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Green-cloth octavo; xii, 559 p, front b&w illus, b&w maps & plates; 24 cm. California -- Church history.
Features: Ski trails of Banff National Park; Le Royaume du Saguenay; Nova Scotia "Campsite" - the Cabot Trail; Postage Stamp Motoring; Odd items about Canada - The "Coleman" Frog (as big as a dog!), Pount Pelee - south of the northmost part of California!, Ukrainian 'Bush' House of God, near Neepawa and Minnedosa, Farthest east home in Canada; Along the Yukon Trail; photo of Imperial's and probably North America's, first service station, opened in Vancouver in 1908; North to Buffalo Narrows. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
391 pages. Index. List of publications. Bibliography. Illustrated in black and white with colour photo of subject. Dr. Johnson has hand-written and signed a lengthy inscription to a close colleague upon front free endpaper, dated 1992. Fore-edge of 30 pages rumpled, otherwise clean and very light overall wear. An excellent copy. Book
In-8° pp. XIV-255, con 67 tav. f.t. Leg. in tela con impress. in oro.
Feature articles include: The Apish Origins of Human Tension; The Hard Kind of Patriotism; The Impregnable Boston Symphony; How America "Solved" the Servant Problem; Rockefeller's Triple-threat Brain Trust; The Case for Fast Drivers; Washington's Chance for Splendor; The Troubled Conscience of American Business; The Military's Limited War Against Segregation; A special duty for Republicans; Special Supplement - The Tangled Romance of Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson; Whatever happened to the peaceful atom; Our Most American Animal; "Consider Me a Communist" - a Portrait of Evtushenko; Latin - the Church's Mother Tongue?; On the Road in Brazil; Governing Buckley by the Numbers; Danger in our Medical Labs; Louisiana's Wonderful Invention; The Multiversity; Be My Host; Balanchine's Return to Russia; How Not to Integrate the Schools; The Lost World of Cape Canaveral, 1911; Is Kindness Killing the Arts?; How Buinessmen Can Fight "Big Government" - and win; Days and Nights in Texas; Mrs. Roosevelt Does a TV Commercial; Restraints on American Catholic Freedom; My Anti-headache Diet; Africa's New Elites; California Wines - A Look at the Vineyards around the Golden Gate; How to Treat the Broadway Malady of 1963; The Slow, Quiet Murder of Tax Reform; Detroit's Surprising Mayor; The Debate Over Velikovsky - An Astronomer's Rejoinder; The Angry Young Women; and more. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Usual library markings. Book
Articles include: Reducing the Hazards of Being Born; Fort Hood - Sparta Goes Suburban; An African Student in China; My Poetic Career in Vermont Politics; Columbia's Unorthodox Seminars; What is a Jew?; J.F.K. - Portrait of a President; What Psychiatry can and cannot do; Second Thoughts on the Religious Revival; Small Rebellion in Miami; Why Nobody Can't Write no good; Los Angeles' Cultural Curcus; A Draftee's Diary from the Mississippi Front; Harold Wilson's Britain; Arms and the Big Money Men; Attack on Poverty; The Uncompleted Man; The Strange Twilight of Harry Bridges; Every Artist needs a hard-boiled patron; Italy's Forgotten City; Crime and Punishment - special supplement; Oswald in Moscow; JFK's voyage of discovery; If I were a company President; New Jersey's search for identity; Give slum children a chance; The Jews in Germany Today; Aldous Huxley in California; A New Kind of National Election; The Quickening War against Viruses; The Scotch in Canada; Miami Notebook - Cassius Clay and Malcolm X; The Psychiatrist in the Looking Glass; A Negro Governor for Massachusetts; What's to Become of Architecture; Why Labor Lost the Intellectuals. Light wear. Binding tight. Few library markings. Book
San Marino (California), 1938, in-8, br., pp. 55.
