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2007SKU0508741AltaMira Press 2007-08-13. Paperback. Good. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Emailed Tracking AltaMira Press paperback
2007Q-0759110948AltaMira Press 2007-08-13. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! AltaMira Press hardcover
104 pages. Features: Hopi Dance Wands, Part I - History, Use and Construction; Fusing Traditions - Transformations in Glass by Native American Artists; Twined Basketry Caps of Eastern California and the Great Basin; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
120 pages. Features: The Jump Dance Basket of Northwestern California; "The Indians Also Have A Game Somewhat Similar to Cards" - Native American Cards of French and English Derivation; The Frank T. Siebert Collection of Native American Art; Kemo Sabe - The Tonto Paintings of Jaune Quick-To-See Smith; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Brown quarto, 41 pages, b&w map ; 28 cm. Indians of North America -- California -- Economic conditions. || Government publication. || Sans DJ.
160 pages. Features: Why build the atom-powered bomber?; My memories of Pius XII; What's wrong with boxing?; Patriotic young Americans; The Edacious Spider; The dubious origin of the fourteenth amendment; Americana; Subversion by the Communist underground remains the strongest weapon against U.S.A.; This we face; Jimmy Hoffa's plan for conquest; The Job Walter Reuther wants; Clear it with COPE - is a labor government in 1960 invevitable?; Racketeer & Communist dominated unions; The Republican debacle in California; The ways of big daddy - the Southern textile industry; Wit's End; Spotlight on performance; You can't kill an umpire; African agriculture; How to be a successful hypochondriac; Bible prophecy V; He solved the mystery of the eel - Johannes Schmidt; and more. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
128 pages. Features: Blueprint for World Government - "Metro", a deadly parallel to the forms of totalitarianism we are supposed to be fighting; The Trilogy for Victory - Will President Kennedy Use It?; The Moral Cost of the Welfare State; Is Censorship on the Way? - a department of government seeks to bar patriotic slogan from metered mail; Tranquilizers Can Kill You; Does Your Nose Always Know?; "And Now Ladies and Gentlemen, Here Is..." - a humorous guide to guide-conducted foreign tours; Buy or Rent?; What Do You Know About Kissing?; Successfully Yours; Peace Corps - A Pied Piper Scheme; Deluge of Filth - foreign pornography pours into the USA on a daily basis by mail; Harry Lauder and his Long Underwear - "a story of great generosity of a man whose people are supposed to be notorious 'tightwads'"; You Can't Afford to Die - a move is on to eliminate costly funerals; Discrimination - Vice or Virtue?; A Lounsberry Scoop - one of the most thrilling episodes of the Old West; A Russian Fort in California - established by sea otter hunter and tanner Ivan Alexander Kuskov at Fort Ross; Seven Years of Horror - Margaret Buber-Neumann provides a firsthand account of life in the slave camps of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany - a commentary on the Eichmann trial; The Connally Reservation - the dangers of treaty law; Index to Volume XCII, January - June 1961. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
Features: Masdevallias for Outdoor Culture in Southern California - A Gripp on Growing; Dilimma of Orchids - Orchid Conservation; Conserving Fuel with "Bubble Pack"; Dendrobium brymerianum - collector's Item; Clonal Propagation of Dendrobium by Means of Node Cultures - Notes from U.C.I.; Orchids in Plastic; Zygopetalum B.G. White 'Stonehurst' and its Culture; Orchid Hunting in surinam - Orchids for the Beginner; annual index - 1974; Orchids, The Royal Family of Plants by H.s. Miner. Light to moderate signs of wear. Book
112 pages. Features: Dracula culture in Coastal California; Some Venezuelan Elleanthus species - Orchids of Venezuela; Orchid genera, Illustrated - 70 - Catasetum; Singapore Botanic Gardens Orchid Center; The Wheeler Orchid Collection and species bank; Fluorescent light Culture for Orchids; Orchids and Posada Loma, Mexico; Some Unusual, small Cattleyas; The Genus dracula; The genus Panisea. Nice copy mildy rubbed. Book
