Castle Rock: west of skyline
Los Altos: Sempervirens Fund, 1973. Unpaginated 8.5 x 11inch wraps, coated paper throughout, b&w plates; mild soil and handling wear. More
Cat.No: 43931
Northern California
Firesign; poetry for the free & will be
San Jose: Firesign Press, 1973. Hardcover. iv, 60p., very good first edition in cloth boards and somewhat rubbed dj. African American poet from Northern California, first edition, bears a cancel address for Firesign (to Stanford, where Eckels taught), jacket slightly edgeworn, back panel of this copy displays an author portrait..... More
Cat.No: 88375
Firesign; poetry for the free & will be
San Jose: Firesign Press, 1973. Hardcover. iv, 60p., collection by the African American author, Very good in somewhat rubbed dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 155047
Annual report; revised March 1993
San Jose: East Side Union High School District, 1993. 16 sheets printed one side, 8.5x11 inches, corner-stapled with printed coversheet. More
Cat.No: 79721
Tales from the thinking rocking chair
Santa Rosa, CA: Gainsborough Publishing Company, 1985. Hardcover. 53p., decorations, very good first edition vanity press children's book in original blue faux-leather boards, gilt rocking chair cover image and blue titltes. Stories for telling aloud by a Chican author from California. More
Cat.No: 101023
Sketches of California in the 1860s; the journals of Jesus M. Estudillo
Fredericksburg, TX: Awani Press, 1988. xi, 180p. including photos, foreword, preface, genealogy, very good first edition trade paperback in wraps. Estudillo, a Californio, grew up at Rancho San Leandro and described San Francisco and its environs in his journals. More
Cat.No: 92107
Some Aspects of the Migration of the Negro to the San Francisco Bay Area since 1940
San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1974. Oversized Paperback. viii, 114p. 8.5x11 inch sheets bound with tape and reinforcement strip. Ex-library with expected flaws (sticker to spine, card pock and stamps to title page, stamps to table of contents page. Covers somewhat soiled with fading to edges. More
Cat.No: 201122
Mihilakawna and Makahmo Pomo People of Lake Sonoma
no place [Sacramento?]: US Army Corps of Engineers, 1984. Staplebound. iii, 70p., illustrated with a number of line maps, clear drawings, and one period photograph; text reproduced from keyboard-set original. Measures 8.5x11 inches, staplebound. Covers faintly rubbed, a previous owner's name is stamped to top edge, find patches of light..... More
Cat.No: 198529
The black man in America; a bibliography
Sacramento: Sacramento State College Library, 1969. iii, 13p., 8.5x11 inches, wraps with black binder's tape spine, very good condition. Bibliographic series #4. More
Cat.No: 78939
Polarizaciones
Arcata, CA: Bug Press, 1978. Paperback. 31p., 7x8.5 inches, preamble, poems, illustrations, text in Spanish, very good first edition in slim cream printed wraps. The Cuban American poet resides in Northern California. More
Cat.No: 57096
Out of My Heart/De mi corazón
Fairfax, CA: Thumbprint Press, 2000. xi, 51p., 5.5x8.5 inches, second printing (with a new introduction), bilingual text in Spanish and English, very good chapbook in stapled pictorial wraps. Sonoma County, CA, poet , self-syled as the "blue-collar poet" and the Gourmet Poet" More
Cat.No: 88057
The flame of Hispanicism
New York: Peninsular News Service, 1938. 14p., wraps slightly worn on spine else very good condition. Lecture given at Stanford by a pro-Nationalist Spanish academic. More
Cat.No: 115320
History of Palo Alto; the early years
San Francisco: Scottwall Associates, 1989. Hardcover. x, 181p., 8.5 x 11.5" green cloth boards & dj; area maps, period photos indifferently reproduced; dust jacket and book are nearly as-new: sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 42121
The Weber era in Stockton history
Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1982. Paperback. xv, 170p., 8x11 inches wraps, folded maps and plats (some color), illustrations; slight wear. Bancroft keepsake. More
Cat.No: 42079
Sweet bye-bye
New York: Warner Books, 2004. 257p., first printing, dj. First novel by the African American author from Northern California. More
Cat.No: 131582
We came to love
Santa Cruz: Obelus Books, 1994. Paperback. 128p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps with light pencil stroke on rear. Poetry by a Northern California gay peace activist/mystic/radical færy. More
Cat.No: 100590
Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1947. Paperback. Pp.251-302, illustrated with b&w aerial photos, period images and a line map, softbound in 10.5x6.5 inch plain printed grey wraps. Plates on inserted glazed stock. Corner-tips slightly turned, a very good clean copy. Written in the time period when "Drake's plate" was believed..... More
Cat.No: 239414
Memories of my life
[San Francisco]: self-published by the author, 1992. Paperback. 224p., inscribed and signed by the author's daughter Gloria Herrera with a handwritten note from her on her stationary laid-in, very good first edition trade paperback in blue and white wraps. Autobiography of a first generation Mexican American who grew up in..... More
Cat.No: 173281
The dynamics of large-scale housebuilding
Berkeley: Real Estate Research Program, Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California, 1963. ix, 91p., folded charts, trade-size wraps; some marginal foxing and dust-soil, a good copy. Research report 22. More
Cat.No: 167130
Message in my Pen
Antioch, CA: Straight from the Heart Associates, 2012. Paperback. 139p. Inscribed, signed and dated 2013 by the author on the first page; cover is color photography including a portrait (or two) of author. Back cover has a light crease, else very good in wraps. Mississippi-born, California-raised African American writer. More
Cat.No: 214144
Evolutionary Blues, An Interhelp Quarterly. Volume 1 No. 1, Summer/Fall 1981
Arcata CA: John Steiner, Publisher, 1981. Magazine. 58p., double-column text with scattered vignette artwork, alkaline paperstock, softbound magazine in 11x8 inch paperback format; somewhat edgeworn with a corner-crease, clean and sound within. Articles by activists attempting to raise consciousness re nuclear warfare. More
Cat.No: 241255
Wishing Well: vol 6, #4, November 1980
Novato, CA: Laddie's Ventures, 1980. Magazine. 52p, 7 x 8.5 inches, booklet-style quarterly magazine with stapled pictorial wraps. Wishing Well. "A loving alternative to the Well of Loneliness" "The Wishing Well" ran from Fall 1976 until December 1998/January 1999. More
Cat.No: 203907
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Lake County Diamond [inscribed & signed]
Anchorage AK: Intertext, 1986. [25p] 6.5x8.5 inches, personal inscription to Garth and Brenda jeffers signed by the poet dated 8/29/87, very good first edition chapbook limited to 500 copies in stapled wraps with pictorial dj. Hunt was much influenced by poet Robinson Jeffers, Garth's father. Hunt's texts pertain to remote..... More
Cat.No: 223475