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360316San Francisco: Society Of California Pioneers / Charles A. Calhoun 1862. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. Lot of two 2 items scarce in the trade both being relevant to the New Pioneer Hall that commemorated the joining of the State of California to the United States in 1850. 1 Ceremonies At The Laying Of The Corner Stone Of The New Pioneer Hall July 7Th 1862 1862. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy but complete and sturdy moderately toned and soiled but unmarked copy in softpaper wraps hand-sewn toned along edges one wrap almost separated but housed securely in a plastic sleeve. Comprised of an Oration by Willard B. Farwell Esq.; a Poem by Miss Eliza A Pittsinger; an Address Delivered Before The Society At Their Celebration Of The Twelfth Anniversary Of The Admission Of The State Of California Into The Union September 9Th 1862 by E.H. Washburn Esq.; and Proceedings And Resolutions In Regard To John A. Sutter.; 2 O.F. Sutton Inaugural Address; Oration by Eugene Lies 1863 in light blue softpaper wraps still viable and easy to read with 27 pp.Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Society Of California Pioneers / Charles A. Calhoun, , 1862 paperback
195466211954 national geographic magazine 1954 grande et belle carte de la californie de format 95cmX72cm
1901WRCAM46165Los Angeles 1901. 10pp. on a single folded sheet. Brochure folded into five compartments. Minor soiling and wear. Very good. Attractive promotional brochure for Santa Catalina Island advertising activities accommodations and round trip fares by the Wilmington Transportation Co. The brochure describes the island's pleasant climate and fishing opportunities illustrating views and impressive fish caught by the game fisherman of the area. A nice ephemeral piece. unknown books
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
1999158781Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press 1999. XXVI, 550 Seiten. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Broschur. [Softcover / Paperback].
3079Modesto: McHenry Museum 1980. Facsimile reprint of the 1892 Lewis edition with added index of names. Pages 408 pp index.4to. Black cloth. Facsimile reprint of the 1892 Lewis edition with added index of names. Black & white illustrations throughout. In fine condition. Modesto: McHenry Museum 1980. hardcover
63-4767Berkeley CA: Faculty Members of the University of California at Berkeley 1964. Broadside. 8.5" x 11" 4 pp. French-fold Sheets Good with tiny marginal tear creasing faint damp stains. Provenance: Peter Howard Serendipity Books Berkeley. Berkeley, CA: Faculty Members of the University of California at Berkeley, 1964. unknown
1953711896PN. New. 1953. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1953711870PN. New. 1953. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1961120975Los Angeles: Southern California District Communist Party 1961. 15p. 5.25x8.5 inches plus a four page centerfold titled "Two Years After - Our City in 1961"; a small label affixed to front cover directing us to the centerfold. Staplebound pamphlet in soiled worn wraps. As is. Program includes a major section on smog and pollution and one on housing. Southern California District, Communist Party unknown books
1959121169Los Angeles: Southern California District Communist Party 1959. 15p. staplebound pamphlet minor handling 5.5x8.25 inches. Program includes a major section on smog and pollution and one on housing. Southern California District, Communist Party unknown books
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.
