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Construction Economics and Organization

by J. Brochner, P. E. Josephson and B. Larsson, Editors

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Gothenberg: Chalmers, 2001. 1st. Hardbound. Near Fine copy. Octavo, 302 pages. Index' References. Proceedings of the 2nd Nordic Conference Goteborg 24 - 25 2001.
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Wege zur Ausbildungsqualität: Stand und Perspektiven in den Gesundheitsfachberufen

by Jachia, Paolo

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Milano: Ancora, 2009. Paperback. 8vo. 200pp. Fine condition, as new.All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.
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The Little Lady of the Big House

by London Jack

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1916. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. 392pp. Light mustard pictorial cloth in cream illustrated dustjacket replicating the image on the book (and same image as the Macmillan first edition). A fine copy (minor wear to extremities; offsetting from dustjacket flaps) in good dust jacket (wear to extremities with some loss at corners and spine ends but not affecting the lettering; front flap and spine joint mostly split and taped on verso); still a nice example of the scarce dustjacket. The story of a woman whose life is shaped by a great love. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.
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Lost Wax Bronze Casting: A Photographic Essay on This Antique and Venerable Art (SIGNED)
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Lost Wax Bronze Casting: A Photographic Essay on This Antique and Venerable Art (SIGNED)

by Jackson, Harry

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New York: Northland Press, 1972. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 127pp. Numerous black & white photo-reproductions. Glossary; Bibliography. Green cloth with gilt lettering & decoration in color printed dustjacket. SIGNED by the author on ffep; additional author initials with statement of first edition at bottom of copyright page. A fine copy in very good plus dustjacket (minor wear to extremities; light scraping to rear cover; price-clipped; mild spine fading). A detailed study on the lost wax method of bronze casting with many photographs and long captions documenting every step in the fabrication of a piece of sculpture.
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Ramona: A Story
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Ramona: A Story

by Jackson, Helen Hunt

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Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1900. Monterey Edition. Complete in two volumes. 8vo. xxxv, 310; 308 pp. Illustrated plates with titled tissue guards from drawings by Henry Sandham. Introduction by Susan Coolidge. Beautifully bound in three-quarter red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt decoration, ruling and letter, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Lawrence Clark Powell wrote: "Ramona was the first novel about Southern California... it remains the best California book of its kind - an historical romance of a vanished way of life." Appearing in 1881, just before the spectacular boom, it created a nation-wide interest in Southern California, and it served as sort of a romantic guidebook during the tourist rush. - Zamorano 80 #46. (BAL 10456; Baird & Greenwood 1296; Johnson, High Spots of American Literature pg. 46-47).
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Ramona: A Story
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Ramona: A Story

by Jackson, Helen Hunt

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Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1900. Monterey Edition. Complete in two volumes. 8vo. xxxv, 310; 308 pp. Illustrated plates with titled tissue guards from drawings by Henry Sandham. Introduction by Susan Coolidge. Binding designed and signed by Amy Sacker. Cream, & green illustrated blue cloth with gilt lettering & ruling; top edges gilt; with publsher's gilt lettered blue cloth dustjackets; housed in publisher's blue slipcase. Books and dustjackets are in fine condition (with a hint of wear); some wear and fading to slipcase. Lawrence Clark Powell wrote: "Ramona was the first novel about Southern California... it remains the best California book of its kind - an historical romance of a vanished way of life." Appearing in 1881, just before the spectacular boom, it created a nation-wide interest in Southern California, and it served as sort of a romantic guidebook during the tourist rush. - Zamorano 80 #46. (BAL 10456; Baird & Greenwood 1296; Johnson, High Spots of American Literature pg. 46-47).
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Ah-Wah-Ne Days: A Visit to the Yosemite Valley in 1872
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Ah-Wah-Ne Days: A Visit to the Yosemite Valley in 1872

by Jackson, Helen Hunt [H. H.]

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San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1971. First Edition. First Edition Thus, Limited to 450 copies. 4to. 84 pp. Designed, illustrated and printed by Mallette Dean. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Title illustration and seven chapter head pieces in color by Mallette Dean. Bound in green and beige decorated boards with yellow green cloth back; printed spine title label. Orignal prospectus laid in. A fine copy. The essays in this book originally appeared in the New York Independent in 1872 following Ms. Jackson's trip to California as a correspondent. Her observations are of a Yosemite Valley just becoming known as a tourist attraction. (BCC 137).
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Vistas of Romance

by Jacobs, Harold S.

