Search Results: Photographs from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles. 1974. 1st.. 8vo, decorated boards, black cloth spine w/ gilt titles, 82 pages , illustrated w/b&w photos. No. IV in the series ‘Los Angeles Miscellany’. A classic work of urban archeology. Very good: A c lean, tight copy with near fine appearance overall, but with rubb ed and slightly chipped corners. .

Berlin: Cigareten-Bilderdienst, Hamburgo . 1936. 1st. 4to, Publisher's blue boards with bright gilt design and black le ttering. 128 pp. plus folding map. The first only of two volumes; this volume for the winter olympics. Several hundred glossy phot ographs tipped-in to their pages; mostly b/w but some color. A go od+ copy overall. Text block and photos are very good-fine with some light toning to page margins. Covers are rubbed at corners a nd top of spine with a 2" white crayon mark on front cover and so me rubbing to the gilt logo. .

Sacramento: California State Dept of Education. 1956. 1st ed.. 40 single plate black & white photographs (8 1/2" x 11"), printed on stiff paper and housed in publisher's printed portfolio folde r; accompanied by three page "Teacher's Guide"). Plates are fine ; folder has some wear and a few nicks but very good overall; tit le written in red ink on the spine. The photographs depict the f amous CA flooding throughout the north state the week before Chri stmas --, principally Yuba City and the Feather River, but also o ther cities and counties -- including a few in the south state. ; a photographic archive of the mainly northern and central Califo rnia flood event commencing the week before Christmas in 1955. .

Bath: Printed for Private Circulation. Good. 1873. 1st ed.. Inscribed by author . 1st ed., 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt decorations an d lettering. 41 [2] i-xxxiii. Tipped in photographic frontispiece of “Wordsworth’s Glen.” [See note below] A talk about the Quantock Hills area of southwest England, where Coleridge and Wo rdsworth wrote Lyrical Ballads, which Nichols writes about the la ndscape as well as some of the other "Quantock Poets," including Charles Lamb, Thomas Lovell Beddoes and Charles Lloyd. Gift inscr iption on FFEP “with the writer’s compliments” to Welsh mat hematician, photographer, and painter Rev. Calvert R. Jones, [180 4-1877]. We believe Jones may have provided the frontispiece phot o -- it is uncredited -- which would make this an especially appe aling association copy. A mathematician, musician, painter and pa rson, Calvert Richard Jones was… Read More

92 photos of Life in camp, behind the lines; touring the fronts [ Western & Eastern] No battle scenes. A additional 30-40 photos i n the latter half of the album are personal photos long after the war into 1990 and of little to no value. .