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Your search for Western Americana has returned 998 results. 48th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Report No. 1112; Charges Against H. V. Boynton, April 1, 1884 -- Laid Over and Ordered to be Printed...  Government Printing Office. Washington..  Self wrappers. Congressional hearing concerning the McCarrahan claim.   AMERICAN WEST, CALIFORNIA, POLITICAL HISTORY  (Book ID 1063)  $65.00 Bonanza Banquets; Menu, James W. Carlin, USN; Menu, Palace Hotel, San Francisco; Menu for Hon. Anson Burlingame; Menu, Medical Benevolent Society; Menu, Journalistic and Typographical Banquet; Menu, St. Francis Hotel; (continued)  The Book Club of California. 1950. San Francisco..  Light blue cloth slip case; leather lables on spine for title and bookclub. 12 parts, complete. 850 copies printed by Anderson,Ritchie & Simon. Title continued: Menu for President Benj. Harrison; Menu, California Knights Templar; Menu, Pacific Mail Steamship "Tennessee"; Menu, Palace of Art, San Francisco; Menu, Midway Plaisance Cafe and Vaudeville Theatre; Menu and Music Program for Blanco's.   HOTEL BANQUET PRIVATE CLUB MENUS. West  (Book ID 1705)  $60.00 "All Among the Roses, or, Sweet Camilla May."  Bell & Company.  San Francisco, California.  California song sheet (3 3/4 x 9 inch) published circa.1865. Printed on one side with scroll borders. Clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  California Song Sheets  (Book ID 10361)  $20.00 "California, the Land of Dreams" A Pageant  California Federation of Women's Clubs.  1921.  47 pages; portraits; bound in brown paper wrapper (6 x 9 inch) with blue title on the cover. The pageant has six episodes, 2 symboic and 4 historical based on Atherton's HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA. title - "Twentieth Annual Convention ... Yosemite National Park ... "   Condition: Very Good.  California Historical Pageants. DK-27  (Book ID 10298)  $12.50 "The Flashers" Souvenir from Death Valley National Monument + Death Valley, Calif.  "Flashers", Inc..  Pomona, Calif.  circa.1930. 11 scenic views. Set of b/w photographs (3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch) with cpation written at the bottom of the photographs relating to Death Valley, Sand Dunes, 20 Mule Team Borax Wagons, Golden Canyon, Furnace Creek Inn, 'Death Valley Scotty', among the images. All inside a light blue paper wrapper case with the title on the cover in very good clean condition.   Condition: Very Good.  Death Valley Monument, California. DK-51  (Book ID 11014)  $25.00 "The Little Bear Knows" Yellowstone Nat'l Park Wyoming.  Royal Roads Travel Service.  Billings, Montana.  circa.1930. Set of 18 numbered b/w photographs (2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch) with numbered caption titles sheet within a silver colored folding holding case. Title on the cover. Series of photographs of the park features and Teton Mountains. Shows water falls, Old Faithful Geyser, Punch Bowl, various hot spings, Tetons reflected in lakes. Very good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  National Parks, Yellowstone National Park. DK-51  (Book ID 11011)  $25.00 "The Love Story of the Ages" Visit Ramona's Marriage Place. The Most Beautiful and Romantic Spot in California. Old Town - San Diego. Where California Begins.  Ramona's Marriage Place..  San Diego, California.  Folded flyer/leaflet (3 1/2 x 6 1/4 inch) with title and illustration on the cover. Printed on both sides with several illustrations and map on the back page. Advertisement for 'Ramona's Marriage Place' to promote the Estudillo House and its Museum and Chapel room. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  San Diego, Ramona, California Legends. DK-107  (Book ID 12216)  $15.00 "Today's News"  Juneau, Alaska.  One sheet (8 1/2 x 15 inch). Mimeographed typewritten sheet printed on both sides, folded into thirds. Headline of "Today's News". circa.1920, Juneau, Alaska. Unknown author or union. The author rails against local officials in Juneau for their treatment of arrested labor protestors. Mentioned for special criticisim are Judge Wm. Holtzheimer (1883-1974) for swearing out warrants against only union rioters, and Herbert Faulkner (1870-1948) city attorney and company lobbyist. Wonderful strident union language used in composing the newsletter while mentioning the bible, 4th of July, and justice. Unusual piece of labor adjatation in early Alaska.   