Rocq 17079.  PLI [D]: Twin Palms at San Fernando Mission, Cal.  PM: [?], 1910 [1c].  CLI [F]: 1373-27 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: bep split.  NF. 155. Ernest Clifford Peixotto.  Romantic California.  Illustrations by the Author.  NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1914.  October 1914.  New and Enlarged Edition [orig. pub: Oct. 1910; reprinted March 1911, Sept. 1912, Oct. 1914.].  [2], xvi, 272, [2] pp. + 20 unpaginated plates [40 pp.].  Text & full-page B&W illustrations, author’s list.  8 ¾ x 6 ¼, green pictorial cloth, cover gilt-decorated, reverse-lettered and inset with color illustration of Mission San Luis Rey; spine gilt-lettered, map & pict. eps, teg.  Ref: see Cowan II p.478 [1917], Kurutz II p.13x, see Rocq 17079 [1910].  PLI [R]: San Fernando Mission [Twin Palms].  PM: Monterey, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 1373-27 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: small bump to top edge of front cover.  VG+. 156. Ernest Clifford Peixotto.  Romantic California.  Illustrations by the Author.  New and Enlarged Edition.  NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927.  xvi, 272 pp. + 16 unpaginated illustrations [32 pp.].  B&W illus.  8 ½ x 5 ½, green cloth, spine lettered in black, map & pict. eps, pict. d/j.  Ref: see Cowan II p.478 [1917], Kurutz II p13x, see Rocq 17079 [1910].  Prov: penciled on ffep: Emily Keeley.  PLI [D]: The Court, Glenwood Mission Inn, Riverside, Cal.  PM: Santa Monica, 1914 [1c].  CLI [F]: 1373-20 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: chip loss at head of spine, which is also somewhat darkened.  Fine in VG d/j. 157. Claire Perry.  Pacific Arcadia: Images of California, 1600 – 1915.  NY & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.  First Printing.  xiv, 242 pp.  Color & b&w illus., maps, notes, bib, index.  11 x 8 ½, red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, pict. d/j.  PLI [D:Art]: The Discovery of San Francisco Bay 1769.  PM: Berkeley, 1909 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-06 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: price-clipped.  Fine in NF d/j.     158. Emmett Phillips & John H. Miller [ed.].  Sacramento Valley and Foothill Counties of California: An Illustrated Description of all the Counties Embraced in this Richly Productive Geographical Subdivision of the Golden State.  [Sacramento]: The Sacramento Valley Expositions Commission, January 1915.  Printed by News Publishing Co., Sacramento.  96 pp.  B&W photos.  9 x 6, color pictorial wraps, stapled.  Ref: Kurutz II p.51.  PLI [D:Art]: Come to California’s Golden Hills and Orange Groves / National Irrigation Congress will meet in Sacramento, September 2nd, 1907.  PM: Sacramento, 1907 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-07 [green ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 159. Charles Phoenix.  Southern California in the ‘50s.  Santa Monica, CA: Angel City Press, 2001.  First Edition [5th Printing].  159, [1] pp.  Color photos.  9 x 9, pict. paper-covered boards, pict. d/j.  PLI [L:LL]: [Greetings from] Southern California [Cowgirl on pile of oranges].  PM: Los Angeles, 1953 [2c].  CLI [F]: 997 [Greetings from California add-on label].  PM: Sacramento, Sep 9, 1950 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j.  160. Harry Noyes Pratt.  Hill Trails & Open Sky: A Book of California Verse.  SF: Harr Wagner Publishing Co., 1919.  [x], 99, [3] pp.  7 3/8 x 5, grey cloth, cover & spine lettered in gilt with blue border lines, floral eps.  Prov: inked on blank prelim: [name?] / May 24th 1920.  PLI [U]: Portsmouth Square. Chinatown in background destroyed by earthquake and fire, Apr. 18, 1906, San Francisco, California.  PM: Marshfield[?], 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-15 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG. 161. [SOLD]  P. C. Remondino, M.D.  The Mediterranean Shores of America.  Southern California: Its Climate, Physical, and Meteorological Conditions.  Fully Illustrated.  Philadelphia and London: The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1892.  [4], xiv, 160 pp. + ads 1-32, [2] pp.  B&W illus. + folded color map and chart tipped in, bib.  9 1/8 x 5 7/8, green cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, patterned eps.  PLI [U]: Avalon, Santa Catalina Islands, Cal.  PM: Avalon, 1902 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-12 [yellow & black ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 162. Fremont Rider [gen’l ed.] & Frederic Taber Cooper [comp].  Rider’s California: A Guide-Book for Travelers.  With 28 maps and plans.  NY: The Macmillan Company, 1925.  [1st edition / 1st issue].  lxii, [2], 667, [5] pp. + adv. 48 pp.  13 folded, color maps tipped in + 15 b&w maps & plans.  6 ¼ x 4 ¼, green cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, cover blind-embossed, ribbon place marker.  Prov: “The Prairie Club of Chicago” stamped on ffep & on unobtrusive pocket affixed to fpd; date stamped on bpd: Sep 7, 1939.  PLI [W]: Samarkand Persian Hotel, Santa Barbara, California.  PM: Santa Barbara, 1924 [1c].  CLI [F]: 954 [California Gold Centennial (typed)] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF.   163. [SOLD]  Fremont Rider [gen’l ed.] & Frederic Taber Cooper [comp].  Rider’s California: A Guide-Book for Travelers.  With 28 maps and plans [actually 19 total].  NY: The Macmillan Company, 1927.  Second Edition [1st: 1925].  lxii, [2], 667, [5] pp. + adv. 48 pp.  4 folded, color maps tipped in + 15 b&w maps & plans.  6 ¼ x 4 ¼, green cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, cover blind-embossed, “Compliments Los Angeles Examiner” printed in gilt on cover.  PLI [W]: The Auto Log, Giant Forest, California / Sequoia National Park.  Sequoia National Park, 1927 [2c].  CLI [F]: 954-Unc [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: foxing throughout; spine a bit soiled & discolored.  VG. 164. [SOLD]  John Clark Ridpath.  Beyond the Sierras: A Tour of Sixty Days Through the Valleys of California.  Foreword by Joseph V. Sullivan.  Oakland: Biobooks, 1963.  California Heritage, 49 [Biobooks, 49].  650 copies printed by Lederer, Street & Zeus Co.  [Reprint; originally published in 1888].  120 pp.  Series advert., colophon.  10 x 7, green cloth, spine gilt-lettered.  PLI [D]: Through California Orange Groves [via the train].  PM: San Diego, 1910 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-05 [greenish-black ink] [2] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 165. [SOLD]  Frederick Hastings Rindge.  Happy Days in Southern California.  Anaheim, CA: KNI, Incorporated, 1984.  Facsimile reprint of 1972 reprint [orig. pub: 1898].  [xx], 200 pp. + colophon [1], [3].  7 3/8 x 4 7/8, green pict. cloth, cover & spine decorated with Golden Poppies & lettered in gilt over black panel.  PLI [L:LL]: Southern California [Cowgirl on a pile of oranges].  PM: Saugus, 1954 [2c].  CLI [F]: 997-05 [greenish-black ink] [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine.   166. [SOLD]  William Emerson Ritter.  The California Woodpecker and I:  A Study in Comparative Zoology; In which are set forth numerous facts and reflections by one of us about both of us.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1938.  [2], xvi, 340, [2] pp. + plates [14 pp].  Color frontispiece, b&w photos & illus, bib., index.  9 ¼ x 6, green cloth, spine gilt-stamped, pict. d/j.  PLI [D]: Hotel Oaks, Chico, California.  10,000 persons can stand under the tree at one time.  