Urban History
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Blame Metro ... when urban renewal strikes! When laws oppress
by Hindman, Jo
Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1966. 175p., very good in wraps.
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$15.00
The economic absorption of Navaho Indian migrants in Denver, Colorado
by Weppner, Robert S
n.p.: Navaho Urban Relocation Research, 1965. 86, [5] 5 leaves; 8.5x11 inches, name penned in upper right corner of front cover, otherwise very good. Research Report no. 8.
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$35.00
Estatutos de la Camara Mutua de la Propiedad. Officialmente constituida Camara de la Propiedad Urbana. Diciembre del ano 1909. Asociacion de Propietarios de Caracter Permanente Fundada para el fomento y defensa de los intereses de la propiedad urbana
Barcelona: Domicilio Social; Escudillers, nums. 5, 7 y 9, 1909. 40p., sewn quarto, 12x8 inches, laid into a fancy folder printed in red ink dated 10 Octubre 1907 ("Ejemplar num. 720"). Find numerous b&w illustrations of Barcelona over the past several centuries. The fastening thread is in very good order, and generally a good copy: some crimping and handling, paperstock mildly toned, folder a bit edgeworn, a good to very good "ejemplar.
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$20.00
The museum journal volume III no. 3, September 1912. Public school number
by University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia: the university, 1912. 35-58p., coated paperstock, anthropological photos (some altered for clarity) and photos of museum visitors, staplebound 10x7 inch self-wraps with photodecoration. Find extended note of museum accommodation of Philadelphia schoolchildren, report from the Cretan expedition. In this pre-war era, literateur and medico S. Weir Mitchell was one of the vice presidents.
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$15.00
Oradour-sur-Glane. Souviens-toi. Remember
by Valliere, Claude, text; Andre Gamet (Lyon) [and] A. Naulleau (Limoges), photos
Lyon: printed by Helio-Bellecour for author and photographers, 1944. [20]p., staplebound 12.5x9 inch self-wraps, profuse captioned war photography in tinted rotogravure, with substantial text; cover with spot-color flame and blood. Pages lightly toned, general light crimping from handling and perusal, lower corner has a shallow bump resulting in folded dog-ears. No other damage, a good copy.
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$20.00
Crack, Powder Cocaine, and Heroin: drug purchase and use patterns in six U.S. cities a report on research conducted under joint auspices of the National Institute of Justice and the Office of National Drug Control Policy
by Riley, K. Jack
Washington DC: National Institute of Justice and the Office of National Drug Control Policy, 1997. Paperback. vii, 39p., 8.5x11 inches, summary, methodology, profile of users, conclusions and implications, notes, appendixtables and figures, very good report booklet in stapled blue wraps with black cloth tape spine. Cities examined are Chicago, Manhattan, Portland OR, San Antonio, San Diego, DC.
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$15.00
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North America. Volume I. Volume II. [2 vols bound]
by Trollope, Anthony
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1863. Hardcover. iv, 335, iv, 334p., two installments as a singleton, hardbound in 7.5x4.7 inch diced brown cloth boards pressed in blind, spine-titled gilt. A shaky copy; external titling now illegible; extremities are worn and nicked with short splits to joints (hinges remain sound pace a short crack in front hinge), find eighth-inch losses around rims of head and tail, textblock is cracked in several places near the division of parts, one crack held by cords only with...
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$30.00
![Discover your past: the San Francisco Community History Project [brochure/program]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/877/679/863679877.0.b.1.jpg)
Discover your past: the San Francisco Community History Project [brochure/program]
by Kazin, Michael & Richard Sammons
San Francisco: San Francisco Community History Project, 1983. 16p., 5.5x8.5 inches, program for the exhibit including event schedule and contributors/supporters, very good booklet/pamphlet in stapled tan pictorial wraps.
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$15.00
Collection of Papers Which have been published relative to the Electioneering Interests in the City of Chester. Interspersed with Occasional Remarks, and Explanatory Notes
Chester: Printed by J. Hemingway, 1807. Pamphlet. iv, [9]-60p., disbound pamphlet in 8x5 inch wraps; humorous vitriol in prose ending with several pages of satirical lyrics (one to be sung to a Beggars' Opera tune). The textblock is well-adhered through p.56, with a split-away leaf present in the same condition as the main body. Title page has deep marginal browning, a few minute chips at the corners, scattered verso foxing, and the terminal leaf is somewhat dusty. A good copy. Two comments on...
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$45.00
Documentos urbanos: #1, Julio 1993
Hermosillo: Editorial La Diligencia, 1993. Magazine. 36p., 5.25x8.25 inches, text in Spanish, very good booklet in stapled white pictorial wraps. A small collection of documents from 1876 - 1971. First in a proposed series sponsored by Hotel Kino in Hermosillo.
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$15.00
![The Land Called Pacifica [signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/160/539/711539160.0.b.jpg)
The Land Called Pacifica [signed]
by Savage, Dema, Pacifica City Historian
Pacifica: Friends of the Sanchez Adobe, 1983. Pamphlet. 16p., 6x8 inches, inscribed and signed by Savage to a fellow historian, illustrated from period photography and three line map very good booklet in stapled tan pictorial wraps. Sanchez Adobe Historic Site, historical paper no. 1.
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$15.00
San Francisco her great manufacturing, commercial and financial institutions are famed the world over; the distributing point for both hemispheres; the ideal location for the assembling of conventions. Illustrated
San Francisco: The Pacific Art Company, 1905. 182p., plentiful b&w vignette photoportraits of middle-aged and elder city fathers, and halfpage images of downtown buildings, first edition 11x8 inch red cloth boards titled black. A damp-damaged copy, with water-spotting and sizing-loss to front cover, all edges show minute frayed spots, textblock prelimns are mildly rippled with offset color round the margins from the cloth. Endsheets the most affected, but nothing really repulsive. A handleable, useable...