2012210662Paso Robles: Nazraeli Press 2012. Rilegato mezza tela sovracoperta half-cloth binding dust jacket. Ottimo Fine. <strong>Six by Six: Set 4 Volume 5</strong>. With a separate exhibition-quality <strong>original print</strong> numbered and signed by the Artist on 11 x 14 inch paper. 29 colour photographs / Con una <strong>stampa originale</strong> sciolta su carta pesante numerata e firmata da Doug Rickard Esemplare 74/100. Cm 355x275. 29 fotografie a colori. 4to cm 37x295. pp. 32. Ottimo Fine. Prima edizione di 100 esemplari numerati e firmati First edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. <em><strong>A New American Picture</strong> di Doug Rickard offre una prospettiva sorprendente e fresca sulla fotografia di strada americana. Mentre a prima vista l'opera appare rassicurante familiare e ben all'interno dei confini tradizionali del genere la sua metodologia è"; tutt'altro che convenzionale. Tutte le immagini sono prese da Google Street View;" per un periodo di due anni Rickard ha approfittato dell'archivio di immagini della piattaforma per "guidare" virtualmente per le strade sconosciute e trascurate d'America luoghi deserti che sono stati dimenticati economicamente devastati e abbandonati.</em> Nazraeli Press, hardcover
192963892San Francisco CA: Carl Frederick Hobby 1353 Post Street 1929. One small oil painting on canvas sized 8.5 x 11 in. preserved as original stretched canvas within the frame as presented to the artist’s sister Ruth Annis Hobby Gibbs 1878-1940 Scouticut Neck Fairhaven Massachusetts with the original wooden frame now professionally cleaned and w/ artist’s signature in lower right corner of painting this painting was presented with a gift inscription in Chinese å二月廿五號一ä¹äºŒä¹ December 25 1929 and given with others by the artist over a 10 year period in the 1920’s-1930’s to his sister and held in the family until 2025. This original oil painting portrays a Chinese-American woman and child strolling past shop windows in Chinatown w/ awnings and fire-escapes looming above while another person carrying large basket walks away and another small child looks on. After settling in San Francisco’s Chinatown less than 6 years before the artist had launched his lifetime work to depict through oil paints and pen & ink the quintessential life to be discovered in Chinatown. Eventually he would issue a book just 7 years later in 1936 of Chinatown sights and attractions filled with his pen & ink illustrations. 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 about the time his sister Ruth Annis Hobby voyaged to marry her fiance during the Philippine Insurrection in 1899 in Manila. 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. Carl Frederick Hobby, 1353 Post Street, unknown
189356869Salem OR: Buren & Hamilton 1893-1904. 4to. 90 mylar sleeve leaves unnumbered. containing 403 invoices shipping & waybills TLS ALS TL copy letters and more many of which appear on steel-engraved letterhead many printed on colour-tinted paper often shipping and weight bills still retaining original stamps a few mailing envelopes a number of check receipts many w/ manuscript and stamped autographs others w/ corrections and/or annotations in ink or pencil; also included are actual samples of velvet fabrics wallpapers and textured colour sample papers printing sample for perforated business card. All preserved in recent 3-ring cloth binder stamping on front cover. An exceptional archive of original letters invoices waybills business cards and receipts all documenting the thriving business of Buren & Hamilton at the end of the Gilded Age and beginning of the Progressive Era in Salem Oregon in the aftermath of the 1893 economic crash. Drawing from suppliers in California just a few years before the San Francisco Earthquake & Fire the company also sourced from Seattle WA New York and Chicago. Portland was the manufacturing and industrial hub of Oregon as can be seen in these invoices and receipts: such companies as The Columbia Chair Company Dealers who sold chairs office chairs and rockers from 309-311 Front St. shipped rocking chairs and office chairs to Salem in 1903; Henry Jenning & Sons located at 172-174 First St. shipped a load of leather oak chairs in 1903; J.G. Mack & Co. located at 86 & 88 Third St. in Portland supplied velvet rugs oil cloths and lamp shades in 1903; while the A. Merle Co. and McCord & Work located on Water St. supplied brass and iron bed frames the same year. Buren & Hamilton also sourced mattresses and sacks of recycled denim cotton “Shoddy†from Peters & Roberts Furniture Co. for mattresses; and purchased often from the Portland Mattress & Upholstery Co. at 18-20 Front St. which supplied wool-combed coverings mattresses mattress