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A History Of the Chamber Of Commerce Of Los Angeles, California, From Its Foundation, September, 1888, To the Year 1900
by Charles Dwight Willard
Two Girls and A Kite Southern California Seen From Santa Fe Rr 1899
by Edith, Cover Illustration By Leo Politi Parker
Southern California Books & Ephemera
"The Southern California Tourist Travel Guide"
by [SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TRAVEL GUIDE]
Small octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inch) The Southern California Tourist Information Bureaus, Inc., November 1928. Volume 3, Number 11. 40 page stapled booklet in wrappers, with descriptive text, illustrated with half tone black and white captioned photos, numerous local advertisements; decorative cover art of a bucolic Southern California scene. Very good condition.
A monthly guide, giving suggestions for the visitor, and promoting the "Official Canadian Picnic and Reunion" in Long Beach.
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A monthly guide, giving suggestions for the visitor, and promoting the "Official Canadian Picnic and Reunion" in Long Beach.
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NZ$42.56
Los Angeles County Culture and the Community
by [LOS ANGELES COUNTY]
Octavo (9 x 6 inches) Los Angeles: Civic Bureau of Music and Art of Los Angeles County, 1920s. Original stapled booklet, in taupe colored textured wrappers, of about 80 unnumbered pages printed on coated stock, numerous black and white photos of cultural locations in Southern California, stylized map showing Southern California music, museum, university, library, and other cultural locations; wrappers, with decoration of seven artistic muses and the title embossed on the front cover, good condition (top...
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NZ$28.85
Baptism in Oil: Stephen F. Peckham in Southern California, 1865-1866
by White, Gerald T
Book Club of California, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 138 pages. Designed by Ward Ritchie. Printed by Castle Press of Pasadena. Publication No. 177 of The Book Club of California. Limited to 500 copies. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in decorated paper over boards and black cloth covers. No dust wrapper. With 4-page prospectus from The Book Club of California with addressed envelope for ordering the book.
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NZ$42.56
1946 U.S.C vs.CAL / ORIGINAL FOOTBALL PROGRAM / TROJANS VS.GOLDEN BEARS
Los Angeles: Associated Students, University of Southern California, 1946. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. Very Good Plus/4-mil clear mylar envelope. Unpaginated (24pp). Illustrated stapled wrappers. Illustrated throughout, including photographs of players and coaches. Period advertisements. Pictured is Cal's freshman All American running back, Jackie Jensen, who went on the play baseball for the Boston Red Sox. This game, played on November 9, 1946, was won by USC 14-0. A Very Good plus copy...
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NZ$37.45
The Santa Barbara Earthquake of June 29, 1925. Effects on Buildings of Various Types. Conclusions
by Alvarez, Arthur A
Portland Cement Association, 1925. First Edition. Trade Paperback. One sheet folded to create 4 pages. Reprinted by Portland Cement Association from the University of California Publications in Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 6, Nov. 17, 1925. Inscribed by the author on 5.5 x 2 inch green paper in red pencil: 'Collins for your information & file. A.' First edition (first printing). Very good copy which has been folded vertically. Scarce.
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NZ$63.83
Autumn in the Highlands
by Bishop, Ernest G
Ernest G. Bishop. Printed by The Bells, n.d.. First Edition. Hardcover. 32 pages. Brief sketches of life on the Arroyo Seco before development, which the author sadly regrets. Inscribed by the printers: 'To our friends The Sudduths From The Bells - The Printers.' First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in embossed patterned paper over boards and blue cloth covers with title and author name in bright gilt on front cover. Slight wear to edges. No dust jacket as issued.
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NZ$42.56
DEAD MEN LEAVE NO FINGERPRINTS
by Chambers, Whitman
N.Y.: Caxton House, 1939. 1st edition, thus. (Originally published in 1935 by Doubleday Crime Club). Black binding with orange pictoral design on spine: knife through a sheet of paper dripping blood from the tip. Covers show some light soiling, paper is age toned else a solid copy in hoemade acetate jacket. Stan Lake, private investigator. 'Dead more than a year, his fingerprints covered the weapon used to murder the son of the man he hated.'. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/No...
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NZ$27.78
CORONADO TENT CITY NEWS
Small quarto (9 1/4 by 6 inches) [San Diego, California], August 19 to August 26, 1911. Original Edition. 16 page stapled weekly advertising periodical, and calendar of programs, bound in wrappers for the "Tent City" adjacent to the famous Coronado Hotel. Good condition (there is a small scribbled date along the lower margin of the front cover, modest age toning, and minor wear to edges; none affecting contents which are clean and intact).
