Baldassare, Mark

California in the New Millenium: the Changing Social and Political Landscape

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Inscribed, To Sharon, with best wishes, " & dated, 5/9/00, by author on front end paper. What will California look like in the middle of the 21st Century?.

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Book number: 653534

Catalogue: Californiana

Keywords: 520225120

Cain, Bruce E & Elisabeth R Gerber

Voting the Political Fault Line: California's Experiment With the Blanket Primary

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Proposition 198 on the 1996 California ballot briefly changed the way in which political operatives and candidates developed their election strategies until it was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2000. The transition from a closed primary to open prima.

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Book number: 651192

Catalogue: Californiana

Keywords: 520228332

Elstob, Winston With Ill By Joyce Mary Alexander

Chinatown: a Legend of Old Cannery Row

Condor's Sky Press, 1965. Light edgewear otherwise a very good+ trade paperback in decorative wrappers (softcover book). 8vo., A small group of Chinese set up camp on the beach at Monterrey in April 1853 and their number quickly increased to form a Chinatown community. This book is a nicely researched summary of the merchants and fishermen who were a part of Chinatown; 26 pages + Notes, pen & ink illustrations.

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Book number: 2018606

Catalogue: Californiana

Johnson, Paul C

Yosemite

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1973. 2nd printing., Ex library; library pocket & library stamp on front end paper otherwise clean, unmarked, complete copy in original plastic wrapper protector (soft cover book)., 122 pages; well illustrated.

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Book number: 650635

Catalogue: Californiana

Keywords: 870111272

Mulford, Prentice With Illustrations By Frederic Remington

Prentice Mulford's Story

Oakland: Biobooks, 1953. 1st California edition, Fine hard cover book in plain boards/ no dust jacket., Mulford first heard of California as a boy in 1847 and shipped out for San Francisco from New York on the clipper, Wizard. One of 500 copies.

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Book number: 655053

Catalogue: Californiana: gold rush

Sargent, Shirley

Yosemite & Its Innkeepers: the Story of a Great Park and Its Chief Concessionaires

Yosemite: Flying Spur Press, 1975. 2nd printing., Light wear otherwise a clean near fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., The history begins in the 1870's and features the Curry's first concession through Donald Tresidder; with many photographs by Ansel Adams; 176 pages, well illustrated.

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Book number: 2021116

Catalogue: Californiana

Stanley, Tim

The Last of the Prune Pickers: A Pre-Silicon Valley Story

Irvine: 2 Timothy Publishing, 2010. 1st printing of 1st edition, A clean fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., An engaging & insightful evaluation of the agricultural Santa Clara valley that preceeded the emergence of Silicon Valley and its technological offspring; 239 pages, illustrated.

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Book number: 2023025

Catalogue: Californiana

Keywords: 9780984239122

Wilsey, Ham And Blair

General Plan: City of Ojai, California (1980 General Plan Program)

1980. Fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., 41 pages, illustrated.

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Book number: 655679

Catalogue: Californiana