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
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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
[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
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
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
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two hefty volumes in publisher's navy cloth. Previous owner's name on each title page, dust soiling to top edges, else fine. "This bibliography by the distinguished Johnson scholar, the late J. D. Fleeman, records Johnson's literary output in chronological order and... Item #20533
[Germantown, PA]: [Germantown Print Works]. Textile. Good. An appealing illustrated broadside on cloth bearing a very early appearance of the famous "I cannot tell a lie" cherry tree story. Collins (Threads of History) says it was printed by the Germantown Print Works in Pennsylvania, ca. 1806. The story itself, which... Item #20532
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 493 pp, illustrated, in publisher's plum cloth, sunned to brown at the spine. Wear to edges of boards. Binding sound, contents clean, other than the author's name being written in ink under "A Haole" on the title page and... Item #20528
Paris: Chez Marcilly, Firmin Didot. Hardcover. Very good. Miniature book, approximately 6.5 x 5 cm (oblong). Undated, circa 1840. 127 pp, in marbled boards.Edgewear to boards, light scattered foxing. Possibly re-backed, as other copies we have located are in printed pictorial boards. A charming little book for children, with engraved... Item #20527
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 438 pp + {2] (ads). Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt; no dust jacket. Mild sunning to spine, light shelf wear, foxing to endpapers. Binding tight, text clean. Ten short stories. Item #20525
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 31 pp, in original pink paper boards; no dust jacket. Usual sunning to spine and top edge, otherwise minimal external wear. Binding tight, endpapers clean, light foxing to title page and frontis, embossed stamp of previous owner on title... Item #20524
London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1793. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition, complete in three volumes. pp; 603, with frontis portrait (complicated pagination of front matter/introductory materials provided on request); 634, with folding plate; 711, with folding plate. Volume I includes the inserted leaf of "additional corrections" (C3). Contemporary calf... Item #20522
New York: Harper and Brothers. Hardcover. Very good. Copyright 1925, but this is a later printing, with no date on title page, code "A-A" on copyright page. 216 pp, "with 100 illustrations from photographs taken by the author and others. Drawings by Lilian Wilhelm Smith.: Publisher's green cloth; no dust... Item #20518
New York: The Century Company. Title page undated; copyright 1924.462 pp, illustrated with half-tone photographs. Original pictorial blue cloth boards. Mile sunning to spine and top edge of front board, previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, otherwise clean and sound. A lively travel narrative, in which the author comments... Item #20516
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 368 pp, illustrated. Original red cloth, no dust jacket. Some minor insect damage to boards, internals fine. Signed by Lyman (without inscription) on the half-title page. William Chapman Ralston became one of the richest men in California by monopolizing... Item #20515
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Portland, Oregon: Self-published, 1907. Softcover. Good. 4-3/4 x 6-3/4" stapled printed bluewraps, pp. 142-200 (continuously numbered from earlier issues) + several pages of ads, illustrated with half-tone photographs. Some general wear to wrappers, several pages with annotation from an early reader in red pen. Includes articles by A.A. Smith, George... Item #20514
Berlin: Erich Reiss, 1919. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, unpaginated, illustrated with six original etchings by Walser, one of which (the frontispiece) is pencil-signed. #184 of a total edition of 240 numbered copies. Original leather-backed blue boards with title in gilt. Leather scuffed, lower corners bumped, interior about fine, with mild... Item #20512
