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(010264) Abrams, Leroy. ILLUSTRATED FLORA OF THE PACIFIC STATES VOL. 1 AND
VOL. 2. Stanford U. Press, 1940. 1st ed. Cloth, Small 4to. Very good, owner's
bookplate each fr. fly. Two volumes of four in series - Vol. 1 "Ferns to
Birthworts"; Vol. 2 "Buckwheats to Kramerias", illus. by line drawings $75.00

(010435) Adams, Ansel and Irwin P. Ting, Bill Jennings. DEEP CANYON A DESERT
WILDERNESS FOR SCIENCE. Riverside; Univ. California, 1976. Boards, Small 4to.
Very good in lightly worn dust jacket, 2" repaired closed tear. Publication of
the Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center, Palm Desert $45.00

(003724) Adams, Ansel & Nancy Newhall. FIAT LUX THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
New York; McGraw Hill, 1967. 192pp. 1st ed. Cloth, Folio. Very good in dust
jacket. Adams' portrait of the University of California system. Uncommon
$65.00

(006720) (Adams, Ansel) Lloyd & Alice Reeve. GIFT OF THE GRAPE. San Francisco;
Filmer, 1959. 1st ed. Cloth, 8vo. Near fine in like dust jacket. Paul Masson
Vinyards, photos by Ansel Adams and Pirkle Jones. INSCRIBED by the Reeves
$50.00

(011322) Adams, Kramer A.. COVERED BRIDGES OF THE WEST A HISTORY AND
ILLUSTRATED GUIDE WASHINGTON OREGON AND CALIFORNIA. Berkeley; Howell-North,
1963. 146pp. 1st ed. Cloth, 4to. Very good in dust jacket. Maps, diagrams and
200 photographs $30.00

(009081) (Alexander, Michael) and Howard S. Becker, ed.. CULTURE AND CIVILITY
IN SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco; Transaction Books, 1971. 164pp. 1st ed.
Cloth, 8vo. Very good in lightly worn dust jacket. Photos by Michael
Alexander, essays on storefront lawyers by J.E. Carlin, Haight Ashbury mental
health by Dr Dernberg etc $25.00

(007742) (Allison & Allison). THE BUILDING REVIEW FEBRUARY 1923. San
Francisco; The Building Review, 1923. 1st ed. Wraps, 4to. Good, spine ends
worn. Special edition on the work of Allison & Allison, incl. many schools,
clubs, churches, and other private and public works. $75.00

(009132) Baer, Kurt and Hugo Rudinger. ARCHITECTURE OF THE CALIFORNIA
MISSIONS. Berkeley; U. Cal. Press, 1958. 1st ed. Cloth, 4to. Very good in
chipped dust jacket. 84 plates, 6 figures, founding dates and dimensions, lost
missions $60.00

(000010) Banham, Reyner. LOS ANGELES: THE ARCHITECTURE OF FOUR ECOLOGIES. New
York; Harper & Row, 1971. 256pp. 1st U.S ed. Cloth, 8vo. Ex-lib., date slip
fr. fxd endpp, pocket rear, stamp on title p.. Very good in dust jacket
otherwise. A pioneering architectural study of L.A. $35.00

(010649) Barrett, S.A.. THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE KLAMATH LAKE AND MODOC
INDIANS OF NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN OREGON. Berkeley; Univ.
California Press, 1919. 19pp. 1st ed. Wraps, Large 8vo. Very good, somewhat
darkened and edgeworn, glued spine loose. U.Cal.Publications on Archeology and
Ethnology Vol. 5, No. 4. 15 plates, many baskets and implements $30.00

(010937) Basket Fraternity. THE BASKET THE JOURNAL OF THE BASKET FRATERNITY,
VOL. 1, NO. 3, JULY 1903. Pasadena; The Basket Fraternity, 1903. 63pp. 1st ed.
Wraps, 8vo. Very good in chipped, darkened wraps, last 3 pp sm closed tears.
Illus. with photos. Item by George Wharton James on California Basket Makers
with nice portraits of some artists etc. Ads $35.00