Condition: Very Good.  Labor Newspaper, Alaskan Labor.  (Book ID 10694)  $25.00 1830: On the Ambitious Projects of Russia in Regard to Northwest America, with Particular Reference to New Albion & New California, By an Englishman  The Book Club of California.  (San Francisco).  1955.  Boards. One of 350 copies finely printed in red and black by The Allen Press. A reprint of the only known copy, which is owned by the Bancroft Library at UC-Berkeley. Introduction by George Hammond. Original prospectus laid in. 79 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Fort Ross. Fur Trade. Fine Press and Printing. L-D Allen Press  (Book ID 8052)  $175.00 1914 Every Day Alamanac and Home Helps.  Shute Savings Bank.  Hillsboro, Oregon.  1914.  First Edition.  [48] pages; tables; stiff yellow paper wrapper with title on the cover, punch hole for twine holder (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch). Issued by the local bank in Hollsboro, Oregon containing astronomical tables, banking hints, Calendar for 1914, bits of knowledge, tide tables, farming & gardening information, population statistics, postal information, and treatment for emergencies.   Condition: Very Good.  Oregon Banks, Almanacs, 1914. DK-79  (Book ID 11631)  $20.00 1929 Year Book Issued By the Port of Seattle, a Municipal Corporation; with Which is Combined Port Warden's Annual 1928 Report, City of Seattle Harbor Department. Statistic and Data, Year 1928,  Port of Seattle Commission.  Seattle, Washington.  1929.  First Edition.  Cover title - 'Port of Seattle, Year Book 1929'. 103 pages; illustrations, tables, maps; paper wrapper (7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inch) color illustrated. Wonderful series of bird's eye full page photos of the port facilities and downtown Seattle (40 pages) combined with the port authority report for 1928. Seattle is the closet American port to the Orient and one of the three great harbors on the west coast of North America. Excellent statisical breakdown and cross section of the Seattle economy before the Great Depression. Evidence of a small fold to the cover on the bottom, else fine.   Condition: Fine.  Seattle, Washington, Seaport. DK-85  (Book ID 11797)  $37.50 '30th Annual Strawberry Day' Introduction ... Twenty-Nine Years Have Come and Gone Since the Inception For the First Strawberry Day in 1898. ...  Glenwood Springs, Colorado.  1927.  Small brochure (3 3/8 x 5 3/8 inch) with brief introduction on the cover. [24] pages with paper wrapper. Program for the event printed in the middle of each page with local ads at the top and bottom. Included within the program for the events are a rodeo, flying planes, bands, dances, and swimming in the world's largest pool. Free strawberries and ice cream for everyone. Among the ads are - Owl Cafe, Central Grocery Co., Heberling's Cafe, Glenwood Creamery, Hubbard's Grocery and Market, Rittmayer Hardware Company, Parkinson Drug Co, J.C. Penny Company, Glen Adam's Buffet and Sandwich Shoppe, Cross' Taxidermy Store, Orpheum Theatre, Mangnall's Billiard Parlor, Blossom Motor Co., and Mountain Ginger Ale. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Strawberries, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. DK-97  (Book ID 12082)  $15.00 36th Instalation.  Oriental Lodge No. 144 F. & A. Masons..  San Francisco, California.  1895.  Flyer folded for the annual installation of the officers. December 23, 1895 at St. John's Hall in San Francisco.   Condition: Good.  FREEMASONS. DK-40  (Book ID 10711)  $15.00 47th Annual Report of the Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society of the Port of San Francisco, Cal., For the Year Ending July 31st, 1903  Geo. Spaulding & Co..  San Francisco.  1903.  Illustrated Wrappers.  Two pamphlets for $25.00 Pamphlet (1) above: List of Officers and Managers of the Society, Prospectus (brief history of the founding of the Society in 1852); reports of the Secretary, Superintendent, Treasurer, Constitution and By-laws, and a list of seaport towns around the world with established sailor's homes. Damp stains to edge of title page to page 4 and pages 21-22 and rear end paper. Pamphlet (2): 48th Annual Report of the Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society of the Port of San Francisco, Cal. For the Year Ending July 31st, 1904; Published by The Salvation Army Press, San Francisco, 1904, Illustrated Wrappers, List of Officers and Managers, Form of Bequest, Prospectus (brief history of the Society), Reports of the Secretary, Superintendent and Librarian, Constitution and By-laws, Member lists, list of seaport towns around the world with established sailor's homes.   