Search Results: Californiana from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

Berkeley: Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California at Berkeley. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1992. Softcover. Pink wraps, perfect bound, lettered on front in red with b&w cover photo of Cal campus, illustrated with b&w photos, unpaginated appendices follow text ; 8-1/4" x 10-3/4"; 108 pp; Covers lightly soiled, slightly edgeworn, creasing to rear cover, pages clean and unmarked. .

Sacramento, California: Office of Appropriate Technology, State of California. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1982. Softcover. The ... book shows how lenders can make money less expensive, how government can cut red tape and permitting costs, how home buyers and builders can become more self-sufficient, and how new designs can lower the costs of housing. Contest winners are portrayed, and their ideas are graphically explained. Stifff red wraps. perfect bound, front cover with cream, printed title area, lettered in green, red and cream, illustrated. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 103 pp; Minor cover wear - mainly at the corners, no inscriptions, clean and unmarked pages. .

San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. Reproduces a series of sketches first appeared in the author's Bits of Travel at Home published in 1878. Green decorated paper boards, beige cloth spine with title on spine label. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Designed and illustrated in color by Mallette Dean at Kentfield, California. Light green unprinted dust wrapper. Limitation page notes this an edition of 450 copies and that it is publication number 137 of The Book Club of California. Prospectus and postcard promoting related Club exhibition laid in at front. ; 7-1/4" x 10-3/4"; 84 pp; Little wear to book. Jacket with little wear but somewhat toned, in clear protective cover. .

San Francisco: San Francisco State College Anthropology Museum. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. Softcover. Parts III to VII, issued as San Francisco State College Anthropology Museum: Occasional Paper Number Five. Tan wraps, perfect bound, cover drawing and lettering in orange, orange cloth spine, illustrated with charts, maps, images of relics. ; 8-1/4" x 10-3/4"; 321 pp; Wear to spine, slight cover wear, prior owner name redacted on front cover and top and side page edges, name and address remain on bottom of page edges, pages clean and unmarked. .

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press). Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Number 46 among The Lakeside Classics, issued Christmas 1948. Red cloth, gilt decoration front and spine lettering, top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of author, additional plates , all guarded. In protective glassine wrapper, as issued).; 4-1/2" x 6-3/4"; lii, 170 pp; Prior owner name inscribed on FFEP else fine. Covers bright, tight binding, pages clean and unmarked. Glassine wrapper edgeworn. .

Berkeley, California: University of California Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. Brown paper boards and endpapers.; 7" x 10"; 87 pp; Endpapers are causing toning to adjacent pages, very slight cover wear. This copy once owned by UC Professor Angus E. Bowmer and bears his bookplate and inked signature on front endpaper. .

Berkeley: Howell-North Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1973. No edition noted. Hardcover. 0-8310-7101-X . Well-illustrated history of early Berkeley. Light blue cloth, black lettering.; 8-3/4" x 11-1/4"; 208 pp; Nearly fine book with slight spine lean in nearly fine jacket with light rubbing and lightly sunned spine. .

Beverly Hills, California: Windsor Publications. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1966). Softcover. Stapled wraps, front cover with Panoramic View of Berkeley and Bay Area at Sunset as viewed from the hills, white lettering. Well-illustrated with many b&w photos, much use of spot colors within, ads for Berkeley businesses on rear cover (inside is for Up-Right Scaffolds, outside is for Mason-McDuffie Co. ; Oblong, 11" x 8-1/2"; 48 pp; Early title from this publisher of civic and pictorial brochures. Uncommon, with OCLC (21775082) locatiing but two holdngs, at BPL and UCB. ; Light cover wear including creasing to spine and nick to edge of rear cover, internally fine. .

New York: R. G. Dun & Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1922. Softcover. Black leatherette over thin boards, key tables on endpapers, bulk of text lists businesses with their ratings organized by city within the state. Table of banks, their capitalization and contacts by city follows business ratings. Folding map of state at rear, followed by an Abstract of Collection Laws, &c.; 4-1/2" x 5-3/4"; x, 903 pp; Boards quite rubbed with wear to lettering on front cover, vertical crease to front cover, hinges show stress along bottom edge, prior owner name inside front cover, pages generally clean and unmarked apart from a few checkmarks noted at specific names - in pencil. Map complete but a bit worn/toned at edges, has closed tear where attached to book and is splitting at folds-completely at one segment; with only small splits elsewhere. .

San Andreas, California: Calaveras County Friends of the Library. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Softcover. A select bibliography comprising about fifteen percent of the Library's holdings in the field that were selected as outstanding or representative.. Blue wraps, stapled. Numbered on the front flyleaf, from an Edition of 1000 copies printed by the Philter Press, the private press of Paul and Joyce Quyle.; 7" x 10"; vii, 10 pp; Mild wear to covers, clean and unmarked within. .

