Comprises: Nordhoff. Peninsular California. NY: 1888. * Newmark. Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913. NY: 1916. * McGroarty. Los Angeles from the Mountains to the Sea. 3 vols. 1921. * Wheat, Intro. California in 1851: The Letters of Dame Shirley. 2 vols. Publisher’s printed slip, laid in. Bookplate of Doris Meerdink. 1 of 500 copies. (Kurutz 133b). Grabhorn, 1933. * Lewis. California in 1846. Dj. 1 of 550 copies. Grabhorn, 1934. * Goodman III. Personal Recollections of Harvey Wood. Dj spine mostly gone, split in two. No. 167 of 200 total copies, signed by Goodman. 1955. * Spaulding. Adobe Days Along the Channel. 4to. No. 886 of 1015 copies. 1957. * Gillingham. The Rancho San Pedro…in Los Angeles County and…the Dominquez Family. Dj (worn, in 2 parts, splits). 1961. * Nunis, Jr. The California Diary of Faxon Dean Atherton, 1836-1839. Dj. 1 of 1550 copies. 1964. * Hutchinson. Oil, Land and Politics. 2 vols. Slipcase. No. 11 of 100 sets, signed by the author on special insert. Univ. of Oklahoma, [1965]. * Davis. Seventy-Five Years in California. Dj. 1 of 2500 copies. Typed compliments card from Hancock Banning, laid in. John Howell-Books, 1967. * Munz. Supplement to a California Flora. Glassine. Univ. of CA, 1968. * Wiggins. Flora of Baja California. Dj. Stanford, 1980. * Hickman, ed. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. Appendix III laid in. 4to. Dj. Univ. of CA, [1993]. * Nunis, Jr., ed. Southern California Local History: A Gathering of the Writings of W.W. Robinson. Slipcase. 1 of 100 specially bound & signed by the editor and designer (Nunis Jr. & Ward Ritchie). [1993]. Together, 19 volumes. Illustrations. Cloth and/or boards, 7 in jackets, 2 slipcases.
Condition:
General age wear overall, soiling, scattered fading; most jackets with chips and tears (some with pieces missing); most are very good, some better.