Charitable Organization. Sailor's Hotel. Seafarers. Mariners. Accommodations.  (Book ID 3961)  $25.00 A Biographical Sketch of Andrew Smith Hallidie.  James T. White & Company..  New York, New York.  1897.  "Reprinted from The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography." [4] pages; portrait; paper wrapper (5 3/8 x 6 3/4 inch) with title on the cover. Upper right coner has a missing piece (2 x 1 1/2 inch triangle). Hallidie was an inventor and engineer for bridges and inventor of the cable car design in San Francisco. He was also involved in the Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco (President from 1868-78). Very good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  San Francisco, Cable Cars, mechanics' Insitute. DK-89  (Book ID 11894)  $15.00 A Camera in the Gold Rush: A Series of Photographs of Pacific Coast Towns, Camps and Mining Operations of Pioneer Days; Mare Island Navy Yard, Sacramento Flood, Coloma, Forest Hill, Mining on the American River (con't.)  The Book Club of California. 1946. San Francisco..  Quarter leather slip case. Twelve parts, complete. 950 copies printed. Title continued: Riverside Camp (Maine Bar), Freighting Over the Sierra, Swan's Station, Silver City, Grand Canyon - Gateway to the Comstock, Virginia City, and Nevada Fall - Yos emite.   PHOTOGRAPHY. EARLY CALIFORNIA PHOTOGRAPHS. SIERRA MINING. West  (Book ID 1701)  $200.00 A Facsimile Edition of California's First Book, Reglamento Provicional Printed at Monterey in 1834 by Agustin V. Zamorano Translation by Ramon Ruiz & Theresa Vigil; a Note on the Printing, George L. Harding an Historical Note, George P. Hammond.  The Book Club of California. San Francisco. 1954..  Cloth. Limited edition of 400 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy.   AMERICAN WEST, CALIFORNIA, MEXICO, PRINTING, ZAMORANO  (Book ID 1148)  $47.50 A Large Slice of California in New York.  Cranium Press.  San Francisco, Cal.,.  1974.  A Keepsake for the Roxburgh-Zamorano Joint Meeting, 1974. A 14 x 20 inch sheet folded in quarters with title, commentary, photo illustration, and colophon, inclosed in an envelope with the title 'A Large Slice of California' on the front.   Condition: Fine.  Fine Press, Book Collecting, Redwoods, Sierra Nevada. DK-13  (Book ID 9645)  $17.50 A Portfolio of Book Club Printers 1912-1962  The Book Club of California.  San Francisco.  1962.  First Edition.  Twelve parts, complete. Housed in a publisher's blue cloth slip case. Both fine condition. The 12 parts, in honor of the California fine printers associated with the club's first 50 years, are: 1. A Portfolio of Book Club Printer 1912-1962. Foreword by Oscar Lewis. Printed by Arlen Phillipot, The Tamal Land Press. 2. The Club's First Printers. Comment by Tyrus G. Harmsen. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom. 3. The Plantin Press. Comment by Saul Marks. Printed by the Plantin Press. 4. Lawton Kennedy, Printer. Comment by David Magee. Printed by Lawton Kennedy. 5. Adrian Wilson. Comment by Adrian Wilson. Printed by Adrian Wilson. 6. Johnck & Seeger and the Black Vine Press. Comment by Albert Sperison. Printed by Johnck & Seeger. 7. The Windsor Press. Comment by James Sidney Johnson. Printed by Lawton Kennedy. 8. Mallette Dean. Comment by Mallette Dean. Printed by Mallette Dean. 9. The Ward Ritchie Press. Comment by Ward Ritchie. Printed by War Ritchie. 10. The Greenwood Press. Comment by Jack Werner Stauffacher. Printed by Jack Werner Stauffacher at the New Laboratory Press, Pittsburgh, PA. 11. The L-D Allen Press: The Allen Press. Comment by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. Printed by The Allen Press. 12. The Grabhorn Press. A List of Books Printed at the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, compiled by Robert Grabhorn. Printed by the Grabhorn Press. Each part if four pages. 1000 copies printed.   Condition: Fine.  Fine Press and Printing. Limited Editions. Typographic Design  (Book ID 7889)  $47.50 A Portfolio of Book Club Printers 1962-1987  The Book Club of California. 1987. San Francisco..  