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1983rif. 75708n.p. 1983. Paperback. Very Good. photos 60p. Wrapper. 28cm. Minor wear. Name and phone number in pencil on cover. Organization founded in 1954 of golf clubs organized by African Americans in California and other Western states. According to their 2022 website about 27 clubs including three asterisked as "predominantly female" clubs were members of this organization. paperback books
1958rif. 75538Pittsburgh 1958. Paperback. Very Good. Single sheet folded to form a narrow eight-page booklet. 22cm. paperback books
1960rif. 12247London: Hamish Hamilton 1960. cloth dust jacket. Type Specimens. 8vo. cloth dust jacket. xv 196 pages. 180 full page specimens showing 24 Monotype 1 Intertype and 3 Linotype faces. Spine of jacket slightly faded else a fine copy in fine jacket. Designed by John Ryder. Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1932rif. M15002Cleveland:: The Academy of Medicine of Cleveland 1932. 1932. 8vo. 110 pp. Illus. Brown decorative wrappers upper cover with printed label. Very good. With contributions from Howard Dittrick Marion Noville Gibbons Thomas J. Hill J. Richie Horner Harry C. Rosenberger John P. Sawyer Joseph T. Smith Edward Spease and Frederick C. Waite. / Among the pioneering physicians in the Cleveland area discussed are: Moses Thompson 1776-1858 – the first doctor in the Western Reserve David Long Peter Allen John Delamater 1787-1867 Aaron Strickland Storm Rosa 1791-1867 – advocate of homeopathic medicine Jared Potter Kirtland 1793-1877 Harvey Cushing Theodatus Garlick 1805-1884 – surgeon Benjamin Strickland 1810-1889 – Cleveland's first dentist Horace Ackley Proctor Thayer Myra K. Merrick 1825-1899 – was a pioneering woman physician and Isaac Newton Himes – Professor in the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology. The Academy of Medicine of Cleveland, 1932. unknown books
1955rif. 56693Oakland Ca.: Utsumi Studio 1955. Young Buddhists in California in 1954 Photographed by the Former Official Photographer of the Topaz Internment Camp An appealing panoramic photograph featuring the attendees of the 1955 conference of the Western Young Buddhist League. The photograph captures a few hundred finely-dressed Japanese-American men and women posed in a courtyard in Oakland California. Various delegates to the conference hold handwritten signs indicating their home cities and regional organizations which include Marysville Palo Alto San Mateo San Francisco Fresno Oakland Sacramento Delta Pasadena and numerous other smaller California cities and locales. There are also banners for attendees from the Stockton Chapter of the Y.B.A. the Coast District of the Young Buddhist Association and the Central California Young Buddhist Association. The elders of the organization sit in chairs in front of the young Bussei. Interestingly this photograph was taken by Oakland photographer Kinji Utsumi a photographer in the Bay Area both before and after World War II. Utsumi bought his photo studio in 1941 but was forced to close at the outset of the Japanese-American internment period. He then became one of the official photographers at the Topaz internment camp in Utah; he is mentioned in the RAMBLINGS yearbooks for Topaz High School during the internment period. After the war Utsumi returned to Franklin Street in Oakland and opened another photographic studio. A rare image of a large organization of young Japanese-American Buddhists in California in the middle of the Eisenhower years with no copies reported in OCLC. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph 8 x 30¼ inches. Minor edge wear a few soft creases mild surface soiling. Very good plus. unknown books
1954rif. 56687Fresno Ca.: Kamiyama 1954. Young Buddhists in California in 1954 Photographed by a Noted Japanese-American Photographer A substantial group photograph featuring the attendees of the 1954 conference of the Western Young Buddhist League. The photograph captures a few hundred finely-dressed Japanese-American men and women posed in a park in Fresno California. Various delegates to the conference hold handwritten signs indicating their home cities and regional organizations which include Stockton Lodi Delta Enmanji Marysville Sacramento Placer Palo Alto San Mateo Berkeley Florin Alameda San Francisco Oakland Fresno Selma Los Angeles San Diego Pasadena and numerous other California cities and locales. There are also contingents from Arizona the Western Young Buddhist League's Southern District the San Fernando Valley Young Buddhists the Coast District Young Buddhist Association and the Central California Young Buddhist Association. The elders of the organization sit in chairs in front of the young Bussei. Interestingly this photograph was taken by noted and prolific Fresno photographer Urasaburo "Frank" Kamiyama. Frank Kamiyama 1886-1974 was an important Japanese-American chronicler of his own community in Fresno and the surrounding area beginning in the early 20th century. He was arrested on March 27 1942 as one of eight "named Japanese alien enemies" and interned at Angel Island in California and in Santa Fe New Mexico during World War II. His family including his wife Mitan and their four daughters were interned separately at Rohwer in Arkansas the easternmost of the Japanese internment camps. After the war Kamiyama continued to photograph the lives of Japanese Americans in California until his death. A rare image of a large organization of young Japanese-American Buddhists in California in the Eisenhower years with no copies reported in OCLC. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph 10 x 35¾ inches. Minor edge wear some creasing and abrading at top right corner a few soft creases four small circular stains near bottom right corner. About very good overall. unknown books