(009940) Beals, Ralph L.. ETHNOLOGY OF THE NISENAN. Berkeley; University of CA
Press, 1933. 1st ed. Wraps, 4to. Very good. Edges littlke worn and sunned.
This California indians groups basketry illustrated in black and white
photographs plus chapters on their culture $30.00

(010149) Blanchet, Francois Xavier. DIX ANS SUR LA COTE DU PACIFIQUE PAR UN
MISSIONNAIRE CANADIEN. Quebec; Leger Brousseau, 1873. 100pp. Wraps, 12mo. Very
good, a few small tears and creases to spine and edges. Little green broadside
(in French) describing 1850s missionary work in California and the Oregon
Territory by Blanchet et al $0.00

(000312) Bullock, Wynn. MONTEREY'S ADOBE HERITAGE. Monterey; Monterey Savings
& Loan, 1965. 2nd printing ed. Wraps, 4to. Fine. Scarce item privately printed
by the bank. Photos of adobe buildings in Monterey $40.00

(005546) Copeland, Alan (editor). PEOPLE'S PARK. New York; Ballantine, 1969.
1st ed. Wraps, Oblong 8vo. Very good, some edgewear and light creasing,
stained fore edge. Bootprint on half-title. Seems appropriate. 107 photos of
the popular anti-war movement in Berkeley, with annotated chronology $20.00

(010432) (Cowles, Russell) Bear, Donald. RUSSELL COWLES. Los Angeles; Dalzell
Hatfield, 1946. 1st Ltd Signed ed. Boards, 4to. Very good in dust jacket w/ 2
sm chips, owner's name front fly. No. 910 of 1000 signed by Cowles, 40 illus,
20 letters by influential WPA artist, curator of NY Worlds Fair art show
$175.00

(001678) Dana, Richard Henry. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. New York/San
Francisco; Random House/Grabhorn, 1936. 464pp. Limited ed. 1/2 Leather, Small
4to. Very good in dust jacket. Grabhorn edition limited to 1000 copies,
elegant suede leather spine, buckram cloth, deckle edges, illustrated $185.00

(010420) Deakin, Edwin. A GALLERY OF CALIFORNIA MISSION PAINTINGS. Los
Angeles; The Ward Ritchie Press, 1966. 58pp. 1st ed. Cloth, Oblong 8vo. Very
good in dust jacket. Twenty-one of California's Franciscan missions
illustrated in color paintings $40.00

(009792) Dilke, Charles Wentworth. GREATER BRITIAN; A RECORD OF TRAVEL IN
ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES DURING 1866 AND 1867. New York; Harper & Brothers,
1869. 559pp. 1st ed. Cloth, 12mo. Good. Memoirs of a tour throughout
English-Speaking countries. illustrated with maps and beautiful steel
engravings. $65.00

(008922) Donovan, John J.. A METHOD OF PROCEDURE AND CHECKING SCHEDULE FOR
PLANNING SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND THEIR EQUIPMENT. New York; The Bruce Publishing
Co., 1932. 1st ed. Cloth, 4to. Very good, corners a bit bumped, slt edgewear,
clean and tight. Based on the building of the Eureka Junior High School in
Eureka, CA, with plans and elevations $30.00

(008767) Eliot, Willard Ayes. FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC COAST. New York;
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. 565pp. 1st ed. Cloth, 8vo. Very good. Inscription on
front endpaper by Eliot. Illustrated with black and white photographs by
George Stephenson $40.00

(010154) (Elisofon, Eliot) Knight, Arthur. THE HOLLYWOOD STYLE. New York;
Macmillan, 1969. 1st ed. Cloth, Large 4to. Very good in dust jacket, sm. ink
owner's name on half-title p.. Great color and b+w photography by Elisofon and
wonderful selection of homes make this a dreamy decorator's sourcebook $65.00

