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280 pages. Lots of autographs and written comments. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful Pacifica yearbook. Book
Pages 161- 200. Features: Cover photo of Japanese infantry wearing curious overhead camouflage (netting and bamboo) to mislead enemy air observers; The Jonkher diamond; Five photos of Japan's dominant army at work - ingenious methods of camouflage; 5500 tons of gold for the new USA strong room at Fort Knox - six fascinating photos; The original manuscript of immortal nursery rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard", the only copy of which is now exhibited in the Bodleian - text and many wonderful illustrations; One page photo of the Gulishan Garden in the Tabas Oasis; Rain and frost create ice art at Jonkoping Station - three photos and text; Photos of whirlpools on either side of the equator rotating in opposite directions; Eight photos display ingenious devices for instruction in bomb dropping and machine gun fire used by the German Air Force; Article on Early Indian art from the Siamese Jungle - the first exploration of Sri Deva by a European archaeologist; Photos of Indochina's oldest Hindu shrine; Sculptures from Sri Deva; seven photos of Khmer art at Sri Deva - by anti-Indian 12th-century settlers; Madrid's grim ordeal - five graphic photos document 33 air raids in 10 weeks; Noted travel filmmaker Mr. Martin Johnson dies in California air crash; Photo of bombed-out education ministry building in Lisbon; Photo of breached St. Francis levy at Fisk, Missouri; Centrefold illustration of crew of the doomed "Trym" being saved by the "Venus"; Photos of personalities of the week include Brig. Tompkinson, Charles Bryant, M. Navachin, Herr Opsahl of the "Trym", Sir Hamilton Grant, M. Piatakoff, M. Karl Radek, M. Sokolnikoff, Sir George Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Trotsky at Tampico, Mexico, with Mrs. Ribera, wife of the famous Mexican artist; Photos of Taungthu women, of the Burmese Shan states, wearing bath towels as turbans; photos of stranded California miners receiving aid by plane; One-page travel ad for South Africa; Half-page illustrated ad for Bentley cars; One page photo illustrated ad for Hudson's new Terraplane car; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
86 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Laird & Co. Apple Brandy inside front cover; Samson card table ad; Chamberlain and British press censorship; Britain War Preparations; The Kaiser on Hitler; Myra Kingsley - Star of the Star-Gazers; The German-Japanese Spy Alliance - article with photos of Nazi spies in America, Lt. Comm. Farnsworth, Harry T. Thompson, Eric Glaser, Otto Voss, Guenther Rumrich and Johanna Hofmann; 20th-Century Wonder Girl Eleanora Sears of Boston; Feuding Among the FCC; Red Cross Surgeon in China describes how injuried and sick Japanese soldiers are killed rather than tended to, 'for the glory of the Emperoro'; Photos of yoga disciple Buddha Bose in various unusual physical states; Photo of toy tanks being painted in Nuremberg, Germany; Photo of toy battleships being painted by Japanese teen; Other photo subjects include French Foreign Minister Bonnet, Labor man Dave Beck, the Matanuska Valley colony in Alaska, Mr. Rolly sharpening a huge saw blade in Alaska, Japanese soldiers in action, Dr, Virgil Dickson, Principal Bruce Zimmerman, Dr. Vaclav Podstata, many photos of children being racially integrated in the U.S., the Budin Clinic in New York, X-ray devices, streetlighting for safety, and the Brooklyn bail bond racket; Dave Beck - Political and Economic Boss of the Pacific Northwest; Hugh Bartlett Monjar and his assorted 'clubs' make him a lot of money; Meddling in Matanuska; Article on Marihuana - "Our Newest Vice"; America's Solution to a Minority Problem - racial mixing of kids in California; Would You Have Noticed That? - Albert S. Osbornprobably has the world's most observant eyes and is a 'student of questioned documents'; Humanitarian surgeons look forward to the day when their intervention will no longer be needed; Proper Highway Illumination for safety; Cleveland's Negro Problem - the "Future Outlook League" uses racketeer-style methods to promote black employment; Hoaxes often invented to sell newspapers; Photo of bicycle polo game; Article on Crooked Bond Bailsmen in New York; Nice color-photo back cover ad for Lucky Strike features tobacco buyer James Walker and associates chatting around pot-bellied stove; and more. Above-average wear. Front cover nearly loose. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
