HISTORY OF COLUSA AND GLENN COUNTIES (California) with BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES of the LEADING MEN and WOMEN of the COUNTIES who have been identified with their growth and development from the early days to the present. Histories written by Charles Davis McComish and Mrs. Rebecca T. Lambert. Complete in One Volume, as stated on the title page.

Published by HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY, Los Angeles, California, 1918. FIRST EDITION.

ASSOCIATION COPY: This copy has an original 1917 SALES RECEIPT paper clipped onto a front blank prelim page. It was apparently ordered from a prospectus prior to the book's publication. The copy was ordered by JONAS LUNDEEN. Jonas Lundeen's biography is included in the book on page 943. His signature is at the top of a blank prelim and on the rear pastedown, in addition to being on the order slip. Johas Lundeen lived in Glenn County, California.

The book has two main sections, a HISTORY section which provides a lengthy history of both Colusa County and Glenn County, and a BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES section that provides biographies of the "Leading Men and Women of the Counties". It is well known that the Biographical Sketches section contains biographies and portraits of "Leading Men and Women" who PAID to have their biographies included. That is how the publisher covered its costs and made profits. It also made profits by selling copies to those whose biographies are in the book, e.g. Jonas Lundeen. Though a VANITY publication, this early look at Colusa and Glenn Counties has become an important historical and genealogical record of the time.

ILLUSTRATED throughout with b&w PLATES, primarily portraits of "Prominent Citizens" in the Biographical Sketches section, but also including a some photos in the History section.

Original Hardcovers, black cloth covered boards with leather corners, 8x10.5 inches, 1074 pages.

Condition - Needs Rebinding The REAR COVER IS DISBOUND but present, the front cover is holding on only by the binding cords, the SPINE COVERING IS COMPLETELY LACKING, the front marbled endpapers are present but the rear endpapers are lacking, the TEXT BLOCK IS VERY SHAKY and many signatures are only holding on by a string or two, the latter signatures are basically loose because they will come loose with the slightest tug, some tissue guards are present many are not. Nonetheless, the PAGES ARE COMPLETE, show just a smudge, crease, or bit of wear here and there, and are still bright, clean and clear.

RARE ORIGINAL 1918 FIRST EDITION that NEEDS and is a perfect copy for REBINDING. (Beware the numerous Print On Demand sellers whose "books" are sometimes described in ways that make them seem original. Read listings carefully and fully.)

INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This book is heavy and will require substantial additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

Photo Album of CHADBOURNE T. WHITMORE, a TEACHER and a PRINCIPAL in HAYWARD, GRANDVIEW, and WAUSAU, WISCONSIN. He taught both Grade School, Jr. High School, and High School.

Photo album containing 63 b&w photos. Hardcovers, 6x11 inches, 32 pages have photos mounted on them. All the leaves in the rear are blank. (Approximately 1/4 of the leaves have photos and 3/4 are blank.)

The photos are of various sizes, most 2.5x3.5 and 3.5x5 inches, with some larger. The photos are glued onto the album pages.

The first 37 photos are of family and friends, mostly outdoors, and include 2 photo postcards, one of an "Airplane View of Hayward, Wis" and one of "High School Hayward Wis". These photos do not have names or dates. The next 26 photos are photos of classes, teachers, student groups, and student activities. Only a couple of these photos are captioned with names or dates, they are of a High School Glee Club show that took place in 1934. C. Whitmore is named as a "coach".

Laid in are four letters from Chadbourne T. Whitmore to various Wisconsin school districts where he taught and/or served as Principal. The letters are from 1975 and are seeking official verification for the years he taught at the various Wisconsin school districts in the 1930s and early 1940s. He needed verification of the years he taught in Wisconsin in order to receive credit in his state's retirement system. The letters themselves are somewhat interesting as they are full of names of fellow teachers, principals, people he lived with while teaching, etc. A bit of Wisconsin genealogy.

This photo album seems to be from the period mentioned in the letters, 1930s and early 1940s. This album was perhaps presented as proof of his life in Wisconsin and of the places where he taught and the students whom he taught.

GOOD condition: The covers have wear to the corners and spine ends but are sturdy and doing their job well; the inner album pages have toned, a few of the photos have faded otherwise the photographs are bright, clear and sharp.

