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304pp. 29 cm. (5.25 lbs.) Hardcover Very good condition good Essays by Donald Canty and Lawrence Halprin at end.
Features: Ten Thousand Men with Trowels - Garden Clubs, once strictly for girls, now swarm with men; Education out of the Blue - how a Texas engineer's (Charles E. Nobles) 'crackpot' dream - airborne telecasts - may revolutionize the American classroom (MPATI - the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction); The Wit in the White House - Some choice samples from JFK's repertoire; Medicine for a Sick Continent - Africa's disease-ridden millions need medical assistance; The Face of America - Painting the Town (literally) in Ceres, California; Mighty Roger Maris - New York's fence-busting right fielder may smash Babe Ruth's home-run record - if teammate Mickey Mantle doesn't do it first; Who Really Rules England - critics claim the 'Establishment' a subtle conspiracy of upper-crust Britons, runs the show; Tourists' New Frontier - Utah's spectacular and little-known southeast corner. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: I don't want well-adjusted children - April Oursler Armstrong; How Wicked is Las Vegas?; People on the Way Up - Ray Peters (Atomic Medic), Peggy Romero (Bayou Belle); Have Our Teachers Colleges Failed?; Fancy Colour Football Photos; Seagoing Cops nab outlaw fishermen along the California Coast; Angkor (Wat) - Mystery City; Television USA - Have the Money Men driven creative people out of TV?; The Curious Cult of Ayn Rand. Average wear. Four middle leaves loose but present. Few coffee stains to Angkor article. Book
Features: Get the government off the farm - Alice Pearse Bean; The Great Row in California; Lost - One Centennial; The explosive revival of the far left; Why I quit the extreme left - Phillip Abbott Luce; Brigitte Bardot - no place left to hide - colour photos; Sundown of a Champion - Phil Hill was the first American to be a world-champion Grand Prix driver - after his friend and teammate, Count Wolfgang von Trips died in a crash; The importance of being poached - Saunas/Heat Baths are in vogue; Lyndon Johnson's Mother, Rebekah Johnson; The magnificent obsession of U.S. Air Force "Colonel" Jack Kenneth Brown, the fake colonel. Great colour Dodge Pickup ad. Two-page colour Ford Mustang ad. Two-page colour ad for the James Stewart film "Shenandoah". Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
112 pages. Fiction: Summer Affair; The Selfish Kind of Love; Tugboat Annie and the Hoard of Heroin; Street of Fear; The Lady (part 1 of 4); Kiowa Moon (part 3 of 7). Features: Memo to the Hungarian Patriots; This Place Can Save Your Life - the modern hospital's 'recovery room'; Religion Hits the Road - old camp-meeting methods are being used again; Is Yankee Pitcher Don Larsen a One-Game Wonder?; Rugged Bachelors of Okinawa - great photos and story; Everybody Laughs at Me - Victor Borge - part 7 of 7) - he flopped as a movie star but smashed all records with his one-man show; American Sundown - beautiful photo of the Sundown Ranch in Slaughterhouse Canoy, California - home of the Lee Brooks family; The Lady Cops of the Dope Squad in Philadelphia - with photos of Gorothy Ferrabee, Dorothy Garvin, Geraldine Galcik, Margaret Logan, Lt. Glasgow Driscoll, Capt. Clarence Ferguson and Doris Fanning.. Ads: Nice color American Motors ad inside front cover features George Romney; GE pink appliances; Ford Fairlane 500 Town Victoria and Del Rio Ranch Wagon; Wonderful one-page two-color ad for movie 'Designing Woman' starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall; Florsheim Shoes - one page in color; 1957 Pontiac Strato-Streak; Lucky Strike cigarettes - inside diner; *Fantastic* two-page color Mack Truck ad shows illustrations of several models in color; Hertz Rent a car; GoodYear Tires; Nice two-page Chevrolet ad displays 20 of their models in color; Sweet Oldsmobile ad shows the Starfire 98 Holiday Coupe in a swank color waterfront scene; Totally wild color-photo one-page ad for National Cash Register (NCR) shows woman sitted in front of a massive Post-Tronic "The First Electronic Bank Posting Machine"; Colgate - romanti scene; Photo of Don Larssen with luscious Diana Dors; Nice color photo ad for Johnson outboard motors; Tasteful color photo ad for Hunt catsup; A&P Coffee; Cushman Road King; Great vintage one-page black and white photo ad for the new Jeep FC-150; Nostalgic color ad for Sunbeam electric lawn mowers inside back cover; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features cartoon artists Al Capp, W. Steig and Richter. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Of Men I Have Known - Part I - Winston Churchill, by Dean Acheson; Adventures of the Mind - The Five-Billion-Year Clock - measurements of radioactive 'clocks' in the earth's elements are providing geologists with new knowledge about the history of man and his planet, by Patrick M. Hurley; ; Minnesota Grows Older - this prosperous, rugged northland may be facing a lean future; What Freedom has done to India - John Masters describes the sweeping social changes that have taken place since it gained independence; The Girls in Candy Stripes - making life more livable for hospital patients; They Chase the Speeders - at the unique Emergency Vehicle Operations Course (EVOC) near Sacramento, candidates for the California Highway Patrol learn the hazardous art of police pursuit driving; Me and Old George (a horse) - Gene Coughlin learned that danger often disapears when you refuse to run away from it. Ad clipped from page 49 - text unaffected. Above-average but not excessive wear. Book
104 pages. Fiction: Miss Carlsen is Mine; The Girl Who Had Accidents; Disaster oin the Outback; Botts Takes the Bait; Frame-up for Murder (part 1 of 3); The Chains of Fear (part 5 of 8). Articles: Our First Man in Outer Space - great photos of Scotty Crossfield who will be aboard the X-15; The Man Who Talks to Tapirs - Harry Gillmore in Sumatra - with photos; Our Houseboat Vacation; The Post Reports on Health Insurance - Part III - Is This the pattern of the future?; The Face of America - The Perfect Month - sensational large color photo of dozens of youths jumping from and swimming at the North Cove Bridge over the North Fork Catawba River; I Call on Lawrence Welk - great photos; Gold Rush Every Weekend.in California - great color photos of gold seekers in action. Ads: Very nostalgic color-photo two-page ad for Frigidaire's frost-proof refrigerator-freezer (blue); 1958 Ford cars; Chevrolet cars; Old Gold cigarettes; L&M cigarettes; Johnson & Johhson first aid ad shows boy diving into water beside lobster; Johnson Sea Horse outboard motor color-photo ad; Koppers ad includes large color photo of Ice Capades 18th Edition/1958; Lucky Strike color-photo ad on back cover shows young smokers playing golf, tennis and sunning. Slight loss to fore-edge of front cover. Moderate wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
132 pages. Fiction: Shark Water; The Jacksboro Mob; Marriage is Not for Me!; The Lost City; The Girl He Remembered (part 1 of 2); The Artless Heiress (part 3 of 8). Articles: The Deep South Says "Never!" to Desegregation (part 1 of 5); I Call on Wyatt Earp - the real life of TV's fastest-drawing, straightest-shooting Western marshal, as played by Hugh O'Brian; How They Meet Payrolls in Russia - are Red industry executives as good as their American counterparts?; Mr. President! - the Presidential press conference; The Face of America - The Languid Sands of Ocean City (photo); Is Sherman Lollar Better Than Yogi Berra?; Boom in Part-Time Jobs - with photo of Elmer Winter and Aaron Scheinfeld of Manpower Inc.; The Gentlemen in the Garden - The Men's Garden Club of Los Angeles - wonderful color photos; Ads: Western Union ad features photo of Fred Cole, President, Cole of California; Whitman's Chocolates; Republic Steel; Chrysler Windsor Two-Door Hardtop - color-photo; Boeing 707; Hammond organs; Admiral fridges - nice two-pages in color; Interesting two-page Pure Oil ad; Hertz Rent a car; Frigidaire pink fridge; Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup; Two-page Pontiac photo ad; Nice color vintage Thermos ad; Ford color ad featuring the Fairlane 500 Town Victoria; Wheaties - with square dancing motif; Nice two-page color photo ad by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau instructs how to prepare Iced Coffee; Sunbeam percolator; L&M cigarettes with