Redlands, CA: Citrograph Printing Company, 1927. Hardcover. Very good. 9 x 12 inches, 73 pp. in original embossed cloth boards. Some rubbing to boards, internals fine. One-page Foreword is followed by approximately 125 captioned half-tone photographic illustrations printed in sepia. Most 4.5 x 6.75 inches, but a few are full... Item #20576
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a fair dust jacket. 8vo, 220 pp + ads, indexed and illustrated with 40 plates and 4 line drawings. A very good copy with light foxing to edges, small bump to fore edge of front board. Dust jacket is... Item #20575
London: Faber and Faber, 2017. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Later printing. Fine copy in fine jacket, signed by Bragg on the title page. The first book to provide an in-depth examination of the history and evolution of skiffle, "a uniquely British take on American folk and blues." Item #20574
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North Branch, MN: Specialty Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. 8.5 x 11.5 inches, 616 pp, with index and many illustrations. Book is as new except for on small stain on the edge of the text block and previous owner's notation of date... Item #20573
San Francisco: Bolte & Braden, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 377 pp + advertisements, with frontispiece, b/w illustrations from photographs. Original tan buckram with gilt lettering; this copy (but not all copies) stamped on the front "Compliments of the Palace and Fairmont Hotels San Francisco." Light shelf wear and... Item #20572
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Later printing (title page undated, copyright 1961). xii, 297 pp + 28 illustrations from photographs, with table of chronological events, index. Small bookseller label and one little ink mark on front endpapers, else fine. Dust... Item #20571
1979. Softcover. Very good. 8.5 x 11 photocopied typescript.Ca. 75 pp. A "supplemental memorandum respecting factory housing prepared by the legal counsel of Joan Irvine Smith (of Irvine Ranch). A detailed argument stating that there is a need for low-cost housing in Orange County and that "factory housing" ("whether mobile... Item #20570
Newport Beach and Fullerton, CA: Boyle Engineering Corporation and Weston Pringle and Associates, 1981. Softcover. Very good. 8.5 x 11, comb binding. Not paginated, but ca. 75 pages, printed rectos only. Includes a section of color illustrations and several flow charts. A photocopy of the Orange County Transportation Commission's Request... Item #20569
County of Orange Environmental Management Agency, Advance Planning Division, 1982. Softcover. Very good. Two volumes, bound reports on complex land use issues in rapidly-developing Orange County, California in the 1980s. Volume I approx. 40 pp, Volume II approx. 50 pp. Both with many tables, charts, maps. According to the text... Item #20568
Nueva York: Polhemus y Compania, 1901. First Edition. Title continues: Tomadas, por parte de México, Bajo la Dirección del Ingeniero Jacobo Blanco, Jefe de la Sección Mexicana de la Comisión Internacional de Limites que Restablecio los Monumentos en Anos de 1892 a 1895. 11 x 14 inches, oblong, in original..... Item #20564
Modern three-ring binder containing 27 black and white 8” x 10” photographs showcasing high-end vehicles for rent from the Iowa Garage, owned by former race car mechanic Eugene Lajunie of Pasadena. Each photo is accompanied by a typed caption giving the model number, color, some specifications, and the price per... Item #20563
Los Angeles: The Western Empire Publishing Co., 1895. 10.5 x 13.75 inches, pp 43-58 + [4] ads. Two-hole punched at the left edge, wrappers starting to split at the fold. light soiling, old horizontal crease, moderate general handling wear. Good. Single issue of this scarce illustrated periodical, with long articles... Item #20562
Sacramento: State Office, 1881. 72 pp, illustrated with small wood engravings, in original lavender printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine, old tears and tape repairs to back wrapper, else very good. Matthew Cooke was in the business of manufacturing fruit boxes in the 1870s when California’s apple crop was devastated... Item #20560
Ten original photographs, 6.25 x 9 inches, of pencil sketches made by Frank Lecouvreur documenting his journey to California around Cape Horn and his experiences mining for gold in the early 1850s. The same sketches are reproduced as some of the plates in Lecouvreur’s book From East Prussia to the... Item #20559
[Whittier, CA]: Whittier Board of Trade, 1906. 5 x 7.5 inches, oblong, in original stapled wrappers. 16 pp, with illustrations from photographs, including a double-page bird's eye view. Light dust soiling; near fine. Written less than 20 years after Whittier was founded by Quakers, this promotional booklet proudly proclaims that... Item #20550
NP, ND, but ca. 1902. 7 x 10 inches, 23, [1] pp., in attractive illustrated wrappers. Upper corners of front wrap are chipped and spine is partly split. Good. Illustrated promotional booklet, with most text reprinted from the September 1902 issue of Sunset Magazine. A preliminary page describes the attractions... Item #20549
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 1930. 8.5 x 11 inches, 166 pp, with many maps, charts, diagrams, illustrations from photographs. Original printed wrappers. Library discard with related markings on the front endpapers, perf. stamp on title page, call number on spine. Otherwise very good. The Metropolitan Water District of... Item #20544
New York and San Francisco: J. Dewing, 1898. Softcover. Good. Picturesque California was a lavishly illustrated book edited by John Muir originally sold by subscription and distributed in thirty parts. This is part IX (9), consisting of pages 121-144 and titled "The Heart of Southern California." Although she is not... Item #20542
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two octavo volumes, pp. p [viii], 358; [viii], 407, bound in three-quarter leather and marbled boards, top edge gilt, spines with five raised bands, rules in gilt. Binding signed "For William Brown, Edinburgh." Spines sunned from original dark... Item #20541
London: Printed for A. Millar, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, et al. 1766. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition, corrected. Two octavo volumes in contemporary calf boards, re-backed with new leather spines and with new endpapers, and likely trimmed a bit in the process. Page size is 13 x 20.2 cm. Boards... Item #20540
Munich: Karl Pressler, 1983. Hardcover. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Second edition. 280 pp. Very mild bumping to upper corners, else a fine copy, in near fine dust jacket with slight sunning to the spine. The original cardboard slipcase is present but has heavy wear and several old... Item #20539
London: Humphrey Robinson for Humphrey Moseley, 1647. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, recently rebound in period style, with rules in blind, gilt spine with red label; new endpapers. The first collected edition, containing 35 plays, complete with the engraved frontispiece portrait in second state, and with the first edition... Item #20538
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1949. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. Book club edition, in the blue dust jacket. Beige cloth boards show some minor insect wear, otherwise minimal wear. Binding is tight, text and endpapers are unmarked. The dust jacket is chipped at the spine... Item #20536
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Berkeley: University of California, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 402 pp, illustrated and indexed. Rubbing to extremities, previous owner's name and label on front pastedown. Binding sound, text clean. Crespi (1721-1782) was a Franciscan missionary and explorer of California. He participated in expeditions with Francisco Palou, Junipero Serra, Gaspar... Item #20535
1498. Hardcover. Good. Quarto volume containing three works (Venice, 1511; Brescia, 1498; Venice, 1498) bound together without title pages. Includes:1) Caius Sallustius Crispus. Opera, cum commentariis Laurentii Vallae, Omniboni Leoniceni et Johannis Chrysostomi Soldi, a Pomponio Laeto emendata et per Johannem Britannicum revisa. Venezia: Joannes Tacuinus de Tridino, 1511. 139... Item #20534
