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298 pages. "The forest soil has been the object of scientific study for a relatively short time. In the Pacific Northwest, one of the principal forest growing areas of the world, the evaluation of the soil as a factor in the production of forest resources has an even shorter history, but a great deal of progress has been made. This volume represents an attempt to synthesize the results of these studies and thereby add direction to future work as well as provide current guidelines for management. Chapters include: Geology of the Douglas-Fir Region; The Klamath Mountains and Coast Ranges of Northern California; The Oregon and Washington Coast Ranges; The Willamette Valley; The Cascade Range in Oregon and Southern Oregon; The Olympic Mountains Province; Northern Cascade Mountains; Surficial Geology of the Puget Sound Lowlands; The San Juan Islands; Bedrock Geology of Vancouver; Suricial Geology of Vancouver Island; Geologic Look at Soils of the Douglas-Fir Region; Geology Glossary; Climate; Vegetation; Physical Properties and Physical Behavior of Forest Soils; Minerals, Chemical Properties and Fertility of Forest Soils; Organic Matter of Forest Soils; Forest Soils Biology; Soil Formation, Classification and Morphology; Forest Soil Survey; The Cycling of Elements Within Forests; Forest Soil Productivity Relationships; Soil, Vegetation and Watershed Management; Forest Chemicals in Watershed Management; Some Engineering Aspects of Forest Soils; Soil Management in Douglas-fir Nurseries; Forest Fertilization Practices. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Prior owner's name printed upon fore-edge else unmarked. Average wear and above-average rubbing to card covers. Small openings at base of spine. Good working copy. Book
80 pages. Features: The 20th Revival Glidden Tour Goes South; The Emancipation Run of November 1896 Analysed; Hershey-Eastern National Fall Meet; 1910 Reo Runabout - Ransom Olds' Second Effort; AACA Movies; The West Goes to South Gate; Empire - "The Little Aristocrat"; 8th Annual Ormond Beach Meet; Restoring those Shot Valves; The "Bugs" Go Home; Ford Facts - Model A Bumpers; California to Iowa in a 1919 Buick; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
120 pages. Features: Best of the West - where to shop, where to eat, what to see, what's hot; This Vancouver home is a crisp canvas for a collection of contemporary furnishings and art; Feast of flowers in this small Vancouver garden; At home in Malibu, California with Canadian composer/producer David Foster; Island retreat for relaxed summer living; The well-appointed bathroom; Latest crop of bathroom accessories; Seven great inexpensive cushion sewing styles; Wei Chen and Lucy Waverman combine tastes from east and west - plus a recipe for your own fortune cookies; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Cover illustration of Leonard Rosenberg. Contents: Volvo car ad; California dispute over graveyards for old nuclear subs; John Hinckley's Legacy; How Economics lost its credibility, by Dian Cohen; The Tories Make Their Choice - preparing for the leadership convention in Ottawa - photos of each candidate and a summary of their policy positions; Air Canada DC-9 burns at 31,000 feet. Abortion war in Winnipeg; Canadian bullets in Nicaragua; Williamsburg summit; Is Arafat losing control?; Cover Story - The Fall of a Financial Empire - Leonard Rosenberg vs. Jack Biddell - Greymac Trust, Seaway Trust, Crown Trust; The price of medication - generic drugs - Apotex; Peter C. Newman on Japan - Assembly lines with a heart; Octopussy review and promo photo; Fotherinham discusses Jack Webster's receipt of an honourary degree from S.F.U.; Commodore 64 computer ad inside back cover. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
94 pages. Features: Shane's '79 Jimmy; The New Smog Laws and You; Blown 3X - a '75 Silverado from the Ozark Mountain Club; Cover Truck - The Swanson's '70 Bronco; Mopar Wizardry - '79 Ramcharger 'Tall Toy; California Jamboree; Ted Nugent's News - 4-Wheel, Lo-High; Baja 500; Pink Pacer; Reyes on Tour - photos; Project Blazer, Part 1; and much more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: 'History and Reminiscences of J.W. Cooper, California Sheep Baron - reprinted in its entirety; Hell and Hight Water - early loggers; Colter's Boone - John Colter; Rattlesnakes I have known; The Murder of Simeon Turley; W. T. 'Slick' Clements - dead shot; Black Rock Swindle - Humboldt County, Nevada; The Harvey Houses - food and accommodation for travellers; Bitter Sunset - Gokliya, famed Apache war chief; They didn't stay for dinner - early Coloradan 'Zan' Hicklin got rid of bores; Old West Scrapbook; Bears are bigger in the dark; Sandon, British Columbia - Misfortune's Playground; White Man's revenge - what happened when a young Indian refused to submit; The Denton-Twiggs Feud - Jesse Roper; We ran the Jim - the James River, South Dakota in the 1880s; Bert Casey and the Hughes Ranch, Oklahoma; Longest stage route in the world; The meanest Cayuse; Cry of the Death Bird; Early Day Cow Hosses. