1949 Franklin High School Tolo Yearbook
Franklin High School, 1949. Hardcover. A near fine copy free of student signatures aside from the former owner's.
Collectible Books
Aberdeen Proving Ground. Maryland. 7th Battalion, 2nd Regiment. 1946
Army and Navy Publishing Company, 1947. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Black embossed front cover with eagle and inset red and yellow diamond with black lettering, 'arma virumque' in banner inside diamond. Minor spotting to back cover; coners bumped; else fine.
Abhandlungen zur Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte. Band II. Festschrift zur Feier des 25Jahrigen Bestehens der Frankfurter Gesellscaft...
H. Bechhold Verlag, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. 140 pages with 21 plate pages. Plates in color and B/W. Text in German. 12.75 x 10 inches. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in decorated paper over boards and black cloth covers. Pasted title page in tan on front cover.....
Album von Jagd- und Luxus-Hunden: Sieger der Offenen Klassen auf den Ausstellungen des Jahres 1904 [Cover title]
Verlag des 'Sportblatt' Kern & Birner, 1904. First Edition. Ephemera. Portfolio of 141 loose black-and-white plates with photo reproductions showing Open Class Winners of Hunting and Luxury Dogs from the 1904 Exhibitions. Text in German. Depicts 38 breeds including Dachshund, Fox Terriers, Setters, Basset, St. Bernard, Collie, Bulldog, Doberman Pincher.....
American Book Prices Current (111 Volumes)
First Edition. Hardcover. Collection includes 99 volumes of ABPC 1895-2004; missing vols. 1968, 1969, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1998. Additionlly there are 12 ABPC Indices: 1970-1975 (2 vols); 1975-1979 (2 vols.); 1979-1983 (2 vols.); 1983-1987 (2 vols.); 1987-1991 (2 vols.); 1991-1995 (2 vols.). Total = 111.....
The Anchor. Company 73-173. U.S. Naval Training Center. San Diego, California
Military Division. American Yearbook Company, 1966. Hardcover. Unpaginated. White covers with embossed gold lettering and decorations in blue and gold on front cover. Covers mildly scuffed and dusty. Top of spine chipped. Corners bumped. Top edge offront and back cover dented. Small (2mm) shallow chip to front cover. Contents fine.....
The Anchor. United States Naval Training Center. Company 55-684. San Diego
(Taylor Publishing), 1955. Hardcover. Small class of just 70 sailors. Illustrated commemorative yearbook. Near fine, hardcover.
The Anchor. United States Naval Training Center. San Diego, California. Company 536
Albert Love Enterprises, 1958. Hardcover. Commenced Training 11 September 1958. Completed Training 14 November 1958. Unpaginated. Dark blue covers with embossed ship hull with gold lettering and anchor on front cover. A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Cover edges bumped.
Aurora. Rice Lake, Wisconsin, High School Yearbook. 1962
Taylor Publishing Company, 1962. Hardcover.
Author Photo Scrapbooks (2 volume set)
Hardcover. Set of two matching scrapbooks, one 9-1/4 by 12 inches with [30] pages, and the other 10-3/4 by 14 inches with [15] pages. Each filled with pasted black-and-white portraits of nineteenth century authors to the pages and endpapers, most of which include an example of the authors' signatures. Most.....
The Banks of Sweet Dundee (broadside songsheet)
H. De Marsan, 1861-63. First Edition. Broadside. Broadside songsheet, 10.25 x 6.6 inches. Ten 4-line stanzas. 'H. DeMarsan, Publisher, 54 Chatham str, New-York' printed at bottom of sheet. Decorative border with 'comic heads.' Cf. Edwin Wolf, American Song Sheets, border S. H. De Marsan operated at 54 Chatham St from.....
Blue and White Brocaded Vase (chromolithograph)
n.d., ca. 1900. Print. Print, 7 x 10.5 inches, printed in blue and white on tan paper. Identified as Plate XLII with sheet describing the vase: 'of Persian form...The mark inscribed underneath is a leaf, outlined in blue, a common sign of the K'ang-hsi period (1662-1722), to which this little.....
