1st ed., 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt decorations and lettering. 41 [2] i-xxxiii. Tipped in photographic frontispiece of “Wordsworth’s Glen.” [See note below] A talk about the Quantock Hills area of southwest England, where Coleridge and Wordsworth wrote Lyrical Ballads, which Nichols writes about the landscape as well as some of the other "Quantock Poets," including Charles Lamb, Thomas Lovell Beddoes and Charles Lloyd. Gift inscription on FFEP “with the writer’s compliments” to Welsh mathematician, photographer, and painter Rev. Calvert R. Jones, [1804-1877]. We believe Jones m... View More...
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Sacramento, California State Dept of Education : 1956
Seller ID: k181231a
40 single plate black & white photographs (8 1/2" x 11"), printed on stiff paper and housed in publisher's printed portfolio folder; accompanied by three page "Teacher's Guide"). Plates are fine; folder has some wear and a few nicks but very good overall; title written in red ink on the spine. The photographs depict the famous CA flooding throughout the north state the week before Christmas --, principally Yuba City and the Feather River, but also other cities and counties -- including a few in the south state. ; a photographic archive of the mainly northern and central California flood even... View More...
A wide variety of photos of camp life at Schofield Barracks and activities of the Hawaiian Division Command -- extra-illustrated with original cartoons drawn by one of the soldiers stationed there. Appears to be assembled by Sgt. Robert J. Drake of Columbus Georgia. Camp social life, barracks, scenery. Not much military history, but a great portrait of life on base. View More...
Signed photograph of Gov. Earl Warren [1891-1974; California] correcting a document or speech at his desk. April 10, 1953, six months before his appointment as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 10x8", b/w. /////A more personal signature than we are accustomed to seeing, inscribed "from Pop" to his secretary Stella Pauw. The unusual signature suggests a warm familial relationship between the two. We are aware of no other documents signed with this moniker and have seen no other copies of this particular photo. Provenance: A family photo obtained from Pauw's granddaughter.... View More...
8vo, decorated boards, black cloth spine w/ gilt titles, 82 pages, illustrated w/b&w photos. No. IV in the series ‘Los Angeles Miscellany’. A classic work of urban archeology. Very good: A clean, tight copy with near fine appearance overall, but with rubbed and slightly chipped corners. View More...
Oblong red & blue embossed, cord-tied wrappers. 10" x 11 3/4". 20 photos in various monotones, image size approx. 6.5" x 9.75". "Phototype Illustrations of the Principal Buildings at the Fair Grounds, together with some General Views of the Great Northwest, Mountains, Big Trees and Rivers."
OCLC (WorldCat) locates only 7 copies. (1905).
Owner signature faintly inked on tissue guard of title page, otherwise In near fine condition …... View More...
4to, Publisher's blue boards with bright gilt design and black lettering. 128 pp. plus folding map. The first only of two volumes; this volume for the winter olympics. Several hundred glossy photographs tipped-in to their pages; mostly b/w but some color. A good+ copy overall. Text block and photos are very good-fine with some light toning to page margins. Covers are rubbed at corners and top of spine with a 2" white crayon mark on front cover and some rubbing to the gilt logo. View More...
92 photos of Life in camp, behind the lines; touring the fronts [Western & Eastern] No battle scenes. A additional 30-40 photos in the latter half of the album are personal photos long after the war into 1990 and of little to no value. View More...
Orwat and Wife - Colored Silver Gelatin Print of Inuit Couple, 1898
7.5-9.5”, signed by the photographer at bottom and again, with hand-lettered title on verso. The photo was taken in 1898; unknown when Leeson printed and colored this particular copy.
Benjamin William (B. W.) Leeson (1866 - 1948) of Vancouver, B.C. was a scholar, customs official, and photographer who studied the Quatsino peoples of Vancouver Island. He began taking photographs in the Cariboo in 1887 and moved to Quatsino Sound in about 1894 where he and his father managed the salmon and clam cannery located on the oppos... View More...
Four 4.25x6.5" sepia toned cabinet card photos by E.B. Snell Elite Gallery, Wellington KS. One 5.25x8.5" by H. Beck Winfield Kansas, with two inked annotations identifying destroyed properties./////On May 27, 1892, a cyclone ripped through the heart of Wellington Kansas, leaving 17 dead, numerous injuries, leaving hundreds homeless, and causing $500,000 in property damage. At that time, Wellington was one of the state's fastest growing cities, with a population of 12,000. The cyclone caused extensive damage to a 26-block area and ended the momentum of growth the city had been experiencing. P... View More...
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