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California of the South, A History, Biographical. Volume III, Illustrated.

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Los Angeles, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.: 1933

Seller ID: 2453

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition

Vol. 3 only; 501 pp., indexed; 4to; brown fabrikoid, spine titles stamped in gilt; full page black & white portrait photographs throughout. Approximately 250 prominent citizens of Southern California represented, along with brief histories of several institutions such as the Santa Monica Writer's Club, Mount Saint Mary's College, Ventura County Free Library, Redondo Union High School, and Riverside Public Library.

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George John Pettit, A Memoir.

By: 'Bibliopole'.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, (The Book Collector): (1985)

Seller ID: 9780

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine condition

11pp.; 8vo; stapled wrappers

"I first came upon George John Pettit, the artist, composer, poet, and architect, in Beak Street in 1960."
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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Illustrated. Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospective Future...

By: (Cover Title: Pen Pictures of the Garden World).

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Publishing Co.: 1891

Seller ID: 6888

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

637 pp. Illustrated with 34 plates (including 30 steel-engraved portraits, 1 wood-engraved, and 3 from a photographs), including frontispiece. 11¼x9, original full decoratively embossed brown morocco, decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt with a gilt-vignette on the front cover, inner gilt dentelles, gilt-patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Front cover lettered "Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World" and the spine is lettered "Northern California, Illustrated." Rubbing to covers at edges; moderate rubbing to a faded spine, otherwise a very clean, solid copy.

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Vallejo. Being a Brief Sketch of Don Mariano Vallejo with His Address Before the Junta at Monterey in the Year of 1846.

By: (Friends & Patrons of Schwabacher-Frey Stationery Company).

Price: $30.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Schwabacher-Frey Stationery Company: 1927

Seller ID: 9841

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

12 unnumbered pages; folio; printed, stiched wrappers with chips and three closed tears (up to 1") at edges; first page with dog-eared lower leading corner tip.

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Stevenson's Baby Book: Being a Record of the Sayings and Doings of Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson..

By: (Robert Louis Stevenson).

Price: $40.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Printed for John Howell by John Henry Nash: 1922

Seller ID: 3873

Condition: Very good or better condition

No. 126 of 500 copies printed. 58 pp., photo portrait frontis of little Stevenson; 8vo; decorated paper over boards, blue cloth spine with paper spine label. Reproducing the records kept by Stevenson's mother for the first year of his life. Rubbing & minor bumping to leading corner tips. Introduced with 'A Note to the Reader' by Stevenson's stepdaughter, Katherine D. Osbourne. Two penned inscriptions on front endpaper: "To Frederick H. Randall with kind regards, Katherine D. Osbourne, New York City, 1923", this is lined out followed by an inscription "To Eleanor Muggley from Katha...
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Sketches of Leading and Representative Men of San Francisco : being original sketches of the lives of the prominent politicians, lawyers, divines, pioneers, merchants, orators, etc., etc., of San Francisco. Edited by eminent editors and authors of California ; beautifully illustrated with portraits by the finest artists in America.

By: (Shuck, Oscar T.).

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London & N.Y., London and New York Pub. Co.; News Companies: 1875

Seller ID: 6547

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair condition

[iv], [703]-1073 [i.e. 1075], [8] p., 4 plates of heavy card stock with 4 original albumen portrait photographs of Gen. H. A. Cobb, Wm. M. Gwin, A. P. Hotaling, Esq., and Captain R. L. Ogden. Full red calf, lettered & decorated in gilt. Spine and edges well rubbed and chaffed; joints cracked, particularly the front which appears to have undergone some repair, both somewhat tender, but hinges solid so holding well. Portrait photographs appear to be in uniformly good condition with minimal fading. "Surpressed Edition" written in pencil at top of title page; occassional margin brackets m...
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The Future Lasts Forever, A Memoir. Edited by Olivier Corpet and Yann Moulier Boutang. Translated by Richard Veasey.

By: Althusser, Louis.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: N.Y., The New Press: (1992)

Seller ID: 9902

ISBN: 1565840879

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in Fine jacket

365pp.; 8vo; cloth in dust jacket.

On Novermber 16, 1980, Louis Althusser, while massaging his wife's neck, discovered he had stangled her. Here the philospher takes us on a journey inside his own madness.
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Germaine, A Portrait of Madame De Stael.

By: Andrews, Wayne.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: N.Y., Atheneum: 1963

Seller ID: 5395

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good condition in Good jacket, with Mylar Wrap

237 pp., portrait frontis; 8vo; green cloth with moderate foxing bottom edge; in price clipped, lightly soiled blue jacket wear at corners & edges; loss up to a half-inch top of spine.

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The Unique Genius of Thomas Paine.

By: Anger, Mark (pseudonym of Irving Israel).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: (by the author) Thomas Paine Productions: 1994

Seller ID: 9366

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine condition

Glossy, pictorial wrappers. Contains 91 quotations from the writings of Thomas Paine.

