Brancato (Sanborn), Bernice GraceMareMagnum
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129 pages. Glossary. Index. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. Author's annotated business card laid-in. Abundantly illustrated in color and black and white. Takes readers back to her childhood - describes adventures, trials and tribulations and pleasurable experiences too, of being born in a large family which grew up on Mother Lode country. - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
Color-illus rustic brown cloth octavo; approx 200-300 pages (unpaged); illustrations throughout (chiefly b&w); 21 cm Two volumes: Book 1 & Book 2, comprising a run of 24 issues of The Lark (cover title), the influential early California humor magazine (presumably the first). Bookseller stamp of John Howell to rear board paste-downs of both volumes. Bookmark of bookseller John Howell also laid in, along with a clipped newspaper article "Man Who Never Saw a Purple Cow. Gelett Burgess Writes His Own Interview," from San Francisco Chronicle, July 27, 1942. Contributions by Ernest Peixotto, Bruce Porter, Willis Polk, K. Porter Garnett, Yone Noguchi, Florence Lundborg, Juliet Wilbur Tompkins, Pedro L. A., Dynas Powis, Morgan Shepard, Reginald Rix, Herbery Van Vlack, Carolyn Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others. || California. American wit and humor. Magazine. Graphic Design, Illustration, Book Arts.
43 p. Photo frontis. Very XLib. 12mo. Original publisher's cloth binding. Little book recording the wildflowers seen on a trip from Columbia, PA to California and back. Presented by the author. PA 29
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.75". Includes many street names, prominent buildings, hotels, churches, theatres, steam roads, cable and horse roads. Unmarked with light wear and soiling. An attractive vintage copy. Book
Outer dimensions: 21.75" x 14.5". Counties individually colored. Clean and unmarked with light wear. An attractive vintage copy. Bonus: includes separate extensive list of California counties and cities/towns, complete with their (1889) populations. Book
Large quarto in off-white rustic cloth and paper-backed illus boards; (no spine title); chiefly b&w photos and illus. (some color); unpages (approx. 180pp); adverts at rear. Uncommon. Higher education in mid-20th century San Francisco. "The 1940 Franciscan yearbook published annually by the Associated Students of San Francisco State College includes information about faculty and student administration, classes, honorary clubs and organizations and sports. The University Archives serves as the collective memory of San Francisco State University containing unique and original source material of our University's colorful history. The University Archives traces the Universityís history beginning from June 1906 with records, images and artifacts.
227 pages. Dozens of wonderful photos. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Book shows light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, , text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Magazine format, 104 pages, heavy paper covers, a great many b&w photos. Authors are all writers for motorcycle publications. Inscribed by Cliff Boswell on back cover, dated 1991. Publication date is from this date. Includes pamphlet The International Brotherhood of Motorcycle Campers by Cliff Boswell.
Small quarto in offwhite color illus dust jacket; 164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Fine Inscribed by author. || California. Hollywood. Santa Cruz (Calif.) -- Biography. California -- Biography. Philanthropy
Based on years of interviews with Real Estate Sales Top Producers in the US and Canada. Here are 55 techniques that will jam your career into High Gear! In This market. First case is labelled '1' and has a red front cover. Second case is labelled '2' and has a purple front cover. "I bought your whole library. Then I earned back te entire cost with what I learned and used from the first cassette alone!" - Christopher Baker, MacGregor Realty, California. Book
Zaragoza, Imprenta Estilo, 1950. 4to.; 143 pp., 2 hs., y 9 láminas, aparte, con reproducción de documentos, portadas de libros y mapas. Encuadernación original en media tela.
This is a very good hardcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Four volumes in 1. Reprint of the first editions of this essential bibliography of California. Olive green cloth, paper spine label. v, 338; (ii), 339-704; (iv), 705-825; (iv), 827-926 pages. 9" high X 6" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking.
