Guide to Steinbeck Country
John Steinbeck Library, 1984. Trade Paperback. 36 pages.
John Steinbeck Library, 1984. Trade Paperback. 36 pages.
University of California Press, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. 543 pages. University of California Publichations in History, Volume XII. Bound in contemporary blue boards with original printed wrappers preserved. First edition (first printing). Blue cloth with gold in spine. A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Rear hinge cracked. Previous.....
Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1967. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Single sheet, folded, with engraving printed from the original woodblock. In dark blue wrappers. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Corner creased on rear cover.
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1852. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Map, 17 x 13.5 inches inside borders; sheet size, 21.75 x 20.25 inches. Soundings are expressed in fathoms. Relief shown in hachures. First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Previously folded Scattered foxing and tanning especially near map borders.....
Powell Publishing Company, 1929-31. Hardcover. 9 Volume set with authors Robert Glass Cleland, Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez, Owen Cochran Coy (2), Rockwell Dennis Hunt, Harold Child Bryant, Edwin Markham, Frank J. Taylor and Robert Cleland and Osgood Hardy. 9 Volume mixed set in red bloth covers with uniform spines.....
Santa Rosa Junior College, 1939-1941. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 41 issues: September 29 (2 copies), October 6, 13, 20, 27 (2 copies), November 3 (2 copies), 10, 17, Decmber 1, 8 (2copies) 1939; January 5, 12, February 9, 16 (2 copies), March 1, 8, 15, 29 (2 copies), April 26.....
1879-1883. Ephemera. Seven holograph letters from F. J. Huggins to his children. Each letter on one folded sheet with writing on 2-4 sides. The letters date from July 3, 1879 to March 20, 1883, and are from Stockton, (5 letters) and Monterey (2 letters), relating personal and business matters. Huggins.....
Stanford University Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 271 pages. First edition. Near fine copy in green paper over boards and cream cloth covers with black lettering on spine. Spots on covers. No dust jacket. Inscribed by the author opposite the title page; 'To J. W. Mailliard, Jr. my good and.....
Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 322 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in cloth covers with lettering in yellow. No dust jacket.
Peter E. Palmquist, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 352 pages. Continues Palmquist's directory of active women photographers in California after 1901. Limited to 500 copies. Black-and-white illustrations. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in pictorial wrappers (paperback).
The Bohemian Club, January 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 64 pages plus 1 page Music Notes plus 5 pages Grove Plays of the Past. Printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in yellow illustrated paper over board covers. No dust jacket.
Justices' and Constables' Association State of California, n.d., 1944. Trade Paperback. 12 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in blue wrappers (paperback), stapled.
Doubleday & Company, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 375 pages. A novel about breeding flowers in California in the 1930s. First edition (first printing). Minor edge wear else a fine copy in a dust jacket with some toning to spine and wear to the corners and spine ends.
Architectural Book Publishing Company, Inc., (1931). First Edition. Hardcover. 110 pages. The book presents a full descrition of the Monterey-type house and demonstrates that the style was not Spanish but an adaptation of the mission architecture by New England pioneers on the coast. Well illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates and.....
Word Dancer Press, (1998). First Edition. Hardcover. 1676 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in illustrated covers. No dust jacket. The definitive gazetteer of California. This book lists more than 50,000 geographical features including topographical features such as ridges, peaks, canyons and valleys; water features such as streams.....
Oxford University Press, USA, April 1990. Hardcover. Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The first two installments of his monumental cultural history, Americans and the California Dream, have been hailed as mature, well-proportioned.....
M. B. Alverson, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 275 pages plus numerous plates reproducing photographs of late 19th and early 20th century musicians and theaters. First edition (first printing). Brown cloth with black and gilt lettering on cover and spine. A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Spine a bit.....
The Bohemian Club, 1991. Hardcover. 65 pages. Book was designed by Andrew Hoyem and produced by the Arion Press. Limited edition, 1/2775 copies. The playn was directed by Adrian McNamara. The music was composed by Richard B. Evans.
Chronicle Books, October 1988. Trade Paperback.
Oxford University Press, USA, May 1997. Hardcover. What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin Starr shows how the good life prospered in California - in pursuits such as film, fiction, leisure, and architecture - and helped to define.....
P. J. Thomas, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. Two fictional stories based on fact. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Spine faded; edge wear. Inscribed to a previous owner by the author on the first blank: 'with compliments of J. Webster.' Wright III.....
The Huntington Library, January 1966. Hardcover.
Running Press, January 1976. Trade Paperback.
Bohemian Club, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 64 pages followed by a fold-out retrospective of past grove plays. The fifty-ninth grove play. Printed by Grabhorn Press. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a the plain paper dust jacket. Red illustrated boards with paper spine label. Spotting to top of page.....