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1997040863Staten Island NY: Maurizio Martino 1997. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. pp: xxxvii 279 26chronological index 28title and subject index 1errata. Bound in blue cloth gilt spine lettering on red block. 8.5" x 5.5" "This reprint is strictly limited to 150 copies. Maurizio Martino hardcover
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.
19102918Oakland: P.C. : A.C. 1910. First Edition. Cardboard covers. Near Fine/Clear 4 mil mylar folder. Unpaginated 30. Tipped in frontispiece from photograph by Annie W. Brigman with tissue guard. Mottled heavy paper wrappers; gilt cover and spine titling. 4 1/4" x 8 1/4". One poem per page by California's premier poets as of 1910 with a facsimile signature of each poet. Included are Ina Coolbrith George Sterling first printing of Sterling's "The Moth of Time" Jack London Joaquin Miller and Charles Keeler. A Near Fine copy A bit rubbed from handling; slight edgewear now in a clear 4mil mylar protective envelope. P.C. : A.C. unknown
190639332Oakland: Enquirer Presses 1906. 1st printing. Not found in Rocq. Original publisher's grey cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to front board. Shelfwear with slight fraying of cloth along front joint. Proir owner signature to ffep. A VG copy. 217 1 blank pp. Text illustrated with inserted b&w photographic portraits charts many fold-out graphs etc. 10-1/4" x 6-7/8" <br/><br/> Enquirer Presses hardcover books
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.
195571371San Francisco: Wyland Stanley c. 1955. Original silver gelatin print made by Wyland Stanley from the negative of ca. 1925. 16 3/4 x 13 1/4 and mounted to board with a typed caption. A fine & rich image. Wyland Stanley d. 1994 was a San Francisco collector of negatives and photographic printer. During the 1950s he made prints of historic photos by Isaiah Taber Carleton Watkins Bradley & Rulofson Edweard Muybridge as well these prints of vintage cars from original negatives of pictures taken in the 1920s. The Bancroft has a large collection 328 of Wyland Stanley historic prints. Many of Stanley's photographs are currently available from stock houses but this one was actually printed by Stanley the owner of the negative in the mid 1950s. The captions were written by Stanley and are often humorous. Wyland Stanley unknown
2003235027Sacramento.: California Veterinary Medical Association. 2003. Stated first edition. . Gilt decorated hard cover. Leather bound. Fine owner name on end paper copy. . Folio. . Illustrated in black white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Limited edition of 100 copies number 072. Signed by Chairman and President. California Veterinary Medical Association. hardcover
0366191195.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0366046829.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1955039798San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences 1955. x 807p. b/w illus. original blue cloth quarto format. California Academy of Sciences unknown
1955039798San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences 1955. x 807p. b/w illus. original blue cloth quarto format. California Academy of Sciences unknown books
194563891San Francisco CA: Carl Frederick Hobby 1211 Jackson Street ca. 1945. One large oil painting on canvas sized 13 x 18 in. preserved as original stretched canvas within the frame as presented to the artist’s niece and with the original green & gilt frame now professionally cleaned and w/ artist’s business card mounted on verso of frame along with numbering & size. Signed in lower corner this painting was presented by the artist following the War to his niece and held in the family until 2025. This original oil painting depicts a young Chinese-American mother and child buying an orange with fruit crates stacked beside in front of the mirror and pedestrian walking by as well as the advertising signage in the doorway in Chinese painted by Hobby. The sign reads 油糖èœèˆ– You tang chai pu — oil and sugar vegetable shop and produce in the crates below the window in the foreground appear to be cabbages oranges and possibly mangoes. Hobby wrote in his 1936 illustrated book “Chinatown San Francisco†that there were a variety of vegetable and produce “Chinese Food Shops†situated from Washington to Jackson Street selling blue-green melons mustard greens water chestnuts and more.Hobby 1886-1964 was the son of an Iowa City IA ophthalmologist and moved with the family as a teenager to San Diego CA about 1900 where he began working at 14 as a sketch artist and later published a book in San Diego