Sunset Books is a

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company that operates as a part of Southern Progress Corporation's Oxmoor House book publishing division. The Sunset Books division was created in 1946 when ''

Sunset Magazine ''Sunset'' is a lifestyle magazine in the United States. ''Sunset'' focuses on homes, cooking, gardening, and travel, with a focus almost exclusively on the Western United States. The magazine is published six times per year by the Sunset Publis ...

'' created a separate book division to publish content from its magazines. The company operates from Southern Progress's

Menlo Park, California Menlo Park ( ) is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County, California, San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. It is bordered by San Francisco Bay on the north and east; East Palo Alto, California, Eas ...

office and from Southern Progress's Corporate Headquarters in

Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of Alabama, United States. It is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama, Jefferson County. The population was 200,733 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List ...

. One of their best known books was the ''Sunset Western Garden Book'', a

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of plants suited for the various climatic zones and

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s of the

Western United States The Western United States (also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, the Western territories, and the West) is List of regions of the United States, census regions United States Census Bureau. As American settlement i ...

, and gardening guidelines for the region. The book has had numerous editions, including: *''Sunset Western Garden Book'', edited by Kathleen Norris Brenzel, 2007 *''Sunset Western Garden Book'', edited by Kathleen Norris Brenzel, 2001 *''Sunset Western Garden Book'', edited by Kathleen Norris Brenzel, 1995, *''Sunset Western Garden Book, New Edition'', foreword by Joseph F. Williamson, edited by John R. Dunmire. Lane Magazine and Book Company, 1967 *''Sunset Western Garden Book'', by the editorial staff of Lane Publishing Co. under the direction of Walter L. Doty, Director, Editorial Research, Sunset Magazine and Paul C. Johnson, Editor, Sunset Books. Lane Publishing, 1954

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Southern Progress Corporation Book publishing companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Mass media in Birmingham, Alabama Western United States Companies based in Menlo Park, California Publishing companies established in 1946 1946 establishments in California Meredith Corporation IAC Inc. Former Time Warner subsidiaries