1872rif. 29311Various places. ca. 1872. Views in Hawaii New Zealand and on the Central Pacific Railroad An excellent collection of views quite early for Hawaii and New Zealand. The four views of Honolulu include one wide view of the town a view of a side street with a church steeple in the background the Pali mountain pass and the harbor with several large vessels at anchor. In New Zealand the Supreme Court building in Christchurch and the city of Littleton are displayed. The San Francisco images include the Palace Hotel and the famous Cliff House. Of particular interest are the three views of the Central Pacific Railway. The sections of the track include Capestown the Palisade and Summit Station each with fresh evidence of the line's recent completion. Also in the collection is one image of a railroad along the banks of Salt Lake and three wide views of Salt Lake City one with the Mormon tabernacle completed in 1871 prominently featured. An attractive collection of views each quite displayable. Twelve cards each 17 x 13 inches a.e.g. with manuscript captions in lower margins. Images are 9 x 6½ inches except the two oval images of San Francisco. Some minor soiling on cards some images slightly faded. Very good. Archivally matted protected with a mylar sheet. unknown books
1910rif. List3830N.p. 1910. Original real photo postcard on AZO stock stamp box with four upward-pointing triangles dating it to ca. 1904-1918; likely 1910s. Unused postcard back. Light wear and soiling with some surface marks and age toning. A real photo postcard of Bill Pickett the African American cowboy rodeo performer and early motion picture actor showing Pickett standing in a long overcoat and wide-brimmed hat holding a pistol at his side with a painted western landscape backdrop behind him. Bill Pickett was one of the best-known Black cowboys and rodeo performers of the early twentieth century. Born in Texas in 1870 he became famous for bulldogging later known as steer wrestling and worked in western shows and early motion pictures. This portrait shows him in a staged cowboy presentation with hat overcoat pistol and painted western backdrop emphasizing the public persona of the rodeo performer as much as the working cowboy. We find no other examples of this image or of studio portraits of Pickett in auction records or the trade. unknown books
1839rif. 4904Edinburgh: Printed for the Maitland Club 1839. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 28 cm; xxiv 185 pages. Bound in contemporary red half morocco over pebbled boards edged with gilt rules . Spine decorated and titled in gilt. Marbled endleaves. Moderate wear especially at extremities with spine chipped a bit at heel. Two labels removed from pastedowns. A little foxing at front blank and the pages are not bright but text is effectively unblemished. Reference: Graesse 4 92; First printing of a fifteenth-century Scottish version of the Arthurian romance that was composed for the court of James III. It survived in a unique and incomplete manuscript in the Cambridge library. The text was edited by the librarian of Durham Cathedral Joseph Stevenson and published by the Maitland Club an association dedicated to the promotion of Scottish literature and culture. Printed for the Maitland Club hardcover books
1926rif. 2789London: Great Western Railway 1926. 1/4 Cloth Over Boards. Fair. 4to. 74 photo halftones; 4 brightly silkscreened plates of heraldric crests; folded map of Great Western Railway routes in special pocket. Book is rather slack shaken faded soiled rubbed and bumped but overall sound and entire. Great Western Railway hardcover books
1907rif. 13196San Francisco: Chief Engineer's Office 1907. Three blueprints each about 18 x 24 inches. Old folds noticeable chipping to edges occasionally costing minor content near the margins. Good condition. A trio of blueprints detailing the Western Pacific Railroad's standard 20-x-32-foot Desert Depot structure. This standard building plan was created for the depots between San Francisco and Salt Lake City in the Nevada Desert. The blueprints include side views of the building plain views floor plans details of footings overall foundation construction details of prominent structural support and so forth. The layout of the office reveals that each would have a telegraph office at front and center a conductors room at the right of the building three bedrooms and a kitchen. A wonderful relic of the western railroad. Chief Engineer's Office unknown books
