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64 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of sledding scene; Classy two-page 1934 Chevrolet ad with prominent illustration of handsome grille; One-page yeast ad features photos of Dr. Edouard Antoine of Paris; Australia's Central Bank - interesting article on contemporary developments in central banking; One-page color Crisco ad; Mean People (short story); The Beginning (short story); Taking Children to Sea - interestin photo-illustrated article on attractions offered for children aboard ocean liners; The Trimming of Paul Lumiere (short story); The Girl in Green (short story); White Cargo (part 2 of short story); Tomorrow's Transportation - interesting photo-illustrated article; The Impregnable "Mountain" - photo-illustrated article on Stony Mountain Penitentiary and its escapee California Bill; Pond's ad features photo of Mrs. Henry Field of Chicago; Two-page Dodge photo ad features crowd gathered around car and another photo of car flying over cliff; Photos of Hollywood stars; Interesting Lux ad includes photo of Barbara Rainforth; Movie News and photos; Nice two-page photo ad for the New Plymouth Six includes photo of Walter P. Chrysler; Radio Stars - news and photos; Movie Reviews; Beauty article; Cooking article about Tea; One-page ad for Magic Baking Powder features photo of Madame R. Lacroix; Interesting Bovril ad includes photos of their product being loaded onto ship, the "Bear of Oakland", of Antarctic explorer Admiral Byrd; Fashion illustrations; One-page Kodak ad entitled "Snapshots at Night!"; Magnificent colour ad for Heinz ketchup inside back cover entitled "Wonderful Wedding" depicts 'blue-blood' female tomatoes being paired with Asian spicy males!; Colour Dutch Cleanser ad on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
Pages 354-440 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: My Bear-Hunt - Part 1 - the author encounters outlaws in the High Sierras of California; Ning Wo Takes a Hand - a detectives story from the Malay Peninsula; The Hunting Down of Manuel Garcia - the Americans take extraordinary measures to capture the man who killed one of their citizens in a Central American republic; Across the Great Sahara - part 1 - Captain Angus Buchanan traverses the Sahara south to north on camel-back; A Miracle of the Air - Rosalie Gordon is saved after hanging to a rope beneath a plane at Ellington Field, Houston, Texas; A Canadian Wonderland - Jasper Park - article with wonderful photos; Roaming the Wild South Seas, part 2; "Dreamy Draw' - great photo-illustrated story of how a Londoner set up house in the Arizona wilderness for the health of her husband, only to see a settlement of health seekers set up around her; A Girl Among Brigands - Miss C. Berenguer is kidnapped by bandits in the Pyrenees; Pig-Sticking Thrills - high adventure and humour hunting wild pigs in India; In Search of Sea-Monsters - part 6 of 6 of this photo-illustrated article which describes F.A. Mitchell-Hedges' travels to catch the world's largest fish - incredible photo of huge male saw-fish; Some True Snake Stories; Nice one-page muscle-building ad by Earle E. Liederman of New York; Crazy back cover ad for the Allied Merke Institutes, Inc. shows man with what looks like a jelly mould on his head - purportedly in an effort to regrow his hair. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 386-478 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Price of Gold - an appalling catastrophe strikes a prosperous mining camp at South Porcupine, Ontario; Besieged by Cannibals - a solitary man in the Congo is besieged in his house by a mob of bloodthirsty savages; The Bull and the Barque - a bull on board a ship is worse than a bull in a china-shop; A Bad Bargain - a young Englishmen is tricked into years of misery on the deadly Niger coast before turning the tables on the tricksters; The Empire's Secrets - a British soldier consents to sell plans and photos of the defences of one of Great Britain's most important bases in the East - before disaster overtook him; Out of the Darkness - a rash young man crosses the Rocky Mountains alone in winter-time; Wanderings in Northern Persia (part I) - great photo-illustrated account of a journey beginning from Enzeli; From Job to Job Around the World (part I) - two young Americans with ten dollars between them set out to work their way around the world; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth (VI) - the author's expedition fights nature and hostile natives; McGrath's Voyage - a white trader, a boy, and a pig make a wonderful 2,000-mile trip across the South Pacific in an open boat - safely passing through a hurricane; photo of a hot-water geyser struck by drillers in Calistoga, California; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
