Oakland California: Published by The Board of Port Commissioners 1933. 1st printing. Paper wrappers printed in orange & black. A VG copy. 40 pp. Leaflet laid-in from Ralph Fisher President of the Board of Port Commissioners to Compass readers stating the Oakland Airport focus of the current issue. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographic images. 8vo. <br/><br/>Contains a wealth of information on Oakland Airport. Published by The Board of Port Commissioners unknown books
Oakland California: Published by The Board of Port Commissioners 1940. 1st printing. Paper wrappers printed in orange & black. A VG copy. 64 pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographic images. Fold-out map of the Airport tipped-in at rear. 8vo. <br/><br/>Contains a wealth of information on Oakland Airport. Published by The Board of Port Commissioners unknown books
Oakland California: Published by The Board of Port Commissioners 1937. 1st printing. Paper wrappers printed in blue & black. A VG copy. 64 pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographic images. 8vo. <br/><br/>Contains a wealth of information on Oakland Airport. Published by The Board of Port Commissioners unknown books
Boston n. d. Ca 1885. Top edge a bit ragged. Mounting holes in top & bottom margin otherwise a VG copy of this rare survivor. Leaflet printed recto only. 7-5/8" x 3-1/2" <br/><br/>Date of publication inferred from a listing found in an 1885 Boston Directory. unknown books
n. p. 1967. Printed blue paper covers white comb binding. Average signs of use. Faint cup ring to front cover. Very Good. Unpaginated though ~ 100 pp. 5 section tabs: 'Features' 'Control Cabin' 'Panels' 'Controls' & 'Conveniences'. Illustrations & drawings throughout. Oblong format: 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" <br/><br/>Originally envisioned in 1964 the initial 737-100 made its first flight in April 1967 and entered airline service in February 1968 at Lufthansa. This evidently a manual prepared by Boeing for United personnel to introduce them to the many then advanced features of the new Boeing 737 as to be flown by United Airlines. From the publication codes on the divers pages we see the various sections being published from April 1965 to February 1967 i.e. pre-first flight. unknown books
New York: Herrmann J. Meyer 1855. 1st edition Howes D45; Sabin 18396. Not in Cowan. Custom bound in deep maroon morocco style sheep with gilt decorated spine. "American Scenery" gilt stamped to front board. Marbled eps. 24 20 pp. Each part with 4 full page steel plate engravings depicting the geographic area featured. 4to. 11-3/4" x 9" <br/><br/>From a preliminary advertisement "In commencing the serial issue of a work which it is hoped may be long continued the Publisher and Editor deem it proper to say that their object will be to render it in every respect worthy of its title and deserving of the National patronage. . The Volume of the work to which the part herewith published belongs will be exclusively devoted to views in the Seaboard states from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico. The West will be illustrated in another Volume which though issued simultaneously with this and in the same style can be procured separately as Subscribers may prefer." EAST with "The President's House" "Niagara" "Barhydt's Lake" & "Bunker Hill Monument"; WEST with "Lake Itasca" "Falls of St. Anthony" 2 plates "San Francisco" early view of the bay from a western hilltop. Herrmann J. Meyer unknown books
San Francisco: Gelber Lilienthal Inc n. d. 1st Printing. Faint age-toning. 2 horizontal fold-lines. A VG - VG copy. Broadside printed in red & black ink. Wood engraving of a scribe at top. <br/><br/>"In 1924 antiquarian Leon Gelber joined with businessman Theodore Max Lilienthal to establish the Gelber-Lilienthal Book Shop at 336 Sutter Street in San Francisco. As recalled by James Hart in Rare Book Stores in San Francisco Fifty Years Ago 'That shop…was given character by an ingenious false front of a manufactured appearance a pseudo half-timbered building with a projecting shingled and slanting roof … A small hallway led to a lofty ceiling in old-English style and great rows of shelves for rare books. …They were two attractive charming and witty men quite without the pressure of salesmanship ….'" Mellby. While not stated as such this item has the typographical appearance as being a production from the famed San Francisco Grabhorn press. Gelber, Lilienthal Inc unknown books
