First Edition. 86 pages of color photographs of LA with a three-page introduction by Bradbury entitled, 'I only do it to annoy, because I know it teases.' 10-1/2 by 8-3/4 inches (oblong). First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed.....

First Edition. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, claiming to speak for the business community of the West Coast, argues that the success of Chinese merchants in California and the growing trade with China requires armed transport across the Pacific Ocean to ensure the safe passage of gold and silver.....

First Edition. A request to Congress from California for the "early establishment of a mail-route and daily mail from Auburn, Placer county, to Nevada city, Nevada county, via English's Bridge and Grass Valley. Also, a tri-weekly mail from Sacramento city, via Yolo city, Yolo county, to Cacheville, in Yolo county;.....

36 pages, each with five or so clippings of O'Brien's column on prison life and policy. In addition to being the publisher of the paper, he was a director of the California State Board of Prisons. Approximately 150 columns. String-bound into scrapbook covers, 8 by 11-1/2 inches. Very good; one.....

First Edition. 226 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches. The most detailed 19th century directory of Humboldt County, a remote region in far northwest California that at the time was only reachable by ship. This is also one of the only Western directories compiled and published by a woman. The first 126 pages.....

First Edition. Alarcón began writing this novel while in California, and he completed it during a European trip. The novel is set in the 1920s in the Santa Clara Valley of California and its plot revolves around a Mexican immigrant's obsession with the daughter of an Italian immigrant. However, the.....

Image of three ships, the Defender (launched late August 1896; see Wallace Martin, Sail and Steam, page 264) completed or nearly so, with two other ships under construction. 9.5 by 7.5 inches on a 14 by 11 inch mount. Ornate printed title using left-leaning script font. Plain back. Image faded.....

First Edition. 58 pages. Poems, with one- or two-page autobiographical essays by each writer. Entrance is one of the landmarks of Chicano literature, The book called attention to the vibrancy of the Chicano poetry scene at Fresno State where Philip Levine was teaching. It was one of Gary Soto's first.....