On the Level. Published by Carpenters for a Stronger Union. No. 2 (April 1974) - State Convention Report
by [CARPENTER'S UNION - CALIFORNIA]
Sausalito: Carpenters for a Stronger Union, 1974. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, printed paper self-wrappers; 16pp. Fine. Irregularly-issued newsletter of a progressive rank-and-file faction within the California Brotherhood of Carpenters; this issue devoted to a highly critical review of the union's state convention. Publication continued at least through v.5 (1985) according to NYPL cataloguing data.
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To The Public: The Doctors of Optometry at Kaiser Are On Strike For The Right To Provide Adequate Eye Care To Their Patients
by [STRIKE BROADSIDE] [ENGINEERS & SCIENTISTS OF CALIFORNIA]
San Francisco: Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, AFL-CIO, [1982]. Broadside, photostatically printed on a single sheet of green copier bond, 11" x 8-1/2". Mild creasing; date ("Jan, 1982") handwritten in ink at upper right corner; Very Good. Announces a strike by the Optometrists of Kaiser Health, complaining of unmanageable patient loads and reductions in time allowed for patient... Read More
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Report of the State Executive Board of the California State CIO to the Win-the-War Convention, October 9, 10 and 11, 1942, Hollywood, California
by CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS - CALIFORNIA
San Francisco: California State CIO, 1942. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); staplebound self-wrappers printed in double rule; 29pp.; text in double columns. Wrapper extremities toned and rather dust-soiled, old horizontal mail fold, ownership rubberstamp of the Marxist newspaper "People's World," San Francisco, to upper cover, else Good to Very Good overall. Harvard only in OCLC as of June, 2020. ... Read More
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Why Not Prevent This
by [WOMEN] [LEAGUE OF NATIONS] Women's Non-Partisan Propaganda Committee for Southern California
Long Beach: Women's Non-Partisan Propaganda Committee, [ca 1920]. Leaflet, 19cm x 14cm (7-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Bifolium (4pp); cover illustration; 2pp of text, rear page with imprint only. Near Fine. A plea to California women voters to support America's entry to the League of Nations. The cover graphic portrays a WW1 doughboy, missing both his legs, being carried... Read More
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Use Your Opinion Power! Let Your Representatives Know What You Think
by FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION OF CALIFORNIA
[Pasadena, CA: Friends Committee on Legislation of California / Stop the B-1 Bomber National Peace Conversion Campaign, ca. 1974. First Edition. Narrow octavo; single sheet folded into six-panelled brochure; illus. Stock a bit toned, else Very Good or better. Guide to writing to ones congressman against the American arms race and the production of the B-1 bomber. Not separately... Read More
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Wanted Flyer - "Wanted for Forgery - C. Charles Miller, alias Charles Bush....
by [CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD] [CALIFORNIA]
Martinez, CA: R.R. Veale, Sheriff of Contra Costa Co, N.d. (ca. 1910s). Original wanted flyer on pink stock, 10" x 8"; text in a single column beneath headline and mug-shots. Slightly creased; ragged at bottom edge; Very Good. Undated, but we find George Fraser listed as a Constable in Pinole in the California Roster of State, County, and Municipal... Read More
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Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
by [CALIFORNIA] [ZAMORANO 80] [DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.]
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1840. First Edition. Generally accepted second printing (lacking the dot over the "i" in the copyright notice and with the broken running head on p.9). 12mo (15.5cm). In original brown publisher's cloth (BAL binding A), stamped in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; [1-3] 4-483pp. A desirable copy in the original binding, with a two-inch... Read More
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WINTER POLES
by Callahan, Bob, Illustrated by Okamura, Arthur
n. p.: Hipparchia Press, 1977. First edition. Original sewn wraps; silkscreen cover. One of 200 copies. Crisp, elegant, 10 pages of poetry stitched into stiff wraps. Cover design by Arthur Okamura. Fine.
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Harry Callahan: New Color, Photographs 1978-1987
by [CALLAHAN, HARRY]; DAVIS, Keith F.
Kansas City: Hallmark Cards, Inc, 1988. First Edition. Oblong Quarto (24cm x 30.5cm). Glossy pictorial wrappers (softcover); 132pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight shelf wear to extremities; slight soiling to bottom textblock; else clean and tight. Published on the occasion of the traveling exhibition of the recent (1978-1987) photography of Harry Callahan drawn from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. 70... Read More
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Callahan
by CALLAHAN, Harry (photographs); SZARKOWSKI, John (editor)
New York: Aperture / Museum of Modern Art, 1976. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Quarto (31.25cm); full black cloth, titled in silver, with a black & white photo inset onto the center of the front cover; [6],7-201,[3]pp; chiefly illus. Slightly musty from long storage, else very Near Fine, without dustjacket, as issued. Special Museum Edition of this monograph... Read More
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A Native Argosy
by CALLAGHAN, Morley
Toronto: Macmillan Company, 1929. First Canadian Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in green decorative dust jacket; [8],371pp. Some light chipping with a couple tiny losses to jacket extremities, spine a bit toned, else Very Good or better. The Canadian author's second book, a collection of short stories.
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More Joy in Heaven
by CALLAGHAN, Morley
New York: Random House, [1937]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by "Lieberman," grey topstain; 278pp. Light shelf wear, spine a bit toned, else Very Good to Near Fine. "The Story of a Reformed Bank Robber," who finds religion in the penitentiary.
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Luke Baldwin's Vow
by CALLAGHAN, Morley
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co, 1948. First Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's oatmeal cloth titled in burgundy to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 187pp. Very light wear to extremities of cloth, a little dustiness to top edge, internally very clean, in a bright price-clipped pictorial dustjacket with some sunning to the spine panel and minor marginal creasing and soiling.... Read More
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Such Is My Beloved
by CALLAGHAN, Morley
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket, reddish-brown topstain; [8],288pp. Jacket spine rather toned, extremities gently rubbed, faint purple ink smear to upper panel, else Very Good or better. Depression-era novel by the Canadian author and television personality.
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Strange Fugitive [Review Copy]
by CALLAGHAN, Morley
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's black buckram in green decorative dust jacket, dark green topstain; [8],264pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with some short tears with creasing at bottom edge of rear panel, minute tape repair to verso, spine rather sunned, else Near Fine in a just about Very Good jacket. Review copy... Read More
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A Broken Journey
by CALLAGHAN, Morley
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket by "Ermakoff," green topstain; [10],270pp. Minor chipping and a few short closed tears to jacket extremities, spine a bit toned and very slightly dampstained, faint price rubberstamp to front flap (original price still present), topstain quite sunned, ownership inscription sanded down on front... Read More
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Daniel Morgan: Ranger of the Revolution [INSCRIBED COPY]
by CALLAHAN, North
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Mr. Edgar Whiting [?] / with best wishes, North Callahan," undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo; tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; x,342pp. Fine, tight copy, free of textual markings or notable wear. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.00 on front flap) but... Read More
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Harry Callahan
by [CALLAHAN] GREENOUGH, Sarah
New York: Bulfinch / Little, Brown, 1996. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 199pp; illus. Tight, Near Fine, unmarked copy in Fine dustwrapper. A pristine copy. Published in conjunction with the 1997 exhibition of Calahan's photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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The Illusion of Eve: Modern Woman's Quest for Identity
by CALLAHAN, Sidney Cornelia (text); RASKIN, Ellen (jacket design)
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1965. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); jade green cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 214pp. Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustjacket, with a bit of mild shelfwear. Study of woman's role in western society, "how modern woman can find fulfillment even in "the split-level trap," and can keep her mind alive... Read More
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The Illusion of Eve: Modern Woman's Quest for Identity
by CALLAHAN, Sidney Cornelia
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1965. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); light green cloth with title in black, in blue pictorial dustwrapper; 4-214pp. Dustwrapper toned; mild handling wear and soiling, light scuffs; extremities slightly rubbed. Faint foxing to textblock edges; ownership signature to ffep, light marginalia throughout. An overall Very Good, sound copy. A Catholic-aligned counterpart to Betty Friedan's... Read More
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Grandfather Stories of the Navahos [sic]
by CALLAWAY, Sydney M.; Gary Witherspoon
Rough Rock, AZ: Navajo Curriculum Center Press, 1974. Revised edition. Octavo (23cm). White paper wrappers printed in black and brown, with tan spine; [iv],123,[1]pp; in-text illustrations. Lightly rubbed, minor creases to wrappers at spine, overall Very Good. Illustrated by Hoke Denetsosie and Clifford Beck, Jr. [62123].
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Race and Class
by CALLINICOS, Alex
London: Bookmarks, [1993]. First Edition. Slim octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's black photo-illustrated card wrappers; 86pp. Some surface scratches to wrappers, light wear from handling, else Very Good and sound.
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Kindred Spirits: Knickerbocker Writers and American Artists, 1807-1855
by CALLOW, James T.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1967. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Tan cloth in red and black pictorial dust jacket; tan pictorial endpapers; xxii,287,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Near Fine in lightly rubbed and chipped, Very Good dust jacket.
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![Commentaire Litteral sur Tous les Livres de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament... L'Evangile de S. Matthieu [Ben and Bernarda Shahn's copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/814/721/1289721814.0.m.jpg)
Commentaire Litteral sur Tous les Livres de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament... L'Evangile de S. Matthieu [Ben and Bernarda Shahn's copy]
by CALMET, Augustin
Paris: Emery, Fils [et al.], 1725. First Separate Edition. Large quarto (25.5cm.); full contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; [2],clxi,[1],678pp.; steel engravings throughout text, woodcut initials, head and tail-pieces. Extremities quite rubbed with substantial exposure of boards at bottom edge of upper cover, lacking spine label, preliminary signatures (a-t) starting but present, small 19th-century ex... Read More
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Under the Jaguar Sun [Uncorrected Proof]
by CALVINO, Italo (stories); William Weaver (translation)
San Diego and New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers / A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, 1988. English language Uncorrected Proof copy, softcover. Octavo (21cm); blue paper wrappers; [x],[1],2-67,[3]pp. Designed by Michael Farmer. Publisher's sticker to front cover. Light sunning and rubbing to wrapper margins, else Near Fine. Collection of three short stories, this first English translation proof includes... Read More
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