Quarter leather slip case. Commemorating its 75th anniversary, the Book Club of California requested printers display their best work, represented within these 12 folders. Some of the printers are: Lewis & Dorothy Allen; Harold Berliner; Jonathan Cl ark; Sherwood Grover; Andrew Hoyem; Arlen Philpott; Patrick Reagh; Ward Ritchie; Adrian Wilson and others.   PRINTERS. CALIFORNIA PRESSES. GRAPHIC ARTS. West  (Book ID 1734)  $47.50 Address of Joseph N. Teal, Chairman of the Day; The Dalles-Celilo Canal Celebration, Big Eddy, Oregon, May 5, 1915  (No Publisher). (Circa 1915). (No City)..  Wrappers.   OREGON WASHINGTON HISTORY. AMERICAN CANALS. West  (Book ID 2124)  $15.00 Album of Colorado Views.  Chain & Hardy.  Denver, Colorado.  1879.  30 ambrotypes; green cloth with gilt lettering (5 x 3 1/2 inch). Ambrotypes printed on one side of the folding pages. Images of Manitou & Pike's Peak; Rainbow Falls in Summer and Winter; Ute Pass with burro pack train, indian supply train; Garden of the Gods (eight); Pike's Peak & Summit of Pike's Peak; Seven Falls in Cheyenne Canon; Royal Gorge of Arkansas Canyon (two); Dump Mountain along the Denver & Rio Grande Railway and Mule Shoe Curve; the high Rockies (four); a miner sluice mining; Mineral Springs in Manitou; Williams Canon; and Trail in the San Juan Mts. Issued three years after statehood for Colorado. A interesting visual image of Colorado in very good condition, Folds internally strengthened with archival documents repair tape.   Condition: Very Good.  Colorado, Photographs, Western Americana. DK-107  (Book ID 12229)  $37.50 Amendments to Constitution and Proposed Statutes with Arguments Respecting the Same. To be Submitted to the Electors of the State of California at the General Eletion on Tuesday, November 5, 1918.  Department of the State Printing.  Sacramento, California.  1918.  63 pages; stapled paper wrapper with title on the cover. Some chipping along the edges. Submiting twenty-five measures to be decided by the electors of the state of California in the 1918 general election.   Condition: Good.  California Government. DK-41  (Book ID 10738)  $15.00 An Invitation to Visit the Land of Promise. St. Maries, Benewah County, Idaho  1940.  Flyer (12 x 17 inch) printed on both sides which folds into (4 x 8 1/2 inch) with photos and captions. A promotional flyer for St. Maries and the surrounding area in Idaho - Beauties Unsurpassed, Easy of Access, Sport in Variety, Matchless Climate. Figure map with illustrations, showing hunters and fishermen, for the region between Plummer and Avery. Very good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Idaho, Pacific Northwest, St. Maries, Idaho. DK-104  (Book ID 12178)  $15.00 An Ordinance Granting to the Western Pacific Railway Company, a Corporation, Its Successors in Interest and Ssigns, the Right, Privilege, Permission and Franchise for the Term of Fiftly Years, to Construct, Lay Down, Maintain and Operate, in the (cont) ..  Board of Trustees of the City of Sacramento.  Sacramento, California.  1907.  title cont. ... "City of Sacramento, a Railroad of Standard Gauge, Operated by Steam or Other Lawful Motive Power, along and over a certain Route and across an over certain streets, alleys and public places." [4] pages. The Ordinance that granted Western Pacific Railway a right of way through Sacramento to create a railyard in the then southern part of Sacramento. Evidence of folding and small tears along the edges.   Condition: Good.  Right-Of-Way to Railroads Granted By Governments. DK-29  (Book ID 10377)  $25.00 Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society. Subsidiary High Court of the Pacific Coast. Second Quarterly Report of the Seventh Executive Council.  Ancient Oreder of Foresters.  San Francisco, California.  1896.  18 pages; tables; light blue paper wrapper (5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inch). Dealing with the financial setup of the West Coast chapters (courts).   Condition: Very Good.  Fraternal Orders. DK-40  (Book ID 10710)  $15.00 Ancient Order of Foresters. Friendly Society Subsidiary High Court of the Pacific Coast. Second Quarterly Report of the Sixth Executive Counl, San Francisco, Ca. Quarterly Report of the Supreme Grand Council of California, Companions of the Forest.  Ancient Order of Foresters.  San Francisco, California.  1895.  34 pages; tables; faded gray-green paper wrappers. General account of fund raising and the balance on the books after expenses.   