Narrow oblong quarto ; [63] pages illustrations; 5 x 11 inches. An uncommon California item. Author's first book. Chiefly b&w full-page photos with poetical sentences or sentence portions, one to a page. Reminisicent of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. / Black & White Art Photography. Santa Maria, CA. Vandenberg Air Force Base; Santa Barbara County.
Small folio in blue illus jacket and blur cloth; xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm Scarce book on the history of this esteemed school on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Chadwick School, Palos Verdes Peninsula, Southern California. Los Angeles metropolis. Private Education, History of. Chadwick Seaside School.
Quarto in pale yellow paper wraps, illus, with b&w photos (front and rear); 143 pages : numerous B&w illustrations, maps ; 28 cm "Originally published in 1914 by Historic Record Company." Biography. History. Mendocino County, Northern California.
Oblong folio in green DJ; xii, 183 p, b&w illus (some color) ; 24 x 32 cm. Clubs -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
28p. Title page printed in orange and black. Thin 8vo. Original paper binding, lettered in orange. Binding soiled. Hardbound. Limited Edition. Number 345 of only 1000 copies. A remarkable account describing: the crossing of the Isthmus of Panama; the voyage to San Francisco; trips to Sacramento City; Sutter's Fort; life in the mines; lawlessness; & etc. Though the binding is a bit soiled and stained, the text is bright and clean. ** . PRESS/W33
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
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.
San Francisco, Published by Jo Mora, Jr., 1933. 4to.; 120 pp. sin numerar, con el texto y las maravillosas ilustraciones de Mora, entre ellas los retratos de doce insignes piratas, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Henry Morgan, Capitán Low, Capitán Kidd, Barba Azul, Red Legs, entre otros Primera edición. Encuadernación original en tela estampada. Planos ligeramente desencajados. La primera obra escrita y dibujada por el polifacético escultor, ilustrador y cowboy, a quien se denominó "Renaissance Man of the West", nacido en Montevideo e hijo del escultor catalán Domingo Mora. El presente libro fue comprado por la "Grace Steamship Line" para ser ofrecido a sus pasajeros en los Cruceros de New York a Vancouver, ida y vuelta a través del Canal de Panamá. Como escultor dejó casi toda su obra en Monterrey, California y en la cercana Misión de Carmel.
pp. iv, 236. Double column. Foxed. Printed in English and Hebrew. Penciled ownership of Thos. Douglass, Yale College, New Haven. Small Quarto. 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Original cloth spine over paper boards. Original paper spine label, worn with some loss. Spine hinges and extremities worn with some loss. Hardbound. Rosenbach # 345. AI #12600. In 1848 the early owner of this book, Thomas Douglass, opened in San Francisco "the first American school on the Pacific coast south of Oregon" - but six weeks later, caught up in Gold Rush fever, he dropped his books and headed for the mines. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUDAICA BOX 1
Facsimile of the rare London: 1759 first edition. pp. 455; 387. Small 8vo. Original leather grained cloth binding. Fine condition. Venegas was a learned Jesuit missionary in Mexico and California. While in California he gathered much information from personal observation and from the archives of the various missions. These volumes contain valuable geographical, historical, and ethnological material rel ating to the name, situation, and extent of California, the aborigines and their ancient religions, early voyages along the California coast, and the labors of the Jesuits. These facsimiles are the mo st affordable way to study, own, and enjoy such rare Americana. NW29. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full tan cloth boards. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. Inscribed by author. 772 pages.
Medium to large white quarto, 52 pages, b&w illustrations (2+ color), maps; 28 cm. Very scarce. || Urban studies, City planning -- California -- San Francisco.
158 pages. Index. Lovely colour photography throughout. Presents the best from inns tucked away in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California. Very minor moisture exposure to bottom edge of some back pages else book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Moderate wear. to dust jacket with, again, some evidence of moisture exposure to bottom edge of back panel. Overall a clean, bright, unmarked and attractive copy of this lovely work. Book