PM: Chico, 1922 [1c].  CLI [C] [M.W. Beck]: 102nd Anniversary California Statehood September 9th 1850 1952 [State Map, Tunnel Tree & Text in brown & green ink].  PM: Sacramento Sep 9, 1952 [1-954] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: spine slightly darkened.  NF in NF d/j.   167. [SOLD]  Nola Robbins & Grace Shull Eichmann.  The Land of the Golden Poppy.  Sketches by Earl Venables.  Augusta, IL: Augusta Eagle, 1929.  90, [2] pp. + 14 plates [28 pp.].  B&W photos.  7 5/8 x 5 ¼, dark green cloth, cover gilt-lettered & decorated; spine gilt-lettered.  PLI [D]: In Poppy Land.  PM: San Diego, 1910 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-06 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 168. Cameron Rogers.  Trodden Glory: The Story of the California Poppy.  With a Description of Some Russians.  With a Foreword by Stanley Walker.  Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, c1949.  [First edition].  xii, 130, [2] pp.  3 tipped in b&w illus. portraits.  8 ¼ x 5 ½, lt. brick cloth, spine gilt-lettered, paper pict. d/j and clear acetate wrapper with cover & spine lettered in black.  Laid in: two color photographs of a poppy-covered hillside [Hwy 49, between Jackson & Mokelumne Hill, Calif.].  PLI [D:Art:Emb]: “California Poppy” The State Flower.  PM: Los Angeles, 1908 [1c].  CLI [Art]: California "The Land of Sunshine" [Golden Poppies].  PM: Clearlake, Jun 30, 1937 [1-773] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in NF d/j. 169. [Cameron Rogers – Trodden Glory – copy #2].  PLI [D:Art]: Eschscholtzia Californica, (California Poppy), California’s State Flower.  PM: Los Angeles, 1908 [1c].  CLI [Art]: California "The Land of Sunshine" [Golden Poppies].  PM: Long Beach, May 22, 1942 [1-901] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: light edgewear.  VG+ in VG d/j.   170. [Rose Parade].  Tournament of Roses, Pasadena, California, New Year’s Day 1935 [cover title].  Pasadena: Pasadena Star-News and Post, 1935.  40 pp.  B&W photos.  11 x 8 3/8, color pict. wraps, stapled.  Laid in [PC folder]: Tournament of Roses, 1935.  PM: El Monte, 1935 [2c].  PLI [Adv:Art]: Bullock’s Pasadena, the store for all Southern California.  PM: Los Angeles, 1949 [1c].  CLI [E]: NAMW / Pasadena Golden Jubilee [Arroyo Seco Bridge, Airplane & Text in green ink] / Wings Over America – National Air Mail Week [Airplane / Earth & Text in red & black ink].  PM: Pasadena, May 18, 1938 [1-C23] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 171. [Rose Parade].  Pasadena Tournament of Roses Pictorial.  Jan 1, 1938.  City of Pasadena, c1938.  32 pp.  Color & B&W photos.  11 ¾ x 8 ¾, color pict. wraps, stapled.  Paid in [PC folder]: Tournament of Roses, 1938.  PM: Long Beach, 1938 [2-1c].  PLI [L:BB]: Greetings from California / A Picturesque Palm Lined Street in Pasadena, California.  PM: Los Angeles, 1948 [1c].  CLI [E]: NAMW / Pasadena Golden Jubilee [Arroyo Seco Bridge, Airplane & Text in red ink].  PM: Pasadena, May 15, 1938 [1-C23] [AD] [Au] [Letter enclosed].  Cond: NF. 172. [SOLD]  Ralph J. Roske.  Everyman’s Eden: A History of California.  NY: The Macmillan Company, c1968.  First Printing.  xiv, 624, [2] pp. + plates.  Maps, b&w photos, bib., index.  9 ¼ x 6 ¼, quarter brown cloth and yellow-green blind-embossed boards, spine gilt-stamped, map eps, pict. d/j.  PLI [C:Map]: Greetings from California.  PM: San Diego, 1969 [5c].  CLI [F], 997-03 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. 173. [SOLD]  [San Francisco].  San Francisco: 1906 & Before. Memoirs of the Older City’s Splendor by Will Irwin and William Marion Reedy.  Experiences in the Earthquake & Fire by Jack London and Gertrude Atherton.  Introduction by Oscar Lewis.  Ashland, OR: Lewis Osborne, 1973.  No. 2 of 500 copies.  [10], i – x, 11-70 pp.  B&W ports & illus, index.  9 15/16 by 6 ½, one-quarter beige buckram & grey-green floral-patterned paper-covered boards, spine gilt-lettered, plain white shipping wrapper.  Publisher’s prospectus laid in.  PLI [L]: Portsmouth Square, The Plaza of the ‘49ers, San Francisco, Calif.  PM: Angel Island, 1939 [1c] [Au].  CLI [F]: 997-15 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in NF s/w.  Note: publisher’s numbered copy #2. 174. [San Francisco].  Souvenir of San Francisco [wrapper title].  [Np]: F. W. Woolworth Co., ca1928.  12 pp. [unpaginated].  Curt Teich full-color postcard images.  8 3/16 x 6 5/8, color pict. wraps, stapled.  Prov: penciled along top of upper wrapper: Aug. 1928  Rasmus [?].  Laid in [matchcover]: Tarantino’s, Fishermen’s Wharf, San Francisco [ca1950s].  PLI [D:Map]: Topographical View of San Francisco and Bay Cities. Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods in the Foreground.  PM: San Francisco, 1930 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-15 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG.  175. Katherine [Kate] Abbott Sanborn.  A Truthful Woman in Southern California.  NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1894.  [10], 192 + publisher’s ads [8], [2] pp.  6 7/8 x 4 ½, straw-color pict. cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, cover illustrated in red & green, spine illus. in green.  Ref: see Rocq 16371 [1893].  PLI [D]: Hotel Raymond, Pasadena, Cal.  PM: Venice, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-06 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: spine darkened; front board slightly bowed.  Good+. 176. Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez.  Spanish and Indian Place Names of California; Their Meaning and Their Romance.  SF: A. M. Robertson, 1914.  [Printed by] Philopolis Press, San Francisco.  [2], [xii], [2], 446, [2] pp. + frontis plate [2 pp.].  B&W photos & illus.  7 5/8 x 5, blue dec. cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered and with gilt-vignettes.  Ref: Cowan II p.566, Rocq 17131.  Prov: private library sticker residue on fpd.  PLI [U]: Gardens of Santa Barbara Mission, Santa Barbara, California.  PM: Los Angeles, 1906 [1c].  CLI [F]: 1373-54 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF. 177. Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez.  Spanish and Indian Place Names of California; Their Meaning and Their Romance.  SF: A.M. Robertson, 1930 [per title page]. Cloth spine and dust jacket indicate publisher to be “Brown and Nourse” [Long Beach, Ca.].  [Previously published in 1914 and 1922].  [2], [xiii], [1], 343, [1] pp. + 36 plates [72 pp.].  B&W photos & illus., map.  7 ¾ x 5, grey cloth, cover printed in brown, pict. d/j.  Ref: see Rocq 17131.  Laid in: 1949 Chevrolet prize drawing ticket, ca1949.  PLI [L]: Bell Tower, San Carlos Mission, Carmel, California.  PM: Stockton, 1950 [1c].  CLI [F]: 1373-54 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: price-clipped & slightly spine-darkened.  Fine in NF d/j.     178. F. C. S. Sanders.  California as a Health Resort.  SF: Bolte & Braden Co., 1916.  300, [2] pp.  Color frontis, b&w photos, table of [natural] springs.  8 7/8 x 6, tan paper-covered pict. boards, cover gilt-lettered, spine lettered in black, tan eps.  Ref: Kurutz II p.13.  PLI [D]: Paraiso Springs, Cal., The “Annex”.  PM: Paraiso Springs, 1909 [1c].  CLI [Adv]: Paraiso Hot Springs, The Carlsbad of America [Floral design & text in black ink].  PM: Paraiso Springs, Apr 20, 1901 [1-279] [AD] [Au].  Cond: moderate wear.  Good. 179. [Santa Fe Railway].  California Resort Hotels: A Brief Account of the Principal Resort Hotels Along the Pacific Coast in Southern and Central California.  