Search Results: Titles starting with P from Kate Mitas, Bookseller

8 x 34 inches. B&w photograph, with photographer's name in the plate in the lower right corner. Rolled, with a slight crease to the left edge and a small corner crease to the right edge; light soiling to verso.
A large panoramic photograph of an unnamed chicken farm, probably in Petaluma or Penngrove, California, given Hanasono Studio's San Francisco location. Although there is nothing in the photo itself to indicate the farm was owned by Japanese Americans, it is possible, as Hanasono Studio was owned and operated by Japanese Americans George and Mabel Hanasono. George was heavily involved in the Bay Area Japanese American community, and was one of the partners in the restaurant Nisei Grill, on Post Street in San Francisco.
We find no records of this photograph in OCLC, and locate only a handful of any photographs by Hanasono Studio in online records, all related to the Japanese American community.

8-1/4 x 11 inches. 60pp, recto only. Burgundy cloth photo album with gilt title and ornament stamped to spine, brown paper leaves reinforced with cloth at the gutter. 55 b&w photographs + 6 cyanotypes, 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches each; holograph text in verse, in Spanish. All but two photos are pasted in one per page; two additional photographs are laid in, one a duplicate possibly removed from another album, and one on a loose leaf of black construction paper and seemingly unrelated to the text. Light wear to spine ends and corners; front hinge gently split; light dampstaining to edge of front endpaper; text of one page smeared from contact with moisture, although there is no damp-staining and the text is still readable.
An original proto-fotonovella, relating in dramatic fashion the tale of four young couples who fall in love despite opposition from their guardians -- who, it turns out, are themselves a pair of star-crossed lovers who fell in love during an unnamed 19th-century war in the United States… Read More

Chemnitz, Germany: Galerie Weise, (1998). Fine. 8-1/4" x 5-7/8". 47, [1] pp. Tan and black wrappers printed in black and red, color illustrations. Hint of wear, else fine.

San Francisco: Christofferson Aircraft Mfg. Co., (n. d.), circa 1912. Very Good. 16 x 10.5 cm. Handbill, printed recto only. White stock printed in black. Long pencil notation to verso, presumably detailing a streetcar trip in San Francisco ("Up Market, down Van Ness -- [Outer?] zone -- down Zone. avenue to aviation field -- around field -- many pictures. Art stood all way"). Slight crease near one corner, else remarkably well-preserved. A rare promotional piece for Silas Christofferson and the Christofferson Aircraft Manufacturing Co., advertising aviation as "a safe and sane sport". Free exhibitions were offered daily "at the beach," presumably near the Christofferson hangar on Ocean Drive at Sloat Boulevard. Silas Christofferson was, with his brother Harry, one of the "early birds of aviation," and became known for such feats as flying in 1912 from the top of the Multnomah Building in Portland, Oregon, to the Vancouver barracks eight miles away. That year, both he and the Christofferson Aircraft… Read More

(n. p.): [L. Kenneth Haynes], (2009). Near Fine. 9" x 6". [14], 42, [6] pp. Black, white and blue photographically illustrated wrappers. Minor wear to extremities, else fine. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page.

Berkeley: De Novo Press, (1983). Good+. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. Unpaginated, but approx. 100pp. Black wrappers printed in white. B&w illustrations of people who've placed personal ads paired with the text of their ad, often with additional, later commentary by the subject. Wrappers lightly worn, with creasing to joints and slight crease to front corner.

San Francisco: Camerawork Press, (1976). Very Good+. 12 x 9-1/8 inches. [2],86pp + laid-in errata slip. White wrappers printed in black. B&w illustrations from photographs throughout. Light toning and minor soiling/wear to wrappers, else fine. An outgrowth of an exhibition held simultaneously at Camerawork Gallery and La Mamelle's Art Center in San Francisco in 1976. "Once linguistic structuring is integrated iwth photographic procedures genres are subjected to reinterpretation and expansion. Unexpected formats emerge enabling artists to handle content that no longer can be contained within a pictorial tradition" (from the Introduction).

