Washington DC: The American Waterways Operators, Inc., February 1948. Pamphlet. 35p., double-column text printed on coated alkaline paperstock and staplebound in 11x8.5 inch decorated wraps. Find a number of fullpage b&w photos of contemporary barges and tugs in action, and a double-spread centerfold map with spot color that shows current..... More about Inland Waterway Transportation in America
Cat.No: 223999
Yosemite, CA: National Park Service, Yosemite National Park, 2005. Chapters individually numbered, over 300p in total, with numerous fold-out maps. More about Merced Wild and Scenic River: Revised comprehensive management plan and supplemental...
Cat.No: 121555
Los Angeles: the city, 1921. Pamphlet. 16p., 6x9 inches, printed on alkaline glazed paperstock and illustrated with nine b&w photos, pamphlet in stapled pictorial wraps. Spinefold is abraded with a rough 2-inch split, item generally edgeworn with handling smudges, clean and sound within, a fair to good copy. Cover and..... More about Municipal Hydro-Electric Power System, City of Los Angeles, August, 1921
Cat.No: 228296
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 about Report on Feasibility of Feather River Project and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Diversion...
Cat.No: 208982
Washington DC: GPO, 1962. xxxvii, 229p., numerous line maps (some folded) and photoillustrations, softbound in 10x7.5 inch plain printed buff wraps; covers grubby with handling soil, edgewear, entirely clean and sound within. A good-only copy. In brief, put "a dam and reservoir at the Warm Springs site, with supplemental channel... More about Russian River, Dry Creek Basin, California; Letter from the Secretary of the Army Transmitting: A...
Cat.No: 210489
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no city; Quebec: Le Syndicat d'Initiatives Touristiques / The Saguenay and Lake St-John tourist Association, no date, mid-1930s. Pamphlet. Tour guide bound dos-a-dos, French and English with same content but differing photo-illustrations. Softbound, 10x5 inches, ditto cover illustration in silver and black on white; the English section is worn and... More about Saguenay Lake St-John [region], the Country of Maria Chapdelaine / Saguenay Lac St-Jean, le pays...
Cat.No: 230354
San Francisco: U.S. Army Engineer District Corps of Engineers, June 1973. Paperback. 155p., printed rectos only, plus about fifty appended printed pages plus eleven folded maps and elevations in colors; softbound in a copyshop comb spine, a little edgeworn with a couple tiny tears, some creasing, dust, and an ownership... More about Warm Springs Dam and Lake Sonoma Project Russian River Basin, Sonoma County, California. Draft...
Cat.No: 201352
Hartford, CT: O. D. Case & Co., 1868. Hardcover. xx, 608p., two maps (one folding) with blue spot-color, 21 wood-engraved b&w plates as called for, hardbound first American edition in 9x6 inch pebbled cloth boards gilt-titled with cover-panelling in blind. A good to very good copy; maps are slightly spotted... More about Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia: the sources, supply, and overflow of The Nile;...
Cat.No: 79964
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 about Comprehensive Plan for Water Resources Development, Central Valley Basin, California
Cat.No: 208983
Omaha: Union Pacific Railroad, no date, circa 1920. Pamphlet. 47p., coated paperstock throughout, with b&w photography, sketches and line maps. Softbound pamphlet in 10x7 inch decorated stapled wraps. Slightest edgewear, clean and sound, a very good copy. Date guessed at from automobiles pictured. More about Pacific Northwest and Alaska
Cat.No: 224476
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Silver Spring, MD: George Meany Center for Labor Studies, 1999. Pp.58-75, 22p. article in the 80p. journal, 8.5x11 color wraps. Numerous well-reproduced period photographs, a very good copy. Laid in are five (5) TLs on her letterhead (averaging 300 words, most with holograph postscripts), three further letters in xerox copy... More about Excavating canal workers' lives the research odyssey of a novelist [article in] Labor's Heritage...
Cat.No: 168924
N.pl. American Relief Administration, 1923. 91p., text reproduced rectos only from typed mss and illustrated with numerous line maps showing situations. Standard 11x8.5 inch text paper is mildly acidic, stapled under a front cover sheet that bears printed banner with typed particulars. Spine panel covered in old thick kraft paper... More about American Relief Administration bulletin. Series 2, no. 42, November, 1923. This Bulletin...
