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20200834San Francisco CA: El Rico Land Company 11-Dec-19. General wear and soiling. Letter folds. Minor penciling on envelope. . A letter to a Mr. Peter Goettsch of Nicolaus CA regarding payment of his dividends in the El Rico Land Company. Originally enclosed with this letter was check for $400. The letter is on a specialized letterhead meant for exactly this type of correspondence. The majority of the letter is preprinted with blank sections in order to fill in the date check number and amount. The letter is signed by the company's secretary A. W. Sutton. In the background of the letter is a blue screened image from a photograph depicting a single Caterpillar Tractor pulling four large trailers behind it filled with what appears to be sacks of grain. Single page letter with corresponding envelope. Measures 8 1/2"" x 5 1/2"" letter 6"" x 3 1/2"" envelope. In the Caterpillar Times Vol. 35 No. 11 pg. 5 a promotional magazine of the Caterpillar Tractor Company available on Google Books named Caterpillar Times Volumes 35-37 in November 1915 there is what appears to be another image but at a different angle of this same engraving printed in the issue. The caption there reads ""The biggest load ever pulled into El Rico Calif. Outfit of the El Rico Land Company. Total load - 55 tons 1300 pounds."" There is not much information on the El Rico Land Company but they appear to have been an investment company/ land colonization company based in San Francisco which purchased land in and around the San Fernando Valley specially El Rico CA in order to encourage people to move there and farm it. El Rico Land Company unknown books
1972UABBROM00CZCOctopus 1972. Very Good. Abbate Francesco editor. Roman Art. Sutton A. J. London: Octopus 1972. 158pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 12mo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on backstrip. Book condition: Very good with rubbed and lightly soiled edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with bumped edges and lightly soiled panels. Octopus hardcover books
197136233Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1971. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. xii 223pp index. Very good hardback in a lightly rubbed and edgeworn jacket that has a few small nicks and is sunned on the spine. <br/><br/> J.B. Lippincott hardcover books
1993120610Charlottesville VA: Second Street Gallery 1993. First edition. Oblong softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 5-28 1993. Essay by Mark Power. Includes a number of black and white images. An about very good plus copy in stapled wrappers with a rubber stamp from the SF Camerawork Reference Library they recently sold their books to the rear panel where there is a small edge tear to the bottom. Complimentary card laid in. Scarce with only 5 copies listed in OCLC. Second Street Gallery unknown books
1924171677London: William Heinemann 1924. hardcover. very good. Frontis 51 illustrations 161pp 8vo gilt-lettered cloth tear in spine cloth has been mended. London: William Heinemann 1924. Very good.<br/><br/> William Heinemann unknown books
195633764Edinburgh: Livingstone 1956. viii 100pp. 6 plates including frontispiece. Original cloth dust-jacket worn and chipped. Biography of the noted British physician and surgeon who served as president of the Royal College of Surgeons and of the Medical Society of London. Laid in are two autograph letters signed from Bland-Sutton to unidentified recipients dated March 7 1892 and April 12 1897. Livingstone unknown books
19262844031926. First. unbound. very good. Very scarce sepia signed photograph "John Bland Sutton - 1926" 5.75" x 8.25" adhered to a larger matte 7.5" x 10" a waist-up image of the surgeon attired in a suit and top coat. Embossed with photographer William Surrey's studio signature aback-stamp. Very minor surface striations to the left of Bland-Sutton's image - otherwise in Fine condition.<br/><br/> British pioneering surgeon who became the first to identify the thyroid gland and the pathology associated with it - and to then proceed with the first intentional removal of a cancerous tumor from the thyroid a full decade before Felix Mandl's procedures.<br/><br/> unknown books
19851342790London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1985. Hardcover. Large Quarto; VG/G; white spine with black text; dust jacket shows mild rubbing to exterior; minor chips to edges; flap edges slightly toned; cloth has minimal wear; strong boards; text block edges show mild age toning; pictorial endpapers; interior good; profusely illustrated; pp 201; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. 1342790. FP New Rockville Stock. Victor Gollancz Ltd hardcover books