nautical theme; Nice color-photo ad for Johnson outboard motors; Nice two-page color American Airlines ad shows wealthy clientelle; Caterpillar ad displays work on the interstate highway system; Two-page GM ad for Fisher Body; Harrison air conditioning color-photo ad; National Cash Register ad for till that calculates change; Avis Rent-a car; Yale Hoist color-photo ad shows Hanford Atomic Plant nuclear waste being handled by one of their hoists, complete with men in hazmat suits; Union Pacific All Coach Domeliner ad; Wow- uncommon half-page color ad for Dairy Queen; Dogde Power Giant truck ad; Nice one-page color Viceroy cigarette ad features Sam Snead and Cary Middlecoff. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
112 pages. Fiction: Treasure Hunt; Untamable; Assignment - Danger; I'm the Jealous Type; California Passage (part 4 of 8); The Artless Heiress (conclusion). Articles: We were trapped by radioactive fallout - now nine scientists were caught 20 miles from ground zero when the biggest H-bomb of all went off at Bikini atoll; The care and eating of lobsters; Khrushchev has his troubles, too; Sleuth amoung the roller coasters - Bill Olsen is amusement park inspector at Coney Island; Can we stay rich?; - Part II - The Federal Reserve turn the money on and off; Photo of hungry combine harvester operators stopped for lunch - great nostalgic color scene on the 5,200 acre Kansas ranch of Leonard and Alfred Swart in Logan and Gove counties; Call of the northwest - why thousands of young Americans are flocking to Oregon and Washington State (with early photo of Seattle skyline. Ads: Nice two-page GM ad features California's Farr Company with a photo of many family members including Richard S. and M. Spencer; Campbell's Soup - his and hers mugs; Gleem toothpaste - with smooch photo; Early Marlboro man ad features diver; Plymouth ad features magnicent colour photo of a blue model which appears to have been taken near Sedona; Spud cigarettes; Canada Dry color photo ad of little boys on beach; GMC Truck ad. Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. Pieces missing from top of back cover, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Ronnie and Joan Eskew of Minneapolis were almost ruined when they won a jack pot on the TV show End of the Rainbow and he was given a renovated caramel corn store; Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Welfare - by Joseph Wood Krutch; The World's Liveliest Art Show - the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, California; What's Wrong with our Income Tax Laws? - are a fortunate few given special treatment?; Hepatitis - a report on the new hope for immunization; The Broadway Gang Eats Here - Lindy's Restaurant. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound copy. Book
144 pages. Features: Best-Mannered Children in the World - Eskimo children - nice color-photo-illustrated article; The Army's Tower of Babel - the new language-intelligence school at the Presidio in Monterey, California; They Came to See Him Clobbered - Boxer Art Aragon was the boxer fans loved to hate; The Truth About the "Sonic Boom" - photo-illustrated article how it's 'less dangerous than you might think"; I would Not Murder for the Soviets (part 3 of 4) - Ex-Captain Nikolai E. Khokhlov discloses the exact circumstances surrounding the downfall of his boss, Lavrenti Beria, after Stalin's death; The Wilderness Cure for Delinquents - Twin Pines Ranch in California; Cold Can Save Your Life - fascinating medical article describes how ordinary ice water can be used in a process called hypothermia for better patient outcomes; Daintiest Beaneries in Town - great photo-illustrated article on Schrafft's restaurants; He'll Eat Anything That Swims - Food Scientist Edward Harvey manages Oregon's Seafoods Laboratory at Astoria. Fiction: Haunted Hotel; Salesman's Homecoming; Inexperienced Male; The Lady's Bodyguard; Hollywood Calling! (part 2 of 8); The Avenging Texans (conclusion). Ads: Sensational two-page color 1955 Mercury car ad; Nice one-page color ad for Chevrolet Trucks shows tanker in refinery; Fantastic two-page color-photo ad for Rambler cars; Nice two-page color ad for 1955 Ford cars; Dennis the Menace cartoon is featured in a Cream of Wheat ad; Great two-page color-photo ad for 1955 Plymouth cars; Back cover color-photo ad for Old Gold cigarettes features St. Bernard dog. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. A worthy reference copy of this great issue. Magazine
