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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SIGNED limited edition numbered 23/210 On the Old West Coast Being Further Reminiscences of a Ranger- Major Horace Bell 1st ed edited by Lanier Bartlett (signed by him) 1930 published by William Morrow some slipcase wear, some spine wear, inside is clean tight and very good Horace Bell left Indiana to seek gold in California. He then went on to serve as a Ranger who pursued Joaquin Murietta, a soldier of fortune in Latin America and a Union officer in the Civil War. After the war he returned to Los Angeles and became a lawyer and a newspaper editor. He provides lively anecdotes of Los Angeles and its residents under Mexican and American rule, emphasizing cowboys and criminals and native Americans. Throughout, Bell gives special attention to the fate of Hispanic Californians and Native Americans under the United States regime. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. No Jacket. Limited Edition. NYC: Morrow, 1930. Limited edition (#116/210), signed by Bartlett on colophon page, VG+/. No jacket. Book has some light rubbing to spine label (still easily readable), wear to some edges. Bound in buckram and strong boards, top edges gilt. 55 b & w illustrations (drawings & photos0, illustrated end-papers. Includes notes and index. Bell lived from 1930-1918. From his life of the early days before California was a state, followed by the days of the late 19th century. Bell traveled extensively in Central America as well. He provise a unique perspective of this era. Nice copy, 336 pp. BP. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Good with wear and markings. Looks like an interesting title!

hardcover. Condizione: Good. h.

[CALIFORNIA]. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone cloth, titles printed in black on paper labels with each affixed to the front cover and spine, xiv [2], 336 pp., decorated endpapers, introduction, illustrated, notes, index. Interesting accounts of events in California during Gold Rush days and after. Six Guns 188 says, "Scarce." "The book is drawn from the wealth of unpublished material that Major Bell left at his death, containing much information that he did not wish to make public while his subjects were still alive. There is material on Murieta and other California outlaws." Very good, tight copy in a bright dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends, corners and extremities, a closed tear to upper portion of the front cover and light wear to the front flap fold.