San Francisco: San Francisco History Association. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1994. Softcover. The San Francisco Almanac, Vol 4, No 4/6. History Association publication issued for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Midwinter Fair, January 12, 1994 through March 31, 1994. Cream wraps, stapled, wrap-around cover illustration and lettering, b&w illustrations within, stapled in at center is 4 pp insert. Relatively hard-to-find, OCLC reports only 4 holdings. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 32 pp; Mild creasing at spine, slight cover wear, clean and unmarked within. .

Oakland, California: A. Currlin & Son Co. Printers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1923. Softcover. Tan wraps, stapled, perfect bound. ; 6" x 9"; 119+18 (index) pp; Wraps toned, lightly soiled. Pages clean and unmarked. .

[Fresno, California]. Good+ with no dust jacket. c1921. Softcover. Stapled self-wraps. Undated; Sec. 148- When Charter Takes Effect notes 1921 effective date. ; 6" x 9"; 48 pp; Covers are first and last pages and are soiled, lightly worn, pages with occasional faint pencil notations (X, - or brief underlining), staples lightly rusted. .

Sacramento: H. S. Crocker & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1887. Softcover. Authorized Edition. Tan wraps, Good Templars' Home for Orphans at Vallejo pictured on rear cover. Signature of Frank A. Davis on front cover and on completed Certificate after title page. The Certificate notes that Frank was a Charter Member of the Constitution Lodge No. 130, located at Berkeley. Frank also signed as C.T. (Chief Templar) and noted No Seal As Yet. Quite scarce, OCLC locates only a handful of copies of various editions and has no listing at all for this issue. ; 4 x 6"; 88 pp; Wraps soiled and edgeworn, missing part of spine covering, pages show wear at corners, no tears, a few pages with brief notes. .

Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1953. Softcover. Greenish paper covers, printed on newsprint. This is the "white and yellow pages", and includes alphabetical listings organized by community and the Classified Telephone Directory by subject for the county. Covers Antioch, Brentwood, Byron, Concord, Crockett, Danville, Lafayette, Martinez, Oakley, Orinda, Pinole, Pittsburg, Port Chicago, Rodeo and Walnut Creek. ; 9 x 11"; 152 pp; Front cover toned and with creased corner, pages toned through not brittle -- no sign of chipping. .

Sacramento: W. W. Shannon, Supt. of State Printing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1905. Hardcover. C. F. Curry was Secretary of State. Tan boards, titled front and spine in blue and with state seal on back. ; 5 x 7"; 483 pp; Scant wear, light soiling/toning to boards. .

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1912. No edition noted. Hardcover. Variant binding, Gray cloth, gilt lettering to front cover along with pastedown b&w photograph, title page and text pages with decoratiive borders in orange. ; 5-1/4" x 8"; 92 pp; Spotting to spine, front board bowing slightly outward, prior owner name in pencil to front flyleaf and stamoed inside rear cover, a couple of small spots on pages that are generally clean and unmarked. .

Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers green cloth, front cover letttered and decorated in black, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, dark brown endpapers, full page frontispiece of The Golden Gate, additional illustrations in line with text. ; 5-1/4" x 7-1/2"; 292, [8] pp; A book with a bit of notoriety, owned by a murderer. In 1878, Isaac Smith Kalloch (I. S.) was running to be Mayor of San Francisco. He was shot in an assassinati on attempt by Charles de Young, then Editor of the Chronicle and backer of another candidate. He would survive and go on to be Mayor. Two years later (1880) his son, Isaac Milton Kalloch (I. M., and the former owner of this book) shot and killed de Young. He was tried but not convicted. ; A well-preserved copy. Minor wear to covers, text block is clean. This copy once the property of I. M. Kalloch, with his signature in ink on front flyleaf dated 1878. .

Oakland, Cal.: Pacific Press Publishing House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers green cloth with gilt lettering to front board, illustrations include some full page. ; 6" x 9"; 184 pp; Small spot to front board, light corner wear, worn at spine ends, spine with lean. a few tniy spots on otherwise unmarked pages. Remainder mark on bottom edge of pages; somewhat unusual for a book of this age. .

San Anselmo, California: The Kingfisher Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1946. Softcover. The pictures by GEORGE MATHIS - DENIS MUIR tells the stories. Stiff tan wraps, patterned and lettered in white, green plastic comb binding. ; Oblong, 8-1/2" x 6-1/2"; [26] pp; Covers lightly worn. .