Condition: Good.  Fraternal Societies. DK-40  (Book ID 10708)  $15.00 Annual Report of Great Northern Railway Company to the Interstate Commerce Commission for the Year Ended December 31, 1925  Privately Published. 1925. St. Paul, Minnesota..  Cloth backed boards. Report lists names of Directors and Officers; Voting Powers and Elections; Guarantees and Suretyships; figures showing Comparative General Balance Sheet, Asset Side and Liability Side; Investment in Road and Equipment; lists of Miscellaneous Physical Property; Equipment Obligations; Income, Expense and Profit and Loss sheets; Employees, Service, and Compensation; Consumption of Fuel by Locomotives; etc.   RAILROADS. LOCOMOTIVES. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. EXPLORATIONS. West  (Book ID 2694)  $50.00 Annual Report of the Officers of the Society of California Pioneers.  Sterett Printing Co..  San Francisco, California..  1899.  21 pages; purple wrapper with title on the cover. Some missing, tear (1 1/2 inch) on the cover, chips missing and discoloration to the edges. Includes annual financial and administrative information for 1899.   Condition: Very Good.  California Pioneers Annual Report. DK-24  (Book ID 10203)  $15.00 Articles of Incorporation. The Oregon Trail Memoiral Assoication, Inc.  Oregon Trail Memoiral Assoication, Inc..  New York, New York.  small flyer (3 1/2 x 6 inch) printed on both sides and folded. Listing of its name, articles, and directors. Membership form layed in (blank). Unusual association item of the Oregon Trail in fine condiiton. Among the directiors areEzra Meeker, Guthrie Y. Barber and Charles H. Davis.   Condition: Fine.  Oregon Trail, Overland Immigration. DK-107  (Book ID 12215)  $15.00 As to Refunding the Central Pacific Debt (cover title)  None.  None.  Wrappers.  1875 - 1878. 10-page pamphlet. The leading paragraph notes: "In corroboration of the statements in the California memorial against refunding the Central Pacific debt, reference is made to the following extracts from Mr. Huntington's letters to Colton during the three years between May, 1875, and January 1878. The number, date and page of the printed transcript on appeal are prefixed to each". Section headings: "I. Competing Transportation Lines the Policy of Congress. The Contrary Mr. Huntington's Policy -- Which Shall Prevail?" "II. As to the Fraudulent Building of the Southern Pacific Road with the Means and Credit of the Central". "III. Mr. Huntington's Ideas as to the Proper Mode of Influencing the Opinion of Gentlemen in Public Life, Officers of the Army, Members of Congress, Executive Officers, etc".   Railroads. Railroad Lines. Government. Legislation. Congress. Politicians.  (Book ID 4087)  $15.00 Bardell Fototone Miniatures. Los Angeles, California.  Bardell Fototone Miniatures.  circa.1915. Complete set of twenty photographs (3 3/8 x 2 1/8 inch) with caption title written across the bottoms. Selected views of parts of Los Angeles and the surrounding cities, mountains to ocean. parks and downtown. In a paper folding slipcase with oval opening on the cover and title on one side. Complete set.   Condition: Very Good.  Los Angeles, Photographs. DK-51  (Book ID 11012)  $25.00 Bardell Miniatures, 15 Views, Portland, Oregon.  J.C. Bardell.  San Francisco, California.  1925.  Complete set of photographs (3 1/2 x 2 5/8 inch) b/w with folded mailing case and opening on the cover with title of the series. Views of downtown Portland and major stuctures, ie Union Station, Post Office, Interstate Bridge (across the Columbia River), along with a bird's eye view with Mt Hood in the background. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Portland, Oregon, Photographs. DK-51  (Book ID 11015)  $25.00 Big Trees - Yosemite. Mariposa Grove, Sequoia National Park, General Grant National Park, and the High Sierra.  Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co.  circa.1926. Brochure (8 x 9 inch) [16] pages; illustrations, maps; illustrated paper wrapper. Folded verticaly in half. Views of the various attractions and accomidations of the High Sierras with text. Issued by the Santa Fe Railway for tourists. Some wear along the fold lines and light soiling at the bottom.   Condition: Very Good.  Yosemite National Park, Big Trees, High Sierra. Promotional Material. DK-49  (Book ID 10948)  $25.00 Big Trees Lodge in the Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park.  