Tokyo: Nihon Kokusai Shinzen Kosei Zaidan, 1963. 384pp., plus twelve halftone plates. Original green cloth, spine gilt lettered; publisher's printed cardboard slipcase. Minor wear to slipcase. Small bump to head of spine. Light tanning. "An autobiography of an Issei nursery operator in Gardena [California] with essays on American life, money-making..... More

Fresno: 1930. [12],572pp. plus thirty-four plates. In Armenian. Original green publisher's cloth, gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed, spine ends lightly worn. Contents clean. First and only edition. A rare illustrated and comprehensive work surveying both the history of Armenian political life in the United States and the formation of the Armenian-American..... More

Grass Valley, Ca. September 17, 1855. [4]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines, minor wear. An intimate letter from a gold seeker in Nevada County, California. Theodore Shaw writes to his wife about mixed luck in California, a terrible fire, his concern for their children, and his great..... More

San Francisco: August 29, 1850. [3]pp., on a folded folio sheet. Old folds, some light wear and soiling. Letter from a disillusioned painter living in San Francisco to his family back home in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Currently in San Francisco proper, Allen finds the town quite disagreeable, with fog and..... More

Live Oak City, Ca. January 27, 1855. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded, with manuscript docketing on lower half of second leaf verso. Minor wear along old folds, with a couple of short separations. Minor soiling and dampstaining, somewhat heavier to addressed area. A detailed, mid-1850s California Gold Rush letter..... More

London: May 19, 1855. [2]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light wear along top edge; short closed tear at right margin. Scattered faint foxing. With original mailing envelope. This two-page printed circular, dated May 19th, 1855, from the Anglo-California Gold Mining Company in London, offers to convert "unissued shares" of..... More

San Francisco: October 4, 1852. [2]pp., with integral address leaf. Old folds, mild staining and soiling, three-inch closed tear to address leaf. An interesting letter documenting the family side of the California Gold Rush, in which a San Francisco man writes to his brother, offering to send his wife and..... More

[Paris]: Typ. Schneider, Rue d'Erfurth, 1, [1849]. Broadside, approximately 18 x 13 inches. Matted and framed. A pair of short closed tears, repaired, at lower edge. Even toning and light creasing. Contemporary manuscript annotation under caption title. A wonderful, illustrated faux news broadside published in Paris as gold fever coursed..... More

Los Angeles: Platt Poster Co., [ca. 1970]. Poster, 22 x 34.5 inches. Minor wear. A classic depiction of Chicano pride and solidarity from the peak of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles. The present poster is printed in the tri-color stripes of the Mexican flag, with green, white, and red..... More

Hanford, Ca. Hanford Morning Journal, 1909. Folding map, approximately 25.5 x 22 inches. Original printed card wrappers. A couple internal tears and separations along fold lines, repaired with tape on blank verso, with resultant minor losses, slightly affecting printed areas. Otherwise unrecorded, early 20th-century plat map of Kings County, California..... More

Corning, Ca. [1937]. Map, 13 x 14 inches. Text on verso. Old folds, minor wear. Later edition of this promotional map for the Maywood Colony near Corning, California. In the 1890s, real estate entrepreneur Warren N. Woodson purchased the land that would become the Maywood Colony, which he plotted out..... More

San Francisco: [1968]. Broadside, 17 x 11 inches. On blue card stock, printed in red. Small pinholes at top edge from mounting. Minor wear. Poster promoting a protest on April 27gth in San Francisco. According to contemporary newspaper accounts, over 2,000 demonstrators turned out for the March from Golden Gate..... More

[N.p., but likely in or near San Mateo, Ca. ca. 1950s]. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 52.25 inches. Moderate scuffing, soiling, some small creases, a few short closed tears, one repaired on verso, pinholes at corners and along edges. A wider-than-usual panoramic photograph capturing for posterity many of the commercial enterprises..... More