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New York: Time-Life Books (1973).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Glossy pictorial boards with cloth spine. 184 pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. No dust jacket. Spine faded. A clean, attractive copy. "Explores the landforms, animal life, plants, and meteorological conditions found in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona and northern Mexico.

New York: Crown Publishers (1997).. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later printing. ix, 275 pages. Glossary. Inscribed "For Shirley" and signed by the author. A clean, attractive copy.

New York: The Literary Guild (1930).. Hardcover. Good. Reprint. 308 pp. No dust jacket. Partially removed (carelessly) bookplate, bookstore stamp.

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1907. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth. xv, 371 pages. Illustrated. Index. Previous owner's name and dated 1908. Light wear to binding, boards slightly bowed. Contents solid.

Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena (2000).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Glossy boards. 448 pages. Illustrated. No dust jacket. Wrinkling to upper corners of first pages from moisture. Uncommon.

San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Paper-covered boards with cloth spine. xvii, 124 pages. Index. A solid copy with only light wear.

Seattle, WA: Superior Publishing (1971).. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Trade paperback. 128 pp. Illustrated. Only light wear to covers. Contents clean and tight.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls (1968).. Hardcover. Very Good. Second printing. Cloth. xxi, 537 pages. Illustrated. No dust jacket. Ex-library copy with stickers and stamps. Contents clean and tight. Contributors include Sir Francis Drake, Juan Crespi, Richard Henry Dana, Washington Irving, John Charles Fremont, Bret Harte, Helen Hunt Jackson, Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Walt Whitman, John Muir, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Robinson Jeffers, William Saroyan, John Steinbeck, and many others.

Oakland, CA: Biobooks, 1948. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. Edition limited to 1000 copies. Red leatherette. Marbled endpapers. xiv, 261 pages. Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. Illustrated. Index. A clean copy with only light wear.

New York: Bantam Books (1974).. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. 188 pp. Couple of creases to covers. "In 1844, nobody believed there was gold in California. Nobody, that is, except the Mulkerins and an old Indian with mystical powers. The Mulkerins needed a treasure to settle the debt on their Malibu ranch. The Indian was willing to lead them to one. But riding hard on their trail was the greediest band of cutthroats north of the Baja. Killing was their business. Doing it for gold would only make it sweeter.

New York: Bantam Books (1981).. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. 296 pp. Introduction by Abraham Rothberg. Bibliography. A clean copy with little wear.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1981. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarter cloth with gilt lettering. 206 pp. Small date stamp to rear paste-down endpaper. A clean, attractive copy.

New York: Viking (1979).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 217 pp. Stain to gutters from acidic glue, minor wear to dust jacket. The price is intact. A classic police procedural.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. N. C. Wyeth, et al. Later printing. Cloth. viii, 236 pages. Illustrated. Index. No dust jacket. Minor wear and some stains to cloth. A solid copy.

New York: Lynx Books (1988).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarter cloth with gilt lettering. 385 pp. A solid copy with only light wear.

Ottawa: Minister of Trade and Commerce. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Green leatherette. 288 pp. Photos. Index. Previous owner's name. Pages yellowing. A solid copy with only light wear.

New York: Bantam Books (1978).. Soft cover. Very Good. Sheilah Beckett. Reprint. Paperback. 122 pp. Translated by Lowell Bair. Appreciation by Andre Maurois. Light wear to covers. Contents clean and tight. "On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1979).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarter cloth with gilt lettering. xiii, 369 pp. Jacket has a couple of tiny tears. Contents clean and tight. "A shrewd analysis of the logic of terror combines with a witty study of manners in this thriller about a hijacked Iranian jet carrying a committee of liberals sent to investigate human rights violations in Iran and a group of erudite art collectors.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1974. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Full brown leather with gilt lettering and decoration. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. 634 pages. Illustrated. A clean copy with only light wear. Contents clean and tight. Includes the "Notes from the Editors" booklet.

New York: International Association of Newspapers and Authors, 1901. Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Cloth. vi, 296 [2] pp. Binding worn and soiled. A few pages had underlining which has been erased, but the indentations remain. "...an Irish terrorist, using bombs so advanced that the British police are baffled, blows up a number of London train stations" - EoSF