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239pp. 31 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
Octavo, illus offwhite, hand-sewn wraps, 12p, b/w illus One of five hundred copies only. Strange poetic trivia regarding penguins.
Green illustrated dj. Small quarto with cloth boards. 184 pages; illustrations, maps, graphs, tables. Global climate change : impacts on California : an introduction and overview / Joseph B. Knox -- Greenhouse gases : changing the global climate / Michael C. MacCracken -- Our changing atmosphere : trace gases and the greenhouse effect / F. Sherwood Rowland -- The quest for reliable regional scenarios of climate change / W. Lawrence Gates -- Global climate change and California's water resources / Henry J. Vaux, Jr. -- Global climate change and California agriculture / Lowell Lewis, William Rains, and Lynne Kennedy -- Global climate change and California's natural ecosystems / Daniel B. Botkin [and others] -- Global warming from an energy perspective / Allen G. Edwards -- Studying the human dimensions of global climate change / Richard A. Berk -- Epilogue / Joseph B. Knox and Noreen G. Dowling. Climatic changes -- California. Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric -- California. NATURE -- Weather. SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology. Climatic changes. Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric. Earth & Environmental Sciences. Meteorology & Climatology.
344p. Hardcover Very good condition good Author's first book. Signed by the author on flyleaf.
Oblong duodecimo in blue DJ, 114 pages, b&w illustrations ; 18 x 26 cm. Newport Bay (Calif.) -- History. || Contents: An uncharted estuary -- Bolsa de Gengara -- Don JosÈ Sep˙lveda -- Flint, Bixby, and Irvine -- San Joaquin Bay in 1869 -- The steamer Vaquero -- A new port -- The McFadden brothers -- The steamer Newport -- Tom Rule -- McFaddens' Wharf -- A new century -- Balboa Island -- Duck hunting, yachting, and aviation -- The floods of 1914-16 -- The first harbor work -- Motion picture boats -- Crossing the Newport Bar in the 1920s -- The depression brings a surprise -- Newport Harbor. || Out of print. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.
389p., illus. . Hardcover Very good condition Contents: 1. The life and adventures of James W. Marshall by George Frederic Parsons -- 2. Six months in the gold mines by Edward Gould Buffum.
256p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
300p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Octavo in white illus wraps; 93 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Bibliography: p. 91-92. Uncommon. || Lighthouses -- California -- Monterey Bay -- History.
Small octavo in red DJ; ix, 115 p, b&w illus, color map (on lining papers); 21 cm. California; History.
Quarto in a jade teal DJ ; 256 p. : illus ; 26 cm Washington -- History -- College -- Benedictine Monks
Octavo in a red DJ ; xxi, 394 p. : 24 cm Chinese American -- History -- California -- Biography
376, 11p. Hardcover Very good condition
402pp. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
Green-cloth octavo; xii, 559 p, front b&w illus, b&w maps & plates; 24 cm. California -- Church history.
Octavo in offwhite illus wraps; 157 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Drawings by Karen White. Paperback original. Uncommon. || Crystal Hermitage (Nevada City, Calif.) ; Ananda Cooperative Village. Nevada City (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
viii, 152 p. : illis (b/w photos). ; 25 cm; indexes Pipelines -- California. Wheelwright, Jane Hollister -- Diaries. Hollister Ranch (Calif.)
Folio in green DJ; 169 p, b&w illus (some color) ; 31 cm National Monument; California. One of e the better, more detailed books on Hearst Castle and San Simeon
8vo., First Edition; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities.
Menlo Park, Lane Magazine & Book Company, 1969, in-4, cart. editoriale con sovracc., pp. 287. Con numerose ill. in b.n. e a col.
In-8° pp. 48, con numerose carte foto e ill. anche a piena pag. a col. e in nero n.t. Bross. edit. ill. con tit. in oro.
Madrid, Novelas y Cuentos, 1968. 4to. menor; 193 pp., 1 h. Cubiertas originales.
[Firenze], [a spese di Giovacchino Pagani], [1796], incisione in rame di mm. 170x259 (l'impronta della lastra che comprende anche il titolo sottostante l'immagine e margini bianchi), mm. 190x280 (il foglio). Firmata in lastra in basso a destra. Tavola che corredava il tomo secondo dell'edizione italiana dei "Viaggi dalla China alla costa nord-ovest d'America fatti negli anni 1788 e 1789 dal capitano G. Meares". Aloni di vecchia umidità sulla parte superiore dell'incisione. Tracce di piegature.
Large octavo in orane DJ; xviii, 439 p : ill. ; 24 cm. Signed by author. || Contents: Boomtown : tumult and triumph in Gold Rush San Francisco; Woven into the fabric : the confident community of the Gilded Age; Rooted cosmopolitans: the cultural creativity of the second generation; Eden of the Pacific : the challenges to Judaism at the turn of the century; Healing California : Jewish reformers and revolutionaries in the progressive era; Trials : firestorms and corruption, terrorism and world war; With a Yiddish accent : East European Jewish neighborhoods; Good times : the Jewish elite between the wars; Both sides of the barricades : Jews and class conflict during the Depression; Cataclysms : responses to the Holocaust and Zionism. || Jews -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History.
Octavo in blind-stamp illus rust bds & gilt spine, 292p, adverts, frontis, b/w illus Interesting if racist observations of California in the late 19th century. An extremely nice copy, scarce thus. Several small skillful b/w illustrations. Author's observations and travel throughout California in the 1860s and 1870s. Train travel. Overland travel.
