california historical society press (35 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs. Publisher's review letter and promotional material laid in. Clean and unmarked.

Softcover, 154 pages; very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. PB/pub. 1960/Gd. condition/96 pages - Pioneers of California's past. (TN75138z).

Paperbound. Condition: In quite good condition. Octavo, [24.5cm/9.75inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 364, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . In June 1871 a group of people assembled at 323 California Street, marking the first of four attempts to begin the California Historical Society (CHS). After the undocumented collapse of the first group, a second attempt to revive CHS lasted from 1886 to1891. In 1902 the ailing Society partnered with the California Genealogical Society and for a brief period the collaboration prospered. The earthquake and fire damage of 1906 induced yet another break of CHS. Finally in 1922 C. Templeton Crocker, grandson of Charles Crocker, permanently resurrected the Society. Also that year, Crocker placed at CHS his fine collection of Californiana, rivaling those of Hubert Howe Bancroft and Henry E. Huntington. His financial generosity supported CHS until the dues collected enabled the organization to hire its first staff member in March 1923. The group held its first exhibition at the Bohemian Club in San Francisco in 1924.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Collected essays on California from pre-European life through the Bear Flag Republic. Very light scuffing to cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Fine. Quarto in illus pale yellow wraps; xx, 379 p.: ill.; 23 cm; bibliographical references (p. 342-371) and index, Signed by the author. Paperback original. Numerous b/w and sepia photos of historical note. Chapters entitled: The seed is planted -- Stagecoach baseball -- Enter the professionals -- How Casey advanced to the bat -- Train ride south -- From Robinson to Lange to Chance -- A brand new ballgame -- A ballpark blooms in San Francisco -- The Los Angeles mix, winter 1908 -- Schoolboys -- Playgrounds -- A left-hander for the Oaks -- There was a crooked man -- The pride of their community -- Babe Ruth in California -- An experiment in sound and light -- Barnstormers -- In the shadows of war -- Joe, Ted, Jackie -- War games -- Breakthrough -- Golden boys -- In a corner of the United States -- Casey, Billy, and the Yanks -- Brown Derby baseball -- They changed the game -- Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants, April 1958 -- The last days of Ty Cobb -- The cowboy rides in -- The next generation -- 1969. Baseball -- California -- History. Very Fine. First edition, first printing (full number line).

Paperback. 65p., illustrations and decorations, new and slightly expanded edition, previous owner's bookplate otherwise a very good paperback in goldenrod pictorial wraps. With considerable material on the Hispanic period.

Paperback. xii, 154p., 9x11 inches, profusely illustrated, very good oversized trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Gd. condition - California history . People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California . (AH3401ml).

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Gd. condition - California history . Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California . (AH2399ml).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A compilation of essays and articles about California mining and mineral extraction. Minor cover warping, very minor corner bumping, otherwise appears unread.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Photos (illustrator). Revised Edition. Textblock is very clean and tight. Binding sunned, titling faded, else lightly edge and corner rubbed; No dust jacket; 65p. Size: 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Hardcover.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 143 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good-. Octavo in edgeworn and shelfworn dust jacket, frontispiece photo, 247 pp., b/w photos, notes, bibliogrpahy, index, ink-stamps.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ as Issued. A lovely crisp clean hardcover copy in good plus condition, light sunning to spine and light shelfwear to extremities. No DJ as issued.

Soft cover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 380 pps.

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine slip case. 184 pps.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Signed! The cover is rubbed and shelf worn with the bottom cover edge of the back cover being creased and folded along with a few of the pages being folded as well. The binding is secure and inside is clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. B&W illustrations. Condition: DJ a bit nicked & soiled; else near fine in good DJ. Pages: xix, 344.

Soft cover. Condition: NF. Revised edition (stated). 8vo. (6)66pp. With an Epilogue by Rodman W. Paul. Illustrated with b/w photos. Gold and red pictorial lapping wrappers. Nf/ n.a.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Revised edition. [4], 65pp. Printed in brown and black. Title illustration, 2 photographic plates. Epilogue. Light brown cloth, printed pictorial cover label, gilt lettering. A fine copy. History of the old grist mill, built in 1816, at the Mission San Gabriel. Includes biographical information on the builder, Father Zalvidea. This edition includes a subtitle and an epilogue by Rodman Paul. [Rocq: 4799]. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover, has light bumps to top of spine and upper corners, and light rubbing, otherwise a solid VG copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Wraps (PB) in near fine condition. "Reverend Jim," as he was know in San Francisco, was a friend of Mayor Moscone's and a supporter of youth groups. A search for a religious paradise amongst the broken and distorted dreams of one man. This book tries to determine what went wrong. 170 pages with foreword, preface, chronology, note on graphics, sources., photos,

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. CALIFORNIA HISTORY, 2003, VOL. 81, Nos. 3/4. TAMING THE ELEPHANT: POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND TAMING THE LAW IN PIONEER CALIFORNIA. Rawls and Orsi (eds.) California Historical Society. 2003, 288p, , trade pb, covers lightly bumped/scuffed, text unmarked/clean, binding solid--10.00.

Condition: Good. 4to. 143 pp. Soft cover. Good. Photographic paper wraps. Bumps to top and bottom corners. Minor shelf wear. B&W plates throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Inscribed by author Elizabeth Partidge and signed by the photographer. Corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket mildly edgeworn.

Paperback. Condition: Very good +. First Paperback Edition. SIGNED. 143pp. Quarto [28 cm] Black and white photographically illustrated wraps. The wraps show light edge wear. Signed by the photographer, Rondal Partridge, on the half title page.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER VG+ Condition, 1st Edition, 1969, ,1st Printing, Dates match on title & Copyright pg, Illustrated Orange PAPERBACK Wraps with Dressed up Man & Woman, Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. 6 pages of text followed by 38 full-page vintage photographs, mostly depicting building,A brief historical look at early Los Angeles with forty pages of historical descriptive contemporary photograps of early Los Angeles. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 5 books -- Intimate Frontiers : Sex, Gender and Culture in Old California. Hurtado, Albert L. Published by University of New Mexico Press, 1999. 173p. trade paperback, covers lightly bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, fine condition--ISBN 10: 0826319548ISBN 13: 9780826319548--2.50 + In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990. Taylor, Quintard. Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. 415p. Trade paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked + Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Almaguer, Tomas. Published by University of California Press, 1994. 281p. trade paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, very good condition- + Racism In California. A Reader In The History Of Oppression. Daniels, Roger & Olin Jr., Spencer C., Macmillan, N.Y., 1972, 345p, trade pb, covers bumped/scuffed/small tear, CLEAN text, solid binding, top corner cut off front endpaper + NEITHER SEPARATE NOR EQUAL, RACE AND RACISM IN CALIFORNIA, SPECIAL PUB. NO. 52, REPRINTED FROM THE CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY, SEPTEMBER, 1971, eds. Olmsted and Wollenberg, California Hist. Soc., 1971, 117p, xlib w/ usual stamps/markings/librarian abuse, hc no dj, bumped/scuffed boards, some underlining/tanning text, solid binding--10 essays---25.00 for all 5, extra shipping whatever it weighs USPS Media Mail.