Owen C Coy (92 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Pages 99-126. Stapled pamphlet format that was published six times a year October through March and made available to elementary and junior high schools. Page edges and spine very slightly age-tanned. Otherwise the aoppearance of an unread book. First story is a five page biorgraphy of Dr. David Starr Jordan, the first presand of Leland Stanford Junior University where he remained for 40 years. Thousands and thousands of students who passed through Stanford in those years cherish him as a beloved teacher. His office and his home were always open and he was never too busy to share his great learning and common sense. But he thought of himself as a naturalist. He often said he had lived three lives: First as a naturalist and explorer, second as a teacher, and third a minor prophet of democracy. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Contents: Beloved Teacher, Fords and Ferries of Early California, Raisins of the Sun, Big Trees in California History, and the Editor's Sluice Box. The woodcut cover drawing is titled Winter Sports. deS. Litchfield, Virginia - Cover (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Pages 99-126. Stapled pamphlet format that was published six times a year October through March and made available to elementary and junior high schools. Page edges and spine very slightly age-tanned. Otherwise the aoppearance of an unread book. First story is a five page biorgraphy of Dr. David Starr Jordan, the first presand of Leland Stanford Junior University where he remained for 40 years. Thousands and thousands of students who passed through Stanford in those years cherish him as a beloved teacher. His office and his home were always open and he was never too busy to share his great learning and common sense. But he thought of himself as a naturalist. He often said he had lived three lives: First as a naturalist and explorer, second as a teacher, and third a minor prophet of democracy. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Contents: Beloved Teacher, Fords and Ferries of Early California, Raisins of the Sun, Big Trees in California History, and the Editor's Sluice Box. The woodcut cover drawing is titled Winter Sports.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Cover is chipped along the spine and corners are bumped, spine is creased at the back of the cover. Book is clean with no marks or page folds. Bookseller Inventory BS/ME46830216.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good copy in white printed wraps. [28] pages. Issue focussed on Monterey County history; contains the article 'The Customs House at Monterey', plus the cover illustration 'The Old Pacific Capital' (woodcut by Virginia Litchfield); also notable for the history of the Great Seal of California. Slight soiling and rubbing to wrappers; previous owner's rubberstamps on lower wrapper; slight uniform browning throughout.Over 10 b/w Illustrations (including Title Page & endpapers). …

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 1929 issue of "California History Nugget: Devoted to the Story of the Golden West" (Vol. 2 No. 7) edited by Owen C. Coy and published by the California State Historical Association out of Los Angeles, California. A left-stapled digest-sized magazine measuring 6" by 9" and containing 20 pages including front and rear covers. The Contents are as follows: "A Pacific Mail Steamship of the Sixties" (photo frontispiece); "Pioneers in the North Pacific: The 'Oregon' - Queen of the Old Mail Fleet"; "Once a Proud County Seat" (photo); "Millerton, Landmark of a Vanished Frontier"; "Old Camp Barbour" (photo); "About Deserts: Some Tree and Shrub Personalities." Oblong stamp of the San Gabriel District Library to front and rear covers; staples age-rusted.…

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the (single issue) February-March 1931 issue of "California History Nugget: Devoted to the Story of the Golden West" (Vol. 3 No. 7) edited by Owen C. Coy and published by the California State Historical Association out of Los Angeles, California. A left-stapled digest-sized magazine measuring 6" by 9" and containing 20 pages including front and rear covers. The Contents are as follows: "John Charles Fremont, Adventurer and Misadventurer: I. The Soldier of Fortune"; "Jessie Benton Fremont" (illustration); "Monterey's 'Old Customs House'"; "The Customs House at Monterey" (photo); "Fire Fall at Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley" (photo); "Counties Never Heard From." Oblong stamp of the San Gabriel District Library to front and rear covers; staples age-rusted; pages lightly aged-toned but otherwise in excellent condition. …

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the (single issue) April-May 1930 issue of "California History Nugget: Devoted to the Story of the Golden West" (Vol. 3 No. 4) edited by Owen C. Coy and published by the California State Historical Association out of Los Angeles, California. A left-stapled digest-sized magazine measuring 6" by 9" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. The Contents are as follows: "Los Angeles, Area 4 Square Leagues, Population 44"; "Los Angeles in 1857" (illustration); "Plan of Pueblo de Los Angeles, 1786" (drawing); "The Marshall Monument"; "The Monument at Coloma" (photo); "From the Rifle Box - The Wash-Tub Mail"; "Thomas O. Larkin: Silent Partner of his Government"; "Larkin's Home at Monterey" (photo). Oblong stamp of the San Gabriel District Library to front and rear covers; staples age-rusted; tiny chip to upper left corner of front cover and first inside page (not affecting text).…