in 1919 with his artwork. He studied art at the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines the Art Students League in New York and became portrait and landscape painter in San Diego until 1923. After a divorce from Plooma Crowther he settled in San Francisco in Chinatown where he became an instructor at the Art Center while also painting and sketching the densely populated area publishing “The Street of Dragon Lanterns Chinatown of San Francisco†in 1936 while contracting with the Madison & Burke Agency through World War II. Exhibits of his paintings and pen & ink sketches were displayed at the Oakland Art Gallery in 1928 and the Society for Sanity in Art in 1945. See: Maud McB. Maywood Palm City The Chula Vista Star July 9 1937 p. 6; Sketches of San Diego 1919. Carl Frederick Hobby, 1211 Jackson Street, unknown
1919List1319Los Angeles and Environs 1919. Photograph album measuring 6 ½ x 8 inches with fifty-one photographs each 4 ⅜ x 2 ⅞ inches. Front page captioned “California 1919 / Flowers / Animals.†Fine condition no visible flaws. A visually compelling and very charming relic of early motor tourism this collection of photographs of the flora and fauna of Southern California was taken by a Michigan photographer who judging by the quality of the images was either a professional or a very talented amateur. Most of the images are somewhat formal studies of trees and flowers some of which have been hand-colored. Other images show the Model T parked precariously in the desert others show animals at the zoo one shows the Los Angeles Ostrich Farm opposite Lincoln Park. unknown
190575148New York: T. H. McCallister Company ca. 1905. This is a lovely set of glass slides; 45 in total and including 10 hand-colored. The subject of almost all of them are horticultural and the local is from La Jolla to Redlands to Pasadena. These are most definitely not the record of a family . Avenues of Eucalyptus; vacation. There are no people shown but great care is shown in identifying the plants and their locations. More than likely these were put together for a lecture on the Botany of Southern California. Almost all have manuscript captions. But the deciding factor is the fact that two of the magic lantern slides have captions within the negative a strong argument for a public lecture.Common titles are; An avenue of Eucalyptus; Banana Tree is Pasadena; 10000 acre orange grove; Olive trees Old Mission Inn; Ophir Roses Pasadena; Geraniums; Arroyo Seco; Tomato plants appearing about 10 ft tall; Calla Lily Field color; Vineyard color; Ostriches color; Hydrangeas with a bearded supervisor. 1905 is a bit past the big booster time so these were likely for educational purposes. Edifying the public on the grandeur of California T. H. McCallister Company unknown
195371168Santa Cruz: N.p. 1953. Ruth Monsen an elementary school teacher and high school librarian in San Jose assembled this attractive gathering of specimens in the early fifties probably as a teaching tool for her students. There are thirty-eight specimens all of plants native to the hills around San Jose and Santa Cruz. Each one is tape-mounted on a thick piece of paper 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches and housed in a protective sleeve. Each specimen with a separate page of manuscript description in ink by Monsen housed in the sleeve as well. The descriptions are quite detailed: e.g. "Mountain Mahogany; Cercocarpus betuloides. Rose Family Rosaceae. Collected on a hillside wooded in the foothills west of the Stevens Creek Dam on April 25 1953. Found in middle and high elevations in the mountains. Simple leaves. No petals. Stamens numerous. Calyx-tube slender and stalk-like. Shrub or small tree. Leaves serrate above the middle". All housed in a plain box of like dimensions. A wonderful and attractive presentation unusual in that none of the specimens have come off their mounts nor have any been crushed or broken. N.p. unknown
69-4249Long Beach California: University Art Museum California State University Long Beach 1985. 4to. Softcover. 72 pp. B&W Plates. Very Good. Long Beach, California: University Art Museum California State University Long Beach, 1985 paperback
202224-0514-14BRILL 2022-04-28. hardcover. Like New. 6x2x9. Never read no marks or highlighting in the book. Our copy is hardback with printed covers showing light shelf-wear. BRILL hardcover
63-6832Sacramento CA: State Printing Office 1950. 8vo. Soft Covers. 55 pp. Charts maps black and white illustrations. Very Good. Previous owner's notes and stamp on cover. [Sacramento, CA]: State Printing Office, 1950. paperback