Features include: Understanding Cymbidiums in Southern California in 1956; Some Terrestrial Orchids of Sumatra; The Orchid Lip - Lineograph Study (Pt VI); Salamanders and Cymbidiums; Cymbidium devonianum and Cymbidium Jean Brummitt; Notes on Cymbidium Culture: The Summing-Up; and Beginners' Handbook: Phalaenopsis, the Moth Orchid. Average wear. Top of front cover and subsequent pages slightly worn. A clean copy. Book
Features include: Miniature-flowered Cymbidiums; Indigenous Orchids of South Africa; Habenarias in Japan; Dig Those Crazy Orchids; Outstanding Cymbidiums in Southern California; Book Review "Orchids of East Africa" by Frank Piers; Cymbidiums from Pod to Pot; Pot Hangers from Coat Hangers; and Collectors' Item: Zygostates lunata. Light wear. Marks in ink - pages 800 to 806. A sound copy. Book
Features include: Epidendrums for the Sub-Tropics - and Elsewhere; Orchid Cultural Calendar for March: What to Do in Mid-America; What to Do in the Southwest; What to Do in the Pacific Northwest; What to Do in California; What to Do in Florida; What to Do in the Northeast; What to Do in Hawaii; Orchid Under Lights; Barkerias; Famous Orchid Collectors (Pt 2): The Rev. Charles Samuel Parish; An Oddity in Cymbidium Behavior; Thoughts on Growing Reed-stemmed Epidendrums; How I Grow Cyps in Michigan; Pots to Fit the Orchids; Orchids in a New Synthetic Growth Medium; and Collectors' Item: Epidendrum purpurascens and Epidendrum polychlamys. Little Wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
Features include: A Custom-made Greenhouse Humidifier; Our Two Purple-fringed Orchids; The Green Thumb Room Came to California; Dendrobium maccarthiae - "Wesak Mal"; Our Native Orchids: Tipularia discolor; Dendrobium loddigesii; Orchid Diseases; Man-Made Genera: Laeliopsis Hybrid Genera; Managing Deciduous Calanthes in the Home and Garden; and Collectors' Item: Epidendrum gracile and Epidendrum odoratissimum. Little Wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
DADAX074255595XRowman & Littlefield Publishers 2014-05-12. paperback. New. 6.12x0.86x8.94. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers paperback
pp. xxiv, 567. 4to. Original full blue cloth binding. First Edition. WHISKEY 1. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
40-12400The American-Scandinavian Foundation Chapter Monterey California. Spiralbound. New. . The American-Scandinavian Foundation Chapter (Monterey, California) unknown
494 pages including index. Blends fact and historical vision with striking metaphor to re-create the nature of the California dream and reveal its significance as a social, psychological, and symbolic exercise. "It should become a classic book on California." - James D. Hart. Above-average but not excessive wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Good working copy. Book
1978ZB399877Union City California: The Fault Press 1978. one of 500 copies perfect bound in pictorial paper wrappers another 500 were issued in portfolios; quarto 36 leaves printed on various papers profusely illustrated; covers lightly soiled but overall a very good copy. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Union City (California): The Fault Press unknown
Vintage fold-out brochure for Amtrak's west coast service in 1973. Great colour photos, replete with now humorous fashions of the day. 19.5" x 15" which folds down to 9.8" x 7.5". Folded open, one side features text, colour photos of scenes aboard the train, and map of Amtrak's national network. Reverse side features map (split into two) of the route from Vancouver, B.C. down to San Diego, with tourist information for the many stops along the way. Average wear and soiling. Provides a pleasing snapshot of Amtrak's West Coast service in the early 1970s. Brochure
