Heyday Books, September 2026. Hardcover. A new copy. From the acclaimed author of The California Field Atlas and The State of Fire, a mind-expanding manifesto on belonging to the land called California. "An urgent message for the future." --Kirkus, starred review For more than 250 years, the story of California.....
Heyday Books, September 2026. Hardcover. A new copy. From the acclaimed author of The California Field Atlas and The State of Fire, a mind-expanding manifesto on belonging to the land called California. "An urgent message for the future." --Kirkus, starred review For more than 250 years, the story of California.....
Bloomsbury Publishing, September 2026. Hardcover. A new copy. "Essential reading."- KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR "A must read."-KAI BIRD "In a time of terminal cynicism, Pawel gives us hope."-JERRY BROWN Pulitzer Prize winner Miriam Pawel's epic history of one of the world's elite public universities, its sweeping social impact, and hopeful lessons about.....
Back Bay Books, March 2024. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is a story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative. "Extraordinary." --Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth Palo Alto's.....
Mariner Books, August 2026. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation."--Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California--from the Spanish conquistadors.....
Mariner Books, August 2026. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation."--Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California--from the Spanish conquistadors.....
University of California Press, May 2026. Hardcover. A new copy. Ten millennia in the Mono Lake Basin, showing how this complex ecosystem came to be what it is today. Nestled at the base of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California sits a stunning landscape overlooking a saline lake with picturesque.....
University of California Press, May 2026. Hardcover. A new copy. Ten millennia in the Mono Lake Basin, showing how this complex ecosystem came to be what it is today. Nestled at the base of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California sits a stunning landscape overlooking a saline lake with picturesque.....
Timber Press (OR), October 2025. Hardcover. A new copy. Winner of the California Independent Booksellers Association 2026 Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction From the award-winning author of Creep comes a powerful book by a writer at the peak of her powers--at once a love letter to California and a literary.....
Heyday Books, July 2025. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Now in paperback: "A profound alternative institutional history, one that sees the long arm of institutional racism implicated everywhere." (Publishers Weekly) "This is a land acknowledgment." -Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography: Essays towards Liberation "The Scandal of Cal is.....
Bison Books, August 2024. Trade Paperback. A new copy. When Captain Charles Young and the Ninth U.S. Cavalry stepped ashore in San Francisco in 1902, Young was only one of three Black officers serving in the U.S. Army. He had graduated from West Point as its third Black graduate, established.....
Frank McCaffrey / Dogwood Press, 1936. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A collection of writings by Joaquin Miller, an American poet and writer known. This diary provides a firsthand account of Miller's experiences during a formative period in California's history. A very good copy in boards (no dust jacket). The spine.....
Oregon State University Press, May 2025. Trade Paperback. A new copy. First Fruits offers a fascinating look at the lives of Pacific Coast horticulturists Henderson, Jonathan, and Seth Lewelling. Traveling across the Overland Trail--Henderson to Oregon in 1847, with a wagonload of fruit trees, and Seth and John to California.....
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971. Hardcover. A very good copy with no dust jacket.
James Stevenson Publisher, March 2008. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The author, June Oxford, received the Award of Merit from the Conference of California Historical Societies for "The Capital That Couldn't Stay Put, The Complete Book of California's Capitols." The award states that this book, .,."with a rich vein.....
Arcadia Publishing, April 2008. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The California Highway Patrol has its roots in the early 1920s motorcycle traffic cops employed by counties and cities. The CHP became a separate state entity in 1929 and has grown from the early traffic enforcement role to that of.....
Crescent, April 1988. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
California Theatre Council, 1981. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Includes 'Intrigue at Ah-pah' by The Dell'Arte Players. Illustrations in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). A few shallow creases to the covers but a nice, square copy.
Ten Mile River Press, 1981. First Edition. Pamphlet. 16 pages. The text of eight commentaries recorded for National Public Radio's All Things Considered. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback).
1874. Ephemera. Three handwritten letters (four pages in all) by Hoitt (1833 - 1905) to San Diego attorney S. S. Sanborn, all dating 1874 (February 10, February 18, and May 18). The letters exhibit both a friendly tone ('how is your family?') and the writer's underlined exasperation ('my tax receipts.....
1918. Ephemera. Typed letter signed, dated 21 May 1918, addressed to 'Dear Eddie' (Edward F. O'Day). Letter discusses William's recently published book, 'The Book of High Romance: A Spiritual Autobiography', thanks O'Day for a story on the book, comments on reviews of the book in New York press, sales of.....
Book Club of California. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom Castle Press, 1963. Ephemera. Twelve illustrated keepsakes, each 4 pages (single sheets, folded in half). Folders are each near fine. In original printed Book Club of California mailing envelope. Envelope with wear and closed tears.
The Book Club of California. Printed by Grabhorn Press, 1960. Trade Paperback. 12 folders with illustrations. Traces the history of California philately. Designed and printed by Grabhorn Press. Folders are near fine. With original unprinted mailing envelope with wear.
The Book Club of California. Printed by Grabhorn Press, 1960. Trade Paperback. 12 folders with illustrations. Traces the history of California philately. Designed and printed by Grabhorn Press. Folders are near fine. With original printed mailing envelope of Book Club of California. Envelope with wear and closed tears.
The Book Club of California. Printed by Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley, 1970. Trade Paperback. 10 folders, 4-6 pp. each, each with one (sometimes two) facsimile color reproductions of postcards mounted on first page. Index includes folders (with facsimiles) of the California Midwinter International Expo, Lewis &.....