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California - Travel:

(mexico) . KNOCKING ABOUT IN MEXICO
Thousand Oaks 1977 1st Cal Oaks Publishing. Octavo, 95pp., wraps. One publisher ink correction in text. VG, light wear. (a68183)
$45.00 (travel brochure) . THE LAND OF LIVING COLOR
San Francisco 1915 Van Noy Interstate Company. Unusually attractive travel promotional brochure advertising California, Oregon and Washington. Sm.4to., 64pp., wraps illustrated with large and sensuous gilt lilies. VG. (a22221)
$23.00 Birney, Hoffman . ROADS TO ROAM
Philadelphia 1930 1st Penn. Travel in American west, Arizona, Utah, California, etc. 8vo., 305pp., monochrome photo illustrations, drawings by Charles Hargens, hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a42762)
$20.00 Chard, Thomas S. . CALIFORNIA SKETCHES
Chicago 1888 1st Author. Chard visited San Francisco and Los Angeles. 12mo., 16pp., yellow snakeskin style papercoved boards with beveled edges. Good, cover somewhat worn, hinges beginning to crack. (a70230)
$49.00 Clark, Susie E. . THE ROUND TRIP FROM THE HUB TO THE GOLDEN GATE
Boston 1890 Lea and Shepard. Octavo, 193pp., bound in later wraps. VG. (a71195)
$25.00 Gorby, John S. and Guy Stevens . MANUSCRIPT LOG/ DIARY OF CRUISE FROM LOS ANGELES ABOARD SS ANTONIO TO MEXICO
January to March 1933. They traveled to Baja California and to San Juan, Mexico for bicycling. 12pp. in both ink and pencil. A bit messy, but can be read if one reads carefully and slowly. Rest of the 47p in the booklet are blank. Sm.4to., cardboard diary with cloth spine. Laid in: 21 page printed pamphlet Log of the Peninsula of Lower California and the Gulf of California, 1930 Good. (a69615)
$90.00 Hall, Ansel F. . YOSEMITE VALLEY AN INTIMATE GUIDE
Berkele 1929 1st National parks Publishing House. 12mo., 80pp., frontis map, original wraps. VG, light wear. (a76719)
$34.00 Haslehurst, James Walcott and M. A. . DAYS FOREVER FLOWN
NY 1892 Privately Printed. Wife of Haslehurst (1856-1891) composed this diary of their travel to California and Yosemite and Alaska before he died at age 35. 8vo., 401pp., photo illustrations, white cloth cover with gilt decoration. VG, very light cover soiling and spotting. Rare. (a45120)
$350.00 Herrick, Elisabeth Webb . CURIOUS CALIFORNIA CUSTOMS - WHAT TO LOOK FOR BESIDES CLIMATE - SAN DIEGO EDITION
Los Angeles 1935 Pacific Carbon. 12mo., 93pp., original printed yellow wraps. VG, some light wear. (a61560)
$19.00 Higgins, C. A. . TO CALIFORNIA AND BACK
Chicago 1897 Passenger Department Santa Fe Route. Small octavo, 175pp., illustrations by J. T. McCutcheon, wraps. Some light pencil lines in margins of about half the pages. Good, spine chipped. (a73556)
$20.00 Higgins, C. A. . TO CALIFORNIA AND BACK A BOOK OF PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR TRAVELLERS TI THE PACIFIC
NY 1903 1st Doubleday Page. Some notes on Southern California by Charles Keeler. Hardcover. Octavo, 317pp., illustrated with drawings and photo, several foldout photo plates, cloth. Good. (a10350)
$24.00 Irvine, Leigh . SANTA CLARA COUNTY CALIFORNIA
n.d. (c.1915). Souvenir brochure. 8vo., 63pp., color and monochrome photo illustrations, original wraps. Good, light wear, light wrinkling. (a58983)
$45.00 Massett, Stephen C. . DRIFTING ABOUT OR WHAT JEEMS PIPES OF PIPESVILLE SAW AND DID , AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
NY 1863 Carleton. Massett travelled over the U.S., to Boston, to San Francisco and elsewhere. Comments on Gold Rush, travels to Panama, South Pacific, Malta, etc. Hardcover. Small octavo, 371pp., small text illustrations by Mullen, green cloth. Faint owner signature on front end paper. VG, a few pages lightly spotted. (a71512)
$45.00 Morris, Mrs. James Edwin . A PACIFIC COAST VACATION
NY 1901 1st Abbey Press. Travel to Alaska and California. Small octavo, 255pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. Good, new endpapers, cover a bit rubbed, cover lettering faded. Scarce. (a69214)
$120.00 Phelan, James D. . TRAVEL AND COMMENT
San Francisco 1923 1st Robertson. Author former U.S. Senator from California. Hardcover. Octavo, 318pp., photo illustrations, cloth. Good, light wear, no DJ. (a7794)
$20.00 Reed, Willoughby H. Ph.G. M.D. . NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS JOURNEYS TO FLORIDA, CALIFORNIA, PANAMA CANAL, ETC. REPRINT OF SERIES OF LETTERS TO THE PRESS
Jeffersonville 1938 Privately Printed. Lg.8vo., 283pp., photo illus. VG, light discoloration inside front and rear boards along top edge, some light erosion along right margin of two front free blanks. (a38537)
$95.00 Saunders, Charles Francis . FINDING THE WORTH WHILE IN CALIFORNIA
New York 1916 1st McBride. Hardcover. 12mo., 229pp., photo illustrations, maps, gilt printed green cloth. Owner blind stamp on end paper. VG plus. (a73599)
$50.00 Sebastian, John . THE GOLDEN STATE CALIFORNIA A GRATUITOUS GUIDE
Chicago 1903 Sebastian. Brochure selling railroad tours of California. Sm.8vo., 79pp., many small photos of California, original illustrated wraps. Good plus, slight water staining on top portion of pages. (a58967)
$35.00 Warner, Charles Dudley . OUR ITALY
NY 1902 (1891). California travel. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 226pp., photo illustrations, index, cloth. VG, light wear. (a32990)
$24.00 White, Ray B. . THE TRAIL OF THE DESERT SUN
Zarephath 1931 1st. Memoir of travel to Arizona and California. 8vo., 208pp., pen sketches by the author, frontis photo illustration of author, whose mother was founder of The Pillar of Fire, some photo illustrations in text, hardcover. VG in chipped and worn DJ. (a31538)
$20.00 Wilkinson, Hugh . SUNNY LANDS AND SEAS A VOYAGE IN THE SS. 'CEYLON' NOTES MADE DURING A FIVE MONTHS' TOUR IN INDIA, THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MANILA, CHINA, JAPAN, THE SANDWICH ISLANDS AND CALIFORNIA
London 1883 1st John Murray. Hardcover. Octavo, 324pp., frontis folding map, illustrations, attratcive blue cloth cover with gilt and black decoration and lettering. Good, new end papers, cover a bit worn. Good solid copy of Scarce book. (a71131)
$390.00 Wood, Ruth Kedzie . TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA
NY 1915 (1914) Dodd Mead. Hardcover. Octavo, 395pp., monochrome photo illustrations, color foldout map, index, boards. Good, a bit worn, spine browned. (a12157)
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