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189939910San Francisco: Ernest Forbes 415 Post Street 1899. 1st edition Brown 54; Glozer 102. Tan cloth binding light brown lettering and design printed to spine and boards. Moderate wear to binding rubbing staining and a lean to spine. Light pencil notes to ffep and rear pastedown previous owner's signature in pencil and Pacific Gas Company stamp to front pastedown. Light age-toning to paper. A Good example. 10 adverts 186 8 adverts pp. B/w wood engravings and advertisements throughout. 7" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/>Preface: "If you want to save money an honest investigation will convince you that artificial gas is the cheapest and safest cleanest and most economical fuel in use and that after the beginning of the Twentieth Century its use will be universal." This handy book mainly extols the virtues of gas stoves and heating but also sporadically offers recipes to be used on such devices as well as personal stories & anecdotes of the author. Rare in the trade. Ernest Forbes, 415 Post Street hardcover books
291164Syracuse: Syracuse Gas Engine Works. paperback. near fine. Illustrated b/w. 30 pages. Slim 8vo paper covers. Syracuse: Syracuse Gas Engine Works no date c. 1925. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> Syracuse Gas Engine Works unknown books
1939213762San Francisco: State of California Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas 1939. 46p. 6x9 inches preface reports tables maps graphs and cross-sections several folding very good first edition annual in stapled yellow pictorial wraps. Special articles on Canal and Strand Oil Fields Arvin Area of Mountain View Oil Field and Premier Area of Poso Creek Field. State of California Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas unknown books
1909231004New York: Trustees Gas Educational Fund 1909. Hardcover. xxi 683p. illustrated primarily with line-drawn diagrams some rubricated for emphasis see pp.458-462 and a few fuzzy photos first edition brownish maroon cloth boards. Bevelled edges with decorative ruling in blind spine panel gilt-lettered and -ruled. Slightly edgeworn with a little color-loss round cover's margins front hinge is cracked but holding only one little old pencilled note directing reader to "Hydraulic Main" an otherwise clean sound copy. We urge somebody out there to send a copy to PG&E specially the SF peninsula office. .looks pretty useful if you're a pick and helve guy maybe even if you're a back-hoe guy. "Records should be made and kept" random sample p.423 "of the size of the main its distance from the curb and its depth at every point where it is exposed and these records should also give the locations of every bell exposed in the course of repairs so that in future it will be easy to see that the holes are driven at the right points to strike the joints. Trustees Gas Educational Fund hardcover books