227 pages. Dozens of wonderful photos. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
184 pages. Extensively adorned with wonderful signatures and inscriptions. Loaded with wonderful black and white photos. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. This one will bring a smile to your face! Book
Feature articles include: The Apish Origins of Human Tension; The Hard Kind of Patriotism; The Impregnable Boston Symphony; How America "Solved" the Servant Problem; Rockefeller's Triple-threat Brain Trust; The Case for Fast Drivers; Washington's Chance for Splendor; The Troubled Conscience of American Business; The Military's Limited War Against Segregation; A special duty for Republicans; Special Supplement - The Tangled Romance of Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson; Whatever happened to the peaceful atom; Our Most American Animal; "Consider Me a Communist" - a Portrait of Evtushenko; Latin - the Church's Mother Tongue?; On the Road in Brazil; Governing Buckley by the Numbers; Danger in our Medical Labs; Louisiana's Wonderful Invention; The Multiversity; Be My Host; Balanchine's Return to Russia; How Not to Integrate the Schools; The Lost World of Cape Canaveral, 1911; Is Kindness Killing the Arts?; How Buinessmen Can Fight "Big Government" - and win; Days and Nights in Texas; Mrs. Roosevelt Does a TV Commercial; Restraints on American Catholic Freedom; My Anti-headache Diet; Africa's New Elites; California Wines - A Look at the Vineyards around the Golden Gate; How to Treat the Broadway Malady of 1963; The Slow, Quiet Murder of Tax Reform; Detroit's Surprising Mayor; The Debate Over Velikovsky - An Astronomer's Rejoinder; The Angry Young Women; and more. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Usual library markings. Book
52 pages. Features: One-page ad for Plymouth cars; Joan Crawford seeks divorce from Franchot Tone; Indy 500 winner William C. (Wild Bill) Cummints dies in auto accident; C.I.O. angle develops in insurance inquiry; The Spanish War - still a European problem; The meaning of Japan's Hainan Island Occupation; Oswaldo Aranha - solidarity salesman for the Americas; Will Roosevelt continue bucking Congress?; The Life of Pope Pius - and who will succeed him?; Great one-page ad for International Trucks light delivery trucks (vans); Judge Louis D. Brandeis retires; Redskin Revival - high birthrate gives Congress a new operproduction headache; Antarctic real estate claims; Amnesia victim William H. Lawrence gets his memory back - photo of him with his sister; France and Britain woo Franco as a Mediterranean safeguard - article with photo of Loyalist soldiers in French concentration camp after fleeing Catalonia; London Palestine Conference - Jew and Arab delegations refuse to sit together under same roof - with (separate) photos of Arabs and Chaim Weizmann; Classy two-color centerfold ad for Schlitz beer; Rise of plastic surgery; Undulant fever mystery at Michigan State College in east Lansing; The War on Syphilis; Lt. Ben S. Kelsey crashes while testing new Lockheed substratosphere pursuit plane - story with photos; Nice 2/3-page photo ad for Hotel Del Monte in California; Photo of 6'-9" Mike Novak, a basketball player for Loyola; The Billy Conn - Freddy Apostoli boxing match; Nice illustrated 2/3-page Dictaphone features boss-man and pretty secretary; Photo of Russell Birdwell; 2/3-page Canadian Pacific cruise ad features title "The Life of Riley on the Pacific"; Tea's Comeback; Britain's Slump; Bock Beer; Nice color ad inside back cover for the Packard Six & 120. Discrete clear tape repair to bottom of coverfold. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
Features: Get the government off the farm - Alice Pearse Bean; The Great Row in California; Lost - One Centennial; The explosive revival of the far left; Why I quit the extreme left - Phillip Abbott Luce; Brigitte Bardot - no place left to hide - colour photos; Sundown of a Champion - Phil Hill was the first American to be a world-champion Grand Prix driver - after his friend and teammate, Count Wolfgang von Trips died in a crash; The importance of being poached - Saunas/Heat Baths are in vogue; Lyndon Johnson's Mother, Rebekah Johnson; The magnificent obsession of U.S. Air Force "Colonel" Jack Kenneth Brown, the fake colonel. Great colour Dodge Pickup ad. Two-page colour Ford Mustang ad. Two-page colour ad for the James Stewart film "Shenandoah". Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
190863118Los Angeles CA: Hotel Lankershim 1908. 12mo. 20 pp unpaginated. printed in orange & black w/ sepia-tinted centerfold supplement. With photo illustrations & text decorations throughout centerfold double-page map map in orange & black at rear. Self-printed photo-illustrated softcovers photo cover art of Lankershim hotel & auto bus front cover advertisement on back cover slight bumping to lower left corner very minor shelfwear still VG bright copy. First edition of this well-illustrated guidebook to the newly opened Lankershim Hotel in Los Angeles CA during the Progressive Era completed and opened by 1906 designed by Los Angeles Architect Robert B. Young 1855-1914 for James Boon Lankershim 1850-1931. The Lankershim’s Automobile Bus service drove the traveler through the electric light displays and the broad streets in downtown Los Angeles and this brochure announces that 30 newly renovated “Sample Rooms†out of the hotel’s 350 rooms had been made available for salesmen to set up their sample wares and show clients on their 60-200 feet of table sapce and excellent lighting along with display items and even attached private baths to operate as pop-up commercial stores. The Lankershim Hotel operated until about 1971 when after suffering significant damage in 1971 it was forced to close the upper 7 floors and then in the mid-1980’s everything above the 8th floor was razed for a parking garage. Worldcat locates 1 copy of a similar 1909 edition WI Hist. Soc. Lib. Hotel Lankershim, paperback
194854968Sacramento CA: Joslyn 1948. 4to. 55 leaves. typescript on onion skin typing paper w/ pencil annotation on title leaf. Limp brown softcovers hand-written manuscript title on front cover in black & red ink pencil manuscript annotations and notes on verso of front cover slight shelfwear still VG copy. Original typescript manuscript of this concise and detailed history by a former Southern Pacific Sacramento General shop engineer who retired in 1948 and is perhaps best remembered as developing and designing the 6-chime whistle that became the Southern Pacific standard and photographer for the SP. This manuscript details not only early Sacramento and California history but also accounts of the Sacramento Auburn & Nevada RR Sacramento Valley RR and the early development of railroads into Sacramento in the 1850s. Following this are extended chapters on the Central Pacific RR the building of the Folsom CA for the Sacramento Valley RR and the completion of the General Shops and Roundhouses in 1868 as well as descriptions of the Car Shop Planing Mill Machine Shop Boiler Shop Drawing Room along with the later introduction of power generating plants and electric railways. No copies located in Worldcat 3 copies on OAC at Railroad Museum; See: The David L. Joslyn Collection Pacific Coast Chapter Archive Railway & Locomotive Historical Society 2006; Avella Sacramento and the Catholic Church: Shaping a Capital City pp. 43-49 288. Joslyn, paperback
192362386Oceanside CA: Dirk Vandegeer 1923. Tall 8vo. 318 2 pp. Frontisp. numerous plates drawings text illustrations. Gray publisher’s cloth decorative blue & black lettering front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight dustsoiling still VG copy from the library of Eleanore Weinstock. First edition of this well-written and nicely illustrated cook book for bakers pastry and confectionery chefs in Southern California during the Roaring 20’s. Included are sections on puff pastries German Coffee Cakes dumplings tarts and elaborate fancy deserts with over 100 pages of cake and pastry designs for the pastry and candy shop. Included as well are recipes for everything from Mexican Sausage to Suckling Pig and applesauce as well as Green Turtle Soup and Horseradish Butter. Vandegeer 1867-1928 worked in hotels as baker and pastry chef in leading hotels of France Belgium and the Netherlands before finishing his career in Southern California near San Diego and eventual retirement by 1924. Dirk Vandegeer, hardcover
193262218Los Angeles CA: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Printed by Wolfer Printing Co. Inc. 1932. 4to. 24 pp. printed in green on cream-coloured paper throughout. With numerous photo illustrations double-page centerfold pictorial birds-eye map view of Los Angeles County w/ Olympic Stadium at center by Gerald A. Eddy. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art view of hurdler in LA Olympic Stadium and sculpture discus thrower slight scuffing at fold minor creasing shelfwear still a VG copy. First edition of this remarkably scarce promotional brochure and souvenir to the Xth Olympiad held in Los Angeles in 1932 which served to transform the Southern California City into an internationally important global metropolis. In the midst of the Great Depression only 37 nations competing in 14 sports participated relying on existing Southern California venues to host the events and newly constructed Los Angeles Swimming Stadium still open to the public today. Amazingly the 1932 crowd participation in Los Angeles was immense with 100000 people attending the opening ceremony and was the first to cut the span of competition to just 16 days housed athletes in a single place and medal winners stood on a podium with flag of the winner being raised. Worldcat locates 6 copies Cal State Lib. CSU Northridge Autry Museum Bancroft Yale WI Hist. Soc. Lib. Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Printed by Wolfer Printing Co., Inc., paperback