Chicago: Santa Fe Passenger Dept., [ca1902].  56 pp.  B&W photos.  6 ½ x 5, grey printed wraps, lettered & decorated in red & blue, stapled.  Prov: penciled notations on initial two blank pages.  PLI [U]: Potter Hotel, Santa Barbara, California.  PM: Santa Barbara, 1904 [1c].  CLI [F]: 885-AO [Greetings from California label] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: edges yapped.  VG+. 180. Charles Francis Saunders.  Finding the Worth While in California.  With Maps and Illustrations.  NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1916.  Published November 1916.  [ix], [1], 229, [1] pp. + 8 plates [16 pp.].  B&W photos, advert, bib., maps, index.  6 x 4, green cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, blind-stamped cover vignette, ep adverts.  Prov: inked on fpd: Louis Charvenet.  PLI [D]: On the Trail to Glacier Point via Nevada Falls, Yosemite Valley, California.  PM: Camp Curry, 1911 [1c].  CLI [F]: 884-AO [Greetings from California label] [2] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 181. Charles Francis Saunders.  Finding the Worth While in California.  With Maps and Illustrations.  NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1923.  Second Edition, Revised [orig. pub: Nov, 1916].  [2], [xi], [1], 230 pp. + 8 plates [16 pp.].  B&W photos, advert, bib., maps, index, annual festivals & events list.  6 x 4, green cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, blind-stamped cover vignette.  PLI [W]: The Palisades, Santa Monica, Cal.  PM: Venice, 1923 [1c].  CLI [F]: 885-AO [Gold Panner label] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: spine gilt dulled.  NF. 182. Charles Francis Saunders.  Finding the Worth While in California.  With Maps and Illustrations.  NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930.  New and Revised [Fourth] Edition, February, 1930 [prev pub: 1916, 1923, 1926].  [2], [xiv], 215 pp. + appendix 216-216e, [1], 217-230 pp. + 7 plates [14 pp.].  B&W photos, bib., maps, index, festivals & events list.  6 x 4, blue cloth, cover & spine lettered in black, cover vignette in black, pict. d/j.  PLI [W]: Easter Services on Mt. Rubidoux, Riverside, California.  PM: Riverside, 1930 [1c].  CLI [F]: 886-AO [Train passing thru orange grove label] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in NF d/j. 183. Charles Francis Saunders.  Finding the Worth While in California.  With Maps and Illustrations.  NY: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1937.  New and Revised Edition, May 1937 [Fifth Edition].  [2], [xiii], [1], 1-216, 216a-216e, [1], 217-225, [5] pp. + 8 plates [16 pp.].  B&W photos, bib., index, festivals & events list.  6 5/8 x 4 ½, grey cloth, cover lettered & vignette in red, ep maps, pict. d/j.  PLI [W]: Pleasure Pier from Palisades Park, Santa Monica, Calif.  PM: Los Angeles, 1937 [1c].  CLI [F]: 887-AO [Ramona’s Home at Camulos label] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: spine cocked.  VG in NF d/j. 184. Charles Francis Saunders.  Finding the Worth While in the Southwest.  With Map and Illustrations.  NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1918.  Published May 1918 [First Printing].  xiii [incl. fep’s], [1], 231, [1] + adv. [1], [1] + bep’s [4 pp.] + plates [16 pp.].  B&W photos, index.  6 x 4 ½, blue-green cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, cover with blind-stamped vignette, map eps, pict. d/j.  PLI [D]: A Turnout on the Auto Road to Mt. Wilson, Cal.  PM: Los Angeles, 1918 [2c].  CLI [F]: 888-AO [Fiesta Days at Mission Santa Barbara label] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: quite worn.  Fine in Fair d/j.  185. Charles Francis Saunders.  The Southern Sierras of California.  Illustrated from Photographs by the Author.  Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1923.  xii, 367, [1] pp. + 32 plates [64 pp.].  B&W photos, index.  8 x 5 ¼, green pict. cloth, cover reverse-lettered with gilt design & color pict. inset, spine gilt-lettered, pict. d/j.  Ref: Larson III-159, Rocq 16615.  PLI [R]: Topanga Road.  PM: Los Angeles, 1921 [1c].  CLI [C] [Philatelic Club of Los Angeles]: Revival of the Camel Express, Fort Tejon to Los Angeles [PCLA label: Camel & Text in light green ink].  PM: Fort Tejon, Nov 4, 1935 & Los Angeles, Nov 5, 1935 [1-774] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: chipped.  Fine in VG+ d/j.  Note: uncommon in dust jacket. 186. Charles Francis Saunders.  Trees and Shrubs of California Gardens.  Illustrated with Photographs by the Author.  NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1926.  [First edition].  First Published, May 1926.  Printed by Quinn & Boden Company, Inc., Rahway, NJ.  [2], xiv, [2], 323, [3] pp. + plates [34 pp.].  Color frontis, b&w photos, index, author’s list.  8 1/8 x 5 ½, green pict. cloth, cover illustrated in gilt, rose, black & green, cover & spine gilt-lettered.  Prov: inked on ffep: Gertrude M. Austin / M.W. / November 1, 1926.  PLI [D]: Elysian Park, Los Angeles, Cal.  PM: Los Angeles, 1915 [1c].  CLI [E: 49R-PALM]: Serra Palm - The Earliest Planted Tree in California [Calif. Hist. Marker No. 67 text].  PM: San Diego, Sep. 2, 1950 [1-989] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: spine gilt fully dulled.  VG. 187. Charles Francis Saunders.  Under the Sky in California.  Illustrated from Photographs Mainly by C.F. and E.H. Saunders.  NY: McBride, Nast & Company, 1913.  Published March 1913 [First Printing].  [2], [xiv], 299, [5] pp. + plates [96 pp.].  B&W photos.  8 x 5 ½, green pict. cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, cover illus in blue, gilt, off-white & green, t.e. green.  Ref: Cowan II p.568, Kurutz II p.14x, Rocq 16373.  Prov: Inked on fpd: “B2  Dec 25 – 1914 from the Billies”.  PLI [D]: Avalon, Catalina Island, Cal.  PM: San Mateo, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-11 [for The Phoenix-Connecticut Group Fire Insurance Companies] [1] [AD] [Au] [content].  Cond: moderate scuffing to boards; spine slightly sunned.  VG. 188. [SOLD]  Charles Francis Saunders.  Under the Sky in California.  NY: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1919.  Third Printing, April 1919 [1st: Mar 1913; 2nd: Jun 1913].  [2], [xiv], 299, [5] pp. + plates [64 pp.].  B&W photos.  8 x 5 ½, green pict. cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, cover illus in blue, gilt, brown & green.  Ref: see Cowan II p.568 [1913], Kurutz II p.14x, see Rocq 16373 [1913].  PLI [W]: Chicken Johnny and His Home, Catalina Island, Calif.  PM: Avalon, 1928 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-05 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 189. Charles Francis Saunders.  Under the Sky in California.  NY: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1926.  Fourth Printing, January 1926 [1st: Mar 1913; 2nd: Jun 1913; 3rd: Apr 1919].  [2], [xvi], 299, [3] pp. + plates [64 pp.].  B&W photos.  8 1/8 x 5 ½, green pict. cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, cover illus in blue, gilt, brown & green, pict. d/j.  Ref: Kurutz II p.14.  PLI [D]: Entrance to Smiley Heights, Redlands, California.  PM: Sawtelle, 1914 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-13 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: ffep top corner piece missing; d/j: edgeworn & tape-repaired.  NF in Good d/j. 190. [SOLD]  Charles Francis Saunders.  Under the Sky in California.  NY: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1931.  (Fifth Printing [1st: Mar 1913; 2nd: Jun 1913; 3rd: Apr 1919; 4th: Jan 1926]).  [16], 299, [5] pp.  8 1/8 x 5 ½, blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, cover blind-stamped vignette, te green, b&w photo eps, pict. d/j.  Romance of Far Places series, 20.  Ref: Edwards, Kurutz II p.14x, Larson III-160[ep].  PLI [D]: A typical Bungalow in California.  PM: Beverly Hills, 1929 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: closed tears, slight edgewear.  NF in VG+ d/j. 191. Charles Francis Saunders.  With the Flowers and Trees in California.  Illustrations of Flowers in Color by Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders.  NY: McBride, Nast & Company, 1914.  Published September 1914.  [First Printing].  [xvi], 286, [2] pp. + plates [56 pp.].  Four color illus., b&w photos, index.  8 1/8 x 5 ½, green pict. cloth, cover illustrated in gilt, black, pink & green, cover & spine gilt-lettered.  Ref: Kurutz II p.14x.  Prov: bookseller’s sticker on bpd: The White House, San Francisco.  PLI [U]: A Field of California Poppies.  PM: Azusa, 1905 [1c].  CLI [E]: Yucca Auto Tours / Roscoe Yucca Festival, Roscoe, Calif. [Yucca plants & text in green & white].  PM: Roscoe, Jun 25, 1934 [1-737] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: spine gilt slightly dulled.  NF. 192. [SOLD]  Charles Francis Saunders.  With the Flowers and Trees in California.  Illustrations of Flowers in Color by Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders.  NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930.  Fourth Printing, April 1930 [1st: Sep. 1914].  [xvi], 286, [2] pp. + plates [56 pp.].  Four color illus., b&w photos, index.  8 x 5 3/8, blue cloth, cover & spine lettered in black, printed d/j.  Ref: Kurutz II p.14x.  Prov: inked on fpd: W. S. Hibbard, May 1936.  Former owner’s notations throughout.  Article on giant redwoods pasted to bfep.  PLI [D]: A Field of California Poppies in Midwinter.  PM: Ocean Park, 1910 [1c].  CLI [E]: New Year's Day Tournament of Roses, Pasadena, California [Rose, Rose Bowl & Text in purple & green].  PM: Pasadena, Jan 1, 1949 [1-805] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: cloth spine somewhat faded; d/j: large piece missing on front wrapper [lower corner, not affecting title].  VG in Fair d/j. 193. [SOLD]  James A. B. Scherer.  Thirty-First Star.  NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, c1942.  xiv, 371, [3] pp. + plates [14 pp.].  B&W illus., bib., index.  8 3/8 x 5 ¾, butterscotch cloth, bear flag vignette on cover, spine lettered in black, te=brick, pict. d/j.  PLI [D:Art]: Admission Day 1910 Festival, San Francisco, September 8 – 9 – 10 [Miner & Bear].  PM: San Francisco, 1910 [1c] [Au].  CLI [F]: 997-26 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF in NF d/j. 194. Commander [Alfred Willis] Scott.  Romance of the Highways of California: Unusual and Interesting Facts and Stories About the Golden State.  Pasadena: Commander Scott Productions, 1945.  First Limited Autographed Edition.  Romance of the Highways Series.  Printed by Griffin-Patterson Co., Glendale, CA.  Inscribed by the author on half-title.  320 pp.   B&W photos & illus., maps, appendix.  9 x 5 15/16, blue cloth, cover blind-embossed “RofH”, spine gilt-lettered over dark green panel, illus & map eps, pict. d/j.  Prov: penciled on ffep: Alice J. Davis.  Laid in [brochure]: California Mission Trails.  PLI [D:Art]: On California’s Road of Romance – Trail of the Missions, Coast Highway – San Francisco to Los Angeles [Travelers’ Motor Court, 3230 Hollister Avenue, Santa Barbara, Cal. + coast route map on back].  PM: Santa Barbara, 1937 [1c].  CLI [HPO]: Between Bishop & Los Angeles, California.  PM: July 14, 1952 [Trip 1] [1-1010] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: clipped [though not priced] & edgewear.  NF in Good+ d/j. 195. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1945 Autographed Ed. – copy #2].  Signed by the author on half-title.  Laid in [info card]: California: Cornucopia of the World.  PLI [D:Art]: On California’s Road of Romance – Trail of the Missions, Coast Highway – San Francisco to Los Angeles [Hotel Sainte Claire, San Jose, Calif. + coast route map on back].  PM: San Jose, 1933 [1c].  CLI [HPO]: Between Bishop & Los Angeles, California.  PM: July 14, 1952 [Trip 2] [1-1010] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: large chip on back panel; spine sunned.  NF in Fair+ d/j. 196. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1945 Autographed Ed. – copy #3].  Prov: Inscribed by the author on half title: To Bernice, with all Best Wishes, Commander A.W. Scott “Scotty” to you.  May the Future always be filled with happiness.  PLI [D:Art]: On California’s Road of Romance – Trail of the Missions, Coast Highway – San Francisco to Los Angeles [no hotel mentioned / coast route map on back].  PM: Paso Robles, 1931 [1c].  CLI [HPO]: Between Los Angeles & San Pedro, California.  PM: June 21, 1948 [Trip 1] [1-953] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: tape-stained along edges.  NF in Fair+ d/j. 197. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1945 Autographed Ed. – copy #4].  Prov: Penciled on fpd: E.M. King from O. Roers.  Signed by the author on half-title.  PLI [D:Art]: On California’s Road of Romance – Trail of the Missions, Coast Highway – San Francisco to Los Angeles [no specific hotel mentioned / coast route map on back].  PM: Los Angeles, 1930 [1c].  CLI [HPO]: Between Stockton & Fresno, California.  PM: May 12, 1950 [Trip 1] [1-954] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: spine sunned; edgewear.  Fine in VG d/j. 198. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1945 Autographed Ed. – copy #5].  Prov: Signed by the author on half-title.  Laid in [info card]: California: Cornucopia of the World.  PLI [L:B&W]: Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo, California, on U.S. Highway 101, North City Limits.  PM: San Luis Obispo, 1938 [1c].  CLI [HPO]: Between Willits & San Francisco, California.  PM: July 1, 1948 [Trip 2] [1-955] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: spine lightly sunned; edgewear.  NF in VG d/j. 199. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1945 Autographed Ed. – copy #6].  Prov: bookplate on fdp: Inez D. Zimmerman.  Author’s inscription on Half-Title: To Inez Zimmerman, with all the Best Wishes, Commander A.W. Scott, “Scotty” to you, May 15th 1946.  Laid in [info card]: California: Cornucopia of the World.  PLI [D:Art]: On “California’s Road of Romance – Trail of the Missions” – Coast Highway – San Francisco to Los Angeles.  PM: Santa Barbara, 1934 [1c] [from Travelers’ Motor Court, Santa Barbara].  CLI [HPO]: Between Los Angeles & Laguna Beach, California.  PM: June 21, 1948 [Trip 2] [1-953] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: spine lightly sunned; edgewear.  VG+ in VG d/j. 200. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1945 Autographed Ed. – copy #7].  Prov: Signed by the author on half-title.  Laid in [info card]: California: Cornucopia of the World.  PLI [L]: On the Ridge Route between Los Angeles and Bakersfield, California.  PM: Los Angeles, 1940 [1c].  CLI [HPO]: Between San Bernardino & Los Angeles, California.  PM: May 5, 1950 [Trip 2] [1-989] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: light edgewear.  Fine in VG+ d/j. 201. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1945 Autographed Ed. – copy #8].  Prov: Signed by the author on half-title.  Laid in [info card]: California: Cornucopia of the World.  PLI [R]: [Paso Robles Inn], Paso Robles, California.  