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185029407San Jose printed in New York: J. Winchester State Printer 1850. Quarto. ix 1 482pp. Half title. Modern buckram gilt leather labels. Minor shelf wear one label lacking one chipped. Library ink stamp and embossed blindstamp on titlepage light foxing.<br/> <br/>The first published volume of the statutes of California.<br/> <br/>Herein are contained some of the basic laws establishing the government and civil operations of the state including naturalization laws the acts incorporating San Francisco Sacramento Los Angeles and other cities and acts regarding the militia internal improvements marriage rights etc. Although the titlepage contains a San Jose imprint these laws were actually printed in New York. "The Legislature of 1850 in consideration of having the Statutes and Journals printed at a reduction of 50% from the price of its contract with the State Printer agreed to allow them to be printed in the east. When Winchester received his appointment he agreed to this condition and had them printed in New York by J. Craighead of Fulton Street" - Wagner.<br/> <br/>Cowan p.610; Greenwood 167 ref; Wagner California Imprints 147. J. Winchester, State Printer unknown books
1850WRCAM44158ASan Jose i.e. New York: J. Winchester State Printer 1850. ix1482pp. Half title. Quarto. Modern buckram gilt leather labels. Minor shelf wear one label lacking one chipped. Library ink stamp and embossed blindstamp on titlepage light foxing. Very good. The first published volume of the statutes of California. Herein are contained some of the basic laws establishing the government and civil operations of the state including naturalization laws the acts incorporating San Francisco Sacramento Los Angeles and other cities and acts regarding the militia internal improvements marriage rights etc. Although the titlepage contains a San Jose imprint these laws were actually printed in New York. "The Legislature of 1850 in consideration of having the Statutes and Journals printed at a reduction of 50% from the price of its contract with the State Printer agreed to allow them to be printed in the east. When Winchester received his appointment he agreed to this condition and had them printed in New York by J. Craighead of Fulton Street" - Wagner. COWAN p.610. WAGNER CALIFORNIA IMPRINTS 147. GREENWOOD 167 ref. J. Winchester, State Printer hardcover books
1854714161854. Sacramento: B. Redding 1854. Sacramento: B. Redding 1854. 1854 California Session Laws in Spanish California. Mauriz H. Gomez Translator. Leyes de California Aprobadas en la Quinta Sesion de la Lejislatura que Comenzo en Benicia el Cuatro de Enero de 1854 Y Concluyo en Sacramento el Quince de Mayo del Mismo Ano. Traducidas del Ingles por H. Gomez Mauriz Traductor del Estado. Sacramento: B. Redding 1854. iv 223 pp. Octavo 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Early 20th-century cloth red and black lettering pieces and small library shelf label to foot of spine endpapers renewed. A few finger smudges some soiling to rear board. Moderate toning to text light foxing in places small library stamps to title page a few library marks to its verso. $500. Spanish-language edition of laws passed at the fifth legislative session. Early California statutes were issued in English and Spanish as required by a provision in the state constitution. In 1849 when it was drafted Spanish was the native language of around 13000 of California's nearly 100000 residents many of them recent arrivals due to the gold rush. OCLC locates 10 copies 2 in law libraries University of Michigan Yale. Babbitt Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 22. unknown books
1930964Aurora Mo: Midwest Map Company 1930. Very good. Folding map 22 x 17 inches. Old fold lines some light wear. Folding highway map of California and Nevada with extensive advertising for the Tulare Motor Inn in Tulare California. The advertising section is printed in red while the rest of the map is printed in blue. The map key delineates paved improved and earth roads as well as connecting county roads. Interestingly almost none of Nevada's roads are paved; the stretch of road from Carmel to San Simeon through Big Sur is a combination of improved and unpaved. Numerous small towns are marked as are national parks. It seems likely that the general map information was printed with space left for custom sponsorship such as that of the Tulare Motor Inn on the present example. One copy in OCLC at Cornell University. Midwest Map Company unknown books
