Bay Area, California
Improving Outcomes for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System. A Review of Alameda County's Collaborative Mental Health Court.
Oakland: National Center for Youth Law, 2007. 55p. plus appendices; staplebound booklet, 8.5x11 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 223026
New Directions in Greek-American Studies
New York: Pella Publishing Company, Inc., 1991. Paperback. 182p., softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch plain white wraps printed blue on glazed paperstock, covers a little crimped but remain sound, clean and unmarked within (except for a dealer's pencilled numerals). More
Cat.No: 282609
“Screeching to the Friction”: A series of BART rides.
Oakland, CA: Mario Gonzales, 2013. Pamphlet. [8]p., illustrations, oblong wraps. Old price sticker on front cover. Minor shelf wear. Very Good. Sketches and anecdotes by the author produced while riding Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), the San Francisco Bay Area’s commuter rail. More
Cat.No: 314120
Mt Diablo Peace Center
Walnut Creek, CA: Mt. Diablo Peace Center, 1985. Newsletter. 8.5x11 inch newsletter-handbill, double-sided; photocopied style handbill, illus., in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 317391
Justice / Tyrone Guyton had a right to live (pinback button)
n.p. [1973?]. 1.75 inch diameter pin, very good. Guyton, a 14-year-old African American boy, was shot by Emeryville police on November 1, 1973. More
Cat.No: 132067
The mother's womb
San Francisco: WobblyArt Productions, 2003. Pamphlet. [24]p., black and white illustrations, wraps. 8.5 x 5.5 in. Very Good. SF Bay Area comic zine. Supposedly the first, though we locate no other issues; not in WorldCat as of November 2023. More
Cat.No: 313419
Shattered lives
Fremont, CA: His Image Publishing, 2003/4. 311p., later printing, somewhat worn wraps. Five short stories dealing with life's challenges, by the African American author, a Bay Area barber. More
Cat.No: 161910
Carl David Weber - ein Pfalzer grundet Stockton. Ein deutsches Auswandererschicksal in Amerika.
Homburg-Saarpfalz: Herausgegeben fur die Freunde der Bancroft Library, Universitat von Kalifornien, Berkeley, 1982. Hardcover. 215p., illustrated with plentiful period photos, facsimiles, and maps, hardbound first edition in 9.5x6.5 inch laminated white boards with a wraparound period view of early Stockton. Endpapers are doublespread maps. Excellent copy: entirely sound, clean and..... More
Cat.No: 305798
The Architect’s Diary
Lafayette, CA: d press, 1995. Pamphlet. [6], 8, [4] pages, wraps. 7.5 x 4.75 in. Edition of 10 (this copy is #5). Bound in semi-stiff boards covered in dark green washi paper, with title printed on paper onlay attached to the front cover. Author’s presentation inscription on title page: “For..... More
Cat.No: 299736
Zhonghua guo yue pu xuan ji, di yi ji 中華國樂譜選輯, 第一集
Oakland, CA: 1960. Pamphlet. 38 page staplebound booklet, 7.5x10.25 inches, covers edgeworn. Mei zhou zhonghua guo yue yan jiu ban zong shu 美洲中華國樂研究班叢書. Music and lyrics for a selection of traditional Chinese songs, with several black and white photos of Bay Area performers. More
Cat.No: 296744
The San Francisco Bark; a gathering of Bay Area poets
Berkeley: Thorp Springs Press, 1972. Paperback. 79p., poems, lightly-worn pictorial wraps with some smudging (in-plate) of cover graphic. The lengthy list of contributors includes Floyd Salas, Josephine Miles, and (of course) Julia Vinograd. More
Cat.No: 138150
Dorothy Healey, Vice Chair, Democratic Socialists of America, Radio Commentator, Lifelong Organizer, Will discuss her autobioraphy [sic]...Dorothy Healey Remembers, A Life in the Communist Party and other topics of interest
San Francisco: East Bay and SF Democratic Socialists of America, [1990]. Handbill. Flier for an event with Healey, single sheet printed one side only, 8.5x11 inches. The event was held on July 21 at Modern Times Bookstore in San Francisco and hosted by the East Bay and San Francisco Democratic..... More
Cat.No: 253368
Kickin' back with the girls; a young woman's survival guide. Second edition, revised.