PM: Paso Robles, 1947 [1c].  CLI [HPO]: Between Fresno & Bakersfield, California.  PM: May 13, 1950 [Trip 2] [1-989] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: spine lightly sunned + chips & edgewear.  VG+ in Good+ d/j. 202. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1945 Autographed Ed. – copy #9].  Prov: Inked on fpd: John W. Baker.  Signed by the author.  PLI [C]: Santa Claus, California.  PM: Los Angeles [&] Peru, IN, 1954 [2c].  CLI [HPO] [G.S. Purcell]: San Francisco & Pacific Grove, California.  PM: Aug 4, 1941 [Trip 1] [1-901] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: chipped and spine faded.  VG in Fair+ d/j. 203. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1945 Autographed Ed. – copy #10].  Prov: Signed by the author.  Laid in [info card]: California: Cornucopia of the World.  PLI [C:Art]: Hello from San Francisco / “The Little Fisherman”, Fisherman’s Grotto No. 9 Restaurant.  PM: San Francisco, 1956 [2c].  CLI [E]: Golden Gate International Exposition, “Be a guest of the West in ‘39”.  PM: Oakland, Apr. 24, 1939 [1-852] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG+ in VG+ d/j. 204. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1945 Autographed Ed. – copy #11].  Prov: Signed by the author on half-title.  PLI [D:Art]: On California’s Road of Romance – Trail of the Missions, Coast Highway – San Francisco to Los Angeles [Travelers’ Motor Court, 3230 Hollister Avenue, Santa Barbara, Cal. + coast route map on back].  PM: Santa Barbara, 1937 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: spine slightly faded & light edgewear.  NF in VG d/j. 205. Commander [Alfred Willis] Scott.  Romance of the Highways of California: Unusual and Interesting Facts and Stories About the Golden State.  Glendale, Ca: Griffin-Patterson Company, 1946.  [General edition, revised, Nov. 1946; originally published: Pasadena, Ca: Commander Scott Productions, Dec. 1945, first limited autographed edition].  Romance of the Highways Series.  320 pp.  B&W photos & illus., maps, appendix, index.  8 7/8 x 5 7/8, blue cloth, upper cover blind-embossed, spine gilt-lettered, map eps, pict. d/j.  Brochure laid in: Andersen’s Valley Inn / Split Pea Soup [ca1940s].  PLI [D:Art]: On “California’s Road of Romance – Trail of the Missions”, Coast Highway – San Francisco to Los Angeles [Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo].  PM: Oakland, 1930 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-07 [black ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in NF d/j. 206. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1946 edition – copy #2].  Prov: Bookseller’s label on bpd: Books, Kendrick Bellamy, Denver.  PLI [D:Art]: Golden Poppy, California State Flower [Poppies, Mission + Poem].  PM: Chicago, IL, 1911 [1c].  CLI [HPO]: Between Fresno & Bakersfield, California.  PM: May 13, 1950 [Trip 1] [1-988] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: head of spine chipped.  Fine in VG+ d/j. 207. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1946 edition – copy #3].  Prov: author’s inked inscription on Half-Title: To Miss Peggy Boyer, “a grand person”, with all best Wishes, Commander R.W. Scott “Scotty” to you.  Laid in [info card]: California: Cornucopia of the World.  PLI [C]: Fabulous San Fernando Valley, entering the valley through the Northern Gateway [Highway 14/99].  PM: Canoga Park, 1961 [3c].  CLI [HPO]: Between Bishop & Los Angeles, California.  PM: July 14, 1952 [Trip 1] [1-1009] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: spine lightly faded & edgewear.  Fine in VG d/j. 208. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1946 edition – copy #4].  Prov: signed by the author on half-title.  PLI [L]: Clifton Motel, Paso Robles, Calif.  PM: San Jose, 1954 [2c] [see message – Marilyn Monroe & Joe DiMaggio].  CLI [F]: 1373-18 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: some shelf wear; dj: PC, edgewear, chips.  Good+ in Good+ d/j. 209. Commander [Alfred Willis] Scott.  Romance of the Highways of California: Unusual and Interesting Facts and Stories About the Golden State.  Glendale, Ca: Griffin-Patterson Company, 1947.  [Originally published: Pasadena, Ca: Commander Scott Productions, Dec. 1945, first limited autographed edition; general edition, revised, Glendale, Ca: Griffin-Patterson Company, Nov. 1946].  Romance of the Highways Series.  320 pp.  B&W photos & illus., maps, appendix, index.  8 15/16 x 5 15/16, blue cloth, upper cover blind-embossed, spine gilt-lettered, map eps, pict. d/j.  PLI [D:Art]: On California’s Road of Romance – Trail of the Missions, Coast Highway – San Francisco to Los Angeles.  PM: Los Angeles, 1933 [1c].  CLI [C] [H.E. Richmond]: Sesquicentennial of Fr. Junipero Serra / San Carlos Borromeo (El Carmelo) [Mission, El Camino Real Bell & Text in red].  PM: Carmel, Jun 3, 1935 [1-704, 1-632, 1-741] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: light chipping, spine slightly faded.  NF in VG d/j. 210. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1947 edition – copy #2].  PLI [L]: Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo, California / Hoteldom in Bungalows.  PM: San Luis Obispo, 1946 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-21 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: spine lightly sunned; light edgewear.  Fine in VG+ d/j. 211. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1947 edition – copy #3].  PLI [L]: The Golden Gate from Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Calif. [shows flagpole which marks the end of Highway 40].  PM: San Francisco, 1937 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-35 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: spine sunned & light edgewear.  Fine in VG+ d/j. 212. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1947 edition – copy #4].  Prov: inked on fpd: Clarence L. Brammer.  Laid in [info card]: California: Cornucopia of the World.  PLI [L]: On U.S. Highway 99, Ridge Route, Los Angeles to Bakersfield.  PM: Los Angeles, 1940 [1c].  CLI [HPO]: Between Stockton & Fresno, California.  PM: May 12, 1950 [Trip 2] [1-975] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: large chips.  VG+ in Fair d/j. 213. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1947 edition – copy #5].  Prov: inked on ffep: A Happy Birthday to Father from Robert, Oct. 22, 1949.  PLI [C]: Miramar Hotel, Santa Barbara, California.  PM: Santa Barbara, 1957 [3c].  CLI [F]: 740-04 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: PC & light edgewear.  VG+ in VG d/j. 214. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1947 edition – copy #6].  Prov: individualized commercial bookplate on half-title: Josephine Chiaravalli.  PLI [C]: The Ridge Route, Highway 99 between Los Angeles and Bakersfield.  PM: Burbank, 1965 [5c].  Miramar Hotel, Santa Barbara, California.  PM: Santa Barbara, 1957 [3c].  CLI [HPO] [G.S. Purcell]: Fresno & Bakersfield, California.  PM: Aug 23, 1956 [Trip 2] [1-954] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: light edgewear.  Fine in VG+ d/j. 215. [Scott – Romance of the Highways – 1947 edition – copy #7].  Prov: signed by the author on half-title.  PLI [C]: Western Dining at the Nut Tree, Vacaville, California.  PM: Glendale, 1961 [7c Airmail].  CLI [HPO]: Between San Bernardino & Los Angeles, California.  PM: May 5, 1950 [Trip 2] [1-988] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: PC, edgewear & chipped.  Fine in VG d/j. 216. [SOLD]  Harrison Irving Scott.  Ridge Route: The Road that United California.  