92 pages. Features: Are we driving Japan into Red China's Arms?; We Run a Hospital for Birds; Amazong two-page photo of TBM Avengers being melted down in the Arizona desert; "Let's Legalize the Spitball!"; Helping Hands from Mexico - photo-illustrated article in the 435k Mexicans who legally work on US farms; Don't Let Medical Bills Bankrupt You; Secrets of the Unknown War (part 2 of 5) - photo-illustrated article of what happened in Greenland during WWII; The Case of the Dead Man's Daughter (part 1 of 8); California Passage (part 7 of 8); Miracle at Fort Morgan, Colorado - the town goes on an all-out weight-loss spree. Short Stories: One-Woman Man; Stroll into Danger; High-Pressure Girl; Bandit in the Sky. Ads: Pink GE washer and dryer inside front cover; Gorgeous color-photo Cadillac ad; Borden's Buttermilk; Nice Wheaties ad shows lady golfer; GM ad features Charles Fassinger and his family; Nice Oldsmobile color ad features golf illustrations; Color ad for the Winchester model 70 rifle; Motorola portable TV; Pepsi - one-page beach scene; Ford cars; Betty Crocker Li'l Angel Food Cake (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
140 pages. Short Stories: Hard-Luck Girl; The Words of Love; Dangerous Bluff; His Sister's Keeper. Articles: Why do they Hate us in Panama? - photo-illustrated article about anti-American riots; The Birds' Last Stand - 6,000 exotic birds may be evicted from their Stone Harbor, New Jersey haven; Pilots Aren't Obsolete Yet - the recently-cancelled B-70 Valkyrie bomber may be necessary for our survival; Los Angeles' Cure for Drunks - California desert rehabilitation farm; The Movies' Modern Marco Polo - Stanley Goldsmith is Twentieth Century Fox's chief trouble shooter for pictures filmed overseas; They Call Me Madam (part 2 of 4) - Washington's legendary hostess Perle Mesta; Fabulous Mine in the Sea - The Grand Isle Sulphur Mine in the Gulf of Mexico; Touring Russia Made Easy. Serials: If Hitler Had Invaded England (part 2 of 3); The Tewksbury Feud. Ads: Dogde Trucks (inside front cover); Employers Mutuals of Wausau - with photos of John M. Fox of the Minute Maid Corporation and company driver Eddie Mew plus Ed Waters; GE Appliances; Spring cigarettes; Fantastic two-page color-photo (red) Corvair ad features gents in black suits and hats checking out the car; Old Crow Whisky, with one-page color illustration of James Crow with his neighbors; Two-pages of the Ford Galaxie; Lowry organs; Quaker State Oil; The BMC 850 (Mini) (2 pages in color); Canadian Pacific Dome Cars (1 color page); Nice color photo ad for the (red) Chrysler Imperial in a horse-racing setting; Hotpoint fridges; Cadillac Guide-Matic; Scott Paper; ScottTowel multi-color towels; Schlitz beer - flying a kite; Kem-Tone and Kem-Glo Paint; Johnson V-75 outboard motor; Toro lawn and garden products; Admiral TVs; Cracker Barrel Cheese; Caterpillar; Smith-Corona typewriters; Hertz rental cars; Boeing 720; Samsonite luggge with Queen's guards in background; The Denver Hilton Hotel; Karpen furniture (very funky); Nabisco Veri-Thin Pretzels; American Seating Company; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
80 pages. Features: Cover sailing illustrations shows man turning green while his Marilyn-like lady friend enjoys the ride; Pepsi ad inside front cover shows poolside scene; Kent cigarette ad shows flower gardening couple; Allstate ad features photo of Ray Morton of Castro Valley, California; We Recovered the Space Monkeys - Navy Diver Lt. (j.g.) R. Edward Foy recalls what happened in this photo-illustrated article; The Gang in Black Jackets - short story; We Tell Our Children - noted Negro journalist Carl T. Rowan tells how he answers questions his children ask when they come face to face with race prejudice - photo-illustrated article; The U-19's Last Kill (part 1 of 6); The Secrets of Long Life - article with photos of Henrietta Dull, William Perry, Thomas Murphy, Lulu Williams, Redwing Beck, and Granny Mounger; The Don't-Touch