Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library copy with usual markings. Shows minor wear.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nordhoff, Charles. PENINSULAR CALIFORNIA: SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CLIMATE, SOIL, PRODUCTIONS, AND PRESENT CONDITION CHIEFLY OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF LOWER CALIFORNIA. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. 130 pages, plus ads, disbound, lacks covers. The front end pages and frontis are separated but present. Some light foxing to endpages, otherwise bright and complete. Good. Several full page illustrations; double page map;
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975.
Seller: The Calico Cat Bookshop, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/NO DJ, HB, sm. 4to., 130 pgs. Gilt title to front board and spine. Lower spine frayed; upper spine starting. A very clean copy inside and out.
Seller: Albion Books, Irvine, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 130, 2, 4 (ads) pages; Contents clean and secure in original navy blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorative borders blindstamped, minor rubbing at head of spine and lower corners. Quite a nice book. Publisher's advertisement (Shepard Book Company) tipped in at rear. Twelve b&w photographic plates (including frontispiece), 2 maps (one double-page). The author owned property near the Bay of Todos Santos. This investigative and descriptive book on the lower part of California was an invaluable resource for potential immigrants and investors. Charles Nordhoff (1830 1901) was an American journalist, travel and miscellaneous writer. He was born in Erwitte, Germany (Prussia) in 1830, and emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1835. He was educated in Cincinnati, and apprenticed to a printer in 1843. In 1844, he went to Philadelphia where he worked for a short time in a newspaper office. He then joined the United States Navy in 1845 (aged 15), where he served three years and made a voyage around the world in the USS Columbus, which was engaged in first attempts at opening up Japan to the U.S.A, and in establishing full diplomatic relations with China. After his Navy service, he remained at sea from 1847 in the merchant service, and then whaling, mackerel fishery ships until 1854 (aged 24). From 1853 to 1857, he worked in various newspaper offices, first in Philadelphia, then in Indianapolis. He was then employed editorially by Harpers in 1857 until 1861, when he transferred to the New York Evening Post (1861-1871), and he later contributed to the New York Tribune. From 1871 to 1873 Nordhoff traveled in California and visited Hawaii. He then became Washington correspondent of the New York Herald 1874-1890. Nordhoff died in San Francisco, California.
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 130pp; ads. Prelims foxed, else very good in publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 130 pages of text followed by six pages of publisher's advertisement. Hardcover binding with moderate rubbing to the extremities; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with numerous illustrations. Previous owner's name stamped neatly on the endpapers, title page, and to several pages of text: Natural History Library of U.S. Grant 4th [and] Library U.S. Grant IV. A few pages are creased on the bottom corner, with minor paper loss to one corner. First edition. Size: Octavo (8vo)
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 130, 4 [i.e. 6] pp. including 12 full page photographic illustrations and two maps. publisher's blue cloth with blind-stamped borders and gilt spine and cover lettering. Minor extremity wear. An exceptionally clean copy.An early treatment of Baja California. Numerous comparisons between Alta and Baja California.
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$284.74 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 130, [6]ads. 12 full-page illus. & 2 maps (1 double-page). original blind-stamped cloth (extremities trifle frayed, covers scuffed). First Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada