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188842812n. p. 1888. 1st Printing. Offwhite paper black printing. Horizontal split between two lines of text repaired with clear tape to verso. Very minor loss to descenders else text undamaged. Minor foxing and soiling short closed tear to edge. Good condition only. Broadside printed recto only. Masthead-style wood engraving of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton who would go on to win the presidential election that year. 11-5/8" x 5" <br/><br/>Berkeley Precinct No. 1 republican ticket for the 1888 election. Included among the 27 candidates are: State Senator W. E. Dargie; Chief Justice Supreme Court W. H. Beatty; and Representative in Congress Joseph McKenna. unknown books
40951San Jose CA: Better Literature Guild of California & Home Bible Study League Central California Branch n. d. Ca. 1939 - 1958. Buff printed paper. Age-toning and slight wear to paper. WIthal a VG collection. 7 periodicals each a single sheet folded once and printed on all four sides. B/w illustration to front of each. 11" x 8" <br/><br/>Collection of 7 of the New Day Series periodicals with headings such as: The Mastery of Europe Can One Man Win It and Keep It; History's Climax Nears! The Bible Predicts the Literal Return of Christ to this World in Our Day and Generation; Our Vanishing Freedom; Satan Takes a Holiday; The Test of Citizenship; Do we Keep the Sabbath Christ Kept; The Revival of Rome; God's Appeal to a Doomed World. No records of this series are found on OCLC. Better Literature Guild of California & Home Bible Study League Central California Branch unknown books
1929302295Los Angeles 1929. 100 pp of typed documents and an additional 50 album leaves mounted with approximately 50 photographs various sizes and processes and various documents. Folio. Limp leatherette with title and recipient name stamped in gilt to upper cover. Large black quarter morocco clamshell box gilt. 100 pp of typed documents and an additional 50 album leaves mounted with approximately 50 photographs various sizes and processes and various documents. Folio. "It is proposed that a COMPLETE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS be opened to the public on a fifty cent admission basis which is to be properly laid out as an attractive Zoological and Botanical Garden with the finest and largest private collection of animals birds and reptiles to be seen anywhere on the continent."<br/><br/>The advent of the motion picture industry in California had many wide-ranging ramifications on the business world and one was that it created a new market for firms who traditionally supplied animals to circuses and zoos both public and private owned by the likes of William Randolph Hearst. <br/><br/>This archive is a report by the Investment Auditors of California for the Horne Corporation that was looking to expand by establishing a zoological garden in the environs of Los Angeles. The Horne Corporation was the largest and most successful of its type at the time apparently the only company in the US that could completely outfit a circus with both animals and show equipment. They were to purchase the Los Angeles Zoological Garden and Jungle Studio for $250000 and thereby sought to provide a similarly complete service to the film studios with both animals and suitable locations for film sets.<br/><br/>The head of the company I.S. Horne for whom this report was compiled commenced trading in animals from Kansas City MO around 1914. The range of animals at the their disposal included big game birds reptiles and many of the documents concern the prospect of importing reindeer from Alaska.<br/><br/>The material is held in a presentation album and includes the certificate of incorporation in Wilmington Delaware May 13 1929 as well as the by-laws of the corporation minutes of the first meeting the proposal for Los Angeles Zoological Garden and Jungle Studio and a balance sheet. At this stage the company had total assets of $57700 & liabilities of $625388.46; an enumeration of the various animals in inventory including wildebeest sables leopard lynx Rhodesian baboons bushbaby and a large aardvark.<br/><br/>Of real interest are the plans for the park including artist's impressions which would be furnished with circus attractions "Monkey Island" jungle setting for motion pictures and an acknowledgment that "before the introduction of the motion picture industry the art of showmanship was not quite so highly developed as it is today." In fact one of the first pictures they supplied animals for was - appropriately enough - Trader Horn which was nominated for the 1931 Academy Award for Best Picture. <br/><br/>On a more practical level there is a "Descriptive Classification of Principal Commercial Wild Animals" which lists 340 different animals in some details. There is also an account of hunting wild animals in East Africa as well as a section on animals that have been trained to hunt by man. Furthermore there is also much correspondence which provides much insight into the game industry its clients and the prospects for its future.<br/><br/>Horne's venture subsequently became known as the World Jungle Compound in Thousand Oaks California eventually being acquired by 20th Century Fox studios. This archive is a record of a new phase of the entertainment industry. unknown books