tops from 1900-1904 -- their factory would be gutted by fire in 1907. Many of the items were shipped down the Willamette River on the Oregon City Transportation Co. ships with a note from 1904 indicating the company had completed a sale of odd sized mattresses to them; numerous Southern Pacific Oregon Division freight bills; as well as a shipment on the SS Oregonian via the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. of five crates of chair seats from Marshall Field & Co.In addition it appears that Oregonians in and around Salem purchased heavily from the store luxury goods such as beveled mirrors framed artwork sleek wallpapers velvet fabrics tapestries oriental rugs and more. Many of the invoices letters waybills and documents record many items supplied by the storied W.P. Fuller & Co. of San Francisco & Sacramento CA as well as their subsidiary in Portland OR. They were main suppliers of beveled and mirrored glass on the Pacific Coast which often had to be imported from England into the U.S. and several of the orders in 1899-1901 note that the company was having issues supplying such pieces to Buren & Hamilton due to labor difficulties finally sourcing mirrors from Pilkington Bros. English Picture Glass. They occasionally canceled orders and the Fuller Co. writes in 1901 over a canceled order of “deadening felt.†The W.P. Fuller Co. explain that “your reasons for wishing to cancel your order are not considered sufficient to justify us in doing so . . . †and that they were aware that “some of our competitors are circulating unjust and untrue reports concerning us all the time.†Included amongst these letters are samples of cotton backing for carpets and even three original samples of wallpaper. There are also present a number of letters and invoices from the firm of Tozer & Son which took over the W.P. Fuller Wallpaper division about 1901 with letters present making that announcement. Of additional interest are the many invoices letters and waybills back and forth with the storied Schussler Bros. on 119-121 Geary St. Star King Building in San Francisco detailing many of the popular framed and matted photographs and images for Salem shoppers. These encompassed the “Lone Indian†which were often reproductions of the iconic End of the Trail sculpture by James Earle Fraser; Athletes Dutch Windmills Shakespeare prints of assorted types and sizes Lone Arab a Chinese print a boxing series of matted “Deal of a Fellow†Madonna Artotypes -- typically reproductions of Raphael’s Madonna and Taber art photos. Many of the letters bill heads and invoices sport steel engraved architectural vignettes documenting buildings which would be destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire as well as many of the business records for those companies. One of the freight bills bears the photographic letterhead of the Chicago & North-Western Railway Co. dated 1904. Another significant supplier was the D.N. & E. Walter & Co. of San Francisco which supplied linoleum flooring fabrics and more for Buren & Hamilton from 1899-1904 and even includes in one of the letters a piece of the red velvet fabric they no longer carried.Buren & Hamilton was originally founded in the late 1880’s by A.T. Yeaton as a furniture/undertaker business later sold to A.B. Buren and finally sold to Max O. Buren and Clarence Hamilton who operated at three locations along Commercial St. including Greenbaum’s Building at 298 Commercial the building at 136 Commercial 340 Court St. now Sid’s Furniture. Clarence bought out Max Buren’s shares in 1916 becoming the C.S. Hamilton Furniture Co. and operating until it was sold to Rubenstein’s in the 1960’s. See: Norma Hamilton Cochran Historic Businesses -- Hamilton Furniture Salem History Matters March 17 2017; New Stationery Department of Schussler Brothers San Francisco The American Stationer Vol. LIV 1903 pp. 4-5; John Caldbick Panic of 1893 and its Aftermath HistoryLink Essay 20874 Oct. 1 2019. Buren & Hamilton, hardcover
20001325614PN. New. 2000. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1880List1314Northern California 1880. 4to one album in burgundy cloth the other oblong brown pebbled cloth. Seventy-one sepia-toned and cyanotype photographs most measuring 6 ½ x 4 ½ inches. Near fine with some light wear to albums photographs very good or better with very good contrast some showing a hint of fading. A very early pair of vernacular photograph albums centering on the experiences of a wealthy family in San Francisco Monterey and the surrounding areas in the late 1880s. The bulk of the images show the family and their unidentified circle in domestic scenes with the vernacular architecture and landscapes of the Bay Area on full display. Other images show landmarks including Golden Gate Park the Francis Scott Key monument various views of the first Hotel del Monte in Monterey which would burn in 1887 dating the photographs to the period prior to the fire. The album also includes photographs of African American families. <br /> <br /> The image quality is generally quite strong and the photographer was either a professional assembling the album which includes many portraits of family and presumed friends for themselves or the work of a highly skilled amateur. The Initials on the front pastedown are “M.J.R.