(004976) (Ericson, A. W.) Peter E. Palmquist. FINE CALIFORNIA VIEWS / THE
PHOTOGRAPHS OF A. W. ERICSON. Eureka; Interface California Corp., 1975. 111pp.
1st ed. 1/2 Cloth, Square 8vo. Fine in clipped dust jacket. $30.00

(008171) Everett, Marshall. COMPLETE STORY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE
ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS AND OTHER VOLCANIC OUTBURSTS AND EARTHQUAKES.
Chicago; The Bible House, 1906. 1st edition ed. Decorated Clth, Large 8vo.
Good, cover soiled, faded, spine split 1" on front, rubbed. "Illustrated with
a vast gallery of startling pictures including views before and
after...Authentic...Official..." $30.00

(009763) FAMOUS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCENES A COLLECTION OF VIEWS OF SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA SCENERY. Los Angeles; B.R. Baumgardt & Co., 1902. 1st ed. Wraps,
small oblong 8. Very Good, paper cover somewhat edgeworn. Souvenir booklet of
photographs of Southern California, black paper-cover. $45.00

(009814) Gebhard, David and Harriete Von Breton. LOS ANGELES IN THE THIRTIES
1931-1941. Los Angeles; Hennessey & Ingalls, 1989. 185pp. Rev. Enlarged ed.
Cloth, 4to. New in dust jacket. $35.00

(009658) Giffen, Helen S.. CASAS & COURTYARDS HISTORIC ADOBE HOUSES OF
CALIFORNIA. Oakland, CA; Biobooks, 1955. 1st Limited ed. Cloth Bkd Brds, 8vo.
Very good. Illustrated in b+w photographs, extensive listing of houses $35.00

(009657) Harrington, M.R.. HOW TO BUILD A CALIFORNIA ADOBE. Los Angeles; Ward
Ritchie Press, 1948. 1st ed. Boards, Small 8vo. Very good. Published by the
Southwest Museum. Step by step construction in line drawings and photographs
$30.00

(008992) Heimann, Jim and Rip Georges. CALIFORNIA CRAZY ROADSIDE VERNACULAR
ARCHITECTURE. San Francisco; Chronicle Books, 1980. 139pp. Wraps, Square 8vo.
Very good. Wigwams and teapots, and other vernacular buildings in California
and beyond, many vintage photos of vanished places $20.00

(010262) Hill, Laurence L. and Marion Parks. SANTA BARBARA TIERRA ADORADA A
COMMUNITY HISTORY. Los Angeles; Security-First Nat'l Bank, 1930. 112pp. 1st
ed. Wraps, 8vo. Very good. Story of Santa Barbara, copiously illus. in b+w
photographs $20.00

(011099) Hon, Billy. PROMINENT CLUBMEN IN CARICATURE. San Francisco; Fred
Blair and Billy Hon, 1928. 145pp. 1st ed. Boards, Large 8vo. Good+, corners,
hinge worn, scraped, rubbed, soiled cover. Pencil owner's name fr. fly.
Prominent golfers of California in drawings by Hon, alphabetized list of
characters, rear $125.00

(009891) Hulbert, Archer Butler. FORTY-NINERS THE CHRONICLE OF THE CALIFORNIA
TRAIL. Boston; Little Brown & Company, 1931. 1st ed. Decorated Clth, Large
8vo. Very good. Illlustrated account with illustrations drawn from a wide
variety of early sources, with bibliography and index $40.00

(004706) James, Wharton James. THE WONDERS OF THE COLORADO DESERT (SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA) ITS... LIFE AND...HISTORY PICTURED AND DESCRIBED IN TWO VOLUMES.
Boston; Little, Brown and Company, 1906. 2 vols.pp. 1st ed. Cloth, 8vo. Very
good. By author of "The Old Missions of California". Many fine drawings of
plants and animals, Indian life, photographs & maps. $150.00