Yosemite Park and Curry Co..  1934.  fold out sheet (13 3/4 x 6 1/4 inch) folded into fourths, printed with photos on both sides. Advertisement for the 'Big Trees Lodge' and the big Sequoias that surround the lodge in the park. Contains information on the trees and rates at the lodge - $2.50 daily, $3.50 with bath.   Condition: Very Good.  Yosemite National Park, Mariposa Grove, National Parks. Promotional Material. DK-49  (Book ID 10945)  $20.00 Blue and Gold, University of California. '95  University of California.  Berkeley, California.  1894.  [4], 273, 39 pages (ads in front and back); illustrations; bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt title on front cover. Geo. L. Jones, class of '95, copy from his junior year (pencil signed inside front cover). He later became a judge in Nevada City, California.   Condition: Very Good.  University, Yearbook, Berkeley, California. DK-16  (Book ID 9777)  $37.50 Breadbasket of the World; California's Great Wheat-Growing Era, 1860-1890  The Book Club of California. 1984. San Francisco..  Cloth slip case with leather label. 10 parts, complete. An Introduction folder with Table of Contents. Additional folders, with photos, describe the growing of wheat in California, by Dr. Glenn, the "Wheat King", to the planting. harvesting, and the trans po rtation of wheat by wagon, barge, steamship; Isaac Friedlander, Wheat Merchant; and the Frank Norris novel about wheat, "The Octopus".   HISTORY. EARLY AGRICULTURE. CALIFORNIA WHEAT. West  (Book ID 1731)  $37.50 Broadside. "San Francisco Election Finger Post. Tuesday, Sixth Day of Novermber, 1888"  J.D. Robertson, Publisher.  San Francisco, California.  1888.  Large broadside (16 1/4 x 23 inch) printed on one side, 5 columns. Three columns down the center describing District and Precinct Boundaries & Polling Places - Open from 6 A.M. to 7 P.M. The two columns along the sides are canidates for various offices in San Francisco. They are as follows: For Mayor - E.B. Pond (Incumbent & Winner), Democratic Nominee; Dr. C.C. O'Donnell, Independent; Charles R. Story, Republican; For Treasurer - Christian Reiss, Democrat; For Sheriff - James R. Kelly, Democrat; For State Senator, 19th Senatorial District - David McClure, Republican; For Superintendent of Streets - Thoms Ashworth; For District Attorney - Jas. D. Page; For Justice of the Peace - Jas. I. Boland; For Assemblyman, 34th District - J.F. Gawthorne; For Public Administrator - James C. Pennie; For Supervisor, 12th Ward - patrick Noble; For Corner - Wm. E. Taylor; Superindendent of Streets - Irving Graham; For Assembleyman, 34th District - E.J. Reynolds; For City and County Surveyor - S. Harrison Smith; For Supervisor, 1st Ward - Harry Bingham; For Sheriff - C.S. Laumeister; For Auditor - Fleet F. Strother; For Tax Collector - Joseph Spanier; For Supervisor, 6th Ward - L.R. Ellert; For Supervisor, 1st Ward - Henry Evans; For Supervisor, 5th Ward - John T. Cutting; For Supervisor, 4th Ward - Dr. Jos. Pescia; For ustice of Peace - H.L. Joachimsen; For Supervisor, 7th Ward - Peter Wheelan; For Public Administrator - George T. Bromley; For Sixth Ward - Albert F. Nye; For 43rd Assembly District - L.L. Ewing; For 21st Senatorial District - J.J. Sullivan; For 4th Congressional District - Robert Ferral; For Supervisor, 2nd Ward - James M. McDonald. Slight chipping along the top, otherwise a very good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  San Francisco, Elections, Government. DK-69  (Book ID 11383)  $50.00 Butterfield Express; Historical Newspaper of the Southwest... San Diego County Where California Began  Frontier Publishing Company. 1962. San Diego..  Imitation leather boards. Vol. I, No. 1 October 1962 thru Vol. 5, No. 12 December 1967. 60 issues. Newspaper articles and pictures from the old West along with old fashioned looking advertising.   HISTORY. SAN DIEGO. West  (Book ID 1285)  $175.00 By Order of the Grand Encampment. Proceedings of the Grand Encampment, I.O.O.F., Of Washington.  Union Steam Book and Job Printing.  Walla Walla, Washington Territory.  1884.  