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1920321Los Angeles: Rigali & Veselich Realtors 1920. Very good. 8pp. Folio. Color printed wrappers stapled. Short separations at foot of gutter. Internally clean. Scarce color illustrated promotional for new construction in Altadena California of real estate under the auspices of the firm Rigali & Veselich. Contains photographic images of the area and styles of homes a bird's eye view of the area and a plat map delineating the layout of proposed community below the foothills of the San Gabriels. OCLC locate one copy at Yale. Rigali & Veselich, Realtors unknown books
1887164588Buffalo N. Y.: Art Printing Works of Matthews 1887. Square octavo pp. 1-48 not paginated illustrations maps lithographed throughout in tan blue and black original pictorial white wrappers printed in tan blue and black. First edition. A profusely illustrated tourist and sportsman's guide to points of interest in northern California and Oregon along and adjacent to the Southern Pacific Company's "Shasta Route" the railroad between San Francisco California and Portland Oregon. The Southern Pacific Company assumed control of the financially troubled Oregon and California Railroad and constructed the link over Siskiyou Summit in 1887 completing the route through northern California to Portland. Johnstone worked in the passenger department of the Southern Pacific Company for about eight years writing and illustrating advertising copy for its publications. In 1893 he and William V. Bryan founded THE TRAVELER a San Francisco "illustrated monthly journal of travel and recreation" promoting Pacific Coast hotels resorts and travel which he edited until his death in 1895. Rocq 14555 giving incorrect pagination. Small label with shelf mark at top left corner of front cover small rubber stamped number on inside rear cover. Covers dusty and lightly worn at edges a very good copy. #164488 Art Printing Works of Matthews unknown books
19421279San Francisco: Communist Party of California 1942. No Edition Stated. <br /><br />Seven-page mimeographed document 8 1/2 x 11 inches 217 x 280 mm stapled in top left-hand corner.<p>A "Dear Comrades" letter addressed to all branches of the Communist Party in California Arizona and Nevada urging them to meet and discuss an editorial in the August 1942 issue of the Communist "No Delay in Opening the Western Front." The letter provides reading suggestions from Communist Party publications and suggests that party members bring articles from the non-Communist press that favor a second front against Germany. It further warns that "appeasers" are trying to prevent the opening of a second front and provides counter-arguments to those opposing the second front.<br /></p><p>No institutional copies found in OCLC. None in commerce. <b>RARE.</b><br /></p><p>An interesting look at how the Communist Party sought to mobilize popular support for a second front in Europe.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Moderate toning to cover page less toning to subsequent pages pencil notation at upper left corner of cover page. Horizontal fold probably for mailing. Light dampstaining. A Very Good copy.<br /></p> Communist Party of California paperback books
1911List812California 1911. Single sheet measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. Two vertical folds two holes punched at upper margin very good condition overall. Very Good. An uncommon survival possibly published by the Santa Clara County Sherriff's Office showing two wanted criminals from 1911 who were travelling together. The first a C.K. Paullins was the editor of the Rocky Mountain Moose and is wanted for embezzlement. The second a Ruby J. Stanley alias Lillian Raymond is known as "Kentucky." According to the flyer "This woman is very well known in the tenderloin of Los Angeles and Fresno. She dresses in the latest style and wears fancy dresses. These people work all kinds of schemes to make money. I wish you would keep a sharp lookout for these parties. W.J. Newman Constable Visalia California. Dated October 23 1911.". books
188832883San Francisco: Published by Edward Denny & Co 1888. 1st edition thus. Morocco-style full sheep binding with gilt stamping. Edges rubbed with joints starting. Chipping to spine ends. An About VG copy. A-H 282 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/> Published by Edward Denny & Co unknown books
