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RECOLLECTIONS OF A CALIFORNIA PIONEER.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Ex-library, in sturdy dark green library binding, with the usual markings, but overall good condition. Uncommon in the first edition.
Book ID: 56955More details Price: $300.00 -
RIVER LIGHT: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Poetic Matrix Press, (2017). SIGNED first edition - Collection of poems by this Northern California writer, rooted in the natural world and most evoking the Sierras and California - from the American River to Yosemite. SIGNED on the title page. 110 pp plus author biography. ISBN: 978-0998146959.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78300More details Price: $20.00 -
NATURE NOIR: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierras.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. dj. Hardcover first edition - Smith worked as a California State Park Ranger in the Auburn Recreation area - land owned by the Bureau of Reclamation, and supposedly the site of a dam that was never built - his "account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to be flooded -- brings him into contact with drug users tweaked out to the point of violence, obsessed miners, and other dangerous creatures." Map. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-618224165.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (small donation stamp on title page).
Book ID: 64115More details Price: $18.50 -
NATURE NOIR: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierras.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. First edition - Smith worked as a California State Park Ranger in the Auburn Recreation area - land owned by the Bureau of Reclamation, and supposedly the site of a dam that was never built - his "account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to be flooded -- brings him into contact with drug users tweaked out to the point of violence, obsessed miners, and other dangerous creatures." Map. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-618224165.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65702More details Price: $17.50 -
NATURE NOIR: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierras.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. SIGNED first edition - Smith worked as a California State Park Ranger in the Auburn Recreation area - land owned by the Bureau of Reclamation, and supposedly the site of a dam that was never built - his "account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to be flooded -- brings him into contact with drug users tweaked out to the point of violence, obsessed miners, and other dangerous creatures." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2004 - that is, before publication. Map. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-618224165.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78459More details Price: $28.50
