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197661240Flagstaff: Northland Press 1976. Hardcover. x 212p.11.5x9.75 inches landscape layout personal inscription signed by Briggs on endpaper paintings charts foreword bibliography index lightly-used and soiled first edition stated in white cloth boards and price-clipped worn dj with closed tears. Northland Press hardcover books
19091289Oakland 1909. About very good. Six pieces including three real photo postcards typed letter folding map and transmittal envelope. Light creasing to images; light tanning to letter and map. Interesting promotional material for the La Blanc Oil Company for their developments in the Sunset Oil Field in Kern County California in 1909. A folding plat map of the field near Maricopa southwest of Bakersfield shows La Blanc's holdings highlighted in red and a brief text touts the geographical relation to other producing wells. Also included is a typed progress report on the depth of drilling accomplished and the anticipated time before reaching the deposits which assures investors that "No doubt is expressed by any one of our ultimate success." The photo postcards show supposedly representative images of gushing oil pipes overflowing oil barrels and a very pleased group of men overseeing the scene. A nice group with the original transmittal envelope addressed to an Edgar Bonnemort of Oakland. unknown books
1921802Colusa Ca. 1921. About very good. 8pp. Pictorial self wrappers stapled. Light wear and creasing; a few short closed tears at wrapper edges. Contemporary ownership inscription on front wrap. Even tanning. A scarce promotional for the Young Oil Company and its development of an apparently lucrative oil strike at Bear Creek in Colusa County during 1921. The pamphlet prints a story first published in the local Colusa Sun newspaper which documents history of oil production at the site chronicles the purchase of the lease by Young Oil in 1915 and relates positive comments from several contemporary geologists' reports that convinced the company to significantly increase its investment and work on the property including the imminent arrival of an industrial drilling rig from Texas. The remainder of the text publishes a letter from a Sacramento oil man William Babcock which describes the operation as "The best oil venture that I know of -- in fact it looks so good to me that while I have for all intents and purposes retired from active participation in the development of the oil business I shall in this case make an exception." The final leaf prints an enjoinder from the company to "Buy all the Young Oil Company stock you can afford" and gives the organizational information of the firm. Illustrated with five halftone images of the site; not in OCLC. unknown books
199420537NY: Watson-Guptill. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0823032736 . 335 color illustrations. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Watson-Guptill hardcover books
192315067Boston 1923. 8vo pp. 210 little water stained on the foredge affecting the last few leaves a very good copy bound in red cloth. This trade catalogue contains advertisements of and descriptions of a wide variety of hoses and pumps and gaskets as well as hand tools grease guns pipe fitting tools wrenches brushes rulers and files. unknown books
1917291406Self-published 1917. Jamsetji Tata is considered an architect of modern India; he founded TATA -- an enormous Indian business. During the first World War B.J. Padshah one of the Board of Directors of Tata Sons met on board a ship the author of this exhaustive report Edward Thompson. Thompson produced this report urging Tata to get heavily invested in the Copra industry at a time when American investors were investing heavily in copra in the Philippines. Copra proved to a less than immediately successful investement for Tata though Thompson grew rich cf. R. M. Lala The Creation of Wealth: the Tats from the 19th to the 21st Century Chapter 6. ~An uncommon report how could it be otherwise relating to Tatas the most inportant company in India. 179 pp. quarto. Rebacked. Self-published unknown books
1994WN43450Philadelphia: Univ. Of Pennsylvania 1994. An extremely pristine copy in pictorial paper wraps. Beautifully illustrated catalogue of the works of the notorius photographer together with excellent text and essays. . First Edition. Paper Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Catalogue. Univ. Of Pennsylvania Paperback books
190315607Boston: MacLean Oil & Supply Company 1903. Complaint about some of the Globe Paint Oil sent; signed by company officer; from this Boston supplier of steamship mill & railway needs; with nice vignette of a pile of product barrels; 7 1/4" x 8 1/2" approx. size; light wear old fold lines; very good condition. Very Good. MacLean Oil & Supply Company unknown books
19361182Los Angeles: Brooks Bros 1936. Very good plus. Blueprint map 21.5 x 18.25 inches. Old fold lines minor wear. A few pencil annotations. An interesting and quite attractive blueprint map that shows the oil and gas fields of New Mexico where oil was first discovered in 1924. The map was compiled and drawn by Fabius and Sam Brooks Los Angeles publishers and was based on a 1931 map by Dean Winchester and "corrected to date" likely in the mid-1930s. The map shows the locations of oil and gas fields across the state and delineates sites of oil drilling their proprietors and the depths at which they hit oil or gas. Also included are the routes of major gas and oil pipelines. At the lower left corner of the map is a list of principal lease holders in New Mexico broken into tiers by acreage with Standard Oil holding over a million acres and the next group holding 100000 to 500000 each down to 5000 individuals and small companies who hold anywhere from 40 to 5000 acres. We locate a handful of copies of the Winchester map and one copy of a later dated Brooks map with a different title but none of the present issue. A highly attractive and informative New Mexico oil map. Brooks Bros unknown books
