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Berlin, Leslie.
TROUBLEMAKERS: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at the people and stories behind "the birth of the Internet and the microprocessor, as well as Apple, Atari, Genentech, Xerox PARC, ROLM, ASK, and the iconic venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In the space of only seven years and thirty-five miles, five major industriespersonal computing, video games, biotechnology, modern venture capital, and advanced semiconductor logicwere born.. . Featured among well-known Silicon Valley innovators like Steve Jobs, Regis McKenna, Larry Ellison, and Don Valentine are Mike Markkula, the underappreciated chairman of Apple who owned one-third of the company; Bob Taylor, who kick-started the Arpanet and masterminded the personal computer;…
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New York: Simon & Schuster, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at the people and stories behind "the birth of the Internet and the microprocessor, as well as Apple, Atari, Genentech, Xerox PARC, ROLM, ASK, and the iconic venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In the space of only seven years and thirty-five miles, five major industriespersonal computing, video games, biotechnology, modern venture capital, and advanced semiconductor logicwere born.. . Featured among well-known Silicon Valley innovators like Steve Jobs, Regis McKenna, Larry Ellison, and Don Valentine are Mike Markkula, the underappreciated chairman of Apple who owned one-third of the company; Bob Taylor, who kick-started the Arpanet and masterminded the personal computer; software entrepreneur Sandra Kurtzig, the first woman to take a technology company public; Bob Swanson, the cofounder of Genentech; Al Alcorn, the Atari engineer behind the first wildly successful video game; Fawn Alvarez, who rose from an assembler on a factory line to the executive suite; and Niels Reimers, the Stanford administrator who changed how university innovations reach the public. Together, these troublemakers rewrote the rules and invented the future." SIGNED and dated on the title page. Illustrated with photographs, both black and while and in color. Notes, index. xvi, 494 pp. ISBN: 978-1451651508.
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Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

Book ID: 74072

Keywords: Business, california, computers, internet, technology
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Berry, Roy S.
HOW TO PAN GOLD FOR FUN - HEALTH - PROFIT.

Edition: First printing.

Auburn, California & Reno, Nevada: By the author, 1959. First edition - Small pamphet, with illustrations by the author. Map of the Motherlode. Unpaginated (20 pp)

Condition: Fine in stapled yellow illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 63376

Keywords: california, ephemera, gold mining, Western Americana

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Bertram, Debbie and Susan Bloom.
A MONUMENT TO TREASURE: A Journey through the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument.

Edition: First edition.

Desert Publications, nd (2005). Hardcover first edition - A boy and his grandfather travel through this Southern California monument (established in 2000) as he explains the traditions of his people, the Cahuilla Indians, who lived in these mountains as well as the geology and plants and creatures who live in the desert. Includes two fold-out pages depicting the life zones of the mountains. Beautifully illustrated in full color by Stuart Funk. Bibliography, large square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-977290808.

Condition: Fine in illustrated boards, no dust jacket.

Book ID: 82839

Keywords: california, Children's and Illustrated, national parks, native americans

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[Bidwell, John, 1819-1900] Rawlings, Linda, editor.
DEAR GENERAL: The Private Letters of Annie E. Kennedy and John Bidwell 1866-1868.

Edition: First printing.

Sacramento: California Department of Parks and Recreation, (1994). Hardcover first edition - Bidwell was one of the organizers of the first overland wagon train to California, with Marshall at Sutter's Mill gold discovery, served as an officer in the Mexican American war, a founder of Chico, and one of California's great pioneers. In 1865 he was elected to a seat in Congress, and he met Annie Kennedy in Washington, D.C., a woman 20 years younger than himself and not, at first, interested in leaving Washington. These letters chart their friendship and growing love for each other. Illustrated. vii, 213 pp. ISBN: 0-941925129.

Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (very short tear to upper edge of dj)

Book ID: 74624

Keywords: biography, California, friendship, love, romance, western americana

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Bijan, Donia.
MAMAN'S HOMESICK PIE: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen

Edition: First printing.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2011. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which is at once a memoir and a cookbook - In 1978, when the revolution in Iran threatened their safety, her family fled to California's Bay Area, where the familiar flavors of Bijan's mother's cooking formed a bridge to the life they left behind. She tells of her life from the Persian world of her youth, her teenage years in America, her studies at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, and finally back to San Francisco, where she opened her own celebrated bistro. And she shares thirty recipes from her childhood (Saffron Yogurt Rice with Chicken and Eggplant and Orange Cardamom Cookies), her French training (Ratatouille…
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Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2011. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which is at once a memoir and a cookbook - In 1978, when the revolution in Iran threatened their safety, her family fled to California's Bay Area, where the familiar flavors of Bijan's mother's cooking formed a bridge to the life they left behind. She tells of her life from the Persian world of her youth, her teenage years in America, her studies at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, and finally back to San Francisco, where she opened her own celebrated bistro. And she shares thirty recipes from her childhood (Saffron Yogurt Rice with Chicken and Eggplant and Orange Cardamom Cookies), her French training (Ratatouille with Black Olives and Fried Bread and Purple Plum Skillet Tart), and her cooking career (Roast Duck Legs with Dates and Warm Lentil Salad and Rose Petal Ice Cream). SIGNED on the title page. 250 pp. ISBN: 9781565129573.
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Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers boards (a new copy), no dust jacket as issued.

Book ID: 55566

Keywords: california, Cookbooks and food, iran, memoir, recipes

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Birney, Hoffman.
GRIM JOURNEY.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Minton, Balch & Co., 1934. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fictionalized account of one of the most tragic episodes of the Overland Trail: "The story of the adventures of the emigrating company Known as the Donner Party, which, in the year 1846, vrossed the plains from Independence, Missouri, to California. With an account of their sufferings upon the desert of the Great Salt Lake and their final tragic fate when many suffered death on the headwaters of the Truckee River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The narrative from the lips of a survivor, Mr. Eddy, late of Illinois, who lost wife and children by a horrible fate, and who participated in the rescue of his late…
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New York: Minton, Balch & Co., 1934. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fictionalized account of one of the most tragic episodes of the Overland Trail: "The story of the adventures of the emigrating company Known as the Donner Party, which, in the year 1846, vrossed the plains from Independence, Missouri, to California. With an account of their sufferings upon the desert of the Great Salt Lake and their final tragic fate when many suffered death on the headwaters of the Truckee River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The narrative from the lips of a survivor, Mr. Eddy, late of Illinois, who lost wife and children by a horrible fate, and who participated in the rescue of his late companions of the migration." Includes the four page "Roll of the Donner Party." Author's note. vii, 275 pp. Map endpapers.
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Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (price-clipped) - uncommon in this condition.

Book ID: 78789

Keywords: california, donner party, historical fiction, Western or frontier fiction

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Bittner, Mark.
THE WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL: A Love Story . . .with Wings.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Harmony, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - Down on his luck, Mark Bittner found a job as a housekeeper for an elderly woman, which came with a rent-free studio apartment on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill - which had somehow become home to a flock of wild parrots. He tells how he became fascinated by the birds and made up his mind to get to know them and gain their trust; he becomes the local wild parrot expert and a tourist attraction - and the subject of an Oscar nominated documentary film. Dust jacket praise from Gary Snyder. Illustrated with photographs, includes a cast of characters. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-609610554.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 83544

Keywords: autobiography, california, movie tie-in, Natural history, biology, botany, zoology, san francisco

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Black, Jack.
YOU CAN'T WIN.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Macmillan, 1926. Hardcover first edition - The autobiography of a professional burglar and hobo, Jack Black, this book describes describes his days on the road and as a professional thief, convict and escaped prisoner (his mother died when he was 10, and after a few years in a convent school, he hit the road at 14, was in the dock for burglary before he was 20 and by age 25 he was expert house robber) but it is even more an indictment of the criminal justice system. While this book was influential to writers like William S. Burroughs (who mentioned it in "Junkie" and who also wrote the foreword to the 1988 trade paperback) and the Beats,…
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New York: Macmillan, 1926. Hardcover first edition - The autobiography of a professional burglar and hobo, Jack Black, this book describes describes his days on the road and as a professional thief, convict and escaped prisoner (his mother died when he was 10, and after a few years in a convent school, he hit the road at 14, was in the dock for burglary before he was 20 and by age 25 he was expert house robber) but it is even more an indictment of the criminal justice system. While this book was influential to writers like William S. Burroughs (who mentioned it in "Junkie" and who also wrote the foreword to the 1988 trade paperback) and the Beats, it is perhaps even more relevant to us now with its discussion on how the prison system can be a force for good - the library in a Canadian prison - and also something which dehumanize prisoners - including his experiences of flogging in Canada,and being constrained by a strait jacket at Folsom. Foreword by Robert Herrick. xi, 394 pp.
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Condition: Very good in red cloth with gold lettering on the spine (offsetting to the endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, corners somewhat bumped), no dust jacket.

