Urban History
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Paris Et Ses Ruines En Mai 1871 Precede D'Un Coup-D'Oeil Sur Paris, De 1860 a 1870 Et D'Une Introduction Historique
by Victor, Text; Lithographs By Sabatier, Benoist Et Alia Fournel
Urban History Books & Ephemera
Santa Catalina Island. Canvas City
Los Angeles: Banning Company, Agents, 1920. Pamphlet. Single folio leaf folded twice to make a 7.5x3.5 inch advertising brochure, sepia presswork on alkaline paperstock, with enclosing green panels to highlight title. Largest photoillustration shows a tree-lined avenue of tents, an area in or adjacent to Avalon designed to accommodate the period's expanded influx of recreationers. Rates are shown, every tent furnished with a double bed. Rent sleeping tents, kitchen tents, utensils and stove; "one person...
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£16.19
Housing issues of the 1990s
by Rosenberry, Sarah, Chester Hartman
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1989. Hardcover. xii, 395p., corners bumped, faint toning on spine, lacking dj if issued, else in very good condition.
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£12.14
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Introduction by Tom Wicker. Illustrated with photographs. THE NEW YORK TIMES edition
by [National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders]
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1968. Hardcover. xxv, 609p. + 32p. photographs and 48p. charts, very good condition in somewhat stained and shelfworn dust jacket.
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£14.57
Spokane story; a colorful early history of the capital of the inland empire
by Fargo, Lucile F
Minneapolis: Northwestern Press, 1957. Hardcover. viii, 176p., cover slightly shelf worn else very good condition lacking the jacket,
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£9.71
Saint Louis, An Informal History of the City and its People, 1764-1865. Edited by Candace O'Connor
by van Ravenswaay, Charles
St.Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1991. Hardcover. ix, 568p., profuse period reproductions in b&w and in color wherever called for. A huge heavy item on glazed alkaline paperstock and hardbound in 12.5x9.5 inch maroon cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. An excellent copy in every respect.
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£40.48
Mesocosm - Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal
by Levy, Robert I. and Kedar Raj Rajopadhyaya, collaborators
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Hardcover. xxii, 829p., illustrated with contemporary b&w snapshot photography, a vivid color section of masks, and several line maps. Levy started out in Tahiti and somehow gravitated to Kathmandu Valley. Hardbound in 9x6 inch blue cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Top and tail rims of the cloth casing are crimped from handling (no tears or fray), and the foredge bears mild thumb-soil; the dj is edgeworn with small chips. Endpaper maps...
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£28.33
Citizens council on civic development; downtown Vancouver, Part I, January 1969
Vancouver: Citizens Council on Civic Development, 1969. Pamphlet. 2p. + 3p. + [appendix A, 8p., + appendix B, 2p], 8.8x11 inch sheets staplebound; minor foxing on front page, corners slightly curling from shelfwear, else very good.
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£52.62
The Cubans of Union City; immigrants and exiles in a New Jersey Community
by Prieto, Yolanda
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Paperback. xvii, 204p., trade paperback, in very good condition.
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£36.43
Proposals for Berkeley Master Plan, January 1976
by Comprehensive Planning Department
Berkeley: Comprehensive Planning Department, 1976. Pamphlet. 15p. +[1], 11.5x15 inch tabloid style newsprint; photos., maps, illus., minor toning and edgewear, else very good. Two holdings found in OCLC (6/2022).
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£52.62
CANE: Committee Against Nihomachi Eviction. April 1975
San Francisco: CANE, 1975. Newspaper. 23p. tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned, otherwise very good. The Committee opposed redevelopment plans for Nihonmachi (Little Tokyo) and sought to maintain its character as a small-business and residential area.
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£36.43
Children's Carnival and Baby Parade - Asbury Park, N.J. May 27 to Sept. 4 1913 - Official Souvenir Program - Twenty-Third Annual Parade - The balmiest resort on the Atlantic Coast, Summer or Winter; 90 minutes from Broadway
by Asbury Park Carnival Commission
Asbury Park NJ: [Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce], 1913. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, minimally fifty pages, softbound program in 12x9 inch color wraps resembling a magazine, staple-bound. Covers are edgeworn with a few little chips, plus corner-tip and spinefold abrasion. Lots of automobile camera-fodder and a skeletal aeroplane that sneaks into artwork on both covers, proving how modern is our city; in short, a uniquely weird catchpenny angling for newcomer real estate buyers. Two line maps, one showing...
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£24.28
Gubbio
by ENIT
Roma: Ente Nazionale Industrie Turistiche, Ferrovie dello Stato, n.d.. Pamphlet. 15p., presswork on glazed alkaline stock, illustrated with b&w site photos (mostly medieval buildings), reproductions of renaissance paintings, and a simple plat map. Softbound in 6.5x4.5 inch stapled decorated wraps. Cover slightly foxed, staple rusted, a nice sound copy, clean within (except for a touch of migrated rust) and unmarked.
