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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated with eight black and white plates. Uncut. Gilt-lettered green cloth. Small spot to lower edge of frontis illustration. Slight fading to spine and uper edge of front cover. Very minor rubbing to ends of spine. A fine copy..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903 Book. Illus. by Wright, George. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by George Wright. Decorated blue cloth. General rubbing to the extremities, previous owner's signature on endpaper. A very good copy..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909 Book. Illus. by Flagg, James Montgomery. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg. Gilt-lettered green cloth. Spine ends very lightly rubbed. Previous owner's name on endpaper. A fine copy..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898 Book. Illus. by Clinedinst, B. West. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrations by B. West Clinedinst. Decorated green cloth, lettered in gilt. Previous owners inscription on endpaper. Small sport worn to spine. A near-fine copy..

Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1984 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second edition, the first under the author's imprint. Quarto. 492pp. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of historic photographs (color frontis), maps and reproductions; appendices, bibliography, index. Brown cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (slight chipping to head of jacket spine). Detailed and accurately-researched history of the nearly 600 towns and camps. Includes over 700 photographs (mostly historic)..

Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 2001 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second, revised edition. Quarto. 208pp. Photographs by Nell Murbarger and detailed full-page maps by Paul Cirac. Brown cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Includes 62 original color maps, 550 photographs, gem and placer gold sites, pioneer trails, and an index map..

New York: The Heritage Press, 1961 Book. Illus. by Ward, Lynd. Fine. Hardcover. Introduction by Howard Fast. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Marbled red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine ends faded, else a fine copy in slipcase. Slipcase faded. Sandglass pamphlet laid in..

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First editon. Co-published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the University of California. Quarto. 280pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white and color photographs. Cloth. A very fine copy with very slightly worn pictorial dust jacket. One of 1,000 copies in hardback (6,000 softcover copies were printed). This is the Catalogue Raisonne of the collection, probably the finest in the United States. Includes an appendix on inscriptions by H.E. Richardson. Also includes glossaries of selected Sanskrit and Tibetan terms, a Tibetan Pronunciation key, and extensive bibliography, and index..

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. Photographed and designed by Basil Pao. Blue cloth has some light wear along edges. Jacket is lightly soiled and rubbed with a half-inch tear to the top front edge. Internally fine. A very good copy. A text narrative of the four-part television series that saw Michael Palin traveling around the world in order to capture the essence of Ernest Hemmingway. Accompanied by breathtaking photography..

Washington D.C.: Printed by Byron S. Adams, 1952 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Presentation, SIGNED by the author. An Index to the Events, Persons and Publications Connected with its History. [2], 25pp. Beige stiff wrappers printed in black on front cover. A fine copy. A scarce little pamphlet that includes, in addition to its chronology and an index, a short history of the valley, a bibliography, and a list of past Jayhawker reunions. "This item stands alone in its field, and supplies a type of information and reference that is indispensable to any well-balanced collection of desert material. the late Dr. Palmer , one of the country's leading authorities on Death Valley, was a member of the Death Valley Expedition in 1891" (Edwards). [Edwards, The Enduring Desert: p.188; Rocq 2329]..

Washington D.C.: Printed by Byron S. Adams, 1952 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. An Index to the Events, Persons and Publications Connected with its History. [2], 25pp. Beige stiff wrappers printed in black on front cover. A fine copy. A scarce little pamphlet that includes, in addition to its chronology and an index, a short history of the valley, a bibliography, and a list of past Jayhawker reunions. "This item stands alone in its field, and supplies a type of information and reference that is indispensable to any well-balanced collection of desert material... the late Dr. Palmer , one of the country's leading authorities on Death Valley, was a member of the Death Valley Expedition in 1891" (Edwards). [Edwards, The Enduring Desert: p.188; Rocq 2329]..