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 1929 issue of "California History Nugget: Devoted to the Story of the Golden West" (Vol. 2 No. 8) edited by Owen C. Coy and published by the California State Historical Association out of Los Angeles, California. A left-stapled digest-sized magazine measuring 6" by 9" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. The Contents are as follows: "Pioneers in the North Pacific: The 'Flying Cloud' and the California Clipper Fleet; "The 'Flying Cloud'" (illustration); "Josiah Gregg - Scientist, Author, Explorer"; "Josiah Gregg" (illustration); "Believe It or Not: A Story of Imperial Valley"; "Curbing the Colorado, 1906" (photo). Oblong stamp of the San Gabriel District Library to front and rear covers; staples age-rusted; pages lightly aged-toned but otherwise in excellent condition.…

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the (single issue) December 1929-January 1930 issue of "California History Nugget: Devoted to the Story of the Golden West" (Vol. 3 No. 2) edited by Owen C. Coy and published by the California State Historical Association out of Los Angeles, California. A left-stapled digest-sized magazine measuring 6" by 8-7/8" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. The Contents are as follows: "Covered Wagon Days: The Oregon Trail"; "Westward on the Great Trail" (photo); "The Iron Horse Goes Overland" (photo); "Theodore Judah - Practical Dreamer"; "Mission San Francisco Solano Today" (photo); "Memories of Old Sonoma Mission"; "Plat of Sonoma Mission, 1854" (illustration). Oblong stamp of the San Gabriel District Library to front and rear covers; staples age-rusted; tiny chip to lower left corner of front cover; outer covers lightly edge-sunned. …

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Good+. No Edition Stated. Light toning, 1 page has tear all the way across the page, very tiny chip and small crease to bottom corner of front cover; b/w photos; 27 pages.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Edition Stated. Light toning, couple small creases, tiny tear to top spine, light shelfwear; b/w photos ; 28 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the premiere issue of "California History Nugget: Devoted to the Story of the Golden West" (Vol. 1 No. 1 - January 1924) edited by Owen C. Coy and published by the California State Historical Association, University of California, at Berkeley. A stapled digest-sized magazine measuring 6" by 9-1/4" and containing 20 pages including front and rear covers. The Contents are as follows: "Among the Redwoods" (photo frontispiece); "The Golden Magnet: The Story of the Discovery of Gold"; "The Indians Used to Say: A Legend of Mount Shasta"; "Mount Shasta, the Tepee of Ice and Snow" (photo); "John Bidwell: A California Pioneer"; "Old Carmel Mission" (photo); "Things that People Want to Know about California"; "January in California History." Oblong stamp of the San Gabriel District Library to front and rear covers; staples age-rusted; outer cover edges lightly sunned; short closed tear along outer fold. …

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. First Edition. Cloth, no dj. 8vo, 81 pp., illus. (including a folding plan). Scuffing and edge wear to boards. Expected age-toning to text block, but text and images remain clean and bright.

Condition: New. In English.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Pp.131-159p., 6x9 inches, illustrated with archival photos, very good pamphlet periodical in stapled white pictorial wraps with mild toning at spine fold. Published six times a year for elementary school kids. Short pieces on the Mexican flag (this one by editor Coy), on borax, on Ina Coolbrith, and on the collection-building that started our state library.…

381 pp. 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Front hinge cracked; light use to cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Of the series California.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Boards (HB) in very good condition. Ex lib. with some sticker residue cover and bottom of spine, some small library stamps and bookplate and 2 signatures. Front hinge slightly open but holding strong. This is the history of each of the counties in California, how they came about. Loaded with maps as well as large fold out map of all counties. 335 pages with appendix, index and numerous fold out maps.…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION hardcover, bound in dark blue cloth, with darkened gilt lettering on spine, is in G condition, having wear to top and bottom spine; some staining to front cover; general rubbing/scuffing to surface; front endpaper gutter is cracked revealing netting underneath; back endpapr just starting same; former owner/bookseller has pencilled some coding and notation in first endpaper section; looks like a library notation on title page that says: "carded 3/24/49"; slight waviness to top pages from endpaper to p.9. Illustrated with maps for each county show boundary line changes. All California counties of the time are described, from Alameda to Yuba (see our photos for list of all counties). History. State and local. California. Counties. Due to book's weight, extra shipping cost will apply. DB.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Light reader's crease to spine, crease to front cover, page ends toning, 1 page corner creased; 346 pages.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Reprint. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Near fine copy (very light shelf wear).