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Los Angeles: Porter & Griffin, 1940. 1st. Paperback. First edition. No date. Folio. [66]pp; unpaginated. Black & white illustrations; 33 lithographic plates by photographer Harold S. Jacobs. Spiral bound green stiff wrappers; titles on front cover and spine. Light wear and creasing to edges, more so to spine and corners. Very good. A spiral album, containing 36 mounted lithographs of photographs taken by Harold Jacobs during travels with his wife, Virginia, through Europe, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, India, Bali, Indonesia, Mexico, Canada and the U.S.A.. Includes an introduction by Porter& Griffin. The lithographs are in two colors, a soft rich black and a brown-tone black.
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Frederic Cozzens: Marine Painter
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Frederic Cozzens: Marine Painter

by Jacobsen, Anita

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New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982. 1st. Hardcover. Square 4to. 252pp. Bibliography; Index. Beautiful color plates. Blue cloth in blule color printed dustjacket. A fine copy in about fine dustjacket (tiny tear to spine head). "Cozzens watercolors and drawings capture the spirit of an age when high society was the closest thing there was to royalty in American, when Americans watched their navy with pride and fascination." - dustjacket flap. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.
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Jim Miller: The Untold Story of a Texas Badman (SIGNED)

Jim Miller: The Untold Story of a Texas Badman (SIGNED)

by James, Bill C.

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Wolfe City TX: Henington Publishing Company, 1989. Hardcover. SIGNED 'Bill James 1995' on preliminary page. Octavo; x, 79pp; bibliography, epilogue, photographs. A Fine copy in black cloth; front cover and spine lettered in silver. Jim Miller had been town marshal in Pecos, Texas (of Billie Sol Estes fame!) as well as being married to a daughter of a cousin of John Wesley Hardin. He also had been a Texas Ranger in Memphis, Texas. He was lynched in Ada, Oklahoma, in 1909 along with three other men, by a mob of residents angry that he had assassinated a former deputy U.S. marshal.
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Indians of the Painted Desert Region: Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais (INSCRIBED)
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Indians of the Painted Desert Region: Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais (INSCRIBED)

by James, George Wharton

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Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1907. 2nd. Leather bound. INSCRIBED "To Inez Ray Smith/with the compliments & good/wishes of a fellow lover of the/Indian/George Wharton James." Second Edition. 8vo. xxi, 268pp + [3] advertisements pp. Bibliography. Black & white photo-illustrations (including frontispiece with tissue guard). Three-quarter green morocco and cloth, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. From the library of Irving W. Robbins, Jr., noted collector, and with his bookplate. Spine faded to brown although the gilt is bright; light wear to edges and joints; a very good copy. James travelled extensively throughout the Southwest and wrote several books based on his first-hand experiences. In this title, he details the lives and customs of the various Indian tribes he visited. (Alliot Bib. of Arizona pg. 116; Howes 5321).
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Utah: The Land of Blossoming Valleys
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Utah: The Land of Blossoming Valleys

by James, George Wharton

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Boston, MA: The Page Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xix; 371 pp. Index. Folding color map. 56 color and black & white plates. Stirking pictorial brown cloth with gilt lettering; TEG; in color illustrated dustjacket; housed in somewhat worn publisher's box. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (darkening to spine). A spectacular copy in scarce publisher's box. A title in the "See America First" series. "The story of its Desert Wastes, of its Huge and Fantastic Rock Formations, and its Fertile Gardens in the Sheltered Valleys; a survey of its Rapidly Developing Industries; and Account of Origin, Development, and Beliefs of the Mormon Church; and Chapters on the Flora and Fauna, and on the Scenic Wonders that are a Heritage of all Americans.
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California scrapbook; a collection of articles. Illustrated with original photographs of Yosemite, from the George Wharton James collection (#12 of 25 deluxe copies)

by James, George Wharton

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Los Angeles: N.A. Kovach, 1945. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition thus, Limited Edition #12 of 25 deluxe copies (of an edition of 125). Octavo; various pagings. Illustrated with original photographs of Yosemite, from the George Wharton James collection. Tape ghosts to pastedowns, else a Near Fine copy in original green cloth gilt-stamped at spine and front board, in heavily chipped and taped dust jacket. Included are James' srticles How Mark Twain was made.--Bret Harte, the founder of the Overland monthly.--Leaves from early California history: John A. Sutter and Sutter's Fort, by A.J. Cloud.--Ina Donna Coolbrith, an historical sketch and appreciation.--One man's life.--The romantic story of a remarkable woman, Josephine C. McCrackin.--Joaquin Miller, the poet of peace.--Jack London.--Robert Louis Stevenson in California.--Stevenson's Monterey, by C.W. Stoddard.--Charles Warren Stoddard.--A happy couple of literary workers: Richard Tully and Eleanor Gates Tully.--Robert Jones Burdette.--Edgar Lucien… Read More
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Indian Basketry, and How to Make Indian and Other Baskets

