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
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
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
Portland, OR: Prometheus Unbound, Specialty Books, April 1978. Paperback. Reprint; vi, 188p., thereafter variously paginated (totalling close to 300 pages); softbound 11x8.5 inch decorated wraps, paperstock toned, sound and clean of any markings, a good copy. More
Cat.No: 187441
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. 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
San Francisco: the company, 1927. Pictorial Cover. Engraved folio leaf printed black, sepia and red on stiff alkaline paperstock, folded 3X to an upright 10x3.5 inch brochure. A 14.5x9.7 inch full-page engraved panel faces thirty-three engraved coupons @ $25 each, two of which (the ones for 1927) have been neatly..... More
Cat.No: 207874
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
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
Chicago: Dowst Bros. Compnay, 1911. Magazine. 88p., huge large-format trade magazine, a staplebound textblock in 13.5x10 inch matte wraps with a little spot color; occasional spot-colored ads within. Both covers detached and edgeworn but present, with ad content inside each. Textblock spine is rough and staples are rusted, but complete..... More
Cat.No: 229931
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: William Flynn Publications, Inc., 1954. Pamphlet. 64p., alkaline paperstock with b&w sketch illustrations and a photo section reproduced sepia; substantial softbound pamphlet in 9x6 inch stapled decorated wraps. Spinefold is mildly abraded with a quarter-inch color-loss at the head, we see no other flaw, a nice tight copy..... More
Cat.No: 245382
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