1917914San Francisco 1917. Good plus. Sheet map 28 x 22.75 inches. Folded. Somewhat rumpled; a few small chips at edges not affecting text of map image. Several scattered patches of staining. A scarce real estate map of Berkeley California printed for and distributed by local agents Mason-McDuffie Company in 1917. Blocks are overprinted with lot numbers and letters as well as tract and neighborhood names and a street index is printed at the foot of the map. A large red arrow points to the location of the Mason-McDuffie office just west of the University of California campus and an area shaded in red labeled "Northbrae Properties" at the northern edge of the city limits indicates the principal real estate interests of the agents. We locate four copies at Berkeley Stanford the California State Library and the Oakland Public Library. unknown
1917914San Francisco 1917. Good plus. Sheet map 28 x 22.75 inches. Folded. Somewhat rumpled; a few small chips at edges not affecting text of map image. Several scattered patches of staining. A scarce real estate map of Berkeley California printed for and distributed by local agents Mason-McDuffie Company in 1917. Blocks are overprinted with lot numbers and letters as well as tract and neighborhood names and a street index is printed at the foot of the map. A large red arrow points to the location of the Mason-McDuffie office just west of the University of California campus and an area shaded in red labeled "Northbrae Properties" at the northern edge of the city limits indicates the principal real estate interests of the agents. We locate four copies at Berkeley Stanford the California State Library and the Oakland Public Library. unknown books
0331762021.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0331718723.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0331718758.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
190062411Los Angeles Costa Mesa Huntington Beach Fullerton San Jose Hollywood CA: Gene Sherman Leigh Peffer Briggs Cunningham Briggs Cunningham Museum Ted Wilson et al ca. 1900-1990. Five Vols. & 1 scale model. First four vols. are 4to. 82; 76; 64; 88 leaves all unnumbered. archival mylar sleeves holding 266 photographs sized from 4 x 5 in. up to 8.5 x 11 in. with over 90% sized 8 x 10 in. most are black & white silver gelatin nearly all w/ photographer’s imprint either within the negative or stamped on verso many w/ pencil & ink manuscript annotations on versos most in the bold hand of Leigh Peffer but also many w/ markings by Gene Sherman and a couple possibly Briggs Cunningham several colour negatives many colour photographs some studio others snapshot a couple 1944 Kodacolor shops of young Peffer in US Army uniform during World War II together with over 100 pieces of ephemera including racing forms postcards art brochures promotional materials Midget Car racing rules Auto and racing promotional packets ALS & TLS many on letterhead and more. Three of these 4 vols. with archival mylar sleeves held in 3-ring binders in gray and black cloth 4th vol. a flexible plastic portfolio archival mylar sleeves printed label at spine; Together with: Peffer’s “A Scrap Book of Motor Sports History. . . Peffer Collection†a Oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.5 scrapbook/photo album. 80 pp unpaginated. on thick tan paper with 150 original photographs tipped-in with corners and mounted including 12 original colour negatives many identfied additional ephemera either mounted or laid-in two colour slides several clippings laid-in at rear and mimeographed sales list. Contemporary blue board post-binder nickel-plated screw posts at gutter margin printed metallic gold label mounted front cover neat manuscript hand of Peffer on label front cover occasional edgewear toning to clippings still VG exemplar; Scale model 12 x 4 x 2.5 in. of the So-Cal Streamline racer by Gene Sherman rubber tires leather fittings for cock-pit painted as the original preserved in chamois bag NF exemplar all from the libraries of Leigh Peffer and Gene Sherman. This noteworthy and expansive archive captures the glories of automobile sporting culture in California during the first several decades of the 20th-Century assembled through the effort and passion by several significant figures in the auto-racing and sports car scene of Southern California. These include