Search Results: Authors starting with C from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

Paris: Armand Colin, 1985. Softcover. Good +. [207p.] Cover edges scraped with worn corners and sunned spine, some pages dog eared with pencil underlining. Postcards of French urban and rural life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Text in French. B&w photographs. (9-7/8"x8-5/8")

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1921. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. [xvi], 261p. 2nd printing (1923) Name on front endpaper, a bit of pencil marginalia, cover corners lightly worn and spine sunned. Originally published by Harper & Brothers, 1905. (7-7/8"x5-1/4")

Atlanta, Georgia: Del-Mar Cabinet Co., [1954?]. Leaflet. Good. Tear on one fold, spots on front, ink stamp from distributor on back. Leaflet for standardized hard wood kitchen units with scale drawings for base, hanging, utility, and sink cabinets; perma-seal sink tops; and sink fronts. Color illustrations. Single sheet, double-sided; 4 panels. (11"x8-1/2", folded; 17"x22", unfolded)

New York: Saint Anthony's Welfare Center, 1944. Stapled wraps. Good. [v], [36p.] Wraps creased with edges lightly worn and corners creased and foxing, top corner torn on last 2 leaves. Pamphlet. B&w photographs. (5-1/2"x3-1/2")

San Antonio, Texas: Naylor Co., 1968. (1st Edition). Cloth. Good/good. viii, 52p. Signed by author on front endpaper. Author's address label on back pastedown, top front corners bumped and worn, jacket has a large chip at top front flap corner and smaller chips and tears to edges. Jacket design by Jim Tidmore. (7-7/8"x5-1/2")

San Francisco: Fearon Publishers, 1961. Softcover. Good +. [viii], 166p. Signed by author on title page. Last few pages foxed, address labels on title page, spine and front cover sunned. B&w photographs. (9"x5-7/8")

Garden City, New York: Crime Club, Doubleday & Co., 1963. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Good +/good. 183p. Pages 70 & 71 and name on front endpaper, cover spotted with corners worn, jacket edges chipped with 1" creased tear on bottom front near spine fold and inside of jacket stained. Jacket design by Arthur Shilstone. [Hubin; p.61] (8-1/2"x5-3/4")

Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1993. Soft Cover. Good +. [98p.] Cover lightly soiled and edges scraped. Includes articles on: Abel Stearns, Hotel del Coronado, and Gilmor Brown and the Pasadena Playhouse. Includes bibliographical notes. B&w photographs. (9"x6")

Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1997. Soft Cover. Very Good. 138p. Top front corner of cover has white spots. Includes articles on: Winfield Hancock; John Wesley Powell and the Colorado Plateau; Pearl Chase and progressive politics and female activism in Santa Barbara, California, 1911-1918; and Upton Sinclair's 1934 California gubernatorial campaign. Includes bibliographical notes. B&w photographs. (9"x6")

Berkeley: Philadelphia Quartz Company of California, 1929. Wraps. Good +. [4p.] Two horizontal creases, small tear on one crease and a few spots. Includes index to Silicate P's & Q's, vol. IX and abridged list of technical publications of the Philadelphia Quartz Company. Newsletter. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1992. Soft Cover. Very Good. [105p.] Cover edges scraped. Includes articles on: the Mormon Battalion; El Cajon, California raisin industry; and March Field in Riverside County. Includes bibliographical notes and index to issues in vol. LXXIV. B&w illustrations and photographs. (9"x6")

[Rosemead, California]: Southern California Edison, [1963?]. Stapled wraps. Very good. [30p.] Wraps rubbed with edges scraped with top corner scraped and creased tear to top front edge, smudge on front. Booklet designed for customers of Southern California Edison to explain the processes involved in the steam generation of electricity. Information provided about the location, electricity generation capacity, and physical plant for each of the eight steam-generating plants - Mandalay, El Segundo, Redondo, Long Beach, Huntington Beach, Alamitos, Etiwanda, and a small atomic experimental plant, Santa Susana. The manufacture of steam-generated electricity is explained and illustrated with photographs of the facilities. In addition, the SCE's Big Creek-San Joaquin River Hydroelectric Development, the hydroelectric generating plant in northern California, is briefly covered. B&w illustrations and photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1996. Soft Cover. Very Good. [73p.] Cover lightly creased. Includes articles on: Edward Hanna, 1907-1915; Babe Didrikson and Lillian Copeland at the women's discus during the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles; protection of the California coastline, 1969-1982. Includes bibliographical notes. B&w photographs. (9"x6")

Sacramento, California: California. The Resources Agency, Department of Parks & Recreation Division of Beaches & Parks, [1959?]. Leaflet. Very good. Leaflet containing information about the natural features and flora of the park located in the volcanic region of Shasta County, California. Single sheet, double-sided, folded into 3 panels. B&w map. (Folded - 8-1/2"x4-3/8"; unfolded - 8-1/2"x13")

Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1995. Soft Cover. Good +. [94p.] Cover lightly soiled and front slightly creased, brown spots on page edges. Includes articles on: St. Bernardine's Parish of San Bernardino, California; Pilsbury "Chips" Hodgkins, Wells Fargo Southern California messenger; General Winfield S. Hancock; 1910 Los Angeles Airshow; and progressive reform in Los Angeles. Includes bibliographical notes and index to issues in vol. LXXVII. B&w illustrations and photographs. (9"x6")

Los Angeles: Printed by Printing Department, Frank Wiggins Trade School, 1934. Wraps with stab stapled text block. Fair. 217p, 7 blank pages. Page and wraps corners very worn, ink scribbles on last blank page and some pages stained, wraps chipped. Collection of recipes submitted by parents and teachers of the Los Angeles City School District's Parents and Teachers Association, which was founded in 1900 and officially became the Tenth District in 1920. Includes recipes for appetizers, soups, entrees (including "foreign dishes"), vegetables, breads, salads, desserts, pies, cakes, cookies, preserves and relishes, beverages, and candies as well as a section on household hints. B&w illustration and photograph. (9-1/8"x6-1/8")

Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1991. Soft Cover. Very Good. [111p.] Cover lightly soiled with bottom of spine torn and edges scraped. Includes articles on: Francisco Xavier Sepulveda, Francisco Sepulveda, José Antonio Andrés Sepulveda, Linda Vista area of Pasadena, and painter Carl Hoerman. Includes bibliographical notes. B&w illustrations and photographs. (9"x6")

La Jolla, California: Social Service League of La Jolla (California), [1949]. Softcover. Good. 196p. Stains on cover, large brown stain on inside cover and first few pages. Plastic comb binding. Scarce. (8-1/2"x6")

Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1971. Softcover. Good +. Approx. 107p. Withdrawn from historical society with minimal property markings, some pages dog eared, cover corners worn, spots on back cover. Includes articles on: nineteenth-century futurists; Collis P. Huntington and Peter Studebaker; Arizona date growing industry; and Dr. Fifield and Los Angeles' First Congregational Church against the ecumenical movement. 1 leaf of b&w photo plates. (9-1/4"x6")

Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1994. Soft Cover. Good +. [104p.] Cover lightly soiled and edges slightly creased. Includes articles on: Joseph S. O'Flaherty, Thomas ap Catesby Jones, Southern California railroad strike of 1894, California dairies through 1910, and the Superior Court in San Luis Obispo County, 1880-1910. Includes bibliographical notes. B&w photographs. (9"x6")