1984161999Albuquerque New Mexico: Silver Scarab Press 1984. Large octavo illustrations and cover design by J. K. Potter pictorial wrappers. First edition. Limited to 300 copies. "Seventeen fantastic poems plus eight prose poems by one of the most talented genre bards in the past two decades . The introduction by Donald Sydney-Fryer places Breiding in the tradition of San Francisco Neo-Romantics such as George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith and praises his 'cultivated taste' for the melancholy while noting his erotic choice and humorous sense of irony." - Barron ed Fantasy and Horror 1999 8-10. Barron ed Fantasy and Horror 8-10. See Tymn ed Horror Literature 6-6. A fine copy. #161999 Silver Scarab Press unknown books
1893113596New York: Published by Dodd 1893. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-8 9-227 228-230: blank note: first and last leaves are blanks title page printed in red and black original decorated blue-gray cloth front and spine panel stamped in gold and silver. First edition. Linked short stories. Wright III 2767. Owner's signature and date on front free endpaper. A bright nearly fine copy. #113596 Published by Dodd unknown books
193715551New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1937. Early Printing. Cloth. Fine/very good . 8vo. Early printing in dustwrapper of the tenth Judy Bolton mystery novel for young adults. A particularly gorgeous copy. Green cloth stamped in maroon. Pink endpapers. Illustrations by Pelagie Doane. Easily near fine or better in a beautiful unclipped dustwrapper. Lists to The Clue in the Patchwork Quilt to inside front flap. Just a lovely square clean copy in a much better than usually found dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
2294822Brentano's. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. No publisher date. Jacket edges rubbed with a few chips along top edge jacket spine lightly toned. Light stain along top page ridge. 320 pp. "Laura de Pernon Duchess D'Abrantes is the heroine of this passionate romance that has been brought to light for the first time in these memoirs. It is a moving drama of love and jealousy darkened by the madness and tragic end of her husband who was Napoleon's aide-de-campe. Brentano's hardcover books
1963287676West Point Virginia: West Point Baptist Church Tidewater Press 1963. Stapled Pamphlet. Near Fine binding. The Remarks of David Nelson Sutton at the Union Memorial Service for President John F. Kennedy at the West Point Baptist Church on November 25 1963. With no marks. Two pairs of conjugate leaves stapled. Near Fine. Near Fine binding. West Point Baptist Church | Tidewater Press unknown books
1971193114Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts 1971-01-01. Paperback. Good. Softcover and binding are good with modest wear. Inside front cover has a name and date in pen. Pages are clean and unmarked. LO Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts paperback books
1959145643Culver City CA: Associated Producers Inc 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. <br/><br/>Sequel to Kurt Neumann's "The Fly" and taking place one year after the conclusion of that film. Phillipe Delambre Brett Halsey takes up his father's work of matter transmission and with his uncle Francois Vincent Price they accidentally produce a monstrous creature a man with the head of a fly. <br/><br/>Title page integral to front wrapper with credits for screenwriter and director Edward Bernds. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Mechanical duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between February 24 1959 and February 25 1959. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Associated Producers Inc unknown books
193115861New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. nice solid copy light soiling to bottom edge internally clean; jacket is edgeworn small piece missing at bottom right-hand corner of front panel faint dampstain near top of front panel nearly split along rear foldover still quite attractive. Futurist fantasy in which a young Greek war refugee introduced to the wonders of modern machinery works his way up from garage mechanic to member of an airline crew. This gets him mixed up with a mysterious American arms merchant and he eventually finds himself a stowaway on a gigantic Russian airship the "Zodiak" operated by the Militant Anti-God League which of course! takes its marching er flying orders straight from Moscow and whose mission he discovers is to blanket the world with Communist propaganda leaflets and thereby lay the groundwork for a World Revolution. The book appears to be chock-full of mystical symbolism and stuff check the signs of the Zodiac on the jacket spine and in its closing pages the author quotes that well-known mystic Henry Ford: "Shall we not some day reach a point where the machine is becomes all powerful and the man of no consequence" Shall we not indeed . Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1952047661Ann Arbor: Published for the American Council of Learned Societies By J. W. Edwards Publisher 1952. iii 235p. original stiff printed wrappers. Published for the American Council of Learned Societies By J. W. Edwards, Publisher unknown books
