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Henry V (English Monarchs Series)

By: Allmand, Christopher

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Berkley and Los Angeles, University of California Press: 1993

Seller ID: 011812

ISBN: 0520082931

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. --------------- 8vo; 9.25 inches tall; 480 pages; with Bibliography and Index. --------- This sweepingly majestic book is based on the full range of primary sources and sets the reign in its full European context. Christopher Allmand shows that Henry V not only united the country in war but also provided domestic security, solid government, and a much needed sense of national pride. The book includes an updated foreword which takes stock of more recent publications in the field.
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Baja California [Automobile Club of California]

By: Automobile Club of California

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Los Angeles:, Automobile Club of California; Travel Publications Department: 1985

Seller ID: 010503

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

A lavishly illustrated guide to points of interest, tourist facilities and recreational opportunities along major highways and side roads in Baja California.

Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. 8.25 inches tall; 132 pages with index. Vintage b/w photographs and maps. 4 copies located in universities [OCLC 13394339]

Other features of this tour book: highway signs, useful Spanish words and phrases, lots of travel hints tucked away in sidebars, highway distances and average temperatures.
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The Mother Lode [California Gold Rush Sites Guide Book]

By: Automobile Club of California

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Los Angles, Automobile Club of California: 1985

Seller ID: 010504

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The guidebook focuses on the 267-mile stretch of SR 49 between Mariposa and Sierraville with additional descriptions of the most rewarding side-trips.

Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. 8.25 inches tall; 74 pages with brief biographies of several notable persons from the era. Vintage b/w photographs and maps.
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Mendoza in Hollywood: A Novel of the Company

By: Baker, Kage

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Harcourt: 2000

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 012612

ISBN: 015100448X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing. Book 3 of The Company.

Three centuries hence, the ubiquitous Company will invent time travel. So from that point backward, it set about rearranging the past to ensure its own success, by sweeping up potential operatives from every epoch, turning them into immortal cyborgs, and putting them to work. In the California of 1865.
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The Crucible of Europe: The Ninth and Tenth Centuries in European History

By: Barraclough, Geoffrey

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Berkley, University of California Press: 1976

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 006830

ISBN: 0520031059

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

The ninth and tenth centuries are too frequently overlooked by historians, and consequently history readers. The book focuses on France, Germany, Italy, and to a lesser extent, England. 9.75 inches tall. 180 pages with index. - Unused, No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. 58 illustrations and a map.
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What I Saw in California: Being the Journal of a Tour by the Emigrant Route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, Across the Continent of North America, the Great Desert Basin, and Through California, in the Years 1846, 1847

By: Bryant, Edwin (1805 - 1869)

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Santa Ana, CA, Fine Arts Press: 1936

Seller ID: 012291

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First published in 1848, What I Saw in California has long been recognized as the foremost trail guide for the Forty-niners. Almost overnight, Edwin Bryant became their authority on how to survive the grueling passage from Independence, Missouri, to San Francisco, and how to prosper in the Promised Land. He also served as a literary model for the diarists among them. ------------- His popular book was based on journals describing fully his "tour" west in 1846. For the Kentucky newspaperman, it had been an undertaking with an uncertain outcome, since the overland trail was still faint a...
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Granite Crags of California, [Yosemite]

By: Cumming, C. F. Gordon

Price: $165.00

Publisher: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons: 1886

Edition: 2nd Edition

Seller ID: 011446

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New Edition [Second Edition]. An important early account of Yosemite. Illustrations: The Sentinel Rock; The Yo-Semite Fall; Indian Camp beside the Merced River; The Nevada and Vernal Falls; View of the Sierras from Sentinel Dome. Fold out map at the end [unflawed]. 8vo; 8.1 inches tall, 384 pages with appendix plus 32 page publisher's catalogue.

Includes information on Yosemite Falls, Watkin's Photographs, Vigilantes, orchards, olive groves, California grapes and wines.

Light blue cloth, gilt stamped spine, Front cover stamped in black and silver with a scene of a large mountains, riv...
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Redlands: The Radiant Garden Spot of California and a Busy Business Centre

By: Everitt, E.F., Redlands Chamber of Commerce, et al.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Michigan, Detroit Publishing Co: 1914

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 011202

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Promotional to promote growth and business in Redlands California. Includes images of birds-eye views, mountain views, railway station, inns, churches, schools, University of Redlands, library, opera house, municipal water system, orange groves, olive groves, apple and apricot orchards, parks, street views, residences, resorts and Redlands Chamber of Commerce. ---------- Carefully handled. mild toning. Oblong; 21 x 29 cm; Unpaginated, 33 pages. Photomechanical reproductions of photographs of Redlands and accompanying text. Blue illustrated wrappers illustrations printed in dark blue. 5 copi...
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Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane

By: Farmer, Sarah

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Berkley, University of California Press: 1999

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 010585

ISBN: 0520211863

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. ---------- Among German crimes of the Second World War, the Nazi massacre of 642 men, women, and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is one of the most notorious. In this first full-scale study of the destruction of Oradour and its remembrance over the half century since the war. Complemented by haunting photographs of the site Martyred Village will have implications for the study of the history and sociology of memory, testimonies about remembrances of war and the Holocaust, and postmodern concerns with the presentation of the past.
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The Pacific Coast Scenic Tour. From Southern California to Alaska, The Canadian Pacific Railroad, Yellowstone Park, and The Grand Canyon.

By: Finck, Henry T.

