Collectible Books
Proceedings of Forty-Seventh Annual Encampment of United Spanish War Veterans Department of California. San Diego, California, May 21, 22, 23, 24, 1950
United Spanish War Veterans, 1950. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 94 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in blue wrappers (paperback). With typed addressed mailing envelope with printed return address.
Promenade de Longchamp (vues d'optique, concertina-style peepshow, 5 separated panels)
n.d., ca. late 19th century. Trade Paperback. 5 separated loose panels, 5.75 x 7.5 inches, with front and rear cover and 3 additional panels. Handcolored. A perspective view of the 18th - 19th century annual social event, the Promenade de Longchamp, which took place on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of.....
Queen Mother Visits Norwich Cathedral (Press Photo)
Wide World Photo, May 1938. Photograph. Roughly 9-1/2 by 7 inches. Original black-and-white photograph. Photo trimmed along the top. Minor wear to the edges, but a nice print. With the expected press markings on the back (verso) and a mimeographed caption tipped on. Note: Flatrate online shipping charges taken into.....
Quest for Truth: Degrees of the Scottish Rite (miniature book)
Long Beach Scottish Rite Bodies, n.d., ca. 1970. Novelty. Unpaginated, 38 pp. Miniature book, 1.75 x 1.25 inches. Printed with many colors. A fine copy.
Re- Elect Pierre Elliott Baboon (poster)
[Pulp Press], n.d., betw. 1970s-1985. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Poster, 17 x 11 inches, printed on tan paper with cut of baboon's head caricaturing Pierre Elliott Trudeau, between words of title. Below are listed the Baboon Party Platform. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy. Some tanning to poster.....
Report of the Committee of the Senate upon the Relations Between Capital and Labor, and Testimony Taken by the Committee. Volume III-Testimony
Government Printing Office, 1885. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 729 pages. Remains an important reference of the relationships between capital and labor during this period of the Gilded Age. First edition (first printing). Very good copy in wrappers (paperback). The covers are mildly soiled with edge chips and long tear on.....
Resist: a call to resist illegitimate authority. Newsletter #16. 23 September. 1968; #44, 22 July, 1970; #45, 18 August, 1970 ( 3 newsletters)
Resist, 1968, 1970. Trade Paperback. Newsletter #16, 6 pages; Newsletters #44 and 45, 4 pages. 3 newsletters. Newletter #16 is tanned, others near fine. All previously folded for mailing.
Riverside County, California [cover title]
(Cloister Print Shop), (ca. 1914-1915). Pamphlet. [32] pages. Printed in russet red ink throughout. Text within decorative borders; illustrated from photographs. Includes overviews of Riverside industry, with separate entries for each town. Dated from population reference on first text page. Highway map on back cover. One page with a 3-inch.....
[Rixon Cottage at Fairholm, Lake Crescent]
Ephemera. Real photo postcard (identified from the caption of another card made using the same negative). 'One of the early buildings near Fairholm was not a resort lodge or hotel but the small cabin of Caroline Jones, who settled on Lake Crescent in the early 1890s. Originator of the name.....
The Rose and the Lily (broadside songsheet)
H. De Marsan, 1861-63. First Edition. Broadside. Broadside songsheet, 10 x 6.75 inches. Five 8-line stanzas with 4-line chorus. 'H. De Marsan, Publisher, Songs, ballads, toy books, &c., 54 Chatham Street, New York' printed at bottom of sheet. Decorative border with 'Sparks' printed at bottom right of poem. First edition.....
Royal Velvet Book
J. E. Linde Paper Co., (ca. 1910). Pamphlet. [7] leaves of various weights. A number with printed illustrations. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Sacramento Air Materiel Area (McClellan Air Force Base) 1967 Yearbook
McClellan Air Force Base, 1967. Hardcover. 388 pages. Illustrated with thousands of pictures of military and civilian personnel stationed at the base. A near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Back cover with some scratches.
