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The Women's City Club Magazine of San Francisco. Volume I Number I, February, 1927
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- 1927
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- Magazine
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$40.00
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San Francisco: the club, 1927. Magazine. 60p. plus advertisements printed professionally on glazed alkaline paperstock, texts are set doublecolumn and provided with numerous b&w photos (portrait, groups, and interiors of the new club building). An all but immaculate exemplar: a minuscule nick to a front cover margin, an odd faint shadow to rear cover, no dust-soil or other signs… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
Building a city, building a union: a history of the Civil Service Technical Guild, Local 375, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, District Council 37, AFL-CIO
by Bernstein, Rachel Amelia, Steve Beck; [and] Molly Charboneau
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- 1997
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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New York: Civil Service Technical Guild, Local 375, 1997. 28p., stapled wraps, illus., 8.5x11 inches, very good condition. Item Price
$15.00
Sprinkle Brigade. Volume 1: New York State of Mind
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- 2007
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- Paperback
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- 9781601670519
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$60.00
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Pittsfield, MA: Blue Q., 2007. Paperback. [78]p., illustrations, wraps. 4.75 x4.75 in. Documents activities of a group of anonymous artists who dress up fresh dog feces. Item Price
$60.00
Civilizing terrains; mountains, mounds and mesas; revised second edition
by Morrish, William Rees
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- 1996
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Los Angeles: William Stout Publishers, 1996. v, + 49 architectural drawings (each drawing with 2pp text) + bibliography, 9.5x6 inch red frenchfold wraps, an elegant production with a bit of crimping and a tiny nick to spine panel, also a large (2x3 inch) sticker adhesion someone tried to remove. Internally clean and unmarked, and perfectly sound. Architectural documents 1.… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
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Margaret Kilgallen: In The Sweet Bye & Bye
by Kilgallen, Margaret
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- 2007
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- Hardcover
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- 9780974983165
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$250.00
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Los Angeles: California Institute of the Arts, 2007. Hardcover. 207p., second edition of this beautifully made companion to the exhibit of the same name, profusely illustrated with pictures of paintings, artwork, exhibitions. Very light spot staining and very light wear to linen covers, otherwise very good condition. The late Kilgallen was a central figure in the SF Bay Area… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
Cleveland County Oklahoma, Historical Highlights
by Womack, John
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- 1983
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$45.00
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Noble, OK: Published by the Author, 1983. Paperback. viii, 259p., a few diagrammatic illustrations plus a site photograph, first edition in 8x5.5 inch plain printed grey wraps. Front cover is a little smudged with offset color, and is edgeworn with a quarter-inch marginal tear, and a touch of silverfishing to spine panel. Item is else quite sound and square,… Read more about this item Item Price
$45.00
The Coming Age of Conscience
by Foster, Ellery
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- 1977
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$50.00
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Winona, MN: Peaceful Alternatives, 1977. Pamphlet. [6], xv, 85p., illustrations, wraps. 8.5 x 6.75 in. Review copy, with address label on rear cover, mailed to Radical Religion. Postmarked. Edition of 1,000. Stain on right edge of front cover. Very Good. Second edition of a text on communal living. With a new introduction by the author, in which Foster expresses… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
A History of South Pittsburg, Tennessee. The First One Hundred Years. Written in Observation Of South Pittsburg's Centennial in 1973. Foreword by O. K. Woodfin
by Kelly, Martelia Cameron
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- 1973
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$40.00
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South Pittsburg TN: Hustler Printing Company, Inc, 1973. Hardcover. xviii, [126]p., illustrated with period and contemporary photographs, largely of the simple stuff the city has for architecture. Also find journalist photos and sketches. Hardbound in plain blue cloth boards with headbands, a sound production with hard to read spine titling. Laid in is an edgeworn letter explaining the bestowal… Read more about this item Item Price
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Norman - An Early History, 1820-1900
by Womack, John
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- 1976
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$75.00
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Norman OK: author, sponsored by [numerous committees] and with financial support of the Norman Sooner Lions Club, 1976. Hardcover. xii, 172p., illustrated from b&w period photography (portraits, sites, scenes), passable sketches, and maps &c in facsimile; reproductions are of average quality. Hardbound first edition in 9.5x6 inch red cloth boards lettered/decorated gilt and inscribed & signed by Womack on… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
Toward the Second Chicago Fire: Surrealism and the Housing Question
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- 1971
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- Handbill
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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[Chicago]: The Surrealist Group, 1971. Handbill. Single sheet, printed both sides, 8.5x11 inches; lightly edgeworn, toned along edges, else very good condition. bottom edge slightly silver-fished. Good only. Item Price
