New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, brown cloth. Magic marker to bottom and top edges RECEIPT = RECIPE! "This book is intended solely as an historical record and does not represent anendorsement of any recipe, formula, process or other textualmaterial printed herein, nor do the... More about DICK'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL RECEIPTS AND PROCESSES OF HOW THEY DID IT IN THE 1870'S;...

Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 96 pages, photos. Red cloth, quarto. Fine copy. No dust jacket as issued. More about TEXAS' LAST FRONTIER: VOLUME 2. A SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUME 1, A HISTORY OF COCHRAN COUNTY

New York: Fact Magazine, 1964. Paperback. Illustrated wraps, quarto. Five separate issues, with each issue 64 pages. Some soiling to wraps, interiors clean, bindings tight. Ginzburg published Fact from January 1964 to August 1967. The November issue [Volume One , Issue Five] contains: "1,189 Psychiatrists Say Goldwater Is Psychologically Unfit... More about FACT MAGAZINE : VOLUME ONE, ISSUES 1-5 [JANUARY-NOVEMBER 1964

New York: J.B. Lyon Company, 1899. First Edition. 36 pages, tables. Department of Education for the United States Commission to the Paris Exposition of 1900. Stapled wraps. One inch chip at top left of spine, a few chips to spine and smaller chip at front edge and a few small... More about EDUCATION OF THE INDIAN -- NUMBER 19 OF MONOGRAPHS ON EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES [EDITED BY...

San Francisco, CA: California Historical Society, 1957. Clement Hurd. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Printed by Lawton Kennedy and limited to 1,000 copies. Inscribed by the author on preliminary blank page. Red cloth with large cover illustration of children sitting around a Christmas tree. Small square octavo. Small ding at... More about CHRISTMAS AT RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS [SIGNED COPY]; (California Historical Society Special...

Independence, Missouri: Oregon-California Trails Organization, 2012. First Edition. Paperback. 262 pages, appendices, bilbiography, index. Eleven maps, illustrations. Large paperback quarto. Minor scrape at lower front corner and a few light stains to edges. Interior clean and bright. Binding tight. Allen's first hand account of a journey based on his letters... More about OUR FACES ARE WESTWARD : THE 1852 OREGON TRAIL JOURNEY OF EDWARD J. ALLEN

New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1884. First Edition. Paperback. 125 pages. Illustrated wraps. Octavo. Lightly soiled but bright. 1/3 inch chip to lower spine and small chip to top of spine, along with a few spine nicks and tiny chip to lower front corner. Textblock square and binding tight. Interior... More about '49 THE GOLD SEEKER OF THE SIERRAS

New York: The New York Society of Self-Culture, 1906. Fifth Revised Edition. Hardcover. Two Octavos. Beautiful and elaborate, tissue-guarded gilt and leaf bordered design to title pages. This is no doubt the book that Edith Wharton must have been given, or at least known about -- the social "bible" as... More about CORRECT SOCIAL USAGE: A COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IN GOOD FORM STYLE AND DEPORTMENT BY EIGHTEEN...

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1869. First Edition. Leather_bound. Nicely bound in three-quarter brown leather over marbled boards. Octavo. Five raised bands on spine with gilt decorations in compartments and titles in gilt on dark red labels. Marbled endpapers. Cover is bright with a little edgewear. Textblock square, binding tight... More about THE DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT WEST; Part Three of France and England in North America : A Series of...

San Marino: Friends of the Huntington Library, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited editon of 1,000 copies with this copy numbered 571. Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles. 28 pages. Cream boards with titles in red. Narrow octavo. Some soiling to boards and spine. Interior clean with some offsetting... More about A LETTER FROM A GOLD MINER; PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA, 1850

New York: Henry Holt, 1946. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Centennial Edition. Signed by George Stewart on the half-title page [Sincerly, George R. Sewart, jr.] xii,328 pages. Twelve drawings by Ray Boynton, five maps. Blue cloth with spine titles in gilt. Corners nudged, textblock square. In bright color illustrated dust jacket which... More about ORDEAL BY HUNGER : THE STORY OF THE DONNER PARTY (SIGNED

Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1965. Hardcover. Minor rubbing to dust jacket, a couple small tears to dustjacket of volume one. Both DJs price clipped. Bound in brown cloth boards, with minor wear to extremities and two nudged corners on volume one. More about WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER (2 VOLUMES), VOLUME 1: THE CALIFORNIA-ARIZON CONTROVERSY. VOLUME 2...