PBA Galleries

Includes: McGowan, Edward. McGowan vs. California Vigilantes. 1 of 675. Signed on limitation by Joseph Sullivan. 1946. * Burnett, Peter H. An Old California Pioneer. 1 of 675. Signed on limitation by Joseph Sullivan. Foxed endpapers and edges of page block. 1946. * Ide, Simeon. The Conquest of California: A Biography of William B. Ide. 1 of 500. 1944. * Wheat, Carl I. The Pioneer Press of California. Plain paper jacket. Bookplate. 1 of 450. 1948. * Beattie, George William and Helen Pruitt. Heritage of the Valley: San Bernardino’s First Century. 1 of 1000. 1951. * Sawyer, Eugene T. The Life and Career of Tiburcio Vasquez, the California Stage Robber. 1 of 500. 1944. * Browne, J. Ross. Washoe Revisited. Notes on the Silver Regions of Nevada. 1 of 500. [1957]. * Farnham, Thomas Jefferson. Travels in California with a Map. 1 of 750. 1947. * Hansen, Woodrow James. The Search for Authority in California. 1 of 750. 1960. * Kip. Wm. Ingraham. Early Days of my Episcopate. 1 of 500. 1954. * Robinson, Alfred. Life in California. 1 of 750. 1947. * Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of the Life of Leland Stanford. 1 of 750. 1952. * Colton, Walter. The California Diary. 1 of 1000. 1948. * Gerstaecker, Friedrich. California Gold Mines. 1 of 500. 1946. * Ferguson, Charles D. California Gold Fields. 1 of 750. 1948. * Revere, Joseph Warren. Naval Duty in California. 1 of 1000. 1947. * Thornton, J. Quinn. The California Tragedy. Dust jacket. 1 of 1500. [1945]. * Borthwick, J.D. 3 Years in California. 1 of 1000. 1948. * Delavan, James. Notes on California and the Placers. How to Get There, and What to Do Afterwards. 1 of 700. 1956. * Brown, William S. California Northeast: The Bloody Ground. 1 of 750. 1951. * Giffen, Guy J. California Expedition: Stevenson's Regiment of First New York Volunteers. 1 of 650. 1951. * Lynch, James. With Stevenson to California. 1 of 500. [1954]. * Tyson, James L. Diary of a Physician in California. 1 of 500. 1955. * Figueroa, Jose. The Manifesto to the Mexican Republic. 1 of 750. 1952. * Keyes, E.D. From West Point to California. Limitation not stated. [1950]. * Taylor, Bayard. New Pictures from California. 1 of 600. 1951. * Off for California: The Letters, Log and Sketches of William H. Dougal, Gold Rush Artist. 1 of 600. 1949. * Prentice Mulford’s Story. 1 of 500. 1953. * Giffen, Helen S. Casas & Courtyards: Historic Adobe Houses of California. 1 of 600. 1955. * Kelly, William. A Stroll Through the Diggings of California. 1 of 750. 1950. * Ridpath, John Clark. Beyond the Sierras. A tour of Sixty Days Through the Valleys of California. 1 of 650. [1963]. * Hoskin, Beryl. A History of the Santa Clara Mission Library. 1 of 500. 1961. * A Lady’s Visit to California, 1853. 1 of 500. 1950. * Massett, Stephen C. The First California Troubadour. 1 of 500. 1954. * Mitchell, Augustus. Texas, Oregon and California. 1 of 750. 1948. * Keller, Geo. A Trip Across the Plains and Life in California. 1 of 500. [1955]. * Johnston, Wm. G. Overland to California. 1 of 1000. 1948. * Giles, Rosena A. Shasta County California: A History. 1 of 1000. 1949. * Field, Stephen J. California Alcalde. 1 of 600. 1950. * Root, Riley. Journal of Travels from St. Josephs to Oregon… 1 of 500. 1955. * Carson, James H. Recollections of the California Mines. Yellowed endpapers. 1 of 750. 1950. * Brown, John Henry. Early Days of San Francisco. 1 of 500. 1949. * Sherman, William T. Recollections of California, 1846-1861. 1 of 625. 1945.

All together 43 volumes, each uniquely bound. Two signed by Joseph A. Sullivan who provided indexes and/or forewords for many of the volumes of the Biobooks series printed at fine press publishers in the Bay Area of California, including Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley, as well as Plantin Press in Los Angeles.