18901685San Francisco 1890. Good. Twelve handbills each approximately 9 x 6 inches plus 7pp. pamphlet and three small promotional cards. Mounted to card backings. Several chips and short closed tears at edges. Tanned. An interesting series of twelve small broadsides or handbills relating to the 1890 California state elections in which the Democrats attempt to remind various county residents of expenditures made on their behalf in the last legislature and the party's role in those outlays. The particular problem that these flyers attempt to dispute is the increase in state taxes which they argue is vastly offset by the benefits that these counties received. A typical broadside addressed "To the Voters of Mendocino County" reads thus:<br /><br />"Your State taxes for the fiscal year ending June 30 1889 were $78285.70. The next year they were $8507691. The difference -- $6791.21 -- represents your payments on account of the 'extravagance of the last legislature.' That extravagance consisted of appropriations for public institutions of which Mendocino's share is $350000 for the new Insane Asylum at Ukiah. Your Democratic Senator and Assemblymen secured that institution for you and to obtain it they had to consent to similar expenditures in other parts of the state. This cost you $6791.21 the first year and it brings you $350000 at the start and the prospect of regular appropriations of about $100000 a year hereafter. If Senator Yell Assemblyman Seawell and the Democratic Legislature did wrong in imposing this burden on the State for the benefit of Mendocino county vote against the Democratic ticket."<br /><br />Handbills with similar language addressed to the voters of Sacramento Napa Marin San Joaquin Amador Sonoma Butte Santa Clara Alameda San Bernardino Los Angeles and Orange Counties are also included in this group as are a pamphlet and three cards from the Young Men's Democratic League in San Francisco regarding more national issues. Despite or perhaps because of this innovative strategy to challenge voters to support the other party Democrats were not generally successful in the 1890 election in California. books
19061023Whittier: Board of Trade 1906. Very good. 16pp. Oblong octavo. Original printed wrappers stapled. Light soiling and wear. Published less than twenty years after Whittier was founded by Quakers this promotional work proudly proclaims that "there is now town of its size that will rank higher in intelligence morality and progressiveness." Just fourteen miles from Los Angeles with a population of about 4000 people Whittier boasted easy access by rail a college hospital library an abundance of water and a budding oil industry. It did not have saloons and "consequently no need of a jail; and no paupers." Illustrated throughout with half tones including a panoramic bird's eye view of the town. Relatively scarce with only four copies located in OCLC at UC San Diego UC Berkeley Swarthmore College and the Merrimack Valley Library. Board of Trade unknown books
1890WRCAM44132Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company 1890. 898pp. plus thirty-five photographic plates. Thick quarto. Original pictorial pigskin stamped in gilt and blind spine gilt a.e.g. Some minor scuffing and wear to the binding. Very clean internally. Very good overall. A massive history of southern California encompassing San Diego San Bernardino Los Angeles and Orange counties as well as Baja California. Individual communities are discussed as are agricultural development and infrastructure. The history is followed by hundreds of biographical sketches of notable citizens. A very useful historical record of southern California in the late nineteenth century. The Lewis Publishing Company unknown books
195057733San Jose California:Monarch Match Co.: Monarch Match Co. no date ca. 1950. publisher's coil-bound printed boards as issued. Some light use to boards; a few inoffensive spots to contents; very attractive. Folio. The Monarch Match Co. was in business 1946-1966. This catalogue includes 47 leaves of sample custom advertising matchbook covers plus price lists designs for political campaigns fraternal matches stock cuts etc. Monarch Match Co., hardcover
186335277San Francisco: Alta California Book and Job Office 1863. 1863. CALIFORNIA. First edition. 8vo. 9 1/4" x 6 3/4" tan printed wrappers. 27 pp. The inaugural address as provided by the President of the Society at the opening of the new "Pioneer Hall" where he reviewed the past and present state of the Society and its finances. The president then introduced the speaker Eugene Lies Esquire who provided information on landed estates and especially those in which the earlier pioneers and natives of California had been interested. Lightly soiled along the edge at the top of the front cover and with light wear to the spine else a very good copy. Alta California Book and Job Office, 1863. unknown
01-10981940s-1950s. Collection of cards and letters of congratulations including a t.l.s. from then Governor Earl Warren and many other political leaders. From the library of Gardiner Johnson late Speaker Pro Tem of the California Assembly 1940s President of the S.F. Bar Association and of the Commonwealth Club 1950s. 1940s-1950s. unknown