(008991) Jencks, Charles. DREAM HOUSES OF LOS ANGELES. New York; Rizzoli,
1978. 80pp. 1st ed. Wraps, Oblong 8vo. Very good. All color tribute to the
grandiose Los Angeles bungalow vernacular $15.00

(009876) Kroeber, A.L.. THE PATWIN AND THEIR NEIGHBORS. Berkeley; University
of California, 1932. 1st ed. Wraps, Large 8vo. Very good. Patwin culture,
dress, and relations. Vol. 29. No. 4 U. Cal. Publications in Archeology and
Ethnology $35.00

(007327) Kuehn, Gernot. VIEWS OF LOS ANGELES. Los Angeles; Portriga, 1978.
138pp. 1st ed. Wraps, Oblong 4to. Very good. Front cover soiled. 125 Black and
white photographs contrasting the past with present. $25.00

(002259) (Lange, Dorothea) Edwin Rosskam. SAN FRANCISCO: WEST COAST
METROPOLIS. New York; Alliance Book Corporation, 1939. 1st ed. Cloth, 4to.
Very good in dust jacket with some fading, stains & edgewear. Some photos by
Dorothea Lange. Foward by William Saroyan. "Face of America" series. Ink
inscription on front fly $75.00

(008137) (Lewis, Lucy M.) Susan Peterson. AMERICAN INDIAN POTTER. Tokyo;
Kodansha International, 1984. 218pp. 1st ed. Cloth, 4to. Near fine in dust
jacket. Illustrated with color photographs. $50.00

(009825) Loeb, E.M.. THE EASTERN KUKSU CULT. Berkeley; University of CA Press,
1933. 231pp. 1st ed. Wraps, 4to. Very good. Edges slightly worn and yellowed.
Mostly on the religions, ceremonies, death, burial, secret societies, doctors,
childbirth, etc $25.00

(009826) Loeb, E.M.. THE WESTERN KUKSU CULT. Berkeley; University of CA Press,
1932. 137pp. 1st ed. Wraps, 4to. Good. Edges worn and yellowed, spine ends
chipped. Includes many chapters on the religious ceremonies, initiations,
prayers, dances, dreams, etc. Illustrated $25.00

(010945) Lopez, Raul A. and Christopher L. Moser. RODS BUNDLES & STITCHES A
CENTURY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIAN BASKETRY. Riverside CA; Riverside Museum
Press, 1981. 240pp. 1st ed. Wraps, Oblong 4to. Very good. Indian basketry,
copiously illus., notes on the makers, design, collecting, materials and
techniques, vocabulary, bibliography $40.00

(011118) Mason, Otis Tufton. ABORIGINAL INDIAN BASKETRY: STUDIES IN TEXTILE
ART WITHOUT MACHINERY. Glorieta, New Mexico; Rio Grande Press, 1972. Cloth,
Large 4to. Fine. 2nd printing. Includes Alaska, Freser-Columbia region,
California-Oregon region, and the Interior Basin. Illustratedin color and
black and white photography $40.00

(011014) (Maybeck, Bernard) Cardwell, Kenneth H.. BERNARD MAYBECK ARTISAN
ARCHITECT ARTIST. Salt Lake City; Peregrine Smith, 1983. 255pp. Wraps, Square
8vo. Very good. Tons of photos, plans, list of works, biblio, index, chapter
on exhibition work incl. Palace of Fine Arts, House of HooHoo etc $35.00

(009816) McCoy, Esther. THE SECOND GENERATION. Salt Lake City; Peregrine
Books, 1984. 191pp. 1st ed. Cloth, Square 4to. As New. This book gets at the
root of California's continuing preeminence in the design of houses $27.50

