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Features include: How They Saved the "Ningpo" - A rare occasion when the tables were turned on Chinese sea pirates in 1945; Before the Fact - A missionary's puzzling story from primitive Africa; Seeking Sheba's "Lost" City - Author describes his adventures in Arabia and his accidental discovery of a practicable route to the mysterious city - abandoned for centuries; Over the Iron Curtain - Two R.A.F. officers endeavour to rescue a young Italian from Budapest in December 1945. The "WAFF" goes recruiting - Some amusing aspects of recruiting young tribesmen in West Africa; Wild Boars and Cattle Thieves - An adventure on a lonely island off the California coast; Zombies - a Haitian story; Island of Ships - Rouad, off the Syrian coast. Front cover detached but in good condition. Back cover almost detached. Most of spine missing. Contents in good condition. Name in pencil atop back cover. Magazine
Mm 160x235 Edizione numerata di 400 copie di cui la nostra è la n. 130. Elegante brossura originale con alette, 111 pagine in lingua inglese ed italiana con illustrazioni in nero lungo l'intero testo. Copia pari al nuovo (mai letta), spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Slight wear to price clipped DJ. ; Edited by Bernard Taper, a collection of pieces written by Twain while he was in San Francisco in the 1860s ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 264 pages
White oblong quarto, group pagination, approx. 200 p, 60 leaves, b&w illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm. Historic buildings -- California -- San Francisco -- Directories. || Scarce.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Creases on spine and light wear to cover. 9 3/4"w x 9 7/8"h. 392 pages.
32p. + frontis. Wood engraved color frontis, chapter heading and colophon by Mallette Dean. Title page bordered in red. Number 5 of the Colt Press Series of California Classics. Uncut. 8vo. Original cloth backed decorated paper binding. Hardbound. Limited Edition of only 500 copies. Nice copy. PRESS/W32
Madrid, Imprenta de Frías y Compañía, 1868. Un tomo en 4to., integrado por seis cuadernos, con paginación continuada de 584 pp. Ejemplar de salida, sin desbarbar Cubiertas originales en papel impreso. Contiene, entre otros documentos, la "Carta Relación de Don Pedro Porter y Casanate sobre el Descubrimiento del Golfo de California, 1643-1649", el "Memorial" al Rey de Porter y Casanate recomendando una nueva expedición a California; la "Relación" y el "Memorial" de Nicolás de Cardona sobre el descubrimiento y sus expediciones y servicios en California; una "Descripción" de Portobelo en 1607 y otra de Guachinango en 1609. Contiene tambien descripciones de Tampico, Zacatecas, y otros lugares de Nueva España, Nueva Granada y Peru.
140 pages. Short Stories: Hard-Luck Girl; The Words of Love; Dangerous Bluff; His Sister's Keeper. Articles: Why do they Hate us in Panama? - photo-illustrated article about anti-American riots; The Birds' Last Stand - 6,000 exotic birds may be evicted from their Stone Harbor, New Jersey haven; Pilots Aren't Obsolete Yet - the recently-cancelled B-70 Valkyrie bomber may be necessary for our survival; Los Angeles' Cure for Drunks - California desert rehabilitation farm; The Movies' Modern Marco Polo - Stanley Goldsmith is Twentieth Century Fox's chief trouble shooter for pictures filmed overseas; They Call Me Madam (part 2 of 4) - Washington's legendary hostess Perle Mesta; Fabulous Mine in the Sea - The Grand Isle Sulphur Mine in the Gulf of Mexico; Touring Russia Made Easy. Serials: If Hitler Had Invaded England (part 2 of 3); The Tewksbury Feud. Ads: Dogde Trucks (inside front cover); Employers Mutuals of Wausau - with photos of John M. Fox of the Minute Maid Corporation and company driver Eddie Mew plus Ed Waters; GE Appliances; Spring cigarettes; Fantastic two-page color-photo (red) Corvair ad features gents in black suits and hats checking out the car; Old Crow Whisky, with one-page color illustration of James Crow with his neighbors; Two-pages of the Ford Galaxie; Lowry organs; Quaker State Oil; The BMC 850 (Mini) (2 pages in color); Canadian Pacific Dome Cars (1 color page); Nice color photo ad for the (red) Chrysler Imperial in a horse-racing setting; Hotpoint fridges; Cadillac Guide-Matic; Scott Paper; ScottTowel multi-color towels; Schlitz beer - flying a kite; Kem-Tone and Kem-Glo Paint; Johnson V-75 outboard motor; Toro lawn and garden products; Admiral TVs; Cracker Barrel Cheese; Caterpillar; Smith-Corona typewriters; Hertz rental cars; Boeing 720; Samsonite luggge with Queen's guards in background; The Denver Hilton Hotel; Karpen furniture (very funky); Nabisco Veri-Thin Pretzels; American Seating Company; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Softcover in-8°, 309 pp, photographies hors texte, broche, couv. illustree a rabats. Bon etat. [CA32-3]
Octavo in offwhite printed, illus wraps; 124p, b&w photos throughout. Signed and inscribed by author. No copies found in WorldCat. Scarce. / Memoir of Joe Thompson (born in San Francisco in 1909), musician (lyricist), a radio personality raised in San Francisco, attended Stanford University. Friend of Frank and Kathleen Norris, among many others. NBC, Hollywood, Songpluggers, Music industry in California, 20th Century, Radio hosts, DJs. Journalists, jurnalims, magazines.
