Search Results: Titles starting with S from Carpe Diem Fine Books

San Francisco: Sunset Publishing House, 1918. 1st. Paperback. Complied (sic) by The Sather Gate Studio. Oblong 8vo. [61] pp. Pictures of Officers, Companies, Barracks, Drills and Ceremonies and Personal Pictures of Groups. Embossed printed stiff wrappers. A near fine copy (light wear to extremities & covers). Uncommon pictorial record of Army [Students Army Training Corps] and Navy [N.U.] training programs held on University of California at Berkeley campus during World War I. Includes brief history on the S.A.T.C. & N.U.; biographies, with portraits, of senior and junior officers, as well as group photographs; photographs taken during training and recreation on campus and more. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Tel Aviv: Massadah, 1963. 1st. Hardbound. Boards splayed, boring creature has been at work (illustrations unaffected), else Very Good. Quarto. 64 illustrations of the artist work.

Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 2008. 1st. Octavo; [vi], 301 pages and [vi], 278 pages. Near Fine copies. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. 1st. Hardbound. Fine & Unused. Octavo, (xv), 214 pp.

Leiden: Brill, 1969. Second edition. Softcover. Very Good copy (name to verso of front cover, sunned at edges). Octavo, (xii), 108 pp. Semitic study series No VI.

Siena: I Moori A.G. Ticci, 1991. First Edition. Small quarto; 447 pages. Crown of spine bumped, o/w a new and unread copy. Laid in is a facsimile page from the April 26, 1942 issue of Il Telegrafo newspaper.

First Day Cover featuring a color 6-cent stamp block of March Chagall's stunning stained-glass window, entitled 'Peace,' which he created for the United Nations in honor of Dag Hammarskjold. Chagall has SIGNED his name alongside the stamp block. Below is a SIGNED brief description of the Chagall Window printed by Cover Craft Cachets of Paterson, New Jersey. The stamp block and description are framed in wood and gilt. The frame size is 11 1/2" x 10

Image size 12" x 10 1/2"; paper size 15 1/2" x 13". The sailor receiving the tatoo has "USS Panama" inked on his arm, most likely dating the print 1917 - 1920. USS Panama (SP-101) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1920. The artist (C. R. McKuen?) has SIGNED in pencil in the lower right corner.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1899. 1st. Softcover. Ex-library w/usual faults, else a Very Good copy. Octavo; 120 pages. With Tables, Maps, Diagrams.

Los Altos, CA: Public Services Center, 1986. 1st. Hardbound. Near Fine copies in red cloth stamped in white and black. Quartos; (x), 212 pages and (xv), 212 pages. The story of SRI International (Stanford Research Institute), one of the world's leading independent research and technology development organizations. Written by one of the founding executives.

Milan: Cisalpino, 2007. 1st. Paperback. Quarto;382 pages. Near Fine copy. Quaderni di Acme 95. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011. First Edition. 8vo. xiv, 415 pp. Index. Publisher's blue paper covered boards in fine condition. "Surveying the variety of ways in which different types of texts and oral discourse were involved in ancient Greek and Roman religions, the contributions to this volume show that oral and written forms were in use for both Greek and Roman state and private religions." - rear cover.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1905. New Impression. 8vo. xx, 394; xv, 395-818 pp. Index. Illustrated with designs from ancient and modern art. Green cloth with gilt decoration & lettering. A very good set (light wear to extremities; hinges cracked in Vol. I but holding; light soiling). Containing legends of the angels and archangels, the evangelists, the apostles, the doctors of the church, and St. Mary Magdalene. Anna Jameson, the great friend of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who accompanied her to Italy upon her elopement with Robert, had grown up with her father, Denis Brownell Murphy, who was court painter in residence at Windsor Castle, having access to rich treasures of art which she could study. Her book on Christian art (among many others she wrote) was to influence Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites.

Cleveland: American Greetings Corp, 1967. First Edition. Small square 8vo. [20 pp], unpaginated. Color illustrations by Crumb. Glossy color illustrated boards in fine condition ("Aug. 1972" in ink on first page). Nineteen-year-old Crumb began designing novelty greeting cards at American Greetings Corp. in Cleveland, OH in 1962, where he met Harvey Pekar and other artists who inspired him to get out there and try to get paid for his comics. By the autumn of the next year he was assigned to the Hi-Brow cards division. It was during his time living in San Francisco that he created this collection of sad stories for American Greeting Corp.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. Second printing. Hardcover. 4to. 391pp. Glossary; Bibliography; Index. Foreword by Dean Krakel. Drawings by Nancy Kay Niles and Judy Osburn. 800+ black & white illustrations. Fine in very good dust jacket (creasing to upper rear edge; short closed tears; two small triangle chips). Provides a history of the saddle as well as explains construction in great detail; describes different saddle types and how they have been altered through the centuries; and discusses the many accessories of early and modern times. Covers virtually every aspect of saddlery, saddle measurement, selection, and care, plus tips on the intricacies of fitting horse, rider, and saddle. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.

Paris: OECD Publications, 2006. 1st. Paperback. Quartos; 377 pages and 443 pages.

Santa Cruz, CA: Bear State Books, 1976. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author. Small 4to. 293 pp. Black & white photo-reproductions; drawings by Joe Rodriquez. Tan cloth with red illustration to front board and red lettering; map endpapers. A fine copy. This is the definitive history of the area most commonly knowns as "The Gravevine" in Kern county, California, from the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. The author spent years interviewing the majordomo of Rancho El Tejon, Jose Jesus Lopez, to gather this unprecedented collection of historic events of the transition from the Mexican Land Grants to Ranchos of the late 1800's. Frank Latta was a well known historian who in 1906 while still a student conducted his first interview. He later went around and found old timers still living and interviewed them about various historical people and incidents.

Laramie: Powder River Publishers, 1954. First, unexpurgated edition, with change sheets laid in. 8vo. x, 277 pp. Illustrated with the pageant of personalities.With the corrected pages laid in, providing an opportunity to compare the original text and illustrations with the changed ones, side by side. Red cloth with gilt lettering in publisher's red and cream colored illustrated dustjacket. Fine in near fine dustjacket (light fading to spine; minor wear to extremities with small chipping to spine head). 'A thorough study of the trial and execution of Tom Horn... A threatened lawsuit required the author and publisher to rewrite and replace seven pages of the illustrations and text after the volume had been printed but before it was released.' (Adams 150 #92; Herd 1287; Six-Guns 1256).

Laramie: Powder River Publishers, 1954. First, unexpurgated edition, with change sheets laid in. 8vo. x, 277 pp. Illustrated with the pageant of personalities.With the corrected pages laid in, providing an opportunity to compare the original text and illustrations with the changed ones, side by side. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. A fine copy. 'A thorough study of the trial and execution of Tom Horn... A threatened lawsuit required the author and publisher to rewrite and replace seven pages of the illustrations and text after the volume had been printed but before it was released.' (Adams 150 #92; Herd 1287; Six-Guns 1256).

New York: The Press of the Pioneers, 1935. First Edition. 8vo. x, [6], 526 pp. Bibliography; list of Pioneers of Tuolumne County; list of Towns and Camps of Tuolumne Region. Photo-illustrated plates. A fine copy in fine dustjacket (two small chips to upper edge). The history of early Tuolumne County with much on the gold mining days; pioneers; Sonora, Angels Camp, Chinese Camp, Jackass Gulch, Peppermint Gulch, Negro Gulch and much more. "Contains some material on Murieta and other California outlaws." - Six-Guns 312.