Book ID: 81836

Keywords: Biography, autobiography, memoirs, california, canada, hobo, prison, san francisco, thief, true crime
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[Black Panthers] Brown, Elaine
A TASTE OF POWER: A Black Woman's Story

Edition: 4th printing.

New York: Pantheon, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Autobiography of the woman who took over leadership of the Black Panther Party in 1974 when Huey Newton fled the country. A vivid story of the period, of one woman's struggles to survive and to define herself, and of the conflict between black men and women. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs. 452 pp. ISBN: 0-679-419446.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 63613

Keywords: African American History and nonfiction, black panthers, black power movement, california, eldridge cleaver, erika huggins, huey newton, oakland

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[Black Panthers] Forbes, Flores A.; foreword by Elaine Brown.
WILL YOU DIE WITH ME? My Life and the Black Panther Party.

Edition: 2nd printing.

New York: Atria Books, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - An inside account of the Black Panther party by one of the organization's central committee members, and a personal account of a young man, angered by the racism he saw everywhere in his native San Diego, who became a revolutionary and an activist. SIGNED on the title page by Elaine Brown, who wrote the foreword. Brown became Chairman of the Black Panthers in 1974. the first woman to hold such a position, and she remains an activist. Photographs. Chronology, index.xi, 302 pp. ISBN: 0-7434-82662.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

Book ID: 48896

Keywords: African American History and nonfiction, black panthers, california, drugs, huey newton, oakland, prison, revolutionary

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[Black Panthers] Newton, Michael.
BITTER GRAIN: Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party.

Edition: Paperback original - first printing.

Los Angeles: Holloway House, (1991.). First edition - "The True and Uncensored Story of the Life and Death of the Black Panther Party." Many black and white photographs. Epilogue by Ray Locke. Index. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-87067-7519.

Condition: Good overall - some wear to the covers, light crease on spine.

Book ID: 72217

Keywords: African American History and nonfiction, bobby seale, california, earl anthony, eldridge cleaver, oakland

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Blodgett, Michael.
HERO AND THE TERROR.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Harmony, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, a pyscho-thriller set in Southern California: "You are about to meet a deranged sex killer, a human so driven by a force so perverted that you will never again feel completely safe. It's Christmas Eve and Simon Moon is losing his mind. Herrara Fiddleman is chief of detectives for the Venice, California police department.. . . So begins a desperate manhunt that brings chaos to a lush suburb of Los Angeles." A presentation copy very personally INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 1983. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-517546922.

Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (slight spine slant).

Book ID: 63451

Keywords: california, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, venice

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Blum, Howard.
AMERICAN LIGHTNING: Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the Crime of the Century

Edition: First printing.

New York: Crown, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "evokes the original 'crime of the century' [the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building on Oct 1, 1910] and an aftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself - a seminal episode in America's history that would spark national debate and draw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, and industry-shaping filmmaker D. W. Griffith." Cast of characters, photographs, notes on sources. 339 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-307346943.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 71394

Keywords: anarchists, bombing, California, los angeles, true crime

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(Bohemian Club Grove Play) England, Robert B.
THE CENTENNIAL GROVE PLAY: 1872-1972. A Compendium of Highlights from Grove Plays Over the Years, Celebrating the One-Hundredth Anniversary of The Bohemian Club.

Edition: First printing.

San Francisco: Bohemian Club, 1972. Hardcover first edition - Presented on July 28, 1972. Musical director by Charles Dant. Foreword by Charles E. Bulloti, Jr. Color frontispiece of St John of Bohemia by Charles Rehag. Printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem. 129 pp plus a list of plays, from 1902 to 1972.

Condition: Fine in illustrated paper over boards and pale green cloth spine. Gilt title on spine.

Book ID: 85622

Keywords: California, drama, music

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Bond, Marshall Jr.
GOLD HUNTER: The Adventures of Marshall Bond.

