NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color photos of wine makers & their vineyards, maps, 240 pgs previous owner's inscription on half title page, price clipped.
Hardcover. NY, Summit Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, With the first classification of the best vineyards and wineries. 463 pages.
Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages, 62 color plates (including 9 gatefolds) and 150 illustrations in b&w and duotone. Monograph of Edward Ruscha, icon of the funky, laid-back world of Californian modern art. Yellow cloth, gilt lettering and unfortunate, but small ink-stains to spine. Pictorial dust jacket with light wear and some sunfading to spine. Overall a very neat, clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Claremont, CA, Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 132 pages. Softcover. Minor wear to cover spine, corners, otherwise clean and tight.
Softcover. CA, Claremont Colleges Gallery, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 132 pages. B&W prints throughout. White pictorial stiff wrappers with slight raising of spine and slight wear to covers. Overall, a nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Argosy - Antiquarian Ltd., 2nd pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages, hardcover. Blue cloth covers with gilt text and Alaskan state are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. The top edge of the pages are colored black. Limited edition, only 750 copies of this type were printed. This book is Emil Teichmann's diary, chronicling his journey to Alaska in the late 1860s to establish a firm hold on the fur trading industry for his employer. Clean copy. Record # 33784
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2nd Pr., 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 346 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some edge wear, but is still in good condition. Blue paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout, as well as a bind-in halfway through with full-color photography. This lively, accessible chronicle works back from 1778, when the British explorers encountered an island civilization governed by rulers who could not be gazed upon by common people. Interweaving anecdotes from his own widespread travel and extensive archaeological investigations into the broader historical narrative, Kirch shows how the early Polynesian settlers of Hawai'i adapted to this new island landscape and created highly productive agricultural systems. Clean copy. Record # 34124
Softcover. San Francisco, California, Art Museum Association of America, rep., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalogue for an exhibition of the American drawings and watercolors in the collection of Amherst College. 80 pages, includes illustrated entries for 51 artists. Illustrations are both color and black/white reproductions of drawings and paintings. Very good condition, few bumps near the spine. In the list of exhibitions there are several ink check marks written in. Record # 805286
Softcover. Santa Fe, New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Exhibition catalog Black stapled covers with color illustration, foreword by Don Humphrey, introduction by Gifford and Joann Phillips, 1 full page color plate, 16 b&w plates with accompanying descriptions. Light wear to covers; otherwise a tight, clean copy. Record # 806108
Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 419 pages. Some pencil underlining. Stamp on front cover. Light browning to covers. Chipping to top of spine. Record # 506431
Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Stamp on front cover. Light browning on covers. Light edgewear. Record # 506432
Softcover. Davis, CA, privately published, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages, soft cover. Light tan exterior in good condition, some light staining. Interior pages in fine condition. Important reference work with respect to California ranching history. Record # 33581
Softcover. Harpercollins, 1st pb, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 495 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to wrappers, small hole in center of spine, else a very neat, tight copy. Record # 453643
Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453741
Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. A very clean, tight copy. With the help of some unusual characters in a small California town, Danny struggles to live on his own while his father, a Vietnam veteran, is in the VA hospital. Teaches values like honesty and fair play and telling the truth. Record # 450867
Softcover. Berkeley, California, North Atlantic Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book extrapolates on a startling correlation between ancient knowledge and ultramodern science. Dr. Yan did postdoctoral research on the computational chemistry of biopolymers at Cornell University. His current interest is in the interpretation of DNA and protein sequences. Clean copy. Record # 34036
Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This is the first biography to explore Margaret Chung's remarkable and complex life as the first known American-born Chinese female physician. It offers an intimate portrait of a woman who invented and reinvented herself in a quest for influence and social acceptance. Clean copy. Record # 34251
Softcover. San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Exhibition catalog. Color illustrated wrappers with white titles, perfect binding, preface by Ian McKibben White, introduction by Michael Conforti, catalogue of the exhibition, 23 b&w plates throughout, brown textured endpapers. Light rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy in great condition. Record # 806225
Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2nd, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W tables, as well as some illustrations at chapter headers. This book presents a linguistic analysis of poetry through a series of literary essays which demonstrate the artistic progression of poetry through the decades. Previous owner's name is signed on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34543
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has been bumped at the bottom of the spine, but is still in very good condition overall. Black paper boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. There is a remainder dot on the bottom edge. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in American history. Previous owner's signature is present on the front end page in black pen, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34300
Paperback. California, Arctos Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 83 pages. Illustrated wrappers with blue border. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Record # 803406
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Dust jacket has some scratches, but is still in very good condition overall. Blue cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains 131 full-color photographs of artwork throughout. This book is the catalogue of the Hess Collection, a private museum on the site of a winery of the same name in California's Napa Valley. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy Record # 34263
Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 450018
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 "A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i by: Kirch, Patrick Vinton")
 "American Drawings and Watercolors from Amherst College by: Barter, Judith A.")
 "California Connection: Sixteen Paintings from the Gifford and Joann Phillips Collection by: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico")
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 "English Ceramics from Northern California Collections by: Keith, D. Grame, Michael Conforti, and Mary Forbes")
 "Eras & Modes in English Poetry by: Miles, Josephine")
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