Girl (short story); The Cowboy of Fifth Avenue - Eugene Holman is board chairman of Standard Oil - photo-illustrated article; They Hunt the Mysterious Menhaden - photo-illustrated article on the pursuit of this elusive east coast fish; Mr Lincoln's Mystery Cake (short story); Rebirth of a Cathedral - resurrecting the Coventry Cathedral which was destroyed by Hitler's bombers; Top-Secret Boondoggle (short story); Great two-page color photo of the one-day assembly of a pre-fab science hall at Saint Francis College in Fort Wayne, IN; Portland cement ad features color photo of Will Rogers Jr.; Mark of Treachery (part 7 of 8); Nice two-page color-photo ad for the 1959 Chevrolet Impala Sport Sedan shows fisherman returning with a big haul; Nice back cover color-photo Kodak ad features Ozzie and Harriet, and their boys David and Ricky; and more. Moderate wear. Bits of nibbling to edges of covers. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Brown octavo, xii, 170, [1] pages, 57 leaves of plates (some folded), b&w illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906. || Contents: Preface, by J.A. Holmes.--The earthquake as a natural phenomenon, by G.K. Gilbert.--The effects of the earthquake and fire on various structures and structural materials, by R.L. Humphrey.--The effects of the earthquake and fire on buildings, engineering structures, and structural materials, by J.S. Sewell.--The earthquake and fire and their effects on structural steel and steel-frame buildings, by Frank SoulÈ.--List of papers relating to the earthquake and fire (p. 159-161).
Quarto in brown boards; missing map; illus.; numerous advertisments (some color and some illus.); lxxxiv; 1084pp. Numerous advertisments; directories of streets, buildings, wharves, halls, as well as organizations & societies (benevolent, secuiry, temperance, etc), personal names & businesses (bulk of the texy block) ; 1 blue-green sepia advert. of Britton, Rey & Co. Lithographers RARE. No copies of this, the eighteenth edition, located in WorldCat. || Early California Business Directory, 19th Century. Includes approximately forty pages of text entitled "Progress of the City" for 1876-1877, as well as several pages on meteorlogical observations and other almanac-like phenomena. A fascinating, indispensable piece of San Francisco history. Curiosuly, we find no evidence that a map was included with this particular copy. If so, it must have been very thin and expertly removed.
pp. xiii, 331. Floral endpapers. 8vo. Original full tan cloth binding, decorated and lettered in red. Hardbound. Third Edition. A very good copy. Especially interesting are Codman's impressions of Utah, Mormonism, and California. AMERICANA BOX 5
31x27 cm; 321, (3) pp. Legatura editoriale in piena tela con illustrazione in argento al piatto anteriore e sopraccoperta riccamente illustrata. Testo in italiano. Prima edizione italiana di questa monumentale opera del grande artista americano, ma di origini estoni, Mark Kostabi. L'artista è una delle figure di riferimento di molti giovani artisti italiani. Prima edizione in perfette condizioni di conservazione. Foto a colori. Non comune.
280 pages. Lots of autographs and written comments. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful Pacifica yearbook. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked padded embossed boards and no bumping to corners. 240pp. By the editors of Time-Life books this book describes the lives of the cattle men and farmers who came to live in the lawless lands of the American West in a wealth of detail and with superb contemporary black & white photos from the time. Also some in colour including detailed illustrations based on artwork. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale.
viii, 152 p. : illis (b/w photos). ; 25 cm; indexes Pipelines -- California. Wheelwright, Jane Hollister -- Diaries. Hollister Ranch (Calif.)
237 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
372p., illus. A novel about Spanish missions & the settling of Southern California. Hardcover Very good condition good
372p., illus. A novel about Spanish missions & the settling of Southern California. Hardcover Good condition
pp. 115-160 + Plus two plates. 4to. Original printed wraps. NH 5