320p. Illustrated with numerous photographs and maps. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. First Edition. WHISKEY 1
Pages 102-195 plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: The Musical Smugglers - a Hungarian liable for military service manages to evade the border patrol and escape; The Salmon Fisheries of the Pacific - article by John N. Cobb, formerly of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, supported with many wonderful photos; On the Wings of the Wind - the extraordinary story of how Mrs. S.L. Pattison met her husband in New Mexico; Four Women in the Desert - four ladies set out to penetrate the ancient Coptic monasteries of the Libyan Desert, the oldest Christian religious houses in the world - article with photos; The Lovers' Raft - a remarkable story from China, describing the fiendish punishment meted out by the wild border tribes to those who are suspected of being false to their marriage vows; Through the Land of Witchcraft (part IV) - remarkable stories of 'ju-ju' from remote districts of West Africa, with photos; The Crusoe of Soledad Bay - Beached yachters in Southern California meet a marooned criminal derelict working out his own salvation; Across the Congo part V of a lady's journey in Central Africa, with photos; Joe's Battle - Canadian timber-wolves attack a cabin; The Humours of Mountaineering - with photos; 'Tween Decks on a Cattle-Boat - a young Canadian wishing to reach England signs on as a cattleman upon a steamer at new York; Penelope in the West Indies - with great photos; Trapped in a Log-Jam - the curious adventure which befell two American college students on the Ohio River; Photo and brief write-up of Arizona convict Roy J. Meyers who invented a Tesla-like "Power Absorber" which drew energy from the atmosphere; Great group photo of Utah seniors with combined ages of ten thousand years!; Nice half-page illustrated ad for the Eagle 9-12 motorcycle by the American Motor Company; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 146pp. An arts magazine from Carmel, California.
88 pages. Features: Fantastic fold-out two-panel colour cover photo of the four Richardsons of Regina who are world curling champions; Brief article on how Nanaimo Realty paid its realtors to lose weight - and sales increased!; Nice one-page black and white Volkswagen photo ad entitled "Who backs up the Volkswagen?"; Nice one-page colour photo ad for Florida orange juice shows smiling girl wearing white ear muffs; What Winter Does to Canada - and vice versa; What to wear to a Fashion Opening - photo-illustrated article; Duel in the Kitchen (fiction); The Return of the Winter Carnivals; The Simple Joys of Camping in a Snowdrift; Hockey Isn't As Rough as it Used to Be - Part 1 of Jack Adams' "My 43 Years in Hockey" - photo-illustrated article (with large photo of Howie Meeker pounding a limp Canadien); The Second Splendid Discovery of Spices; How to Gain Entree to the Social Pages; Canada's world champions of Curling - Ernie Richardson and the Richardsons of Regina; Population Explosion on the Ski Slopes; Skier's Dream - two-page colour-photo-illustrated brief article with two maps describe how Franz Wilhelmsen and the Garibaldi Olympic Committee seek to have the massive potential of Whistler Mountain developed for the Winter Olympics of 1968; Best and Worst Movies of 1960; Escape to the Sun - Robert Thomas Allen's road trip from California to Florida; Seagrams ad features colour painting of winter carnival by Henry Simpkins; Large colour ad for Apollo Beach waterfront real estate development near Tampa; Canadian Club colour-photo one-page ad features Walter Gonnason falling into an ice crevasse on Mount Victoria Glacier in Alberta; Why color TV isn't here yet - and when it may be; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features skating couple; and more. Discrete six-inch clear archival tape repair to bottom left corner of front cover, otherwise unmmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
128 pages. Features: Blueprint for World Government - "Metro", a deadly parallel to the forms of totalitarianism we are supposed to be fighting; The Trilogy for Victory - Will President Kennedy Use It?; The Moral Cost of the Welfare State; Is Censorship on the Way? - a department of government seeks to bar patriotic slogan from metered mail; Tranquilizers Can Kill You; Does Your Nose Always Know?; "And Now Ladies and Gentlemen, Here Is..." - a humorous guide to guide-conducted foreign tours; Buy or Rent?; What Do You Know About Kissing?; Successfully Yours; Peace Corps - A Pied Piper Scheme; Deluge of Filth - foreign pornography pours into the USA on a daily basis by mail; Harry Lauder and his Long Underwear - "a story of great generosity of a man whose people are supposed to be notorious 'tightwads'"; You Can't Afford to Die - a move is on to eliminate costly funerals; Discrimination - Vice or Virtue?; A Lounsberry Scoop - one of the most thrilling episodes of the Old West; A Russian Fort in California - established by sea otter hunter and tanner Ivan Alexander Kuskov at Fort Ross; Seven Years of Horror - Margaret Buber-Neumann provides a firsthand account of life in the slave camps of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany - a commentary on the Eichmann trial; The Connally Reservation - the dangers of treaty law; Index to Volume XCII, January - June 1961. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
México, Instituto de Historia de la UNAM, 1962. 4to. mayor; 163 pp., 2 hs. Cubiertas originales.
