Humboldt County
The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
HarperSanFrancisco, April 2001. Trade Paperback. Hill spent 738 days in an ancient redwood to stop the Pacific Lumber Company from cutting it down. Her tree-top protest garnered national attention and brought awareness to the raging timber wars that pitted Wall Street against the environment, and loggers against activists. There is.....
A nature notes sampler: [commentaries on the environment of southern Oregon and northern California]
Jefferson Public Radio, January 2000. Trade Paperback.
Van Duzen Voice
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, December 2013. Trade Paperback.
Humboldt State University (Campus History)
Arcadia Publishing, 2010. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Perched high atop a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the northernmost campus of the California State University system is celebrating its centennial. The natural environment of forests and oceans provide the perfect setting for hands-on research in forestry, oceanography, wildlife, natural resources.....
Humboldt County Courthouse Dedication April 23-24, 1960
Humboldt County Board of Trade, 1969. Pamphlet. 10 pages. B/W illustrations.
The Seven Seas at Seventy and Seven
Byral Hays Day, n.d. Hardcover.
Souvenir of Humboldt County: Being a Frank, Fair, and Accurate Exposition, Pictorially and Otherwise, of the Resources, Industries and Possibilities of this Magnificent Section of California
Times Publishing Company, 1902. Trade Paperback. 192 pages. Oblong, 11-1/2 by 8 inches. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photograph reproductions.
History of Humboldt County, California, with Illustrations Descriptive of Its Scenery, Farms, Residences, Public Buildings, Factories, Hotels, Business Houses, Schools, Churches, Etc., from Original Drawings, Including Biographical Sketches
Wallace W. Elliott & Co., January 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. 218 pages plus nearly 100 pages of lithograph illustrations. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in new black cloth binding with original front cover title and ruling glued on. New end papers. Map of Califronia and of Humboldt.....
Carson Mansion & Ingomar Theatre: Cultural Adventures in California
Valley Publishers, 1979. Hardcover. 165 pages. A history of two opulent Victorian buildings constructed for William Carson, a timber baron, in Eureka, California. Trade edition bound in maroon cloth.
The Thousand Year Flood: Six Rivers on a Rampage! Souvenir Flood Edition. The Flood of December 1964
Eureka Newspapers Inc., 1965. Ephemera. A three-section special issue newspaper filled with photos and stories about the 1964 flood that devastated much of Humboldt and Del Norte Counties during Christmas that year.
The First Hundred Years: Arcata Volunteer Fire Dept., 1884-1984
(Arcata Volunteer Fire Deptartment), 1984. Trade Paperback. 194 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
Fortuna Fire Department Letterhead
City of Fortuna, [ca. 1920s]. Ephemera. Standard sheet of letterhead, printed in red, for the Fortuna Fire Department, listing the members of the Hook and Ladder Co., the Chemical Company, and the Hose Company on the left side. Dated based on the mayor F. A. McKee who served in the.....
[Group of Trees Near Fort Gaston Buildings on Hoopa Valley Reservation (Humboldt State University caption)]
A. W. Ericson, (ca. 1920s). Photograph. 14-1/4 by 11 inches (mount); 9 by 7 inches (oblong image). Mount caption: Scene at Hoopa, Humboldt County, California. A. W. Ericson was the leading (and best) commercial photographer in Humboldt County from about 1880 to the 1930s. He traveled to the Hoopa reservation.....
In the Snow Forest : Three Novellas
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 2000. Hardcover. Three novellas set in the blizzard-prone regions of Montana, Wyoming, and northern California's Trinity Alps feature men and women escaping pasts and exploring the future in hopes of finding new lives and love.
From the Back Pew: Life and Love in the Last Small Town in America
Xlibris Corp, April 2003. Trade Paperback. A selection of the author's columns from the Ferndale Enterprise.
Earth Tickets
Trade Paperback.
Homesteading in Northwestern California
(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.
American Places
E. P. Dutton, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 224 pages. 10-3/4 by 12-3/8 inches. Essays on the human and natural histories of the United States, ranging from Maine to the plains and the Rockies to the Pacific Northwest. Illustrated with 96 color photo reproductions by nature photographer Eliot Porter. First edition.....
PalCo Christmas Card
Ephemera.
The Harvey M. Harper Story
(Times Printing), 1961. First Edition. Pamphlet. 13 pages. A short history of Harvey Harper's childhood and early years in Eureka, where he established on of the first car dealerships in the region (which is still in operation today). First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Fine California Views: The Photographs of A. W. Ericson
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.
The Bell Rings On: History of the Arcata United Methodist Church, 1950-2000
(Arcata United Methodist Church), 2000. Trade Paperback. 217 pages. The building, people and programs of the church located in Humboldt County, California. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback) that is lightly faded on the spine and at the cover edges.
A Bell Rang in Uniontown: The First Hundred Years of Arcata and Its Methodist Church, 1850-1950
Donning, October 1994. Hardcover.