(008911) Moore, Terrence. THE DESERT SOUTHWEST. Toronto; Bantam Books, 1987.
246pp. 1st ed. Cloth, Square 4to. Very good in dust jacket. Architecture and
interiors of the Southern states. Color photographs of various Adobes, Mexican
Townhouses and more $35.00

(010870) Moulin, Gabriel. GABRIEL MOULIN'S SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA TOWN AND
COUNTRY HOMES 1910-1930. Sausalito; Windgate Press, 1985. 208pp. 1st ed.
Cloth, Oblong 4to. Fine in dust jacket. Highly detailed prints of formal
gardens, interiors and exteriors. Photographs shot from 1910 to 1930 $100.00

(009605) Muench, Josef. ALONG YOSEMITE TRAILS. New York; Hastings House, 1948.
1st ed. Cloth, Small 8vo. Very good in chipped dust jacket. Yosemite National
Park illustrated in black and white photogravures $25.00

(006541) Padilla, Victoria. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GARDENS. Berkely; University
of CA Press, 1961. 359pp. 1st ed. Cloth, 4to. Very good in dust jacket.
One-hundred eighty-five illustrations, fifteen in color. $125.00

(002631) Politi, Leo. BUNKER HILL LOS ANGELES. Palm Desert; Desert-Southwest,
1964. 1st ed. Cloth, 4to. Very good. 2nd printing $45.00

(009590) Porter, Bruce. ART IN CALIFORNIA. Irvine; Westphal Publishing, 1988.
189pp. Cloth, 4to. Fine in very lightly soiled slipcase. A survey of American
art with special reference to California painting, sculpture and architecture
past and presentparticularly as those arts were represented at the Panama
International Exposition. Illustrated with black and white photographs $100.00

(008894) Rose, Eugene A.. HIGH ODYSSEY. Berkeley; Howell-North Books, 1974.
160pp. 1st ed. Cloth, 8vo. Near fine in dust jacket. The first solo winter
assault of Mr. Whitney & the Muir Trail area, from the diary of Orland
Bartholomew, photographs by him $15.00

(010843) (Schindler, Rudolf) Gebhard, David. SCHINDLER. San Francisco; William
Stout, 1997. 176pp. Revised ed. Wraps, Sm.Square 4to. New. Vienna-born
Schindler's life in pictures, original research by Esther McCoy, his one-time
draughtsman, re-ed. of 1971 monograph $30.00

(009330) Secretary of War Department. REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS TO
ASCERTAIN THE MOST PRACTICABLE...ROUTE FOR A RAILROAD...TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
VOL. 6. Washington DC; Beverly Tucker, 1857. 1st ed. Cloth, Large 4to. Very
good in new binding. Vol. 6 is 1855 survey of the Sacramento Valley to the
Columbia River. Contains many beautiful full page col. + b/w plates $300.00

(010299) Smith, Frances Rand. THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF MISSION SAN CARLOS
BORROMEO. Berkeley; California Historical Survey, 1921. 1st ed. Cloth, 8vo.
Very good. 44 plates and plans, fold-out map, bibliography $65.00

(010028) Smithsonian Institution. REPORT OF THE US NATION MUSEUM UNDER THE
DIRECTION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1900.
Washington D.C.; U.S. Government Printing Off, 1900. 738pp. 1st ed. Cloth,
8vo. Very good, a bit rubbed and worn. 229 illus. Articles on Aboriginal
Harpoons, California Indians, Hopi Pigments, Gems and Meteorites, Chinese
Ceramics, Flutes... $45.00

(009930) Sparkman, Philip Stedman. THE CULTURE OF THE LUISENO INDIANS.
Berkeley; University of California, 1908. 1st ed. Wraps, 4to. Very good. Edges
worn. Includes chapters on ceremonies, spirits, monsters, shamanism, tools,
pottery, gums, dyes and paints $15.00