San Francisco: HIFY, 2003. 88p., 10.5x8.5 inches oblong, resources, glossary, photos, illustrations, in worn pictorial wraps. HIV/AIDS, safe sex, STD, nutrition, sexuality, drug, pregnancy information for young women in the Bay Area. Includes poetry by local youth. More
Cat.No: 119830
My early days in San Francisco
SF: Victorian Alliance, 1974. Paperback. 53p., 8.5x11" wraps, old photos and text in sepia, typewriter-set, a little soiled. More
Cat.No: 41807
Pictorial history of Tiburon,; a California railroad town; sponsored by the landmarks society of Tiburon and Belvedere on the occasion of the Tiburon centennial; Louise Teather historian, Philip Molten archivist
San Francisco: Scottwall Associates, 1984. Paperback. vii, 172p., profuse captioned b&w period illustrations amidst an unobtrusive running text; softbound in 12x9 inch decorated wraps. Mildest external signs of handling, quite sound; clean and unmarked within, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 46324
City Miner Magazine: community, personal growth, aesthetics [broken run of 13 issues]
Berkeley: City Miner Magazine, 1976-1979. Magazine. Thirteen issue broken run, various pagination, 7x10 inches, articles, photos, poetry, fiction, reviews, interviews, lightly wear otherwise very good first edition magazines in stapled pictorial wraps. Issue numbers 1-5, 7-9, 11-15. Numbering was erratic with whole numbering beginning with issue #8 aka volume 3..... More
Cat.No: 217552
The dynamics of large-scale housebuilding
Berkeley: Real Estate Research Program, Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California, 1963. ix, 91p., folded charts, trade-size wraps; some marginal foxing and dust-soil, a good copy. Research report 22. More
Cat.No: 167130
Remembrances of Joseph B. Wheelwright on his Seventy-fifth Birthday: 6 June 1981
San Francisco: C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, 1981. 102p., TLs enclosed, softbound in 9x6 inch glossy white wraps decorated with a sketched portrait of the doctor; a little edgeworn with mild general toning. A nice clean copy with, laid in, a typed letter signed (about sixty words) from Gareth..... More
Cat.No: 263095
Bent upon
[Place of publication not identified]: Theresa Hill, 1981. Pamphlet. 27, [1]p., illustrations, wraps. 8.5 x 5.25 in. Very Good. Poems, with references to San Francisco (“Hippie Hill, 1980,” “Civic Center”). Acknowledges Bay Area poet Leslie Simon and the workshop she co-founded at the City College of San Francisco, “Poetry for..... More
Cat.No: 311520
Certain weathers
Berkeley: Oyez, 1987. Paperback. 62p., limited to 500 copies, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 203644
City of San Francisco: volume 10 number 32, February 17, 1976.[ LAST ISSUE]. - Feature articles: Louise Lasser..as Mary Hartman - Debunking Tolkien [preferring Mervyn Peake] - Recordings [by John Sinclair]
San Francisco: City Publishing Company, Inc./Francis Ford Coppola, 1976. Magazine. 56p. including covers, 11x13 inch stapled pictorial self-wraps, illustrations, photos, articles, mild wear, oversized weekly magazine on newsprint, mild edgewear and toning to the slightly acidic paperstock. Despite signs of handling a very good exemplar of, sadly, the final production..... More
Cat.No: 317256
[Letter to Peter Howard]
San Francisco: Andrew Hoyem / Arion Press, 2004. Ephemera. 1 sheet. 11 x 8.5 in. Typed letter, signed by Hoyem. Minor wrinkles; folded once horizontally. Very Good. Hoyem responds to Howard’s critique of the Arion Press’s edition of Paradise Lost with William Blake’s illustrations. More
Cat.No: 319710
Twilights in Rossmoor
San Ramon: printed by Falcon Books for the author, 2004. Paperback. ix, 130p., paperback featuring a wraparound color photo of Mt.Diablo and Rossmoor locale, and a small snapshot section relating in part to author's work for the UN. Inscribed and signed on the title page by Mr. Huang, related newspaper..... More
Cat.No: 223346