Search Results: Titles starting with C from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

Los Angeles: City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department, 2004. (1st Edition). Softcover. Very good. [80p.] Cover corners lightly worn. Samples of the artists' work are presented on foldout leaves with a brief biography and selected exhibitions and bibliography. Catalog, designed and produced by 2003 C.O.L.A. artist Susan Silton, presents the C.O.L.A. (City of Los Angeles) Individual Artist Fellowship program, which supports mid-career artists in art, literature, and performance. The artists honored this year are: Cindy Bernard, Jack Butler, Ann Chamberlin, Habib Kheradyar, Renee Petropoulos, Tom Recchion, John Sonsini, Takako Yamaguchi, Jody Zellen, Wanda Coleman, Deborah Greenfield, Jude Narita, and Pirayeh Pourafar. B&w and color photographs. (10"x7")

New York: Boni & Liveright; Modern Library, 1919. Limp faux leather. Good +/No Jacket. 306p., 5 leaves of Modern Library titles. Cover edges and folds scraped and corners worn. No. 69. (6-5/8"x4-1/2")

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951. Very good. Single sheet, double-sided; 3-panel leaflet. Guide to the national monument in San Diego, California. B&w illustrations and photographs. (Folded, 8-1/2"x6"; unfolded, 18"x6")

New York: Lightolier Architectural Lighting, [1955?]. Stapled wraps. Very good. 15p. Wrap corners lightly worn and tear on front wrap fore edge. Brochure designed for interior designers and architects showcasing lighting options produced by Lightolier with application data and ordering information. Ceiling fixtures such as square, round, and recessed with lens, louvre, pinhole, albalite glass, and formed glass are included—brochure distributed by Chathams Electric Inc. in Altoona, Pennsylvania. B&w illustrations. (11"x8-1/2")

[Palos Verdes Estates, California]: Self-published, 1986. Stapled wraps. Good +. 26p. Signed by author on first page. Cover spine sunned. Month-by-month information for flower gardening within the area between "Santa Barbara to the Mexican border and from the Pacific, inland to the hotter areas." Booklet. (8-1/2"x5-1/4")

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1994. Softcover. Very good. (96p.) Cover corners lightly worn. Japanese American issue. Includes articles on: Chester Rowell and the California Alien Land Act of 1913, Walnut Grove Japanese immigrant farmers, 2nd generation Japanese American (Nisei) study tours of Japan, Nisei women in the 1930s, and Japanese Americans in Washington Township. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1964. Softcover. Very good. [111p.] Wraps creased. Includes articles on: Thomas Starr King and the Mercy Million, Louis Provost and the San Jose silk industry, Archbishop Alemany's diary, and graduate research in California history. Includes bibliographical notes and annual index of articles for 1964. B&w photographs. (10"x7")

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1963. Softcover. Very good. [94p.] Wraps creased. History of education issue. Includes articles on: California higher education, Bernard Moses, Michael Reese, and John Swett. Includes bibliographical notes. 2 leaves of b&w photo plates. (10"x7")

San Francisco: Division of Fish & Game, Department of Natural Resources, 1934. Wraps. Fair. 96p. Brown stains on some pages, wraps creased and torn with a large tear on front spine and a few stains. Stab stapled text block. (5-7/8"x9-1/4")

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1993. Softcover. Very good. (111p.) Cover corners lightly worn. Includes articles on: Henry Wager Halleck and the Californios, the United States Sanitary Commission and Thomas Starr King, the California Mission Indian Commission of 1891 and Helen Hunt Jackson's legacy, and the 1973 Proposition 1 campaign with annual index for 1993. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1994. Softcover. Very good. (97p.) Cover corners lightly worn. Includes articles on: New Almaden quicksilver mine; San Francisco development plans of William C. Ralston, James D. Phelan, and Michael M. O'Shaughnessy; and Bodie with annual index for 1994. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Very Good/good. Lufkin, Raymond. [xii], 257p. Signed by author on front endpaper. Jacket has small chips and tears to edges with a hole on front jacket flap. Borzoi Books for Young People. Black & red illustrations. (8-5/8"x5-7/8")

Redlands, California: Pure Gold, [1955]. Stapled wraps. Very good. [12p.] Small chips to wrap edges. The Mutual Orange Distributors (MOD) was founded in Redlands, California, in 1906 as a cooperative marketing association representing citrus growers in California. Within a few years, the coop included citrus growers in western Arizona. In 1955, MOD changed its name to Pure Gold, originally the brand name for fruit grown by the approximately 2,500 MOD growers. Sunkist took over the Pure Gold trademark when the co-op closed in 1987 due to housing developments replacing the citrus fields and the shrinking number of packing plants. This booklet explains the history of the citrus-growing culture in California and Arizona and provides information on the variety of oranges, lemons, and grapefruit grown and their cultivation and packaging. A map on the back shows the regions represented by the Pure Gold cooperative. Scarce, none located in OCLC. B&w illustrations and halftone photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1995. Softcover. Very good. (79p.) Cover corners lightly worn. Includes articles on: mortality on the Overland Trail, John Baptiste Trudeau of the Donner Party, Central Valley ethnic population, and Hetch Hetchy. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1963. Softcover. Very good. [114p.] Wraps creased. Includes articles on: James D. Phelan and the Woodrow Wilson Anti-Oriental statement of May 3, 1912, mountain men's diet, and Federico Biesta's report on the state of California 1856. Includes bibliographical notes and annual index of articles for 1963. (10"x7")

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1993. Softcover. Very good. (115p.) Cover corners lightly worn. Includes articles on: Chinese immigrants of Knight's Ferry, the United States Navy's influence on San Diego's land development in the early 20th century, the Diocese of Sacramento, and seismic safety and transportation development. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

New York: Hearst's International Library, 1914. (1st Edition). Pictorial cloth. Good/No Jacket. [xvi], 400p. Moisture stain on bottom page fore edges, hinges weak, cover edges and spine toned. Subtitle: Her Romantic History, Her Picturesque People, Her Wild Shores, Her Desert Mystery, Her Valley Loveliness, Her Mountain Glory, including Her Varied Resources, Her Commercial Greatness, Her Intellectual Achievements, Her Expanding Hopes, With Glimpses of Oregon and Washington, Her Northern Neighbors. B&w photo plates. (8-1/2"x5-1/2")

San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing, 1923. 4th Edition. Cloth. Good +/No Jacket. [240p.] Endpapers toned, cover has fade spots on back and dents to edges. B&w maps and photographs and color photo plates and frontispiece.

Chicago: Passenger Department, Burlington Route, [1900?]. Wraps. Fair. [72p.] Binding loose and wraps and frontispiece detached. some pages dogeared and foxed, wraps tattered and chipped with spine gone, pretty much a reading copy. Promotional book for train travel to California highlighting its history, culture, cities, and natural features, such as Yosemite. B&w illustrations and photographs. (7-7/8"x5-7/8")

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1996. Softcover. Very good. (111p.) Cover corners lightly worn. Includes articles on: farm laborers in the 18th century, conservation movement in the 19th century, effects of fascism on Los Angeles Italian Americans during World War II, and historical interpretation at Fort Ross State Historical Park with annual index for 1996. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2")