Gene Sherman 1944-2007 famed auto designer and builder Leigh Peffer 1918-2000 auto racing enthusiast sports car racer and collector and photographer Briggs Cunningham 1907-2003 famed American sportsman whose Cunningham Motors fielded race teams and built race cars for the 24 Hours of Le Mans and later the Briggs Cunningham Automotive Museum in Coasta Mesa CA which operated from 1966-1987 and finally the racing photographs of Ted Wilson famed photographer of California auto racing and race tracks during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Amidst the hundreds of photographs many pieces of ephemera race programs original letters and postcards the joy and energy of the West Coast automobile culture trace the development of automobile manufacturing and racing from the Hodge Brothers electric car manufacturing in Pasadena CA in 1900-1902 through the design and model building and car museums in the 1980’s. Peffer & Sherman sorted the photo collection into race car drivers action shots and miscellaneous which includes photographs from Ted Wilson Doinseau-Rapho Briggs Cunningham Museum Strother MacMinn Thomas Milana Studebaker Ford D.M. Woodhouse of San Diego as well as Peffer and Sherman themselves. The photographs include those of Carroll Shelby driving one of his early Cobra prototypes Rex Mays Dan DePaolao Stubby Stubelfield Bill Schuffler Johnny Parsons Bill Stepp Earl Mansell and Louis Meyer Jr. “Sonny†one of the most successful and accomplished engine builders in Indianapolis 500 history. Still others include veterans of the vaunted Legion Ascot race track in Los Angeles known as the “Killer Track†with such drivers as Howard Wilcox II Jimmie Miller Lon Webb the Robson Bros. Spider Webb Bud Rose Harris Insinger in the Miller Special Gus Schrader Roland Frost Babe Stapp in his Cragar Special April 2 1933 Tony Radeitch Woestman McDowell & Pintorelli. After the Legion Ascot became too dangerous and closed down and AAA racing moved out of the West Coast the dirt track and gritty midget cars moved elsewhere.The Southern Ascot Speedway was a racetrack located at Atlantic and Tweedy Blvd. and ran from 1937 to 1942 now site of the Legacy High School Complex. Other race tracks represented in these photos include the Gilmore Stadium Speedway including photos of the open wheel Krause Offy Offenhauser or Jimmy Miller in the pits in the Scheffler Offenhauser special at Oakland Speedway or Bill Reed and Spud Hinkley at the San Jose Speedway. The Oakland Speedway was in San Leandro CA and was a banked dirt oval built in 1931 operated through the Great Depression and featured roadster motorcycle Big Car Stock Car Midget Car races and was the “fastest dirt track in the Nation.†Another historic race track capturing racers and races was the Mines Field race track including Stubby Stubblefield in 1934 today the site lies under LAX airport. Amidst the hundreds of photos are images of the concept car U.S. Discovery speed model designed by Marshall Space Flight Center Boeing Rockwell Lockheed and Cobalt Boats engines such as the Miller-Ford Motor Ford Motor & Front End Bentleys along with a myriad of photos of famed race cars and spots cars. These automobiles include the Studebaker No. 34 driven by Tony Gulotta fitted with Stromberg carburetors mechanic Carl Rischingo placing 7th in the Indy 500 in 1934; Miller cars powered with 220 cubic in. motors; Allard Race Cars MG race cars Lester MG in 1994; 1948 MG TC 1937 Jaguar SS Bugatti 57C L.P. Breen’s 1926 Bentley the 1925 Lamda Roadster inscribed by Mark Shuttle to Briggs Cunningham the Spike Jones Special and even Peffer’s own Peerless GT at the start of a Southern California vintage sports car rally. Others capture Bill White’s Red Lion Special No. 1 Al Gordon in the Sparks-Weirick Gilmore Special No. 1 the 1934 Pacific Coast champion in Eddie Winfield’s Winfield Special 1949 Ferrari and Ralph De Palma in his Miler Special after winning the Italian Helmet Dash at the Legion Ascot Speedway in the 1920’s. Peffer’s “Scrap Book of Motor Sports History†opens with photos tickets and ephemera for the Brands Hatch Boxing Day Races Dec. 26 1959 which