Los Angeles: Black Business Directory, Inc., 1970. ii,66pp. Square quarto. Original illustrated peach wrappers printed in black, stapled. Minor edge wear and rubbing, uneven toning to wrappers. Text toned but clean. Very good. A rare business directory intended for use by the African-American community of Los Angeles at the outset.....

Los Angeles: 1950. 198pp., plus a folding panoramic photographic plate. Original green printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, worn, and detached, with about a fourth of the spine perished. Minor thumb-soiling to first several leaves, but otherwise clean. A rare edition of the annual meeting minutes and other proceedings of the.....

[Oakland, Ca. 1958]. 20pp. Quarto. Original blue wrappers printed in black, stapled. Minor soiling and rubbing to wrappers. Top corner of one leaf torn away, just touching one letter. A seemingly unrecorded program for the biennial meeting of an African American Masonic group at the Most Worshipful Golden West Lodge.....

[Various locations. ca. 1910 to 1955]. [9] leaves, illustrated with twenty-nine photographs, various sizes between 3 x 2 inches and 9.5 x 7.5 inches, with a manuscript index at front identifying the subjects. Later blue-green limp vinyl album with self adhesive pages. Minor wear and soiling. Photographs in generally nice.....

[Los Angeles]: California Eagle, [1934]. Broadside, 14.5 x 9 inches. Moderate toning, old folds, very minor loss at two crossfolds, a few short splits along fold lines, some small marginal chipping. A highly ephemeral broadside touting the message of Father Divine and denouncing a recent fraud by "a Set of.....

[N.p., probably San Francisco: 1962]. 20pp. of mimeographed text, on variously-sized and variously-colored paper stocks, paper-clipped. Minor overall wear. A long and detailed compilation of notes compiled by the Northern California Negro Commission, apparently overseen by the Communist Party of California between April and July 1962. The notes begin with.....

Fresno, Ca. 1965. 68pp. Original blue printed wrappers, stapled. Minimal wear. Unrecorded program for the annual convention of the Most Worshipful Hiram of Tyre Grand Lodge Scottish Rite Masons, which took place at Del Webb's Town House in Fresno in July 1965. The work includes a short schedule of events.....

[Various locations in California, mostly Sausalito and other locations in Marin and Sonoma Counties: 1870s to 1930s]. Nine photograph albums in a variety of bindings, containing approximately 810 photographs, the great majority paper prints but with a fair share of tintypes and CDVs in the earliest two albums, plus 102.....

Santa Rosa, CA: Graphic Concepts, 1989. Broadsheet cartoon map, 22.25 x 16.75 inches, with printed information on verso intended as a brochure but in this case unfolded. Some dampstaining along bottom portion mostly visible on verso, with old tape at each corner of verso from previous mounting, likely removed from.....

Santa Rosa, CA: Graphic Concepts, 1985. Cartoon map of California wine country, 22.25 x 17 inches, eight panel brochure on verso. Folded, minor creasing and wear, short separations along a couple of fold lines. Good plus condition. A rare and display-worthy map of California wine country, depicting over a hundred wineries.....

Fresno: Kamiyama, 1954. Panoramic photograph, 10 x 38 inches. Minor wear and occasional soft creasing. A substantial panoramic photograph depicting the somber scene of the funeral of Fresno resident Shigeki Yokota on September 8, 1954. A couple of hundred mourners pose for the camera at the corner of 9th and.....

[Various locations in Nevada, California and British Columbia: 1878 to 1914]. [19] leaves, illustrated with 176 photographs (a combination of albumens, cyanotypes, silver gelatin, and printing out paper images), most with penciled captions on the album leaves, plus relevant newspaper clippings to first and last leaves, and a folder of.....

[San Jose, CA]: Gist & Erdmann, Inc. / Panoramic Map Productions, [late 1989]. Color printed map on sturdy, glossy paper, 39 x 26.75 inches. Small piece of old cellophane tape in the upper margin, tiny puncture in image area near top-middle portion of the map, lightly wrinkled, previously rolled. Overall.....