Lower Klamath Country
The Family of Frances Turner McBeth, 1993. Pamphlet. 76 pages. Fascimile of the 1950 edition published by the author. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback).
The Family of Frances Turner McBeth, 1993. Pamphlet. 76 pages. Fascimile of the 1950 edition published by the author. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback).
Ferndale Museum, 1995. Trade Paperback. Reproductions of handwritten writings by the daughter of one of Humboldt County's pioneering settlers. An autobiographical account of raising her three sons in Humboldt County, California, from 1932 to 1979. Includes “Grandmother’s Star-patterned Quilt,” a poem by the author’s God Mother, Georgia Russ Williams. Updated.....
(the author), (n.d. but ca. 1984). Pamphlet. 53 pages. A rather generic history of homesteading, beginning with Christopher Columbus and unimpeded by footnotes or a bibliography.
Evelyn McCormick, 1992. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 108 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback).
Ingomar Club, 2007. Trade Paperback. 22 pages. This is the only publication with color images from inside Eureka's most magnificent Victorian mansion. Built by Humboldt County's first lumber baron, it is now home to a private club. No public tours are available, so this is your best chance for a......
Trade Paperback.
Howard B. Melendy, 1953. First Edition. Pamphlet. 14 pages. A small pamphlet describing the cornerstone contents, the construction of the court house, and the clock that was placed in the tower. Illustrated with photographs. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Humboldt County, 1953. Trade Paperback. 19 pages. B/W photographic illustrations. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Minor Theatre Corporation, 2004. Ephemera. Single-fold pamphlet, 8-1/2 by 11 (folded) with a history of the theater. Illustrated with black-and-white photo reproductions. A very good copy.
Oregon Historical Society Press, 2006. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. A land of mountains, forests, wetlands, lakes, and rivers, the Klamath Basin spans the Oregon-California state line. Farms and ranches, logging towns, and back-to-the-land communities are scattered over this 10-million-acre bioregion. There.....
Arcadia Publishing, June 2004. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The enchanting Victorian Village of Ferndale in the Eel River Valley is designated a Distinctive Destination by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is a California Historical Landmark. Named by its founders, the Shaw brothers, to honor the six-foot-tall ferns.....
Glen Nash, 1996. Trade Paperback. 8.5 by 11 inchs. 198 pages. Illustrated from photographs. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Arcade Publishing, September 2006. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. In the tradition of The Ice Master and The Endurance comes the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty made him a pioneer in weather forecasting and a......
Humboldt State University, First Street Gallery, 2006. Trade Paperback. 32 pages. Exhibition catalog, illustrated in color. This was published in conjunction with a posthumous show of Nickelsen's dramatic, colorful landscape paintings. The painted died tragically during one of her extended wilderness plein aire painting expeditions. First edition (first printing). A......
Arcadia Publishing, November 2013. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. The year 2014 marks the centennial of the completion of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP), celebrated by driving a golden spike at Cain Rock in October 1914. This achievement was the culmination of a massive, six-year engineering effort to connect rail lines.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2018. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. A survey of logging and the timber industry during the first part of the 20th century, told through the captions to 220 photographs. The authors, historians affiliated with the Fortuna Depot Museum, trace technological change, labor unrest, the expansion.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2018. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. A survey of logging and the timber industry during the first part of the 20th century, told through the captions to 220 photographs. The authors, historians affiliated with the Fortuna Depot Museum, trace technological change, labor unrest, the expansion.....
(Pratt Mountain Press), January 2008. Trade Paperback. A photographic portrait of Humboldt County, California. Many of the images are aerial shots, taken by the author, a private pilot. A new copy.
Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Lychgate Press, 2019. Trade Paperback. 322 pages. Imagine signing a 'loyalty oath' to a company that paid you 35 cents an hour for 10-hour days, 6 days per week. As timber workers organized for better pay, city workers escorted strikebreakers and threatened to call the National Guard. A showdown occured.....
Lychgate Press, 2019. Trade Paperback. 322 pages. Imagine signing a 'loyalty oath' to a company that paid you 35 cents an hour for 10-hour days, 6 days per week. As timber workers organized for better pay, city workers escorted strikebreakers and threatened to call the National Guard. A showdown occured.....
Ephemera.
Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, 2000. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 60 pages. 32 B/W and color photographs with brief biographies of the photographers. Staplebound. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback).
Interface California Corporation, 1975. Hardcover. 111 pages. The first monograph on the great photographer of the redwoods, Augustus William Ericson, who took many iconic images in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.