Milford 1881. 1st Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to front board. Modest wear. Spine lightly sunned. VG. xiii 3 84 2 blank pp. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>Rare 19th C. catalogue from this small town free library which was formed in 1868; OCLC records no holdings of this edition noting a sole holding of the library's 1870 catalogue. The 3 page introduction provides a succinct history of earlier attempts at establishing local lending-library societies etc. hardcover books
1860. The preponderance printed on blue paper. Sizes range from 4-1/8" x 6-7/8" to 7-3/8" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/>"Paul Whitin helped found the Northbridge Cotton Manufacturing Company in Northbridge Massachusetts in 1809 and in 1816 joined his brothers-in-law in founding the Whitin & Fletchers mill in South Northbridge now Whitinsville of which he became sole owner in 1826. Around this time his two elder sons Paul Jr. and John joined him forming P. Whitin & Sons. Operating under that name Paul and John purchased the Northbridge Cotton Manufacturing Company mill after the death of their father in 1831 and they later added their younger brothers Charles and James to the company. The company prospered and supplemented its cotton production with the manufacture of pickers looms and other machinery. About half of the houses in Whitinsville were owned by the company and rented to its employees most of whom worked in the shop and foundry; a few employees were clerks in the company store." UM website. The P. Whitin & Sons firm was dissolved in 1864. This collection of receipts documents their purchases of foodstuffs & other sundry items from divers merchants in Providence R.I. e.g. Wm. F. Huntoon. Coffee & Spices Worcester e.g. L. Spring 2nd. Flour Meal Salt et al & Boston e.g. W. Baker & Co. Chocolate & Cocoa. A nice cache of material documenting food prices in the Northeast during the mid-19th C. unknown books
Oakland Cal: Pacific Publishing Co 1911. 1st edition Rocq 718. Publisher's deluxe full black cloth in a faux-morocco finish with gilt lettering professionally recased. 1912 to base of spine. Patterned paper eps. First couple leaves with some slight edge rash. Overall a VG copy. 6 455 1 pp. Profusely illustrated primarily from photographs. Fold out map at front. Royal 8vo. 10" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/> Pacific Publishing Co hardcover books
n. p. 1977. Most ca. early 20th century. 14 of the postcards have been written on and/or posted several with early 20th century stamps attached. Other wear to postcards and photos include some rubbing and age-toning a couple have glue remnants. Overall an About VG collection. 28 stiff sheets printed recto & verso. Several black & white photographic images representing scenes from around California. Average postcard size: 3-7/16" x 5-7/16" <br/><br/>Most Real-Photo Postcards with all but 3 containing captions describing California scenes on the images themselves. Only 1 postcard contains publisher information printed on the verso that of "Frashers Inc. in Pomona Calif. Several others have been printed on Eastman Kodak Company paper. Most all are circa the early 20th century. Some scenes depicted: Covered Bridge build in 1868 Knights Ferry Santa Rita Ranch in Dos Palos Old Flour Mill at Knights Ferry Built 1848 Elmhurst Academy S.P.R.R. Station Madera Rail Road Bridge Oakdale Bank Building - Dos Palos Cal Plant of Pacific Pea Packing Co. Spearing Salmon at Oakdale Dos Palos Joint Union High School Excureian Train - Oakdale CA Main Street - Magalia Calif. I.O.O.F. Hall Knight's Ferry Methodist Church - Dos Palos Calif. Home Under the Pecan Trees - Wild Camp Knight's Ferry At Magalia Calif. Santa Fe Passenger Station - Riverbank Cali. Main Street - Sonora Cal. Santa Fe Depot - Riverbank Cal. West R.R. St - Oakdale Looking North Santa Fe Depot - Empire Cal. "Famous Wishing Well" Brookdale Lodge Prune Trees in Bloom - Upper Napa Valley from Garnett's Place - Calistoga Cal. Hook & Ladder - Knight's Ferry & Colomo El Dorado County - Gold Discovery Site. unknown books
San Francisco: Printed by Towne & Bacon 1859. 1st printing thus. Not in Greenwood CALIFORNIA IMPRINTS. OCLC records 3 institutional holdings curiously enough none in Calfornia. Printed salmon-colored paper wrappers sewn. Evidence of prior binding in a larger volume. A VG copy. 15 1 pp. 8vo. 8-3/16" x 5-5/16" <br/><br/>University of the Pacific was established by pioneer Methodist ministers in Santa Clara in July 1851 as California's first chartered institution of higher learning. Initially named California Wesleyan College it petitioned the state to change its name to University of the Pacific one month after it was chartered. Pacific provided the West Coast with its first medical school in 1858 which later became part of Stanford and today is California Pacific Medical Center. This one of the medical schools first publications. UoP website. Rare. Printed by Towne & Bacon unknown books
