Howell-North Books was a book publishing company based in

Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland, Cali ...

. They specialized in American history, in particular

railroadiana Railroadiana or railwayana refers to artifacts of currently or formerly operating railways around the world. Background Railroadiana/railwayana can include items such as: * Railway books and magazines * Model railway locomotives, rolling sto ...

, the

American West The Western United States (also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, the Western territories, and the West) is census regions United States Census Bureau As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the mea ...

, and nautical history. They were active from at least 1959 to 1981.

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*''Mansions on Rails: The Folklore of the Private Rail Car'',

Lucius Beebe Lucius Morris Beebe (December 9, 1902 – February 4, 1966) was an American writer, gourmand, photographer, railroad historian, journalist, and syndicated columnist. Early life and education Beebe was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, to a prom ...

(1959) *''Eight Immortal Flavors: Secrets of Cantonese Cookery from San Francisco's Chinatown'',

Johnny Kan Johnny Kan (1906–1972) was a Chinese American restaurateur in Chinatown, San Francisco, ca 1950–1970. He was the owner of Johnny Kan's restaurant, which opened in 1953, and published a book on Cantonese cuisine, ''Eight Immortal Flavors'', whi ...

and Charles L. Leong. (1963) *''

The Thousand Mile Summer ''The Thousand-Mile Summer'' by Colin Fletcher is the author's chronicle of his 1958 hike along the entire eastern edge of California. Fletcher writes of traveling on foot along the Colorado River, though Death Valley and the High Sierra. The b ...

Colin Fletcher Colin Fletcher (14 March 1922 – 12 June 2007) was a pioneering backpacker and writer. In 1963, Fletcher walked the length of that portion of Grand Canyon contained within the 1963 boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park. Although hi ...

'' (1964) * *''Snowplow: Clearing Mountain Rails'', Gerald M. Best (1966)

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{{Reflist Defunct book publishing companies of the United States History of transportation in the United States Western United States Book publishing companies based in Berkeley, California Publishing companies established in 1959