200 pages. Features: California Evil - Death is most attractive in Californai; Charlie Manson's Home on the Range; Photo of topless SharonTate hugging Roman Polanski; Princess Leda's Castle in the Air; The Art of Evil; Banality of the New Evil; The Style of Evil; Light in the Heart of Darkness; Our Country 'Tis of Thee, Land of Ecology - by Jon Margolis; Femina Sapiens, by George P. Elliott; They're Going to Fry Ahmed's Black Skinny Ass - a Cleveland story; The Great Western Bus Ride, by Jack Kerouac; This is How the Ride Ends, By Jack McClintock; Robinson Crusoe Liebowitz; The Drinking Habits of the Very Young; Hurray for Hats; The Greatest Writing Ever Wrote, by Ed McClanahan; Fashion Photos; Stacked Up Over Stornoway - phooey on the great age of popular travel; Morton Sobell - Slightly at Large; Many other great vintage photo ads. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
135 pages. Dozens of wonderful vintage black and white photos. Average wear. Minor lean to spine. Binding intact. Sunning to spine. A sound copy. Book
Dozens of wonderful vintage black and white photos. Unpaginated. 3/4" thick. Color-decorated front board. Average wear. Minor lean to spine. Binding intact. Tiny pen markings to one page otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Pages 178-264 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Mystery of Ayers Valley - Miss Dorothy Belle Ayers receives an unexpected inheritance which leads to deadly peril; The Smuggled Diamonds - a perplexing mystery in Brazil; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-out Canoe - the experiences of a missionary-explorer during a trip down a little-known river in Brazil, visiting strange Indian tribes - with excellent photos; The Motor Thieves - a remarkable case of stolen vehicle recovery in southern California - with photos; A Woman in Albania - part 4 - Mrs. Lane's adventures among the remote northern mountains; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 7 of the continuing adventures of a husband and wife with their donkey; Our Trip to the Bird Islands - John Hogg's perilous journey - with many wonderful photos; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - Idelle Meng's 11 months on a deserted group of uninhabited atolls - with photo; Among New Guinea Cannibals - interesting experiences of H.C. Pratt - with photos; The Wonders of Cuba - article with nice vintage photos; Up in the Air - a ballooning story; The Ghost of Fort Severn - the story of an apparition that haunted a Hudson's Bay Company (H.B.C.) post in the Canadian north. Above-average wear. Covers loose but present. Faint pencil writing atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 502-598, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: The Hunting Down of Tiburcio Vasquez, the Dick Turpin of California; "Red Fagen" - a veteran shipmaster's story of the undoing of a villainous 'crimp'; A Cycling Tour Through Central Africa (part II) - photo-illustrated adventures on the way from Rhodesia to Egypt; The Spectre of Mekeo - a supernatural tale from British New Guinea; Spiders; The Javelin Throwers - an exciting adventure with Venezuelan savages; Following the Fur Trails - photo-illustrated article of a Canadian government naval survey crew's winter on the ice-bound shores of Hudson Bay; Lost in an Underground Labyrinth - photo-illustrated account of a man who was thrown into the sewers of Milan and lost for many days; The Eagle's Nest - the mountaintop town of Peillon in the South of France - article with many photos; The Mystery of Fraser Island - a strange sequence of events on an island where the Queensland 'dumped' troublesome blacks; Our Lunatic; A Matter of Business - a West African trader is charged with removing stock from stations set to be closed - despite native objections; The "Crooked House" - at Kingswinford, near Birmingham; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Covers detached as one but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 442-528 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: A Man's Luck - Hjalmar Rutzebeck's story of life and love in the far north (Part I); Where Men Live Without Water - photo-illustrated article of life in the Kalihari Desert; Photo of the World's Biggest Saws in British Columbia - 9' in diameter with 190 detachable teeth; The Truth About Louis De Rougemont - photo-illustrated article; A Woman Doctor in the Bush - Margaret Lamont in New Zealand; Buried Cities of Asia Minor - IV - adventures of archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley and Colonel T.E. Lawrence investigate the towns of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; A Tug-of-War with an Alligator - extraordinary affair on the coast of Northern Queensland; Photo of a Pergola made of tombstones at Galt, Ontario; Through