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Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 332pp. Sharp First Edition of this anthology of stories and essays written by such authors as Jon Didion, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac and many others. Bound in green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square, tight, and clean throughout with little or no wear save gentle bumping to spine ends. Sticker ghost on end-paper, Small written date on end-paper. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($22.95), has mild edge-wear. Spine end top edges toning. Still fresh and bright with no chipping, tears or creases. A very pretty collectable copy.

HC. 332pp ISBN 0865474036 This richly fascinating collection represents the experience of California, both physical and metaphysical, in fiction, poetry, essays, travel writing, confessions, reportage, and social criticism. The authors are native Californians, born-again Californians, exiles, emigres, critics, and visitors of every kind. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover).

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; and sunning on the spine. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean. 9.5 inches tall; 322 pages. Assembled here are a distinctive collection of writings--fiction, poetry, essays, travelers' tales, reportage, journals--to analyze the California mystique. Most of the material covers the last 50 years, though a few pieces reach back into the 19th century. Topics are as varied as the state's scenery: sex and drugs, murder, youth gangs, internment of the Japanese in World War II, Hollywood, hippies, Esalen, student revolt in the '60s, the desert. Simone de Beauvoir records her impressions of San Francisco and Berkeley; Umberto Eco writes about cults and the Jonestown suicides; Amy Tan takes us to a meeting of the Joy Luck Club; Tom Wolfe introduces the Pump House Gang. A Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Includes material by Carey McWilliams, Ben Hecht, Gore Vidal, M. F. K. Fisher & many others. Condition: slight sunning to the DJ spine; else fine in fine DJ. 332 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Printing. A novelistic journey through the worlds of California. Offers a vivid and diverse collectionof writings -- both literary and documentary -- on the state where extremes of every sort are dramatically evident in the weather, geography and people. Includes pieces by Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Gore Vidal, Umberto Eco, Ishmael Reed, Aldous Huxley and many more. 332 pages. Nice copy.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. F. Northpoint (New York), 1989. First edition. Hardbound. New in dust jacket. A perfect unread copy. Selections by Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Octavio Paz, Umberto Eco, etc. 0.0.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Fine with a light sticker shadow on the front wrapper.