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160 pages. Features: Sharpie points and counterpoints; Two gold metal winners meet after half a century; SHEARWATER - a amphibious cat-ketch from California; The Outlook for World Timber; Guideboats from the ground up; Sardine Carriers - Part II; The Koa Canoe; - the Hawaiian dugout canoe tradition is alive; Sonny Hodgdon on Glues; The Case for Simple Edge-Gluing - do spines or dowels really add strength?; The Once and Future FOXY - one of Uffa Fox's 'proper-built' tenders; The Right Jaws for your Gaff and Boom; The art of finding your way - small-boat navigation; It's the Finishing Touches that preserve wire rope. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
188549506San Francisco 1885. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Some chips to margins with 2 horizontal fold-lines. Very Good. Single sheet. Extracted leaf p. 8 from a magazine or jounal Hutchings. 9-1/8" x 5-9/16" <br/><br/>Surrounding the image of the bank are 3 captions one in each margin. From left to right: "The Oldest Chartered Commercial Bank on the Pacific Coast N. W. Cor. of Pine and Sansome Sts."; "View Looking Westward and up Pine Street the Wall Street of San Francisco." & "The Pacific Bank is most Conveniently Locacted in the Centre of the Financial District of San Francisco." unknown books
19259710NP WOOLWORTH CA 1925 1925. COLOR PICTORIAL WRAPPERS FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Soft cover. NP, WOOLWORTH, CA 1925 paperback books
19259710NP WOOLWORTH CA 1925 1925. COLOR PICTORIAL WRAPPERS FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Soft cover. NP, WOOLWORTH, CA 1925 paperback
1982151565San Francisco CA: California Newsreel 1982. 68p. wraps 8.5x11 inches; contact info penned on title page else very good condition; OCLC lists five holdings as of 2/2021. California Newsreel unknown books
1911214551911. Suffrage Early Photography Original silver gelatin photographs capturing women's suffrage social gatherings education and everyday life during the Suffragette era to the 1920s. This archive of 22 photos depict groups of women in various settings including suffrage parades outdoor excursions college events and community celebrations. Archive of snapshot and postcard photographs circa 1911-1923 documenting women's suffrage activity alongside social educational and everyday life in the United States. One photograph shows a parade participant holding a banner reading "Women Vote in California" a state that granted women the vote in 1911; other images cover school-affiliated gatherings travel and domestic life.<br /> The archive comprises 22 silver gelatin photographs and real photo postcards ranging from approximately 1 x 2 inches to 2.5 x 4 inches several mounted on cardstock album leaves with images on both sides. Scenes include a suffrage parade with the banner text clearly visible; a parade float decorated with streamers and accompanied by women on horseback identified as part of a 1915 suffrage event in Quincy Massachusetts; and a group of women in elaborate hats holding pennants marked "North Dixon High" suggesting a school or alumni gathering. Other images show women posed outdoors in residential and rural settings standing near early automobiles and homes holding animals and at leisure. One photograph shows an African American woman alongside white women. Several photographs bear handwritten dates or brief captions including "1911" and "1923."<br /> The grouping spans organized suffrage activism through the early years following ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 pairing political demonstration imagery with informal social scenes. Occasional mounting remnants and toning; overall in very good condition. unknown
1978262252Sacramento: California Department of Justice 1978. Pamphlet. ii 70p. wraps 8.5x11 inches minor edge wear worn form letter from Art Agnos presenting the book laid in. California Department of Justice unknown books
1927166041927. Leslie Reva C. My Memories of School Days album and photograph scrapbook 1923-1927 documents female student life social networks and extracurricular culture at Lincoln High School in Los Angeles during the 1920s. The material captures daily experiences of a young woman engaged in school activities including dances athletics and clubs while also preserving peer relationships through inscriptions photographs and ephemera. The album provides direct evidence of how young women recorded and interpreted their social and educational environments in an urban West Coast setting during the interwar period.<br /> <br /> Leslie Reva C. My Memories of School Days Album. New York: C. R. Gibson & Company 1924. Photograph and scrapbook album containing 73 gelatin silver print photographs in sizes ranging from approximately 1 x 1 inch to 5 x 7 inches accompanied by 14 handwritten inscriptions from friends 3 extended manuscript entries by Leslie 2 newspaper clippings referencing her as a student 11 ticket stubs from Los Angeles-area school events and performances dated 1923-1924 and decorative elements including hand-colored Kewpie cutouts. The photographs depict Leslie and classmates in a variety of settings including large class portraits with individuals identified Leslie marked as "me" beach outings theatrical productions athletic activities such as girls playing hockey in uniform and informal groupings labeled with captions such as "Three of a kind" and "one of the three musketeers." Manuscript entries describe participation in dances parties and school organizations including reference to her role as Secretary and designation as "Captain" of the Girls Reserves. Inscriptions from peers emphasize close friendships and shared social life with messages recalling "parties dances and everywhere we went" while one later inscription reflects a post-graduation relationship revised to read "To the Dearest Wife."<br /> <br /> The album documents a period in which American high schools expanded social and extracurricular programming particularly for young women integrating athletics clubs and organized events into student life. The inclusion of ticket stubs photographs and written reflections illustrates how these activities structured social identity and peer relationships. The setting in Los Angeles further situates the material within a rapidly growing urban environment in the 1920s where public schooling played a central role in shaping youth culture. Green cloth boards with moderate handling wear; contents complete with minor edge wear to pages and photographs; overall very good condition. A detailed and cohesive record of female high school experience and social life in early twentieth-century California. unknown
