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COPY KAT
Edition: Uncorrected proof.
New York: Pocket Books, 1992. First edition - The fourth Kat Colorado mystery. 261 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed wrappers.
Book ID: 45077More details Price: $20.00 -
KAT SCRATCH FEVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 8th mystery featuring Sacramento private investigator Kat Colorado. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-399-142542.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48245More details Price: $27.50 -
SLIP CUE: A Talk Radio Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Sacramento talk radio host and amateur sleuth Shauna J. Bogart. (the first in the series was the winner of the 2002 Malice Domestic Contest for best traditional mystery.) INSCRIBED on the title page "To --- stay tuned" and dated in the year of publication. 290 pp, Publicity material laid in. ISBN: 0-312-327366.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 58379More details Price: $30.00 -
MURDER OFF MIKE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003.) dj. Hardcover - Author's first novel, an award-winning mystery introducing Sacramento talk radio host and amateur sleuth Shauna J. Bogart. Winner of the 2002 Malice Domestic Contest for best traditional mystery. 290 pp,. ISBN: 0-312-310269.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53089More details Price: $12.50 -
SLIP CUE: A Talk Radio Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Sacramento talk radio host and amateur sleuth Shauna J. Bogart. (the first in the series was the winner of the 2002 Malice Domestic Contest for best traditional mystery.) SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp, Publicity material laid in. ISBN: 0-312-327366.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 65669More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SHOOTING DOC: A Gold Rush Doctor in Hangtown.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Pacific Bell, (1986.). First edition - Novel based on the experiences of a young doctor and his friends during the California Gold Rush. Photographs,. 223 pp.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 51824More details Price: $18.00 -
THE GOLD RUSH DIARY OF RAMON GIL NAVARRO.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (corners slightly bumped).
Book ID: 38014More details Price: $45.00 -
TO CALIFORNIA AND THE SOUTH SEAS. The Diary of Albert G. Osbun, 1849-1851.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, slight loss of paper at the upper corner).
Book ID: 27698More details Price: $35.00 -
GOLD RUSH DIARY: Being the Journal of Elisha Douglass Perkins on the Overland Trail in the Spring and Summer of 1849.
Edition: First edition.
Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, (1968.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young Douglass Perkins traveled overland to Sacramento from Marietta, Ohio, with 5 companions, and used mules to pack his supplies, rather than wagons. He found only disappointment and death in California, but left behind an unusually full and well-written narrative, one which has also been well-edited and extensively annotated. Illustrated with drawings and maps; appendices; bibliography; index. Large format. xxv, 206 pp.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (some minor rubbing and soiling to the dj.) Rather uncommon in this condition.
Book ID: 53861More details Price: $35.00 -
RELEASING YOUR INNER TREASURE: 8 Kingdom Keys to Unlocking the Wealth within You.
Edition: First edition
Manchester, CT: Foghorn Publishers, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Sacramento, California minister and motivational leader provides detailed keys to gaining financial security and living out personal passions, hobbies, and desires. A key focus on religion, belief and the power of God. SIGNED and dated on the front endpaper. ISBN: 1934466018.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 60138More details Price: $20.00 -
SENTRY OF THE FOUR GOLDEN PILLARS.
Edition: 2nd printing (same year as the first).
East St Louis: Black River Writers, (1970). SIGNED first edition - A collection of poems, INSCRIBED on the title page "with my respect to Blackwomanhood, luck, health and peace in your efforts" and dated in 1971 32 pp.
Condition: Near fine in stiff stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 63217More details Price: $20.00 -
SCUTTLEBUTT: The Adventures of Robert K. Reed.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (a few corners creased).
Book ID: 62392More details Price: $16.50 -
HUNGER OF MEMORY: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, an Autobiography.
Edition: 2nd printing (same year as the first).
Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1982.) dj. Hardcover - The son of Mexican immigrants, Rodriguez began his schooling in Sacramento, California knowing only 50 words of English. This is his educational autobiography, the autobiography of a scholarship boy. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-4180.
Condition: Good in a good dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, price-clipped, some crinkling to front cover of dj)
Book ID: 76336More details Price: $13.50 -
WHEN MY HEART WAS WICKED.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 62968More details Price: $25.00 -
NOTES OF A TOUR IN AMERICA. FROM AUGUST 7TH TO NOVEMBER 17TH, 1877.
Edition: Facsimile Reprint.
New York: Arno Press, 1974. Hardcover - Originally published in 1878. Folding frontispiece map. The author, a member of Parliament, traveled from Halifax in Nova Scotia, to Boston, New York, Saratoga, etc, and then went across to the Pacific and back on the Union Pacific Railroad, taking in the California sites, including Yosemite. Vivian visited Utah and includes notes on the Mormons and polygamy. As a metallurgist, he devotes a significant amount of attention to the mining districts and the mineral resources of Nevada, Utah and California. Comments on the Chinese questions, frequent statements like loving the "darkies" and preferring "the niggers, etc." A title in the Foreign Travelers in America, 1810-1935 series. iii, 260 pp. ISBN: 0-405-054769.
Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings, missing front endpaper, but overall tight and clean in gold cloth with burgundy lettering.
Book ID: 57391More details Price: $25.00 -
CROCKER ART GALLERY: Handbook of Paintings.
Edition: First printing, a large square trade paperback
Sacramento, CA: Crocker Art Gallery, 1979. First edition - A catalogue designed to show a cross-section of the paintings held by this art museum, the oldest west of the Mississippi. Includes a foreword and an article on the Crockers and their collection by the Director, Richard V, West. Notes on the paintings, with many reproduced on glossy stock in both color and black and white. Index. 202 pp.
Condition: Very good in light blue wrappers with gilt lettering (light creasing to the spine, upper corner of a few pages with a tide mark.)
Book ID: 56874More details Price: $20.00