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Clarence H. Danhof Government Contracting and Technological Change
Washington, DC Brookings Institution 1968 0313222975 / 9780313222979 Hardcover Used: Very Good Hardcover
1st ed., 1968. 8vo. x, 472 pp. Tables, charts, indexes; text clean, un-marked. Gilt-stamped brick-red cloth, dust-jacket; binding square and tight; jacket with shelf wear, chipped. Other than the jacket, in fine condition. From the private collection of Robert Sokoloff, Professor of Economics at UCLA.
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Justinian (circa 481-565 AD). Printed leaf from Corpus Juris Civilis.
Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 1496 Collectible: Very Good
Single Folio Leaf. 430 x 287 mm. 16 7/8 x 11 5/16 inches. Folio CCXVIII (218). Text printed in a fine rounded Gothic type in red and black with red chapter markers, large red initials, 2 initials hand rubricated in blue; paper is toned, some foxing mostly in the margins, adhesive residue on the verso. Very Good. Folio Leaf 218 from Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis printed by Baptista de Tortis in 1496. Justinian (Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus Augustus) was a sixth century Byzantine Emperor whose goal was the renovatio imperii, or "restoration" of the ancient Roman Empire. Justinian's lasting fame rests on his judicial reforms, particularly through the complete revision of all Roman law, something that had not previously been attempted. The total of Justinian's legislation is known today as the Corpus Juris Civilis. It consists of the Codex Iustinianus, the Digesta or Pandectae, the Institutiones, and the Novellae. Roman law established each man's right in regard to his labor and property. Justinian's code set the stage for centuries of struggles between secular rulers and the Catholic Church and facilitated the passage of western European societies from the economics of the agricultural family to the rule of commercial and industrial individuals. This edition of the Corpus Juris Civilis was printed at Venice by Baptista de Tortis, one of the first printers to specialize in jurisprudence. He reputation for accuracy of text enabled him to dispose of many editions of 2000 or more copies, folio size, while many other fifteenth century printers went bankrupt after printing only one or two volumes in editions of 500 copies or less. This folio handsomely reproduces the medieval manuscript tradition with the original text of the Corpus Juris Civilis in the center and later commentaries printed on the outside of the page, a typographical problem successfully handled by the printer.
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Kenneth M. Johnson. Stephen Mallory White.
Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1980 0870933116 / 9780870933110 First Edition Hardcover Collectible: Very Good Hardcover
Series: Los Angeles Miscellany, No. 11. LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies printed by Richard J. Hoffman. 8vo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. 33, [3] pp. Half-title, black-and-white frontispiece portrait, title page printed in black and red with the title within a slate-grey typographic border, section heads and initials in red within grey borders, black-and-white illustration of White's statue in the Los Angeles Civic Center; text clean, unmarked. Quarter black cloth, decorative paper over boards, spine titled in gilt; binding square and tight, light shelf wear. Bookplate of James Strohn Copley, small pencil notation at lower corner of front free end paper and copyright page. Very Good. This book is a brief profile of Stephen Mallory White, based upon White's personal correspondence. White was a Los Angeles attorney and politician who served in various political offices, including Los Angeles County District Attorney, California State Senator, Acting Lieutenant Governor, and United States Senator. White was a leading figure in the Free Harbor Fight, a seven-year struggle to secure a deep-water harbor at San Pedro, now today's Port of Los Angeles.
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Peter Thomas Conmy. The History of California's Japanese Problem and the Part Played by the Native Sons of the Golden West in its Solution.
[Los Angeles]: Peter Thomas Conmy, 1942 Collectible: Very Good
Mimeographed document. 3 ff., 14 x 8 1/2 inches, typed both sides, 6 numbered pages. Folded, the name Helen Urnst penciled in the lower margin of page 6. Very Good. The Native Sons of the Golden West is a fraternal service organization founded in 1875, limited to individuals born in the state of California and dedicated to historic preservation, documentation of historic structures and places in the state, and the placement of historic plaques. The Native Sons began as an organization "embracing only the sons of those sturdy pioneers who arrived on this coast prior to the admission of California as a state." In 1920, the Native Sons began to see the immigration of the Japanese as a threat to the white man's order in the state. In this document, Peter T. Conmy, Grand Historian of the Native Sons of the Golden West, documents the efforts of the fraternal order to deprive Japanese Americans their citizenship and voting rights up to the time of World War II. Conmy held many prominent librarianship posts throughout the state of California, including the Oakland Public library. "Anti-Orientalism in Los Angeles seems to have been a kind of essentially open and honorable activity, like that of the volunteer fireman; it attracted joiners at every level of eminence but the highest." Reference: Modell, The Economics and Politics of Racial Accommodation: The Japanese of Los Angeles, pp. 53-54. 3 copies in Worldcat.
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