Search Results: Titles starting with F from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

Pomona & Riverside: Pomona College & UC Riverside, 1973. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy Table, [26cm/10.5inches], paperbound w/ folding pictorial case featuring self portrait of [Adam Clark] Vroman. The case, -[portfolio]-, contains 20 110in by 10in sepia halftone plates of cameras and photgraphs featured in the exhibition. The Catalog is a folded news paperesque affair, on rather heavy stock, featuring 178 cameras & accesories and 190 photographs. The whole package is in mint condition. UC Riverside has swell Museum of Photography, well worth a visit.. Adam C. Vroman began taking photographs in 1892. In 1895 he started work on a complete series of the California missions. That summer he accompanied an expedition to Arizona, and for the next ten years photographed the Southwest. He is remebered as the founder of Vroman's Bookstore. In exceptionally good condition. Paperback. (18850) $45.00

New York: Quadrant, 1983. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [8.5 by 11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 80. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... EMD F-units were a line of diesel-electric locomotives produced between November 1939 and November 1960 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and General Motors-Diesel Division. Final assembly for all F-units was at the GM-EMD plant at La Grange, Illinois and the GMDD plant in London, Ontario, Canada. They were sold to railroads throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and a few were exported to Saudi Arabia. The term F-unit refers to the model numbers given to each successive type (i.e. F3, F7, etc.), all of which began with the letter F. The "F" originally meant Fourteen, as in 1,400 horsepower, not F as in Freight. Longer EMD E-units for passenger service had twin 900 horsepower diesel engines (called "prime… Read More

Evanston, Wyoming: Melba Amster et al, 1987. First Impression. Comb-bound. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [21.25cm/8.5inches], comb-bound with red pictorial covers, pp. 49, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, drawings, maps &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Oregon Trail originally traversed the Black's Fork Valley before heading north toward Fort Hall, Idaho. In 1843, fur trapper Jim Bridger set up a trading post on the Black's Fork River to serve travelers on the Oregon Trail and later the Mormon, California, Cherokee Trails. At Bridger’s Fort, travelers could trade their weakened animals for rested ones and obtain needed food and other supplies. In 1855, Bridger and his partner, Louis Vasquez, sold Bridger's Fort to the Mormons who were operating Fort Supply a few miles to the south to serve emigrants on the Mormon Trail. In 1857, Mormon militia burned Bridger’s Fort to prevent… Read More

Pittsburgh:  University of Pittsburgh Press 1991, 1991. Paperbound. VG Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Jumbo octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. xvii, 731, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Matome Ugaki was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, remembered for his extensive and revealing war diary, role at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and kamikaze suicide hours after the announced surrender of Japan at the end of the war.

Bogota, New Jersey: Model Shipways, 1952. VG Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1 sheet [ 19in. by 25in.], Fairing Lines and Elevations, 1 sheet [21in by 28in], Rigging Plan, 1 sheet [ 15in by 10.5in],masts and spars, and an 8-page instruction booklet with history of the Fair American Sheets are folded. ... Fair American was a American privateer in the War for Independence. She was captured by the British and crewed by American loyalists during that same conflict. ... At the Battle of Delaware Bay, or the Battle of Cape May, a British squadron of three vessels attacked three American privateers that were escorting a fleet of merchantmen. The ensuing combat in Delaware Bay near Cape May ended with an American victory over a superior British force. British forces included the 32-gun frigate HMS Quebec under Captain Christopher Mason, the 24-gun sloop-of-war HMS General Monk under Captain Josias Rogers, and a New York privateer brig named Fair American crewed by American loyalists. Fair American… Read More

Fallbrook, California: Fallbrook Grocery. Flyer. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. . Fully illustrated with . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound, [Folded] with pictorial covers, pp. 4. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

