Search Results: Southern California from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Los Angeles: The Democratic National Committee and The Democratic State Central Committee, 1948. Two-page letter on letterhead, a carbon-copy (early generation, very legible) signed in fountain-pen by James Roosevelt as General Chairman of the DNC, about 250 words; accompanied by a photocopied leaf (dinner and reception info) and a professionally-printed 3.5x6 inch contribution card. Foldlines for mailing (envelope not present), very good condition.

[Los Angeles]: L.A. Yŏnhap Kamni Kyohoe, 2004. Hardcover. 332p., hardcover in dust jacket, 7.75x10.5 inches, very good. Text in Korean. Illustrated with b&w and color photographs.

San Francisco: Harr Wagner Pub, 1919. Hardcover. 68p., personal inscription signed by the Greenoughs, Blanche being a contributor. Badly worn first edition in cloth-backed green boards and gilt. Amateur poets anthology.

Pasadena, CA: Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California, [196-]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill, minor corner crease. Announces weekly meetings at the Center, with quotes from the Indian guru.

Burbank: author, as Airik Lee Productions, 2000. Pamphlet. 24p., b&w comix panels throughout, first edition staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch glazed color wraps (with photo of author), a bit rubbed along the spinefold, mild offset soil and a small day glo sticker, else good condition. Author photo on cover shows him lounging in front of the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum.

Stockton, CA: Heritage West Books, 2000. Paperback. xvi, 208p., paperback, 8.5x11 inches, very good.

Pasadena: Caltech, underwritten by C.F.Braun & Co [oil refiners], no date, pre-WWII. Leaflet, small folio leaf folded and printed to make a 10.5x7 inch brochure, cover-decorated with the Caltech emblem (two naked males seeking Truth) and furnishing Exhibit Committee names, demonstration lectures, buildings where truth-machines might be viewed, a plat map of the campus. Heavily creased and crimped, now reasonably flat, a good-only exemplar. "This program is presented by the undergraduate students of the Institute." Dated from said fact that exhibit committee was formed of undergrads; D[avid] Steinmetz, listed as Assistant Chairman, worked at Douglas aircraft during WWII and did not return to Caltech; Y. Nakada, who presented meterology, may well have been interned.

New York: Peter Lang, 2005. Paperback. xix, 385p., wraps, 6x9 inches, lightly bumped corners else very good. History of Schools & Schooling, Vol. 30.

Kearney, NB: Morris Publishing, 2005. Paperback. v, 66p. second printing. Near fine in glossy printed wraps. Compton, California-born African American poet.

[San Diego, CA]: Troubadour Press, 1929. Pamphlet. [32]p., woodcut illustration, wraps. 7 x 5.25 in. Signed by the author. Edition of 50. Final seven pages are blank. Bound in illustrated orange wrappers, worn and creased. Good. Poems. Printed by the San Diego publisher of the poetry journal Troubadour, where some of Albee's work also appeared. Rare. Not found in WorldCat (January 2024).

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1950. Hardcover. 64p., presswork on tobacco-brown paperstock (color of Bull Durham rolling papers) but alkaline and perfectly sound, bearing Oliver's excellent unconventional "woodcuts". Hardbound in 9.5x6 inch tobacco-paper boards (decorated) with off-white linen backstrip spine-titled with a nice bold spine label. Book itself is fine: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked, while the dust jacket has some chipping across the top edge and a split developing at the front-cover flap-fold. Also, interior inexpert tape reinforcement to top and bottom of spine and top front flap fold. In sum, very good. Characterizations of prospectors in the Borego/Death Valley wasteland. Like old Kashin, who doesn't mine gold but sells raw desert stuff to city folk, such as reptile skins to shoe factories in Milwaukee. Author Oliver "had my suspicions of him, and I wasn't far wrong. I found cactus stickers in some flat-sided pickles he'd preserved..

[Los Angeles]: Buddhist Churches of America, Southern District Ministerial Association, 1984. Paperback. 31p.+72p., bound dos-a-dos, 7.5x8.5 inches. Sticker scar on Japanese cover, else very good. Bilingual text in English and Japanese. Discussion of various Japanese festivals and cultural practices. Only two copies found in OCLC as of June 2022.

[Los Angeles]: Buddhist Churches of America, Southern District Ministerial Association, 1984. Paperback. 31p.+72p., bound dos-a-dos, 7.5x8.5 inches, very good. Bilingual text in English and Japanese. Discussion of various Japanese festivals and cultural practices. Only two copies found in OCLC as of June 2022.

Monterey Park, CA: the Foundation, [200-]. 18p. in English, 18p. in Chinese, very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches, many photos. On the charitable organization founded by Paul Szeto (Situ Chaozheng).

Long Beach, CA: MEChA, Cal State Long Beach, 1971. Newspaper. 8p. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, some crinkling from poor storage, paper evenly toned. Centerspread on a march against police brutality, as well as articles on cuts to EOP, a page devoted to La Raza Unida Party, and more.

Long Beach, CA: MEChA, Cal State Long Beach, 1970. Newspaper. 8p. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, some crinkling from poor storage, paper evenly toned. Includes articles on police brutality, including the killing of Ruben Salazar during the Chicano Moratorium in Los Angeles; also includes poetry by readers.

Banning, CA: Desert Protective Council Educational Foundation, 1962. 9p., staplebound newsletter, bears a mailing-convenient transverse foldline else very good. Singleton copy. Topics: Udall moratorium; roadside rests okayed; Riverside Land Office; educational programs; organizational change; 'Wildland News' to cease publication; Rainbow Bridge controversy; Native American homes finally plumbed; dams; pesticides. - Randall Henderson was a longtime editor (he is the namesake of the Randall Henderson Loop Trail); others included Harry C. James, founder of the Trailfinders Organization, and Jane Pinheiro, founder of the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. "El Paisano" refers to the roadrunner, a bird often seen on desert highways. The organization was devoted to protection of desert wilderness. Its first major project was preventing development in Joshua Tree National Monument.

Banning, CA: Desert Protective Council Educational Foundation, 1962. 8p., staplebound newsletter, very good. Singleton copy. Topics: Lloyd Parrett to speak on avians; appointments and promotions; bighorn sheep; wilderness bill; Udall policy for Colorado River (reprinted from Smoke Signals, newsletter of the Colorado Tribes); poison bad; coyotes good. - Randall Henderson was a longtime editor (he is the namesake of the Randall Henderson Loop Trail); others included Harry C. James, founder of the Trailfinders Organization, and Jane Pinheiro, founder of the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. "El Paisano" refers to the roadrunner, a bird often seen on desert highways. The organization was devoted to protection of desert wilderness. Its first major project was preventing development in Joshua Tree National Monument.

Banning, CA: Desert Protective Council Educational Foundation, 1967. 8p., staplebound newsletter, bears a mailing-convenient transverse foldline else very good. Singleton copy. Topics: Coyoite Canyon dam; directors meet; Salton Sea; bighorn sheep; fossils in badlands; noise pollution; desalinization; game hunting. - Randall Henderson was a longtime editor (he is the namesake of the Randall Henderson Loop Trail); others included Harry C. James, founder of the Trailfinders Organization, and Jane Pinheiro, founder of the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. "El Paisano" refers to the roadrunner, a bird often seen on desert highways. The organization was devoted to protection of desert wilderness. Its first major project was preventing development in Joshua Tree National Monument.

Monterey Park, CA: Yang shi qi hua kai fa gong si, 1982. Paperback. 561p., french-fold wraps, front cover creased, a few small stains on bottom edge of textblock, spine sunned, else very good condition. Biographical sketches in Chinese of immigrant businessmen.