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California State Fair & Exposition, Cookery: 6 vols. 1949 and 1953-59.

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

Publisher: [Sacramento], [California State Printing Office]: 1949, 1953-59

Seller ID: 1261

Condition: Dampstain to spines affecting page margins at bottom hinges, otherwise clean copies. Overall good or better condition.

8vo; stapled, printed wrappers in various colors; black & white frontis photos; cover subtitles: Centennial Cookery, 1949; International Cookery, 1953-1955; California Cookery, 1956 & 1957. Program menus & recipes in each year's volume for cooking demonstrations and competitions.

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A Specimen of Metal Ornaments cast at the Letter Foundery fo Binny & Ronaldson.

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: [Meriden, Connecticut], {Meriden Gravure Co.]: [1924]

Seller ID: 1373

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition

Tall 8vo; cloth over gray paper boards. An exact reproduction, in collotype, of the first type-founer's specimen book to be issued in America. Includes 2 folding plates. A keepsake of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, no. 51 in the series, donated by Meriden Gravure. American Inst. announcement laid in.

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Type Specimens: Meriden - Stinehour.

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 1392

Condition: Fine condition

24 folded sheets of various fonts, including 6 duplicates, in portfolio; photo postcard entitled "The Bisbee Press, predecessor of The Stinehour Press, in the 1930's," laid in. No date

Fry's Baskerville; Baskervill; Bembo; Fournier; Galliard; Garamond; Janson; Palatino; Pilgrim; Sabon; Snell Roundhand; Times; Trump Mediaeval; Walbaum; Frutiger; Helvetica.
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De Paris A San Francisco, Fort Mason Center. Avec le concours du Centre National des Arts Plastiques (F. I. A. C. R. E.). Premiere parution d'une publication editee par Figuration Critique.

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: France, Figuration Critique: 1985

Seller ID: 1399

ISBN: 290223418X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good condition

Unpaginated, (approx. 250 pp.); oblong 16m0, 6" x 8.25"; illustrated brown wrappers; full page halftone reproductions throughout, excluding six pages of explanatory text in English & French. Light wear to extremities; creasing to leading lower edge.

Appears to be an early, if not the first publication of this association of artists defined on their current website [in a google translation]: “a point of convergence for artists of different sensitivities but which all assert the choice of the figuration to propose a rebuilding of reality where the permanent questioning (critical...
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The Manual of Linotype Typography. Prepared to aid Users and Producers of Printing in securing Greater Unity and Real Beauty in the Printed Page.

By: N/A

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Brooklyn, Mergenthaler Linotype Co.: [1923]

Seller ID: 1416

Condition: Minor shelf wear bottom edge, jacket flap partially affixed to rear pastedown. Very good or better condition.

256 pp., tipped in frontis illus.; specimen examples throughout. Typographical plan and critical commentary by William Dana Orcutt if co-operation with Edward E. Bartlett, director of Linotype Typography.

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Cover title: Specimen Book of Type Faces, Monotype Composition Company, San Francisco, Typsetters and Typefounders.

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: San Francisco & Oakland, Monotype Compostion Co.: [1925]

Seller ID: 1420

Condition: Thumb size piece out lower right corner front cover; light damping to bottom edge of title diminishing through first half of text pages, otherwise good, solid condition.

130 pp., plus ad for European typefaces and price list; 10" x 6"; decorated brad bound stiff wrappers; paper title label on front cover;

"Specimens of new and exclusive and of ordinary type faces, ornaments, borders, rules, and many miscellaneous characters."
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Specimen Showings, Lanston Monotype Machine Company.

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philidelphia, Lanston Monotype: [c. 1953]

Seller ID: 1425

Condition: Sunning to edges of cover. Very good condition.

[22] pp.; 4to; spiral bound, printed blue paper covers; includes specimen examples of, Bembo, Bembo Bold Perpetua, Perpetua Bold, Plantin, Plantin Bold,Times New Roman, Times Bold, Times Bold Italic, Times New Roman Semi-Bold, Times New Roman Wide.

Frederic Goudy was Art Director at Lanston, 1920 to 1939.
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Vinhos Cruzeiro, Luis Michielon & Cia. Caxias - R. G. Do Sul, Brasil. [c. 1942]

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: 2044

Condition: Fine condition

Promotional booklet; 32 pps.; 7" x 5"; pictorial, stapled wrappers; full color lithography [as shown on cover] on every page. Descriptions of wines, sparkling wines, aperitifs, etc. all litho illustrated. Includes a double page illustration of the winery and a double page photo of the laboratory. Text in Portuguese. Scarce.

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Three Softcovers: Shirley Letters ; Starr, Calif. Dream ; PB Black Soldiers in Civil War.

By: N/A

Price: $13.00

Seller ID: 2734

Official Programme and Souvenir, Native Sons of the Golden West. Ninth September Meeting, San Francisco 1890.

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Seller ID: 4207

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Condition

62 pp., plus (2) p. advertisements; oblong 12mo [6.75" x 10.5"]; stapled wrappers, illustrated with color lithograph; advertisements inside from & back covers; black & white portrait photographs and 12 full page plates of advertisements. Front cover with chips at top edge, a 2" angular crack from top edge near spine; crack at foot of spine with half-inch loss; minor chips at bottom edges; 2" closed tear to title page near gutter.

