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MINERAL & WATER SOURCES OF CALIFORNIA:PART I.MINERAL RESOURCES: Report of the United States Geological Survey in Collaboration with the California Division of Mines and Geology, prepared at the request of Senator Thomas H. Kuchel of California of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affaris, United States Senate.
Edition: First edition.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966. First edition - A "comprehensive summary report" on the mineral resources of California, llustrated with many charts and maps, including a fold out chart showing stratographic correlations and a foldout map of the Southern and central California oil and gas fields. 450 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in printed light green wrappers (some sunning to the spine.)
Book ID: 57176More details Price: $18.00 -
BANKING ON BAGHDAD: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 32146More details Price: $20.00 -
MARCH OF INDUSTRY.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good in red boards with gold lettering - some rubbing and wear to the edges of the cover, previous owner's name, but otherwise tight and clean.
Book ID: 30549More details Price: $28.00 -
USAGMPA SUPPLY INFORMATION BULLETIN, STRGP-M 84-1
Edition: First thus.
Cumberland PA: Department of the Army (1984). A general bulletin featuring petroleum and chemical supply. 8.5x11 inches, in stiff illustrated wrappers. 44 pp.
Condition: Very good in stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 87316More details Price: $20.00 -
AS SUMMERS DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Summit Books, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by the author of 'Forrest Gump' - set in the early 1960's in his fictional Bienville, a coastal town in the bayou country, where oil has been discovered under land formerly considered so worthless it was inhabited only by poor black farmers and sharecroppers - and now the richest family in town is trying to force them off the land. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-671-40072X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 53676More details Price: $18.00 -
BUFFALO NICKEL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel: "A sprawling saga of love and money in the American West -- the story of 'the world's richest Indian.' In 1917 oil was discovered on David Copperfield's land in Oklahoma -- and overnight the Kiowa ferryman, a.k.a. Went on a Journey, became a millionaire" - a story of the conflict between the clash of Kiowa and white cultures in the early 20th century. Dust jacket art by David Montiel. 429 pp. ISBN: 0-671-624474.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38342More details Price: $18.50 -
BUFFALO NICKEL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel: "A sprawling saga of love and money in the American West -- the story of 'the world's richest Indian.' In 1917 oil was discovered on David Copperfield's land in Oklahoma -- and overnight the Kiowa ferryman, a.k.a. Went on a Journey, became a millionaire" - a story of the conflict between the clash of Kiowa and white cultures in the early 20th century. INSCRIBED on the first page to the Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. Dust jacket art by David Montiel. 429 pp. ISBN: 0-671-624474.
Condition: Near fine (toning to edges of textblock and pages) in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80739More details Price: $35.00