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CACTUS COUNTRY.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Time-Life, (1973.). Hardcover first edition - A title in The American Wilderness Series- the credits describe Abbey as 'a self-proclaimed desert rat." Beautifully illustrated with many full color and black and white photographs, including some double page ones. Slightly oversized format. Index. 184 pp. True first printing with the hourglass on the last page.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated boards with a black cloth spine, issued without a dust jacket (corners slightly bumped.).
Book ID: 53877More details Price: $25.00 -
JAMES H. CARSON'S CALIFORNIA, 1847 - 1853.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 61816More details Price: $50.00 -
JESSIE BENTON FREMONT: A Biography.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88288More details Price: $25.00 -
SALLY DOWS AND OTHER STORIES.
Edition: Early undated reprint.
New York: The Regent Press, (c 1893). Hardcover- A later work by Harte, includes the title novella, set in the post Civil war, reconstruction era South, and three long short stories set in California - The Conspiracy of Mrs Bunker, Transformation of Buckeye Camp and Their Uncle from California. Glossy frontispiece. 299 pp.
Condition: Very good in tan cloth with black lettering, red decoration on front cover and spine.(previous owner's name in pencil on front endpaper, easily erasable)
Book ID: 67858More details Price: $16.50 -
DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY TOLD ME -
Edition: Later printing.
Condition: Near fine in cream colored wrappers with a photograph of Scotty on the front cover.
Book ID: 42071More details Price: $12.00 -
GHOST TOWN GLIMPSES.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
San Francisco: Anthelion Press, Inc. (1975.). First edition - Stories of the California gold mining towns in the Mother Lode country of the Sierra foothills - both their colorful past, and the often picturesque remains. Among the towns written about are Drytown, Copperopolis, Volcano, Fiddletown, Placerville and more - and the characters include bandits like Murieta and Black Bart, the first baby born at the diggings, as well as the miners themselves. Photographs. 100 pages. ISBN: 0-89185-0058.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 17597More details Price: $15.00 -
DANNY'S PARTNER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1923). Hardcover first edition - When a Civil War veteran who had lost his leg in the fighting and who had been living in the poorhouse comes into an unexpected inheritance, he heads West towards Colorado - and takes 9 year old Danny and his dog with him. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three internal plates. 257 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated blue cloth (previous owner's name dated Oct 1923)
Book ID: 74045More details Price: $19.50 -
FOOL'S GOLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Story set in an 'awesomely quaint and historic Gold rush town in the Sierra foothills' where the long-standing friendship of two boys is strained by the arrival of a new boy from Southern California who is determined that one of the closed old mine holes still has gold in it. Another excellent story - about courage, overcoming your fears and friendship by this Newbery honor award winning author. ISBN: 0-385-309082.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 17274More details Price: $25.00 -
FOOL'S GOLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Story set in an 'awesomely quaint and historic Gold rush town in the Sierra foothills' where the long-standing friendship of two boys is strained by the arrival of a new boy from Southern California who is determined that one of the closed old mine holes still has gold in it. Another excellent story - about courage, overcoming your fears and friendship by this Newbery honor award winning author. ISBN: 0-385-309082.
Condition: Ex-library but no markings except for a small peeled spot on the front endpaper, and signs of tape on the boards. Overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 22140More details Price: $17.00