San Francisco: Alchemy Books (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Local history at its finest, a fresh and lively memoir of the author's boyhood summers, starting in 1910, at the now long-gone lumber mill settlement of Pino Grande, 22 miles (originally a 6 hour trip by wagon) from Placerville, California. Fishing was one of his enduring favorite pastimes, and so much of this book is devoted to that -including fishing on the Rubicon River. Association copy INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to Sacramento journalist Mike Pulley "Thanks for your excellent feature. You must have spent a great deal of time on it to do such an excellent job. I hope you will enjoy reading my book. Good luck." Photographs. 252 pp.