San Diego: Herbert Lockwood, 1970s. First Impression. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with brackish-green pictorial covers, pp. 142. Illustrated with b-w halftones. … In a review for the Spring 1974 number of the Journal of San Diego History, Professor Thomas R. Cox of SDSU rather churlishly noted: “The late Stewart Holbrook, a leading popularized of history a decade and more ago, was wont to substitute color for analysis. As one critic put it: ‘Hol would remember that when a man stood up to make a speech in Cutbank, Montana, his pants fell down, and then he would forget what the fellow had to say.’ Yet, whatever his faults, Holbrook wrote carefully researched, coherent accounts firmly set in the context of the times. Herbert W. Lockwood's Skeleton's Closet Revisited has none of these redeeming virtues. It is a succession of unconnected anecdotes first published in "The Skeleton's Closet," Lockwood's… Read More

Yosemite National Park, California: Yosemite Natural History Association, 1950s. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [23cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ..

San Francisco: Harper & Row/Headlands Press, 1978. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy table, [21cm/8.5in], paperbound with pictorial covers. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Locks is Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz. He photographs the biodiversity of nature and masters a visual language for speaking about the wilderness. There is a democracy at work in Locks' imagery. Every leaf, rock, tree and blade of grass is deserving of attention. These works present the beauty of the ecosystems, the details, the enormity of the delicate enterprise of nature. They offer the viewer a powerful sense of belonging to nature and serve as an irrefutable call for stewardship and eco-sensitivity.

New York: Rizzzoli, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Demy folio, [31.25cm/12.25inches], full gilt-embossed chestnut-coloured cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 224,, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Goodreads notes: "Never in history were greater fortunes made and spent than in the Gilded Age, a period of immense prosperity that lasted in Europe from the 1870s through 1914 and in the United States until the Crash of 1929. This beautiful and richly illustrated book traces the rise of the great robber barons around the world, and explains the alchemy by which the Rothschilds, Vanderbilts, Astors and Rockefellers, among others, rose from rags to riches thanks to monopolies, government corruption, or financial skullduggery linked to blinding ambition and a passion for hard work. But the Gilded Age was as much about making fortunes as spending them, and the author… Read More

St Helena, California : Silverado Publishing & Ten Speed Press, 2002. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [28.125cm/11.25inches], full gilt-embossed -cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 247. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Los Angeles: The Rowny Press, 1924. Hardcover. in exceptionally good condition/VG Very Good. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full faux calf-backed quarter-bound ebony cloth w/ tipped-on spine and cover title plates, pp. 162, deckled and t.e.g. Illustrated with tipped-in b-w woodcuts by Stuart Taber and Esther Betty Lewis, Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... In 1875 Dr. P.C. (Peter Charles) Remondino In , Dr. Remondino was appointed City Physician and was the first President of the City Board of Health, a position he intermittently occupied until his death. He was the Surgeon of the Southern California Railroad Company and the Pacific Coast Steamship Company and for many years he was the Surgeon of the U.S. Marine Hospital Service. In 1877, Dr. Remondino married Sophia Ann Earle, a niece of the Bishop of Marlborough of London, the late Honorable Alfred Earle. In 1891, Dr. Remondino and his wife Sophia built one of the first houses on San Diego’s… Read More

Álamos, Sonora: , Ida Luisa Franklin, 1983. Primero edicione. En rustica. Muy Bueno/No dust jacket. Octavo, [20.5cm/8.5inches], en papel con cubiertas pictóricas, págs. 133. Totalmente ilustrado con medios tonos b-w, placas de color &tc. Por favor, no dude en preguntar sobre detalles y / o fotografías adicionales. ... Publicado en inglés como: "The Ghosts of Alamos," En un día de marzo de 1956, la autora y su familia se toparon con el desmoronado pueblo colonial de Alamos en un valle aislado en el norte del oeste de México. Compraron y restauraron una quinta en ruinas, una villa, situada en un número indeterminado de hectáreas de árboles frutales tropicales envejecidos. En el mapa más antiguo de Alamos lleva su nombre Las Delicias, Las Delicias. Ellos mobiliarioon la villa con antiguedades rescatadas de otras ruinas y ajardinaron los jardines, restauraron pozos y salvaron muchos de los árboles… Read More

