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Group of 5 Books, California History and Nature

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Group of 5 Books, California History and Nature
Group of 5 books on California history and nature: 1. LOOFBOUROW, LEON L. In Search of Gold's Gold: a Story of Continued Christian Pioneering in California. Stockton: College of the Pacific, 1950. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering; dust jacket. A presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the free endpaper, signed on the title page. Good. 2. MARKHAM, EDWIN. California the Wonderful. New York: Hearst's International Library Co.: 1914. 8vo. Brown and gilt pictorial cloth. Possibly the copy of Charles F. Hottes (1870-1966), American botanist; bears "Chas. F. Hottes" signatures and stamps. 3. SCHWARZKOPF, CHET. Heart of the Wild: Animal Stories of the California Redwood Coast. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1962. 8vo. Half brown and green cloth, gilt; dust jacket. Signed by the author. Good; a news article on the author is glued onto the pastedown, toning and tape marks on free endpaper. 4. WHITE, STEWART EDWARD. The Story of California: Gold, The Gray Dawn, The Rose Dawn. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. 12mo. Blue-green cloth with pictorial paper label on the spine. Fair; cloth is soiled/discolored, wear and tears to ends of spine. 5. MCNAIRN, JACK, and JERRY MACMULLEN. Ships of the Redwood Coast. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1945. Second printing. 4to. Red and blue pictorial cloth, pictorial map endpapers; dust jacket. Good; glue mark from a removed bookplate on front pastedown, small dampstain on edge of free endpaper that extends on fore-edge of text block.