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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
195042570William E. Bittner Election Campaign 1950. Stiff cardstock. Black recto with white lettering white verso with black lettering. Adhesive with opaque paper remnants to verso only faintly obscuring the text near the mask's string holes. Else only minor wear clean and crisp. VG. Die-cut campaign advertisement in the shape of a robber's mask printing on both recto and verso. ~3" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>Feisty political flyer from William E. Bittner's campaign for the Controller's office in the 1950 California elections implicitly accusing the incumbent Thomas Kuchel of figuratively robbing the people while in office. Kuchel beat Bittner for the Controller seat and later was appointed to fill Richard Nixon's Senate seat when the latter was elected Vice President in 1952. [William E. Bittner Election Campaign] unknown books
1957MASTER311078ILOS ANGELES CA.: MOUNT ST. MARY'S COLLEGE. G IN BLACK EMBOSSED CLOTH WITH BLUE & WHITE TRIM. Pages: 104. . 1957. HARDCOVER. BOARDS LIGHTLY EDGEWORN & SCUFFED. PAGES CLEAN BINDING TIGHT. NO INSCRIPTIONS OR AUTOGRAPHS. . MOUNT ST. MARY'S COLLEGE hardcover
19731606090893xbvkSpotswood - New Jersey, Joyce Music, December 1973. (1) 53 (1) singleside-printed sheets of Text, 5 sheets 'Index'. - Publisher's photographically illustrated ocre-colour softcover with black cloth spine; 4to.(ca. 28 x 21,5 cm).
1996Q-0941925196California Dept Parks & 1996-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! California Dept Parks & paperback
19862409240263xbvkKamacha-Varanasi, Sri P. N. Chakraborty / The Theosophical Society, 1986. Colour-photographic plate, yearly numbered pages 217-280. - Publisher's titled yellow softcover; 8vo.(ca. 21 x 13 cm).
1994258347San Francisco: GLHS 1994. Six panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches with announcement of the book sale and signing at B&N and on the back an announcement that GLHS is recruiting new members very good on blue stock. B&N held a signing featuring Allan Bérubé signing his "Coming Out Under Fire" and Robin Stevens and others signing "Girlfriend Number One: Lesbian Life in the 90s" and offering 10% of all sales to GLHS. GLHS unknown books
193911361.1San Francisco: California Dried Fruit Research Institute 1939. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. Faint damp-stain to head of inner rear wrapper; minimal wear. Text clean bright and crisp. VG. 32 pp. B/w photographic illustrations. 12mo. 7" x 5" <br/><br/> California Dried Fruit Research Institute unknown books
197733959Berkeley CA: University of California 1977. Softcover. VG- light wear and scuffing to cover. White coil bound wraps. 54 pp. Numerous bw plates. Works by Victor Cohen-Stuart Kathy Goodell David Ireland David Mackenzie Mike Roddy Mary Anne Rose William Wareham Richard Berger Anya Horvath Bruce Johnson Vince Lynch David Maclay Marsha Moberly Cherie Raciti Dorothy Reid Gregg Renfrow Rudy Serra and John Woodall. Exhibition held February 1 to April 24 1977. University of California unknown books
1901List3115Fresno California: Detroit Photographic Co 1901. Single photograph measuring 7 x 8 ¾ inches. Captioned on negative with Brown Brothers and Frank A. Munsey stamps verso. Wear and damage with large folds on right hand side missing upper and lower left corners including intersecting with caption text. Very good plus. A photograph of a young man standing in a grape field and holding a drying rack in Fresno 1901. Grape farming in Fresno began in the early 1870s and by the 1880s grapes including raisin grapes were the area’s main crop. Cultivation in Fresno’s semi-arid climate required a system for irrigation and so was generally up to wealthy capitalists corporations or sometimes farming colonies like the Fresno Colony.1<br /> <br /> 1 Thomas Pinney A History of Wine in America: From the Beginnings to Prohibition University of California Press 1989. Detroit Photographic Co unknown
1921List3510California 1921. Photo album measuring 10 x 12 inches containing approximately 360 photographs. Photos are approximately 3 ½ x 4 ½ and smaller with very good to excellent contrast. Album with wear to covers and edges of pages; photos generally excellent to Near Fine. A photo album belonging to an unknown Southern California family; license plates date the album to about 1914 to 1921. Most of the photographs are of family life including farm work: piles of hay; cows pigs chickens turkeys and horse-drawn plows; gigantic watermelons; and family members posing outside vineyards and in cornfields. The family also documented their car and their recreational activities including swimming hiking and fishing picnics and carriage rides. It appears that they were quite proud of their car and were frequent “auto-campers.†They seem to have taken a trip to Mexico or the Southwest as some shots show wide desert landscapes Joshua trees and low Spanish colonial-era buildings.