San Francisco: United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 2005. v, 133p., extensive appendix, illustrated with period and contemporary photography (many aerial views) and line plats in colors; first issue 11x8.5 inch wraps with binder's tape spine, a very good copy. Appended leaves are rather elaborate; these show..... More

Cat.No: 173558

Paris: Tricotel, no date, Pamphlet. 48p., profuse engraved and photographic vignettes & specifications for an enormous stock of garden and livestock furniture, from fenceposts to "constructions rustiques" (follies, kiosks & pergolas). Softbound, a pamphlet in 7x5.5 inch printed grey wraps. Covers are a bit handled, we see small dog-ears in..... More

Cat.No: 250579

Medellin: [sponsoring orchid societies], 1972. Variously paginated sections, about 75p., facing (or alternating) Spanish and English texts illustrated with scattered photos and sketches, 9x5.5 inch staplebound purple wraps with color decoration; slight edgewear, paperstock mildly toned, a very good copy. Lists many tours and events. "Gypsy Orchidophiles? hard to believe..... More

Cat.No: 167091

Berkeley: Peoples Park Defense Union, 1991. 8.5x11 inch newsletter, four pages, very good. Issued during renewed controversy about the university's plans to use the iconic property that had been the site of a cultural battle in 1969. Includes a poem by Julia Vinograd. More

Cat.No: 251039

Palo Alto: Sangha Organization, 1974. 12p. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, pages toned, mild edgewear. Discusses the Sangha Community Garden, biodynamic agriculture, efforts to resist Stanford's push to move it to a different location, support for the farmworker struggle, and more. More

Cat.No: 250069

Berkeley: Peoples Park Defense Union, [1991]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, minor toning, calling for a torchlight march to protest plans for building volleyball courts on the site of the park. More

Cat.No: 244907

Berkeley: the club, [1913]. Pamphlet. 26p., presswork on clay-coated paperstock tinted greyblue, 7.5x5 inch booklet fastened with decorative cord, one illustration: a frontis showing the Venus de Milo. Membership list, events, tree plantings, officers, committees, not your usual sort of "yearbook". Item is crimped throughout with handling, yapp-edged wraps are..... More

Cat.No: 253493

Paris: Editions Stock, 1997. 159p., profuse mixed illustrations in b&w, sepia and color photography, period & contemporary, from nature & posed, old engraved views, and a map. Glazed alkaline paperstock, a high-quality production obviously a labor of love. Hardbound in openweave green cloth boards gilt and dust jacket, 13x10 inches..... More

Cat.No: 253651

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1952. xiv, 208p., alkaline semi-glazed paperstock with a plethora of exhibit and site photography, mostrly b&w with a few colorphoto plates, hardbound later printing in green cloth boards gilt and dust jacket. The book itself is quite good, the gilt titling still bright, the..... More

Cat.No: 34537

Des Moines: Meredith Publishing Company, 1939. Cover story (announced there; cover illustration per se simply an indoor flower-arranger at work) begins with a double-spread on pp20-21 with one half-page b&w photo and ten vignettes and a tiny map of central California, thereafter comprised of 4 or 5 full columns of..... More

Cat.No: 208478

Oakland: PM Press, 2009. Paperback. 136p., wraps, illus., new, signed by author. Oakland author offers recipes and strategies for healthy eating. She's founding editor and publisher of "Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture." She rides a bicycle. More

Cat.No: 169183

Tokyo: Maki Shoten, 1952. 156p., hardcover in slipcase, slipcase edgeworn, the book generally very good but for neatly penned gift inscription on front endpaper, chipped dustjacket. Second printing. On the design and architecture of gardens and tea rooms; text in Japanese. More

Cat.No: 159266

Dublin: The Dolmen Press, published for the Irish Georgian Society, 1963. Paperback. Unpaginated, the called-for twelve plates constituting v.I, each b&w photographically reproduced plate faced or followed by one to two pages of commentary; softbound in oblong 8x10 inch brown wraps with printed spine- and cover-labels. Mild edgewear with outer..... More

Cat.No: 188269