Torrance, Ca: Harrison Irving Scott, 2003.  Second Printing [1st: 2002].  x, 326 pp.  B&W photos.  9 x 6, glossy paper-covered pict. boards, cover & spine lettered in green & black, ffep map.  Prov: signed by the author on fpd.  Laid in [matchcover]: Gorman Restaurant & Motel.  PLI [W]: Granite Gate Near the Summit, “Ridge Route”, Los Angeles to Bakersfield, California.  PM: Bakersfield, 1928 [1c].  CLI [Ad]: Sandberg’s Summit Hotel, Sandberg, California [b&w illus. of hotel].  PM: Sandberg, Nov 22, 1932 [1-718] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 217. Ella M. Sexton.  Stories of California.  NY: The Macmillan Company, 1902.  Printed September 1902.  x, 211, [1] pp. + advert [2], [2] pp. + plates [46 pp.].  B&W photos & illus., glossary.  7 3/8 x 4 7/8, pea green pict. cloth, cover & spine lettered & decorated in red & dark green, printed d/j.  Ref: Cowan I p.209, Cowan II p.577.  Prov: author’s inscription inked on ffep: To Mrs. J. Brandt, Whose encouragement & sweet sympathy brightened many dark hours during the preparation of this book, it is affectionately inscribed, by Ella M. Sexton.  PLI [U]: Santa Barbara Mission & Grounds, Cal., Founded 1787.  PM: Santa Barbara, 1906 [1c].  CLI [F]: 954-38 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF in NF d/j.  Note: scarce in dust jacket. 218. [Shields Date Gardens].  Coachella Valley Desert Trails and The Romance and Sex Life of the Date.  Indio, Ca: Shields Date Gardens, c1957.  Second Edition.  40 pp.  B&W photos, maps.  8 5/8 x 5 ¾, color pict. wraps, stapled.  PLI [R]: Shield’s Date Gardens.  PM: Las Cruces, NM, 1951 [2-1c].  CLI [F]: 997-09 [1] [AD-“Phil A. Telic”] [Au].  Cond: ink writing at top of upper wrap.  VG. 219. [SOLD]  Emory Evans Smith.  The Golden Poppy.  Palo Alto: Private Printing / San Francisco: The Murdock Press, 1902.  232, [2] pp. + color frontispiece [poppy].  8 ½ x 5 7/8, green cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered & illustrated, floral patterned eps.  Prov: inked on blank prelim: Mrs. Gladys Conway with the love of the D[?].  PLI [U:Art]: California State Girl, Seal and Flower [Poppy], Copa de Oro.  PM: Ephrata, PA, 1907 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-24 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: crayon marks on initial prelim page to half title; general wear.  Good. 220. [Southern California].  Pictorial Guide through Southern California.  LA: Western Publishing & Novelty Co., c1948.  40 pp.  Color illus. of Curt Teich postcards.  6 x 9, color pict. wraps, stapled, pict. unused mailing envelope.  PLI [L]: Santa Fe’s “Super Chief” Traveling thru the Orange Groves, California.  PM: Los Angeles, 1948 [1c].  CLI [E: 49R]: Historical Marker: Mother Colony House.  PM: Anaheim, Jul 16, 1950 [1-989] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in VG mailing envelope.        221. [Southern California – Pictorial Guide through …  – copy #2 / sans mailing envelope].  PLI [L]: Oranges and Snow-Capped Mountains, California.  PM: Pasadena, 1950 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997 [Greetings from California add-on label].  PM: Sacramento, Sep 9, 1950 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine.        222. [Southern Pacific Company].  The Road of a Thousand Wonders: The Coast Line – Shasta Route of the Southern Pacific Company from Los Angeles Through San Francisco, to Portland, a Journey of Over One Thousand Three Hundred Miles.  SF: Southern Pacific Company, Passenger Department, 1907.  72 pp. + colophon [1] [1] pp.  Colorized photos [including Camulos Rancho], map.  10 ¾ x 8, grey pict. wraps.  Laid in: 1907 Sunset Magazine subscription slip.  PLI [D]: Home in a California Orange Grove, Road of a Thousand Wonders, Southern Pacific Co.  PM: Goddard, KS, 1912 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-UL [John A. Mirt]: California Statehood Stamp [Masons insignia & text in black ink] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: some chipping to wrapper extremities, especially to spine.  Good+. 223. [Southern Pacific Lines].  California for the Tourist.  Np: Southern Pacific Lines, ca1926.  32 pp. self-wraps.  B&W photos & illus, maps.  9 x 8, pict. wraps, stapled.  Ref: Kurutz II p.22.  PLI [D]: The California Poppy.  PM: Pasadena, 1915 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-05 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG+.   224. [SOLD]  Lincoln Steffens.  Boy on Horseback.  Reprinted from “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”.  With Illustrations by Sanford Tousey.  NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, c1935 [ca1948].  [xii], 258, [2] pp.  8 x 5 3/8, grey cloth, spine lettered in black, pict. e.p., pict. d/j.  Ref: Powell 26.  Prov: inked on fpd: Clayton Eisinger, Aug. 2, 1950; inked on ffep: 8/2/50 C.W.E.  PLI [L]: Sacramento River and Bridges, Sacramento, California.  PM: Sacramento, 1942 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-13 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF in NF d/j. 225. James B. Stetson.  Narrative of My Experiences in the Earthquake and Fire at San Francisco.  Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969.  No. 159 of 1400 copies.  51, [1] + illustration notes [1], + colophon [1], [2] pp.  B&W illus.  10 7/16 x 6 7/8, burgundy buckram, cover gilt insignia, spine gilt-lettered, map fep, plain white shipping wrapper.  Publisher’s prospectus laid in.  PLI [C:MV]: Greetings from San Francisco.  PM: Richmond, 1957 [2-1c].  CLI [F]: 997-15 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine s/w. 226. [SOLD]  Robert Louis Stevenson.  From Scotland to Silverado.  Comprising The Amateur Emigrant: “From the Clyde to Sandy Hook” and “Across the Plains”, The Silverado Squatters & Four Essays on California.  Edited by James D. Hart.  Cambridge, Ma: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1966.  The John Harvard Library (Series).  lii, 287, [1] + publ. note [1], [3] pp.+ 2 plates [4 pp.].  One port & one illus.  8 ¼ x 5 ½, charcoal-grey cloth, cover & spine gilt-stamped, pict. d/j.  Ref: Powell 14*.  PLI [D]: Birdseye View of Calistoga, Cal. [& Mount St. Helena].  PM: Calistoga, 1909 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-34 [2] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: spine gilt dulled, two leaves missing corner [as bound]; d/j: price-clipped.  NF in VG+ d/j. 227. Robert Louis Stevenson.  Robert Louis Stevenson’s Monterey: The Old Pacific Capital.  SF: Colt Press, 1944.  500 copies issued in May 1944.  Number One of the Series of California Classics.  [4], 55, [1] + colophon [1], [7] pp. + 2 b&w plates [4 pp].  8 1/8 x 6, one quarter green cloth over tan patterned boards, spine paper label lettered in red, plain green shipping wrapper.  Publishers list laid in.  PLI [D:HC]: Robert L. Stevenson Home, 1876, Monterey, California.  PM: San Francisco, 1940 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: s/w: spine & edges sunned to brown; chip loss at base of spine.  NF in Good+ s/w.  Note: scarce in publisher’s shipping wrapper.   228. Robert Louis Stevenson.  The Sea Fogs.  With an Introduction by Thomas Rutherford Bacon.  SF: Paul Elder and Company, c1907.  Western Classic No. One.  1000 copies printed.  [8], [iv], xvi, [4], 24, [1] + colophon [1], [6] pp. + frontispiece [2 pp].  6 ½ x 4 ¾, quarter Japanese vellum and dark brown paper covered boards, cover & spine gilt stamped, dark brown printed d/j, dark brown slipcase with spine paper label, teg, dark brown eps, silk ribbon bookmark bound in.  