<br /> <br /> Identifiable subjects include the ferry boat Ramona; the Rose Parade in Pasadena showing Culver City Pasadena and Glendale floats; San Gorgonio Mountain Half Dome and the Wawona Tree a giant sequoia in Yosemite; and the Fairview Farm Club parade—a line of cars driving down a dirt road the first decorated with cornstalks—which is probably related to the ranching development located between Huntington Beach and Newport Beach.<br /> <br /> Someone in the family had an interest in hydroelectric power as many shots show ongoing or completed hydroelectric works projects in Southern California. Several show the Southern California Edison Big Creek plant. Located in the Sierra Nevada the Pacific Light & Power Corporation began the Big Creek project in 1910 to provide power to the growing metropolis of Los Angeles. The photographs in this album appear to include both exterior and interior shots. Another set of shots show a dam under construction; this may be Devil’s Gate Dam on the Arroyo Seco which was constructed in 1920.<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of Southern California in the early twentieth century and some of its public works projects. unknown
1940Cat332United States 1940. Photo album measuring 7 x 10 inches containing fifty-three photographs: two tintypes c. 1890s and 1920s six RPPCs and forty-five modern photographs. Photographs mainly measure 4 x 6 inches and smaller. Conditions vary; some with wrinkling and damage especially to corners and edges; others Fine. Overall excellent. A photo album of an unknown couple. Early shots include two tintypes which appear to be turn of the century to 1920s and six real photo postcards dating to the 1920s at the latest based on stampboxes. The RPPCs include portraits shots from a farm and a souvenir photo from Brooklyn. Later shots are likely WWII-era showing several men posing in military uniforms.<br /> <br /> The album is highlighted by its photographs of Californian auto tourism and a Soap Box Derby event likely also in California. Identifiable tourist locations include Bear Canyon Campground in Altadena and Cedarpines Park in the San Bernardino mountains; people pose with the car in deep snow and at the campside and shots show the car with luggage strapped to the outside and filling up at a Shell. One Cedarpines photo is dated captioned “Winter ‘28â€. Later auto tourism shots—with what appears to be a 1940s model car—show the car at a Los Angeles mechanic with a teardrop camper and a boat on top and later parked at a beach with the camper set up with manuscript verso indicating that the location is Mexico. Alongside these photographs is a shot of a Depression-era billboard reading “NO JOBS in California / KEEP OUT / 6 MEN FOR EVERY JOB / NO STATE RELIEF AVAILABLE FOR NON-RESIDENTSâ€; on the verso it is captioned “1929 / This sign was posted in Tennesseeâ€.<br /> <br /> Soap Box Derby is a Depression-era invention beginning in 1934 in Dayton Ohio and quickly becoming a national phenomenon. Derby shots in this album appear to be Californian or at least to highlight Californian entrants: the cars pictured are sponsored by Siminow Bros. a Los Angeles gas station and mechanic. These include the cars being towed in the line for the inspection station the starting line and action shots.<br /> <br /> Highlighting two very different forms of car-based recreation the album is of interest to historians of the car in American leisure in the period surrounding the Great Depression. unknown
1940List3659Mexico and California 1940. Photo album measuring 7 ¼ x 11 ¼ inches containing approximately eighty-five photographs generally 4 ½ x 2 ½ inches and smaller with three Rito Nacional Mexicano Freemason membership cards one 1943 tax return and one 1943 letter. Album cover broken and beginning to detach else excellent; contents excellent to Near Fine. A photo album belonging to the Sifuentes also recorded as Cifuentes family of Santa Ana California. Alfonso Sifuentes Rodarte 1896/9–1994 was born in Coahuila and his wife Enriqueta “Harriet†Gonzalez Galvan 1903–d. in Jalisco. The couple married in Orange California in 1923. The album situates the family at several Santa Ana addresses including W 4th Street and E 1st Street the latter appearing on a 1927 Masonic membership card from the University of Mexico; commercial signage also suggests an address on Bristol Street.<br /> <br /> The earlier photos from the 1920s and 30s show children and family playing and posing in front and back yards beach trips and two formal baby shots real photo postcards; two men pose in sombreros and stylish young ladies pose with a car in front of the house. What are likely photos with extended family look to have been taken on a farm. There are also wedding and church shots and later photos of men in uniform—Alfonso Sifuentes joined the Coast Guard during World War II. Photos are occasionally captioned in Spanish on the verso giving names and relations.<br /> <br /> The 1943 letter included in the album is from a fellow Coast Guardsman “Andrés†to his girlfriend Celia Sifuentes one of the family's daughters. Andrés mentions translated passing “the famous exams . without incident†and how much he enjoys spending time with Sifuentes’ family: “I wish my parents had the harmony that exists in your home.†According to the National Parks Service some 500000 Mexican Americans served in World War II while at the same time facing anti-Mexican and anti-Latine sentiment at home.<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of Mexican American and Southern California regional history in the interwar era. unknown