1969List901Los Angeles 1969. First Edition. Two long mimeographed sheets text on rectos and versos. Very good with some normal wear. Very Good. An uncommon Black Panther newsletter from the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panthers dealing with the case of Nathaniel Clark who was killed by his wife following an altercation. Though the newsletter claims the killing was done by "counter-revolutionary elements. manifested in the form of a woman who claimed to be Nate's wife" it was in fact his wife who killed him and only being seventeen at the time she was tried in juvenile court where the death was ruled to be involuntary manslaughter. unknown books
194132612Berkeley: Book Arts Club of the University of California 1941. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy in a very good rubbed dust jacket with small tears at the spine. 102 pp. Sm. 8vo. Copy no. 307 of 450 printed. Signed by Fanny Borden once Vassar's library director. Book Arts Club of the University of California hardcover books
1937UK615-002San Francisco CA:: Book Club of California 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Series: Book Club of California Publication No. 51. LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies this is one of 265 regular copies handset in Franciscan type on machine made paper. Folio. 15 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches. ii xxii 2 pp. Title-page and text printed in red and black double-column 4 hand-colored initials 3 in blue red and gilt 1 in blue red and yellow tipped-in King James Bible leaf with the text of Zechariah Chapter 11 verse 8 through Chapter 14 verse 8 printer's device on the colophon; text clean unmarked except for a pencil notation on page XV that records the passage on the leaf. Quarter tan cloth cloth sides printed paper spine label titled in red; binding square and tight mild shelf wear and foxing to the cloth sides corners lightly bumped end-papers with modest toning offsetting associated with the bookplate. Black-leather bookplate of H. L. Doolittle 1882-1974 Pasadena collector on the front paste-down. Very Good. Printed by the Grabhorn Press the original leaf contains text from Zechariah. This leaf comes from the "She" Bible of 1611 that contains the incorrect text of Ruth Chapter 3 verse 15 "And she went into the citie." "An extremely handsome book which drew praise from both contributing essayists and many Book Club of California members some of whom found in this volume a relief from the Western Americana theme which had predominated in the Club's publications of the previous five years." Magee. REFERENCES: De Hamel and Silver Disbound & Dispersed No. 72; Heller & Magee Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1915-1940 No. 275; Magee The Hundredth Book No. 51. Book Club of California, hardcover books
1949778841949. BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA. CALIFORNIA CLIPPER CARDS. San Francisco Grabhorn Press/Book Club of California 1949. An incomplete set: Eight of twelve facsimile cards numbered 1 to 8 with a note by Elizabeth Downs secretary to the Book Club of California dated September 22 1949 stating that parts 9 to 12 were "in preparation and would be sent to members by the end of the year." The set of twelve was completed even if this particular set was not. The cards announce the sailings of "clipper" ships to San Francisco and are facsimiles of originals in the Bohemian Club. 1/850 copies. "Cards" are tipped into single folded sheets with text explanations by various authors. Stored in a blue cloth- covered portfolio and housed in a matching blue cloth-covered slipcase with leather spine labels. The box is lightly sunned at spine and the labels are edge-clipped. Internally fine. unknown books
1947615631947. BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA. CALIFORNIA POETRY PORTFOLIOS. CA: Book Club of California/various presses 1947. Set of twelve single sheets folded each designed by a different press presenting a poem by an eminent California poet with commentary by the author. Authors include Gelett Burgess Genevieve Taggard Murial Rukeyser. Housed in a blue cloth-covered portfolio and blue cloth-covered slipcase backed in brown morocco gilt to spine. Wear and a touch of sun to portfolio; scuffing and much wear to slipcase spine which is separated but present; slipcase also bears slight soil. Internally fine. unknown books
