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Baltimore: Bacchus Press, 2004 Second and best edition. Introduction by Kevin Starr. Foreword by Bryce C. Rankine. Quarto. xx, 503pp. A few illustrations. Subject, short title and author indexes. Wine cloth, gilt. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. A noted annotated bibliography with nearly 8,000 entries. The historical annotations cover every aspect of wine, touching upon the men and women throughout history who pioneered wine's development and recorded its history..

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969 First edition. Edited and with an Introduction by Roger L. Nichols. Pp. xxvii, [1], 145. Ten photographic illustrations, 3 maps. Bibliography, index. Turquoise cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Gale's journal of the expedition, the first significant government sponsored trip up the Missouri after Lewis and Clark. Editor Nichols includes letters and military orders regarding the expedition. The expedition's purpose was a military occupation of the upper Mississippi and Missouri River valleys in response to repeated clashes between American fur traders and the Plains Indians following the War of 1812..

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997 Cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket..

Sacramento: Sacramento County Historical Society, 1958 First edition. ii, 34, [4]pp. Fine copy. One of 500 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. Pioneer stageman in Sacramento and the neighboring mining towns; first mail and transportation system to the Pacific Coast..

New York: The Heritage Press, 1964 Introduction by Evelyn Waugh. Illustrations by Charles Mozley. Tan cloth, decorated in red and lettered in gilt. Minor scuffing to spine, else a fine copy in slipcase. Sandglass pamphlet laid in.. Illus. by Mozley, Charles.

London: William Heinemann, 1914 First illustrated edition, first published in 1912. Quarto (11x8 inches). Pp. xi, [1], 71. Illustrated with 4 tipped-in color plates and 23 black & white text drawings by Maud Earl. Illustrated endpapers. Original gray-brown paper over boards, pictorially stamped in black and lettered in gilt on front cover, spine with deeply embossed title in green. Slight (very minor) wear to head of spine, 2 light surface scratches to bottom of front cover. A very fine copy with the extremely elusive pictorial dust jacket matching the front cover (jacket lightly worn at spine ends, corners and top edge, with tape reinforcing). Housed in a custom Lucite box. Original gift inscription on top edge of flyleaf, "From Mum, Christmas, 1914" John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. His notable works include The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. This book, first published… Read More

London: The Phaidon Press Ltd., 1950 First complete edition. 4to. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white plates, some full page. Edges and spine-ends are rubbed, else a fine copy..

Stoughton: Western Hemisphere, Inc., 1970 First trade edition, first issue in the red cloth binding. Edited by Dale L. Morgan. Quarto. lxv, [1], 390pp. Frontispiece, seven illustrations, 2 maps (one folding). Red cloth, gilt. A fine copy. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Detailed reminiscences of a "Forty Niner." Contains interesting observations on life in San Francisco and in the mines. Gardiner came to California via Panama and remained for eight years. Morgan's 65 page introduction provides an extremely comprehensive survey of the entire literature of Gold Ruhs reminiscences, discussing in detail every such work published from 1860 to the present day, making clear why Gardiner's narrative stands "in the very first rank" of this literature. [Kurutz: 262]..

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970 First edition, thus. Edited, with a sketch of the life and times of their author, by Donald Munro Craig. xiii, [3], 262pp. Frontispiece, 21 illustrations, 8 photographs. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. Maroon cloth. A very fine copy in dust jacket. The letters consist of thirty in number, written from Monterey just before the Gold Rush by an expatriate Englishman, who became the sheriff of Monterey and secretary to Alcalde Walter Colton..

Paris: Henri Plon, 1871 First edition. 12mo. [4], 388pp. Large folding map, 4 engraved plates. Original printed wraps, covers and spine laid down onto stiffer blue card stock, with some bleeding of blue color. Some damp staining, generally faint, to fore and top edges, wrappers generally stained or darkened, small label to front cover, map with cellophane reinforcement at portion of two folds. A very good, complete copy. Garnier was a young mineral explorer sent to New Caledonia in 1863-66, and provides invaluable first person commentary on Oceanic culture during the period. The folding color map shows Tahiti and Moorea with an abundance of place names. Quite scarce in the original wrappers. [Not noted by Hill]..

New York: William Morrow & Co. Inc., 1970 Quarto. 185pp. 40 color plates, 83 patterns, how-to drawings and photographs. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Minor wear to spine ends, light wear to top edge, 5 pages of text with underlining, else a near fine copy in worn and chipped pictorial dust jacket. A comprehensive needlpoint book teaching how to design your own pattern rather than relting on prepared canvases. Also discusses how to do the several forms of needlepoint stitch if you are a beginner, how to refine your way of stitching to become an expert, how to prepare a canvas, work your designs, and block a finished product..