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185863628Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers 1858. 8vo. 292 pp. plus vi pp. of ads preceding the text 8 pp. following. Steel-engraved portrait frontisp. w/ tissue guard. Recent binding gilt lettering on spine minor foxing to first few leaves very faint tidemark at upper corner gutter margin through first couple signatures occasional thumbing still a VG copy. First edition of this fascinating biography of Lola Montez 1821-1861 -- i.e. Elizabeth Rosanna Gilbert courtesan dancer and also believed to have been the major inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Irene Adler and the “Scandal in Bohemia.†After nearly bringing down the government of Bavaria and King Ludwig I by living with him as her mistress with the newly granted title Countess of Landsfield and as unofficial consort wielded political power urging for reform which the 1848 Revolutions swept away and she fled. Later bigamously marrying Cornet George Heald in 1849 she began her very successful career as dancer during the California Gold Rush although she never trained to dance and married for 2 weeks Pat Hull California Newspaperman in Grass Valley. She is perhaps best remembered for tutoring the famed Lotta Crabtree dancer and acting sensation from Grass Valley. This volume also contains her lectures on Beautiful Women Gallantry Heroines of History Comic Aspects of Love Wits & Women of Paris and Romanticism which Montez used to challenge societal norms about the roles of women in society and instead of cosmetics recommended that women pursue temperance exercise and cleanliness. See: Blasefield Hellraisers Heroines and Holy Women pp. 149-150. T.B. Peterson & Brothers, unknown
1998276131998. Missing Vol. 55. Missing Vol. 55. Southern California Law Review. Los Angeles: USC Law Center. Vols. 1 to 71. 1927-1998. Hardcover. Cloth various bindings ex-library. Vols. 1-40 with small white library shelf location numbers at foot of spine. Eighteen 18 linear feet of shelf space. Special $495. unknown
1992100791992. 14 linear feet of shelf space. 14 linear feet of shelf space. Southern California Law Review. University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Volumes 1 to 66-1 1927-1992. Vols. 1 to 65 hardcover 1927-1992; Vols. 66-1 original paper issues Nov. 1992. Various blue bindings. Together 76 books fourteen 14 linear feet of shelf space. Special $495. The Southern California Law Review is the flagship scholarly journal of the USC Gould School of Law. The law review was established in 1927 and its students publish six issues in each annual volume. Each issue normally contains several articles written by outside contributors and several notes written by students from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. The Law Review strives to publish articles on a wide range of topics and to serve all segments of the legal community. In addition the Law Review frequently hosts a forum in order to explore timely or controversial areas of law. unknown
1992100591992. 12 linear feet of shelf space. 12 linear feet of shelf space. Hastings Law Journal. University of California Hastings College of the Law. Volumes 1 to 43 1949-1992. Together 50 hardcover books twelve 12 linear feet of shelf space. Ex-library very good. Special $495. UC Hastings' flagship law review has contributed to the advancement of knowledge in legal thinking and case law through scholarly articles written by experts in the legal community. An occasional issue is devoted to a law symposium. Since 1949 Hastings Law Journal has published scholarly articles essays and student Notes on a broad range of legal topics. With close to 100 members HLJ publishes six issues each year reaching a large domestic and international audience. unknown books
1992100791992. 14 linear feet of shelf space. 14 linear feet of shelf space. Southern California Law Review. University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Volumes 1 to 66-1 1927-1992. Vols. 1 to 65 hardcover 1927-1992; Vols. 66-1 original paper issues Nov. 1992. Various blue bindings. Together 76 books fourteen 14 linear feet of shelf space. Special $495. The Southern California Law Review is the flagship scholarly journal of the USC Gould School of Law. The law review was established in 1927 and its students publish six issues in each annual volume. Each issue normally contains several articles written by outside contributors and several notes written by students from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. The Law Review strives to publish articles on a wide range of topics and to serve all segments of the legal community. In addition the Law Review frequently hosts a forum in order to explore timely or controversial areas of law. unknown books