†though this could be a later owner. The albums were from the estate of the muralist Clara Fargo Thomas who was a resident of New York and could possibly have been from one of her family members though we are unable to glean much detail from the contents. The few annotations offer little clues one just reading “5/11/89 - Golden Gate Park†and another identifying a house as 509 Webster St. in San Francisco though the typical Victorian architecture and sloped street of the house suggest it could have just been a photograph of San Francisco’s unique architecture. <br /> <br /> The photographs of the people give insight into the lives of the new wealthy class of San Francisco residents of the late 19th century with others interestingly showing rural scenes and people. The photographer also had an eye for the flora of the region which is displayed throughout. It is unclear what the relationship of the African-American subjects was to the photographer and why they appear in the album. Overall a compelling group of images and the earliest example of vernacular photograph albums of California images we can find in the trade. unknown
B9781013759512Hardback. New. hardcover
19699886Los Angeles: Occidental College 1969. First edition. 23x14cm 1 13pp. Staple bound in textured cream paper wraps with blind stamping and black lettering to front cover. Some faint smudging and toning to edges. Clean internally and nearly fine. <br /> <br /> Very uncommon Grant Dahlstrom / Castle Press printing of this address presented by Ansel Adams to friends at Occidental College on January 22 1969. OCLC cites holdings at Occidental and UC Merced and Santa Cruz. Occidental College unknown
68-0772Riverside CA: CMP 1986. 8vo. Stapled Wraps ca. 20 pp. VGCollection of Rue A. Jenkins. Riverside, CA: CMP, 1986. paperback
1991102048San Francisco: Book Club of California 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine plain jacket; as new. Wee bit of foxing to jacket plus a tiny bit to rear end paper; faint soiling to jacket. Oblong small folio in beige cloth; 125 pages: illustrations some color map; 25 x 31 cm. Includes prospectus. Fine in fine original plain white jacket. 400 copies printed.// "Designed by Jack W. Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press San Francisco. Type-setting by Francesca Stauffacher. Printed on Mohawk Superfine and set in Adobe Minion types designed by Robert Slimbach . Edition is limited to 400 copies"--Colophon // Credits: Designer Jack W. Stauffacher. 1800-1899 Aquarelle britannique 19e siècle Art Catalogs Catalogues Hawaii Hawaii In art Hawaii Ouvrages illustrés Hawaii Pictorial works Pictorial works Sawkins James Gay 1806-1878 Watercolor painting British Watercolor painting British 19th century catalogs documents. Book Club of California hardcover
198448959Navarro California: Wild Trees Press 1984. First edition. Near fine. Inscribed first printing of this collection of short stories from the Black Playwright of the Year winner with a foreword by Alice Walker. J. California Cooper credits THE COLOR PURPLE's Alice Walker for encouraging her transition from plays to short stories. Walker and her partner Robert Allen established the Wild Tree Press in 1984 and Walker notes in her foreword that it "could have been created especially for A PIECE OF MINE." 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original color pictorial wrappers. 124 pages. Inscribed by Cooper to title page "To / Charles / Love & peace" dated 2/91. Wrapper with light edgewear. Tight. Wild Trees Press unknown
1991Q-0385420870Anchor 1991-12-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Anchor paperback
1984123-6037Near Fine in black wraps. ix 124pages. First Printing. There is very light rubbing to the wraps and a previous owner's neatly-penned gift inscription is on the half-title page. Otherwise Fine: clean bright and soundly bound. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. A very nice collector's-quality copy of Cooper's first book. Includes a forword by Alice Walker. Purchase with confidence: all books gradings and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks of Books. 41-A. Wild Trees Press paperback