1947698261947. BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA. THE CALIFORNIA POETRY PORTFOLIOS PART ONE THROUGH TWELVE. San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1947. Limited to 750 copies. Twelve quarto folders each designed by a different press and each presenting a poem by an eminent California poet with a commentary by the author. The folders are fine and are housed in a blue cloth slipcase which is a little crushed and edgeworn with worn leather spine labels. Laid-in are three announcements for various numbers on Book Club of California letterhead. The presses are: Quercus Press Aucune Press Platen Press Aquarius Press Pioneer Hand Printing Society of La Canada Hart Press Masque Press Toyon Press Greenwood Press Eucalyptus Press L-D Allen Press. The poets include: Gelett Burgess Stanton A. Coblentz Wallace Irwin Genevieve Taggard Marie de L. Welch Josephine Miles Janet Lewis Yvor Winters Muriel Rukeyser Hildegarde Flanner Donald Weeks Robinson Jeffers. unknown books
3889BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. San Francisco: 1926. 16mo. Wrappers. 13 pages. First edition. Van Allen Bradley's copy with his signature. Light cover wear. unknown books
1940615641940. BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA. PACIFIC ADVENTURES. CA: Book Club of California/various presses 1940. Limited edition 1/650 copies of six pamphlets each designed by a different press presenting a narrative of early exploration of the Pacific Area. In the mailing envelopes some of which bear slight wear/soil one envelope bears short edge-tears. Housed in a blue cloth- covered portfolio and blue cloth-covered slipcase backed in brown morocco gilt to spine. Touch of soil to portfolio; scuffing and much wear to slipcase spine with slight soil. Pamphlets are fine. unknown books
1940698491940. BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA. PACIFIC ADVENTURES. CA: Book Club of California/various presses 1940. Limited edition 1/650 copies of six pamphlets numbered 1-6 each designed by a different press presenting a narrative of early exploration of the Pacific Area. Housed in a blue cloth-covered portfolio and blue cloth-covered slipcase leather spine labels somewhat chipped. Pamphlets are fine. unknown books
1985HX712-5San Francisco: CA: The Book Club of California 1985. Hardcover. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 750 copies the facsimile printed by Mastercraft Press the second part was designed by Lewis Allen and printed at the Tamal Land Press by Arlen Philpott. Originally issued at $ 150.00. Folio. 14 x 9 1/2 inches. 124 pp. Half-title copyright page title page in various colors sectional heads in red marginal notes in red and black many of the reproductions and inserts are in various colors "Epiloque" by Lewis and Dorothy Allen "The Allen Press An Appreciation" by Carey S. Bliss index; text clean unmarked. Full brown cloth with Columbian Press design in blind on front cover spine titled in gilt; binding square and tight very mild shelf wear. Prospectus included. Very Good. This is a new and expanded edition of the leaf book published by the Allen Press in 1981; the original edition was issued in only 140 copies and immediately sold out. The Book Club of California issued this facsimile edition with additions the updates begin on page 93. The first part of the updates adds the Allens' description of publications number 47-51. Part II is a listing of ephemera; the errata and index were also revised and expanded. Reference: De Hamel and Silver Disbound and Dispersed No. 182; Harlan The Two Hundredth Book No. 180. The Book Club of California hardcover books
1928WRCLIT54515San Francisco 1928. Small quarto. Printed wrapper over boards. One of approximately five hundred copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. The fragile outer wrapper is lightly chipped with short breaks at the spine fold boards a bit bumped at corners with crack at crown of spine fold internally very good. HELLER & MAGEE p.61. hardcover books
1927CNBR245San Francisco: John Henry Nash for The Book Club of California 1927. No binding. Near fine. Nash John Henry. Folio single leaf folded once to form 4 pp. Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn 1872-1964 was an advocate of free speech and higher education based on the idea of a self-governing community with advisors teaching through tutorials instead of lectures and with an emphasis on the "great books"; he opened the "Experimental College" at the University of Wisconsin in 1927. Unfortunately the experiment failed with the students developing a reputation for "radicalism and wanton anarchy" perhaps an idea ahead of its time resulting in the closing of the College in 1932. <br/><br/>This scarce BCC broadside printed by John Henry Nash announces three lectures to be given by him: "The Evolution of Spirit" "The College and the Community" and "The Poetry of James Stephens." Undated but we believe it was printed in 1927 based on a mention in the BCC 100 of the first lecture Dr. Meiklejohn gave: "In 1925 under the auspices of the Club but not connected with any planned series Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn spoke at the Palace Hotel on 'Democracy and Excellence' " cf p. xiv BCC 100. The broadside states "Dr. Meiklejohn's lecture before the members two years ago was so favorably received and so many expressed a desire to hear the speaker again that the Club takes special pleasure in announcing this new series of lectures." A quick look at the calendar for 1927 confirms that July 27 August 3 and August 10 did all fall on a Wednesday as the broadside states. Not listed in either O'Day or the BCC 100; seemingly scarce with none currently in the marketplace and a search of OCLC locating one copy at Cal.