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The Rampaging Herd: a Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Men & Events in the Cattle Industry.

By: Adams, Ramon F.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press: 1959

Seller ID: 428

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Poor dj

8vo. Green cloth in tattered dust jacket; tape mends inside jacket; rear flap re-attached with tape; protected with mylar wrap. Jeff Dykes catalogue 25, 'A Range Man's Library', laid in.

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The Broad-Axe Los Angeles, Tuesday, August 31, 1875. A Campaign Newspaper

By: ADLER, Pat.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Glendale, CA, La Siesta Press: [1964]

Seller ID: 1136

Condition: Ex-lib; two one line stamps top & bottom edge of envelope and booklet; else near fine

12 pp., 4to; printed white wrappers; text illus. with drawings and b&w photos; 15" x 11" sheet, horizontal fold; printed on both sides, a photo reproduction of the original. Both enclosed in original publishers pictorial portfolio, printed in black & red with decorations.

" a thorough but witty discussion of the 1875 campaign, its newspapers and editors." A California Heritage Portfolio
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Reminiscences of a Ranger. Or, Early Times in Southern California [Three Volume Set].

By: Bell, Horace.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Advertisers Composition Co.: 1965-67

Seller ID: 9847

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition

Privately printed, one volume issued each year: 8vo; mustard cloth backs and various colored cloth over boards, in slipcases; all with new illustrations by Gene Holtan; each volume with printed promotional bookmark laid in. VOLUME ONE: Comprising eight chapters of thirty-seven; introduction by Ward Ritchie; No. 269 of 1200 copies printed letterpress by Anderson, Ritchies & Simon. VOLUME TWO: Comprising the ninth to the twenty-seventh chapters; no. 323 of 1500 copies printed offset by Advertisers Composition Co. VOLUME THREE: Comprising the twenty-third to the thirty-seventh chapter; no.719 if ...
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The English Novel 1578- 1956: a Checklist of Twentieth-Century Criticisms.

By: Bell, Inglis F. Bell & Donald Baird.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Denver, Alan Swallow: 1958

Seller ID: 546

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

8vo. Ownership signature and date stamp on front endpaper.

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The Yellow Trail (A Story of Salmon River Gold)

By: Boddy, E. Manchester.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Times-Mirror: [1922]

Seller ID: 1284

Condition: Spine cocked; light cover wear; ownership signature on front endpaper in pencil; very good copy thus.

296 pp.; 8vo; no dust jacket; yellow cloth with cover illustration stamped in black.

"Peter Alden Jr., drifted into Moapa, Montana, with the first November snow . . . as he leaned against the wind and walked defiantly into it. His skin was stung with cruel biting lashes, and he wanted it so."
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Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer.

By: Burnett, Peter H.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: N.Y., D. Appleton and Company: 1880

Seller ID: 5450

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition

xiii, 448 pp., plus (6) ads; (8vo), original brown cloth decorated and lettered in gilt and black. Title page very slightly darkened, appears a little blanched along the gutter about one inch. Otherwise an almost pristine copy.

Burnett left his home in Missouri in 1843 a traveled to Oregon in the same company as Applegate, Lenox and Whitman. "This volume is important since it is the reminiscences of the first governor of California, but even more since it is the record of an early Oregonian who forsook the territory to which he had emigrated from Missouri and joined the gold rush to...
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Prosit!

By: Caballo, Ernesto.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Torino, E.P.R. Della Sipra: (1950's)

Seller ID: 588

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Square 8vo. Grey wrappers. Forty-eight examples of Italian wine labels from 1860 to 1937, though most are dated in the nineteenth century. Each label tipped in, one per page including front and back covers, with accompanying text in Italian. Corner loss on cover label; minor tanning at extremities; otherwise, very good condition.

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Pacific Island Bibliography.

By: Cammack, Floyd M. and Shiro Saito.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: N.Y., Scarecrow Press: 1962

Seller ID: 1053

Condition: Ex-lib; small spine marking; label; otherwise very good condition

421 pp.; 8vo; blue cloth. Oceania; Melanesia; Micronesia; Polynesia.

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The Art of Courtly Love. With Introduction, Translation and Notes by John Jay Parry.

By: Capellanus, Andreas.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: N.Y., Frederick Ungar: (1959)

Seller ID: 9871

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine condition

218pp., incl. bibliography; 8vo; cloth; without dust jacket; folding genealogical table. Trivial bump to lower spine.

Andreas Capellanus (Capellanus meaning "chaplain"), also known as Andrew the Chaplain,was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore ("About Love"), and known in English, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, often cynical tone suggests that it is in some regards, also an antidote to courtly love.
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Banjo.

By: Caplin, Loren Paul.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Berkeley, Moon Poop: 1971

Seller ID: 963

Condition: Fine

8vo; photo illus. gray wraps; poetry; 500 copies printed in San Francisco at Cranium Press.

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