193027048New York Kansas City Montreal: California Perfume Company Inc 1930. Wraps. Very Good. Not paginated. 76 pages. 10 x 7 inches. Two post screw binder with leatherette covers. "AVON" stylized logo on front cover. Full color advertisements for products throughout. Designed as a distributor trade catalog. Wraps. No date but we believe it pre-dates the 1934 catalog found in the Hagley archives. The prices are just a bit cheaper and the lack images of the Good Housekeeping seal found below the 1934 catalog products. California Perfume Company, Inc unknown 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
1895WRCAM40397Sacramento 1895. 1983pp. plus folding map. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers cloth spine. Narrow strip measuring 1 1/2" by 4 1/2" at bottom right of front wrapper wanting. Some chipping and soiling to wrappers. Title leaf and three leaves at rear laid in. Few closed tears to map. Internally quite nice overall good. This volume the "second edition" of 1895 was produced by the editors of the Sacramento Bee a local newspaper that began in 1857 and remains the city's primary daily today. Most pages contain at least one photographic illustration of an aspect of Sacramento's resources or culture. These include handsome houses and municipal buildings prominent citizens healthy agriculture and cattle raised in the region etc. The folding map measuring 18" by 21" depicts the uses of soil across Sacramento. A fine document of Sacramento during its late 19th-century growth. hardcover books
1901WRCAM38820Brooklyn N.Y.: The Albertype Co. 1901. Titlepage plus nineteen albertype photographic prints one folding. Oblong 16mo. Original pebbled cloth stitched. Boards a bit rubbed and shelfworn. Very clean internally. Very good. A nice photographic tour of California's capital city at the turn of the century. Included is a panorama of the city from the capitol dome several images of the State Capitol building and its grounds Sutter's Fort the Sacramento River the State Library the Hall of Records the "J" Street and "K" Street business districts and more. The Albertype Co. hardcover books
1893WRCAM43213San Francisco 1893. 47pp. Illustrated with halftones. Oblong 12mo. Original printed stiff-paper wrappers string-tied. Some offsetting on the rear wrapper. Near fine. Early promotional guide to Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Includes photographs of the Hollenbeck and other prominent buildings of the day also photos of the missions Catalina Island Santa Monica Riverside etc. The Hollenbeck Company a major Los Angeles area developer was one of the driving forces behind the issuance of this guide. ROCQ 2965. unknown books
198943236Oakland CA: WIM 1989. 1st Edition. SIGNED by both authors. Mauve cloth with gilt rules and color illustration pasted to front board cream stamped lettering. Light soiling and sunning faint tide lines to rear board and spine foot. Slight ripple to last few pages else internally clean and crisp. VG. 8 382 2 pp. 168 full color plates. 14-1/4" x 11-3/8" <br/><br/>A catalogue of the stunning collection of California paintings acquired by Coran and Nelson-Rees issued just two years before the Oakland fire decimated it. The collection was valued at $45 million of which over 800 paintings were destroyed including Albert Bierstadt's rare 1872 painting of San Francisco Bay shown on Plate No. 1 here. Los Angeles Times Oct. 23 1991 Other artists with featured works include Franz Arthur Bischoff William Henry Clapp Lafayette Maynard Dixon Henry Chapman Ford Edward Thomas Hall Granville Redmond William Wendt and many more. Each plate is accompanied by a brief note from the collectors about the locale history of the painting provenance and museum collections it has been loaned out to. Also included are essays by Arthur Millier Joseph Armstrong Baird Jr. and Nancy Dustin Wall Moure. WIM hardcover books
40383Santa Rosa n. d. 1st printing. Ca early 20th C. Printed paper wrappers stapled. Average wear & soiling. Very Good. 44 pp local business adverts interspersed. Recipes signed in type. 6-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>We find no record of this modest regional publication in all the standard cookery references nor found on OCLC nor in the NUC. unknown books
190339161Oakland Calif: Oakland Blue Book Company Publishers. Issued from the Press of the Oakland Enquirer 1903. 1st edition. Not found in Rocq nor on OCLC. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gold stamping to front board. Cloth dull. Age toning to eps. A VG copy. 3 - 163 5 pp. Includes 2 seating charts for the MacDonough Theatre at rear. Printed on blue paper. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/> Oakland Blue Book Company, Publishers. Issued from the Press of the Oakland Enquirer hardcover books
