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190643115Los Angeles: Blue Book Publishing 1906. First edition. Pictorial paper wrappers. A good copy wrappers damp stained and torn with small chips at corners first dozen leaves damp stained along inner and outer margins else clean. 64 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 12mo. Old Series Vol. V. No 3 New Series Vol. I No. 2. Known as the Traveler's Blue Book through March 1906. While the main article by C. Beauregard Poland contains eight photographs of the devastation and reports on the quake an accompanying map of California superimposed over the eastern midwest attempts to allay any fears about moving to California by illustrating just how large the state is. There is no need to worry. An earthquake in San Francisco does not affect Los Angeles. California is safe. "Did it ever occur to you That California is the ideal state of homes happiness and prosperity That the climate of California is so nice the year round that one can work out of doors all the time. farming pays. land can be bought. good land . is not costly." p. 16. Other articles promote other regions of California. Surprisingly scarce. OCLC locates no copies of this issue and only two institutional holdings of the old and/or new series Yale and Huntington but neither containing this issue. Blue Book Publishing unknown books
192172685Poland: No Publisher. Very Good. 1921. Softcover. Das Martyrium der Deutschen in Oberschlesien. Gewaltakte und Greueltaten der Polen während des 3. Aufstandes in Oberschlesien im Mai und Juni 1921. With plates.GERMANS. 1921 Book 104 p.The tan printed wrappers are toned soiled and chipped and almost detached. The martyrdom of the German in the Upper Silesia. Acts of violence and atrocities of Poland during the 3. Uprising in Upper Silesia in May and June 1921 Text in german. Toned pages. . No Publisher paperback books
20121315063Lesko: Bosz 2012. Hardcover. Quarto; VG; hardcover without dust jacket; off-white spine with yellow and black text; boards have minor marks and slight bumping to tips otherwise have solid binding; textblock is clean; 256p. 1315063. FP New Rockville Stock. Bosz hardcover books
1933173338New York: Edgar Weyhe 1933. Limited to 200 numbered copies. Paperback. VG with minor coiling to orange dustjacket covers otherwise almost like new except for some separation of spine at the very top. Orange printed dustjacket surrounding a white printed glued wrap-around stiff cover. 54 pp. Two color plates including a signed in pencil lithograph portrait of Shore by Jean Charlot 18 bw photographic reproductions after photographs of the artist's work by Edward Weston 5 smaller bw reproductions which may be lithographs at the head of the text articles. The first color plate may also be a color lithograph but it is not signed. One of Armitage's rarest works. A monograph on the art and career of California modernist painter Henrietta Shore.The portrait by Charlot is signed by the artist. Includes an article by Edward Weston who also photographed the original artworks by Shore. Includes articles by Merle Armitage Edward Weston and an Appraisal by Reginald Poland. Very rare. Forward colophon reads "Two hundred numbered copies of this book designed by Merle Armitage have been printed . by the Will A. Kistler Company . It is set in twelve point Rockwell type and the entire contents of the book is printed by the Artochrome Process. The photographs of the paintings pastels crayons and drawings in this book were made from the originals by Edward Weston. This is copy no. blank"--Colophon./ Descriptive letterpress on versos facing the plates." Edgar Weyhe paperback books
1951139607N.p.: Silvermine Productions 1951. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1951 film. <br/><br/>An undercover marshal investigates a series of robberies the aim of which is to keep a stage-line from securing a mail contract. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Los Angeles CA. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light toning to the bottom right margin. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Silvermine Productions unknown books
1872287221Washington: Government Printing Office 1872. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Volume I only of two 'Georgia' volumes i.e. Volume VI only of the greater thirteen volume set. Consisting of the testimonies taken by the Congressional committee looking into insurrectionary movements in the South just after the Civil War in particular the nascent Ku Klux Klan. With accounts of their crimes including murder intimidation whipping and others. Some accounts are straightforward some evasive one even detailing explicitly how a Senator Adkins was murdered on the road in daytime for not voting for the exclusion of colored legislators pp. 207-8. A truly unsettling collection of testimonials which offer firsthand glimpses into the violence of the late Reconstruction and the beginnings of Jim Crow laws and further racial oppression. With an index for both of the Georgia volumes. 2 LIII 1 591 pp. Fully rebacked using sympathetic cloth; original spine laid down. Clack cloth. Very Good. Very Good binding. Government Printing Office unknown books
194816623Paris: L'Union Populaire Juive en France 1948. First Edition. Octavo. Printed paper wrappers; 515pp; illus some folding; facs. Includes bibliography. Text entirely in Yiddish. Text slightly tanned but a tight clean copy overall VG or better in the original wrappers. First-hand account of atrocities in the Vilnius ghetto by a survivor; extensively documented including facsimiles of original documents and photographic evidence of Nazi atrocities. Uncommon especially in this state of preservation. L'Union Populaire Juive en France unknown books
1969262373Berkeley: Berkeley Barb 1969. Newspaper. 24p. folded tabloid underground newspaper illustrated with b&w photos local ads sex ads articles news columns very good on newsprint. Full page art work by K. Lance on rear cover. Issued after Scheer sold the Barb to Allan D. Coult a sale that after a short period was rescinded. Includes a full page article by Tim Leary along with other articles and the usual sex ads straight & gay. Berkeley Barb unknown books