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: When Bob Dalton Hit the Longview Bank; Montana - the last frontier to be branded; Geronimo's Wives; Gold Beneath Toadstool Rock; The Tragic Punishment of James Black; Mademoiselle Nevada; Dodging Death along the Smoky Hill River; Bulkeley Wells - polite and lethal; The Crest and Crumble of Crook City; The Difference between Oregon and California Miners; Off to Indiana!; The Monarchs; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
176 pages. Features: Advances in antisubmarine warfare; California rice culture; the nucleosome; the activity cycles of stars; pterosaurs; a deep-sea neutrino telescope; the Nok sculptures of Nigeria; and more. Nostalgic car ads plus some from the early days of the PC industry. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
234 pages. Features: Fuming Red; Final Approach; Jungle Fever; Nitrous Oxide on a Ranger!; Outrageous Fortune - a California Blazer; Project X - step 1 of a Chevy transformation; Ford dropped I-beams; Tuf Truk from Oregon; Rags to Riches; Three Monster Mini 4X4s!; 1991 Previa - Toyota's new mini-van; Safety harness for Ford Ranger; Dream Come True; Splitting gears on the 454 SS; Tow Truck - hot F-100; Florida parties with Rodney Rat; Classic Thunder; and much more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
248 pages. Features: One 2 Show - a Northern California Mini; Ford concept trucks; Purple Merc; Add Corvette rear suspension to your project truck; Annual run at Prado Park; Jerry Covington and two of his fine Chevy pickups; Pro Farm Ford; Add a suspension lift to your truck; The Torch - from Florida; Alloy Toy - an $85k street pickup; The Narrow Way; West Coast Mini-Truckin' Nationals; Solomon Gallegos and his custom Chevys; Sinbad; Chevy door repair; Owen Jeancart and his Canadian Classic Chevy pickup; Russell Performance Products 454; and much more. Short tape repair to top of spine. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
88 pages. Features: Original drawing for California State Seal; Silver Tankard by Paul Revere; Antiques in California - The Gold Rush and After; Living with Antiques; American Silver, 1690-1810, in California collections; American furniture in California; Pictorial Californiana; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
74 pages. Featuers: California's Floating Islands of Hell - prison ships; River Full of Whiskey - Brigadier-General Stand Watie; Massacre at Caborca - Henry Alexander Crabb and his followers invaded Mexico; Vengeance Rides a Black Horse - Indians are killed at Weaverville, California after Mr. Anderson was killed by a native; Rail Honeymoon for Eight - Jim Bridger and company terrify white woman by posing as wild Indians at Walla Walla; The Paddlewheelers and the Hungry Miners - Paddlewheeler "New Racket" is stranded in the ice of the Yukon River; Forgotten Fort on the Bloody Bozeman - Fort C.F. Smith and the belligerant Sioux; Something Under the Bridge - life in East Las Vegas in the 1880's; Headstrong Henry Mudge - Playboy Rancher of Hodgeman County, Kansas; Glittering Gold - Before Sutter's Mill; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Three-inch opening at foot of coverfold, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Mr. Boeing and his 'Mechanician'; Kenmore Air; Kal-Air Repair; Viking Air; Air Link Charters; Hawkair Aviation; Black and white centerfold features the first mail flight from Vancouver to Seattle by W.E. Boeing in 1919; Fretting Corrosion; True Tales from the Log Book of a Coast Seaplane Pilot; Museum Piece - Preserving B.C.'s Helicopter History; The CAM 100 Honda Engine; Helping out with California Wild Fires. Nice copy. Magazine
65 pages. Features: The First Bulldogger - Bill Pickett; Me and Paint; Siege at Fort Utah - Mormon, Timpanogos Ute band; Columbia - California Gold Rush; The Last Fighting Comanche - Quanah Parker; Mystery Outlaw of the Border - aka Joe Casey; The Choctaw Code - Silan Lewis; Custer: Hero - George Armstrong Custer; Custer: Coward; Little Bighorn; Death of the Empire - George D. Roberts; Hell Riders of the West - Pony Express, Bob Haslam; Spy for the Pinkertons - Charlie Siringo. Average wear. Pg 45/46 Corner piece cut out - text unaffected. A worthy copy. Magazine
Cal Paperback Edition 1984. Un volume di XVII-412 pagine, brossura editoriale illustrata. Dimensioni: 20x26,5 cm. Minime tracce d’uso alla brossura, piccole fioriture al taglio esterno, per il resto ottime condizioni. Numerose figure in b/n nel testo. In lingua inglese.