rif. 40073AUTOMOBILE TRADE CATALOGUE WESTERN AUTO SUPPLY COMPANY. AUTO SUPPLIES 1926. $95.00 Los Angeles: 1926. 8vo. Colored pictorial wrappers. 128 pages. Third edition. Scarce automobile supply catalogue. OCLC records several editions usually only in single or double copies but none for 1926. A richly illustrated trade catalogue of the range of stock items on everything to do with cars each with description and prices- tires batteries work uniforms touring motor coats paints headlights radiators steering wheels tools machinery accessories spark plugs camping equipment including "running board restaurants." Brightly colored wrappers with several stately automobiles in town traffic edges chipped else very good. 40073. unknown books
rif. 38902TRADE PROMOTION WESTERN PINE ASSOCIATION. PONDEROSA PINE: THE PICK OF THE PINES; ITS PROPERTIES USES AND GRADES. Los Angeles: 1935. 4to. Printed stiff wrappers. 80 pages. The second edition was printed in 1931 with up to ten editions well into the 1950's but only two of the 1935 edition are recorded on OCLC. A promotional booklet for the Western Pine Association featuring the Ponderosa Pine - the most prevalent species of pine found in the west - and printed for the Shevlin Pine Sales Company in Los Angeles. It features a "History of pine" "The manufacture of Ponderosa Pine" "Characteristics and properties of Ponderosa Pine" "Installations of Ponderosa Pine" "Recommended grades of Ponderosa Pine for specific uses" "Standard manufactured and rough dry sizes" "Illustrations and descriptions of standard grades of Ponderosa Pine lumber" and "Distribution of Ponderosa Pine." Illustrations include the use of Ponderosa Pine in homes interiors commercial buildings millword etc. Very good. unknown books
rif. 289CLELAND WESTERN Hugh. SERENADE. Chicago: Walter M. Hill 1926. Large 8vo. Boards dust jacket. 67 pages. First edition. Dust jacket and title page designed by Thomas Maitland Cleland the book itself was printed at The Lakeside Press. The dust jacket has a noticeable round tear in the front panel else a very good copy. unknown books
1935rif. 3380Various locations in Colorado New Mexico Arizona Wyoming and Utah 1935. Very good plus. Seventy-four leaves illustrated with 485 photographs and picture postcards between 2 x 3 inches and 4.75 x 6.75 inches occasionally annotated in manuscript in white pencil. Oblong folio. Contemporary black textured cloth string tied. Small stain near right edge of front cover. Internally very clean and well organized. A voluminous collection of photographs picturing the lives and travels of Pat and Marge Williams centered on their ranch in Colorado. The images capture the landscape and buildings on the ranch both exterior and interior as well as the livestock grain fields and more. Several photographs capture farming activities including the harvesting of the alfalfa crop and the threshing of the wheat. The album also includes photos of the area around the ranch and within Colorado in places such as North Park Estes Park Cheyenne Plains Grand Lake and Fort Collins with images of Long's Peak Mary's Lake Spanish Peaks Big Fish Lake White River Trapper's Lake and others. The album also features locations visited by the compiler in the American West and Southwest with informative photos of Taos Mountain Cimarron Canyon Kit Carson's house the pueblos and ruins in Taos and Puye House Rock Valley Bryce Canyon Zion Canyon and other sites in New Mexico Arizona Wyoming and Utah. Some of the original photographs and postcards feature Native American subjects such as Native American women in Taos "Victoriano Sisneras and Wife" in Puye and Navajo rug weavers at work in Arizona. Other interesting images depict a "Hopi Watch Tower" in the Grand Canyon the Mojave Desert "Old Fort Bridger" in Wyoming "Dinosaur tracks near Tuba City" and the Colorado River Bridge at Lee's Ferry. The final eighteen leaves encompassing about ninety-six photos and postcards mostly the latter record numerous scenes in various locations in Mexico. A far-reaching collection of vernacular images and pictorial postcards capturing numerous locations in the American West and Southwest during the mid-1930s. unknown books
1910rif. 3375Numerous locations including New Mexico Arizona California but mostly British Columbia 1910. About very good. Forty-six leaves illustrated with 232 photographs between 3.25 x 5.5 inches including forty small panoramic images measuring around 3.5 x 12 inches some manuscript annotations some images captioned in the negative. Oblong folio. Contemporary pebbled leather stamped in gilt "Grand Canyon and Canadian Rockies" on the front cover formerly string tied but binding and leaves now loose. One image roughly removed from the album minor chipping to some leaves but otherwise minor wear. An unusual and wholly engrossing collection of western American vernacular photography titled in manuscript on the first page "Views taken by M.H. Fussell of trip taken by Sarah E. Fussell and himself to Los Angeles to attend Amer. Med. Asso. On return trip via Canadian Rockies camping at Emerald