Price: $120.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1890

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 011211

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

"The work may be of value to those who are reading up on the great natural show places on this Coast .... we of the Coast cannot but be thankful for the many pages of warm praise he devotes to us." [Carson] Publisher's decorated cloth. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpage. 8vo, xiv, 309 p., [21] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm; 8 inches tall. First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated with 20 b/w photos. ------ The author Theophilus Finck (1854-1926) was an American music cri...
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San Francisco Bay

By: Gilliam, Harold

Price: $24.95

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1957

Seller ID: 009172

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A factual and fascinating account of the history, life and lore of California's vital inland sea.

Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has light shelf handling. 8vo; 366 pages with index; map endpages.
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Perfect Pairings: A Master Sommelier's Practical Advice for Partnering Wine with Food

By: Goldstein, Evan

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Berkley, California, University of California Press: 2006

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 011353

ISBN: 0520243773

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

SIGNED with a non- personalized inscription: / Life + Food = pleasure! Enjoy the possibilities! Cheers! / Unused, Unopened; Gift Quality. 9.75 inches; 318 pages with index. ------- It doesn't get much better than this. One of the most important wine educators of our time and one of America's most influential chefs conspire on the glorious subject of wine and food pairing. Perfect Pairings is valuable for the professional and layperson alike, with expansive information presented in straightforward terms. This book will be mandatory reading for all of my staff! [Charlie Trotter, restaurateur and...
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Under the Avalanche: A Tale of the Sierra Nevada

By: Gordon, W.J.

Price: $191.25

Publisher: London and New York, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1887

Seller ID: 012164

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Fictional adventures of miners in the Yosemite Valley in 1851. Yosemite Illustrations include Yosemite Falls and El Captain. ---------- Original decorative orange cloth stamped in black, white and gilt. 12mo; 6.5 inches tall; 16.5 cm; 126 pages. Illustrated with several wood-engraved scenes throughout, including many scenes of Yosemite. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Gift inscription Dec. 24, 1887 in fountain pen script. [Odd pencil remark below: 'Why Not Christmas Day'] First Edition, Early printing [First Printing, 1886] ---- A fai...
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The Fishes and the Forest: Explorations in Amazonian Natural History

By: Goulding, Michael

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Berkley and Los Angeles, Univ of California Press: 1981

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 011817

ISBN: 0520041313

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 8vo; 9.25 inches tall; 280 pages with Bibliography and Index. ------------ With its wealth of information on the ecology of many of the larger fishes of the Amazon, their interaction with fruits and seeds, and their nutritional structure, this volume will contribute to a better understanding of natural fisheries and their proper management and, it is hoped, to protection of the flood forests.
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Seashore Life of Southern California

By: Hinton, Sam

Price: $14.95

Publisher: California, Univ of California Press: 1969

Seller ID: 007999

ISBN: 0520029933

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. Illustrated with color and b/w photographs.
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Above San Francisco

By: Hoppe, Arthur

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Caifornia, Cameron & Company: 1998

Seller ID: 012208

ISBN: 0918684730

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Bob Cameron has looked down with a God-like eye and recorded with his camera what God sees. He has recorded it for you, gentle reader, and for generations yet to come.

Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve.
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From Mexican Days to the Gold Rush

By: James Wilson Marshall & E. G. Buffum ; Edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co: 1993

Seller ID: 011792

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Memoirs of the authors who grew up in California during before and during the Gold Rush. ------- The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 90. First Edition, Thus. 12mo; 17.5 cm tall; 389 pages with original illustrations; index and publisher's list of title. Top edge gilt. ------- Lakeside Classics are the longest, continuously running series of Americana. Every year since 1903 their publisher, The Lakeside Press an imprint of R. R. Donnelley & Son, has produced these carefully bound books as Christmas gifts to their employees, stockholders, vendors and business associates. The books in the series h...
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Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical

By: Janice R. MacKinnon; Stephen R. MacKinnon

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Berkley, University of California Press: 1987

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 008388

ISBN: 0520059662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

"A painstakingly researched and truly riveting account of this unique American journalist. . . . In Agnes Smedley, the MacKinnons have found an unusual American woman whose private odyssey was every bit as fascinating as her public one." -- Orville Schell, The Nation.

First Edition, First Printing. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Minimal handling wear. Appears unread. Dust Jacket has light handling wear with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. 8vo, 435 pages with index, bibliography of primary sources and chapter notes.
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The Heir Hunter

By: Larsgaard, Chris

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Delacorte Press: 2000

Edition: 1st Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 007011

ISBN: 0385333633

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

SIGNED by author. First Edition - First Printing. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve.

Nick Merchant is an heir hunter, a little-known species of private investigator who searches for a dead person's next of kin when no will exists, and collects a percentage of the estate. Gerald Jacobs is a reclusive millionaire, found dead in a creaky old house in upstate New York. His net worth: twenty-two million dollars. Nick and his beautiful partner, Alex Moreno, think they're about to score the payday of a lifetime. The story is set i...
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From East Prussia to the Golden Gate

By: Lecouvreur, Frank; Translated and compiled by Julius C. Behnke.

Price: $185.00

Publisher: New York & Los Angeles, Angelina Book Concern: 1906

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 005265

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition. xiii, -[14]-355 pp. With black-and-white plates throughout. 23x15 cm (9 x 6inches), Green cloth, gilt vignette on front panel.

"When the late Frank Lecouvreur left his native land in 1851 for California, leaving behind his parents and the dear friends of his youth, following the promptings of his large heart he kept a careful journal of the sights and the unusual experiences that were his in travel, and in the new land he had chosen as a field for his activities." - Preface.

Bindings square and tight. Front hinge firm but has some open spots Text clean with a few...
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Keyword:California

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