Oakland California: Published by The Board of Port Commissioners 1932. 1st printing. Buff paper wrappers printed in blue & black. A VG copy. 16 pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographic images. 8vo. <br/><br/>Contains a wealth of information on the Port of Oakland and its operations. Published by The Board of Port Commissioners unknown books
Portland OR / San Francisco CA: Norman & Stanich Architects / Hagen International Fabrics / Inn DG Group n. d. All housed in a light brown publishers folder stamped in blind. "Design Group Incorporated" printed to spine of folder. Modest wear rubbing and sunning to publishers folder Norman & Stanich stamp to front of folder. Age-toning to paper edges. In all a VG set. Two loose fabric sample sheets two photographic pamphlets 28 loose stiff-stock sheets 2 price lists 1 photograph of library furniture & schematic of a study carrel. Many b/w photographic images throughout sheets. 11-1/2" x 9" <br/><br/>This folder is addressed to a: Mr. Harry Weitzer Library Design Furniture Group 4525 S. W. Lee Street / Portland Oregon 97221. Written on this note is "Hood River #56 Russet - Material Sample per your Request" - indicating that Mr. Weitzer should pay special attention to one of the 35 fabric samples 30 at 1" x 1-1/2"; 4 at 3" x 1/2"; 1 at 2" x 4" included in the folder. Loose sheets include images and illustrations of designs for items such as: Reading Tables Study Carrels Atlas & Map Cases Encyclopedia Cases Benches/ Childrens Seating Lecturns & Newspaper Cases. Price list included for all items as well as fabrics though designed by different companies. Norman & Stanich Architects / Hagen International Fabrics / Inn DG Group unknown books
Oakland: Enquirer Presses 1906. 1st printing. Not found in Rocq. Original publisher's grey cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to front board. Shelfwear with slight fraying of cloth along front joint. Proir owner signature to ffep. A VG copy. 217 1 blank pp. Text illustrated with inserted b&w photographic portraits charts many fold-out graphs etc. 10-1/4" x 6-7/8" <br/><br/> Enquirer Presses hardcover books
Oakland: Harrington-McInnes Company Printers 1926. 1st printing. Original publisher's red heavy-stock paper covers printed in black embossed in gold. Edgewear. A VG copy. 68 pp. Adverts throughout. Text illustrated with b&w photographic images. 10-1/2" x 7-1/8" <br/><br/> Harrington-McInnes Company, Printers unknown books
Oakland California: Pacific Press Publishing Co 1894. 1st edition thus Rocq 798. Decorative brown cloth stamped in black & gilt with gold cord tie. Green floral patterned-paper eps. Soiling & wear to boards. An About VG copy. 12 pp of text at front detailing the 'Annual Encampment'. 8 pages of text at rear on Oakland. Chromolithographed frontis showing four medals. 75 b/w Oakland images from photographs on 18 leaves images to recto. Oblong format. 6-1/8" x 9-5/8" <br/><br/>An adaptation of an Oakland souvenir published by Pacific Press the year prior cf. Rocq 842. OCLC shows 9 holding institutions. Pacific Press Publishing Co hardcover books
San Francisco / Sacramento: Henry G. Langley & Samuel A. Mathews / James Queen 1857. 1st edition Cowan p 610; Greenwood CALIF IMPRINTS 882; Sabin 10044. Period maroon quarter leather binding with brown cloth boards. Flat back. Gilt spine lettering. Imperfect copy lacking title leaf. Ex-lib though with few indications of prior library service. Faint evidence of bookplate to front paste-down. Square & tight. With a nod to the missing leaf VG. viii 384 pp. Preliminary 4 pp are adverts at front as are pp. 353 - 384. 12mo. 7-3/4" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/> Henry G. Langley & Samuel A. Mathews / James Queen hardcover books
New York: F. M. Lupton 1886. Early printing. Printed self-wrappers. Age toning to paper. Two stab holes in margin along spine. A VG copy. 16 pp text triple column. Ornamental masthead. Folio. 11-5/8" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/> F. M. Lupton unknown books
Oakland Calif: Oakland Blue Book Company Publishers. Issued from the Press of the Oakland Enquirer 1903. 1st edition. Not found in Rocq nor on OCLC. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gold stamping to front board. Cloth dull. Age toning to eps. A VG copy. 3 - 163 5 pp. Includes 2 seating charts for the MacDonough Theatre at rear. Printed on blue paper. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/> Oakland Blue Book Company, Publishers. Issued from the Press of the Oakland Enquirer hardcover books
New York City: Issued by the Department of Education Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation 1919. 1st edition. Original publisher's blue cloth binding. Blue paper eps. Modest wear with bump to spine crown. Prior owner signature to ffep. A VG copy. 88 2 blank pp. Color frontis from a painting of the NC-4 in flight over the ocean. Text profusely illustrated with photographic images. Maps. 4to. <br/><br/> Issued by the Department of Education Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation hardcover books
New York: The Stillson Press 1928. 1st printing. Color pictorial paper wrappers stapled. Rear wrapper & inner front wrapper with adverts. Modest wear & a hint of age-toning to wrappers. A few leaves with top corner dog-eared. Withal a VG copy. 3 - 18 4 pp. Text double column. 4 pages of adverts conclude booklet. 16 Illustrations from b/w photographs. 2 page map at center depicting the "Route of the Collyer - Mears Record Breaking Flight Around the World." 11" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/>A special edition of "The Fairchild Aerogram" providing an account of the 1928 round the world trip made by Charles B.D. Collyer and John Henry Mears. OCLC records 6 holding institutions. The Stillson Press unknown books
Providence: Published and Sold by N. Bangs Williams n. d. 1st printing. Original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers. Modest wear & soiling. Last few leaves with rash to lower margin no text loss. Withal a VG copy. 51 1 blank pp. 7-1/2" x 4-1/8" <br/><br/>An interesting gathering of financial data from the civil war period and one can't help but wonder at the impetus for its compilation & publication. OCLC records 4 institutional holdings. Published and Sold by N. Bangs Williams unknown books
Stockholm 1829. Blue paper-covered boards originally with leather spines leather almost completely worn away; handwritten titles with dates pasted to front covers. Boards separated on 4 volumes and in some volumes leaves are gathered and tied with ribbon but are loose inside notebook; some ties are broken. Some light foxing mostly on end papers each volume. Script is slightly faded but legible in all volumes. Library discard stamp on versos of covers of Vols. A and 8 and on ffep of Vol. 4. Overall a Good set. 7 notebooks: numbered 2 - 6 8 & 'A'. Each volume with index except for No. 6: "Alterations on the Tariff Duties on Exports 1820 to 1824". 10-1 4" x 9" except Vol. 2: 9-1 2" x 7-1 2". <br/><br/>When Jean Bernadotte was crowned Charles XIV King of Sweden and Norway in 1818 he began to introduce the ecomomic policies that would revitalize the country and move it towards industrialization. His government encouraged free enterprise and industrialized manufacturing which soon helped to establish Sweden as a more powerful trade partner for major European countries and especially Great Britain. Sweden already had a complicated customs system in place that charged major levies on foreign trade. Charles XIV improved and promoted the tariff system soon paid off all foreign debt increased the national revenue and greatly enriched his government. His next step was to develop a policy of peace abroad and beneficial diplomatic relations with Sweden’s trade partners. Benjamin Bloomfield 1st Baron Bloomfield was England’s answer to blunt the edge of Sweden’s aggressive customs policies. Named by his friend and confidant the Prince Regent as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Bernadotte Lord Bloomfield arrived in Stockholm in 1823. He apparently used these notebooks as a reference as he and his legation took steps to influence the customs process to England’s advantage. As he took up his official duties in Stockholm Lord Bloomfield encountered a wilderness of commercial negotiations that interrupted and particularly discouraged the trade of British manufactured goods for Sweden’s valued bar iron Baltic timber and oats. Fortunately King Charles XIV appreciated the manners and conversation of a foreign minister who had spent the best part of his life at the center of a brilliant court. In no time Lord Bloomfield’s work seemed to consist chiefly of feasting dancing and drinking champagne. He and Bernadotte became friends cementing the harmony of the two nations and as Lord Bloomfield hinted at the justice of rescinding the harder regulations he began to establish a freer and more favorable importation system. The delighted King George IV noted that Lord Bloomfield’s patriotism was unbounded. George Canning the brilliant politician and orator was Britain’s head of the Foreign Office at the time of Lord Bloomfield’s mission to Sweden. Lord Bloomfield’s dispatches of which these notebooks were a part were directed and addressed to him and his officers and it was his liberal polices that Lord Bloomfield carried out. Most volumes contain columns of individual commodities and their tariffs printed in Swedish with the same commodities amounts traded in import and export and their costs handwritten in English translation on opposite pages. The ordinances and proclamations are handwritten in English. There are no official court seals but spaces are left for them. Although at this time the Swedish government was working toward a declaration against slave trafficking the slave trade was still flourishing in the Caribbean. King George Lord Canning and Lord Bloomfield were determined to create an alliance between their countries for the suppression of the slave trade.These lists do not mention slaves as a commodity but laid in to the volume lettered A is a proclamation regulating slave trading in Saint-Barthelemy a Swedish-owned island with a thriving duty-free port. The listed commodities vary from volume to volume and reveal the vast quantity of goods in almost all cases traveling between countries by ship: a single page from one notebook includes tariffs for arrack brandy coffee glass rum wood spars staves woven goods ribbons of silk and velvet cinnamon cardamom currants fennel seeds almonds vanilla liquorice ginger cloves pepper porcelain tea oranges agates alabaster feathers tiles and bricks furs and hides cannon and gun stocks. Contents of Notebooks by Volume: No.2: On Exports of Sweden to Foreign Parts Published the 17 of April 1799 and continued in force to the year 1816. No. 3:.On Imports of Sweden from Foreign Parts – published the 20 March 1816 and continued in force to the year 1824. No. 4: On Exports ofSweden to Foreign Parts published the 24 April 1816 and continued in force to the year 1818 inclusive. No. 5: On Exports of Sweden to Foreign Parts published the 22 December 1818 and continued in force to the year 1824 inclusive. No. 6: Alterations in the Tariff Duties on Exports 1820 to 1824. No. 8: Imports or exports of Sweden published the 16 March 1826 and acted upon at and from the 1st June said year and now in force with the exceptions stated in the Ordinances of 13 December 1826 and 29 Dec.r 1827. A. Alterations in the Tariff of Duties of Customs for 1827-1828; Dues Levied under the Title of Convoy Duty; Treaty Between Sweden and Russia in which the Rate of Duty to be paid on the Commerce between Sweden and Finland is stated; Proclamations regulating the trade of St. Bartholemew sic; Containing No.9 10 11 12 13 & 14. 12 missing; presumably the Treaty Between Sweden and Russia which is not present. No. 13 and 14 in this volume are handwritten on large sheets of folded laid paper. A wonderful primary source for documenting this aspect of British ecomomic history. hardcover books
Sausalito CA: Windgate Press 1993. 1st printing. Black cloth portfolio in faux leather style. Black cloth spine. 3 cloth ties. Printed gold paper label to front cover. A Nr Fine copy. 4 pages of explanatory text. A suite of 25 reproduction images all captioned of period black & white photographic images documenting divers aspects of 19th C. San Francisco. 1 folding panorama. Folio. 14-1/4" x 18" <br/><br/> Windgate Press hardcover books
Stockholm: Norstedt & Soner 1857. 1st printing cf. Forbes #2193 incorrectly noting an 1856 publication date. Lacks wrappers with last leaf detached. Age-toning. The odd stain. A VG copy. 27 1 pp. Text in two columns Swedish & English. 4to. 7-3/4" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>This treaty between Hawaii & Sweden apparently one of the first if not the first international treaties ratified by Kamehameah IV reigned 1855 - 1863. NB. Forbes #2193 notes a date of 1856 listing the copy at Hawaii State Archives. We have checked that copy which also has the 1857 date on p. 28. Both copies recorded by OCLC note an 1857 imprint date as here. Norstedt & Soner unknown books
Oakland California: Published by The Board of Port Commissioners 1933. 1st printing. White paper wrappers printed in orange & black. A VG copy. 40 pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographic images. 8vo. <br/><br/>A wealth of material on aviation between the wars as practiced in the San Francisco East Bay. Published by The Board of Port Commissioners unknown books
San Francisco 1898. 1st printing. Printed self-wrappers sewn. Age toning to wrappers. A VG copy. 2 13 1 blank pp. Unopened. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-5/16" <br/><br/>OCLC records 6 institutional holdings. unknown books
San Francisco Cal: Charles C. Hoag Publisher 1907. 1st edition thus Rocq 11836. Publisher's original blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board. Gilt bright. Modest wear with slight gutter break after p. 2. A VG - VG copy. 624 pp. Inserted leaves of adverts. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6" <br/><br/>The volume also includes other cities throughout the state such as Los Angeles Pasadena Santa Barbara & San Diego. Charles C. Hoag, Publisher hardcover books
Harlingen: The Confederate Air Force 1981. Black paper wrappers stapled with blue and white title lettering printed to front wrapper. A VG copy. 32 pp. Profusely illustrated with photographic images in b/w and color. 11" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/> The Confederate Air Force unknown books
Washington: Government Printing Office n. d. Currently housed in a mylar sleeve. Very light staining to bottomright corner. Withal a VG copy. A single sheet folded once. 9" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/> [Government Printing Office] unknown books
Washington: Government Printing Office 1880. Disbound. Currently housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. 9 1 blank pp. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/> Government Printing Office unknown books
Washington: Government Printing Office 1879. Disbound. Currently housed in a mylar sleeve. Off set from rusty paper clip to front and rear pages. Withal a VG copy. 7 1 blank pp. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> [Government Printing Office] unknown books
New York: Published by the Company 1868. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers with elaborate lithographed graphic to front wrapper. Bit of light soiling & age-toning to wrappers. Faint vertical fold-line. A VG to Nr Fine copy and unusual thus. 32 pp. Frontis "Map of the Union Pacific Rail Road and its Connections." 8vo. p" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>A progress report as well as promotional pamphlet issued by the company 2 April 1868 keeping their efforts in front of the public as well as Congress who was providing the financial underwriting. Published by the Company unknown books
Washington: Government Printing Office 1883. 1st printing. Disbound. Currently housed in a mylar sleeve. Sunning to rear pages light foxing to foredge. Withal a VG copy. 60 4 blank pp including appendix. 9" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/> [Government Printing Office] unknown books
Nurnberg: Wolffgang Endter 1640. 1st edition. Period full vellum binding with yapp edges; 2 cloth-tie stubs to each cover. Title hand-inked to spine. Light blue edgestain. Square & tight. Vellum soiled. Ex-lib with bookplate & call number stamp to bottom margin of Vol I t.p. A VG copy. 16 246 pp. Engraved title leaf. Folding map. Head- Tailpiece. 24mo in 12s. 4-5/8" x 2-1/4" <br/><br/>This volume bound with Emmius' GRAECORVM RESPVBLICAE Elzevir 1632 Tavistock Books' ID #35198. Price is for this one volume containing both works. Wolffgang Endter hardcover books
New York: The New York Times 1919. Currently housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Single sheet folded twice as a newspaper. Profusely illustrated with photographic images and advertisments. 22-1/2" x 16-1/2" <br/><br/>This newspaper contains images of Lieutenant Ormer C. Locklear ".the world only aviator so far to transfer from one airplane to another when both planes were at top speed." and another image of "Lieutnant Locklear swinging head down from his airplane preparatory to dropping to another which is to fly under him." In addition there is a image of Friedrich Ebert delivering his address of acceptance as the first president of Germany. The New York Times unknown books
San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1938. Printed self-wrappers. Lacks slipcase. Light sunning and very light wear. Withal all VG set. 12 pamphlets complete. Each pamphlet with a beautiful color illustrated image. Oblong format: 8-1/4" x 10" <br/><br/>No. 1 - San Francisco No. 2 - Monterey No. 3 - Sacramento City No. 4 - Santa Barbara No. 5 - Santa Cruz No. 6 - Los Angeles No. 7 - Marysville No. 8 - Stockton No. 9 - Crescent City No. 10 - Benicia and Surroundings No. 11 - San Diego No. 12 - San Jose. The Book Club of California unknown books
Washington: United States of America Government Printing Office 1905. 1st edition. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine only. VG. 2 708 2 pp. 9-1/4" x 6" <br/><br/> United States of America Government Printing Office hardcover books
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company n. d. Revised edition Eighty-Third Thousand. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt & black stamping. Slight cock. Modest binding wear. A VG copy. viii 265 1 blank pp. Frontis of Fisk. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5" <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin and Company hardcover books