Two leather bound volumes, leather labels with raised bands. Volume one: Hinges strong. Volume two: Front hinge cracked but holding. Minor wear at extremities of both volumes. All published in the state of Washington, different publishers noted below. Volume I: Proceedings of the First Annual Session of the Grand Encampment (1884) with errata slip [Walla Walla, WT: Union Steam Book and Job Printing Est]; Proceedings of the Second Annual Session of the Grand Encampment (1885) portrait of N.S. Porter [Walla Walla: Journal Steam Book and Job Printing]; Proceedings of the Third Annual Session (1886) portrait of H.E. Holmes [Walla Walla: Statesman Steam Book and Job Office]; Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Session (1887) portrait of J.V. Meeker [Walla Walla: Statesman Steam Book and Job Printing]; Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Session (1888) portrait of W.W. Evans [Walla Walla: Printed at "Statesman" Steam Printing House]; Proceedings of the Sixth annual Session (1889) portrait of W.G. Alban [Walla Walla: Statesman Steam Print]; Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Session (1890) portrait of J.M. Swan [Walla Walla: Statesman Book Printing House]; Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Session (1891) portrait of B.F. Young [Walla Walla: Statesman Steam Printing House]; Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Session (1992) portrait of Alex Mackay [Walla Walla: Statesman Steam Printing House]; Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Session (1893) portrait of G.D. Neville [Walla Walla: Statesman Printing House]; Proceedings of the Eleventh annual Session (1894) portrait of A.F. Hoska [Walla Walla: Statesman Publishing House]; Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Session (1895) portrait of J.M. Taylor, Le F.A. Shaw, Geo W. Hall [Tacoma: F.T. Houghton & Co., Printers]; Constitution, General Law and Rules of Order ... Adopted May 11, 1885. Volume II: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Session (1896) portrait of Smith F. Henderson [Walla Walla: Statesman Publishing House]; Proceedings of the Foutheenth Annual Session (1897) portrait of Adelbert U. Mills [Walla Walla: Statesman Publishing House]; Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Session (1898) portrait of Zell M. Beebe [Walla Walla: Statesman Printing House]; Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Session (1899) portrait of Louis F. Hart [Spokane: Winship Quick Print]; Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Session (1900): portrait of Frank P. Robinson [Spokane: Winship & Green]; Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Session (1901) portrait of William H. Pearson [Spokane: De Graff & Green]; Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Session (1902) portrait of Edwin S. Isaacs, and G. W. Stocker [Spokane: Green & Hughes]; Proceedings of the Twentieth annual Session (1903) portrait of Henry W. Lueders (twice) [Spokane: Green & Hughes]; Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Session (1904) portrait of Charles B. Hathaway, Louis F. Hart, John B. Krienbuhl, G.W. Stocker, John B. Goodwin, and H.B. Madison [Tacoma: Pioneer Bindery & Printer]; Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Session (1905) portrait of H.B. Madison [Pioneer Bindery & Printing Co.]   Condition: Very Good.  Washington, Odd Fellows, I.O.O.F. DK-105  (Book ID 12195)  $375.00 Bye-laws of Washington Lodge, No. 20 F. & A. M. List of Officers from the Foundation of Thge Lodge to January, 1916 Inclusive. List of Members and the Funeral Service as Arranged By the Grand Lodge of California October, 1911.  Sacramento, California.  1916.  40 pages; bound in dark blue stiff paper wrapper with gilt title on the cover (4 1/2 x 6 inch). Contains a brief history of the lodge, past officers and present members.   Condition: Very Good.  Freemasons, Masonic Lodge. DK-44  (Book ID 10848)  $15.00 Cabinet Sized Photograph. "No.644 Gkemin De Fer Risi Arth."  F. Charnaux.  Geneve, Switzerland.  1878.  Cabinet photograph on board (4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inch) with title across the bottom, photograher printed name on the backside. Image of the steam engine pushing a passenger car acorss a steel bridge on a cog railway in Switzerland with a waterfall behind it. Very good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Lucerne, Switzerland, Railways, Photography. DK-99  (Book ID 12126)  $25.00 Calendar, 1927 for Arnold Bros., Inc., Sacramento, California  Privately Printed.  1927.  