19541607Mystic Ct 1954. Overall very good. Approximately 210 individual documents of varying lengths. Light wear. Post-World War II business archive of George Deneke an Old Mystic Connecticut resident who invested heavily in oil and mining operations in the Western United States and Canada. Present here are well over 200 individual documents documents relating to numerous ventures in which Deneke had an interest or for which he had requested information. Included are large group of over fifty documents concerning the notorious Canadian stock scheme Gaspe Oil Ventures Limited which in 1954 the New York state Attorney General called "the largest fraud case in 15 years." Also here are about thirty items relating to the Landowners' Royalties Company a curious husband and wife operation based in Framingham New Mexico that offered wildcat investment opportunities in Montana's Williston Basin of which there is a large and detailed map. Another sizable and attractive map depicts "Oil in the Rockies August 1953" and there is also a fascinating map showing the fields of the South Texas Oil Co. in the early 1950s. A sizable subset of documents provides information regarding uranium mining in Utah which enjoyed a significant boom in the years after the war. With ephemera relating to at least a dozen additional businesses across the West and Canada much with captivating illustrated material. unknown books
1985343241985. Softcover. VG-- soiling to cover. White wraps. Unpaginated. Numerous bw and color plates. unknown books
1984258084California: OCAWIU 1984. 1.5 inch diameter pin very good. OCAWIU unknown books
1922303664Bakersfield California Kern County Chamber of Commerce 1922. 1922. 6 panel folding brochure. Illustrated with 10 halftones and one map. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Includes information on oil and gas wells farming irrigation gold and silver. Rocq 2431 - located only 1 copy. No Binding. Very Good. Bakersfield, California, Kern County Chamber of Commerce [1922]. unknown books
19351420Wichita: Wichita Mapping & Engineering Co 1935. Very good. Large blueline map 40.75 x 47 inches. Rolled. Some excess blue ink along bottom edge. Light wear at edges. Minor toning and dust soiling. Scattered neat contemporary manuscript annotations. Imposing and detailed oil and gas map showing developments in Kay County Oklahoma bordering Kansas directly south of Wichita. The present map delineates all the oil and gas wells being planned and drilled and all wells actively producing and abandoned. These are several large concentrations of activity the largest being between the towns of Blackwell Braman Dilworth and Peckham northeast of the Chikaskia River with others located near Tonkawa Ponca City and between Newkirk and Kaw. The map also notes land ownership for every section of every township in the county."The oil and gas industry stimulated an economic boom in the early 1900s. As early as 1894 gas had been discovered on the Marcus McClaskey farm southeast of Newkirk. However he kept the discovery a secret until he could prove up his land claim. By 1902 approximately six gas wells had been drilled northeast of Blackwell. In 1910 Ernest W. Marland founder of the 101 Ranch Oil Company drilled seven gas wells on the Millers' 101 Ranch. However the great oil boom in Kay County was precipitated by the discovery of oil by Marland on the Ponca allotment of Willie Cries Crys-for-War in June 1911. Louis H. Wentz soon entered the foray to locate oil in Kay County. The oil boom and bust created temporary peaks in population and several ghost towns such as Mervine Dilworth and Three Sands" - Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.Not in OCLC. We locate records for four other maps produced by the Wichita Mapping & Engineering Co. with only one being noted in any appreciable amount of copies. Wichita Mapping & Engineering Co unknown books
1918664Muskogee Ok 1918. Very good. 4pp. on a large bifolium. Previously folded. A couple of very minor losses at fold points. Light tanning. Scarce illustrated report from 1918 on the developments and production of the Oklahoma Oil Wells Company based in Muskogee Oklahoma. Much of the text is dedicated to an assessment of work completed on wells located at lease secured by the company near Sedan in Chautauqua County Kansas to which the majority of available funds was being directed. The progress of four wells is assessed and a report on construction and acquisition of other equipment necessary for the site is given. The production of other leases in Nowata and Muskogee Counties Oklahoma and Greenwood County Kansas is also discussed. The final page contains three photographic illustrations of a power plant and a well on the Sedan property as well as a lengthy exhortation to invest in Liberty Bonds to support the federal government's war effort as World War I continued through 1918. Also with a separate typed letter dated January 9 1917 soliciting investment from an Ohio resident. unknown books
194113424New York: Harcourt Brace & Co 1941. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 570p. A few small spots to backstrip; mild rubbing to bottom edges of boards else Near Fine. In original dustjacket unclipped but with light overall rubbing and a brief ca 3/4" closed tear to upper margin of rear panel. A very good copy overall. A novel of the Texas oil industry. Somewhat uncommon especially in jacket; this a solid and attractive copy. Harcourt, Brace & Co unknown books