1983121052Sacramento: California Postsecondary Education Commission 1983. iv 187p. staplebound with blue sheets front and back 11x8.5 inches. Has sections on the UC system the Cal State system and community colleges. California Postsecondary Education Commission unknown books
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DADAX1442215690Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2018-09-04. paperback. New. 5.91x1.04x9.04. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers paperback
DADAX1442215682Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2018-09-04. hardcover. New. 6.32x1.23x9.35. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers hardcover
193459517Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1934. 8vo. 8 299 1 pp. Salmon-coloured publisher’s cloth brown lettering front cover & spine minor rubbing shelfwear minor wear to corner tips w/ d.j. cover art by Frank McIntosh 1901-1985 noted California Artist perhaps best known for his Art Deco style covers for Asia Magazine and later for the Ocean Shipping company Hawaiian menus minor chipping head & foot of spine chipping & minor tears to fore-edges price-clipped still VG-/G- copy inscribed by author on half-title to Mary Ann Vanderburg and signed on title former ownership markings on ffep. w/ tipped-in illust. of pears & peaches bookplate on front pastedown bookseller’s label for Bertrand Smith and Bullocks of Los Angeles at rear. First edition 2nd printing of this Newbery Award author’s first book set against the backdrop of the Mission Dolores in the 1840’s where Marta Salazar meets her future husband off the Yankee clipper China Bride. O’Dell 1898-1989 was a Los Angeles CA native worked for both Paramount and MGM studios and even taught a course in photoplay writing. His award-winning novel “Island of the Blue Dolphis†was published in 1960. Houghton Mifflin Co., hardcover
0918A956527Very Good. London: Simms and M'Intyre 1852. "Across the Rocky Mountains from New York to California: With a visit to the celebrated Mormon colony at the Great Salt Lake. Bound with the sequel: A Stroll Through The Diggings of California 1852 "The Bookcase" titling to spine Gilt on black other compartments with gloral gilt decor. stamped between five raised bands. Gilt borders to both front and rear covers. Edges gilt/ red. Corners rounded and scuffed. Edgewear. Front hinge starting slightly ext. only. Scattered scuffs but a handsome book overall. Pages only moderately toned without foxing. Bookcase Vols 1 and 4 bound as one. Scarce. hardcover
193317547<p>Hollywood: Press of Hollycrofters 1933 One of 125 copies of this collection of aphorisms and anecdotes by Nicolas Chamfort 1741 – 1794 author and secretary to the sister of Louis XVI. Publisher's reddish-brown leather titled in gilt on spine. . Octavo. Set in Poliphilus and Blado and printed on handmade paper at the Press of Hollycrofters. Some edgewear and smudging. Toning to edges. A very good copy. We could not find much information on the Hollycrofters. Their publications date from 1929 to 1958 with most dating from the 1930s. Their other titles include Lucile Phillips Morrison's Doll Dreams 1932 which compiled short fiction by children with illustrations by California artists like Paul Landacre and Millard Sheets. They also published books with a Western Americana interest including Indians of Death Valley by Lydia Clements 1953 and Orphans of the Desert by Leo Papiano 1929 which was one of their earliest publications.</p> Press of Hollycrofters, hardcover
195614012Woodland CA: The Record of Yolo County 1956. Spiral. Good. Half inch gage white plastic comb spiral binding has a single fracture midway; the wraps are scuffed stained and discolored; interior clean but age toned which is more even uniform and intentional looking than yellowing; POS on front cover. 284 pages of recipes with contributor's name and often affiliation and location as well. As is often the case with vintage mid-century cookbooks the instructions entail some culinary experience and the ingredients vary from industrial jello canned to farm-to-fork style and international fare from the immigrants. Americana. Rare collectible. <br/> <br/> The Record of Yolo County unknown
40-12294The Record of Yolo County. Spiralbound. New. . The Record of Yolo County unknown
192688560Oakland California: California Wire Cloth Company 1926. First edition presumed; no earlier dates stated. Hardcover. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot gently bumped corners light soiling to boards book stamp to half-title title page and to page 96 extremely faint soiling to few front endpapers extremely faint sunning to board top edge else Very Good. Grey quarto 96 p b&w illus. California Crafts. No records found in WorldCat. California Wire Cloth Company hardcover
1931586Berkeley (USA), University of California Press, 1931, in-8, br., 125 pp. (p. 279 à 403)
0364035277.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0364937653.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
200226939London: Thames and Hudson 2002. Softcover. VG- light general wear to wraps. Grey-green ill. wraps. 238 pp. 130 bw and color plates. Issued in conjunction with 2002-2003 exhibitions with a singular focus on Winslow Homer's scenes of trout ponds trophy fish and views of rivers and nature. With essays by Sarah Burns Patricia Junker Paul Schullery Theodore Stebbins David Tatham and William Gerdts. Published to accompany and exhibition held in Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco San Francisco California Palace of the Legion of Honor December 7 2002 - February 9 2003 and also in Fort Worth Texas at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Thames and Hudson unknown books
Features: Air Superiority - does it have a future?; The Fleet's first fighter - the forgotten TS-1; Stop gap bomber - Lockheed Hudson. Art: General Dynamics F-16E Super Falcon; Lockheed California Ramp circa 1940. Faint cup ring on front cover. Book
