Search Results: Titles starting with F from California Bookseller - J. R. Aboud

New York: Viking Press, 1941. 1st Edition . Cloth. Nearly Fine/Very Good. Sack cloth binding printed in green is fine for some very light soiling to spine. Jacket evenly lightened and marginal edge wear. A striking group of photographs taken at the time of movie production. A workable copy. Size: Quarto

Little, Brown, 1939. First Edition. . Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. Outstanding copy in Tan cloth. Size: Octavo

New York: Dodge, 1901. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good +. One map, two color plates and 15 contemporary photographs and the unmistakeable feel of the early missions. A wonderful compiliation of the misssions as they remained at the end of the 19th century. Bumped at the top of the spine and very mild toning with a fine inset illustration on the front panel. A nice copy internally quite bright and clean Size: Slim Octavo

Boston: Lathrop, 1890. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Very Good. First Edition. Blue cloth with some spotting and light staining and wear to spine ends. Slightly cocked otherwise a very collectable copy of a surprisingly scarce book in collectible condition. Jessie Benton Fremont was forced to write for a living after her husband's losses of three seperate fortunes ; gold from the gold rush, his land grant in the sierra foot hills and money raised for the failed continental railroad. These stories of her time in California are charming and true to the California life of the late 1800s. The author died in southern California in 1902. women, fiction, western authors, John Charles. Size: Octavo

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1969. First Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/Original Wrappers. Nearly Fine/Original Wrappers. Uncorrected Galley Proof. Tall Octavo. First edition. A stated first printing and an uncorrected version of the text which transforms the San Joaquin Valley into the world of unrelenting reality and personal degradation. Fimed by John Huston and starring Stacy Keach, this book continues Frank Norris' tradition of using California landscape as the back drop to a world of stark reality. Spiral bound in light blue wrappers and with a removed blank postal label, otherwise a near fine copy of this scarce printing.

New York: Coward - McCann, 1953. First Edition. . Cloth. Fine/Very Good +. Lynn Bogue Hunt. Beautiful marlin breaches the surface for the front jacket cover. Striking photographs and interesting text on technique and areas of the pacific where these large fish are found. Nice section on California and the Channel Islands. Book fine with silver billfish on front cloth cover. DUST JACKET with edge creasing and scuffing yet still nice and attractive. Not faded, or torn. Interesting end paper maps of the currents of the Pacific. Size: Large Octavo

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1989. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine. Fine. Fine/Prospectus & Plain Wrapper. First Edition. Not Signed. 8 1/2 53/4. The illustrations used as chapter headings are taken directly from illustrations & department headings of The Argonaut dur ing its first eightenn years. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library.