Indian Basketry, and How to Make Indian and Other Baskets

by James, George Wharton

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Pasadena, CA: George Wharton James, 1909. Fourth Edition Revised and Enlarged. Hardbound. 8vo. 271, [1]; 136, [8] pp. Bibliography; Appendix; Index. Hundreds of illustrations. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Light wear to extremities; previous owner name; a very good copy.
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Practical Basket Making

Practical Basket Making

by James, George Wharton

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Pasadena, CA: George Wharton James, 1920. New Edition. Enlarged and Revised with New Illustrations. Cloth. Minor wear to extremities; small bump lower front cover otherwise near fine.. Octavo. 124pp. Numerous black & white photo-illustrations. Black cloth with gilt lettering.
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Traveler's Hand Book to Southern California

Traveler's Hand Book to Southern California

by James, George Wharton

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Pasadena, CA: Published by the author, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. 507 + 2pp Index. Black & white illustrations. Flexible red cloth with gilt lettering. A near fine copy (minimal loss of color to cloth on spine; minor wear to extremities). A through study of Southern California at the dawn of the 20th century. Much on history, climate, flora, landmarks, agriculture, education, sports, cities, the missions and more. (Rocq 16291).
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The H.M.M.B.A. in California

The H.M.M.B.A. in California

by James, George Wharton

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Pasadena, CA: Published by the author, 1896. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 4to. 338 pp + 16 pp advertisements. Includes photo-illustrations of various state hotels, owners and members; advertisements at the rear. Maroon gilt decorated cloth with beveled edges; AEG; gilt lettering to spine; floral endpapers. A fine and bright copy. A souvenir volume produced by James for the participants in the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association's 1896 annual meeting held in Los Angeles and tour of California. Chapters on the various state delegations; background for the trip and the trip west; Los Angele; Santa Monica; Santa Barbara; Pasadena; Riverside; San Diego; Hotel del Coronado; San Francisco; San Jose and Santa Clara Valley; Stanford University; Hotel Del Monte and much more. An invaluable period piece of Californiana. (Controversial James #18; Rocq 16952).
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Three Years among the Indians and Mexicans

Three Years among the Indians and Mexicans

by James, General Thomas; edited by Walter B. Douglas

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Saint Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1916. Limited Edition #164 of 365 copies. First Edition Thus; reprint of the very rare 1846 original edition printed in Waterloo, Illinois. 8vo. 316pp, [i]p of publisher's advertisements. Black & white tissue-guarded illustrative plates; map. Frontispiece and facsimile of 1846 title page included. Quarter dark blue cloth under blue paper covered boards; gilt titles to the spine; top edge gilt; fore and bottom edge deckled. Bookseller label for Arthur H. Clarke in Glendale, CA affixed inside lower front board. Minor wear to corners and spine ends; else a near fine copy. "One of the earliest narratives of the fur-trade covering experiences on the upper Missouri in 1809, and an expedition to Santa Fe, in 1821. Written from James' dictation by Nathan Niles, who, representing local newspaper criticism, destroyed nearly all copies." (Howes J49; Graff 2193; Wagner Camp 121).
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Fremont in California

Fremont in California

by James, George Wharton

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Los Angeles: Compliments of the Fremont Hotel, 1903. First Edition. Original wrappers. Small 8vo. [30] pp. Photo-illustrations. Publisher's stiff grey wrappers with gilt lettering and gilt crest designed by Jesse Fremont. Light wear else a fine copy of an uncommon G. W. James title. A brief historical account of John Charles Fremont and his time in California, accompanied by photographs on Fremont, his wife Jesse, early Los Angeles and Monterey, and the Fremont Hotel. (Controversial James #12).
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Alfred I. duPont: The Family Rebel (SIGNED)

by James, Marquis

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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941. 1st. three-quarter leather. First Edition, Limited No. 121 of 250 copies, SIGNED by the author. Large 8vo. 599 pp. Frontispiece portrait of duPont; numerous photographic plates. Three-quarter maroon leather, gilt lettering and decoration; TEG; marbled endpapers in original glassine dustjacket; housed in publisher's somewhat worn numbered box. Book is in fine condition; dustjacket has some chips and tears. The biography of Alfred Irénée duPont (1864-1935), an American industrialist, financier, philanthropist and a member of America's most illustrious chemical manufacturing family. DuPont was a man of intense convictions and determination to pave his own path earning him a reputation as the duPont's "family rebel." - wiki.
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