Central American on Horseback - Part III - Eugene Cunningham and a friend ride through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - article with photos; After Wild Boar in Anatolia - story with photos; Our Man-Eater - story of a tiger on a tea plantation; A Night Hunt in the Sahara - hunting jackals and gazelles on horseback by night; The Rendezvous of Death - how two tribes of Bedouin Arabs of Palestine finally settled a blood-feud that had cost many lives on both sides; A Fight with a Sea-Tiger (Orca) - Southern California encounter ends badly for veteran fisherman; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - Part VIII (last instalment) of G.O'Hara's adventures; Ah Kim the Astute - a simple Chinaman allows an employer to 'put one over' on him; A Museum of Odds and Ends - photo-illustrated short write-up of the home of Mr. W.W. Beach on the summit of Mount Parnassus; and more. Back cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
80 pages. Features: William Winter cover art shows Boy Scout campfire lighting; Nice colour Internationa Truck ad inside front cover shows red semi- driving past kids; RCAF one-page recruiting ad; Nostalgic one-page black and white photo ad for Canadian General Electric radios features the model C182, C150P, C66/67 and radio phonograph; Lionel Shapiro and photographer Ken Bell return to the WWII battlefields where they served - major article with many photos, including some before and after shots; The Startling Inside Scientific Story of the fiery Aurora Borealis; Beads to Billions - The Story of the H.B.C. (Hudson's Bay Company), Part II - photo-illustrated article; Spinnaker Spinster (fiction); How to Save Your Husband's Life - famous psychologist George Lawton gives instructions to help wives avoid becoming widows; Leonard Levinson's Impossible Pictures Inc. makes cartoons for 1/3 the usual cost; A Bush Wife's Life for Me - Women in the wilds get treated like duchesses by the grizzled guys of the mining camps, but there's no movie on the corner - with photo of Red Lake country writer Freda Woodhouse washing clothes by hand; George Young - Yesterday's Hero - at 17 Canada's boy wonder, and perhaps the world's greatest swimmer ever, swam his way into a fame that tore his life to shreds - once offered a quarter million dollars for a movie contract he is now penniless - photo-illustrated article; The Wind in the Juniper (fiction); Ten ways to Save Money on Clothes; School and Me, by Ernest Buckler; The Land of Black and White - Alan Paton tells the tragic story of his land, South Africa; Small clipping from ad on page 37 affects ad on page 38; Colour Westinghouse refrigerator centrefold ad; Nice color one-page RCA Victor ad shows their Models 9-W-91, 9JY and 9EY3 phonographs and coloured records; Massey-Harris one-page ad shows European village scene with tractor; Nice colour Hudson car ad; Back cover O'Keefe's Brewing ad features J.S. Hallam illustration of boy on tricycle passing bus. Please note: Very heavy wear to covers which are loose but present and bear multiple clear archival tape patches. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this uncommon issue. Book
68 pages. Features: Lovely cover illustration of shoeshine boy; Bright colour Parker pen ad inside front cover; Nice colourr Ritz cracker ad; Post-War Education - A Canadian Problem; Trans-Canada Telephone System one-page ad; Canada Dry colour ad; What the War Has Done to Canada; A White Candle (short story); All in the Family (short story); Swap King Jack Redshaw of Granville Illinois - photo-illustrated article; Christmas Gift (short story); Dog Days in Paris - great photo-illustrated article of Parisians and their dogs; Man of the Month, G.B. Gordon, President of Dominion Textile Company; Jergens Lotion ad features lovely photo of Janet Blair; Lovely one-page colour-photo Oldsmobile ad features a blue 1946 four-door; Fantastic colour two-page ad for the 1946 Chevrolet (red four-door); Colour one-page Waterman's pen ad; Nice colour Maxwell House coffee ad shows lady struggling to hold her groceries; Colour ad for Stokely's tomato juice; Small ad for the Rosicrucians AMORC of San Jose, California; Anita Ellis appears in Don Juan lipstick ad; Mackenzie King goes to London; Rolex ad; Developments in Science; Nice half-page colour ad for Clark's Mincemeat; Fantastic Chase & Sanborn coffee ad features Charlie McCarthy cartoon; One-page colour-photo Swift's Premium ad features Christmas ham; Nice one-page Singer sewing machine photo- ad; Very nice one-page colour Pontiac ad features red Silver Streak leading a parade of previous Chevs from 1935 through 1942; Arrid ad features photo of Eleanor Holm; Nice colour Frigidaire range ad inside back cover features grandma cooking steak; Back cover features lovely colour-illustrated ad for GSW's kitchen pots (white with red trim); and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A lovely vintage copy. Book
Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mysterious Heart of Asia (part I) - Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes gives an account of his adventures during a war-time expedition, with photos; The Murder Ship - the Russian schooner Johannis and one of the most tragic narratives in the annals of the sea; The Lifted Veil (part I) - POWs in Turkey concoct a 'spook' and create an amazing deception for their captors; The Largest Camera in the World - constructed by George Lawrence of Chicago - fantastic photo-illustrated article; 'Twixt Earth and Sky - the story of a German's vengeance and the terrible ordeal that resulted for a timber-getter in the New Zealand kauri forests; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - And After (part II) - a Royal Marine captured on the Mole describes the full story of the historic landing (in part I) and curious adventures during subsequent captivity; The Bullet-Hole Cross - Guatemalan estate manager Mr. Dellplain incurs the wrath of an Indian who swears to have his life; The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part II) - Sister Janina disappeared from a peaceful little village in Michigan; Timber-Cruising in California - Terence H. Lambert describes interesting experiences among the big trees of California; Pirate Gold - The Buried Treasure of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; After Big Game in East Africa - advice on the fitting out of expeditions, cost, and the game available; Photo of amazing bamboo scaffold structure over the great Ch'ien Men Gate, Peking as it was being rebuilt; A Two-Days' Battle with a Baboon - it escaped aboard a ship!; A Night With a Madman in India; The Sheriff's Bad Day - this story hinges on a very odd connection with this publication; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 90-176 plus 18 pages of ads. Features: Where Cannibals Roam - Part I - Merlin Moore Taylor's adventures into the unknown interior of Papua (article with great photos); "Twisted" Harmon - an RCMP officer spends five years and travels thousands of miles to catch an escaped murderer hiding in the protection of the German Secret Service; Life in a Logging Camp - sensational photo-illustrated article on the Abernethy Lougheed Logging Company's operation in Maple Ridge, British Columbia; "Trawler Tidd" - a cat that went to sea; An Artist on a Tropic Isle - the adventures of Ellis Silas as he painted in the Trobriands group of islands north of New Guinea; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part 3 of 3 - the author's adventures as he penetrated deep into Amazonia, with photos (including shrunken head); Feedback on a recent article on the K.K.K.; Chasing the Pulajans - religious fanatics who gave the US authorities in the Philippines untold trouble; To the "End of the World" and Beyond - Captain Gault Macgowan, F.R.G.S. and his wife set out on an eventful journey in the Western Himalayas; Photo of large hawser (3" dia. rope) made of human hair at Kyoto's Higashi-Honganji Temple; The Fatal Slip; One Up on "Homie"; The Taming of the Sheriff - a ranch story from Death Valley, California; Down the Shaft - a West Australian miner's story of a terrible experience at the bottom of a six-hundred foot shaft; Five Hundred Miles in Open Boats - an arduous and eventful arctic journey recounted by retired Mountie, Sergeant-Major C.N.C.Hayter; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Magician's Curse - a vendetta on Sardinia; With a Motion-Picture Camera Under the Sea - using the ingenious technology invented by Mr. J. Ernest Williamson - article with wonderful photos; Three Asses In the Pyrenees - part 3 of a fun pursuit of adventure travel in Europe; The Soul of Burma - Part 2 of 2 - nice photo-illustrated article on a trip to Irawadi; "Sugar" - ; The Tragedy of "Miss Miami" - this flying boad crashed on a trip to Bimini from Miami; On the Spoor of the Elephant - J. Morewood Dowsett describes his escape from elephants, and recounts stories of his companion John Deacon - article with photos; My Boa-Constrictor - Sir Curtis Lampson and a snake which escaped in a crowded hotel; Paper Money - a quick tale from West Africa; Caught in a Death-Trap - Part 2 of 2 of the remarkable tribulations of two motorcyclists crossing the Mojave desert in California; The Odyssey of Humbert Rulliere - Part 3 of 3 of this incredible biography; Millions in Oil - the marvels of Mexia, America's latest field - article with photos; Luck - a story from Alaska. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