$12.00
Historia de la vida cotidiana en México, Tomo III El siglo XVIII: entre tradición y cambio
by Gonzalbo Aizpuru, Pilar, editor
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- 2005
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- 9789681677183
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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Mexico City: El Colegio de México / Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2005. Paperback. 592p., edited volume of chapters, illustrations. Edgewear and faint streaks on cover, else very good condition. Item Price
$15.00
Homes not jails! a novel
by Steinberg, Michael
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- 2011
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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San Francisco: Black Rain Press Self published, 2011. Paperback. 141p., second printing; wraps a bit soiled, else very good. Self-published novel of San Francisco featuring a band of scruffy urban radicals who organize a mass squatting campaign. Not a bad idea really. Item Price
$12.00
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Miffland Deed for 3 hits [poster]
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- 1960
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$150.00
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Madison, WI, 1960. Poster. 8.75x13 inch poster; this deed allows for three "hits" of marijuana and bears a small middle photo of "Jes' Folks" between the banners of the Puerto Rican and North Vietnamese flags. Neat middle crease from folding, else in very good condition. This small poster emerged out of the Miffland neighborhood community in Madison, Wisconsin where… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
Last Letters from Hav
by Morris, Jan
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- 1985
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- Hardcover
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- 9780394532622
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$17.00
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New York: Random House, 1985. Hardcover. xiv, 203p., illustrated with a doublespread of maps (city plats and local geography), hardbound first edition in tan papered boards with brown cloth backstrip lettered copperfoil, and enclosed in the glossy dust jacket. The jacket's illustration, FYI, was candidly inspired by de Chirico's "Departure", a sort of gloss or even parody. Item Price
$17.00
The Work of the Juvenile Protective Association Synopsis for 1919 and 1920
by Bowen, Louise de Koven
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- 1921
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- Ephemera
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$22.00
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Chicago: Juvenile Protective Association, 1921. Ephemera. 1 brochure. 6.25 x 3.25 in. Very Good. Lists various activities and interventions of social workers in child abuse, gambling, child marriage, poor living conditions, etc. With a blank form for financial contributions on the rear cover. The Juvenile Protective Association was founded in 1901. Item Price
$22.00
Street angel: plus: the city game, two powerful urban novels
by Batista, Rob
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- 1998
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- 9781888097016
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$40.00
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Jersey City: WriteEye Books, 1998. Paperback. 96p., wraps. 8 x 5 in. Covers creased and binding slightly askew. Very Good. Urban young adult fiction. A young college-bound Latino buys a gun in an attempt to prove he is tough. Cover in black and white. Includes publisher's note on urban fiction and the short story "The City Game. Item Price
$40.00
Street corner society; the social structure of an Italian slum
by Whyte, William Foote
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- 1943
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San Francisco, California, USA
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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1943. Hardcover. xxii, 284p., 4th impression, chipped dust jacket. Item Price
$17.00
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[We regret to inform you that all the architects are long dead] [inside title]
by Fredet, Jacques, Pierre Lepetit; J. K. Huysmans
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- 1975
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$125.00
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Paris: Institut de Beauté Architecture, 1975. Pamphlet. [13]p., 8.25x11.5 inch staplebound wraps; faint handling, hint of rust on staples with no migration, otherwise a very good condition item. French language text. Item Price
$125.00
![Boycott Manny's; stop the woke-washing of the Mission. Manny's out! Community-run youth center in! Don't cross the picket line [handbill]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/352/481/1595481352.0.m.jpg)
Boycott Manny's; stop the woke-washing of the Mission. Manny's out! Community-run youth center in! Don't cross the picket line [handbill]
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- 2019
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$35.00
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San Francisco: Endorsed by Palestinian youth Movement, 2019. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill; in very good condition. An anti-gentrification and anti-Zionist handbill. "Manny's is part of a systematic attempt to make gentrification and racism seem 'cool' through woke-washing. Woke-washing is the strategy of putting a 'social justice' facade on oppressive politics. Item Price
$35.00
Der Kolner Dom. Aus dem Italienischen ubersetzt von Ragni Maria Gschwend
by Cresti, Carlo
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- 1968
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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Firenze: Sadea Editore, 1968. Paperback. Unpaginated; following a six-page preface printed double-column in a smallish font (German only) find uncaptioned fullpage full-color site photographs, thirty or so, all in fine condition. The glossy colorphoto covers are just slightly edgeworn, an else excellent copy. Forme und Farbe series. Item Price
$25.00
