Lewis, Oscar. Sketches of Early California. A Collection of Personal Adventures. Photo available. San Francisco. Chronicle Books. 1971. 182 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $25 |
Book ID: 159583 |
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Lewis, Oscar. Sketches of Early California. A Collection of Personal Adventures. Photo available. San Francisco. Chronicle Books. 1971. 182 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine (price clipped) dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $30 |
Book ID: 208607 |
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Lewis, Oscar. Sutter's Fort. Signed by the author. Gateway to the Gold Fields. The Story of Captain John A. Sutter's California Empire. Photo available. Englewood Cliffs. Prentice-Hall. 1966. 224 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Signed by the author. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $40 |
Book ID: 208333 |
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Lewis, Oscar. The Autobiography of the West. Personal Narratives of the Discovery and Settlement of the American West. Photo available. New York. Henry Holt. 1958. 310 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $30 |
Book ID: 208776 |
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Lewis, Oscar. The First 75 Years. The Story of The Book Club of California. 1912-1987. Photo available. San Francisco. Book Club of California. 1987. 55 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $25 |
Book ID: 201864 |
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Lewis, Oscar. The Town That Died Laughing... Austin, Nevada... Renowned Newspaper, the Reese River Reveille. Photo available. Boston. Little, Brown and Co. 1955. 235 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (small owner stamps on end papers) in near fine (spine faded) dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $30 |
Book ID: 221686 |
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Lewis, Oscar. The War in the Far West. Inscribed by the author. 1861-1865. An Informal History of the Part Played by the Western States in the Civil War. Photo available. Garden City. Doubleday. 1961. 263 pps. Octavo. Hard cover. Stated first edition. Important reference work. Inscribed by the author "For: George E. Steinmetz, All the best! Oscar Lewis Feb. 20, '61". Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $35 |
Book ID: 208725 |
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Lewis, Oscar. The Wonderful City of Carrie van Wie. Paintings of San Francisco at the Turn of the Century. Photo available. San Francisco. The Book Club of California. The Grabhorn Press. 1963. Folio. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Color plates. Limited edition of 525 copies. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $85 |
Book ID: 207285 |
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Lewis, Ruth et al. Stories and Legends of Lake County. Photo available. Santa Rosa. Lake County Historic Society. Self published. 1949. 108 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. Revised edition. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $45 |
Book ID: 222543 |
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Libecap, Gary D. Owens Valley Revisited. A Reassessment of the West's First Great Water Transfer. Photo available. Stanford. Stanford Economics and Finance. 2007. 209 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 227505 |
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Lich, Glen. The German Texans. Photo available. San Antonio. The University of Texas. Institute of Texan Cultures. 1996. 232 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. Revised edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $25 |
Book ID: 228495 |
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Lieder, Emily Wortis. California's Daughter. Signed by the author. Gertrude Atherton and Her Times. Photo available. Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1991. 402 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Signed by the author. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 191497 |
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Lightfoot, Kent. Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants. The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers. Photo available. Berkeley. University of California Press. 2005. 338 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition thus. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. As new.
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 227610 |
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Lightner, Carrie (ed) & David Storklin. Dude Ranches of The American West. Photo available. Ketchum. Stoecklein Pub. 2004. Folio. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color with photographs by David R. Stoecklein. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $40 |
Book ID: 184395 |
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Lillard, Charles (ed). Warriors of the North Pacific. Missionary Accounts of the Northwest Coast, the Skeena and Stikine Rivers and the Klondike, 1829-1900. Photo available. Victoria. Sono Nis Press. 1984. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Map. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 179087 |
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Lillard, Richard & Mary Wood. Hank Monk and Horace Greeley. An Enduring Episode in Western History. Photo available. Georgetown. Wilmac Press. 1973. 63 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $35 |
Book ID: 221666 |
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Limburg, Peter R. Deceived. The Story of the Donner Party. Photo available. Pacifica. Self published. 1998. 249 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). As new.
Price: $40 |
Book ID: 226048 |
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Linden, James & Oscar Lewis. To Remember Valenti Angelo, 1897-1982. Continuities & On Reaching Seventy. How the Club Began is a Story Worth Retelling. Photo available. San Francisco. The Book Club of California. 1982. 4to. Gilt decorated, half leather slip case. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Fine copies in envelope.
Price: $35 |
Book ID: 209228 |
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Lindgren, Emory. Northern Alaska in the 40's. Stories from the Heart. Photo available. np. Self published. 1999. 190 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. As new.
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 229994 |
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Lindgren, Waldemar. The Tertiary Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California. With maps. Professional Paper 73. Photo available. Washington. Government Printing Office. Department of the Interior. 1911. 226 pps. 4to. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. 2 large, folding maps in envelope. Very scarce. Near fine copy. Spine chips, light edge wear. Name on front panel.
Price: $400 |
Book ID: 209121 |
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Lindmier, Tom. I See by Your Outfit. Historic Cowboy Gear of the Northern Plains. Photo available. Glendo. HIgh Plains Press. 1996. 175 pps. 4to. Soft cover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 201943 |
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Lindsay, Diana Elaine & Richard Pourade (ed). Our Historic Desert. Signed, limited edition. The Story of Anza-Borrego Desert. The Largest State Park in the United States of America. Photo available. San Diego. A Copley Book. 1973. 144 pps. 4to. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Limited edition, number 302. Signe "Richard F. Pourde". Fine copy in fine slip case.
Price: $50 |
Book ID: 209326 |
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Lindsay, Diana Elaine & Richard Pourade (ed). Our Historic Desert. The Story of Anza-Borrego Desert. The Largest State Park in the United States of America. Photo available. San Diego. A Copley Book. 1973. 144 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $45 |
Book ID: 210772 |
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Lindsay, Diana. Marshall South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles. An Experiment in Primitive Living. Photo available. San Diego. Sunbelt Publications. 2005. 324 pps. Folio. Soft cover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $50 |
Book ID: 231889 |
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Lingenfelter, Richard & David Myrick. The Newspapers of Nevada. A History and Bibliography. 1854-1979. Photo available. San Francisco. John Howell Books. 1964. 228 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (spine lightly faded).
Price: $40 |
Book ID: 221320 |
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