opened with the 10-lap Yuletide Trophy for sports cars up to 1100 C.C. and for all the races that day featured Threlfall Chapman Hill and Crab in Lotus Eleven’s and Seven’s Baillie in 3.4 Jaguar and others. He’s also included photos of his Little Riley restored in Dehham Engladnd with Cecil Cutton’s famed Bugatti next to him along with photos of the rare and famous MG Tigresse. Of particular interest amidst the many different ALS & TLS sent to both Peffer and Sherman is the lengthy and detailed 3 p. letter ALS sent to Gene Sherman at the Briggs Cunningham Automotive Museum June 26 1968 in which Sara J. Hodge of Solana Beach CA describes and explains the founding of the first and largest automobile garage West of the Mississippi by her father Nathaniel Hodge and uncle Arthur Hodge listed in the 1902 Pasadena City Directory. Later named the Hodge Brothers Co. they produced and sold electric automobiles and she has included four historic copy photographs capturing the Hodge Brothers machine shop & garage factory and even a whole bank of 1902 Hodge Bros. EV cars charging. Another letter to Sherman documents the life of Briggs Cunningham after he had sold his collection and museum contents to his friends the Colliers they moved to Naples FL and explaining how their “house is not finished as yet so I don’t believe we can move in until next year. . . I am busy with packing up the mags etc. ready to move. My new library will be larger tha the present one.†The scale model by Gene Sherman painstakingly recreates the famed So-Cal Speed Shop Streamliner. The car was built after Dean Batchelor a So-Cal Speed Shop customer sold his 1932 roadster to raise the capital and built by famed speed shop builder Alex Xydias who would take the body off the tank and subsequently build the Streamliner. Batchelor felt a small streamliner like the MG EX-135 was the best way to move forward on the design. The completed chassis was taken to Valley Custom in Burbank CA where Neil Emory one of the finest early custom craftsmen began working with aluminum to shape the Streamliner designed as a flattened oval with no compound curves. Early test runs at El Mirage ranged from 135 to 142 mph with a 156ci Flathead Ford and at the first Bonneville Nationals held in 1949 on the salt flats the So-Cal Speed Shop Special in iconic white and gold was the star of the show. In the midst of the runs they switched engines to an Edelbrock-built Mercury Engine and 190 mph. The car also achieved a 210.892 mph average a Class C Record and bagged the Hot Rod Magazine “Top Time†trophy. The next year after rolling in high winds Batchelor escaped serious injury and never raced again. Special note should be made of the Ted Wilson photographs although very little personal biographical information is known of him. He was inducted into the Sprint Car Hall of Fame shot historic racing photos during the 1920’s through 1950’s on California race tracks including Oakland Speedway Alviso Speedway San Jose Speedway at King Road mostly in a 4 x 5 format and was a pioneer in marketing his photos often running ads in racing and motoring periodicals at the time. He began purchasing other negative collections from other photographers and amateurs expanding his collection including Carroll Studio Roy Richer’s the Crest Collection and the Douthat Speed Photo collection. Eventually the entire collection was sold to Bruce Craig and Vincente Alvarez and subsequently to Jeannie Hinnershitz and Dale Snyder partner to the Florida-based Collier family which took the collection private. He maintained ongoing relationships with Leigh Peffer often writing and selling him photos Gene Sherman at the Briggs Cunningham Museum and Briggs himself. See: Lawrence Berman Kane Rogers The Cunningham Museum Briggs Cunningham 2023; Norm Bogan Ted Wilson National Spring Car Hall of Fame & Musuem 2023; Cunningham The American Dream at Le Mans Roarington Nov. 1 2023; Greg Sharp Racing History: Alex Sydias the Man Behind the Famous So-Cal Speed Shop In the Garage Media Oct. 3 2021. Gene Sherman, Leigh Peffer, Briggs Cunningham, Briggs Cunningham Museum, Ted Wilson, et al, hardcover