192130994California: Farmers' Exchange 1921. Ledger. Good. Oblong ledger 7" x 11." Ledger "Made Exclusively by Charles R. Hadley Company Los Angeles California." Ledger has soft cloth covered boards leather corners leather alphabet tabs leather covered joints and round wood pegs. Additional hand made alphabet tabs added top edge. Leather is worn and cracked on the outer front joint. Interior contents mostly clean. <br /> <br /> Approximately 433 pages used for recording lines of credit payments canceling of accounts etc. for individuals and for several companies. Entry dates range from 1921 to 1929. Most of the accounts are from Orosi California. Other places places mentioned include Cutler Dinuba Pasadena Los Angeles Sultana and more. Several of the accounts are agricultural companies. A sampling of company accounts include:<br /> <br /> A. T. & S. F. Ry. Co.; Alamo Packaging Co.; Alta Irrigation Dist. Dinuba; W. Y. Andrews Orosi; Alta District Lumber Co. Cutler; Beckner Motor Co.; Baptist Church Orosi; Orosi Garage; Dinuba Grape Growers Assn; Dundas Fruit Co Orange Cove; Dryden Ranch Orosi; Northern Tulare Citrus Assn Sultana; National Bank of Orosi; Orosi Farms; Orosi Meat Market; Orange Cove Grove; Pacific Fruit Exchange; Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co Dinuba; Tatums Pharmacy; California Associated Raison Co. and dozens more. Farmers' Exchange unknown
192383493Berkeley CA: Junior Class of the University of California 1923. Very Good condition. Previous owner made a nifty protective covering. Junior Class of the University of California unknown
192417340Berkeley CA 1924. 1st thus. Blue faux leather. VG. A nice copy. 720 pp including index. Profusely illustrated primarily from photographs. 4to. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1925018477<p>Pasadena CA: California Institute of Technology 1925 California Institute of Technology Pasadena CA. 1925. Softcover/flexible leather boards. First Edition. Book is tight square and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good ; light edgewear to leather boards; small tape repaired tear on first page; 2 inch tear to spiderweb tissue guard on last page. No DJ. Brown supple leather boards with leather lace as binding at spine; Debossed title and school seal on front board. Frontispiece picture is an engraving of Throop Hall. Unpaginated 14 pp by count 16 mo. This book is for the 1925 graduating class at CALTECH. It contains an announcement page a commencement week program the senior class officers senior class committees a class roll and their graduate degrees. A clean very presentable copy.</p> California Institute of Technology paperback
1927List3428California 1927. Photograph measuring approximately 6 ¾ x 10 inches. Unevenly trimmed top edge; some folding at lower corners; excellent contrast with extensive pencil caption verso. Very good to excellent. A portrait of the Waseda University basketball team from 1927; according to its manuscript caption the photo was taken following their defeat by the University of California team at the Oakland Auditorium on a tour of the Pacific coast. The sport invented in Massachusetts in 1891 with a Japanese student partaking in the first game was brought to Japan as early as 1902 by American missionaries.1 A New York Times article from the time reports that Waseda University was the first Japanese basketball team to come to the US following the success of its baseball team’s tour; and that there was “much interest†in the Japanese players’ strategy of “cat-like swiftnessâ€.2<br /> <br /> 1 Tetsuji Kakiyama “Challenging established theory: History of Japanese Basketball†Research Outreach April 10 2023.<br /> 2 “JAPANESE FIVE PLANS TRIP; Waseda University Seeks Games With California and Others†The New York Times October 7 1927 33. unknown
193422838California: Not Published 1934. Group of 8 letters; sent from silverware salesperson Chauncey G. Nichols to his wife - who is in Great Neck Long Island NY at first - and later moves to California - and then back to New York; written from various hotels on their letterhead and in their imprinted envelopes including the Los Angeles Biltmore the U.S. Grant in San Diego the Olympic Hotel in Seattle Washington the Hotel Benson in Portland Oregon and finally with the return to the East coast the Hotel Adelphia in Philadelphia PA; the first letter containing a 3-page International Silver Co. Pacific Coast Division Route List with day-by-day typed information on Nichols' schedule - date city state which hotels - at which he would be for mailing and telegraphic contact; all the letters very clearly hand-written in ink and of several