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San Francisco, CA: The Whitaker & Ray Co, 1900. Very good. 8 3/8" x 5 5/8". Cloth over flexible boards. Pp. 57, [2]. Very good: covers lightly scuffed, soiled and creased; tiny tear and offsetting to ffep; two pages moderately spotted and two with a tiny closed tear; a bit of creasing at margins; lightly toned. … Read more about this item

San Francisco, California: [San Francisco Community Chorus], 1929. Very good. 11" x 8". Bifolium, printed all four sides. Pp. [4]. Very good: edges lightly worn and soiled; tiny corner crease; lightly spotted. This is an illustrated program for a benefit performance by "200 Ne*roes" which took place at the Dreamland Auditorium in San Francisco in July… Read more about this item

Genova: Stamperia Casamara, Piazza 5 Lampadi, 1918. Very good +. 4 " x 3". Stapled printed thin card wrappers. Pp. 40. Very good plus: dust soiling and mild wear throughout; a few minor ink blurs and creases on leaves not affecting readability. This is an Italian-language almanac with specially issued wrappers for distribution in California. It… Read more about this item

Fresno, CA: N.P., 1951. Good. 7¼" x 5". Stapled thin card wrappers. Pp. [26], 59. Good: wrappers heavily soiled and with a ballpoint scribble; moderate staining and dust soiling throughout with a few dogears and penciled owner notations. This is a book of prayers, printed in Armenian and English, written by a leader of the Armenian… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Carl E. Jordan, 1972. 11½" x 8". Newsprint. pp. 15. Very good plus with a hint of toning at extremities. This is an issue of the short-lived San Francisco Forum which touted itself as "The Independent Community Newspaper" for San Francisco. Its premier issue contained a short history of how the paper came about, as well… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Carl E. Jordan, 1972. Newsprint. pp. 15. Very good with light toning to outermost leavs and a tiny tear to the cover page. This is an issue of the short-lived San Francisco Forum which touted itself as "The Independent Community Newspaper" for San Francisco. Its premier issue contained a short history of how the paper came… Read more about this item

Oakland, California: Oakland Unified School District, 1968. Very good -. 11" x 8½". Stapled printed thin card wrappers. Pp. V, 25; an additional two separate unrelated leaves laid in described below. Very good minus: last leaf fully detached and possibly lacking a rear wrapper; light dust-soiling and toning; a few penciled notations to one page. This is… Read more about this item

Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles Times, 1980. Very good. Three posters, each measuring 18" x 23". Very good: one tiny tear to edge of one map, light foxing in the margin of another; else minimal wear and light creasing to edges. This is a set of three pictorial maps commissioned for the Los Angeles Bicentennial celebration and… Read more about this item

[Pasadena, California]: Pasadena Board of Trade, 1900. Very good +. 5 ½" x 3½". Stapled self-wrappers. pp. 35, [5]. Very good plus: bright with a faint vertical crease to wrappers and first and last few leaves, penciled note in the margin of one page. This promotional for Pasadena contains 16 full page photographic illustrations and a small… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1908. Very good. 15 3/8" x 41¾". Printed on a coated, waxlike paper. Very good : a couple of tiny separations at intersections, small closed tear at another, 2" vertical separation at far upper left, a couple of small edge chips, some scattered pinpoints of soiling. A scarce map of San Francisco's waterfront, its… Read more about this item

Bakersfield, California, 1961. 12¾" x 12¼". Embossed imitation leather over boards, disbound scrapbook. 36 pages with 70 mostly black and white photographs and around 40 items of ephemera either pasted or laid in. Photos measure from to 3½" x 3½" to 3¼" x 4¼" and about half are captioned; some of the ephemera captioned with context as well. Album… Read more about this item