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Rancho Murieta, CA:: Bridge House Books, (2002). SIGNED -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. 2nd printing. A large trade paperback. Although written after the author's River of Red Gold, this is set in an earlier era, around 1825. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2005. Double page map. Glossary. 630 pp.

Missoula, Montana:: Mountain Press,, (2004). SIGNED first edition -. Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease on front cover).. First printing, a trade paperback original. A book which covers two hundred years, from the 1750s to the 1950s, of stock packing in the southern Sierra Nevada, the backcountry containing most of California's wilderness and national park lands -… Read more about this item

California Continuing Education of the Bar/ The Regents of the University of California,, (1967). Hardcover -. Very good in orange cloth (marginal notations on a few pages). Hardcover. A book published to accompany community educational programs for attorneys - this covers everything from general legal problems, like leases to tax issues and estate planning, zoning and water issues.… Read more about this item

San Diego: : Howell-North Books,, (1980). Hardcover first edition -. Good only in brown boards in a good dust jacket (some crinkling to the fore-edge of the first few pages, scattered underlining through p 10, previous owner's name, edgewear to dj, and a loss of approx 1/2 inch on part of bottom edge of front cover) . … Read more about this item

Roseville, CA:: Stagecoach Publishing, , (2002). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. 41 stories of California's past ranging from 'The Ship of Gold' where treasure hunters found this ship and recovered $1.6 million dollars worth of gold including 5200 newly minted Double Eagle coins; a story of California's first… Read more about this item

Sanger, CA: : The Write Thought,, (2012). Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Trade paperback. Reprint of this biography of one of Wells Fargo's greatest detectives originally published in 1969. Originally a sheriff in California's Mother Lode country, Hume was among the first to use "scientific detection" in the west - including the use of a laundry mark… Read more about this item

Los Angeles:: Westland Printing Company,, (1974). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in purple cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine.. Limited edition. Even in a city known for its characters, Joshua Abraham Norton (1818 - 1880) stood out - in 1859 he proclaimed himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States" and later he added "Protector… Read more about this item

Arcata, CA:: Humboldt State University,, (1987). First edition -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Includes contributions by residents of all the diverse communities of Humboldt County from Eureka to Ferndale, Rio Dell, Samoa, Shelter Cove and more - and from the various ethnic groups from Native Americans to the… Read more about this item

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1982.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dust jacket. (slight sunning to the spine, as is common with almost all copies of this title). First edition. Houston takes us through his native state, traversing its length and breadth, by car and on foot, through river valleys, forests, film… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA:: University of California Press,, (1995). SIGNED -. Very good in illustrated wrappers (remainder line, minor wear to covers, small blacked out line on first page) Uncommon signed. . Trade paperback reprint. Moving from the South to the North of California, this anthology contains both literary and non-fiction excerpts about the varied faces of California. SIGNED… Read more about this item

San Francisco:: The Colt Press,, 1939.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in decorated pale grey boards with a red cloth spine, paper label on spine (bookplate, light toning to edges of boards and pages, sunning to spine). Some pages still unopened.. First printing. An account of the 1859 duel which resulted in Broderick's death -… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York:: Doubleday,, 1969.. SIGNED hardcover first edition - . Ex-library but with relatively few markings ('discard' on rear endpaper, tape ghosts, signs of pocket removal) and overall tight and clean in a good only dust jacket with several closed tears to the top edge and other wear.. First printing. Back in the late 60's, Beagle… Read more about this item

Nevada City, CA:: Harold Berliner, , (1985). First edition -. Fine in plain stapled white wrappers in an outer printed red wrapper.. First printing, limited edition. A limited edition chapbook with a brief history of the San Francisco library, plus a single page which reflects on the value of libraries in the Information Age, one of only… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA:: Counterpoint, , (2019). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A chronicle of the author's "650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California. Led by Gaspar de Portol in 1769,… Read more about this item

Stockton, California:: Pacific Center for Western Historical Studies / University of the Pacific,, 1974.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in blue-gray cloth with gilt lettering. . First edition. An account of the life and work of this "gentleman geologist and mountaineer", Clarence King, explorer of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and First Director of USGS. Frontispiece portrait… Read more about this item

Sacramento: : California State Department of Education,, 1951.. First edition -. Very good in stapled illustrated wrappers.. First thus. Published as a supplemental resource to teach water conservation and environmental issues in schools, this is a comprehensive look at water as a source of electricity, major water projects (many still under construction at the time) and… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA:: Counterpoint, , (2019). SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner of back cover bumped).. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A chronicle of the author's "650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California.… Read more about this item

New York:: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,, (1962). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (tape repaired tear on back cover of dj, other minor edgewear.). First printing. "The Flamboyant Story of Abe Ruef and San Francisco's Infamous Era of Graft. In the year 1906, San Francisco was rocked by two calamitous earthquakes. Nature… Read more about this item

New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (1974). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in dark blue cloth in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped, some edgewear to dj) .. First printing. A study of twelve families living in Ramona Heights in Orange County - a section of California considered in the seventies as a "paradise for… Read more about this item

San Francisco:: Friends of the Earth Foundation,, 1983.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in burgundy cloth with a color photograph pasted on front cover, silver titles on spine, issued without a dust jacket. Uncommon in the hardcover edition, and especially so signed. . First printing. Catalog for photography exhibition in 1983 with text by by… Read more about this item