Seller: WeBuyBooks 2, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by (The San Diego Corral of the Westerners), San Diego, 1976
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Stan Sowinski (illustrator). Limited Edition. 4to. Pp. ix, [2], 3-175 followed by several color plates by Stan Sowinski. Richly illustrated with reproductions of historic photographs and print matter. Maps. With a note on contributors. Bound in textured cloth with gilt artwork stamped on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. The prospectus is laid in, as well as an order form and an article on the death of the widow of author Max Miller, a contributor here and the author of I Cover the Waterfront. Of an edition limited to 500 copies, the limitation is stricken and noted in manuscript pen: "Presentation copy." Several of the entries are signed by the authors. A bright, fresh copy of the annual, this issue being the "Bicentennial Year" issue featuring articles on early efforts by the British to establish a consulate in California, the history of Fort Piute, the evolution of the University of San Diego, Father Lasuen's 1783 report on the Mission San Diego, historian-journalist Max Miller, the Molokan Russian Colony of Guadalupe, Santa Catarina de Las Yumas, etc.