Sunset Books is a

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company that operates as a part of

Southern Progress Corporation Southern Progress Corporation, based in Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, is a publisher of lifestyle magazines and books owned by IAC (company), IAC's Dotdash Meredith. The company publishes such magazines as ''Southern Living'', ''Coo ...

Oxmoor House Oxmoor House was the book publishing division of Southern Progress Corporation, which was based in Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama. Oxmoor House was founded in 1979 when it began publishing Southern Living's ''Southern Living Annual Reci ...

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 Publish ...

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 within the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the United States. It is bordered by San Francisco Bay on the north and east; East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, and Stanford to the south; ...

office and from Southern Progress's Corporate Headquarters in

Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2021 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 197,575, down 1% fr ...

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

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of plants suited for the various

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s and

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s of the

Western United States The Western United States (also called the American West, the Far West, and the West) is the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the meaning of the term ''the Wes ...

, 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 (company) Former Time Warner subsidiaries