373p. Hardcover Ex-library, Good condition, rebound in red buckram & leather spine, spine worn & front cover faded. t.p. mounted
351 p. Hardcover Very good condition spine spotted Signed by the author and the illustrator.
252 p. + Frontis portrait. 12 mo. 180 mm. Original full cloth binding, nicely lettered and decorated in gilt and black. Only very slightly worn. Inscribed presentation from the author to G. R. Cassaday, on the front flyleaf. Philosophical talks on the conduct of life. Unusual early California book. Hardbound. Almost fine. First (and only?) edition. Owen, the editor of the San Jose Daily Mercury, is most famous for making San Jose the first electrified city west of the Rockies. In 1881 he came up with a grand idea to illuminate the streets of San Jose - a huge tower rising over the intersection of Santa Clara and Market Streets. Using his newspaper's influence, he obtained $4,000 in funding (from early venture capitalists?) and constructed a tower 237 feet high with a 30-foot flagpole on top. Six carbon arc lamps shone down from the top. It was an interesting idea, but Owen's ability to raise money far exceeded his knowledge of physics. The bright light from the arcs faded too quickly to adequately light the streets below. The tower proved irresistible to drunks, who wanted to climb it, and farmers complained that its glow disturbed their chickens. By 1884, the tower was mostly abandoned and lit only for special occasions. AMER 8
64 p. Chapter V: "The Phallus in California" Hardcover Very good condition
444p. frontis. Hardcover good conditon scattered foxing
347p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition, spine darkened
200 p. Narrative of captain's wife of ship Nonantum. They seem to have been shipwrecked 3 times on voyage to California. Hardcover Good condition A native of Kingston, Massachusetts, Mrs. Bates sailed to California in 1850 on board the Nonantum, a coaler commanded by her husband. On reaching that state, the Bateses undertook hotelkeeping in Marysville, 1851-1854. Incidents on land and water (1857) contains Mrs. Bates's hair-raising account of her voyage to California, when fires forced the scuttling of three ships on which the Bateses sailed. Mrs. Bates recounts hardships of the mining town, with special attention to the life of women and children in the camps, and gives details of a tour of the Sacramento Valley.
n.p. Illustrated with 13 full page plates of various towns in California. The original pencil sketches are in the possession of the Bancroft Library, University of California. Though the originals were not signed nor dated, they were probably from the 1850's. Oblong folio. 440 x 285 mm. Original cloth spine over marbled covered cloth boards. Edges chipped and soiled. Small loss at head and tail of spine. Gilt lettered spine label, loss at each end. Joints worn with some loss. Edition limited to only 300 copies. Plates fine. Magee 446. The towns illustrated are: Folsom; Benicia; Vallejo & Mare Island; Martinez; Alviso; Santa Cruz; San Juan Bautista; Monterey; San Luis Obispo; Santa Barbara; San Bernardino; Los Angeles; and San Diego. W38
pp. 255, 4 [Publisher's catalogue of Travel books] + Frontis Map. Illustrated with drawings and maps. Age stain. Lightly XLib. 230 mm. Original full green cloth binding, decorated in black and lettered in gilt gold. Corners worn with small loss. Binding rubbed and worn but tight. Hardbound. Very good. Charles Bernard Nordhoff (1887-1947) was an English-born American novelist and traveler. Cowan p. 162; Adams. Herd 1676; Flake 5861. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W12
Features: Indians and Treasures don't mix! - Jacob Snively's search for fortune; Monument to Bitterness - in the cemetery of Hiawatha in northeast Kansas; The Lost Butte Gold; New Show in Town - the troupes who played the communities of the West; Gold in the Bottom of the well; Cass County Poor Farm - to be on charity in pioneer times held a special dread; El Dorado - from 'Oregon and California in 1848"; Drop in, cut loose, and dance in earnest - ranch life's bright side; Kang's Gold - a young Chinaman in Arizona; A rope for Mary Rose - townspeople avenge her death; Ghosts of the Star Range - along the Nevada border; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine