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190474949Philadelphia: J. Murray Jordan. Very Good. 1904. Softcover. View book is soft-bound in light blue wrappers with blue black and brown embossing to the upper wrappers. The covers show soiling and scuffing as well as edge-wear and wear to the spine. The staple binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations throughout. Worn covers with bright b/w views - 40 pages. . J. Murray Jordan paperback books
1952179578Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha 1952. Softcover. Good shelfwear and soiling to wraps pages 1-6 have crinkling along edges. Text and illustrations are otherwise clear and clean. Red white and blue wraps with English and Japanese lettering on covers 10 16 pp bw illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. Includes list of works by country; France America Italy England Brazil Belgium and Japan. American artists include: Bernard Arnest Louis Bouche Alexander Brook Kenneth Callahan William Congdon Russell Cowles Joseph De Martini Adolph Gotlieb Karl Knaths Yasuo Kuniyoshi Joe Lasker John Marin Hans Moller Walter Murch James Penny Carl Pickhardt Jackson Pollock Henry Varnum Poor Abraham Rattner Wallace Reiss Sonia Sekula Ben Shahn Charles Sheeler Niles Spencer Theodoros Stamos Reuben Tam Bradley Walker Tomlin Franklin C. Watkins Max Weber Karl Zerbe and Sueo Serisawa. Mainichi Shinbunsha unknown books
1939185087Newark NJ: Firemen's Insurance Company 1939. 32p. coated paperstock with stock photos of the state the Bay Area and the Exposition. Softbound in 11x8.5 inch stapled glossy wraps a rather worn copy with multiple dog-ears. Perhaps ten pages on the Fair. Firemen's Insurance Company unknown books
1938222981San Francisco: The Monitor 1938. Magazine. Section Two" only evidently the expo-dedicated portion of this issue of the long-lived Roman Catholic periodical. Folio magazine softbound of course stapled 17x11 illustrated wraps sepia cover drawing joins TI tower and Ferry Building images 40p. coated alkaline paperstock throughout with plenty of b&w illustrations and ads. Be warned find minimal Expo material most pix are of old Franciscan churches over boilerplate text. Item is bent along top and bottom margins packing problems for tall vulnerable thingie with crimpings and some creasing there's a half-inch food lump on cover that goes thru to verso a basically as-is good-only copy that would flatten nicely under weight. Pious boosterism; for instance PG&E took out an ad bannered "Electrical Miracles In Store For Exposition Visitors" referring to anticipated gorgeous lighting effects has a so-so b&w illustration linking lit-up nighttime SF to the nearby lit-up island. The Monitor unknown books
19401336Berkeley CA: University of California 1940. Softcover. Very Good. xvii 107 pp with illustrations from photographs. Some light general wear and toning to wrappers; contents clean binding a bit tender but sound. From the Foreword: "Because of the scope and importance of the exhibit and the wide interest it has created the University considered it desirable to preserve some of its essential features in a permanent record to which the teacher the student and the layman might turn in the years to come; hence the publication of this booklet." Describes and illustrates exhibits on biological sciences under which are included geology paleontology anthrpology botany genetics evolution zoology oceanography and medicine and physical sciences including physics chemistry astronomy structural engineering and mathematics and also includes sections on education and agriculture. University of California unknown books
1982118866Kansas City: Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art 1982. 65p. 11x11 inches introductions notes chronology footnotes b&w photos gift inscription limited to 3000 copies mild soiling to original pictorial wraps. Includes many of Weston's nudes and photos of Diego Rivera Orozco Kahlo etc. Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art unknown books
