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The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949 - 1967

By: Clark Kerr (1911-2003)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Berkeley, etc., University of California Press: 2001

Seller ID: JR1018-027

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

FIRST EDITIONS. Volume I: Academic Triumphs; Volume II: Political Turmoil. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. 427; 540 pp. Numerous illustrations on plates, index; text clean, unmarked. Navy cloth, spines titled in gilt, dust-jackets in archival mylar; binding square and tight. Fine. Clark Kerr was an American professor of economics and academic administrator. He was the first chancellor of the University California, Berkeley (1952-1958), and twelfth President of the University of California (1958-1967). As President of the University of California system, Kerr oversaw the opening of campuses in Sa...
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A Souvenir of Toledo, 1956.

By: Jake Zeitlin (1902-1987).

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Los Angeles:, Wm. M. Cheney,: 1959

Seller ID: EE516-263

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

SECOND EDITION. Pamphlet. 6 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches. [4] pp. 1 sheet of French-fold paper stitched within gray printed wrappers, printed in black ink with red decorations; text clean, unmarked, minor shelf wear. SCARCE. Very Good. "So many requests have come in for copies of this that a reprint has been made for us by Wm. Cheney this 15th day of September, 1959." Recounts Zeitlin's moody visit to Toledo, Spain, in 1956. REFERENCE: Not in Jones, A Los Angeles Typesticker.
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A Souvenir of Toledo, 1956.

By: Jake Zeitlin (1902-1987).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Los Angeles:, Wm. M. Cheney,: 1959

Seller ID: EE516-264

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

SECOND EDITION. Pamphlet. 6 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches. [4] pp. 1 sheet of French-fold paper stitched within gray printed wrappers, printed in black with red decorations; text clean, unmarked, use wear. Very Good. "So many requests have come in for copies of this that a reprint has been made for us by Wm. Cheney this 15th day of September, 1959." Recounts Zeitlin's moody visit to Toledo, Spain, in 1956. REFERENCE: Not in Jones, A Los Angeles Typesticker.
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His Excellency: George Washington

By: Joseph John Ellis (b. 1943)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2004

Seller ID: MB718-007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

Fifth Printing. 8vo. xiv, 320, [6] pp. Index; text clean, unmarked. Black cloth, spine titled in gilt, dust-jacket; binding square and tight. Very Good. Joseph John Ellis is an American historian and writer whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America. This biography of George Washington is based on Ellis' careful reading of the newly catalogued Washington papers at the University of Virginia. This book is a finely detailed portrait written in lyrical prose.
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Understanding Of Self In The Process Of Day-To-Day Living

By: Nolie Mumey (1891-1984)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Denver, CO, The Range Press: 1978

Seller ID: JR1018-036

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

LIMITED EDITION of 125 numbered and SIGNED copies of which this is number 66. 8vo. 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. 134 pp. Twenty-five chapters giving inspiring life lessons; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped half green morocco, green paper over boards, plain white jacket with debossed spider-web pattern in mylar; binding square and tight, minor shelf wear, jacket with light toning. SIGNED on the limitation page by Nolie Mumey. Very Good. Inspirational messages on various aspects of life. Doctor Nolie Mummy was a noted physician, Western historian, author, and collector. Mummy amassed an extensive pr...
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88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary

By: Robert L. Grenier

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, etc., Simon & Schuster: 2015

Seller ID: MB718-012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

FIRST EDITION with full number line. 8vo. xix, 443 pp. 3 maps, 32 photographic illustrations on plates, index; text clean, unmarked. Paper over boards, gilt-titled spine, dust-jacket; binding square and tight, small green felt-tipped marker mark on top edge, looks more like a stray marker tip than a remainder mark, minor wear to jacket. Very Good. Robert Grenier is a longtime CIA officer who served as the CIA's top counter-terrorism official from 2004-2006. Robert Grenier was the CIA's man in Pakistan and Afghanistan on September 11, 2001. In this autobiographical account, Grenier give...
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Keynes: Contemporary Responses to the General Theory

By: Roger E. Backhouse, editor

Price: $30.00

Publisher: South Bend, IN, St. Augustine's Press: 2000

Seller ID: DBW4298-10

ISBN: 1890318280

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Key Issues Series. Trade Paperback. ix, 257 pp. Figures, bibliography, index; text clean, un-marked. Pictorial wrappers; binding square and tight, some minor shelf wear. Brand-New. Excellent! Your order receives my personal attention. This book makes available the contemporary reactions to John Maynard Keynes' "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" (1936).
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Purely Personal

By: Ruth Hoffman and Richard J. Hoffman (1912-1989)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Van Nuys, CA, Richard J. Hoffman: 1972

Seller ID: BO618-004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

LIMITED EDITION of 50 copies, printed by Richard J. Hoffman. 8vo. 9 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches. (144) pp. Title-page printed in 3 colors, headpiece in 2 colors, printer's device on colophon; text clean, unmarked. Quarter red cloth, spine titled in gilt, patterned paper over boards; binding square and tight, gentle bumps to upper corners, else Fine. Subtitle: "The record of a sabbatical year, 1966-67 made up of notes written by Ruth Hoffman with asides [in brackets] added by Richard Hoffman who first set the type in 1967; the project was resurrected & completed in the Fall of 1972." Reco...
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A Biographical Directory of the Society of Printers.

By: Society of Printers.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston:, Society of Printers,: 1973

Seller ID: KSF713-190

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

FIRST EDITION, a second edition was issued in 1999. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. [vi], 48 pp. Text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped blue cloth; binding square and tight, minor toning to cloth, else Fine. Muir Dawson's copy. Lists 100 members of the New England-based Society of Printers. This directory was compiled by Charles A. Rheault, Jr., and Rollo G. Silver with the assistance of Christopher C. Kellogg. Design by Michael McCurdy.
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The Remarkable Martin Stone: Remembering the Celebrated Rare Book Dealer and Blues Guitarist.

By: Stephen J. Gertz, editor and introduction.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: McMinnville, OR:, Booktryst,: 2017

Seller ID: BT1217-001a

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies with 25 hors commerce, this is copy number 61, designed and printed by Alastair Johnston at the Poltroon Press in Berkeley, CA, binding by John DeMerritt, Emeryville, CA. 8vo. 9 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches. (54) pp. Half-title, frontispiece portrait by Linda Moorcock engraved by Francis Butler, title page printed in purple and black inks, list of contributors; text clean, unmarked. Decorative cloth spine, patterned paper over boards, printed paper spine label, comes in a maroon-cloth-covered slip case; binding square and tight. SIGNED by the printer, Alastair Johnston and ...
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