187143652Mendocino: M. Lynch 1871. 1st Printing. Age-toning to extremities. Faint fold-lines. 2 small 2-3 mm punctures in center no text affected. A VG survivor. Broadside typographical border. 10" x 8" <br/><br/>Publisher info from OCLC. An election supplement from this short-lived 1870 - 1873 Northern California newspaper. Publication documents the results from 22 cities giving returns for the Governor's race to the School Sup't the Coroner & the Supevisors. Rare. M. Lynch unknown books
188844049San Francisco: J. D. Robertson Publisher 1888. 1st Printing. Shrink-wrapped over poster board. Age-toned. Some edge chipping. Horizontal fold-line with some splitting along fold. About Very Good. Broadside printed in 5 columns. Three columns down the center describing District and Precinct Boundaries & Polling Places: "Open from 6 A.M. to 7 P.M." The two outer columns list the candidates for various political offices. 22-1/2" x 16" <br/><br/>Rare broadside documenting the many candidates for the city's elected position for the 1888 election e.g. Pond the Democratic incumbent is opposed by Dr. C. C. O'Donnell the Independent Candidate as well as Chas. R. Story the Regular Republican nominee. Those listed as running for office include: Mayor - E.B. Pond Incumbent & Winner Democratic Nominee; Dr. C.C. O'Donnell Independent; Charles R. Story Republican; For Treasurer - Christian Reiss Democrat; For Sheriff - James R. Kelly Democrat; For State Senator 19th Senatorial District - David McClure Republican; For Superintendent of Streets - Thomas Ashworth; For District Attorney - Jas. D. Page; For Justice of the Peace - Jas. I. Boland; For Assemblyman 34th District - J.F. Gawthorne; For Public Administrator - James C. Pennie; For Supervisor 12th Ward - Patrick Noble; For Corner - Wm. E. Taylor; Superintendent of Streets - Irving Graham; For Assemblyman 34th District - E.J. Reynolds; For City and County Surveyor - S. Harrison Smith; For Supervisor 1st Ward - Harry Bingham; For Sheriff - C.S. Laumeister; For Auditor - Fleet F. Strother; For Tax Collector - Joseph Spanier; For Supervisor 6th Ward - L.R. Ellert; For Supervisor 1st Ward - Henry Evans; For Supervisor 5th Ward - John T. Cutting; For Supervisor 4th Ward - Dr. Jos. Pescia; For Justice of Peace - H.L. Joachimsen; For Supervisor 7th Ward - Peter Wheelan; For Public Administrator - George T. Bromley; For Sixth Ward - Albert F. Nye; For 43rd Assembly District - L.L. Ewing; For 21st Senatorial District - J.J. Sullivan; For 4th Congressional District - Robert Ferral; For Supervisor 2nd Ward - James M. McDonald. We find no copies recorded on OCLC. J. D. Robertson, Publisher unknown books
1913WRCAM44217Sacramento 1913. 48pp. Self-wrappers stapled. Light wear. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding case spine gilt. Fox a major figure in the California Democratic Party and political boss of Sacramento was nominated for the position of state Postmaster in 1913. This drew a slew of objections scores of which are printed here from those who saw him as corrupt a "corporation tool" of the Southern Pacific Railroad on the take from gamblers and criminals and worse. OCLC locates only three copies at the California State Library University of California at Davis and California Historical Society. Scarce and quite interesting. OCLC 58882785 81609317. hardcover books
190840642San Jose California: San Jose Printing Company 1908. 1st printing. Not in Axford Brown Cook Glozier nor Wheaton & Kelly. Original publisher's brown stiff-stock printed paper wrappers. Wrappers show some wear soiling & chipping. Front wrapper beginning to detach top 3". Paper chipping at spine ends. Prior owner pencil marginalia. A Good copy. 112 2 pp. Recipes signed in type. Inserted blank leaves for notes. Local business adverts throughout. Facsimiles of the letters sent by the first ladies. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>Your typical benefit cookery book with recipes for the usual: bread vegetables salads eggs cookies cake etc etc. though with the decidely atypical submissons by Roosevelt Taft & Sherman who respectively provided recipes for spice cake stuffed eggs and peanut cookies. <br /> <br />Quite scarce with at the time of cataloguing OCLC recording just two institutional holdings SJSU & UCLA. San Jose Printing Company unknown books
49319San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co. No. 9 Montgomery St. opposite Lick House n. d. Ca 1868 - 1869. Cf Palmquist p. 95. Orange colored mount rounded corners with publisher imprint to right end; series name to left; scene caption under right view. Violet verso blank. Some light extremity wear. Slight bow to card. Image sharp & clear. PO signature to card verso. Very Good Plus. Separate images domed. 3-7/16" x 6-7/8" <br/><br/> Thomas Houseworth & Co. No. 9 Montgomery St., opposite Lick House unknown books