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: A single leaf folded once to four pp. the announcement on the lecture series on the first page in black and red surrounded by a red ruled border two inside pages blank on the final page "The Book Club of California wishes to express its appreciation to the trustees of the Temple Emanu-El for the use of its beautiful building for these lectures" and beneath "San Francisco: John Henry Nash Printer"; folio size measuring 12" by 8.5".<br/><br/>___CONDITION: This delicate broadside could almost be called fine; the paper is clean the inks bright it is free of soil and edgewear other than a single short closed tear to the top margin of the first page; some light age-toning else fine.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. John Henry Nash for The Book Club of California unknown books
199374439San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1993. Octavo printed wrappers. First edition. The Club's annual keepsake for 1993. A fine copy in cloth slipcase. #74439 The Book Club of California unknown books
200079290San Francisco: The Book Club of California 2000. Octavo 13 parts single sheets each folded to make four pages. First edition. The Club's annual keepsake for 2000. The first part TWELVE TREASURES FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA also edited by Barbara Land was the club's annual keepsake for 1997. A fine set in cloth slipcase. #79290 The Book Club of California unknown books
199774443San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1997. Octavo 13 parts single sheets each folded to make four or six pages. First edition. The Club's annual keepsake for 1997. A fine set in cloth slipcase. #74443 The Book Club of California unknown books
199074436San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1990. Octavo 12 parts single sheets each folded to make four pages. First edition. The Club's annual keepsake for 1990. A fine set in cloth slipcase. #74436 The Book Club of California unknown books
195843824San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California 1958. First edition one of 400 copies printed. Illustrated. 80 pp. 1 vols. Folio 14 x 10. tan linen spine paper label and decorated boards. Fine. First edition one of 400 copies printed. Illustrated. 80 pp. 1 vols. Folio 14 x 10. Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California unknown books
20091038798. San Francisco: The Book Club of California 2009. 8.5â€x10†portfolio containing 1 introductory bifold and 14 bifolds with facsimiles of illustrations in color as well as black & white along with book descriptions. Three small stains to upper edge of top cover of portflio else near fine. § First edition thus. An interesting and beautifully produced set which looks at the development of the children’s book in California during one of the most important stages of our state’s development. The Book Club of California unknown books
20091038788. San Francisco: The Book Club of California 2009. 8.5â€x10†portfolio containing 1 introductory bifold and 14 bifolds with facsimiles of illustrations in color as well as black & white along with book descriptions. Top right corner of introductory bifold creased else near fine. § First edition thus. An interesting and beautifully produced set which looks at the development of the children’s book in California during one of the most important stages of our state’s development. The Book Club of California unknown books
200535963San Francisco: The Book Club of California 2005. Folders laid in to a porfolio with black title lettering and photographic image in color printed to front panel. A VG copy. 14 folders. Many photographic images in color. 10" x 8-1/4" <br/><br/> The Book Club of California unknown books
195919089.1San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1959. 1st edition. Printed wrappers. Fine. 75 - 95 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> The Book Club of California unknown books
1962WRCLIT84593San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1962. Twelve quarto fascicles with occasional illustrations and typographical embellishments. Enclosed in cloth and board chemise and cloth covered slipcase with gilt label. First edition of the 26th of the Club's annual keepsakes. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Club it numbers among the most important. of the series. One of 950 sets. Among the printers represented often with text by the proprietors are Grant Dahlstrom the Tamal Land Press Mallette Dean the Grabhorn Press Ward Ritchie the Greenwood Press Windsor Press Black Vine Press Adrian Wilson the Allen Press the Plantin Press and Lawton Kennedy. The Book Club of California hardcover books
