Search Results: Urban history from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Honolulu & San Francisco: Stackwell Books, 1996. Paperback. [v], 66p., 11x7 inch upright softbound; preface and introduction, profusely illus. with numerous color drawings with translucent guards, line-drawn elevations and a single terminal photo, very good condition; signed by Segedin on the front free endsheet.

San Francisco: OMI Business League, 1998. [88p.], staplebound booklet, 8.5x11 inches; corner crease to front cover and first two pages. On the history of the southwestern neighborhood within San Francisco, with many ads for local businesses.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Almanac, 1986. Paperback. 288p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos, figures, tables and maps, good trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

New York: Civic Research Bureau, 1936. Pamphlet. 15p., stapled wraps, 5x7.5 inches, wraps creased else very good condition. Critique of plans to unify New York's public transit system and raise fares to 7 cents, by a Communist-affiliated group.

New York: 7 Days Publishing Enterprise Corp, 1988. Magazine. 58p., 11x14 inch magazine wraps; illus., spine a bit toned and rubbed, mild handling, a soil spot on front wrap, else very good. Some content on AIDS, Trump's real estate, Madonna, music reviews, and more.

New York: the League, 1980. Paperback. 161p., illustrated commemorative book, 8.5x11 inches, lightly worn wraps.

Athens Greece: Krene Editions, 1991. Paperback. 120p., profuse color illustrations both photographic and diagrammatic (floorplans, elevations and pictorials), softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch color cardstock wraps. Book itself has a mildly edgeworn front cover, blank back cover a little rubbed, but the folded map (more of a 3-D reconstruction) is fine. Presentable copy of a Library of Congress Duplicate with LC's rubberstamp to half-title. Otherwise unmarked, and entirely sound and clean.

Boston: Printed by Russell and Cutler / Printed by Chester Stebbins / for the Society, 1817. Pamphlet. Respectively 28, 24p., each a disbound pamphlet in 8.5x5 inch self-wraps describable similarly as slightly edgeworn with traces of old calf adhering along spine, both mildly foxed, good copies. The 1817 item by Gray is signed by him upper corner title page, this signature slightly impacted by minute chipping in the area.

New York: Verso, 1999. Hardcover. 273p., 5.75x7.75 inches; quarter cloth boards in very good condition, dj clipped otherwise good.

San Mateo: Liberation Publications, 1982. Paperback. 155p., 4.25x7 inches, maps, ads, photos, mild shelfwear, generally very good pocket book in pictorial wraps.

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Hardcover. xiii, 352p., 7x10.25 inch illustrated boards; color illus., and photos., no dj as issued, small indentations on bottom of board edges, slight shelfwear on head and tail of spine, else in very good condition. Nicholas Dagen Bloom is Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies and Urban Administration at the New York Institute of Technology.

Los Angeles: Institute of American Cultures, UCLA, 1980. Paperback. Paperbound item: 14p., keyboard-set text, staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch wraps; clean, sound, a very good copy.

Oakland: PM Press, 2020. Paperback. 131p., 5x7.5 inches, paperback, New.

Austin TX: printed for the author by Von Boeckmann-Jones Company, 1963. Hardcover. xiv, 74p., illustrated from contemporary photojournalism and family portraits, a nice semi-fine-press treatment hardbound in 10x6.5 inch grey cloth boards, presswork on thick alkaline paperstock. Casing is slightly edgeworn, else clean and unmarked. Biography of a very active Austin city father.

Tampa: Sharp Books International, 2004. ix, 180p., b&w site photography and diagrams, first edition boards gilt in glossy pictorial dj. A fine unblemished copy.

New York: The Free Press, 1980. Hardcover. xxiv, 455p., illustrated with diagrams and statistical tables, first edition, very good condition in an unclipped and edgeworn dust jacket.

Berkeley: La Union de Inquilinos de Berkeley [Berkeley Tenants Union], 1980. Pamphlet. 8.5x11 inch sheet folded to make four pages; some toning, else in very good condition. Spanish language pamphlet.

Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Culture Foundation, 1991. Paperback. 162p., text in Japanese characters, b&w reproductions on glazed alkaline paperstock, softbound in 11.5x8.5 inch decorated wraps. Cover and adjacent leaf bear a faint vertical bend (not quite a crease), a quarter-inch nick to head of spine and mild external edgewear, otherwise sound and entirely clean and unmarked. Expect a massive running narrative in Japanese only, with minimalist captioning in both Japanese and English. A good to very good copy. Squalid US imagery from 1880 (well-dressed thugs) to contemporary make-out scenes and drug injections. Amidst the anonymous squalor a few recognizable landmarks: a bleary Alfred Stieglitz; the Diane Arbus twins photo.

Heidelberg: Carl Winter Univeritatsverlag, 1980. Hardcover. 192p., first edition green cloth boards gilt in glossy printed wraps; entirely clean and sound, a near-fine copy that is inscribed on the ffep by the author to friends, signing herself as "Terry," datelined 1981. Reihe Siegen; Beitrage zur Lireratur- und Sprachwissenschaft, Band 18.

Chicago: American Planning Association, 1995. Paperback. xxii, 745p., wraps, 6x9.25 inches, very good condition. First published in 1969.