van Rensselaer Livingston, Peter. How to Cook a Rogue Elephant. The Recollections and Recipies. http://www.bookmine.com/images/239039.jpg Boston. Little, Brown Co. 1971. 498 pps. Folio. Gilt decorated hard cover. Stated first edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $45	Book ID: 239039

Velikovsky, Immanuel. Ages in Chaos. Volume I. From the Exodus to King Akhnation. A Reconstruction of Ancient History. Garden City. Doubleday. 1952. 350 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. Second edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine (very light edge wear) dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $45	Book ID: 239294

Verne, Jules & Barry Moser. Around the World in Eighty Days. Photo available. New York. William Morrow & Co. 1988. 242 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition thus. Illustrated in color and black & white by Barry Moser. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine (small closed tear at corner) dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $30	Book ID: 179137

Verner, Jared & Allan Boss (eds). California Wildlife and Their Habitats: Western Sierra Nevada. Report PSW-37. Photo available. Berkeley. Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 1980. 439 pps. 4to. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (spine very lightly sunned).

Price: $20	Book ID: 217069

Vetohkin, Yuri. Inclined to Escape. Signed by the author. Photo available. np. Self published. 1986. Octavo. Hard cover. Second Russian edition. Illustrated. Signed by the author. Fine copy in near fine (very light shelf wear) dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $30	Book ID: 158930

Vickery, Oliver. Harbor Heritage. Signed by the author. Tales of the Harbor Area of Los Angeles, California. Photo available. Mountain View. Self published. 1979. 250 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Signed by the author. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $40	Book ID: 206668

Viereck, Leslie. Alaska Trees and Shrubs. Handbook 410. Photo available. Washington. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. 1972. 265 pps. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Folding map in rear pocket. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $25	Book ID: 104631

Vincent, Stephen, Kevin Starr, Paul Mills. O California! Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century California Landscapes and Observations. Photo available. San Francisco. Chronicle Books. 1990. 271 pps. 4to. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in color and black & white. Includes prospectus laid in. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket in fine slip case.

Price: $65	Book ID: 185733

Vincent, Stephen, Kevin Starr, Paul Mills. O California! Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century California Landscapes and Observations. Photo available. San Francisco. Chronicle Books. 1990. 271 pps. 4to. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $65	Book ID: 187058

Viola, Herman. The Indian Legacy of Charles Bird King. New York. Smithsonian & Doubleday. 1976. 152 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine (very light edge wear) dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $45	Book ID: 239432

Visscher, William Lightfoot. A Thrilling and Truthful History of The Pony Express, or Blazing the Westward Way and Other Sketches and Incidents of Those Stirring Times. Photo available. Chicago. Charles T. Powner. 1946. 98 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition thus. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Near fine copy (very light shelf wear).

Price: $30	Book ID: 221921

von Habsburg-Lothringen, G. Faberge. Court Jeweler to the Tsars. Photo available. New York. Tabard Press. 1979. 171 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in color and black & white. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (book plate) in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $35	Book ID: 100705

Vorpahl, Ben Merchant. My Dear Wister. The Frederic Remington-Owen Wister Letters. Photo available. Palo Alto. American West Publishing Company. 1973. 343 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $20	Book ID: 100276

Wacht, Francine. I Remember: An Autobiography Text. Acton. Copley Publishing. 1997. 156 pps. 4to. Soft cover. Reprint. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (very light shelf wear).

Price: $30	Book ID: 239207

Wagner, Jack R. Short Line Junction. A Collection of California and Nevada Railroads. Photo available. Fresno. Valley Publishers. 1936. 261 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in edge chipped dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $40	Book ID: 214976

Wagner, Jack. Gold Mines of California. An Illustrated History of the Most Productive Mines With Descriptions of the Interesting People Who Owned and Operated Them. Photo available. San Diego. Howell-North Books. 1979. 259 pps. 4to. Hardcover. Reprint. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine (owner name on end paper) copy.

Price: $25	Book ID: 192546

Wagner, Jack. Gold Mines of California. An Illustrated History of the Most Productive Mines With Descriptions of the Interesting People Who Owned and Operated Them. Photo available. Berkeley. Howell-North Books. 1970. 259 pps. 4to. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $40	Book ID: 217859

Wagner, Jack. The Last Whistle. The Ocean Shore Railroad. Photo available. Berkeley. Howell-North. 1974. 135 pps. 4to. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in near fine (closed tear at spine edge) dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $35	Book ID: 138145

Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath. A Biography. Photo available. New York. Random House. 1987. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $30	Book ID: 128585

Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath. A Biography. Photo available. New York. Random House. 1987. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $30	Book ID: 161988

Waitzman, Michelle. Sex in a Tent. A Wild Couple's Guide to Getting Naughty in Nature. http://www.bookmine.com/images/239087.jpg Birmingham. Wilderness Press. 2007. Octavo. Soft cover. Stated first edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. As new.

Price: $20	Book ID: 239087

Waldorf, John Taylor. A Kid on the Comstock. Photo available. Berkeley. The Friends of the Bancroft Library. 1968. 92 pps. 4to. Hard cover. First edition thus. Illustrated. Prospectus laid in. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $25	Book ID: 101434

Waldorf, John Taylor. Between Two Empires. The Life of California's First Senator. William McKendree Gwin. Photo available. Boston. Houghton Mifflin & Company. 1969. 399 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $30	Book ID: 163293

Waldorf, John Taylor. Days of Gold. The California Gold Rush and the American Nation. Photo available. Berkeley. University of California Press. 1997. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Price: $30	Book ID: 191895

Waldorf, John Taylor. Kinsey. Photographer. A Half Century of Negatives by Darius and Tabitha May Kinsey. Volume 3. The Locomotive Portraits. Photo available. New York. Black Dog & Leventhal. 1984. 143 pps. Folio. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition thus. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Price: $30	Book ID: 182378