193115471931. SOCONY OIL COMPANY NEWSPAPER 1931. TOURS AND DETOURS. An original August 15 1931 edition of "Tours and Detours"- a tourism-related newspaper issued by the Socony Oil Company to its customers. This issue contains articles about touring the Northeast region of the United States with photographs and articles on Clinton NY; Buffalo & Niagara Falls NY; and Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts. The rear cover contains a road map of main highways in New England. Following the break-up of Standard Oil in 1911 the Standard Oil Company of New York SOCONY was formed along with 33 other break-off companies. In 1920 the company registered the name "Mobiloil" as its trademark and in 1963 it became the Mobil Oil Company. Very Good usual folds with a few tears. Scarce 10.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
197059679NY: Rand McNally 1970. 4to pp. 112. Bound in pictorial boards with color photos throughout. A very good copy. Rand McNally unknown books
196238063Louisville KY: Standard Oil Company 1962. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Louisville KY: Standard Oil Company 1962. Numerous b/w photographs and illustrations. Various pagination pp. Hardcover. Small 4to size. Brown cloth. Gilt lettering to front board. Bound edition for the year 1963; head and heel slightly rubbed; slight insect damage to top of front board. Very good/No jacket issued. Standard Oil Company hardcover books
196437964Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1964. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1964. Copious b/w illustrations. Various pagination pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Forest green cloth. Bound periodical for the year 1964. Head heel and corners bumped and rubbed. Very good/No jacket issued. Standard Oil hardcover books
196537968Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1965. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1965. Copious b/w illustrations. Various pagination pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Medium green cloth. Bound periodical for the year 1965. Head heel and corners bumped and rubbed; moderate soil to boards. Very good/No jacket issued. Standard Oil hardcover books
194029695New York: Standard Oil Company 1940. First Edition. Octavo 22.25cm.; original tan printed card wrappers; 4170pp. Minor wear else Very Good or better. Standard Oil Company unknown books
1935166742N.p.: Standard Oil Company of California 1935. 20.4 cm pp. 1-16 not paginated 30 illustrations including one on the front cover 1 map printed in green and black throughout pictorial self wrappers stapled. First edition. A promotional booklet presented as a "souvenir from the the California Pacific International Exposition San Diego 1935." Yosemite National Park is described and pictured on page 4 and Sequoia and General Grant National Parks are described and pictured on page 5. The map is titled "Map showing locations of national parks and national monuments in the West." A very good copy. #166742 Standard Oil Company of California unknown books
1927910Whiting In 1927. About very good. 119 leaves printed on rectos only; interleaved with fifteen additional leaves containing pasted brochures and ephemera. Small folio. Original half cloth and boards brad-bound; one brad lacking. Cloth worn hinges tender. Light soiling and wear to contents. Wonderful mimeographed handbook produced for and distributed to bulk station operators of Standard Oil of Indiana a subdivision of the original Standard Oil trust. Standard Oil of Indiana covered a broad territory ranging across Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota the Dakotas Iowa Kansas and Missouri. The first three leaves draw the reader in: "Stop! Look! Read! / YOU can make more money / This book show YOU how. Let's you and I read it over very carefully and see how it can help us." There follows a page discussing "What is a Salesman" and a discussion of the products Standard offers and why they're the best. Each page is printed with illustrations and a small amount of text -- easy to comprehend like a children's book and certainly designed to be used in one's sales pitch. Bulk station operators were charged with maintaining large storage tanks of gasoline or oil distributing large shipments of product to farmers and other small-scale businesses across the Midwest. This particular book belonged to agent Alf Anderson of Viroqua Wisconsin a remote village on the eastern end of the state near the borders with Iowa and Minnesota. In addition to Standard's iconic brands of fuel and motor oil such as Red Crown and Vis operators like Anderson were also charged with marketing a wide array of additional products made by Standard many of which are advertised in the brochures pasted to the additional leaves within this volume. These include Eureka Harness Oil Eureka Belt Dressing Cream Separator Lubricant Mica Axle Grease Neolite Burning Oil Perfection Kerosene KIP Insecticide and more. A mimeo production chock full of sales tactics and tips for the enterprising agent with the promise of success as reward for careful study. Rare with unique components. unknown books
1902106482<p>Rectangular 8vo 9½x5¼" pamphlet 1 11 leaves printed on rectos only original brown paper wrappers red ribbon tie at top. A little normal aging but otherwise near fine. This is an early Standard Oil piece that appears to be designed to promote the stock which according to this brochure consisted of only 2500000 shares. At the time of publication the par value was only $1 per share. The brochure discusses various oil field potential and on the inside back cover is a "no wild cat" illustration hyping the stock. This was printed well before the 1911 breakup of the company for violating the "Sherman Antitrust Act." A wonderful piece of corporate memorabilia. OCLC locates only a single copy at the University of Wyoming.</p> books
