(California / Western Americana / San Francisco / Golden Gate Bridge) Adams, Charles F. HEROES OF THE GOLDEN GATE. Illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and maps. Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1987. First edition. Octavo. This copy has a lengthy gift inscription on the half-title page from TED GAGLIANO, President of Feature Post Production at Twentieth Century Fox, now a division of the Walt Disney Company who during his career supervised post production on over 700 Fox films, including groundbreaking hits like Avatar, Titanic, Life of Pi, The Planet of the Apes, Bohemian Rhapsody and Fox Marvel franchises, as well as the 1997 Star Wars special edition release and helped spearhead Virtual Reality efforts for the Fox Innovation Lab, overseeing production of Wild – The VRExperience, (Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern), The Martian VRExperience, and Alien Covenant: In Utero. This is an uncommon FIRST edition of this look at the men, most unheralded, who built the architectural marvel, the Golden Gate bridge. Bound in the publisher's yellow cloth covered boards. Contents clean and bright. Boards square and tight. In the dust jacket, which is lightly rubbed and worn, with some small scuffs and a publisher's ISBN label to the rear panel. RARE in JACKET, with a GREAT GIFT INSCRIPTION! Please see photos for additional condition clarity.

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