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First printing. Story of California, past and present: the chapter headings give a sense of the style and breadth of this entertaining book: The path of Father Juniper, Catalina and its birdmaster, the spicy past, corsairs of the Barbary Coast,the mother lode, the ghost towns with Bret Harte, the redwoods empire, and much more. Photographs. Maps and endpapers by the author's daughter, Jacqueline Clark. Index. xii, 315 pp. Near fine in a fair only dust jacket. Bookplate with notation 'USS Titania" on it (the Titania was commissioned in 1942 and did service in the Pacific theater in World War II, including the landing at Guadacanal) - dustjacket is price-clipped, tape repairs, overall edgewear. .

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