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Land Titles in San Francisco, and the Laws Affecting the Same, With a Synopsis of All Grants and Sale of Land Within the Limits Claimed by the City.

Land Titles in San Francisco, and the Laws Affecting the Same, With a Synopsis of All Grants and Sale of Land Within the Limits Claimed by the City. by WHEELER, Alfred.

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Title
Land Titles in San Francisco, and the Laws Affecting the Same, With a Synopsis of All Grants and Sale of Land Within the Limits Claimed by the City.
Author
WHEELER, Alfred.
Seller
Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
"One of the Foundation Books on California Land Titles" With the excessively scarce correct map of San Francisco. Small quarto.10½ x 7¼ inches. 127, [2]pp. Lithograph folding map on thin tissue. Original tan calf, marbled boards, paper label (green) on front cover. Covers a bit worn. Foxing throughout. Early ownership name and date on title. Bookplate. First signature detached. First edition. Scarce early San Francisco imprint, with the excessively scarce correct map of San Francisco entitled "Map of San Francisco, Compiled from latest Surveys & containing all late extensions & Division of Wards, published by Josiah J. Le Count, for Wheeler's Report on Land-Titles in San Francisco Cal." Cowan notes "The correct map was specially engraved for this work". Early San Francisco imprint which "includes all the grants made during the administration of the Mexican government in California to July 9, 1846. Also, all the grants by Alcaldes or those by official sales" (Greenwood 369). Also includes important Mexican and American Documents, relevant portions of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago, the Act for the admission of California as a state. With typed catalogue entry from John Howell-Books laid in. Cowan I: p.246, Cowan II: p.677, Greenwood: 369, Howes: W315, Norris: 4174, Rocq: 12799, Peters, California on Stone: p.103, Sabin: 103174, Streeter Sale: 2728. With the bookplate and signature of Alfred Sutro on the inside front cover. Alfred Sutro (1865-1945) was a San Francisco lawyer and book collector, highly involved with the Book Club of California.
Metamorphosis Through Light - Verwandlungen Durch Licht

Metamorphosis Through Light - Verwandlungen Durch Licht by LERSKI, Helmar

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Title
Metamorphosis Through Light - Verwandlungen Durch Licht
Author
LERSKI, Helmar
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9783923641000
Description
Germany: Luca Verlag, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Text in English and German. Edited by Ute Eskildsen and with a preface by Andor Kraszna-Krausz. A haunting collection of extreme close ups of faces. A fine and tight copy in a fine dust jacket. Rather uncommon.
Deux

Deux by Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

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Deux
Author
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
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Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description
Charleston, WV: The University of Charleston, Parchment Gallery Graphics. 1/200. Silkscreen [28 cm x 25 cm] Printed in black ink. Near fine. In printer's envelope with leaf of explanatory text. Signed and numbered by Ferlinghetti. Printed in an edition of 50 copies. A silkscreen reproduction of Ferlinghetti's first painting (oil on canvas, 1950) that was completed while a student at the Sorbonne. Rare. Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-1921) was a poet, painter, book designer, publisher, bookseller, and graphic artist, who was an important leader in the American poetry revival in San Francisco in the 1950s.
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Tuscan Villas by ACTON, Harold

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Title
Tuscan Villas
Author
ACTON, Harold
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
fine
Description
London: Thames and Hudsin, 1973. hardcover. fine/near fine. Illustrated with 126 amazing b/w photogravure plates, plus 19 in-text figures and 34 in color, all by Alexander Zielcke. 288 pages. Thick 4to, terra cotta cloth, d.w. Thames and Hudson, (1973). First Edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.
The Volcano Lover

The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag

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Title
The Volcano Lover
Author
Susan Sontag
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780374285166
Condition
Fine
Description
First Edition/Stated First Printing; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, with only light age-spotting to the exterior text block. SIGNED by the author to the front free paper with provenance for the signing laid in (bookmark from the Kroch's & Brentano's First Editions Circle). An outstanding copy of this title, from the prolific and acclaimed Susan Sontag. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.
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Records of English Court Music. Volume IX (Index) by ASHBEE, Andrew

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Title
Records of English Court Music. Volume IX (Index)
Author
ASHBEE, Andrew
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996. Hardcover. Fine. Large octavo. Red boards. 238 pp.
POETRY - Vol. 89 No. 6 - March 1957

POETRY - Vol. 89 No. 6 - March 1957 by Edited - Rene Char, W.S. Merwin, John Ashbery (Contributors)

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Title
POETRY - Vol. 89 No. 6 - March 1957
Author
Edited - Rene Char, W.S. Merwin, John Ashbery (Contributors)
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
(Chicago): (Modern Poetry Association), 1957. First Edition. Very good.. Features work by V.R. . Lang, Vernon Watkins, Hayden Carruth, James Wright, and others. Wraps. 12mo. Perfect-bound wraps. Very good plus with light toning and soil to wraps. Clean throughout.

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