Later printing. Extensively illustrated from photographs, mostly of the Palco Mill (Scotia was a company town). 32 pages. Sixth printing, 1963. A near fine copy in wrappers (pamphlet).
Price: $15
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.....
Price: $65
Eleanor, a teacher, writes to Harry, a friend or possibly a relative. She writes about planned trips to San Francisco for shopping and about her parents. Then she starts complaining about Eureka: "Eureka is on the fritz. The lumber industry is nil & Humboldt is dead—Eureka looks deserted & forlorn.....
Price: $50
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.....
Price: $1,850
Various sizes, most roughly 7-1/2 by 25 inches; on blue paper, folded and docketed. The documents offer a glimpse into the lives of four Mexican Americans living in southern California shortly after it became part of the United States.: 1) Preemption claim of Gerónimo Ybarra, dated December 29, 1853. Long blue legal.....
Price: $1,500
![California la bella [Second issue]. Abel Alarcón](/pictures/thumb/306011.jpg?v=1603746154)
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.....
Price: $125
9 by 12 inches. 35 leaves plus cover, bound with brads at the top edge. An extraordinary collection of drawings of Yurok and Hupa basket designs, made by students at the Morek School District about 1929. The current site of the Morek School is on a remote stretch of the.....
Price: $2,850
Two pages (single sheet). 8 by 10 inches, on ruled paper. A nice California business letter. This letter details a number of speculative business ventures in Southern California, and the writer and the recipient appear to be partners in a number of investments. There is a lengthy discussion of the purchase.....
Price: $75
![Bendixen's Ship-yard, Eureka, Humboldt Co., California [Launch of the Defender]. A. W. Ericson](/pictures/thumb/2149.jpg?v=1597107647)
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.....
Price: $150
Fourteen 5-by-7-inch sepia-tone photographs documenting logging operations in a long-gone company town in the redwood forest north of Eureka, on the California coast. Two of the images show logging camps (Camps 7 and 8); one shows a logging railroad; the rest depict scenes in the forest during the handsaw era. These.....
Price: $650
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.....
Price: $250