1953711869PN. New. 1953. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1859298771859. The bindings are generally tight with some inner hinges reinforced. Binding styles and paginations vary: some legal buckram others sheep; some with morocco spine labels others issued without spine labels. Several volumes include folding tables. The majority have the usual institutional marks which are rarely obtrusive. Occasional text spotting and light wear but generally clean and Very Good.<br/><br/> The stated printing locations are San Jose and San Francisco for the first two Sessions but these were actually printed in New York. The third and fourth Sessions were printed in San Francisco the others in Sacramento. <br/> These volumes present the earliest legal history of the State of California. The First Session includes not only the Statutes enacted but the Treaty of Peace with Mexico and documents supplementary thereto the 1849 California Constitution the U.S. Constitution with amendments and other foundation enactments. Joint Resolutions Index Table of Contents for each Session are printed along with the Laws. The 1852 and 1853 volumes are evidently rare. The Statutes deal with all the significant events of that interesting ten-year period: the settlement of the State the development of infrastructure and unfolding of commercial life the multiple social and political institutions the Gold Rush immigration the political strife that engulfed the Nation and all other aspects of early Statehood. <br/>FIRST EDITIONS. Greenwood 167 note. Cowan California 610. Wagner California Imprints 147 149 150. unknown books
194052018Los Angeles: Regional Planning Commission 1940. 4to. 165 1 pp. Numerous text illustrations maps charts diagrams 1 large folding map in rear pocket. Green-ribbed publisher’s cloth gilt outline map of Los Angeles County on front cover lettering & plane illust. in black black lettering on spine slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition of this fascinating report prepared on the eve of World War II as southern California was grappling with the tremendous growth in the aviation industry and airlines in and around Los Angeles. Encouraged by the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1938 many communities began preparing aviation master plans in order to begin building enough airports and facilities to encourage further expansion of civil aviation. This master plan incorporated many of the airports already operating in Los Angeles and their possibilities for expansion including Los Angeles Union Air Long Beach Santa Monica Lancaster and others. Of interest is the seaplane terminal which existed in Long Beach at the time and the belief by the report that over 15 feeder airports would be required including smaller airports in Compton Alhambra Lomita South Whittier Gardena Pomona Puente Palmdale Catalina and Monrovia. Regional Planning Commission, hardcover
1292Los Angeles: Lankershim Branch of the Security Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles n. d. Third edition. Near Fine. Circa 1927. 8" x 4-1/4". 56 pp. Green pictorial wrappers with orange lettering in original envelope. B/w half-tone illustrations and maps throughout. Minor wear to extremities else exceptionally clean and bright. Light wear to envelope hint of spotting to front panel. Promotional booklet for the San Fernando Valley with special attention paid to the benefits from the construction of the Los Angeles aquaduct.Uncommon in such nice condition and with the original envelope. Lankershim Branch of the Security Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles unknown
1899WRCLIT83220London & New York: John Lane the Bodley Head 1899. Slate blue cloth ruled and lettered in gray t.e.g. others untrimmed. Portrait. Bookplate. Moderately shaken and rubbed 1899 San Francisco ownership inscription on half-title; just a sound copy. First edition. "The daughter of a wealthy San Francisco pioneer a victim of her own impulsiveness and indiscretion meets her downfall through drink" - Baird & Greenwood. BAIRD & GREENWOOD 104. WRIGHT III:156. John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover books
1899WRCLIT83219London & New York: John Lane the Bodley Head 1899. Slate blue cloth ruled and lettered in gray t.e.g. others untrimmed. Portrait. Bookplate. Very slightly shaken but a very good copy. First edition. "The daughter of a wealthy San Francisco pioneer a victim of her own impulsiveness and indiscretion meets her downfall through drink" - Baird & Greenwood. BAIRD & GREENWOOD 104. WRIGHT III:156. John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover books
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.
