Passing Farms, Enduring Values: California's Santa Clara Valley
First Edition
Los Altos: William Kaufmann, Inc, 1984. 240 pages followed by an index. Oblong, 11-1/4 by 9-1/4 inches. Foreward by Wallace Stegner. The agricultural history of today's Silicon Valley. Profusely illustrated, mostly in black-and-white. ISBN: 9780865760455.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Signed by the author. Spotting to page block and inside jacket flap, jacket corners a bit worn. Book has gentle bend. From the collection of Stegner scholar and collector Maurice Dunbar, with Dunbar's bookplate on the front pastedown. Photo of Stegner tipped in on the at the Foreword, with Dunbar's neat hand-written caption, dated February 19, 1989. Signed by Stegner on the final Foreward page. Colberg B146.