Dayton: The Otterbein Press 1924. 1st printing. Gold embossed blue wrappers stapled. Cover title: "International Air Races. Dayton - Ohio. October 2-3-4-1924. Some edgewear to wrappers. Faint vertical fold line. A VG copy. 63 1 pp. At front tipped-in coupon to receive after September 26 "one copy of 'Score Card of the Races' which will also give Complete List of Entries for Each Event." Practically every page with one illustration; many with multiple. Most from photographs. 11-1/8" x 8-5/8" <br/><br/>At the time of this 1924 event the series beginning in 1920 at Roosevelt Field NY Dayton "birth place of the flying machine & home of the Wright Brothers" viewed itself as the "Air City of America" who herein welcomes the world's best aviators for the 5th Race. As well as a souvenir of the Air Races the brochure also used as a promotional vehicle for the city & provides general history of aviation. The program now somewhat scarce with OCLC recording just 6 holdings. The Otterbein Press unknown books
Washington: United States of America Government Printing Office 1911. 1st edition. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. VG Part II front hinge loosening. 2 volumes 807 1; 1617 1 pp. 9-1/4" x 6" <br/><br/>Texan Correspondence Part I not present in this set. United States of America Government Printing Office hardcover books
Placerville 1952. 1st appearance. Custom bound in blue "marbled" cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board. 1st book with abrasion to rear board. Paper yellowing as usual. Withal a VG to Nr Fine set. 16 of 18 volumes in 8 books. Most issues 16 pp. Illustrated. Small Folio. 13-3/4" x 10-1/2" <br/><br/>A wonderful resource for students of Western America- within are personal reminiscences interviews with those that lived the "West" etc. etc. hardcover books
London: Sold by Rivington . Hatchard . and Asperne 1806. 1st edition. Original blue printed wrappers bound in early blue paper boards. Later boards worn. Leaf edges curled with outer leaves showing age toning to edges. A Good copy. 94 pp. Untrimmed. Lacks concluding List of Subscribers; that text present is complete. Head- tailpieces. 8vo: A - M4 -M4. <br/><br/> Sold by Rivington ... Hatchard ... and Asperne hardcover books
New York: HarperCollins 2006. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. A Fine copy in a similar jacket. x 2 371 1 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> HarperCollins hardcover books
New York: RCA Institutes Technical Press 1937. 1st edition. Original publisher's blue printed wrappers. Volume I - VG. Volume II - VG cocked/general wear & soiling to wrappers/pos 'Joseph Razek' dated October 1937. Mr Razek most likely the noted Penn physicist. 2 volumes 462; 435 1 pp. Illustrated from photographs with charts diagrams etc. 8vo. <br/><br/>An excellect summation technical & otherwise of Television & its Industry through 1937. RCA Institutes Technical Press unknown books
Belmont California: Wadsworth Publishing Company 1963. 1st edition. Linen cloth binding stamped with dark brown lettering. Dust jacket. NF/VG age toning. x 403 1 pp including Index. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> Wadsworth Publishing Company hardcover books
London: Printed for Matthew Simmons dwelling in Aldersgate-street 1649. 1st edition issue with 'Parlament' Wing E-1498 noting "Part of E1505". Disbound with leather remnants to spine. Age toning to text block edges. A VG copy. 2 12 - 28 = 18 pp. P. 13 misnumbered as p. 12. Printed glosses to pp 19-20. Headpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 4to: 2 C-D3 -D4 a blank. 6-7/8" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/> Printed for Matthew Simmons dwelling in Aldersgate-street hardcover books
Oakland: Frederick M. Husted Publisher. Printed at the Oakland Enquirer Office 1902. 1st edition Rocq 719. Bound in a Roycroft-style blue suede binding gilt stamped lettering to front cover by the Hicks-Judd Company. Blue felt eps. A VG copy. 157 3 pp. 18 pages of adverts at rear including 2 seating charts for the MacDonough Theatre. Main text printed letterpress on stiff paper stock with t.p. & Introduction printed in red & black. Adverts done offset on thin slick stock. 8vo. 9" x 6" <br/><br/>A fairly scarce work and apparently the first to do so exclusively that documented the social scene of the San Francisco East Bay as it was comprised during the first part of the 20th Century. the book "comprehends or should comprehend in concise and elegant form all information required by ladies of Society.". from the Introduction. Frederick M. Husted, Publisher. Printed at the Oakland Enquirer Office unknown books