San Francisco Actor Irving Israel (aka Mark Anger) 1930-2014, was a stage and screen actor living in San Francisco. His career included The Actor's Workshop with Julius Irving, and Berkeley Repertory Theater.Screen work (as Mark Anger) included episodes of The Streets of San Francisco and the part of Mr. Kroot in American Graffiti. His own The Venture Theatre, produced his one man show portraying Thomas Paine. In the process, based on the introduction he penned for this book, he appears to have become...
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Diary.

By: Arguello.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Friendso of the Bancroft:

Seller ID: 7609

Binding: Wrappers

Condition: Fine condition

"Just a Gigolo", The Life and Times of Louis Prima.

By: Boulard, Garry.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lafayette, LA, The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana: 1989

Seller ID: 3813

ISBN: 0984940490

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near fine condition in fair jacket, in protective mylar wrap.

182 pp.; 8vo; red cloth stamped in gilt, in pictorial red jacket; black & white photographs. Light soil to front endpaper; jacket heavily creased at bottom and top edges with with chips and some loss including a 1" square piece out near heal of spine.

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[Two Volumes] Vladimir Nabokov, The Russian Years; The American Years.

By: BOYD, BRIAN.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press: (1990, 1991)

Seller ID: 8700

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in fine jackets, in protective mylar wraps

607 & 783 pp.; 8vo; cloth in dust jackets. Half-inch closed tear inside one flap, but essentially fine copies.

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Clemens of the Call, Mark Twain in San Francisco.

By: BRANCH, EDGAR M., EDITOR.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles, University Of California Press: 1969

Seller ID: 8906

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap

335 pp., portrait frontis; 4to; cloth in price-clipped, pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs and other reproductions.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Man.

By: BRANDEIS, ERICH.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: N.Y., American Offset Corp.: (1936)

Seller ID: 8500

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine condition

55 pp.; 8vo; orange wrappers; illustrated with portrait drawing, photographs.

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Walking Stewart.

By: Bronson, Bertrand H.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles, University Of California Press: 1943

Seller ID: 9767

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

Abstract, reprinted from Essays and Studies, Volume 14, University of California Publications in English. Title cover; pages 123-155; rear blank sheet; one side staple. Couple of minor chips at edges; moderate age toning to extremities.

John "Walking" Stewart (1747-1822) was an English philosopher and traveller. Known as 'Walking' Stewart to his contemporaries for having travelled on foot from Madras, India where he had worked as a clerk for the East India Company, all the way back to Europe between 1765 and the mid -1790s. Stewart is thought to have walked alone across Persia,...
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[3 volumes] Samuel Pepys: The Man in the Making; the Years of Peril; the Saviour of the Navy. Plus 2: Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy; Samuel Pepys Curioso.

By: Bryant, Arthur.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: London; New York, Cambridge, Collins; Macmillan: 1947; 1935;1949

Seller ID: 10194

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good condition in Very Good jackets, with protective Mylar Wrap

A mixed set of three volumes, first and last titles Collins, New Edition; second volume Macmillan, 1st U. S. edition. 8vo; cloth in jackets, Years of Peril price-clipped; Saviour of the Navy with some foxing to edges, offset tanning to endpapers.

Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy, Lees Knowles Lectures Delivered at Trinity College in Cambridge 1919, by J. R. Tanner.
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The House of Fear, Notes from Down Below.

By: CARRINGTON, LEONORA.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: N.Y., Dutton: 1988

Seller ID: 9137

ISBN: 0525246487

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap

First Printing. 216 pp. 8vo; cloth-backed blue paper over boards; illustrated white dust jacket. Hint of wear & soil, a crisp, clean copy.

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George Sand, A Biography.

By: Cate, Curtis.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1975

Seller ID: 4271

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap

812 pp.; 8vo; cloth in price clipped dust jacket; illustrated with photographs.

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Chambliss' Diary; or, Society As It Really Is.

By: CHAMBLISS, WILLIAM H.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: N.Y., Chambliss & Company: 1895

Seller ID: 3848

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

xiv, 408 pp., portrait frontis; 8vo; original blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt, front cover lettering stamped in silver with gold & silver illustration. Illustrated with over fifty copper-plate half-tones and photo-engravings, including twenty-five society pictures by Laura E. Foster. Moderate soil to covers; rubbing to spine ends; front endpaper with moderate soil; slight thumbing to title at foredge; rear hinge slightly cracked but firm.

William H. Chambliss (b. 1865), a Mississippian, came to California as a member of the crew of the U.S. Essex in 1886 and made San Francisco his hom...
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In Search of a Lost Ladino: Letter to Antonio Saura. Translator, Raphael Rubinstein.

By: Cohen, Marcel.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Jerusalem, Ibis Editions: 2006

Seller ID: 9775

ISBN: 9659012543

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine condition

Inscribed on front endpaper to Ruth and Barney Rosenthal by the translator, with a holograph note in Rosenthal's hand, 'Thanked by e-mail' and the date.119pp.; printed, tan self-wraps; illustrated with abstract drawings. Text in English and Ladino.

"A poignant and richly textured memoir . . . it is also a meditation on a dying language and in fact, a dying way of life - that of the Sephadic Jews of Salonica, Istanbul, and other points east."
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