London: D. Bogue, 1884. Hardcover. 86p., hardbound first edition in 10x7.5 inch boards, frontispiece portrait in photogravure, rubricated titlepage, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, dark blue diced cloth with gilt titles and black rulings, a handsome production somewhat worn with handling and age; spine slightly sloped with light handling..... More
Cat.No: 208824
Sacramento: FCL Education Fund, March 1990. Pamphlet. 23p., illustrated with a centerfold spread showing "Life-cycle of Legislation - from idea into law." Cover cartoon (credited on title page to Bill Dempster) depicts a Quaker man in traditional garb with hammer & nails at work on a public building. Later, professionalized..... More
Cat.No: 220229
Sacramento, CA: Morri'zine, 1991. Pamphlet. 22p., staplebound wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches. Very good. "Special tour issue" Includes an anecdote about attending the Johnny Carson show where Bill Cosby was infamously drowned out by Morrissey fans. More
Cat.No: 209220
Sacramento, CA: Arranged and prepared for publication by Barbara Dorer Van Riper for the Placer County Historical Society, 1996. Spiral_bound. [v], 136p., 22p., part I was originally published in 1958, and part II in 1914 by civil engineer W. Parker Ireland, 8.5x11 inches, spiral comb binding; b&w foldout map, illus...... More
Cat.No: 311045
n.pl. Self-published by the author, 1980. Paperback. 152p. + [1p.], 8.5x11 inch wraps; illus., photos., mildly toned spine, else in very good condition. Signed by the author. More
Cat.No: 297590
n.p. 1st Books Library, 2003. Paperback. 198p., very good in wraps, inscribed by author. By the retired Unitarian peace and anti-nuclear activist, largely focusing on her late husband and their life together. More
Cat.No: 159973
San Francisco: printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press for the Sacramento Book Collectors Club, June 1975. 16p., 8.25x11.25 inches, illustrated with a crude frontis portrait of the author and a reproduction of an unremarkable wood-engraving of the Capital Building; the "etchings" spoken of are Powers' word-picutres of fledgling Sacramento..... More
Cat.No: 212697
New York: Underwood Typewriter Company, 1928. Paperback. 24p, 6x9 inches, illustrated with a dozen portrait photos (contestants) and ads, good booklet in stapled green pictorial wraps. Covers bear some dust and handling-grime, text a few pencilled tic-marks. This booklet contains the copy used in the 1928 International Typewriting Championship Contest..... More
Cat.No: 43042
Chicago: CityFiles Press, 2019. Hardcover. 152p., 11.25x10.25 inches, in original shrink wrap, very good in like dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with Kitagaki and Dorothea Lange's photography. Kitagaki, Jr. is a photographer for the Sacramento Bee whose family was incarcerated during World War II. He was inspired to begin this book..... More
Cat.No: 278884
Sacramento: Sun-Law Publication, 1990. Paperback. v, 32pg. paperback, 5.25 x 8.5 inches. Wraps slightly worn, else very good. Signed and inscribed on the publication page. Poems addressing police brutality, crack epidemic, activism, and the KKK. Lawson was born in Pittsburg in 1947,and lived in Sacramento for 41 years. He passed..... More
Cat.No: 277384
Santa Clara / Berkeley: Santa Clara University / Heyday Books, 2004. Paperback. xvii, 343p., scattered b&w vignette illustrations from period imagery, softbound in 9x6 inch decorated wraps; quite sound, but the front free endsheet is lightly foxed, perhaps because of the newsclip book review laid in (we have retained it)..... More
Cat.No: 251571
Sacramento: Sacramento State College Library, 1970. Pamphlet. [ii], 21p., 8.5x11 inch staplebound sheets; some toning along edges, small pencil notation on front cover, else in very good condition. Bibliographic series #8. More
Cat.No: 280995
Sacramento: Ellen's Old Alchemical Press, [197-]. 11x17 inch broadside, very good, bright yellow paperstock. Humorous poem set in the future, describing the author's fancied elder years. More
Cat.No: 214147
Sacramento, CA: Runcible Spoon, 1968. Pamphlet. [24] pages, wraps. 8.5 x 5.25 in. Chapbook containing two poems, each in ten parts, by the California poet. More
Cat.No: 299738
34p., five large folded b&w line maps, in side-stapled 9x6 inch self-wraps. Cover (i.e., p.1) bears a faint rubberstamp (rec'd 1938) and some red-pencil librarianese. Good copy, and the maps appear entirely clean. Markham recommends against federal involvement in the clean-up. Affects Yuba, Bear, and American Rivers, and various reservoirs..... More
Cat.No: 226966
Vacaville: Vacaville Museum / San Francisco Art Institute, 1996. 40p., well-reproduced color plates with translucent dividers bearing printed text, stiff color cardstock covers, 9x6.5 inches, bound with a white wire spine. Very good copy: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. Catalog for the exhibit of 14 San Francisco Art Institute graduate..... More
Cat.No: 85827
Sacramento: Peace Books, 1997. Trade Paperback. 282p., inscribed by the African American novelist, first edition, wraps. The Sacramento author explores the world's malaise through religious fiction. More
Cat.No: 93326
Sacramento: Peace Books, 1997. Trade Paperback. 282p., signed by the African American novelist, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The Sacramento author explores the world's malaise through religious fiction. More
Cat.No: 107364
Sacramento: WPM Publishing Co., 1994. Hardcover. viii+168p., signed by the African American author, second printing, dj. "Journey through the wicked world of crack houses, the closed door board meetings and the hidden life of those trying to determine their sexuality." First novel by African American author residing in Sacramento. More
Cat.No: 107339
Sacramento, CA: Division of Social Work, California State University, 2004. Spiral_bound. iv, 83p., 8.5x11 inches, spiral binding; bibliography, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 302109
New York: Vantage Press, 1955. CA. 80p., illustrations, very good first edition, unclipped, edgeworn and chipped dj. Personally inscribed and signed by the author. More
Cat.No: 133355
Sacramento: Prince Hall Grand Lodge, 1976. [24]p., 8.5x11 inches, stapled wraps, small rust stain on front wrap else very good condition. Details the previous year's activities and discusses changes in the immediate future. More
Cat.No: 110148
Sacramento: Prince Hall Grand Lodge, 1957. [24]p., wraps, rather musty (needs the old fresh-newspaper treatment). More
Cat.No: 110123
Sacramento: Self-published by the author, 2003. Staplebound. 36p., staplebound chapbook, 5.25x7.75 inches, very good. First edition. No copies found in OCLC as of July 2022. More
Cat.No: 287817
Sacramento, CA: California State Employees' Association, 1941. Magazine. 24p. + [2p. of advertisements], 8.5x10.5 inches; photos., illus., small tears down head and tail of spine, slightly handled, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 279584
