Sacramento, CA: Sacramento Historical Society, 1967. First edition - The entire issue is dedicated to publishing excerpts from a manuscript on deposit at the Bancroft Library. Thomas Bailey arrived in California with his family in 1848, at the age of 14. They settled in Dixon, where they raised cattle and wheat, and Thomas is credited with the invention of the Jackson Feeder for threshing machines. The excepts included here are all related to the Sacramento area, including notes of Sutter's Fort, the first ferry on the American River, etc. 12 pp.

Scotland, Massachusetts: Community Press, 1953. First edition - First separate publication of this article originally published in Volume 4, Series Two of the Collections of the Mass. Historical Society. A small thin booklet measuring approximately 7 by 5 inches. 20 pp.

Silverthorne, Colorado: Alpenrose Press, (1980) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Stories of Breckenridge, Montezuma, Dillon, Frisco and other mining towns. Illustrated with photographs and small drawings throughout. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page. Index, 334 pp. ISBN: 0-96036241X.

Charlotte, Vermont: Charlotte Historical Society, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - An historical account of three towns in the mid-Champlain valley, all chartered on June 24, 1762. Illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, reproductions and maps. A large and rather heavy octavo. Several appendices, endnotes, index. xxvi, 332 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-914960881.

Marquette, MI: Lake Superior Press, (1996). First edition - The author's account of her experiences as a teacher in one room school houses in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, for eight years beginning in 1939 when she was a 19 year old, recent graduate of normal school. Illustrated with photographs. Double page map. 60 pp.

Ardmore, Waterford, Ireland: Ardmore Pottery Shop, (2000). SIGNED first edition - A combination of local history, traditions with a dash of humor, by a woman born in Ardmore in 1919 and who lived there all her life. Ardmore is a small seaside village o the south coast of Ireland, with a history going back to at least the 5th century. SIGNED on the title page. Foreword by Fergal Keane. Illustrated with photographs, some in full color. Double page hand-drawn map. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-953890309.

Volcano, CA: California Traveler, 1972. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel based on the history of the author's family and of the small towns which lined the Millertown Road from Stockton to Visalia to Tuolome (on the eastern side of the central valley, and in the lower foothills of the Sierras), an account of the first attempt to build Buchanan Dam on the Chowchilla River, back in the 1880's , and of the Ghost Settlement of Buchanan." SIGNED on the front endpaper and dated in 1980. 152 pp plus 12 historic photographs.

Jackson, CA: Cenotto Publications, (1994). Hardcover - Facsimile edition of original 1881 Thompson & West edition. Illustrated with numerous vintage plates. Includes chapters on General Sutter and Sutter's fort, the Gold Rush, the Donner Party, mining, agriculture and the many small communities in the county and a chronological history. Large format. vii, 344 pp. ISBN: 0-938121073.

Sacramento, CA: Sacramento Historical Society, 1968. First edition - An account of the Constitutional Convention in 1878 which established Sacramento as the permanent location of the state's capitol. 12 pp.