1998276131998. Southern California Law Review. Los Angeles: USC Law Center. Vols. 1 to 71. 1927-1998. Hardcover. Cloth various bindings ex-library. Vols. 1-40 with small white library shelf location numbers at foot of spine. Eighteen 18 linear feet of shelf space. Special $495. unknown books
194156134Los Angeles.: Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles. 07- 1941. Color map 30 3/4 x 20 inches on sheet 32 1/2 x 22 inches dissected into 8. Soft crease at four corners small ex-library mark with 1-36-42 on verso. Map is clean and bright. A detailed map including parts of the Wilmington District the San Pedro District Long Beach and the Terminal District. Companies operating at the Port are listed under the following headings: Railroads Fumigation Lumber Carriers Steamship Companies and Agents Operators of Petroleum Carriers Tanker Loading Stations Marine Service Stations Lumber Companies. . Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles. unknown books
1927166041927. Leslie Reva C. My Memories of School Days album and photograph scrapbook 1923-1927 documents female student life social networks and extracurricular culture at Lincoln High School in Los Angeles during the 1920s. The material captures daily experiences of a young woman engaged in school activities including dances athletics and clubs while also preserving peer relationships through inscriptions photographs and ephemera. The album provides direct evidence of how young women recorded and interpreted their social and educational environments in an urban West Coast setting during the interwar period.<br /> <br /> Leslie Reva C. My Memories of School Days Album. New York: C. R. Gibson & Company 1924. Photograph and scrapbook album containing 73 gelatin silver print photographs in sizes ranging from approximately 1 x 1 inch to 5 x 7 inches accompanied by 14 handwritten inscriptions from friends 3 extended manuscript entries by Leslie 2 newspaper clippings referencing her as a student 11 ticket stubs from Los Angeles-area school events and performances dated 1923-1924 and decorative elements including hand-colored Kewpie cutouts. The photographs depict Leslie and classmates in a variety of settings including large class portraits with individuals identified Leslie marked as "me" beach outings theatrical productions athletic activities such as girls playing hockey in uniform and informal groupings labeled with captions such as "Three of a kind" and "one of the three musketeers." Manuscript entries describe participation in dances parties and school organizations including reference to her role as Secretary and designation as "Captain" of the Girls Reserves. Inscriptions from peers emphasize close friendships and shared social life with messages recalling "parties dances and everywhere we went" while one later inscription reflects a post-graduation relationship revised to read "To the Dearest Wife."<br /> <br /> The album documents a period in which American high schools expanded social and extracurricular programming particularly for young women integrating athletics clubs and organized events into student life. The inclusion of ticket stubs photographs and written reflections illustrates how these activities structured social identity and peer relationships. The setting in Los Angeles further situates the material within a rapidly growing urban environment in the 1920s where public schooling played a central role in shaping youth culture. Green cloth boards with moderate handling wear; contents complete with minor edge wear to pages and photographs; overall very good condition. A detailed and cohesive record of female high school experience and social life in early twentieth-century California. unknown
16604Women Education Scrapbook Album. School photo and memory album from girl who attended Los Angeles area Lincoln High School Class of 1927. Reva C. Leslie. My Memories of School Days Album. New York: C. R. Gibson & Company 1924. Original green cloth board covers. 72 pages. Unpaginated. 7 x 10 in. Includes 14 handwritten messages and inscriptions from friends; 3 handwritten entries from album owner documenting her school memories. 73 Gelatin silver print black and white photos of various sizes ranging from 5 x 7 in. to 1 x 1 in. Two newspaper clippings of Leslie as a student. 11 ticket stubs from plays and school events around Los Angeles 1923-1924. Two hand colored cutouts of Kewpie babies a popular type of doll at the time. <br/><br/>Photo and memory album of Reva Leslie a popular high school student in the 1920s who writes about dances parties and clubs. "I can remember the first party I ever attended at Lincoln. I was a scrub and a Sr. asked me to a dance in the evening.I went to a Hi-Jinks. I had oodles of fun there.I went to all the basketball games but one and we sure had a swell team.I went to the Army dance with Raymond and Johnnie introduced me as "Captain" of the Girls Reserves.I even can say I like very much the faculty or at least some of them."