6I-TMXB-FDBVHardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION Valencia CA: California Institute of the Arts 1969. Boxed portfolio of 10 loose folded sheets. Measures 12 x 12 inches square. With small laid in note stating: "Original Serigraphs by Christian Hedberg I.H.M. and David Mekelburg". 9 of the 10 sheets have pictorial cover 8 of which not unlike the work of Sister Corita. Apparently this is a school catalogue similar to the "Aspen" boxed magazine of it's day. A rare title with box a bit rough but fine contents. No ownership marking NOT EX-LIBRARY. cw hardcover
46709Watsonville CA n. d. Ca early 1900s. All now housed in archival mylar sleeves. All show modest wear. Images generally clear & sharp. A solid VG lot. Divers sizes. 4 mounted. <br/><br/>Here offered a group of 6 early b/w photographs of the Watsonville Sanatorium also known as the Watsonville Sanitarium. None are dated or credited but all provide exterior views of this small community hospital in Northern California. The images include: • 6.5” x 5” photograph mounted on heavy black card stock sign reads Watsonville Sanatorium apparent dirt roads hitching posts immature plants in front. An identical photo was used in an advertisement that appeared on page 257 of The Official Register and Directory of Physicians and Surgeons in the State California published in 1903 by the California Medical Association. No address is given but the physician in charge is Dr. P.K. Waters and the facility is advanced as “A thoroughly Modern Hospital For the care of Surgical Medical and Maternity patients.” Some faint foxing. • 6.5” x 5” photograph mounted on heavy black card stock sign reads Watsonville Sanatorium apparent dirt roads hitching posts larger plants out front and the edge of a telephone pole seen. • 8” x 6” photograph mounted on heavy cream card stock sign reads Watsonville Sanitarium apparent dirt roads hitching posts white picket fence and a bungalow-type building that looks like a single family home. This is the only image where the building depicted varies from the others and it would appear to be the earliest photograph. • 8” x 6” photograph mounted on heavy black card stock sign reads Watsonville Sanatorium apparent dirt roads hitching posts mature plants in front telephone pole and raised flag. Nurses in Victorian-style dress appear on the porch. • 13.75” x 8.75” photograph not mounted sign unreadable building photographed from a different angle apparent dirt roads hitching posts mature plants in front telephone pole and a nurse in Victorian-style dress on the porch • 6.5” x 4.75” photograph not mounted sign reads Watsonville Sanatorium apparent dirt roads hitching posts mature plants in front telephone pole. All in all a nice lot documenting this unknown books
190229026Oakland: Frederick M. Husted Publisher. Printed at the Oakland Enquirer Office 1902. 1st edition Rocq 719. Bound in a Roycroft-style blue suede binding gilt stamped lettering to front cover by the Hicks-Judd Company. Blue felt eps. A VG copy. 157 3 pp. 18 pages of adverts at rear including 2 seating charts for the MacDonough Theatre. Main text printed letterpress on stiff paper stock with t.p. & Introduction printed in red & black. Adverts done offset on thin slick stock. 8vo. 9" x 6" <br/><br/>A fairly scarce work and apparently the first to do so exclusively that documented the social scene of the San Francisco East Bay as it was comprised during the first part of the 20th Century. the book "comprehends or should comprehend in concise and elegant form all information required by ladies of Society.". from the Introduction. Frederick M. Husted, Publisher. Printed at the Oakland Enquirer Office unknown books
45190San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co n. d. Ca late 1860s. Orange colored mount printed at bottom & both edges slightly rounded edges. Verso with Houseworth 1867 PIE medallion imprint. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest wear & soiling. 2 small abrasions along card's bottom edge. Some light discoloration spotting to verso. Photographs with a bit of aging. Very Good. Two albumen photographs mounted side-by-side domed tops. Oblong format: 3-3/8" x 6-7/8" <br/><br/> Thomas Houseworth & Co unknown books