188941298San Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co. Printers 1889. 1st printing presumed. INSCRIBED with "Compliments of Compilers". Quarter- bound beige cloth spine over gilt/blue patterned paper-covered boards. Gilt stamped lettering to front board over beige spine. Modest wear to binding rubbing to edges age-toning to cloth. Paper somewhat age-toned. A VG example. 78 4 blank pp. 7" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>Book of short sayings and excerpts from famous authors and poets. Rare in the trade. C. A. Murdock & Co., Printers hardcover books
19264Sacramento CA: James Allen State Printer n.d. Circa 1856/57. Disbound. Abt VG pages loose but attached at upper section of spine/slightly darkened/small closed tear on bottom edge of front page/lightly soiled. 5 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>Not in Greenwood. James Allen, State Printer unknown books
1890300411<p>Thin octavo. 16 pages plus light green printed wrappers. Not signed. Souvenir program produced for the opening of the Loring Opera House in Riverside California on January 8 1890.</p> Riverside, CA, Phoenix Job and Book Department paperback books
189233138San Francisco: H. S. Crocker 1892. 1st edition thus BAL 15025. Original blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Bevelled edges. Light binding wear with spine darkened. Slight lean. POS to ffep. Withal a VG copy. 272 2 78 pp. Adverts last 78 pages with Index to Advertisers pp 73-74. Illustrated. 8vo. 9-3/4" x 7" <br/><br/>Norris contributed "The Class of '94" pp. 46 - 49 as well as 3 illustrations pp. 50 51 & 231. H. S. Crocker hardcover books
48437n. p. n. d. 1st printing presumed ca 1910. Not found in Rocq. Original publisher's red paper covers printed in black with yellow accents stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A Fine copy. 31 1 pp. The narrative was written by the California author poet Isabel Hammel Raymond who contributed the text to another promotional booklet about Santa Cruz County. Her detailed description of the hotel consists of 15 pages of text. In addition there are four more unattributed pages of text about Santa Cruz and its virtues. 10 b/w captioned half-tone photographic images of primarily divers Santa Cruz scenes. Only one of the illustrations is of the Hotel St. George that an image of the main office. Map p. 32 showing routes from San Francisco to Santa Cruz. Oblong format: 4-3/16" x 6" <br/><br/>The Hotel St. George was built in the 1890s by the San Francisco millionaire A. P. Hotaling a very successful Pacific Coast liquor distributor. Stretching along one full block of downtown Santa Cruz it was regarded as the best accommodation along the coast between San Francisco and Monterey. As it changed hands over the years additions were added and renovations took place. As Santa Cruz’s coastal amusement tourist attractions were developed the hotel played a major role in keeping the city’s downtown area viable. The hotel existed well into the 20th C finally destroyed by fire in 1990. J. C. C. Leonard named as the lessee on the booklet's cover was involved with the hotel for many years before and after the turn of the 20th C. He is named in a 1905 lawsuit as being associated with the hotel as early as 1898. He was listed as the lessee as late as 1914. At the time of this publication Leonard was also the proprietor of the Sea Beach Hotel shown in one of the photo illustrations. OCLC records 2 holding institutions: UC Berkeley & UC Santa Cruz. Uncommon. unknown books
45186San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co n. d. Ca mid-to-late 1870s. Orange colored mount printed at bottom & both edges slightly rounded edges. Verso blank. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest wear. Photographs generally sharp. Very Good. Two albumen photographs mounted side-by-side domed tops. Oblong format: 3-3/8" x 7" <br/><br/> Thomas Houseworth & Co unknown books
1882WRCAM44230San Francisco 1882. 2093pp. printed in double columns. Original pictorial wrappers bound into original green cloth gilt. Cloth a bit shelfworn. Quite clean internally. Very good overall. An informative collection of articles about the counties of California geared toward the prospective emigrant including articles on various agricultural subjects. First published in 1881 this popular now scarce text went through five editions in the course of a decade. COWAN p.92. hardcover books