22 pages. Features: Nostalgic illustrated ad for Johnson outboards inside front cover; A Creed for Philosophy in Conservation; Editorial - "Comes the Revolution"; Mailbag; Illustrated ad for the B.S.A. Bantam motorcycle; Western Fishing Line Co. ad features photo of Wayne Quayle and his massive world record 148-lb California Giant Black Sea Bass; Of Nature, Deer, and Man - article by James G. Teer - article by the Texas Game and Fish Commissioner, James G. Teer; Bull Session - Weyerhauser and its CHEC (Co-operative Hunter Experimental Control) Program; Personal message from Minister of Recreation and Conservation Earle C. Westwood (former Mayor of Nanaimo), including his photo; Fish and Game Convention, Penticton, May 15-18, with photo of Chairman Frank Butler; Photo of Dr. Dave B. Turner - well-known as a famous Canadian soccer player - recently appointed acting Deputy for the Dept. of Recreation and Conservation; Report on the new Department of Recreation and Conservation; Photos of conservation workers Jim Bacon, Bob Armstrong, G.F. Abear, Mort Paige, Jim Murray, John Weldon and Bruno Reimer; Clay Chips - shooting article with photo of Cy Borne; Boat article; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Octavo in dark brown-grey ornemental blind-stamped cloth; 394 pages, with seven full-page illus in b&w, frontispiece (portrait) with tissue attached & intact; 20 cm Well-written and entertaining, with interesting anecdotes and descriptions of gamblers, reprobate sailors and both sinful & righteous city life in Gold Rush-era San Francisco. Includes a chapter on preaching in Sacramento. || 19th Century History. California Gold Rush, San Francisco, California. Christianity. Evangelical. Evangelists. Preacher Biography. Evangelism. Methodism.
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
292p., illus. Description of a railroad trip from Chicago to tour San Francisco and on to Los Angeles. Several chapters on Yo Semite. Hardcover Very good condition, spine ends worn, bookplate
Octavo in blind-stamp illus rust bds & gilt spine, 292p, adverts, frontis, b/w illus Interesting if racist observations of California in the late 19th century. An extremely nice copy, scarce thus. Several small skillful b/w illustrations. Author's observations and travel throughout California in the 1860s and 1870s. Train travel. Overland travel.
pp. 292, (8) [Publisher's catalogue] + Engraved Frontis. Small text drawings. Wyoming Territory, Cheyenne, bookseller's stamp. 12mo. Original full green cloth binding, lettered and decorated in black. Gilt lettered spine. Extremities very slightly worn. Hardbound. Taylor took a railroad trip from Chicago to California; and then traveled about the state recording his observations. Very good copy of this classic of California travel and observation. AMERICANA BOX 4
Two volumes in one. pp. (4), xii, 251; 255. Includes a new index. Full page illustrations. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, gilt letters on spine very faded. Born in Kennett Square, Chester County, PA, Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was a popular and influential American poet, literary critic, journalist, translator, and travel author. This tale still makes exciting reading. PA 20
444p. frontis. Hardcover good conditon scattered foxing
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to lower front edge and very tiny bump to upper rear corner. Page lower and fore-edges untrimmed. 135pp. A unique contribution to the history California, originally published in 1859, this work details the extensive travels by the author around California. Tucked into an attached wallet at the rear is a large fold-out map of California's Golden Chain - the places connected with the 1849 Gold Rush. Map in perfect condition. Limited Edition of 600 copies. With drawings throughout. Extremely scarce in the UK.