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£13.76
La Batalla de Zacatecas. 1914, 1989 75 Aniversario de la Batalla de Zacatecas
by Candelas Villarba, Sergio
Mexico D.F.: Gobierno del Estado de Zacatecas, 1989. Hardcover. 160p., plentiful photoillustrations, one or two period photographs on every page, presswork on alkaline matte paperstock, mostly b&w but occasional color, hardbound in 11x8.5 inch purple cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Item is in general good shape, allowing for pages 9-13 that bear scattered light yellow hi-liting, an impressive production that is otherwise clean and unmarked, and quite sound. The dust jacket is edgeworn...
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£32.38
American Documents - in the fringe. November 21, 1991- January 21, 1992. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
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...
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£24.28
![Redlands Exhibit, Bear Valley Day [mounted photograph]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/290/638/1482638290.0.b.jpg)
Redlands Exhibit, Bear Valley Day [mounted photograph]
Los Angeles: Wesner, First St, Los Angeles, Cal, 1890. Photograph. Sepia photo laid down on a thick gilt-edged cardstock mount, graphic measures 4x7.5 inches, card slightly larger with extra space for vendor information. A bit faded around margins, however in general a satisfactory reproduction of an uninspired commercial photo, exalting Redlands history! for Redlands history buffs. Verso rubber-stamp informs us that this Item passed through the hands of an LA firm, "Gardner & Cortelyou, Books and...
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£20.24
San Francisco: vol. 9, #12, December, 1967: The Fish without Joe
by Vietor, John A., editor & publisher, Grover Sales, Jr., The Fish, Lynn Thomas, Bobbie Wood, Kenneth Rexroth, et al
San Francisco: San Francisco Magazine, Inc, 1967. Magazine. 72p. includes covers, 9x12 inches, articles, reviews, interviews, entertainment, listings, ads, photos, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover photo of The Fish sans Joe McDonald! Inside: article on a plan to revitalize the Embarcadero and build a new Transit Center. Report on the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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£16.19
![La Casa Llotja del Mar de Barcelona. Monografia illustrada [cover subtitle] / Monografia Historich - Descriptiva [titlepage]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/317/638/1482638317.0.b.jpg)
La Casa Llotja del Mar de Barcelona. Monografia illustrada [cover subtitle] / Monografia Historich - Descriptiva [titlepage]
by Riera y Soler, Lluis
Barcelona: Imprempta Elzeviriana de Borras y Mestres, 1909. Paperback. 103p., presswork on semi-glazed alkaline paperstock with numerous b&w photoillustrations (interiors, mostly) and a fold-out floorplan. Sewn textblock, threads are holding ok but the reader will see stab-holes; softbound in 8x5 inch printed in two colors on acidic green cardstock with an onlaid sepia vignette. Item is edgeworn with turned corner-tips and an incipient split to front joint. A good (good-only) copy.
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£60.71
Maison Romaine, Domus Pompeiana
Paris: Ingenia, Constructions de Precision, 1950. Cardboard Covers. 4p., giant cardstock leaves (11.5x16.5 inches) printed recto-only in vivid colors (Roman interior decoration wasn't subtle), enclosed in a doubly-giant folder printed two-colors in French and Latin, francophone instructions for assembling a tiny cardboard villa (lotsa rooms) around gardens and pools. No perforations, you or your kid must be handy with scissors. Condition of plates is quite good, even very good if images are scissored...
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Automatic data processing; its application to urban planning
by Duke, Richard P
East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, 1961. Paperback. x, 114p., 6x9 inches; graphs, illus., spine slightly browned, minor edgewear on wraps, small pen mark on front wrap, ownership signature in pencil on front wrap and title page, else very good.
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£24.28
Spatial Regulation in New York City: From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance
by Chronopoulos, Themis
New York: Routledge, 2011. Hardcover. viii, 233p., corners mildly bumped else very good condition. No dj, as issued. Routledge Advances in Geography No. 4.
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£24.28
The Rebel Worker, bulletin 5; Vote no on Jarvis-Gann (Proposition 13), Vote yes on 8, June 6 - Save Our Services, Jobs
Oakland, CA: Rebel Worker Organization, 1978. Pamphlet. [4p.], 8.5x14 inch sheet, folded in half, covers slightly toned, else in very good condition.
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£14.57
No man ... is an island
New York: United Urban League Service Fund, 1946. Pamphlet. 16p., staplebound pamphlet, some toning to front cover, interior clean. A description of the history and activities of the Urban League, with budgets, subgroup officers, etc.
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£20.24
Why riot
by Neel, Phil A
n.pl: [Oplopanax Publishing?], 2014. Pamphlet. [12p.], 5.5x8.5 inch photocopied zine style wraps; slightly handled wraps, else very good. Originally published by Seattle Free Press in 2014.
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£9.71
Drawing Support 2: Murals of War and Peace
by Rolston, Bill
Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications, 1998. Paperback. viii, 60p., profuse color reproductions captioned tersely, with one to two murals shown on every page. A reprint. The colorwork and Rolston's photography are excellent. Softbound in 8x8 inch slick color wraps, faintest signs of any handling, an as-new copy: sound, clean, unmarked except for author's holograph inscription and signature on title page. Terminal page shows sister murals in San Francisco, one of which two blocks from our shop. Los...
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£17.81
Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing
by DeFilippis, James; Fisher, Robert; Shragge, Eric
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010. Paperback. ix, 210p., paperback, 6x9 inches, very good.
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£9.71