Volume XII, No. 10 for Saturday, August 19, 1911 with sections... Read more about this item
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autograph letter signed from James W. Foley to Edward F. O'Day. with 'Of Suffering and Rest and Peace (pamphlet) (2 items)
by Foley, James W. Edward F. O'Day
1919. Ephemera. Autograph letter signed, dated September 18, on letterhead of The Pasadena California Evening News, James W. Foley, Assistant Editor. Letter thanks O'Day for 'the sympathetic and friendly review of the play' and sends him 'a prose bit you will like I am sure.' About 60 words. Pamphlet, 6 pages, 3.5 x 6.8 inches, with rust mark from paperclip on front cover. Pamphlet also signed with full name. James W. Foley was a poet, playwright and journalist, and friend of Teddy Roosevelt. He wrote...
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NZ$53.19
Glenwood Mission Inn, Riverside, California (set of 12 color postcards)
Glenwood Mission Inn, 1930. Trade Paperback. 12 color postcards, 3.5 x 5.5 inches, of the Glenwood Mission Inn, Riverside, California. Title on envelope 'California Mission Inn, Riverside,' with a quote from David Starr Jordan praising Frank Miller 'to dream of the hotel that ought to be; to turn your ideal into plaster and stone, and to give us in mountain-belted Riverside the one hotel which a Californian can recognize as his own.' The Mission Inn first began in 1876, becoming a full-service hotel in...
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Midsummer Floral and Allegorical Festival B. P. O. E. Reunion, Los Angeles, Cal., 1909 (6 postcards)
Elks Lodge, No. 99, 1909. Trade Paperback. six, 6.5 x 2.75 inch, B/W real poto postcards of the parade, mounted 3 to a side, on black craft paper. Elks Lodge, No. 99, was located in downtown Los Angeles. The parade rivaled the Rose Parade and the Festival took place over several days. Postcards are fine condition showing floats and other conveyances in the parade.
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NZ$212.78
Early Day Schools of Long Beach
by Berner, Loretta
Loretta Berner, n.d.. Trade Paperback. 9 pp. of mimeographed text prepared for an article in the Journal of the Historical Society of Long Beach (? in 1970). Accompanied by 2 reproduction photographs, 7.25 x 10 inches, of 1. an early Cerritos school class photo; 2. the first school building in Long Beach area. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.
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NZ$42.56
SPUDDING IN. RECOLLECTIONS OF PIONEER DAYS IN THE CALIFORNIA OIL FIELDS
by RINTOUL, William
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1976. First Edition. Cloth-backed cloth. As New/Near Fine. (xii) 240 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated, including maps, diagrams and photographs. Index. Cloth-backed cloth. From the introductory notes by oilman Richard Sneddon: "The material recorded in the following pages is drawn from the voluntary contributions of men who were personally engaged in various operational phases of the California petrolium industry for diverse periods of...
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THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS
Small octavo (7 3/4 by 4 1/4 inches) Highland Park Branch Security Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles, 1923. Written by the Publicity Department, Highland Park Branch, Security Trust & Savings Bank, second edition. 48 page stapled promotional booklet in decorative stiff wrappers, illustrated with black and white vintage photographs of scenery, portraits, prominent buildings, and other historical images; plus descriptive text (including information about Charles Lummis). Very good condition.
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ORIGINAL CANDID PHOTOGRAPH OF MOVIE MOGULS JACK L. WARNER AND DARRYL F. ZANUCK. Circa 1955
by WARNER, Jack L.; ZANUCK, Darryl F
Hollywood, 1955. Fine/4-mil clear mylar envelope. This is an ORIGINAL candid photograph of movie giants Jack L. Warner and Darryl F. Zanuck relaxing on a couch. Circa 1955. A deluxe photgraph printed on double weight paper stock. Matte finish. 4 3/4" x 6 3/4". Jack L. Warner was one of the founders of Warner Brothers. Darryl F. Zanuck started as a screenwriter and became a legendary producer for 20th Century Fox. One can only speculate what brought these two legendary film characters together, relaxing...
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A DAUGHTER OF THE SNOWS
Small octavo (7 3/4 by 4 1/4 inches) Published by the Lankershim Branch of the Security Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles, 1923, written by the Publicity Department, Lankershim Branch, Security Trust & Savings Bank. Second Edition. 56 page stapled promotional booklet in decorative stiff wrappers, illustrated with black and white vintage photographs of scenery, portraits, prominent landmarks, and other historical images, a map, and "A Bird's-eye View of the Great San Fernando Valley;" plus descriptive...
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NZ$144.69
THE HISTORY OF WARNER'S RANCH AND ITS ENVIRONS
by HILL, Joseph J
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1927. First Trade Edition. (x) (2) 221 pp. Printed dust jacket. Illustrated, including frontispiece portrait from Loren Barton drawing of William Griffith Henshaw; facsimilies of Spanish land grant and Warner documents and maps. Preface by Professor Herbert E. Bolton. Red cloth. 7 1/2" x 10 3/4". Appendices. One of 1000 un-numbered copies of the first trade edtion. Prepared as a Memorial to banker William Griffith Henshaw. His last project was the development of a water...