Small calendar (5 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch); blue with pasted snow and cabin illustration, titled "A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year", a full set of months tied to the card stock (2 x 1 1/2 inch). Advertisement give-away for the Arnold Bros, Inc. of Sacramento, California.   Condition: Very Good.  Calendars. DK-44  (Book ID 10841)  $15.00 Calendar. Uzzell's Vulcanizing Works  Hanford, California.  1919.  "Compliments of Uzzell's Vulcanizing Workds. Elmer Uzzell, Prop. 'No Tires Too Bad for Us to Fix' Casting Work a Specialty. Hanford, Cal." (^ 3/4 x 8 3/4 inch) Calendar with hand painted 'Silver Moonlight' illustration with four butterflies fluttering about the image, calendar (2 3/4 x 1 1/2 inch) below with all months still attached for the year 1919. No marks or soiling.   Condition: Very Good.  Business Calendars. DK-26  (Book ID 10275)  $25.00 California Newspaper Directory and Rate Book; 1948 Directory; 60th Anniversary (cover title)  California Newspaper Publishers Association.  No City.  1948.  Illustrated Wrappers.  70-page magazine style Directory. Tabbed sections include: Index of California Newspapers; Daily Newspaper Rates; Weekly Newspaper Rates and Newspapers by Counties. Includes advertising.   The Press. Reporters. News Gatherer. Newsprint.  (Book ID 4253)  $12.50 California on Canvas: A Portfolio of Paintings of Early California Scenes by Contemporary Artists; Number One, Custom House Monterey; Number Two, River Bridge Sacramento; Number Three, Steamer Cornelia, (title continued)  The Book Club of California. 1941. San Francisco..  Quarter leather slip case. Eight parts, complete, (Nos. 9-12 not issued). 600 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Title continued: Number Four, Telegraph Hill San Francisco; Number Five, Yerba Buena; Number Six, High Flume Tunnel Hill; Number Seve n, San Diego Mission; Number Eight, Sutter's Fort.   ARTISTS. EARLY SCENES. CALIFORNIA HISTORY. West  (Book ID 1699)  $50.00 California Sheet Music Covers  The Book Club of California. 1959. San Francisco..  Quarter leather slip case. 12 parts, complete. 950 copies printed. 12 folders with reproductions of early California sheet music covers and a brief history: The California Pioneers; Pull Away Cheerily!, The Gold Digger's Song; The Wines of Los A nge les County; The San Francisco Quadrilles; I Do Not Want To Be Drowned; California Flood Mazurka; etc.   HISTORY. EARLY CALIFORNIA PIONEER MUSIC. GOLD RUSH SONGS. West  (Book ID 1713)  $45.00 California's Water and Power Act. Proposed Constitutional Amendment. State Credit for Local Development. Water, Power and Light at Cost. Personel of the State Campaign Committee.  State Campaign Committee for California's Water and Power Act..  San Francisco, Cal.,.  1922.  [8] pages pamphlet issued March 1, 1922. "Will make State credit available for localized development of water and power ... at cost." Nice clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  California, Constitutional Admendment, Water, Power.  (Book ID 8905)  $15.00 California's Water and Power Act. Proposed Constitutional Amendment. State Credit for Local Development. Water, Power and Light at Cost. Personnel of the Officers and Advisory Board of the State Campaign Committee.  State Campaign Committee for California's Water and Power Act..  San Francisco, Cal.,.  1922.  [8] pages pamphlet listing the Officers and Advisory Board members for the campaign . Issued April 1, 1922. "An Initiative Measure to make State credit available for community development and sale of water and power at Cost". Among the officers were Rudolph Spreckels, Wm. Mulholland, C.M. Goethe, and others. Nice clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  California, Constitutional Admendment, Water, Power  (Book ID 8904)  $15.00 Captain Robert Gray, 1792-1911. Monument to Discoverer.  Robert Gray Chapter, Daughters of the American Republic.  NP.  1911.  15 pages; illustrations; brown paper wrapper (6 1/2 x 10 inch) with title on the cover. Brief history of Robert Gray, discoverer of the mouth of the Columbia River along with extracts from Kendall's jounral. A history of the area of Chehalis County in Washington before the Civil War is added to the pamphlet. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Robert Gray, Chehalis County, Washington, Daughters of the American Republic. DK-111  (Book ID 12312)  $25.00 Go to page: 1 2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20

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