pages giving details of the struggle to make sales earn commissions names of clients and businesses appointments and success or failure - this all interspersed with family information - preparing for the move of the family to California - via bus train or automobile and the pluses and minuses of each mode - money & budgeting children pets great devotion and love between the partners and a few other family details - notice that Nichols give his wife that she should not pack the 'still' - that it was no longer required Prohibition having been repealed by this time; with a few portrait photographs laid-in; envelopes with postal cancellations most sent via airmail with stamps intact; some wear and soiling to envelopes; letters and photos in very good condition and an interesting group of business history from the depression era; ".The International Silver Company was formed in 1898 by various independent New England silversmiths that joined themselves together to form a company that became the world's largest manufacturer of silverware.International Silver Company and its factories were active in the whole Meriden-Wallingford area becoming possibly the larger center for silver craftsmanship in the US. The peak of the production was reached in the late 1930s." from the Silver Collection website information on the company; Barbour Meriden Silver Rogers Wilcox Forbes American Silver were all part of this consortium at one time. Manuscript. Broadside. Very Good. Not Published books
1935941Los Angeles: All Year Club of Southern California 1935. Staplebound. Very good. 80pp stapled booklet in wraps with California Pacific International Exposition San Diego advertisment on rear. All Year Club of Southern California unknown books
1938List2978San Quentin California 1938. Single 6 ½ x 8 ½ inch photograph caption affixed verso and marked verso “CALIF - STATE - PRISON SAN QUENTIN CALIFâ€. Folded at middle marginal wrinkling and small tears; fine contrast very good to excellent. A press photograph looking into the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison taken following the execution of Albert Kessel 1909–1938 and Robert Lee Cannon 1908–1938. The pair were the first to be executed at San Quentin using that method; they were two of five men executed for their role in an attempted escape from Folsom Prison that caused the death of warden Clarence Larkin and a guard. The photo’s caption reads in part:<br /> <br /> “Into these two black chairs Albert Kessel and Robert Lee Cannon were strapped today in the state’s first execution with use of lethal gas. A few seconds later the door was shut and made airtight; witnesses lined around the window and then the deadly cyanide eggs released.â€<br /> <br /> In 1994 the use of cyanide gas was ruled cruel and unusual and banned in California to be replaced by lethal injection; in 2006 a court order halted capital punishment in the state altogether though it is still legal. unknown
193860408San Francisco CA: Golden Gate International Exposition Division of Publications American Engraving Company Commercial Art & Engraving Company Sterling Engraving Co. 1938. Folio. 11 x 14 in. 34 pp unpaginated. With pictorial colour maps 1 large double-page panoramic plate by Chesley Bonestell text illustrations photos w/ 12 artist’s renderings plates of GGIE laid-in presentation leaf on smaller rough-cut paper signed by Cutler. Colour-illustrated boards in blue gilt & black metallic gold pastedowns & flyleaves plastic comb-binding as issued light foxing & edgewear to a couple leaves minor edgewear to covers slight bumping to couple corners still a VG copy. First edition signed of this exceedingly scarce preview volume offering an artist’s & architect’s rendering excursion through the forthcoming Art Deco marvels of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition held on Treasure Island in San Francisco. Roberts & Roberts and Gabriel Moulin were the official photographers and the Chesley Bonestell birds-eye panorama featured in much of the promotional artwork for the fair grace the pages. Celebrating the completion of the iconic bridge as well as drawing from the $ 6250000.00 in funds from the WPA & PWA New Deal programs the 400 acre site was actually to have become the San Francisco Air Terminal but those plans were derailed by World War II. No copies in Worldcat. [Golden Gate International Exposition, Division of Publications, American Engraving Company, Commercial Art & Engraving Company, hardcover
194028275<p>1940. Wooden Framed oil Painting 13 X 16 inchesVG AS-IS NOT A BOOK 1940'S. Signed by Illustrator. 1st Edition. Unbound. Illus. by B. Hanley California Artist.</p>
1947111970San Francisco: California CIO Council 1947. Pamphlet. 15p. stapled wraps 5.5x8.25 inches previous owner's name penned on front wrap rear wrap stained touch of rust to staples else good condition. California CIO Council unknown books
1949361220San Jose: California Baseball League. Good with no dust jacket. 1949. Softcover. Covers have some light wear and spine has some creasing. . California Baseball League paperback