Samoa Cookhouse (2 pen and ink architectural drawings: showers, dry room and work room addn. to Cookhouse; new porch on west side of Cookhouse))
1922. Print. 2 Architectural drawings in ink on tan paper: 1. Showers, etc., 36 x 20 inches; Porch, 19.25 x 15.25 inches. The Samoa Cookhouse was part of the Hammond Lumber Company and served meals to the crew working at the mill site. Both drawings in very good condition with.....
San Francisco City Hall After the 1906 Earthquake (Stereoview)
Keystone View Company, (ca. 1906). Trade Paperback. Card number 18263. Near fine. Curved back. Light toning.
Santa Rosa, Cal. RPPC (Real Photo Postcard)
Ephemera. Busy street scene in downtown Santa Rosa, Sonoma County. Ca. 1940. Near fine card. Postally unused. DOPS back.
Scene in Still's Park, Puget Sound, Wash. [Whidbey Island]
Atlas Society, (ca. 1905). Ephemera. Lithographed scene of the park created by Judge Lester Still on Whidbey Island, Washington. Minute wear at one corner, else fine. Undivided back, unused. Signed 'L. Still' at bottom, probably by Lester Still, who gave the park its name.
Scenes That Are Brightest. From Maritana. with, Nature's Woodland Call (broadside songsheet)
H. De Marsan, 1860-1861. First Edition. Broadside. Broadside songsheet, 10 x 6.75 inches. 'Scenes' with two 5-line stanzas; 'Nature's Woodland Call' with three 4-line stanzas with 4-line chorus. 'H. De Marsan, Publisher of Songs and Ballads, Paper Dolls Toy Books &c, 38 & 60 Chatham St., NY' printed at bottom.....
Sceptre Press (10 items)
Sceptre Press. Printed at Skelton's Press, 1974-78. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Poems printed on one to four pages in color wrappers. Limited and numbered editions. Poet contributors included: Richard Burr, Tony Connor,Robin Fulton,Harry Guest (2), B. C. Leale, Wes Magee, George MacBeth, Jon Silkin, and Colim Smythe. Sceptre Press started.....
Sceptre Press (32 items)
Sceptre Press. Printed at Skelton's Press, 1971-3. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Single sheet, folded, 8.25 x 5 inches when folded, with poem printed on inside recto. Limited to 100 copies. Poet contributors include: Michael Armstrong, J. D. Beardsley, Anne Beresford, Jeremy Cartland, Pete Didsbury, Ian Caws, John Cotton, Lynne Croker.....
Sceptre Press poetry sheets. (20 items)
Sceptre Press, 1969-70. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Single sheet, usually 12.75 x 8.0 inches, folded in thirds, with poem printed on inside and brief poet biography and Sceptre Press insignia on verso. Poet contributors include: Dannie Apse, Martin Booth (2), Alan Brownjohn (2), John Carder Bush, John Daniel, Michael Hamburger.....
Sceptre Press: Peveril Castle; Frogs (4 copies); Performance in A (9 copies); Modern Fairy Tale (4 copies); Adam Driver's Sunday Morning (9 copies); Running (6 copies); Bough (2 copies); Untitled (8 copies); Contradictions (8 copies) Total: 51 copies
Sceptre Press. Printed by Skelton's Press, 1971-3. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First editions (first printings). Near fine copies. Each is limited edition, numbered but unsigned.
Sceptre Press: Synopsis; Between Appointments; Company of Women;Ballade; Peveril Castle; Revelation; Sleep; Modern Fairy Tale; Adam Driver's Sunday Morning; Performance in A; Frog; His Last Autumn; Preludes: San Martin; Untitled; Running; Bough; Contradictions (17 poems)
Sceptre Press. Haslemere Printing Company. Printed by Skelton's Press, 1972-3. First Edition. Trade Paperback. The earlier 4 publications were printed in larger editions, each numbered, not signed and had more pages. Later poems were on a single sheet folded with poem on recto inside. First editions (first printings). A near.....
Self Pity
San Francisco Express Times, (n.d. but 1968-69). Ephemera. Flyer, 8-1/2 by 11 inches. A possibly Digger-inspired leaflet issued by the San Francisco Express Times as Public Service Announcement No. 1. The page is dominated by the words Self Pity; the text reads 'This leaflet contains 100% of the minimum adult.....