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000 First Abrams edition, first issued in 1995. Square quarto. 144pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white and color photographs by O. Winston Link. Black boards lettered in white. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. An excellent monograph on the railroad photography of O. Winston Link, concentrating on the routes of the Norfolk and Western Railway (Virginia and North Carolina) during the 1950's. Link's exceptional photographs document the steam engines, railroad employees, the towns and rural life along the route, before the engines were replaced by diesel locomotives..

New York: Heritage Press, 1937 Quarto. Black & white illustraions by Mariette Lydis. Two-toned cloth with brown printing and decoration. Spine lightly faded, else a fine copy in slipcase. Includes the music to each song. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. . Illus. by Lydis, Mariette.

Georgetown, California: The Talisman Press, 1967 First edition. 558pp. Frontis portrait of Marshall and a portrait of Sutter, both in color, numerous other photographic illustrations; extensive notes, appendices, index. Gold cloth lettered in dark brown. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. This work includes extensive notes to the chapters, an appendix of documents and a full index. Well-written and documented, this work is undoubtedly the most thorough biography of this central figure in the California Gold Rush..

Georgetown, California: The Talisman Press, 1967 Special edition. Limited to 250 copies printed on special paper, specially bound, numbered, boxed and signed by the author. 558pp. Frontis portrait of Marshall and a portrait of Sutter, both in color, 25 illustrations from various sources and 4 facsimile inserts in rear pocket. Facsimile map insert is missing from this copy. Half simulated black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. A fine copy with double slipcase (outer slipcase soiled and spotted). This work includes extensive notes to the chapters, an appendix of documents and a full index, as well as extra inserts in the rear pocket that were not included in the regular edition. Undoubtedly the most thorough biography of this central figure in the California Gold Rush, well-written and documented..

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945 First edition. Edited and with an introduction by David Morris Potter. xii, [2], 266pp. Portrait, folding map of route. Appendices, bibliography, notes, index. Green cloth. A fine copy with lightly worn dust jacket. A diary kept by two members of the Charleston, Virginia, Mining Company, both of whom were veterans of the Mexican War. Geiger began the journal on May 10, 1849 and maintained it until June 23. Bryarly continued to record their journey until August 30, 1849, when they arrived at Johnson's Ranch. [Kurutz: 265]. The appendices include the constitution of the Charleston, Virginia, Mining Company, a roster of members, etc. [Kurutz: 265; Mattes: 451; Mintz: 173; Rocq: 15816; Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush: 80]..

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985 First edition. Limited to 500 copies printed by Patrick Reagh. 209pp. Frontis portrait, illustrations from photographs. Brown cloth, embossed portrait on front cover, paper spine label. A very fine copy. Includes valuable information about the life of Pacheco taken from unpublished collections and old newspapers, much of it translated from Spanish. Also includes the first thorough investigation of California state documents relating to his career. Pacheco was the first and only Hispanic governor of the State of California, the first California Hispanic elected to Congress, and the first to be named a diplomat..

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991 First edition. Foreword by Kenneth Frampton. Introduction by Bruno Zevi. Quarto. xx, 252pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white and color photographs, plans, etc. Extensive notes, chronological bibliography, index. Tan cloth lettered in black. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A detailed monograph of this important American architect. Traces the development of Harris' life (1903-1990) and career, assessing his place in American Modernism, in the development of regionalist architecture, and in the interpretation of a modern California lifestyle. Harris emphasized California regionalism and the democratic single family home. His work was admired worldwide. Richly illustrated with floor plans, renderings and photographs by Julius Shulman, Maynard Parker, Fred Dapprich, Man Ray and others..

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1937 One of 325 copies. Our binding is an unrecorded variant with a printed paper spine label rather than the orange spine lettering. Translated by H. B. D. Soule. Small quarto. [2], 54pp. Three illustrated initials by Dorothy Grover, eight reproductions of early woodcuts by Hans Leonhard Schaufelin. Tan decorated boards, tan cloth spine with printed paper label. Light foxing to edges of two pages, small spot to rear cover, else a fine copy. Also includes an essay on Gesner by J. Monroe Thorington, with bibliographical notes by W. Dock. This essay, written by Gesner, a Swiss philosopher in the middle ages, is generally regarded as the first mention in print of climbing mountains for pleasure. This Grabhorn printing is the only modern version and is quite scarce. [Farquhar, Literature of Mountaineering: p.513; Grabhorn: 273]..

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1951 First edition. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings by the author and map endpapers. Green cloth with dust jacket slightly rubbed and chipped, else fine. A collection of anecdotes by the author of his living in Ireland..