Lake near Field Canada as seen by pictures." The author of this inscription was Dr. Milton Howard Fussell 1855-1921 longtime Philadelphia physician and instructor of clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania who was the head of the Medical Ward at Episcopal Hospital until shortly before his death. Dr. Fussell must have also had a passion for photography as the present photographs were apparently taken by him along the course of his trip to the west coast with many of the pictures displaying Dr. Fussell's captions in the negative. A few of the captions are written backwards adding to the amateur character of Dr. Fussell's otherwise well-composed pictures. While on the way to California Dr. Fussell's photographs begin in Chicago with a couple of small panoramas of Lincoln Park but the scene swiftly shifts to the American West with images of Native Americans among them shots of "Indian children" and an "Indian Village" a "Pueblo at Laguna" numerous shots of New Mexico Las Vegas Raton and Albuquerque several small panoramic scenes of the majestic Grand Canyon and more. During their visit to the Grand Canyon Dr. and Mrs. Fussell took the chance to snap portraits of each other under which the annotation reads "The climbers. It took 12 hours to make the trip up & down. Hot!!!" On the way to California Dr. Fussell also took a couple of images of Kansas and Nevada before proceeding to snap about a half dozen pictures of the Sacramento Valley. The photographs from this point forward constituting the majority of the pictures in the album concentrate on the latter half of Dr. and Mrs. Fussell's expedition to British Columbia and the Canadian Rockies. After visiting Victoria and Vancouver the Fussells stayed at Camp Crusoe on Emerald Lake. This portion of their trip includes a few more images of the travelers themselves including a shot of Sarah with a large dead black bear. In addition to several small panoramas of Emerald Lake Dr. Fussell captures scenes of the natural wonders of British Columbia such as Mt. Burgess Mt. Wapta Bow Valley Yoho River Emerald Glacier Valley of Ten Peaks Kicking Horse Canyon Bow River Lake Louise Moraine Lake Mirror Lake Fraser River and more. The last few leaves feature other scenes in British Columbia and elsewhere with a street scene in Banff a view of the "Prairie Town of Suscatchewan B.C." a handful of pictures featuring the Sierra Nevadas and several photos captioned "Over the Coast Range" taken from a train. A unique photographic record of a West Coast excursion taken by a notable Philadelphian and his wife in the early 20th century. unknown books
1905rif. List01130V.P. 1905. Twenty five silver gelatin photographs measuring 3 ⅜ square on slightly larger mounts. Slight fading to images excellent overall. Very Good. A collection of travel photographs most captioned likely taken by a N.E.A. delegate on a 1905 tour of the Southwest which ended in San Antonio and also including some photographs taken in Mexico in a presumed continuation of those travels. Several images mention delegates one sign on the side of a train car reads "welcome N.E.A. delegates" and the route matches one found in contemporary newspaper accounts of a trip through the Southwest in 1905. The images are mix of candid shots and tourist attractions with the Alamo represented as well as several events and some street scenes taken in Mexico. unknown books
1889rif. List1436St. Paul 1889. Cabinet card portrait measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Fine condition with great contrast. Fine. A striking portrait of a family taken by F. Jay Haynes in his St. Paul studio taken after 1889 when he opened it his last studio of his career. A family sits together one man holding a violin another with a revolver visible at his side. unknown books
1975rif. 71760Flagstaff AZ: Northland Press 1975. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Very good. SIGNED. 457pp. Quarto 30 cm 1/4 black with dark blue cloth over boards with silver lettering on the spine and a silver stamped vignette on the front cover. Light wear to the boards. Book in better than very good condition. In a black paper covered slipcase with general mild rubbing a small cosmetic crack to head of spine and a 8" scratch to the rear side panel. May require extra postage due to weight. The checklist includes illustrators such as Joe Beeler Edwin Willard Deming Tom Lea Carl Moon Charles Schreyvogel Alfred Jacob Miller and many others. Number 173 in an edition limited to 200 slipcased copies. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Additionally personally inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For___- Western art buff and collector- / my customer and friend who appreciates the / time and effort that it takes to compile a / checklist of over 1000 entries - All the best / Jeff. Northland Press hardcover books
1860rif. NF2164Life of Stephen A. Douglas United States Senator from Illinois With His most Important Speeches and Reports H. Dayton New York 1860 first edition of this issue 270 & 187 pp. spine faded else a tight vg copy with unbroken inner hinges and engraved frontispiece. Published anonymously as By a Member of the Western Bar. H. Dayton 1860 unknown books