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NZ$110.64
Picturesque Redlands (San Bernadino, California)
[Redlands Board of Trade], 1901. Trade Paperback. 16 pages including front and rear leaves. Includes 2-page panoramic photo, 'Redlands from Canon Crest Park,' by E. P. Everett, 1901 with additional photos. 'Points of Interest in and Around Redlands' on rear leaf. Rocq 7252. 1901 edition. Very good copy with tear along spine edge with prior 2.5 inch clear tape repairat top edge. Scarce. 6.25' x 8'.
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NZ$212.78
MUSIC IN THE SOUTHWEST 1825-1950 (SIGNED)
by SWAN, Howard
San Marino, California: The Huntington Library, 1952. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. (x) 316 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author Howard Swan in ink on the front free endpaper: "To Miss Sue Alice Keller from Lynn McKelvey / Christmas - 1952 / With the added compliments & best wishes of the author- Howard Swan". Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated from period photographs. Bibliography. Index. Light green cloth; gilt spine titling. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". From the DJ flap: "Music in the Southwest...
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NZ$51.07
(San Diego) In the Supreme Court of the State of California. The City of San Diego, a Municipal Corporation, Plaintiff, Appellant and Respondent vs. Cuyamaca Water Company, et al., Defendants, and The City of El Cajon, et al., Intervenors. On Appeal from San Diego County. Honorable M. W. Conklng, Judge. Opening Brief of Defendants and Intervenors on Their Appeal. Volumes I and II
by Crouch, and Sanders, Sweet, Sterns & Forward, Philip Storer Thatcher and E. V. Winnek (Attorneys for Defendants and Intervenors)
n.p., 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Vol. I: pp. xi, 446; Vol. II: vi, 447-785. Folding document in Volume II. With Topic Index, Table of Cases, Index to Quotations, and Index to Spanish Laws quoted. Although the City of San Diego had long contracted with Cuyamaca and its predecessors for water, the City had decided to purchase the Water Company. When the deal stalled, the city decided to claim pueblo right to all the waters of the San Diego River - and the Court ruled in its favor (and San Diego...
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1901"MIDWAY OIL FIELD" ORIGINAL MAP KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. LINEN-BACKED
by HEDGES, E.C., BISBY, R.L., AUSTIN, H.I. (Compilers)
Los Angeles: Oil Maps and Prospectus, 1901. Fine, Linen-Backed. This is an ORIGINAL MAP, 1901, of the MIDWAY OIL FIELD, Kern County, California. It has been expertly LINEN-BACKED. Compiled from public records and private surveys by E. C. Hedges, R. L. Bisby and H. I. Austin. Exceedingly rare. Blueprint. Image approximately 33 1/4" x 32" with a small linen border. The Midway Oil Field (Now, Midway-Sunset Oil Field) was discovered in Kern County in 1894.This map predates the establishment of Taft,...
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NZ$978.76
Odd Fellowship. For Membership in Pomona Lodge, No. 246
by Odd Fellows
George H. Fuller, 1914. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 12 pages. 6.4 x 3.75 inches. An introductory brochure for prospective member in I.O.O.F, Pomona Lodge, No. 246. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Name of prospective new member and curerent member in pencil on front cover.
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NZ$34.04
Riverside County California
Octavo (8 1/2 X 5 5/8 inches) Hildreth Brothers, 1910. 20 unnumbered pages. Original booklet in staplebound wrappers, illustrated with captioned photo vignettes and descriptive text; plus large folded black and white grid map (10 3/4 X 22 1/2 inches) showing "Western Portion of Riverside County, California" to the boundary line of San Bernardino County on the North, to the boundary line of Orange County on the West, and to the boundary line of San Diego County on the South; and with named locations....
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Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier Town (Creating the North American Landscape)
by Van Dyke, Professor Dix
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 183 pages. Illustrated from black-and-white photographs. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. With a date written in ink written on the front free endpaper. When twenty-two-year-old Dix Van Dyke arrived in Daggett, California, in 1901, the town was a wild and raucous frontier settlement, with barrooms and brothels, silver mines and land swindles, cattle drives, and shootouts at the Bucket of...
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ORIGINAL MOVIE STILL PHOTOGRAPH: "NEW ADVENTURES OF GET-RICH-QUICK WALLINGFORD" 1931 PRE-CODE. WILLIAM HAINES, JIMMY DURANTE
by RANDOLPH, George (Sourcework)
Hollywood: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1931. First Edition. Near Fine. This is an ORIGINAL still photograph from the 1931 pre-code MGM film, "NEW ADVENTURES OF GET-RICH-QUICK WALLINGFORD", starring William Haines, Jimmy Durante, Leila Hyams, Ernest Torrence and Guy Kibbee. 8" x 10". Black and White. Matte finish. Deluxe copy, printed on double weight paper stock. Screenplay by Charles MacArthur, adapted from "The Wallingford Stories" by George Randolph published in Cosmopolitan Magazine. Directed by Sam Wood...
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