Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State
Bloomsbury Publishing, July 2026. Hardcover. A new copy.
California
Golden State: The Making of California
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.....
Golden State: The Making of California
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.....
Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State
Bloomsbury Publishing, July 2026. Hardcover. A new copy. "Powerful nature writing . . . a lively story about the consequences of rapacious capitalism." -LOS ANGELES TIMES "You'll never look at a can of tuna the same way again." -MALCOM HARRIS, nationally bestselling author of Palo Alto The hidden story of.....
Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin: Nature and History Over the Last 10,000 Years
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.....
Balboa Park and the 1915 Exposition
History Press, November 2013. Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. The Panama-California Exposition of 1915 established San Diego as a focal point of cultural activity in California. The Spanish Colonial Revival exposition buildings, along with those from a second exposition in Balboa, house several of the great.....
Yosemite Trails: Camp and Pack-Train in the Yosemite Region of the Sierra Nevada
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. 354 pages. Illustrated from the author's photographs. First edition (first printing). Bound in blue cloth with black and gold illustration on the cover and spine; top edge gilt. corners starting to fray. A very good copy; no dust jacket.
Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin: Nature and History Over the Last 10,000 Years
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.....
Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings
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.....
The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at Uc Berkeley
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.....
Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism
New Press, The, October 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. "Olmsted finds in Depression-era California the crucible for strong-arm policies against farm workers that bolstered the conservative movement" (Kirkus Reviews). At a time when a resurgent immigrant labor movement is.....
Buffalo Soldiers in California: Charles Young and the Ninth Cavalry, 1902-1904
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.....
Joaquin Miller: His California Diary Beginning in 1855 and Ending in 1857
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.....
First Fruits: The Lewellings and the Birth of the Pacific Coast Fruit Industry
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.....
Up and Down California in 1860-1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer, Fourth Edition, with Maps
University of California Press, February 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney to assist in the first geological survey of the state of California. Brewer was not a......
The Secret Boss of California
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971. Hardcover. A very good copy with no dust jacket.
The Capital That Couldn't Stay Put, The Complete Book of California's Capitols
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.....
California Highway Patrol (Images of America)
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.....
Magnificent West Yosemite
Crescent, April 1988. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
West Coast Plays 8
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.
Too Soon to Tell
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).
Autograph Letter, Signed (ALS) (3 letters)
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.....
typed letter signed
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.....
The California Government Seals: 1963 Keepsakes of the Book Club of California
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.
Early California Mail Bag. 1960 Keepsake
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.