Chicago: Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, 1911. Very Good. 11" x 8-1/2". Circular, printed recto only. White stock printed in black, b&w illustration. Three holes punched to upper portion of leaf, slightly affecting text; old folds. Wanted circular for Edward J. Tierney, who, according to a contemporary newspaper account, "is the 'classiest' looking of all the criminals that the police have been asked to look out for" (Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer, Feb. 23, 1911). Wearing a dress coat in the photo provided for the circular, Tierney worked as a traffic clerk for the Western Electric Company in Dallas before disappearing in November, 1910. The reader is warned that he "might be found in the Shipping or Traffic Department of some electrical concern or railway office, and he may also endeavor to obtain a position as a chauffeur or at some Vaudeville House or Moving Picture Show as he is a competent chauffer and a good singer as well." Oddly, the 28-year-old Tierney is never implicated in… Read More

[Folsom, CA]: [Folsom Telegraph Print], (1940). Near Fine. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Unpaginated, approx. 40 pp. Brown-coated cloth stamped in gilt. Cloth overlay slightly worn/chipped at joints; binder's ticket to rear paste-down. Binding very tight. Edited and hand bound by the author, who has signed this copy on the title page.

San Francisco: Kayak: A Magazine of Modern Poetry, (1989). Good. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". 82, [6] pp. Tan wrappers printed in brown. Light wear; tape residue to dedication page; gutter break at p. 44. Inscribed by the author on the title page.

7 x 11-3/4 inches. 28 leaves containing 52 b&w photographs and three blue photographs, as well as 17pp of holograph poetry, written in white on the black leaves, and two hand-painted color illustrations. Black hardcover post-bound album stamped in gilt. A few photos starting to come loose, else fine. Very Good or better.
An exquisite photograph album about the travels through Kashmir of one man and two women -- all white, possibly British, inscribed only to "Auntie Gillmore" -- filled with vernacular photographs of the countryside and local people. Nearly all of the photographs are captioned, and the three blue photos appear to be made after the method devised by Frank A. Perrett to photograph volcanoes in the early 1900s, rather than being cyanotypes.
The trio's journey is narrated in rhymed poetry written by the man of the group, as revealed on the last page: "The author of the photographs, / And also of the paragraphs, / Is standing on the Kamri Pass, / Complete with alpenstock and glass. / He… Read More

Paris: Éditions du Seuil, [1967]. Third edition. Very Good/Good. 7-3/4" x 5-5/8". 253, [3] pp. Red cloth stamped in white with blind-stamped border, in clear plastic dust wrapper. Light fading to spine; dust wrapper torn near spine head and missing chip to rear panel; gift inscription to half-title page.

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, (1941). Very Good. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". 30, [2] pp. Light toning and wear to wrappers; small sticker shadow to front wrapper; ownership stamp to title page; leaves age-toned. No. 3 in "The Black International" series.

[San Francisco?]: Associated Press / Call Bulletin, 1952. Very Good. Three b&w photos, varying slightly in size but on average 7" x 9-1/2". Caption printed in the plate of two photographs and affixed to the verso of the third one. Creasing to corner of one photo; stamps to versos. Three press photos showing the history-making televised hospital room birth of Gordon Campbell Kerr, who was born by Caesarean section on December 2, 1952 to a young Denver couple. The birth was carried on 49 television stations and watched by millions.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1922. First edition. About Very Good. Two volume set. 9-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. xxxii,276pp; xix,[1],308pp. Black cloth stamped in gilt to spines. Paper of both front hinges starting to split, mull intact; edgewear, with minor loss and short tears to spine ends; Vol. I spine dulled; short marginal tear to one leaf in Vol. II. SIGNED by Updike on the front endpaper, with a short notation in his hand reading, "There is more truth to be derived from error than from confusion"; dated June 3, 1924. As per the bookseller slip laid into Volume I, "Updike's own copy ... [p]urchased from Goodspeed's sale of Updike's Library", although we have not been able to independently verify this provenance.