44465San Francisco Cal: Thomas Houseworth & Co n. d. Ca 1884. Stiff-stock orange card mount printed with black. Rounded corners. Only minor wear. Photograph clear & sharp with one very minor nick to left edge. Period ink annotation to verso "Steamer Oregon / Astoria - Aug 15 1884.". Very Good Plus. One photograph with the two views square edges. Verso blank i.e. no publisher printing lavender color. 3-3/8" x 6-7/8" <br/><br/> Thomas Houseworth & Co unknown books
190145013Santa Clara Ca: Chas. A. Nace Printer 1901. 1st Edition. Beige wrappers with lettering embossed in gilt. A VG copy internally bright and complete some chips at the first few leaves creases to wrappers otherwise very good. i-ii 1-64 i-ii 1-4 5-59 60 pp. 25 b/w plates on glossy paper. Oblong format: 6-1/2" x 9-5/8" <br/><br/>Not in Rocq. The "Souvenir" glorifies the history of the college and publishes Clay M. Greene's play "Nazareth" for the first time. "Nazareth" is perhaps Greene's most famous work and was written especially for Santa Clara College's Golden Jubilee where it was also performed for the first time. Greene graduated from Santa Clara College in 1869. Chas. A. Nace, Printer unknown books
1966272841966 NOT A BOOK Autographed 5 x 7 PHOTOGRAPH Signed by legendary surfer and surfing pioneer Phil Edwards. This photo is white bordered and is a high quality item. Signatures are obtained at events signings appearances practice sites hotels etc. autographs is guaranteed to pass any PSA or JSA authentication. He is credited with being the first to surf the Banzai pipeline in Hawaii being the first professional surfer and creating the first signature surf board. He was the subject of a cover story and his photo appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1966. Edwards was also featured prominently in the Bruce Brown films The Endless Summer and before that Surfing Hollow Days which featured the first film footage of Pipeline. He helped Pioneer many of Californias better-Known spots & was 1 of 1st Californias to have go at North Shore indeed ges credited as beinbg 1st man to ever Surf Pipeline. . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Unbound. Very Good/No Jacket. paperback
ria9781118140864_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Tap into your organization's ultimate competitive advantage - teamwork. This title gives trainers what is needed for a high-impact half-day full-day or two-day learning experience for functional teams or team leaders. It helps team m paperback
1977ZB393474Graduate Students in Asian Studies at UCLA 1977-80. vols 1-4 partly bound ex library overall good-very good PRICE IS FOR THE LOT:. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Graduate Students in Asian Studies at UCLA unknown
ria9781032628226_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; In the Beginning describes the basic methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology. This is a book about fundamental principles written in a clear engaging style with minimal use of technical jargon which approaches archaeology f paperback
1990x-1850006628Falmer Pr 1990. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 192 pages. 9.75x6.50x0.50 inches. Falmer Pr hardcover
2412050447ybvkJapan, Akaaka Publishing, 2018. Overall 90 unnumbered pages on glossy sheets, mainly wholepage colour--photographically illustrated; short texts in Korean, English and Japanese. - Colour-photogr. illustrated hardcover binding; folio (ca. 37 x 23 cm).
1851248351San Francisco: Eugene Casserly State Printer 1851. 1865 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Modern half morocco and marbled boards spine gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. Titlepage a bit foxed occasional tanning very good. 1865 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. An absolutely massive record of the second session of the California state legislature held in the first half of 1851. A tremendous amount of legislative activity is recorded reflecting the task of creating a civic apparatus for the newly-admitted state. Thankfully there is an extensive index. Included is the annual message from California's first governor Peter Burnett who resigned just a few days later. "Of great historical value in understanding the difficulties in the formation of the state" - Norris catalogue. Norris catalogue 1907 Eugene Casserly, State Printer unknown