Washington City: Published by the Editor, T.H. Palmer, 1814 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. 3 volumes (of 4). Pp. x, 164, 226 + [3], iii, 132, 351 + vi, 246, 328. Contemporary three-quarter red leather, marbled boards, gilt. Boards slightly rubbed, but a fine and clean copy. An invaluable compendium of statistics, documents, first- hand battle accounts, economic reports, etc., pertaining to the War of 1812. The first volume commences with a "Review of the Political Institutions of the United States," and covers the first two Congressional sessions held after the declaration of war; the second volume covers events from the declaration of war to the beginning of 1814, with official historical documents; the third volume covers events of the year 1814, plus historical documents. A fourth volume was published in 1816 (not present here) to cover the end of the war (Jan. 1815). [Howes I: P-53; Howes II: P-53; Sabin: 32076]..

Eureka, California: Interface California Corporation, 1976 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Square quarto. Softcover. 134pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white images. Pictorial wrappers. Spine lighltly faded, minor rubbing to covers, else a fine copy. Emma B. Freeman gained worldwide recognition to her unique photographic portraits of northern California's Indians..

San Francisco: The Nueva California Press, 1934 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited edition of 1,000 copies, printed by Lawton R. Kennedy, et al. Signed on inner cover by author, E. Geoffrey Bangs. Translated by Douglas S. Watson. Quarto. 124pp. Frontis portrait, double-page map, facsimiles. Original green-grey boards, lettered on spine and front cover in brown. Upper corners very slightly jammed, head of spine less so. A fine copy, mostly uncut. A new translation which includes seven hitherto unpublished letters of Serra, Paloú and Galvez, dating from 1766 to 1768. Paloú was Serra's principal biographer. This was the first title published by the Nueva California Press..

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1958 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 177 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press for the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco as a keepsake of their joint meeting with the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles. Text by David Magee. Tall folio (15¼x10¼ inches). 16pp. Printed on rectos only. Title in red and black. Opening initial of text in red and gold. Original leaf and facsimile page within red rules. Handset Janson type on English handmade paper. Original cream stiff wrappers, center sewn, title in gold on red label on front cover. Spine area slightly darkened, but a fine and clean copy. The tipped-in leaf is from the first edition of Palou's Relacion Historica de la Vida y Apostolicas Tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra (1787), the first and most authoritative life of the founding father of the California missions. [Grabhorn: 598]..

Cambridge: Harper & Row, 1988 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Cltoh. Upper front corner slightly jammed, else a very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket..

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated, 1991 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Quarto. 160pp. Index. Illustrated with more than 140 color photographs. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A fine copy in lightly worn pictorial dust jacket..

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Edited by James E. Davis. xxxi, [3], 280pp. Illustrations, portraits, map. Extensive chapter notes, bibliography, index. Black cloth. A very fine copy with lightly chipped pictorial dust jacket (jacket slightly rubbed and with 2-inch tear to rear panel). "Dr. Parke, a surgeon, and eight other men organized the Como Pioneer Company of Como, Illinois, on April 1, 1849, and left for California on April 7. The company, traveling in three wagons, followed the California Trail and entered via Donner Pass on August 31. After a short visit to Sacramento, Parke arrived at Bidwell's Bar on the Feather River... his diary for September 20, 1849, to September 18, 1850, documents his life in the mines and principal cities and provides good descriptions of the Indians" (Kurutz). [Kurutz: 481]..

London: L.W. Parker, 1953 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Twenty-second annual edition. 16mo. 301pp. Numerous tables, folding "1st Supplement" in rear pocket. Original burgandy cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. Minor rubbing or very slight jamming to spine ends. A fine and clean copy. A statistical, technical and financial record of each of the individual companies of the old Rand, the Far West Rand and Orange Free State. The technical and financial position of the companies is explained with opinions on the individual shares concerned. The preface to this edition expounds upon the importance of uranium as a factor in the future of the Kaffir market and suggests that, "It (uranium) must be an important factor in any choice of a Kaffir portfolio at the present time.".

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. Profusely illustrated with black & white photogrpahs and drawings.Gilt-lettered green cloth. Bookplate on front enpaper, else a fine copy in faded dust jacket..