New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1935) dj. Hardcover first edition - An introduction to the pleasures of living in - or visiting - Carmel, Monterey and Santa Barbara, including two chapters on the Franciscan Mission at Santa Barbara. His final book, published posthumously. Illustrated with 35 drawings by his wife, by Mary Seymour Brooks. 158 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third in his High Tech Thriller trilogy, set on California's Monterey Peninsula. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 9781416549994.

Orinda, CA: Condor's Sky Press, (1965). SIGNED first edition - A small group of Chinese set up camp on the beach at Monterrey in April 1853 and their number quickly increased to form a Chinatown community. A hand-lettered acount of Chinatown, the visit by Robert Louis Stevenson and more. Illustrated with pen & ink sketches by Joyce Mary Alexander. Introduction by Richard Dillon. INSCRIBED by Estob on the first page and dated in the year of publication. Oblong format, 26 pps plus notes.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2019). SIGNED first edition - A chronicle of the author's "650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California. Led by Gaspar de Portol in 1769, the expedition sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real.. . For twelve weeks, with just a backpack and a tent, he trekked through stretches of California both lonely and urban, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespi." SIGNED on the title page. 404 pp.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2019). SIGNED first edition - A chronicle of the author's "650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California. Led by Gaspar de Portol in 1769, the expedition sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real.. . For twelve weeks, with just a backpack and a tent, he trekked through stretches of California both lonely and urban, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespi." SIGNED on the title page and dated in year of publication. 404 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel (the first was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.) - the story of a Mormon girl growing up in Monterey, California in the 1950's. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-374-166730.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel (the first was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.) - the story of a Mormon girl growing up in Monterey, California in the 1950's. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-374-166730.

Los Angeles: Dawson's Bookshop, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - Born in Spain, Amat entered the Congregation for the Mission and in 1838 he volunteered to go to America. By 1848, he was the rector of the diocesan seminary in Philadelphia - but in 1853, Pope Pius IX appointed him to vacant bishopric of Monterey in California. Both his appeals and that of his community were in vain, so he became the "reluctant prelate." Frontispiece portrait and 15 internal plates. Foreword, preface, bibliography and index. xv, 234 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery - set in the academia at a university in Monterey, California - a world the author knows well, as a former college president. Wilson was also the founder of the Clarion Writers' Workshop. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-312-134622.