1952044559Ann Arbor: Published for the American Council of Learned Scoieties By J. W. Edwards Publisher 1952. 235p. original stiff printed wrappers. Published for the American Council of Learned Scoieties By J. W. Edwards, Publisher unknown books
1972125348London: Chatto & Windus 1972. First editions. Hardcovers. 787 pages in two volumes. A collection of this important British artist and critic's letters edited and with an introduction by Denys Sutton. Both books are in near fine condition and each dust jacket is price clipped and each has a number of edge tears and some minor edge wear. Still a very nice set. This set is heavier than the typical item and may require extra shipping. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1949132342Paris: Quatre Chemins - Editart 1949. Softcover. VG glassine jacket is age toned. White paper wraps over stiff paper boards. Glassine dj. 108 pp. 1 color and many bw illustrations. Pages uncut. Numer 120 of 1000. Quatre Chemins - Editart unknown books
191775400Memphis: National Public Welfare League 1917. Paperback. Good. index 170p. Original wrapper. 18cm. Cover chipping and wear. A couple of inkblots inside back cover. Moderate browning. A little dog-earing. Contains an Introduction and nine chapters. One of Rev. Griggs' many self-help volumes and his third book with "According to Law" in the title. This book is probably an expanded version of an identically titled self-help book published in 1916 which contained 122p. Griggs also published in 1916 a even shorter work of 103p. which was titled "According to Law." A comparison with "According to Law" in stock when this item was catalogued showed that almost all of the material in the earlier work appears in this differently-titled 1917 edition as well as much that was not found in the earlier work. <br/><br/> National Public Welfare League paperback books
1969100918Miami: Mnemosyne Press 1969. 303p. facsimile edition wraps. Novel by the minister. The African American minister became an advocate for the black South in the era when Jim Crow institutionalized American racism. His novels including The Hindered Hand posit blacks who are heroes in the face of adversity. After abandoning fiction he became an important figure in the National Baptist Convention eventually becoming president of the American Baptist Theological Seminary. Mnemosyne Press unknown books
190582551Nashville: Orion 1905. 3rd ed. revised. Hardcover. Fair. 15 illustrations by Robert Eugene Bell 333p. plus 4p. publisher's adverts. Maroon cloth. Centered black & white illustration also by Bell mounted on lower portion of front cover. 19 cm. Covers rather shabby & worn -- decorative white ruled-lines on front cover about half gone; ends of backstrip and other extremities worn. Hinges quite weak. Former owner's name stamp on endpapers. No Jacket. In this Third and final edition Griggs added an essay on "The Leopard Spots" an infamously racist novel by Thomas Dixon. In the earlier editions Dixon's book is discussed in less detail by two characters in the novel. All editions of this early African American novel are rather scarce. <br/><br/> Orion hardcover books
192343642Memphis Tennessee: National Public Welfare League 1923. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. 13 229p. Recent quarterbinding -- marbled boards nicely backed in leather. 20cm. Library stamp from a segreated public elementary school for African Americans in Tennessee on two text leaves. Corners dog-eared on a few pages. No Jacket. Griggs a Baptist minister in Memphis wrote and published several of these racial self-help books but is most remembered for his five racially-themed novels. <br/><br/> National Public Welfare League hardcover books
190557777Nashville: Orion 1905. 3rd ed. revised. Hardcover. Good. 15 illustrations by Robert Eugene Bell 333p. plus 4p. publisher's adverts. Original maroon cloth. Centered black & white illustration also by Bell mounted on lower portion of front cover. 19 cm. Covers rather shabby & worn -- decorative white ruled-lines on front cover mostly gone; ends of backstrip worn; corners and edges bumped. Hinges cracked and reglued causing them to be a little stiff. No Jacket. Griggs added an essay at the end of this Third and final edition on Thomas Dixon's "Leopard Spots." In earlier editions Dixon's book is discussed by two characters in the novel. All editions of this early African American novel are rather scarce. <br/><br/> Orion hardcover books