<br/><br/>A large class photos identifies Leslis as "me" in addition to friends such as Mabel Payne; and she draws in cartoon figures of schoolmates who missed the class photo. Inscriptions from friends show her likability and kindness. "I hope that we will be pals for many years to come even if we happen to be far apart. My love for you is growing more each day and i hope it will continue on thru the years. I hope you will remember the many days we spent together at parties dances and everywhere we went we were the inseparable sisters I hope you won't object. This scribbling is terrible but your used to that aren't you honey.I want to be considered your very bestest pal. You'll let me won't you dear" Another from an admirer: "I had a good time at all the parties and football games you attended with me and hope you had the same". There are many photos of friends including at the beach and in stage productions; some friend's names are printed in full while other are identified by nicknames such as "Lu" and "Vi" showing the closeness of these bonds.<br/><br/>Leslie was a Class Officer as Secretary and there are many photos of her as an active student including various clubs and photos of her and friends labelled "Three of a kind" and "one of the three muskateers". There's even photos of girls playing playing hockey in school uniforms. Includes a poem about a late night club in which she describes having "oodles of fun": "To the Hi-Jinx the Hi-Jinx of course you'll come. Wear any costume you'll surely have fun. The time will be merry our hearts will be light! Oh come ye lassie and join in the night." The last inscription written from "Eddie Robbins" was notably updated after graduation with the new salutation "To the Dearest Wife". His original message reads: "One friend in a thousand Solomon says is more close than a brother and its worthwhile seeking him half your days if you find him before the others. Nine hundred and ninety nine of them looks for what they can get out of you but the thousandth friend is worth them all and will stick to you. With the whole wide world against you." Very good condition. unknown books
193075392Coalinga: n.p. ca. 1930. This small gathering belonged to Stanley Siegfus a mining consultant geologist and engineer whose papers are held at the Huntington Library. It includes:Four panoramic silver gelatin photographs 10 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches of Big Tar Canyon an oil producing region in the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga. In the original envelope from R. W. Richards of the USGSSixteen 3 duplicates original photographs of the oil business in the Tupman oil field.A typed letter signed from R.W. Richards to Stanley Siegfus. It discusses the Big Tar Canyon as well as other oil fields Garza Creek McAdam's well. Written on USGS letterhead and dated June 7 1933. Oil field photographs from the Tupman lease in Kern County CA—acquired in 1920 by the Standard Oil Company. Images include oil derricks rigs company buildings views of the fields etc. n.p. unknown
197576885Burbank California: American Broadcasting Company 1975. An archive of 55 color photographs of Los Angeles locations scouted for the pilot episode of Cooley High taken by location manager Cassius Weathersby. Most of the photographs are accompanied by captions noting the address or location. Also included are nine leaves with handwritten notes by Weathersby cast and crew lists shooting schedules call sheets location permits and other material relating to the production.<br /> <br /> One of Weathersby’s notes reads “no palm trees or stucco†a reminder that the locations were meant to stand in for the show’s Chicago setting. As such the photographs present images of Los Angeles not often seen in film of brick warehouses concrete apartment buildings vacant lots and old diners shot in South Central and outlying areas of the city.<br /> <br /> Cooley High was based on the 1975 film of the same name about a group of African American high school students in 1960s Chicago. The pilot episode wasn’t well received by ABC and the show was completely retooled into the sitcom What’s Happening!! 1976-79 which followed the lives of three working-class African American teens in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts. Weathersby would go on to work as the production manager for the show.<br /> <br /> Most of the photographs measure 4 ¼†x 3 ¼†11 x 8 cm. 30 are mounted on white paper with location information to the side. The remaining photographs are loose with location information handwritten on the verso. Housed in a generic manila file folder with the “Cooley High†handwritten on the tab. American Broadcasting Company unknown
