Nevada City, CA: Pierce-Bosquit Abstract & Title Co., 1918. Large 8vo, 106, 4pp, printed on yellow paper, gray cloth with titles to front cover. Summarizes the ownership history of a tract of land just outside Nevada City, California, produced for Alex F. Durbin's loan application with the Grass Valley National.....
Los Angeles and Berkeley: California Corrugated Culvert Company, 1935. Beige ring binder measuring 10.75 x 8.5", titled in black lettering on spine, containing 15 illustrated booklets within. A bound collection of trade catalogs for equipment used in irrigation and for the construction of aqueducts, manufactured by the California Corrugated Culvert.....
Los Angeles: 1898. Broadside measuring 12 x 5.25", presenting California fruit growers with information on chemical fertilizers derived from Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid, and Potash. The text notes that "it is now a well recognized fact that commercial or chemical fertilizers are considered necessary to the successful growth of citrus fruits.".....
San Francisco: 1902-1905. Six "bulletins" issued by curriculum supervisors at the San Francisco State Normal School (today San Francisco State University), a vocational school founded in 1899 dedicated to the training of aspiring teachers, mainly young women. These handbooks provide guidance for the teaching of geography, reading, and mathematics in.....
San Francisco: William Randolph Hearst, 1906. Set of ten Birdseye views depicting damage from the San Francisco Earthquake. Four of the issues have some damage, including chips along edges and separations along the folds (with issue number 5 extensively separated along folds), the other posters are in nice condition, with.....
Saratoga, California: 1902 to 1913. A collection of three programs for the Blossom Festival, an annual event held in Saratoga, California to enjoy the flowering prune and apricot trees in the city, which, by 1900, had the largest prune and apricot orchards in the country. The event was founded in.....
Oakland, CA: The Combination, 1970. Quarto, [30] pp, stapled wrappers. Program for a beauty pageant sponsored by "The Combination", an African American magazine based in Oakland. Includes a brief program of events, portraits of the judges, ads for local black businesses, and portraits of the contestants along with brief bios.....
[San Francisco]: California Fig Syrup Co, [1910]. 12mo, 20 pp, stapled pictorial wrappers. Promotional booklet for a California manufacturer of fig syrup laxatives, with each text page accompanied by a half tone view of Yosemite. A nice copy with bit of creasing and foxing.
Los Angeles: All Year Club of Southern California, 1945. 8vo which folds out to measure 35 x 22", printing a sightseeing map of the city of Los Angeles on one side, and a map of Los Angeles County on the other. Some foxing and creasing, very good overall.
Los Angeles Steamship Co, 1932. Large 8vo, folded leaf of color printed glossy paper, art deco color printed front cover, interior prints a program of Hawaiian music and deck sports aboard the S.S. City of Los Angeles, sailing from Honolulu to Los Angeles, accompanied by color illustrations. Creasing and a......
San Francisco: 1913. Four typed letters measuring approximately 8.5 x 11". The letters are on the letterhead of the Fuyo Company, located at 372-374 Sutter St, San Francisco. The letterhead is printed on beige paper with striations reminiscent of bamboo or straw. One of the letters discusses the company's desire.....
San Francisco: James H. Barry, Printer, 1897. First Edition. 7.5 x 5.25", black cloth wrappers lettered in gilt, 92 pp. A very good copy with owner inscription to upper corner of title page, mild staining to covers, rear endpapers, and lower margin of pages, rear cover detached from staples but.....
Los Angeles: 1958. 10 x 7", stapled pictorial wrappers, 32 pp. A scarce program for a Los Angeles swim meet that featured leading swimmers from Japan, the United States, and Australia, sponsored by the Southern California Swimming Association together with the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California. The meet.....
San Jose, Cal. Twentieth Street M.E. Church, 1917. Small 8vo, 65, [5] pp, beige printed wrappers, many pages of local ads, including ads for the "California Tamale Company" and "Mikado and Co Oriental Bazaar." Community cookbook issued by the Twentieth Street Methodist Episcopal Church in San Jose. A couple of.....
Los Angeles: 1929. Quarto, single folded leaf with typed letter signed to recto and two pages of printed text within. A brief typed letter from Richmond P. Hobson, United States Navy rear admiral, politician, and anti-drug activist, to Mason Letteau of Los Angeles, on the letterhead of the International Narcotic.....
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, [1920s]. Three folding leaflets, each 4.75 x 2.75”, with 2pp of text plus pictorial covers. Three issues—titled “Trip No. 1,” “Trip No. 2” and “Trip No. 3” of a scarce educational leaflet issued by the Los Angeles Department of Water and.....
San Jose: 1883. Manuscript measuring 9.5 x 5.5", 16, 7 pp, bound with pink ribbon. The first 16 pages are an address by Adele Lusson titled "No One Lives for HImself Alone," discussing the important of learning and knowlege for a society. The next 7 pages consist of a valedictory.....
United States Geological Survey, 1909. Sectioned, linen backed, folding map of Yosemite National Park, measuring 35.5 x 15.5". Light yellowing to paper, foxing and damp staining to back of linen.
Palo Alto, California: [1939]. 8vo, stapled booklet, [48] pp, photographic illustrations. Promotional booklet and catalog for Miss Harker's School in California. Very good, a bit creased and yellowed.
San Francisco: 1889. 8vo, 176 (of 180) pages, lacking pp 1-4, 17-18, 25-26, 53-54, 131-32, and 177-180. These are likely mostly advertisement leaves. Scarce fundraising cookbook compiled by the ladies of the Immanuel Baptist Church in the Mission District of San Francisco, published to help fund the construction of a......
San Francisco: 1868. Bound volume of weekly newspapers measuring 15.5 x 11.5", 26 issues, each 16 pages. Includes Volume 4, Nos. 1-26, from January 4, 1868 to June 27, 1868. A scarce volume of this "Odd Fellows' Official Organ" published in San Francisco. According to "The Half Century of California.....
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Direct Advertising Company, 1938. Large quarto, green printed wrappers, 102, [2] pp, numerous photographic illustrations throughout. A 1938 yearbook for the Fresno District of the Civilian Conservation Corps, providing a rich visual record of the various companies at work in the Ninth Corps Area of central California.....
Los Angeles: 1922. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers by Witzel Photo Studio, inside red suede string tied wrappers with "'22" in gilt to upper corner. An album containing 13 photographs (one laid in loose), of uniformed nurses who graduated from the USC Nursing School in 1922. The album was produced by.....
New York: Published by the Executive Committee Pan-American Road Congress, 1915. 416pp, original grey printed wrappers, staple bound. Frontispiece illustration of congress delegates. Extensive minutes of a congress dedicated to road and highway improvement. Many of the delegates rode a ceremonial train from Chicago to Oakland for the occasion. Fading.....
[Los Angeles]: Southern California Horticultural Society, 1877. Broadside measuring 10 x 8". The prospectus for the Southern California Horticulturalist, a periodical first published by the Southern California Horticultural Society in September, 1877. The broadside outlines the format and content of the periodical ("devoted to the interests of Horticulture and such.....