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$18.00
Reclaim the streets: a festival of resistance!
New York: Reclaim the Streets, 1999. 12p., tabloid format brochure on newsprint, mildly toned, mild edgewear else very good condition. Brochure for a "world-wide anti-commercial street-party phenomenon," specifically its NYC direct-action incarnation.
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$15.00
Integrating Cities and Regions North America Faces Gobalization
by Wilkie, James W., and Clint Smith (editors)
Guadalajara: Universidfad de Guadalajara | UCLA Program on Mexico | Centro Internacional Lucas Alamán para el crecimiento económico, A.C., 1998. Trade Paperback. 566p. One of 1,000 copies. Inscribed and signed by Clint Smith on the title page. Very good. "This book provides a model and focus that will help readers who attempt to foresee the fuiture of cities and regions as they relate to national and global challenges.
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$25.00
A Walk to the Isle A self-guided scenic walk to one of the area's most memorable traffic islands..
Los Angeles: n.pub, 1990. Single 8.5x11 inch leaf of speckled alkaline paperstock folded twice to make a 8.5x4 inch brochure of six panels printed in dark maroon. Faint pressure marks, a very good copy. This "tour guide" is for attendees of the L.A. Municipal Gallery, corner of Vermont and Hollywood. View graffiti "nestled among the ventilation ducts and air conditioning units" just outside; proceed to the "Displaced Manhole," the "MTA Construction site and sinkhole, the "Random Object Receptacle...
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$20.00
Off the Map
by Philippou, Nicos
Nicosia: Intercollege Press, 2005. Trade Paperback. 109p., profuse captioned color photography 5.75 inches tall by 7 inches wide. Images of persons generally face personal statements in Greek and English. Very good copy, barest hint of wear to edges of wraps. Introduction by David Officer in both English and Greek. "... Photographs of people and places in Old Nicosia brilliantly portray the sense of living 'on the outside' that many in the community express." Middle-and working-class interiors with...
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$25.00
The Mexican "Amparo" as a Supplemental Remedy for the Redress of Citizen Grievances in California
by Hamilton, Randy H. executive director; with Manuel Ruiz, background material
Berkeley: Institute for Local Self Government, 1967. Pamphlet. Unpaginated preliminaries, x, 32p., text reproduced from typescript; softbound pamphlet in 11x8.5 inch plain printed wraps. Item is somewhat edgeworn with faint silverfishing and ownership ink to front cover, staining and sunning to back; a 3-inch split has developed at the tail. A fair to good copy. The 'amparo' is a simple grievance mechanism, practiced in Mexico, that grants due process, does not vacate any laws, and that could be easily...
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$20.00
Guerra de minas en España (1936-1939). Contribución al estudio de esta modalidad de nuestra guerra de liberación
by Spain. Servicio Histórico Militar
Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1948. Paperback. 134p., wraps with clerical edges somewhat worn and toned, has a ragged three inch closed tear along the wrap, in all other respects very good condition, 7.5x10.5 inches, illus., nine folded color maps in rear pocket as called for.
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$50.00
Your city at work: Los Angeles year book 1940
by Peterson, Frank, Ordean Rockey & Thomas R. Murchison et al
Los Angeles: Mayor's Office, City of Los Angeles, 1940. Paperback. 88p., 9x12 inches, illustrated with charts, tables, figures, photos, maps, very good oversized trade paper first edition report in pictorial wraps. A report on the City Government operating during 1940.
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$20.00
Capitolio Nacional, Habana - Cuba
Habana: Imprenta "Ninon" for the Cuban government, 1930. [24]p., twelve b&w photos facing short verso captions, reproduced with barely-adequate clarity on twelve leaves of alkaline coated paperstock; softbound in 6x9.5 inch oblong printed wraps punchholed and tied with a decorative green & white cord. Covers are cheap material just a step up from construction paper, are quite toned and are edgeworn with longish splits to top and tail of the spinefold. A small bump affects all photographic corner-tips....
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$25.00
Noise and your job
by Urban Planning Aid. Industrial Health and Safety Project
Cambridge, MA: Urban Planning Aid, 1971. Pamphlet. 8p., 5.5x8.5 inches, very good in stapled wraps.
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$15.00
Sightseeing in Havana, with R. de Bustamante, your service inc., Excursion proprietor and operator
by Bustamante, R. de, proprietor and operator
Havana: the proprietor, 1930. Single small leaf folded once to make a 4p. handout of about 6x3.5 inches. Front and back printblocks are identical, the doublefold within describes the three-hour tour and is composed as a single printblock. Presswork on light blue paper, illustrated with a line drawing of the vehicle at Bustamante's disposal. A little handled and thumb-soiled, a good copy.
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$15.00
Imagineering Atlanta; the politics of place in the city of dreams
by Rutheiser, Charles
London: Verso, 1996. Paperback. 324p., wraps; frontis. map, maps, very good condition.
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$12.00
Beijing Street Voices; The Poetry and Politics of China's Democracy Movement
by Goodman, David S.G
London / Boston: Marion Boyars, 1981. xv, 202p., appended texts in characters, scattered b&w photos and facsimiles. A paperbound in 8.5x5 inch glossy black wraps. A little edgeworn with a nick in the spine panel, clean and sound within. A good copy.
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$12.00
The romance of democracy; compliant defiance in contemporary Mexico
by Gutmann, Matthew C
Berkeley: University of California Press, 20002. xxx, 289p., snapshot and newspaper photographs in the text, first edition red openweave cloth boards gilt; a very good copy.
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$12.00