2005rif. 1026352005. Softbound. As New. Color illustrated wraps. 185 pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Text is presented in Japanese. Extensively illustrated and annotated and significant addition to the literature on La Tour. paperback books
1897rif. Cat358New York: Willis Woodward & Co 1897. Folio sheet music complete. Illustrated color lithograph title page by Robert Teller. Covers detached contents complete good with lithographed cover in particularly bright and attractive condition. Sheet music issued at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush capitalizing directly on the surge of public interest following the discoveries in the Yukon in 1896–1897. The lithographed title page signed in style by Robert Teller shows a dramatic scene of prospectors working a gold deposit in the mountains with two miners in the foreground bent over a pile of freshly uncovered gold tools in hand. Theodore August Metz was a German-born musician trained on violin in Hanover who emigrated to the United States and worked various trades before establishing himself as a bandleader and composer in Chicago’s late 19th-century popular music scene. He achieved national prominence with “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight” 1896–97 a widely performed marching tune that became especially popular during the Spanish-American War and in minstrel and touring band repertories. OCLC 726910235 locating a single copy at the Levy Collection. Willis Woodward & Co unknown books
1994rif. 318151994. WESTERN Johnny. Signed Photograph. An 8- by 10-inch black-and-white photograph of Western standing in front of a microphone with a cowboy hat on inscribed along lower border: "To Joe- The Best from Johnny Western `94." $25.00. unknown books
1910rif. 184495Denver CO: the Union 1910. Leaflet 5.5x 9 inches. blank printed form very good condition. Form on which union member could file a complaint to have someone declared unfair. Includes details of physical appearance and residence apparently so that someone could not easily escape by using a pseudonym. Very good. the Union unknown books
1822rif. ST20877London: Printed for R. Ackermann 1822. First English Edition. 300 x 235 mm. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2". xvi 325 1 pp.Translated by Frederic Shoberl. Imposing contemporary crimson straight-grain morocco gilt covers with filigree frame with densely massed scrolling fleurons raised bands spine gilt in compartments with radiating viny scrolls surrounded by leaves and annular dots marbled endleaves all edges gilt. WITH 13 HAND-COLORED PLATES in etching and aquatint many after Japanese artworks one folding. Bookplate removed from front flyleaf. Bookseller's ticket of J. L. Thompson & Co Kobe Japan on front pastedown. Abbey Travel 557; Tooley 489; Martin Hardie "English Coloured Books" pp. 113-14. See also E. F. Strange "Japanese Illustration" pp. xxiii-xxiv. Spine and fore-edge of upper board slightly darkened a few minute flakes to lowest spine compartment but the binding extremely well preserved with very lustrous boards. Final 10 leaves slightly creased one repaired marginal tear but still A FINE COPY INTERNALLY exceptionally bright smooth and entirely fresh and clean. This generously proportioned production illustrated with 13 vibrant colored plates is a rare European account of Japan during the period in which the country was "closed" to the west offered here in its first English edition. Originally published in French in 1820 "Illustrations of Japan" is comprised of a history and description of the Tokugawa shogunate which Titsingh had translated from the Japanese plus Titsingh's own observations on the language customs and ceremonies of the Japanese people. The present English edition is accompanied by plates in etching and aquatint enhanced with hand coloring. Our author Dutch diplomat Isaac Titsingh 1745-1812 spent 14 years in Nagasaki for the Dutch East India company and between 1779-84 he served as trade director-cum-ambassador travelling to Edo now Tokyo for audiences with the shogun and other high officials in the shogunate. Unlike most of his Western contemporaries Titsingh was open-minded and curious about the people he encountered engaging with their art and culture; in fact art historian and Victoria & Albert Museum keeper Edward F. Strange tells us that Titsingh is the earliest known European collector of Japanese prints of which a number appear in the present volume. Our publisher Rudolph Ackermann 1764-1834 made his living issuing sumptuously illustrated books such as the present volume and was an early adopter of color aquatint and lithography technologies; Hardie writes that he was "the great presiding genius before whose magic wand so many pictorial books sprang into existence." In very attractive period morocco this is a particularly appealing copy of the work free of the foxing and offsetting that often plague copies of this and other large-format color illustrated books. Printed for R. Ackermann unknown books
