1935. Trade Paperback. 13 by 9 inches. 48 leaves, with tissue interleaving. More than 200 small photographs depicting family visits around Germany in 1934-1935. All the the images are captioned in a neat hand. The album opens with four views of a Nazi rally. Other images show the Graf Zeppelin.....
Art Ray, 1950s. Photograph. 'The founder Mr. Schmock labored eight months digging the 7 foot hole, 32 feet long, thru solid wood,' showing a man in front of a hollowed out log (number 1877); and no. 1880, depicting the log finished and on a truck bed.
France Illustration, 1947. Print.
Pacific Book Auction Galleries. Trade Paperback.
Bell & Company, n.d., but 1873. First Edition. Broadside. Broadside ballad, 10.25 x 4.25 inches, 5 stanzas with chorus. Ornamental border. California Song Sheets, by G. W. Hunt. Not in Wolf. First edition (first printing). A very good copy with some edge wear.
William Stanley Ray, 1901. Print.
Golden West Printing Company, 1941. Hardcover.
John Henry Nash, 1936. First Edition. Broadside. Broadside, single sheet, folded once, 15.5 x 10.8 inches. Printed in black on white with decorative borders. 'A Citation read by the President of the University of San Francisco, at the Seventy-Seventh Commencement Exercises, May 24, 1936. Now imprinted by John Henry Nash.....
Obelisk, 1968. Trade Paperback. 160 pages. Claims to be the first American printing of this erotic novel first published in 1897 (there was an early dual London and New York edition but it seems to have been printed abroad). Sometimes attributed to Charles Algernon Swinburne, but that is roundly rejected.....
1895. Ephemera. 5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. Form letter addressed to Mayor Sutro, printed in blue ink, supporting the appointment of Samuel Foster to the newly created San Francisco Board of Election Commissioners. One corner bent, else fine. Signed by J. M. Agar of Mission St. According to the Langley directory.....
1856. Print.
ca. 1950. Ephemera. A charming original illustration, probably for Bonzo's Annual, of a pig playing the accordion while a mouse and a frog dance. Marginal production marking, else very good or better.
New York Committee to Free (Angela Davis and) All Political Prisoners, [1972]. Pamphlet. [8] pages. 8-1/4 by 10-7/8 inches. A call for support for four organizing conferences to be held around the country in December 1972 to convince the hundreds of local Angela Davis defense committees to continue working for.....
Harvard Yearbook Publications, Inc., 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. The Freshman Register of the Class of 1963. Also includes Cambridge 38: A Home for the HDC Soc Sci: Information or Inspiration? A Guide to Woman's Colleges, also Fiction, Poetry Cartoons. Maroon cloth covers with gold lettering and insignia to front cover.....
The Gallery, 1939. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 1 sheet folded twice to create 8 pages. A small pamphlet dedicated to promoting Catholic tenets. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Paper is browned.
Student Mobilization Committee to End the War, 1971. Ephemera. 12-page anti-war newspaper aimed at military personnel. Folded, as issued, but generally very good.
T. O. Erickson Maps. Map.
Alaska Territorial Chamber of Commerce, 1938. Pamphlet. 111 pages. 3-3/4 by 8-3/4 inches. A promotional brochure jointly issued by 15 city chambers of commerce. Near fine. Second edition? There was a 1937 edition, too.
Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Single yellow sheet folded, 15.4 x 11.25 inches when folded, enclosing single white sheet folded, 15 x 11 inches when folded, printed in red and black as prospectus for 'The Song of Songs' with 2 engravings by Lettice Sandford reproduced by collotype.....
Redwood Empire Association and Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, 1939. Ephemera. Five-panel double-folded brochure. With map showing major roads up the coast of California from San Francisco to Grants Pass, Oregon. Also illustrated with photographs. Some signs of use, but generally very good.
Saintin, (1822). Leather. 300 pages. 3-1/4 by 5-1/4 inches. Devotional prayer book. Text in French and Latin. Title translates to Great hours of the Court, for universal use. Dedicated to Madame de La Rochefoucault. Illustrated with four engravings. Red leather with gold border decoration and spine title. All edges gilt.....
American Bible Society, September 2001. Trade Paperback. Nestle-Aland Greek Text with English introduction and United Bible Societies' critical apparatus. Includes maps and key to sigla.
Edward Mitchell, (n.d. but ca. 1910-1920). Trade Paperback. 15 leaves with mounted reproductions of black-and-white photographs.
Pageant Books, Inc., 1960. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 6 unnumbered pages with 4 pages of text discussing the history of the Gutenberg Bible and the printing details for the Pageant Gutenberg Bible. 2 illustrated facsimile illuminated pages. Text printed by lithography and illustrations by sheet-fed gravure. Printed on rag paper.....
Pageant Books, Inc., 1960. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 6 unnumbered pages with 4 pages of text discussing the history of the Gutenberg Bible and the printing details for the Pageant Gutenberg Bible. 2 illustrated facsimile illuminated pages. Text printed by lithography and illustrations by sheet-fed gravure. Printed on rag paper.....