Cat.No: 92026
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Vancouver: Canadian National Railways / N.M. R. A., 1965. 20p., profuse b&w vignette photos of choo-choos and scenery, including one of "Sanquatch with Indian girl" (well, not actually a PHOTO, just an inspired drawing), illustrations integrated with lengthy text, text reproduced from typescript. Item is worn with dust-soil on the..... More about Route of the "Totemland Special" A souvenir of the fan trip by Canadian National...
Cat.No: 232986
San Francisco: Norton Coker Press, 1991. 28p., staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch wraps, back cover is bumped and creased. A local dude, title poem invokes Russian River area. More about Summer hawk
Cat.No: 164559
San Francisco, CA: Norton Coker Press, 1993. 28p., wraps. More about Wading the Russian River
Cat.No: 128672
Orono, ME: Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine, 1993. vii, 88p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, illus. Northeast folklore, 29. More about White Pine on the Saco River, an oral history of river driving in Southern Maine
Cat.No: 116128
Taibei: Dongfang xuehui, 1968. Accordion-folded album, 20 panels unfolding out to a 30 foot long reproduction of Zhang's magnificent painting, 18x12.25 inches when folded. Last panel is mounted to the rear board, while the top cover is a loose board laid on top of the title panel, with cloth covering... More about Chang Jiang wan li tu / The Great Yangtze River
Cat.No: 216608
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers, 1873. 473p., illustrated with tables only, the original textbock recently re-cased in quarter polished calf (leather backstrip and corner-tips) over marbled paper, with facsimile label titled in bronze. A good-looking job externally, but a little awkward to handle due to stiffness in the new... More about Manual of Canal Laws relating to the New York State Canals; with references to the decision of...
Cat.No: 236985
San Francisco: Pacific Division/American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1979. Paperback. 493p., coated paperstock illustrated with charts, maps and diagrams; softbound in 10x7 inch decorated wraps. Mild external signs of wear, top edge has a couple light bumps, ownership name of [A. Starker] Leopold on cover (he was a.... More about San Francisco Bay: The Urbanized Estuary. Investigations into the Natural History of San...
Cat.No: 221208
Coleraine, Ireland: "Chronicle" Steam Printing Works, 1878. 7p., wraps, threadbound, edges faded with some external foxing. Discussion of plans to improve the navigability of the river and construct docks at its mouth. More about River Bann navigation: report of Sir John Coode
Cat.No: 137341
Glen Arm MD: The Sourcebook Project, 1980. Hardcover. vi, 833p., text keyboard-set unjustified right margins, scattered line-drawn diagrammatic illustrations (quite good), hardbound in 9x6 inch green cloth boards and green dust jacket. A thick little book with slightest signs of age or any handling (dj slightly rubbed), clean and sound... More about Unknown Earth: A Handbook of Geological Enigmas. Illustrated by John C. Holden
Cat.No: 232115
Gateshead: The Observer Steam Press, 1854. 31p., sewn fascicle in plain printed wraps, lacks back cover wrap, edgeworn and soiled with creased worn corners and small chips. OCLC lists one copy. Transcript of a discussion of the economic motivations for and against spending public funds on the construction of a.... More about Proceedings on a deputation relative to the construction of a harbour of refuge at the River...
Cat.No: 125996
Ottawa: S. E. Dawson, Printer to the Queen, 1898. viii, 244p., illustrated with photographs (most appear to be retouched for clarity), entirely lacks maps. Plain printed 10 x 6.5 inch wraps once detached and now secured with crumby old tape. Otherwise, a bit edgeworn and dog eared (but not Iditarod... More about Report on an exploration in the Yukon district, N. W. T. and adjacent northern portion of British...
Cat.No: 85215
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. 238p., profusely photo-illustrated, hardbound in 9.5x8 inch cloth boards and dj; bottom edge bears a neat small remainder stamp, dust jacket is slightly edgeworn, a very nice copy. On the village of El Valle. Blurbed approvingly by Wright Morris, Thomas McGuane, Patricia Nelson... More about River of traps; a village life
Cat.No: 36840
Chicago: Clayton F. Summy Co., Music Publishers, 1918. Pp.3-7 plus a fullpage introductory note by the composer and a terminal publisher's ad; 12x9 inch self-wraps, two folio leaves folded and nested without fastening, the outer pair having serious splits to spinefold and some toning and dust-soil. Cover bears the faint... More about "Juba", (Dance), From the Suite "In the Bottoms" for the Piano. As played by...
Cat.No: 135721