Books Illustrated by Modern French Painters ... From the Collection of Carlton Lake [Auction Catalog]
Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1948. Trade Paperback. 91 pages. 303 items. Lake wrote an engaging memoir of his collecting life called Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist. Very good in wrappers; somewhat tanned, some tears to the yapped edges.
Bureau of Ethnology Print
Print.
California Gold Rush Wood Engraving [Cover title]
Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1967. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Single sheet, folded, with engraving printed from the original woodblock. In dark blue wrappers. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Corner creased on rear cover.
Camera Craft (6 issues)
Camera Craft, 1912-1929. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Each issue about 50 pages with multiple pages of ads. Numerous photographic illustrations in each issue. Vol. XIX, No. 1, January, 1912; Vol. 22, No. 11, November, 1916; Vol. XXXII, No. 2, February, 1925; Vol. XXXII, No. 5, May, 1925; Vol. XXXIII, No.....
Chart Showing the Tracks of the U.S.S. Juniata and Tigress and of 'Little Juniata' (map)
U.S. Government, 1873. First Edition. Map. Map, 24.6 x 18 inches, inside borders; sheet size, 26 x 19.1 inches. Chart shows the daily routes of the ships involved in searching for the survivors of the 'Polaris,' captained by Charles Francis Hall, in an attempt to reach the North Pole. In.....
Chip 1956 South Fork Junior High School (Miranda, CA)
Trade Paperback.
The City of the Saints, Containing Views and Descriptions of Principal Points of Interest in Salt Lake City and Vicinity; also Brief Sketches of the History and Religion of the Latter-Day Saints
George Q. Cannon & Sons Co., (n.d., ca. 1895). Hardcover. 66 pages. Sixteen pages of black-and-white illustrations of scenes and individuals. Oblong format, 7.25 x 5.25 inches. A very good copy in red cloth with gilt lettering and illustration on front cover. General edge and corner wear. Rear cover is.....
CLAN-O-LOG 1946 Piedmont, California Yearbook (Volume 24, June 1946)
Student Body of Piedmont High School, 1946. Unknown. First edition. Very good copy in decorated paper covers. Turtleback binding. Mild surface wear. Numerous saluatations and signatures on endpapers.
CLAN-O-LOG 1947 Volume 25 Yearbook. Piedmont High School, Piedmont, California
Student Body of Piedmont High School, 1947. Hardcover. First edition. Very good copy in decorated paper over board covers. Surface and corner wear. Portion of spine cover paper is torn. Many signatures on endpapers.
CLAN-O-LOG 1949, Volime 27, Yearbook. Piedmont High School, Piedmont, California
Associated Student Body of Piedmont High School, 1949. Hardcover. First edition. Very good copy in decorated paper over board covers. Mild surface wear. Contents are loose but complete. Many signatures on endpapers.
CLAN-O-LOG 1950 Yearbook, Piedmont High Scool, Piedmont, California
Associated Student Body Piedmont High School, 1950. Hardcover. First Edition. Vrey good copy in decorated paper over board covers. Cover and edge wear. Many signatures and salutations on endpapers.
Commentaire litteral sur tous les livres de l'ancien et du nouveau testament
Chez Pierre Emery, 1713. Hardcover. Paginated [4], xx, 404, 527. Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Quarto measuring approx. 10.5 x 8 inches. Bound in full leather of the period, spine with 5 bands, decorated in gilt, spine label lettered in gilt; pages clean and unmarked, binding square and tight, light overall.....
The Committee of Concern for the Traditional Indian [caption title]
Committee of Concern for the Traditional Indian, (ca. 1971). Ephemera. 11 by 8-1/2 inches. Single sheet, printed on one side, laying out the goals of the CC/TI. The group, of which Gary Snyder seems to have been the most prominent member, was 'dedicated to the protection of aboriginal rights, including.....