560 pages. Index. Bibliography. "The Great Northern played an historic and sound role in the settlement and development of the Northwest." - from Foreward. Map endpapers. Wonderfully illustrated in colour and black and white. Attractive green cloth-covered boards with bright gilt lettering. Clean, bright and unmarked. Minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
2017BN160443Taylor & Francis Ltd 2017. 2017. Hardcover. Quantitative International Economics <br/><br/>Quantitative International Economics Edward E. University of California Los Angeles USA Leamer Robert M. Stern Taylor & Francis Ltd hardcover
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1906325294Np 1906. 48 views on 12 glass lantern slides each slide measuring approx. 1-7/8 x 7 inches. 7-1/2 x 2-1/4 x 1-1/2 inches overall. Housed in the original white box with title as above and with listing of each numbered view. Splits to the box the slides in very good condition. 48 views on 12 glass lantern slides each slide measuring approx. 1-7/8 x 7 inches. 7-1/2 x 2-1/4 x 1-1/2 inches overall. unknown
1850354196Olneyville RI: John W. Lewis 1850. 1p. 8 stanzas printed in two columns. 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches. Very minor edge chipping. 1p. 8 stanzas printed in two columns. 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches. Scarce songsheet. The text below the the title continues: "The following lines were suggested by hearing an extract of a letter from Captain Chace giving an acount of the sickness and death of his late brother-in-law MR. Brown Owen who died on his passage to California." The lyrics to the popular song were written by Kate Harris of Pascoag R.I. and published in the New England Diadem and Rhode Island Temperance Pledge on 9 Feb. 1850. Eberstadt 134-119 John W. Lewis unknown
18998239San Francisco: The Trustees of the Phoebe A. Hearst Architectural Plan 1899. Very Good. 1899. First Edition. Softcover. Oblong 4to. 10 x 14 inches. 152pp.; original printed wrappers stabbed & tied at inner margin. Profusely illustrated with photographic plates drawings and plans including a portrait of Mrs. Hearst portraits of the six members of the jury 3 shots of the jury deliberating on the site. Laid in is a folded 23" x 10" 1933 map of the campus and a 19" x 13.5" folded section from California Architect and Building News illustrating the General Elevation and Plan 4th Prize Design - Howard and Cauldwell Architects. Covers soiled. A record of the Hearst competition for the Berkeley campus reproducing 110 drawings and giving an historical account of the competition the final programme the report of the jury the secretarys report etc. Reproduces a series of drawings by the winner Benard; also second prize by Howells Stokes and Hornbostel third prize by Despradelle and Codman fourth prize by Howard and Cauldwell fifth prize by Lord Hewitt and Hull and a series of other deigns by Whitney Warren Herr Rudolph Dick J. H. Freedlander and others. . The Trustees of the Phoebe A. Hearst Architectural Plan (1899) paperback
18998240San Francisco: The Trustees of the Phoebe A. Hearst Architectural Plan. Good. 1899. Softcover. Oblong 4to. 10 x 14 inches. 152pp.; original printed wrappers stabbed & tied at inner margin. Profusely illustrated with photographic plates drawings and plans including a portrait of Mrs. Hearst portraits of the six members of the jury 3 shots of the jury deliberating on the site. Covers soiled; corners chipped with closed tear to cover foot of spine and a triangular 1" piece out bottom edge. A record of the Hearst competition for the Berkeley campus reproducing 110 drawings and giving an historical account of the competition the final programme the report of the jury the secretarys report etc. Reproduces a series of drawings by the winner Benard; also second prize by Howells Stokes and Hornbostel third prize by Despradelle and Codman fourth prize by Howard and Cauldwell fifth prize by Lord Hewitt and Hull and a series of other deigns by Whitney Warren Herr Rudolph Dick J. H. Freedlander and others. The Memoral Stadium Promotional booklet is unpaginated 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches decorative wrappers stabbed & tied at spine; includes architectural renderings of the stadium letters from Stadium Committee members The Architectural Plan Financial Plan photo illustrations of athletes from California. . The Trustees of the Phoebe A. Hearst Architectural Plan paperback