PLI [U]: Robert Louis Stevenson House, Monterey, Cal.  PM: Los Angeles, 1904 [2c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: top of spine chipped; rear panel small tear.  Fine in VG+ d/j in NF slipcase.  Note: a unique copy in slipcase.  229. [SOLD]  Robert Louis Stevenson.  The Silverado Squatters.  SF: The Grabhorn Press, 1952 [with the embossed ‘Biobooks 31’ imprint on colophon].  [Biobooks, 31].  900 + 25 special edition Silverado Squatters Camp copies printed.  Reprint of: Chatto & Windus, 1883.  [6], [vii], [1], 181, [1], colophon [1], [7] pp.  One illustration.  8 7/8 x 5 ½, blue patterned boards, natural linen backstrip, blue paper spine label lettered in black, plain white shipping wrapper.  Ref: see Cowan I p.221 [1883 & 1884], GB 521, Howell 1242, Larson IV-414, Powell 14, Zam80:71x.  PLI [R]: Mount St. Helena near Calistoga, Cal.  PM: Calistoga, 1935 [1c].  CLI [Adv]: Myrtledale Hot Springs, Calistoga, California [geyser & text in black].  PM: Calistoga, Dec 27, 1926 [1-554] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine s/w. 230. Robert Louis Stevenson.  The Silverado Squatters.  With an Introduction by Oscar Lewis.  Ashland, OR: Lewis Osborne, 1972.  # 437 of 500 copies designed and printed by Sherwood and Katharine Grover at their Grace Hoper Press at Aptos, California.  Line etchings by Kay Atwood from drawings after photographs of local scenes in the 1880’s.  Binding by Filmer Brothers – Taylor & Taylor of San Francisco.  [10], xiii, [1], 7 – 115, colophon [1], [2] pp.  Illustrated.  10 x 7 ¼, blue-green boards stamped “R L S” in dark blue, linen backstrip lettered in dark blue, plain white shipping wrapper.  Ref.: Zam80:71x.  Winner of the Western Book Award.  Laid in: Noticias, Vol. XXXII No. 3 (Fall 1986), incl: “Fanny Stevenson, Mistress of Stonehedge,” by Katheryn E. Marriott, pp. 47-52.  PLI [D:B&W]: Mount St. Helena, Napa Co., Calif.  PM: Saint Helena, 1907 [1c].  CLI [Adv]: Myrtledale Hot Springs, Calistoga, California [text in black].  PM: Calistoga, Dec 24, 1929 [1-554] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine s/w. 231. [Stevenson – Silverado Squatters – Osborne edition – copy #2].  # 34 of 500 copies.  PLI [D:Sep]: Stevenson House, Monterey, California.  PM: Monterey, 1915 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-15 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine s/w. 232. [SOLD]  [Stevenson – Silverado Squatters – Osborne edition – copy #3].  # 2 of 500 copies.  Prospectus laid in.  PLI [D:B&W]: Stevenson House, Monterey, California.  PM: Monterey, 1923 [1c].  CLI [FF]: Monterey California, First Flight, United States Airmail.  PM: Monterey, Jul 20, 1938 [1-C19] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF in NF s/w.  Note: publisher’s copy number 2. 233. George R. Stewart.  U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America.  Maps by Erwin Raisz.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1953.  viii, 311, [1] pp.  B&W photos, maps.  9 ¼ x 6 7/8, beige cloth, cover lettered in blue with U.S. outline in brown; spine lettered in brown, pict. eps, pict. d/j.  Laid in [travel decal]: The Donner Trail on U.S. Highway 40, California [ca1950s].  PLI [R]: Scene of U.S. 40, Reno to Salt Lake City.  PM: Colfax, 1948 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-15 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: edgeworn.  Fine in VG d/j.   234. Marion Thrasher, M.D.  Long Life in California.  Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, ca1915.  130, vii-x, [2] pp. + plates [8 pp.].  B&W photos & illus, index, printed broadside pasted to bpd.  7 x 4 7/8, blind-stamped red cloth, cover gilt-lettered, printed d/j.  PLI [D]: Grizzley [sic] Giant Section (Diameter 33 Ft.), Mariposa Grove, Cal.  PM: [?], 1909 [1c].  CLI [CC]: California Sunshine the Land of Golden Dreams [Golden Bear & Text in blue & gilt ink].  PM: San Francisco, Jul 25, 1943 [1-910] [AD] [Au] [Content: Letter].  Cond: d/j: minor wear to d/j.  Fine in VG+ d/j.  Note: scarce with dust jacket and printed broadside. 235. Marion Thrasher, M.D.  Long Life in California.  Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, ca1915.  130, vii-x, [2] pp. + plates [8 pp.].  B&W photos & illus, index, printed broadside pasted to ffep.  7 x 4 7/8, blind-stamped green cloth, cover gilt-lettered.  Prov: inked on fpd: To Wm. J. Hey, Comps of author, Dr. Thrasher, Nov 16 – 1918.  PLI [D]: “Grizzly Giant”, Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, Calif.  PM: Santa Barbara, 1916 [1c].  CLI [F]: 1245-15 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine.  Note: uncommon with publisher’s broadside. 236. [SOLD]  [Thrasher – Long Life in California – copy #2 in green cloth – without pasted broadside].  PLI [U]: The Grizzly Giant.  The biggest Tree in the World. Height 320 feet. Mariposa Grove – California.  PM: Yosemite, 1905 [1c].  CLI [F]: 740-03 [3] [AD] [Au].  Cond: VG+. 237. Walter A. Tompkins.  The Samarkand.  [Santa Barbara]: Southern Santa Barbara County Board of Realtors, c1978.  Second Edition.  Neighborhood Series No. 5.  [12 pp. – self-wraps].  B&W photos.  8 ½ x 5 ½, pict. wraps, stapled.  PLI [R]: Samarkand, Persian Hotel, Santa Barbara, Cal.  PM: Santa Barbara, 1924 [1c].  CLI [FF]: Santa Barbara, California, First Flight United States Air Mail [Santa Barbara Mission illus. & text in purple ink].  PM: Santa Barbara, Nov 1, 1936 [1-UC3] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 238. [SOLD]  Benjamin Cummings Truman.  Semi-Tropical California: Its Climate, Healthfulness, Productiveness, and Scenery; Its Magnificent Stretches of Vineyards and Groves of Semi-Tropical Fruits, Etc., Etc., Etc.  SF: A. L. Bancroft & Company, Publishers, 1874.  [2], 204, [2] pp.  8 7/8 x 5 5/8, blue pict. cloth, cover gilt-lettered and illustrated; spine title reversed in gilt; rear cover blind-embossed.  [Variants: Red, blue, green cloth].  Ref: Cowan II p.645, Howell 880, Kurutz II p.10, Rocq 3324.  PLI [D]: Picking Oranges.  PM: Pasadena, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997 [Greetings from California add-on label].  PM: Sacramento, Sep 9, 1950 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: minimal extremity wear.  VG+. 239. George Turner.  Slim Rails through the Sand: A Graphic Presentation of the Carson & Colorado ~ Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge Railroad.  Los Angeles: Trans-Anglo Books, June 1964.  Second Printing (First Printing: April 1963).  [viii], 104 pp.  B&W photos & illus, maps.  11 x 8 7/16, red fabricoid, spine silver-lettered, map fep, pict bep, pict d/j.  Prov: penciled at top of ffep: #516.  PLI [C:MV]: Laws Railroad Museum, Bishop, California.  PM: Yosemite National Park, 1975 [8c].  CLI [F]: 997-34 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j.  Note: becoming quite pricey. 240. Judy Van Der Veer.  Brown Hills.  London – New York – Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938.  First Edition.  [viii], 273, [7] pp.  7 ½ x 4 3/8, rust cloth, spine gilt-lettered, pict. d/j.  Prov: bookseller’s sticker on bpd: Newbegin’s, San Francisco.  PLI [D]: The True Southern California.  A World in Itself – Toward which all Eyes are turned and San Diego, its Great Seaport [Aerial View of San Diego County].  PM: San Diego, 1913 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-06 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. 241. Judy Van Der Veer.  The River Pasture.  Illustrations by Dorothy Waugh.  