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Features: Cunard's bid for ocean supremacy; Editorials - Michelson - by submarine to the north pole - wages and prosperity - fighting the crooks - human engineering - television broadcasts; Riding with the signal in the cab - right-of-way signals are repeated within the engine cab; Quick-freezing solves food problems; Efficient medical department for brokers and employees at the stock exchange; Airplains land blind - guided by radio; A a splintered planet? - tiny elongated Eros may be a fragment of an older, larger asteroid; National Aircraft Show; The biblical deluge a fact - Archeological finds are stratified as though by a flood; Amateur astronomy in Pittsburgh - an observatory is built by and for amateurs; Television now on schedule - first broadcasts of television on a regular program; Science in search of oil - The last of three articles on salt, sulfur, and petroleum; A familiar truck becomes a locomotive - gasoline powered yard locomotive has commendable features; Professionnal methods in amateur archeology; American olives by the ton - large industry in California is over 150 years old; Preserved for 10,000 yeares to come - unique methods of preserving records of Tokyo earthquake; Mechanizing a giant foundry - Allis Chalmers. One inch opening at top of spine-fold. Half-inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Quarter inch tear to fore-edge of back cover. Covers remain 50% attached to contents. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Leaflet Good condition
Opuscolo turistico completamente slegato (mancano i punti metallici), cm14x20, pp 32 illustrate in nero. Disbound (missing Metal Staples), bw illustrations of residence (C. Talbot lumber merchant, G.H. Cowie, C. H. Hale Cashier of the First National Bank), state buildings (supreme council), New Grammar School, St Mary’s Convent School, Free public Library, and buildings and products of the Best Manufacturing Company at San Leandro (Gas tractors).
518p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
351 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
351 p. Hardcover Very good condition spine spotted Signed by the author and the illustrator.
351 p. Hardcover Very good condition
Quarto in tan and brown illus jacket; xiv, 294 pages [48] pages of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm; bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index. Signed and inscribed by the authors. Contents: 1. Commercial village to coast metropolis -- 2. Business and economic development -- 3. Life and work -- 4. Unions and employers -- 5. Culture and the moral order -- 6. Politics in the expanding city, 1865-1893 -- 7. Progressive politics, 1893-1911 -- 8. Politics during the reign of Rolph, 1911-1932 -- 9. Conclusion: Politics, power and urban development in San Francisco. || Economic history. Politics and government Sociaal-economische geschiedenis. Politieke geschiedenis. Sozioˆkonomischer Wandel Politik Geschichte (1865-1932) Geographic: San Francisco (Calif.) -- Politics and government. San Francisco (Calif.) -- Economic conditions. California -- San Francisco. San Francisco (Calif.) -- Politique et gouvernement. San Francisco (Calif.) -- Conditions Èconomiques. San Francisco (Calif.) San Francisco -- tˆrtÈnet -- 1865-1945.
Corners bumped. Musty smell. DJ browned with chipping & small open tears ; From the front flap: 'What the real secret of this notorious section of San Francisco is, no one will ever know. But there is one man who knows more than any other white man. He is Charles Caldwell Dobie, the author of this book.' ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 336 pages
262p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Octavo in black DJ, 128 pages, b&w illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. The work of many contemporary photographers illustrate the atmosphere of San Francisco in the sixties. Hippies -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works. Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
White quarto, 279 pages, b&w illustrations ; 28 cm. San Francisco, Bay Area, Urban Studies, California. || Scarce
Small oblong octavo in tan photo-illus jacket; 76 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm Uncommon. || Manners and customs. Cliff House (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works. Sutro Baths (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works. Cliff House (San Francisco, Calif.) Sutro Baths (San Francisco, Calif.) Early photography of San Francisco.
Over 1,000 pages. Many contemporary ads including a wonderful full-page two-sided colour piece for S&W canned food products. Average wear. Two minor tape repairs to front cover. Binding sound. Unmarked. A few minor tears. Truly a wonderful vintage piece of San Francisco history. Hard to believe this copy has survived so well. A thrill to hold! Book
Folio in color photo illus dj; 238 pages : illustrations (chielfy full-pagem full-color photographs) ; 34 cm Signed by Morton Beebe on title page. Includes essays by Barnaby Conrad, Tom Cole, Kevin Starr, John Hart and Hebert Gold. || Travel. Pictorial works. San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works. San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel. California -- San Francisco.
66 pages. Short Stories: Queen's Gate Incident; Competition at Slush Creek; Big Game; Jacobs' Beachcombers. Articles: Basketball Beanpoles - with action photo of 6'-7" Howie Schultz of Hamline; Delayed Combat Fatigue - an alarming new trend in the increase of neuropsychiatric disorders among veterans who have been discharged for a year or more;; Inside Spain; I Deserted Franco - a Spanish Republican who was forced into Franco's Army goes over the hill and describes what made him desert; Eager Beaver - photo-illustrated article on playwright Garson Kanin - with sexy backdoor photo of Judy Holliday; Bradley's Beachhead - General Omar N. Bradley reviews his first year as chief of the VA (Veteran's Administration); How Job Training Became a Scandal; My Lost Division - John Hillard Dunn, his 106th Division, and the Battle of the Bulge; Robbers on the Racetrack - Don Meade says Arcaro and other jockeys will steal a horse race as quick as they flash a whip ; Murder in the Soap Operas - Dan Banion detects too many corpses among the cornflakes; Iron Roof Over Harlem - article on prospects for the people of Harlem, with photos of Billie Holliday, Canada Lee, Romare Beardon, Bert Alves, Kenneth Spencer and Vivian Richardson; You Don't Die Bored; Happy Landing - Gerald L.K. Smith is now on Los Angeles City Council - article with photos. Picture Stories: Anything Goes - great photo-illustrated feature of "The Painted Post - America's only True Western Dance Hall", in the San Fernando Valley; Hot on Ice - people pay big money to see figures skaters such as Donna Atwood, Phil Taylor, Don Condon and Mary Irwin. Labor's Publicity Battle - with sexy photos of Colleen Sullivan of Detroit, and Elayne Keenan of Detroit; Bergen College Boom - great photo feature on how this sleepy college suddenly snapped awake under the GI Bill of Rights; One Block West of Broadway. Special Features: Merry Christmas; Salute of the Month - one-page photo of Elliott Roosevelt; Reconverted; Photos of three vets in the new lives - Alan Rockwell, David Pressman, and Milton Burns; Pin-Up - Martha Vickers. And more. Ads: Great one-page ad for movie "Never Say Goodbye" with photo of Errol Flynn and Eleanor Parker; Lovely back cover color ad for Eagle Clothes features man and woman at airport. Light wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A high-quality vintage copy. Book
Quarto; [20] p : b&w ill. ; 28 cm. Lovely b&w photographs of Saint Andrew's Priory (religious house; monastery. || Priories -- California -- Valyermo.
Features: On a Schooner Gam - off Southern California; The Traveller 32 - a beautiful double-ender; Ericson 37 - from Bruce King; Tornado - first olympic cat; At play on Lake Erie's watery highways; Sailing on the bonnie banks of o'Clyde; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
Features: 1,046 boats plu 90 classes plus 14 yacht clubs equals one mega-regatta - the 46th Annual Southern California Yachting Association Regatta; The thriving Thunderbird - 26 foot sloop; Memories of Georgian Bay and the splendor of north country; Norway - land of sailors; A Sailing Legacy, by Taylor Walsh; Foul Weather Dinghy Sailing across the Atlantic - an invigorating view about the buoys by English photographer Alistair Black; A Look at Speed under Sail; 470s and a Tempest meet on Buzzards Bay; Marauder - innovations for the Canada's Cup; Newport 28 has good ideas from worlds of racing and cruising; Modern Maxi 95 - novel 32-footer by upcoming Swedish designer Pelle Petterson; Beautiful, distinctive 34-foot pinky is Jay Benford's own; Hinckley Sou'wester 48 - modern cruiser of conventional lines; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: A date with nostalgia - a fleet of square riggers and schooners off New Bedford, Massachusetts; Newport Again - this time the world prize for One Ton yachts; Rusty at the Helm - Sylvia Everdell of Boston; Why sail alone across Lake Michigan? - well, why not?; Racing the Trailerable; A Boast and a Big Prize - the first MacGregor Challenge; Tobago Cays - gems of the Grenadines; The Westerly Conway - offshore yacht from England; Allied Seawind II - New Gillmer Circumnatigator; Downeaster 38 - Traditional cruiser from California; Kaufman 30-footer - C-Flex 1/2 ton cup yacht; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Two -Ton Test - who's the best at IOP 32?; They call it the greatest spectacle in yacht racing - from Newport Harbor, California to Ensenada, Mexico; Under iron canopies through pastures on an inland passage to teh lakes; Victoria Yachtscape - another Balboa?; Alden's MALABAR IV lives! - she's MISTRESS II of New Orleans; Innovative monocoque 1/4 tonner, a cruiser too - Art Paine and TWO BITS; English Archer type is connoisseur's cruising yacht - Charles Ward, builder of the Saga 34; Frers turns to cruising with attractive 40-footer - the Frers 40; Farallon 29 - stiff family cruiser, competent to weather; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Light blue octavo, white spine, 131 pages, b&w illustrations, maps, portraits, 28 cm. Signed by author. 2 Post-Its notes included. || "On the summit of Russian Hill there stands a collection of houses unlike any other in San Francisco. Survivors of the earthquake and fire of 1906, they symbolize great themes of the city's history and remind us of their remarkable residents."--Page [4] of cover. Contents: Author's note -- Map of the Summit 1853-1893 -- Prologue -- A summit chronology 1848-1886 -- Homer, Ranlett and Atkinson -- Almarin Brooks Paul -- Other residents of the Summit -- A summit chronology 1870, 1888-1898 -- Five panoramas of the Summit -- Rev. Joseph Worcester -- Willis Polk -- The Worcester Group -- Worcester and the Swedenborgian Church -- Kate Atkinson, Gelett Burgess, and Les Jeunes -- The Livermore family -- Troubled times at the "House of Many Corners" -- The Jenks and Hanford residences -- Frank W. Demerest. Russian Hill (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; original Society binding of navy cloth, upper boards blocked with sailing vessel in gilt, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Third Series, Vols. 26, 27.
219p. + Plus frontis. Full page illustration by John T. McCutcheon. 8vo. Original printed wraps, worn. Original blue paper dust wraps, worn. "Eleventh edition" printed on front cover. HUMOR 1
Medium quartoin color illus DJ; xi, 115 p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-107) and index. Interior Design. Western California Ranch style. Presidents -- United States -- Biography. Reagan, Ronald -- Homes and haunts -- California -- Santa Barbara Region. Rancho del Cielo (Calif.) Santa Barbara Region (Calif.) -- Biography.