19664071San Diego 1966. Good. 16pp. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial self wrappers stapled. Printed entirely in blue ink. Some staining and wrinkling to covers waterstain and minor chipping at bottom of gutter throughout occasionally affecting a few words. A seemingly unrecorded and ephemeral souvenir program published to coincide with the dedication ceremonies for the Refuge Church of God of the Apostolic Faith in San Diego California. The work contains a biography of the pastor Bishop John Harry Cannon along with portraits of him and his large family as well as a couple dozen photographs of fellow parishioners and the church itself. The final six pages of the work are comprised of advertisements for local businesses including gas stations auto shops a record store laundry services markets and more. The proposed date for the program comes from an ad for Ed Taylor Chevrolet who offers a 1966 Impala for the low low price of $2566. We could locate no copies of this informative program from an African-American church in San Diego in OCLC or elsewhere. unknown
191062002Chicago IL & Los Angeles CA: Henry L. Wilson The Bungalow Man 508 Byrne Building 1910. 4to. 159 1 pp. 100s of printed photo illustrations floorplans elevations. Red publisher’s cloth photo plate mounted front cover white lettering front cover some edgewear scuffing thumbing to fore-edges partially shaken still a G sound copy. Fifth edition of this surprisingly scarce Jazz Age brochure to southern California bungalow house plans. Wilson 1862-1953 called himself “The Bungalow Man†and published many different catalogues of bungalow designs from 1910 through the 1920s. He heavily marketed his “Wilson Bungalow†and was a significant architect in the development of the California bungalow through the influence of the Japanese aesthetic on the American Arts & Crafts Movement along with the development of the “dobe shacks†of early Californios into comfortable homelike bungalows. He also specifies in this catalogue that he would execute special plans for clients at $ 10.00 per home with a range of sizes. Of interest are the numerous illustrations of interiors Arts & Crafts inspired hardware doors and more included with the house plans. Although many institutional copies are located many of these appear to be microfilm e-version or reprint copies rather than original -- uncommon in the trade; See: Sunset the Pacific Monthly March 1913 p. 52; Los Angeles Herald Sunday Morning June 12 1910 Part III p. 2; Wilson California Bungalows of the Twenties. Henry L. Wilson, The Bungalow Man, 508 Byrne Building, hardcover
196662415Pasadena & Santa Monica CA: Spartus Inc. & Douglas Aircraft Corp. 1966. Folio. 10.25 x 13.25 in. 16 pp unpaginated. With photo illustrations blueprint diagrams text illustrations throughout. Flexible metallic silver covers laurel wreath logo at upper right corner front cover minor shelfwear slight creasing still VG copy from the library of Gene Sherman 1944-2007 famed southern California auto designer and builder renowned metal fabricator automobile restoration specialist worked at the Briggs Cunningham Automobile Museum until it closed and later opened a studio in Huntington Beach CA. First edition of this exceedingly scarce promotional catalogue from Art Sparks whose introduction details the efforts to radically compete with the new-found supremacy of the Lotus-Ford race cars and in conjunction with Douglas Aircraft and Sparks engines design a competitive car. In 1966 the USAC regulations required Indianapolis race cars to feature open-wheel design with maximum width of 75 in. and minimum wheelbase of 96 in. and 4.2 litre engines with 2.8 litre superchargers. The legendary innovator applied his famed ForgedTrue pistons which when used in other engines powered 11 consecutive Indianapolis 500 race winners. Sparks 1901-1987 was a pioneering silent movie and talkie professional driver stuntman including Howard Hughes’ epic Hells Angels raced on outlaw dirt tracks and began competing with Stubby Stubblefield Bill Cummins and Rex Mays on West Coast Tracks. He designed Stubby’s “The Catfish†aerodynamic race car which placed 6th in the 1932 Indy 500 and later began working with Thorne Engineering to develop George Robson’s 1946 Indy 500 winner. No copies in Worldcat; See: Colorful & Eccentric Innovator Art Sparks Racing History Other Series Speed Sport March 10 2023; Art Sparks Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum Inducted Hall of Fame 1987. Spartus Inc., & Douglas Aircraft Corp., unknown
19189511San Francisco: Printed by Taylor & Taylor for the Book Club of California 1918. First edition number 73 of 300 copies. 26x20cm 28 2pp. Title in three colors illustrated green borders throughout by Florence Lundborg. Linen backed pale paper boards printed spine label. Bookplate of Beatrice Thompson and Chinese Stamp to front endpapers. Boards bumped and soiled cloth frayed at spine ends page edges toned. A very good copy of a scarce and fragile book. <br /> <br /> An early work from both Clark Ashton Smith his second published book as well as the Book Club of California which was founded in 1912. Contains several longer poems from Smith who was known for his weird tales output in the Lovecraft circle of writers. Scarce. Printed by Taylor & Taylor for the Book Club of California unknown