NY: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936.  First Edition.  [vi], 213, [5] pp.  7 ½ x 4 ½, green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, dec. d/j.  Prov: inked on fpd: M. R. Lyon from Quail[?] / Christmas 1936.  PLI [D]: Cuyamaca Mountain from Pine Hills, Julian, San Diego County, Cal.  PM: Julian, 1938 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-32 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: front hinge sprung, cloth spine & edges faded; d/j: chipped & price-clipped.  Fair in Good d/j. 242. Theodore Strong Van Dyke.  Southern California: Its Valleys, Hills, and Streams; Its Animals, Birds, and Fishes; Its Gardens, Farms, and Climate.  NY: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1886.  [2], 233, [1] + ads [6], [2] pp.  7 ¾ x 5 ¼, green pict. cloth, cover lettering & grape cluster vignette in black, spine lettering & grape cluster vignette in gilt, beveled edges.  Ref: Cowan I p.236, Cowan II p.656, Larson III-451, Rocq 16416.  Prov: penciled at top of title page: Wm. Newmark.  PLI [D]: Scene in San Gabriel Canyon, California.  PM: Los Angeles, 1908 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-08 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: minor extremity wear.  NF. 243. [SOLD]  Jennie Dennis Verardo & Denzil Verardo.  The Salinas Valley: An Illustrated History.  Chatsworth, CA: Windsor Publications, c1989.  First Edition.  208 pp.  Color & B&W photos, maps, bib., index.  10 7/8 x 8 ½, white cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, light blue eps, pict. d/j.  PLI [C]: Salinas Valley.  PM: San Jose, 1971 [5c-metered].  CLI [FF]: Salinas, California, First Flight United States Air Mail [Lettuce Field illus. & text in green ink].  PM: Salinas, Jul 16, 1946 [2-808] [AD] [Au].  Cond: NF in Fine d/j. 244. [SOLD]  Charles Dudley Warner.  Our Italy.  NY: Harper & Brothers, 1892.  viii, 226 pp. + author’s list [1], adverts. [1] + 4 pp.  B&W illustrations.  9 x 6 ¾, ½ greenish-grey cloth boards, green cloth backstrip, cover & spine gilt-lettered, gilt decoration on cover.  Ref: see Cowan I p.244 [1891], see Cowan II p.669 [1902], Kurutz II p.170n, Rocq 16422.  PLI [U]: Picking Oranges, So. California.  PM: Oakland, 1907 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-29 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: spine gilt slightly dulled, rear e.p. split.  VG+. 245. [SOLD]  Jane Hollister Wheelwright.  The Ranch Papers: A California Memoir.  Santa Monica & SF: The Lapis Press, 1988.  [First printing].  3000 copies printed.  x, 152, [2] + colophon [1], [3] pp.  B&W photos, illus. & maps, references index, photo index.  9 1/8 x 5 ½, brown cloth, spine lettered in copper foil, tan speckled eps, pict. d/j.  2007 news clip laid in.  PLI [D:HC]: Coast Highway, North of Santa Barbara, California.  PM: Santa Barbara, 1938 [1c].  CLI [C]: California Centennial: Santa Barbara Co. [County & State Map Outline + Text in blue & red ink].  PM: Santa Barbara, Feb 18, 1950 [1-954] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j. 246. [SOLD]  Timothy White.  The Nearest Faraway Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience.  NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1994.  First Edition / First Printing.  [xiv], 416, [2] pp. + plates [16 pp].  B&W photos, bib, index.  8 15/16 x 6, one-quarter red cloth and yellow paper-covered boards, spine gilt-lettered, maps eps, pict. d/j.  PLI [C]: Surfing at Malibu.  PM: Los Angeles, 1968 [2c & 6c].  CLI [F]: 997 [3 Greetings from California add-on labels].  PM: Sacramento, Sep 9, 1950 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine in Fine d/j.   247. [SOLD]  Lisa F. Wood.  Chasing the California Dream: A Solo Horseback Journey Along the California Coast.  Fort Bragg, CA: Lost Coast Press, 2001.  First Edition [First Printing].  viii, 127, [1] pp.  B&W photos, maps.  8 ½ x 5 ½, pict. wraps.  PLI [D]: Mission San Antonio, Calif.  PM: San Diego, 1912 [1c].  CLI [F]: 1373-21 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: Fine. 248. Ruth Kedzie Wood.  The Tourist’s California.  With Numerous Illustrations.  NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914.  [xii], 395, [1] pp. + 24 plates [incl. 2 Camulos].  B&W photos, folded map tipped in, index.  7 3/8 x 5, red cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered, pict. d/j.  PLI [D]: Snow and Oranges, California.  PM: Los Angeles, 1907 [1c].  CLI [F]: 740-11 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: dj: chipped & dusty.  Fine in VG+ d/j. 249. Stanley Wood.  Over the Range to the Golden Gate: A Complete Tourist’s Guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound, and the Great Northwest.  Revised to 1907 by C. E. Hooper.  Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co, 1908.  [1st ed: 1889].  342, [2] pp.  B&W photos & illus, index.  8 5/8 x 5 ¾, mustard pictorial cloth, cover & spine gilt-lettered with black illustration, pict. d/j.  Ref: Paher 2198.  PLI [D]: Overland Train in Nevada.  PM: Danville, KY, 1907 [2c].  CLI [F]: 997-15 [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: bk: light wear; loose hinge but holding; dj: chipped & dusty.  Good in Good d/j. 250. [SOLD]  [WPA – Federal Writers’ Project – American Guide Series].  California: A Guide to the Golden State.  Sponsored by Mabel R. Gillis, California State Librarian.  NY: Hastings House, c1954.  Revised Edition [orig. pub: May 1939].  xxxii, 716 + maps [13], [7] pp. + duotone plates.  8 x 5 3/8, light green cloth, cover & spine lettered in blue, map eps, pict. d/j.  PLI [L:LL]: Greetings from California.  PM: Saratoga, CA, 1954 [2c].  CLI [F]: 997-UL [Ludwig]: California Statehood [Panner & Burro in gilt] [1] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: PC & light edgewear.  VG+ in NF d/j. 251. [WPA – Federal Writers’ Project – American Guide Series].  Monterey Peninsula.  Compiled by Workers of the Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration in Northern California.  Sponsored by California State Department of Education.  James Ladd Delkin, Stanford University, California, c1941.  First Edition.  207, [1] pp. + plates.  B&W photos, map, appendices, bib., index.  8 x 5 ½, green cloth, cover lettered & illustrated in brown, spine lettered in brown, plain eps, pict. d/j.  Prov: circular blind-embossed on title page: Library of David Lockwood / DGL.  Penciled notes on ffep.  PLI [L:Map]: Map of the Monterey Peninsula, California.  PM: San Diego, 1937 [1c].  CLI [F]: 997-04 [4] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: edgewear.  VG+ in VG d/j. 252. [SOLD]  [WPA – Federal Writers’ Project – American Guide Series].  Santa Barbara: A Guide to the Channel City and Its Environs.  Compiled and Written by the Southern California Writers’ Project of the Work Projects Administration.  Sponsored by Santa Barbara State College.  NY: Hastings House, 1941.  xviii, 206 pp. + plates.  B&W photos, maps, bib, index.  8 x 5 3/8, lime green cloth, cover & spine lettered in red, ep maps, pict. d/j.  Prov: circular blind-embossed on half title: Library of David Lockwood / DGL.  Book ad, dated Nov. 1953, tipped to rear ep.  PLI [L]: Beach at Santa Barbara, California.  PM: Santa Barbara, 1938 [1c].  CLI [FF]: Santa Barbara, California, First Flight United States Air Mail [Santa Barbara Mission illus. & text in purple ink].  PM: Santa Barbara, Nov 1, 1936 [2-782] [AD] [Au].  Cond: d/j: masking-tape repaired.  VG+ in VG d/j. Minus 93 Sold = 159 Items still available.
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