8vo; 262 pages
Folio in dark green cloth; 133 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 leaf including color frontispiece : illustrations, tables ; 31 cm "Of this first edition, one thousand copies were printed by the Recorder printing and publishing company, San Francisco, California, October, 1964."ó Colophon. San Francisco Water-supply -- California -- San Francisco.† Eau -- Approvisionnement -- Californie -- San Francisco.† Water-supply.†
Spine a bit sunned; California Edition with additional half-title page bound-in and SIGNED by the author. Also INSCRIBED on original half-title page; 8vo; 413 pages
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked silver boards, bump to upper front edge and no bumping to corners. The lower part of pages 192-193 were stuck together (from the publishers ?) and opened with loss of about 0.5 cm of image at the hinge. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with tiny indents to upper rear spine corner. 208pp. A lavish book of photographs and descriptive text giving an intimate look at L.A.'s hottest trendsetters and the inspiring spaces they live in. Very scarce in the UK. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
367 pages, jacket design and illustration by Fred Marcellino. eng
Madrid, Historia 16, 1989 ("Crónicas de América"). 4to. menor; 317 pp., 1 h. Cubiertas originales.
Derek Hayes Historical atlas of California : with originals maps. Berkeley, University of California press 2007 english, 256 Opera con copertina rigida e sovraccoperta. ill. in b/n e a colori ft e nt. 256 p. 33 cm. ARC.7
Seven quarto volumes in blind-stamped brown-maroon ornamental cloth, gilt titles; b&w illustrations (maps, plans) throughout; 24 cm; approx 600-700 pages per volume. Title pages states 1890; copyright page states 1889. Presumably the lmost comprehensivehistory of California in of its time and for many years thereafter. Early California History. Gold Rush. Western Americana / **A large, heavy set. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire.**
Large quarto in green DJ, x, 181 pages, b&w illustrations ; 29 cm. Palo Alto (Calif.) -- History. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.
Red-cloth quarto; 454 p, b&w illus; 27 cm. **Volume III (of three total) only. ** California; History; Biography.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 224pp. This lavish volume presents the homes of twenty-seven Hollywood movie stars and directors. It includes very many of the well-known names of the stars from the 20th century including, Sinatra, Garbo, Garland, Cher, Bogart, Hepburn, Spielberg, John Wayne, Monroe, Orson Welles, Jean Harlow, Reagan and many more. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
Book in mint condition. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little fading to spine. 365pp. Family biography of the Warner Brothers written with full cooperation of the Warner family. Illustrated in black & white.
Folio in a red DJ ; 207 p. : illus (chiefly color) ; 32 cm Inscribed and signed by author with promotional pamphets laid in // Interior decoration -- California -- Los Angeles
112 pages. Features: Vladimir Nekola generates his own electric power in downtown Chicago using wind and sun; Stu Kingman and family install a home photovoltaic system; Wind Generators and Birds; Electric Cars - Toys or Reality?; EV Battery Chargers; Electric Vehicle Tires; A Graphic Guide to Solar Water Pumping; California 'Net Metering' legislation introduced; Mark Klein and the Gimme Shelter Crew; David Booth's straw bale home odyssey; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
Large quarto (small folio) in red cloth and glassy red jacket illus. in b/w phtoos; xiii, 177 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-168) and index. Signed and dated by author Flamm on title page. "The story of San Francisco in the first half of the twentieth century, as seen through the lives of James Rolph, mayor and bon vivant, Willie Meehan, boxer and bon vivant, and David Flamm, policeman and bon vivant (and author's father)." || Mayors -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography. Boxing -- California -- San Francisco -- History. Police -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography. Boxing. Manners and customs. Mayors. Police. Named Person: Rolph, James, 1869-1934. Meehan, Willie. Flamm, Dave, 1890-1989. Flamm, Dave, 1890-1989 Meehan, Willie. Rolph, James, 1869-1934
Large octavo/small quarto in bright blue cloth with gilt titles; 181 p. illus., ports. 27 cm. A lovel copy. Several intersting photoso in b/w of Oaklamnf architecture. || Freemasons. Oakland, California. Live Oak lodge, no. 61.
194 p. map (on lining papers) Hardcover Very good condition good
Exhibition catalog is quite clean and encased in publisher's clear plastic wrapper. Lower edge of front cover has light edge wear. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind and contains numerous prints from Mr. Fenton's work. Pages 17 -- 44 are all full page prints. 1st page is a full page b&w informal portrait of the the artist. This copy is 1/500 printed for the show.