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

Roma: Societa Editrice di Novissima, Anno XV [ 193_]. NB, translation into Spanish from Italian. Only a single photoportrait of Il Duce!... 65p., printed on acidic newsprint, illustrated in a central section from photography reproduced in sepia on coated alkaline paperstock, small softbound in 7x4.5 inch decorated wraps. Abrasion to..... More

Cat.No: 242311

Redlands CA: Orchid Digest, 1997. Pamphlet. 38p., illustrated by numerous full-color close-up photos on slick alkaline paperstock, checklist printed double-column on same stock, softbound in a magazine-style pamphlet, 11x8.5 inch stapled wraps. A handled copy (hard to resist gaping) with corner-creasings and crimping, the textblock largely but not entirely free..... More

Cat.No: 234875

Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2003. Paperback. xvii + 182p., 10x10 inches, stiff wraps with flaps, color photos throughout, remainder mark on bottom of text block, else very good. Bud porn! Close-up shots of buds and plants seemingly crisper than real life. More

Cat.No: 230140

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