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The Tule Breakers. The Story of the California Dredge.
Published by The Stockton Corral of Westerners and the University of the Pacific, Stockton, 1983
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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First trade edition. SIGNED by Ed Dutra on title page. Oblong quarto. xiv, 368, [2]pp. 160 photographs, maps and plans. Extensive chapter notes, index. Full dark brown embossed leatherette. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Comprehensive and scholarly work on the development of the "clam-shell" dredge used world-wide in reclamation and dredging projects. The work focuses on its use in California's great Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Co-author Ed Dutra was the primary expert on the subject, being a third-generation builder, operator and owner of the long-boom clamshell dredge.
