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James E. Beard CR. Unknown Binding. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

St.Helena, Califronia: James E. Beard, 1965. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. x, 12pp. Leaf pattern green paper over boards, paper spine label. Very clean, near fine condition. Stevenson's love affair with the wines of the Napa Valley.

San Francisco, CA: Westwinds Books. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 950 unnumbered copies. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The dust jacket has several smallish edge tears, overall toning and spots of foxing. "After their wedding San Francisco on May 19, 1880, Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson set off on an adventurous honeymoon to the Napa Valley. Stopping briefly for a night in Vallejo, the Stevenson’s boarded a train to carry them (and their dog Chuchu) to Calistoga at the north end of the Napa Valley. They spent the remainder of May in Calistoga, at one of the Hot Springs Hotel cottages. Then, once joined by Fanny’s son Lloyd Osbourne, the family made their way up the grade of Mount St. Helena to the Toll House, from which they found their way to the abandoned Silverado Mine bunkhouse where they would “squat” until the end of July.… Read More

St. Helena: James E. Beard, 1980. First Thus . Stiff Wraps, with Dustjacket. Fine/Fine. 12 pp. Introduction by MFK Fisher.

St. Helena Ca: James E. Beard, 1980. First Separate Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine. Xiv, 12 Pp. Softcover, With Printed Dust Jacket Attached At Spine, As Issued. Near Fine, No Marks.

San Francisco: Westwinds Books [1974]. 1974. Limited Edition. Softcover. One of 950 copies printed at the Cranium Press. 38 pp.; cloth backed paper covered boards of decoratively patterned vine leaves by Brian Day; frontis portrait illus. of Stevenson. Gabler [I] 38080. The brief memoir comprising Napa Wine was first published in the expanded book edition of The Silverado Squatters printed in London by Chatto & Windus, 1883, having been omitted from the earlier serialization in Century Magazine. Gabler calls it " a significant literary account of the beginning of the Napa Valley Wine industry," and quotes Stevenson's " the smack of California earth shall linger in the palate of your grandson." Faint, small sticker blemish on front endpaper, near fine condition thus .

San Francisco: Westwinds Books, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 38pp. One of 950 copies. With notes and introduction by Brian McGinty. Includes prospectus. Fine, lacking the plain paper wrapper. Stevenson wrote about Napa wine after having honeymooned in St. Helena, California in 1880.

San Francisco: Westwinds Books, 1974. Limited edition of 950 copies.. Hardcover in color floral-decorative boards& white cloth spine, in plain glassine jacket.. Fine w owner inscription else unmarked.. A chapter from Silverado Squatters separately published as a press art book. with 2-color frontispiece portrait of the author. Illustrated prospectus laid in loose. Small handwritten dedication on ffep reads, for Betty Christmas 1975 with love Trish and Ken. 5-1/4 x 7-3/4. 38 pp, notes, frontispiece.

St. Helena, California: James E. Beard, 1965. First Edition with Fisher’s introduction. As new in the publisher’s tissue dust jacket.

St. Helena.: James Beard., 1965.. First edition.. Decorated hard cover. . Fine copy. As new.. Octavo.. Illustrated with decorations bay Mallette Dean. Frontis photograph of R.L.S. in front of the St. Helen Star. Very scarce in this condition.

St. Helena, California: (James E. Beard), 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Dean, Mallette. Duodecimo size, 22 pp. A chapter from the "Silverado Squatters" first published in 1883, this version with relief-cut illustrations and initials by Mallette Dean (1907-1975), and a frontis portrait of R.L.S. at the office of the St. Helena Star, 1880, from the collection of Norman H. Strouse. A brief recollection of the fine varieties of Napa wine, written by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) after he'd moved to the south of France for health reasons. The brief text is ripe with yearning for the wines of Napa Valley and their "inimitable fragrance and soft fire." With a brief historical background in the form of an introduction by American food writer and founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library, M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992). ___DESCRIPTION: Original quarter olive-green cloth and patterned green and white paper covered boards, title-page spreads over two pages in black and green with frotis portrait and grape-vine… Read More