Edition: First printing.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1969). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Marshal Bond, Jr. - who accompanied his father on several of his journeys - tells the story of his father's adventurous life, using his firsthand knowledge as well as his father's diaries and letters. Bond (1867-1941) drove cattle in Texas, went to the Klondike to search for gold, where he became friends with Jack London (the dog in Call of the Wild is based on Bond's dog) and from there to the deserts of the Southwest and to Mexico City. He boated the Colorado River, lived in a shack in Goldfield Nevada, where he reported on the gold rush there, found himself in the middle of Pancho…
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Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1969). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Marshal Bond, Jr. - who accompanied his father on several of his journeys - tells the story of his father's adventurous life, using his firsthand knowledge as well as his father's diaries and letters. Bond (1867-1941) drove cattle in Texas, went to the Klondike to search for gold, where he became friends with Jack London (the dog in Call of the Wild is based on Bond's dog) and from there to the deserts of the Southwest and to Mexico City. He boated the Colorado River, lived in a shack in Goldfield Nevada, where he reported on the gold rush there, found himself in the middle of Pancho Villa's fighting in Mexico in 1918, traveled the length of Africa and finally in the 1930s to the gold rush in the Mohave in California. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Illustrated with photographs. Index. x, 258 pp.
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Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Book ID: 87323

Keywords: biography, california, goldfields, jack london, klondike, mexico, mohave desert, nevada, southwest, Western Americana
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Borg, Todd.
TAHOE ICE GRAVE.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original,

South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - Third mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot. Bibliomystery involving a long-lost manuscript by Mark Twain, reportedly hidden on the Hawaiian island of Kauia in 1866. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's letter. 288 pp. ISBN: 1931296146.

Condition: Fine (a new copy.)

Book ID: 58376

Keywords: bibliomystery, Bibliomystery and crime fiction, california, hawaii, lake tahoe, mark twain, nevada
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Borg, Todd.
TAHOE SILENCE.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original,

South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - Fifth mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Benjamin Franklin award for mystery/suspense. 352 pp. ISBN: 9781931296151.

Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy)

Book ID: 42848

Keywords: arc, autism, benjamin franklin award, california, lake tahoe, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, nevada, proof, search and rescue dogs
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Borg, Todd.
TAHOE BLOWUP.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.

South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Second mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot - an arsonist is setting forest fires, and the first one narrowly misses McKenna's cabin. SIGNED on title page. Winner of the Benjamin Franklin award for best mystery, 319 pp. ISBN: 1-931296-12x.

Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new )

Book ID: 81295

Keywords: california, forest fires, lake tahoe, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, nevada, search and rescue dogs
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Borg, Todd.
TAHOE BLOWUP.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.

South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Second mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot - an arsonist is setting forest fires, and the first one narrowly misses McKenna's cabin. INSCRIBED on title page. "--- A hot tale in the mountains of Tahoe! Enjoy." Winner of the Benjamin Franklin award for best mystery, 319 pp. ISBN: 1-931296-12x.

Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to upper edge of back cover)

Book ID: 72206

Keywords: california, forest fires, lake tahoe, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, nevada, search and rescue dogs
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Borg, Todd.
TAHOE DEATHFALL.

Edition: First edition stated, a trade paperback original.

South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - First mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna (and his Great Dane Spot), and his girlfriend, forensic entomologist Street Casey. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 1-931296-111.

Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy)

Book ID: 42847

Keywords: california, forest fires, lake tahoe, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, nevada, search and rescue dogs
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Borg, Todd.
TAHOE DEATHFALL.

Edition: Revised edition.

South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2001). SIGNED - First mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna (and his Great Dane Spot), and his girlfriend, forensic entomologist Street Casey. SIGNED on the title page with the word "Enjoy." 256 pp. ISBN: 1-931296-111.

Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy)

Book ID: 72193

Keywords: california, forest fires, lake tahoe, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, nevada, search and rescue dogs
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Borg, Todd.
TAHOE HEAT.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original,

South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2010.). SIGNED first edition - Eighth mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot. SIGNED on the title page with the word "Enjoy." 288 pp Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 1931296146.

Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 56007

Keywords: california, lake tahoe, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, nevada
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Borg, Todd.
TAHOE SILENCE.

Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2007.). First edition - Fifth mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot. Winner of the Benjamin Franklin award for mystery/suspense. SIGNED on the title page. 352 pp

Condition: Fine in glossy white wrappers (a new copy)

Book ID: 40036

Keywords: arc, autism, benjamin franklin award, california, lake tahoe, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, nevada, proof, search and rescue dogs

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Borg, Todd.
TAHOE KILLSHOT.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original,

South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - Fourth mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot. SIGNED on the title page. Map 320 pp. ISBN: 1931296146.

Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy)

Book ID: 80696

Keywords: california, lake tahoe, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, nevada
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Bosk, Beth Robinson, editor.
THE NEW SETTLER INTERVIEWS VOLUME I : Boogie at the Brink.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.

White River Junction, VT Chelsea Green Publishing, 2000. SIGNED first edition - ÔFor more than 15 years the now-legendary magazine in this book's title has been publishing freewheeling conversations with creative refugees, renegades, and others who consciously and philosophically inhabit society's fringes. Perched on the Pacific Rim, in a world of ancient forests and salmon streams, these are the new settlersÕ: a Wailaki Indian, neo-pagans, a solar executive, a dowser, a bioregionalist, a "techno-hippie," tree-dwellers, natural builders, and others. Fascinating, in depth and wide-ranging interviews with those who have chosen to live in the more remote regions of CaliforniaÕs north coast. Among those speaking out are Jentri Andrews (Mateel resident anthropologist), Carol Miller (on herbal arbotifacients), Julia Butterfly (safeguarding…
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White River Junction, VT Chelsea Green Publishing, 2000. SIGNED first edition - ÔFor more than 15 years the now-legendary magazine in this book's title has been publishing freewheeling conversations with creative refugees, renegades, and others who consciously and philosophically inhabit society's fringes. Perched on the Pacific Rim, in a world of ancient forests and salmon streams, these are the new settlersÕ: a Wailaki Indian, neo-pagans, a solar executive, a dowser, a bioregionalist, a "techno-hippie," tree-dwellers, natural builders, and others. Fascinating, in depth and wide-ranging interviews with those who have chosen to live in the more remote regions of CaliforniaÕs north coast. Among those speaking out are Jentri Andrews (Mateel resident anthropologist), Carol Miller (on herbal arbotifacients), Julia Butterfly (safeguarding creation) and many others. Illustrated with photographs, 289 pp plus 4 pp advertisements. Oversized square format. ISBN: 1-89013239X.
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Condition: SIGNED by the editor, and uncommon thus. Very near fine (a new copy).

Book ID: 30032

Keywords: California, ecology, forests, hippies, marijuana, mendocino, rural living, self-sufficiency

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Boyd, William Harland, editor.
KERN COUNTRY WAYFARERS.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

Bakersfield, CA: Kern County Historical Society, 1977. First edition - Includes excerpts from seven literary sources on the history of Kern County from the 1840s to the 1880s, with an introduction to each work, including brief biographies of the authors, from the explorer John Charles Fremont to the geologist William Phipps Blake and the novelist William Henry Bishop. Illustrated, index. vi, 72 pp.

Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 76252

Keywords: 19th century, army corps of engineers, bakersfield, California, fremont, nordhoff, western americana

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Boyle, T. Coraghessan.
WHEN THE KILLING'S DONE.

Edition: First UK printing.

London: Bloomsbury, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. SIGNED on the title page. 369 pp. ISBN: 978-1408811481.

Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages and edges of textblock)

Book ID: 81921

Keywords: california, channel islands, environment, Modern first editions
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Boyle, T. Coraghessan.
WHEN THE KILLING'S DONE.

Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

New York: Viking, (2011). First edition - Novel set in the Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. 369 pp.

Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 81920

Keywords: arc, california, channel islands, environment, Modern first editions, uncorrected proof

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Boyle, T. Coraghessan.
WHEN THE KILLING'S DONE.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Viking, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. SIGNED on the title page. 369 pp. ISBN: 9780670022328.

Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some small nicks to top of spine of dj)

Book ID: 57984

Keywords: california, channel islands, environment, Modern first editions

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Boyle, T. Coraghessan.
WHEN THE KILLING'S DONE.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Viking, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. SIGNED on the title page. 369 pp. ISBN: 978-0670022328.

Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Book ID: 81919

Keywords: california, channel islands, environment, Modern first editions
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