Visalia, CA: Las Madrinas Guild of the Valley Children's Hospital and Guidance Clinic, 1965. 47p., card covers somewhat spotted, plastic comb binding cracked; pages are reproduced from handwritten text. Text is in English. Cookbook issues to raise money for a local children's hospital. More
Cat.No: 247685
Paperback. Pp.177-263 (i.e., 86p.), presswork on semi-coated alkaline paperstock illustrated with b&w site photos, line maps and diagrams. Original issue in plain printed 10x6.5 inch journal wraps. Head of spine has a half-inch chip, margin of front cover a quarter-inch closed tear, otherwise mild general edgewear; clean, untoned and unmarked..... More
Cat.No: 230437
Atwater, CA: Peoples Park Collective, 1972. 4p., broadsheet format newspaper, folded into quarters, uneven toning, closed edge tear. Marxist-Leninist paper, evasive about the group actually publishing it. Cover stories are a piece on the "Kangeroo Courts" (sic) in the case of the Soledad brothers, "From pot to politics," and an..... More
Cat.No: 259383
n.p. Modesto Anarcho, [2010-?]. 15p., very good in stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches. Most material focuses on student protests in the Cal State University system. More
Cat.No: 143526
Washington DC: GPO, 1956. xv, 47p., 6x9.25 inches, illustrated with foldout map and 7 plates, tables, summary, notes and name on cover otherwise good booklet in stapled yellow and brown wraps. More
Cat.No: 210121
Modesto, CA: Modesto Anarcho, 2007-[2010]. Pamphlet. Three issues, all staplebound photocopied zine format, 8.5x11 inches, No. 11 with bottom corner of rear wrap dog-eared else generally very good condition. Numbers present are 3, 11, and 13. Anarchist zine focusing largely on local events in the Modesto area. More
Cat.No: 258961
Modesto, CA: Modesto Anarcho, 2006. Magazine. [16p.], wraps, 8.5x11 inches, poorly photocopied zine style wraps; slightly handled wraps, else in very good condition. Anarchist zine focusing largely on local events in the Modesto area, such as the victory of Copwatch on a farm labor camp, workers power in Arizona, animal..... More
Cat.No: 288308
Sacramento: State of California Department of Public Works, 1951. Paperback. viii, 127p., inserted b&w illustrations and map in colors; plus extensive appendices and 15 large folded "plates" (= maps) with spot-color. First issue of this version of the project mimeo'd recto-only under professionally-printed cover sheets and a dark blue binder's-tape..... More
Cat.No: 208982
Turlock CA: for the high school by Harder's P[rinting] S[ervice?], 1942. Unpaginated, middle-school yearbook format with less information than is usual (no indices, no joke page) but pleasant chapter dividers, 11x8.5 inch embossed red cloth casing lettered white. Edgeworn with a little fray, front hinge is partially split and very..... More
Cat.No: 230833
Fat City [Stockton, CA]: WAP, [197-]. 2.75x11 inch bumpersticker, each word printed in a different font, black on white; vertical fold crease else very good condition. The WAP was founded by neo-Nazi Red Warthan as a means of infiltrating the anarchist movement in the mid-1970s. He died in prison, convicted..... More
Cat.No: 214312
Sacramento: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, November 1945. Paperback. viii, 35, 281p., softbound, mimeo'd recto-only on standard leaves under professionally-printed 10.5x8 inch cover sheets and a black binder's-tape spine, illustrated with scattered line maps. Cover bears pencilled notes and holograph [ownership?] legend of Paul Willmore of the Bureau..... More
Cat.No: 208983
[Merced?]: A.I.C. & O. Human Rights Committee, 1978. Two 8.5x11 inch sheets printed on three sides, heavy toning and chipping at edges, stains on last blank pages, stapled upper-left corner. The bibliographer believes this group to be one of the Imperial Courts from Central Valley. Mention is made several times..... More
Cat.No: 234934
[Modesto, CA]: the zine, [2008]. 14 pages, photocopied in mildly worn wraps, 8.5x11 inches. Unnumbered issue of the anarchist zine by the publisher of Modesto Anarcho. More
Cat.No: 250413
Big Timber, MO: Seven Buffaloes Press, 1989. Paperback. 56p., wraps, 5.25x8.25 inches, illus., very good first edition. One of one thousand copies. Short stories about life in California's Central Valley by the Japanese-American and Azorean-American authors. More
Cat.No: 253034
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. 184p., cast, credits, 16 pages of b&w film stills; first edition in openweave white cloth titled in metallic blue and an unclipped but somewhat edgeworn dust jacket with a faint sticker scar. Early Jon Voight vehicle about an Olympic hopeful boxer from the..... More
Cat.No: 156408
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1970. Hardcover. xiv, 306p., foreword, preface, introduction, bibliography appendix, index, chapter endnotes, very good first edition in cloth and price-clipped lightly worn dj. Migrant labor in the grape fields of California and the National Farm Workers Union. More
Cat.No: 34516
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1970. Hardcover. xiv, 306p., foreword, preface, introduction, bibliography appendix, index, chapter endnotes, very good first edition in cloth and unclipped lightly worn dj. Migrant labor in the grape fields of California and the National Farm Workers Union. More
Cat.No: 156623
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. Paperback. 142p., wraps, very good condition. On Locke, California. More
Cat.No: 13515
Fresno, CA: the Lodge, 1965. 68p., profusely illus. with black and white photos, 8.5x11 inches, very good in stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 189098
Berkeley: The College of Agriculture, University of California, 1947. 48p., 6x9 inches, introduction, illustrated with tables, figures and on-site photos, very good in original stapled pictorial wraps. California Agricultural Extension Service Circular 125, Revised June 1947. More
Cat.No: 97145
Mercer Island WA: The Writing Works, Inc., 1979. Mass Market Paperback. vi, 216p., softbound in pocket-size wraps, covers are a little dust- and handling-soiled. A good to very good copy. Has lots of b&w site snapshots, plat maps, tables. More
Cat.No: 229975
Marvin, SD: The Blue Cloud Quarterly Press, 1984. Pamphlet. [24 pg.] staplebound booklet. Mailing address printed on rear cover, else very good. The Blue Cloud Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3. McDaniel was born in Oklahoma with mixed English and Cherokee descent, and was raised in the Creek Nation. The author..... More
Cat.No: 274862
Stockton, CA: Heritage West Books, 2000. Paperback. xvi, 208p., paperback, 8.5x11 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 285743
Fresno: Fresno Art Museum and The Press at California State University, Fresno. 2011. Paperback. vii, 68p., presswork on high-gloss alkaline paperstock featuring color exhibit photography and many period photos taken in Mexico and California. A classy production in 11x9 inch glossy green wraps, a near-fine copy with faintest hint of..... More
Cat.No: 293333
Chicago: Arcadia, 2002. 128p., profuse captioned period photography; first edition photo-decorated softbound, 9.2x6.5 inch wraps, faintest signs of any age or handling, a fine copy. Images of America. More
Cat.No: 178135
