Buffalo, NY: [Democratic Party, Erie County], [1935]. Single sheet folded to make 4-panel brochure, approx. 5x7 inches, with cartoon by George Diestel on cover. Date 1935 penned at edge of cover. Not found in OCLC. Accuses Republican Assembly campaign of being in the pocket of the utility companies. Cartoon depicts..... More
Cat.No: 145262
Marysville: the county supervisors, 1915. Pamphlet. Original specimen: 64p., printed on alkaline coated paperstock throughout and illustrated with plenty of b&w site photos and four colorized photos on and within the 9x6 inch stapled wraps, these bordered in gilt. Find also a doublespread surveyor's map from 1914. Spinefold a little..... More
Cat.No: 224092
Sacramento: State of California Resources Agency/Department of Water Resources, 1966. xiii+143p., 8.5x11 inches, foreword, illustrated with photos, color maps, tables and figures; first leaf is detached (as yet undamaged) else good in stapled printed wraps. More
Cat.No: 96268
Washington DC: Department of State, March 16, 1946. Pamphlet. ix, 30p., softbound pamphlet in 9x6 inch stapled wraps, very good copy. Dept of State publication 2775. The United States and the United Nations report series, 9. Protection of mining and milling of ores, control of processes, production plants and reactors;..... More
Cat.No: 191318
no city, Spain: Strebelwerk Mannheim, no date, ca. 1930. Pamphlet. Unpaginated text and three fullpage sepia plates (plus litho'd cover image in colors), 6x9.5 inch oblong pamphlet in staplebound color wraps. Front cover mildly edgeworn and handled with a touch of dust, back cover bears a sprinkle of adhesion scars..... More
Cat.No: 248952
Barcelona: Sociedad General de Aguas de Barcelona, 1925. 63p. + [34]p. of tables, charts, graphs and maps and [16]p. of photographic plates and one fold-out diagram of the water system oblong booklet in wraps, wraps slightly worn else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Cover title: Los Servicios de la..... More
Cat.No: 250493
San Francisco: Calkins Publishing House, 1908. Hardcover. 282p., frontis, by-laws & rules, addresses, report, photos, tables, lightly-worn first edition in brick red cloth boards, small chip in spine panel at the joint. More
Cat.No: 213648
Sacramento: California State Printing Office for the commission, 1919. Pamphlet. 23p., staplebound pamphlet in 9x6 inch printed plain wraps. A little dusty and handled, with a small pressure mark to rear cover and adjacent leaves, front cover bears the rubberstamp of the Los Angeles branch of the commission, staples touched..... More
Cat.No: 219431
Barcelona: Compania Roca - Radiadores, no date, circa 1930. Pamphlet. 23p., printed letterpress in two colors throughout with many interiors shown (cut-away diagrams, elevations, floorplans) each with a radiator or a heating vent indicated. Softbound in stapled 6.5x5 inch decorated wraps; staples are rusted, covers are dust- and handling-soiled with..... More
Cat.No: 227523
New York / Washington, D. C. Energy Task Force / GPO, 1977. 65p., wraps, very good; 8.5x11 inches, blueprints. Discusses an urban cooperative's contruction of a windmill to create its own power supply. More
Cat.No: 137368
Philadelphia: Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, 1970. Paperback. xix, 261p., old price label on cover, otherwise very good in wraps. The Racial Policies of American Industry, Report # 10. More
Cat.No: 184072
New York: The Babcock & Wilcox Co., 1914. 63p., high-gloss paperstock throughout with profuse b&w site and machine photography (and several fine diagrammatic images). There were a variety of such engines (these fed coal to boilers on a very large scale), a variety of multiple installations, and a variety of..... More
Cat.No: 210660
Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 1973. 20p., line map, staplebound 8x6 inch booklet in plain printed coated wraps, somewhat soiled with handling else very good condition. IWGIA document 15. More
Cat.No: 157008
Bodega CA: 1963. Photo-copied newsclips regarding government greenlighting of a nuclear power plant and activist resistance, prefaced by a brief paragraph by locals; copied double-sided on about fifty legal-size (14x8.5 inch) leaves, ergo a hundred pages or more. Several articles are marked with red-pencil emphases. Light cardstock cover and terminal..... More
Cat.No: 224937
Sacramento: The Senate, 1955. 622p., paperback, minor edge stain. Topics cover included communist infiltration of the medical industry and public utilities. More
Cat.No: 232431
New York: McDevitt-Wilson's, 1919. 142p., original green cloth binding slightly soiled and spotted from loss of sizing, previous owner's name on title page. More
Cat.No: 173631
Ann Arbor: Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Natinal Cneter for Dispute Settlement, 1971. Hardcover. viii, 246p., plain printed trade-size wraps. The "perfect" binding has cracked and one or two leaves are loose (not yet edgeworn). Mild external handling soil, a good-only copy. Covers the 1968 Memphis garbage..... More
Cat.No: 33570
Madrid: Tipografia de Gregorio Estrada, 1883. 20p., wraps, wraps worn and lightly toned with a few small ink stains else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Laid in is a [2]p. introduction by chief of telephone service Jose Casas Barbosa. Only one found in OCLC as of 4/2020... More
Cat.No: 250495
Alameda Ca: SELf-published by the editor, 1935. Newspaper. 8p., unfastened newsprint folio leaves printed and folded tabloid-style, very acidic and fragile with advanced chipping, splitting along foldlines. Illustrated with vignette photoportraits of "clean" candidates for police, fire and administrator positions. Charter League campaign literature, aimed at PG&E, draws on TVA..... More
Cat.No: 168007
Salt Lake City: Bureau of Reclamation, 1954. Variously paginated, tables and texts reproduced from typed mss, massive softbound volume enclosing numerous b&w and color-onlay maps, many folded; 10.5x8 inch plain printed wraps with binder's tape spine (and a hand-lettered spine title on adhesive tape. This copy belonged to one W...... More
Cat.No: 229879
Pasadena, CA: The Social University, 1897. Four page newsletter, 8.75x11.5 inches, creased with a few closed tears (paper still white). Later became the Public Ownership Review. The review campaigned for public owners of power companies, railroads, etc. More
Cat.No: 157247
San Francisco: San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, 1967. 76 p., 8.5 x 11 inch wraps with rusted staples, otherwise in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 122947
Kathmandu: Himal Books, 2001. Hardcover. xiv, 280p., illustrated with line maps in color, diagrams (also color) and tables; hardbound in laminated boards, a very good, clean, sound, unmarked copy. FYI, the arts of book design, presswork and binding are at a high level in that small country. More
Cat.No: 249845
San Francisco: San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, 1968. 94 p., 8.5 x 11 inch wraps in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 122941
Sacramento: Sacramento County Historical Society, 1993. Paperback. i, 67p., 5.5x8.5 inches, plentiful b&w period photos and facsimiles, very good booklet in stapled gray pictorial wraps. Double issue: 'About the California State Prison at Folsom and the mystique [!] surrounding its history, and, to many, its very existence. The first section..... More
Cat.No: 183372