Enca, North Carolina: Colonial House, 1996. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No . Demy octavo, [18.5cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 350, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Wiki notes: "A fantasy art card is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually depicts fantasy, science-fiction, or horror artwork of a character, place or thing on the front side of the card. The back side of the card usually contains a short description of the picture, along with other text. Fantasy art cards are collected or traded, and are typically not playing cards though overlap between collectible card games is recognized because of the suite of artwork they often depict. Fantasy art cards generally showcase the artwork of a single contemporary artist, though a medley of artists, or a single intellectual property may be depicted too."

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. First Edition. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full fancy gilt-embossed apricot-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 187. Illustrated with photogravures &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. His poems were most often about his rural life. He had been in the habit of writing poetry as a youngster. His first significant work published was Betsy and I Are Out, a poignant tale of a divorce which was first published in the Toledo Blade, but then reprinted by Harper’s Weekly. Carleton's poems are touched with the glamour of poetry the simple and monotonous events of daily life, and shown that all circumstances of life, however trivial they may appear, possess those alternations of the comic and pathetic, the good and bad, the joyful and sorrowful, which go to make up the days and nights, the summers and winters, of this… Read More

National City, California: The Stein Family Farm, 1994. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 20. Fully illustrated with b-w halftone plates . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...Features: "Charles Stein, " "Archaeological Deposits at The Farm," and "Olivenhain" as well as regular departments. ... The Stein Family Farm was the home of the Stein Family from 1900 until 1992. Charles Stein was born on Christmas 1861 and died in 1954. He, his wife Bertha and their five children lived on the farm. Charles and Bertha were both born in Germany and their families immigrated to California during the 1880s. They met in National City, married in 1891 and moved to Charles' farm close to the Mexican border. Charles was a very successful farmer and got angry when his property was flooded by the construction of the Otay Dam. He took the… Read More

National City, California: Stein Family Farm, 1993. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 20. Fully illustrated with . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Features: "National City Citrus Industry Uses Ten Tons of Citrus Daily," "The Otto Family," and regular departments. ... The Stein Family Farm was the home of the Stein Family from 1900 until 1992. Charles Stein was born on Christmas 1861 and died in 1954. He, his wife Bertha and their five children lived on the farm. Charles and Bertha were both born in Germany and their families immigrated to California during the 1880s. They met in National City, married in 1891 and moved to Charles' farm close to the Mexican border. Charles was a very successful farmer and got angry when his property was flooded by the construction of the Otay Dam. He took the builders of the dam to court and sued… Read More

San Diego, California: The Author, 1937. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Demy octavo, [20.5cm/8.25inches], full ivory cloth sans dust jacket, pp.32. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Catherine Logsdon wrote several books and phamplets including Angeles, Belle of Old Los Angeles, The Martins of Matinez, John Adams, Pioneer and Soldier. Her obituary is in the San Diego Union March 18, 1943.

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press, 1992. Second Edition, Second Impression. Hardcover. in exceptionally good condition/in exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed quarter-bound grey-backed teal-coloured boards w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xxii, 503, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, maps &tcMaritim Naval History. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Naval War College Review: Reynolds, Clark G. (1978) "The Fast Carriers: The Forging of an Air Navy, 2d ed.," Naval War College Review: Vol. 31 : No. 1 , Article 31. ... Reynolds began his career as an instructor, and later an associate professor, in the Department of English, History, and Government at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1964–1968. From there, he went to the University of Maine, where he served in the Department of History from 1968 to 1976 as Associate, and then full Professor. While at the University of Maine, he and William J. McAndrew… Read More

Carlsbad, California: Whisk & Spoon Publications, 2006. Second Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [20cm/8inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 168, indexed. Fully Illustrated with caracatures, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.