(010853) (Titus, Sebastien) Topolos, Michael and Betty Dopson. CALIFORNIA
WINERIES IN 2 VOLUMES: VOLUME 1 NAPA VALLEY, VOLUME 2, SONOMA AND MENDOCINO
COUNTIES. St Helena, California; Vintage Image Book, 1975. 1st ed. Cloth,
Large 4to. V.good in dust jackets, gift inscr. fr. fly vol.1, bookpl.vol. 2.
Limited to 5000 copies. Beautifully illus. with b+w vintage photos of the
early days and drawings by Sebastien Titus $75.00

(011243) University of Pennsylvania Museum. THE MUSEUM JOURNAL VOL. IX, NOS. 3
+ 4. Philadelphia Museum, 1918. 1st ed. Leatherette, Large 8vo. Very good in
rubbed fake leather binding, fancy endpp.. Macoa Indians of Venezuala, the
Jewett Collection of Pomo and Panamint Indian baskets (4 color pls) and Han
dynasty horse art $30.00

(006422) Van Nostrand, Jeanne & Edith Coulter. CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL. Berkeley;
University of California, 1948. 1st ed. Cloth, 4to. Very good in dust jacket.
A history in contemporary pictures, 1786 to 1859 with descriptive notes on
pictures and artists $50.00

(002128) Van Nostrand, Jeanne. THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS OF PAINTING IN
CALIFORNIA 1775-1875. San Francisco; John Howell, 1980. 135pp. 1st ed. Cloth,
4to. Fine in dust jacket. 42 color plates, biographies of the artists, index
$100.00

(010593) Waterman, T.T.. THE YANA INDIANS. Berkeley; University of Cal Press,
1918. 34pp. 1st ed. Wraps, Large 8vo. Very good. Tribe that spawned Ishi. 20
pages of photos and a map by the author $75.00

(011263) (Watkins, Carleton E.). CALIFORNIA HISOTRY THE MAGAZINE OF THE
CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOL. LVII, NO. 3, FALL 1978. San Francisco; CHS,
1978. 288pp. 1st ed. Very good, a bit rubbed. Special issue on Watkins, essays
by Rudisill, Grenbeaux, Sexton, Palmquist, Dicker, many illus. + a chronology
$20.00

(009439) Webb, Edith Buckland. INDIAN LIFE AT THE OLD MISSIONS. Los Angeles;
Warren F. Lewis, 1952. 326pp. 1st ed. Cloth, 4to. Very good. Dust jacket
chipped and spine faded. Illustrated with photographs. Includes chapters on
Indian musicians and cantors, artists, cerimonies and festivals $100.00

(010930) Welsch, Lew. WOBBLY ROCK. San Francisco; Auerhahn Press, 1960. 1st
Signed ed. Wraps, 8vo. Very good. Signed by author, a little illlus, dedicated
to Gary Snyder "the Buddha of the place". These guys had way too much fun...
$40.00

(007572) Weston, Edward and Charis Wilson. CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST. New York;
Aperature, 1978. 188pp. Cloth, Square 4to. Very good in dust jacket. 3rd
printing. $45.00

(007574) (Weston, Edward) James L. Enyeart. EDWARD WESTON'S CALIFORNIA
LANDSCAPES. Boston; Little Brown and Company, 1984. 143pp. 1st ed. Cloth, Lg.
Square 4to. Fine in gray slipcase. $100.00

(007276) (William Brice) and Richard Armstrong. WILLIAM BRICE PAINTING AND
DRAWING 1947 TO 1986. Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, 1986. 1st ed.
Wraps, 4to. Very good in wraps. One of 2500 designed by Jack Woody, with many
v.g. color illus. (printed in Japan), photos by and of Brice, and his Neutra
home. $30.00

(007575) Yavno, Max. THE STORY OF WINE IN CALIFORNIA. Berkeley; University of
California, 1962. 125pp. 1st ed. Cloth, Large 4to. Very good. Spine and front
lightly faded. Color and black and white photographs of California vineyards,
wineries and the production process from the soil to the glass. $30.00