74665An archive of materials from performers who were involved in early productions of Los Angeles’ famed Pilgrimage Play. The production was the creation of Christine Wetherill Stevenson 1878–1922 an heiress of the Pittsburgh Paint Company. Her dream was to build her own open-air theater and stage her own plays. A member of the Theosophical Society she spent time studying in the society’s Krotona Institute in lower Beachwood Canyon. She claimed to have searched for years for the perfect venue to stage outdoor religious dramas of an inspirational nature and found it in the gentle Krotona foothills. In 1918 she produced 35 performances of Light of Asia a play by Sir Edward Arnold concerning the life of Buddha.<br /> <br /> In May 1916 a successful production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar featuring a cast including Tyrone Power Sr. was presented in Beachwood Canyon's vast natural amphitheater. Impressed with such success Stevenson sought to build a permanent amphitheater to produce her "huge spectacles." Together with other Hollywood leaders she founded the Theater Arts Alliance to further these aims. Her initial attempt at securing 60 acres of land of what is now known as the Hollywood Bowl ended in conflict. She then quickly built the 1000-seat Pilgrimage Play Amphitheater now the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre across the street from the Bowl site. In June 1920 Stevenson's adaptation of the story of the life of Christ The Pilgrimage Play opened its first summer season to enthusiastic audiences. Until her early death in 1922 Stevenson was deeply involved with the annual production as producer writer director and costume designer working to make the play as authentic as possible. During a research trip to Palestine Egypt and India she bought over $3000 worth of costumes for the show; olives figs and grapes would be planted around the theatre to make it appear more like Palestine. The play continued annually until its final performance in 1964.<br /> <br /> This archive is from the estate of Ruth S. or Ruth Josephine Omey most likely sisters who both performed in the play as women of Judea. A brother or husband Lillburn T. Omey also performed as Apostle Bartholomew. The three performed in the 1944 and 1945 productions.<br /> <br /> Included in this archive are: 10 black and white original photographs of the three performers in various costume with pencil notations on the verso; Pilgrimage Play programs for the years 1925 1935 1944-47 1950 and 1961 the program for 1944 includes 75 signatures of performers and other persons involved with the production; and various brochures and newspaper clippings about the play. Apparently the Omey’s worked for Cathedral Films as indicated by a note wrapped around the clippings. unknown
1916685Chicago 1916. Very good. 12pp. Original pictorial self-wrappers stapled. Small contemporary publisher's notice affixed to front wrap. Light wear and dust soiling. Rare promotional for the Salt Lake Route by rail to Los Angeles and for the attractions of the city itself published circa 1916. The text touts the population and commercial growth of Los Angeles from the turn of the 20th century its many attractions and year-round seasonability. The last leaf provides a summary of ways to arrive on the West Coast via the Salt Lake Route through Las Vegas from Chicago Minneapolis and Denver and prints a full-page map of the route and intermediate stops across Utah Southern Nevada and Southern California. The Salt Lake Route was operated by the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad whose line between the two cities was completed in 1905 under the ownership and direction of Montana mining baron William A. Clark and as a result it was also known informally as the "Clark Road." With many photographic reproductions of Los Angeles and its attractions just after World War I including many of the grand Southern California resorts of the day. Not in OCLC. unknown
1947665Belmont Ca 1947. Very good. Sheet map 11.25 x 15.25 inches. Previously folded. Light wear at folds. Light tanning. Scarce post-World War II street map of Belmont California south of San Francisco. The map depicts the layout of the area between San Mateo San Carlos and Hidden Canyon Park and was issued for the use of a local insurance agent Harry Walden "When the subject of the conversation is Insurance talk with Walden". Provides a good delineation of a town on the San Francisco peninsula that numbered approximately 5000 inhabitants after the end of the war but today is home to over 25000. Ephemeral with no copies located by OCLC. unknown books
