The Ohlone Way : Indian Life in the San Francisco - Monterey Bay Area by Margolin, Malcolm (signed) - 1978

Berkeley, California: Heyday Books, 1978. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the half title page. Very Good condition. NOT a remainder. The spine is square and flat with NO creases. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Softcover. 6" wide by 9" tall. Named by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the Top 100 Non-fiction Books of the Century. Illustrated with 12 full-page drawings by Michael Harney and two maps. Bibliography. Index. From the rear cover: "Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco-Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds 'with a sound like that of a hurricane.' This land of 'inexpressible fertility,' as one early explorer described it, supported one of the densest Indian populations in all of North America. THE OHLONE WAY vividly recreates this lost world and the people who lived here…". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by Harney, Michael. (x), 182pp.