THE BEGGAR by GORDON STEEDMAN & PHILIP SANDFORD BOONE. The Fifty-first Grove Play of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco as performed by its members in the Bohemian Grove, Sonoma County, California, on the twenty-eight night of July, 1956.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by GORDON STEEDMAN on a blank prelim: "For Neil Stewart / The best of all clients who became so much more: a truly great friend / Gordon". There is a small bookplate label of Esther & Neil Stewart on the front pastedown.

Published by the Bohemian Club, San Francisco, 1956. Printed by the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco.

Hardcovers, cloth covered spine and illustrated paper covered boards, title printed on spine, 6x9 inches, 82 pages.

GOOD condition, the covers have some wear to the spine ends and corner tips, and are sunned at the spine; there is a small ownership label as noted above; otherwise just lightly used and still tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

A nice SIGNED copy of an interesting Bohemian Club Grove Play.

XXe SIÈCLE, Nouvelle Série Nos. 14 and 15, 1960. Published in Paris, France.

Issue No. 14 is the FRENCH edition, text in French. Issue No. 15 is the English edition, text in English.

TWO ISSUES of 1960 bound together in Library Hardcovers, red cloth covered boards, gilt titling on the spine, 9x12 inches. Issue No. 14 is bound in with its front cover, an ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH by EMILE GILIOLI. Issue No. 15 is LACKING its FRONT COVER.

THREE of FOUR called for ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS ARE PRESENT. (In addition the front cover of Issue No. 14 is a Lithograph by Emile GILIOLI). Issue No. 14 includes the following Original Lithos: a FRONT COVER LITHOGRAPH by EMILE GILIOLI and Lithographs by ALECHINSKY and FIEDLER. It also contains two "Dessins En Facsimile" by Dubuffet that look and feel like lithographs. It is lacking the lithograph by Chagall. Issue No. 15 includes a Lithograph by MIRO. It is lacking its front cover. Both issues are also full of many beautifully printed color illustrations and numerous b&w illustrations. Each issue has approximately 130 pages.

Issue No. 15 has a section titled "The Revolution of Color" that includes great full color reproductions of artworks by Derain, Matisse, Degas, Leger, Chagall, Braque, Ernst, Miro, Rothko, and others.

CONDITION: EX-LIBRARY (deaccessioned from the Lambeth Public Library, near London, England), bound in library hardcovers, gilt shelving number on spine, library bookplate on the inside front cover of Issue No. 14, library stamps on all title pages, and library stamps here and there throughout. PLEASE NOTE that there is a red "Lambeth Public Libraries" stamped discreetly at the bottom of the bound in original lithographs by Alechinsky and Miro (the stamp on the Miro litho is almost entirely obscured by the bottom black border),and on one of the two Dubuffet "facsimiles". The front cover original lithograph by Emile Gilioli does NOT have a stamp but does have a long diagonal crease (not visible but tangible). There is also a library stamp just below or just above almost all of the beautiful color illustrations, presumably to keep them from being taken from the book (and it seemed to have worked!). The front cover to Issue No. 15 and the Chagall Litho in Issue No. 14 are lacking, as noted above. Nonetheless, the issues are well preserved, well bound, clean, with original lithographs, facsimiles, and rich color illustrations that are gorgeous.

INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This book is heavy and will require substantial additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

SCRAPBOOK of LAURENCE L. BELANGER of Santa Ana, California, who went to BOZEMAN MONTANA for the SUMMER OF 1950 to Teach a Summer Course at MONTANA STATE COLLEGE. He brought his family along for the long road trip that included National Parks and lots of fishing.

Includes a 1950 Montana State College Bulletin for the Summer Session 1950 mounted on the inside front cover, a telegram offering Belanger the job in Bozeman pasted on the next page, lots of photos, postcards and ephemera. There are copious handwritten descriptions, notes, and diary type entries. The trip included Bozeman, Yellowstone, fishing spots, etc.

Stiff scrapbook covers, string bound, 9x11.5 inches, 38 pages (19 leaves). 50 photos most 3.25x4.5 inches, some 3.25x5.5 inches. Postcards, brochures, route map.

What makes this scrapbook most interesting are the handwritten annotations to everything mounted within.

A fun look at a road trip in the West in 1950.

Condition: The first scrapbook leaf is loose, otherwise everything is in VERY GOOD solid condition.

INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This scrapbook will require additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

BAKTERIOLOGIE FUR DIE MOLKEREISCHULE (BACTERIOLOGY for DAIRY SCHOOLS), by Professor Dr. W. Henneberg (Wilhelm Hermann Henneberg), of Kiel, Germany.

PRESENTATION COPY from the AUTHOR to FRAULEIN TAMM. Inscribed at the top of the front cover: "Fräulein Tamm / Überreicht vom Verfasser" (Miss Tamm / Presented by the Author).

Interestingly, Fraulein Tamm (Herta Irene Tamm) studied dairy bacteriology under Dr. Henneberg in Kiel, then later emigrated to Los Angeles where her first job was as a bacteriologist at a local dairy. There is a nice obituary on Herta Irene Mock (née Tamm) on the SF Gate website.

Published by Molkerei-Zeitung, Hildeshiem. TEXT IN GERMAN.

Booklet, paper covers, side stapled, 6x8.5 inches (14x27 cm), 56 pages. Laid in are two pamphlets on cultures and bacteriology of Yoghurt and Kefir. One is 2 pages, the other 4 pages.

VERY GOOD condition booklet, just lightly used and still tight, bright, clean and clear. The two laid in pamphlets have been folded, are toned, and both have a bit of handwriting at the top in German which I cannot translate.

About Wilhelm Hermann Henneberg (from Wikipedia, roughly translated from the German by Google):

******Wilhelm Hermann Henneberg, b.1871 d.1936,

was a German bacteriologist and first director of the Bacteriological Institute at the Prussian Experimental and Research Institute of Dairy.

From 1897 he was employed in the vinegar department at the Institute of Fermentation in Berlin. From 1906 he headed the bacteriological department of the technical scientific laboratory of the Institute of Fermentation. In 1922 he was appointed to Kiel to head the Bacteriological Institute of the Prussian Experimental and Research Institute of Dairy Farming. In the eleven years as a university professor in Kiel, he supervised more than 80 dissertations and wrote several textbooks on the bacteriology of milk. Henneberg initiated the founding of the Federation of Technical Bacteriologists .

For bacteriological diagnostics, Henneberg invented new methods of investigation, such as the Chinese blue water agar developed especially for dairy farming, the spring stick culture and the cover glass agar method.

In his last years he devoted himself to the study of the saprophyte flora of the intestine and the human intestinal flora, in particular their conversion by the consumption of dairy products such as yoghurt and acidophilus milk.******

JOHN LEWIS BEARD and HIS DESCENDANTS. Typed carbon copy. A privately produced family genealogy. Written in pencil at the top of the first page is "3rd Copy". Compiler / Writer is unstated though likely a Beard Family member. Undated, perhaps 1950s as this is a typed carbon copy.

Includes John Lewis Beard, Valentine Beard, Capt. Lewis Beard, Christine Beard, Margretta Burns Beard, Julia Margretta Beard, and many others.

52 typed pages (carbon copy) on onion skin paper, side stapled and bound in plain flexible card covers

The person who compiled / created this genealogy researched several books and pulled items from them that were related to John Lewis Beard and His Descendants. Some of the books used for this genealogy include: The History of Rowan County, North Carolina, by Jethro Rumple, 1881; History of Florida in Three Volumes, the Lewis Publishing Company, 1923; Sketches of Prominent North Carolinians, by Jerome Dowd, 1888; North and South Carolina Marriage Records, compiled by William Montgomery Clemens, 1927; and Colonial Records of North Carolina. In addition the genealogist used the "Book of Remembrance" held at St. Luke's Parish, Salisbury, North Carolina, which contained sections on Miss Christine Beard, Mrs. Margretta Burns Beard, and Miss Julia Margrett Beard. Also referenced are various wills, deeds, newspaper reports, etc.

GOOD condition, the covers have some creases, scrapes, and small stains; the inner pages are very nice, bright, clean and clear.

Rare Carbon Typescript GENEALOGY of JOHN LEWIS BEARD and HIS DESCENDANTS.

(1) KNIFE DEFENSE IN AIKIDO: 25 Powerful Tanto Dori Techniques Demonstrated by Jim Graves. Produced by Southland Aikido, 1995. VHS. Color. 54 minutes.

(2) AIKIDO: The POWER and the BASICS Volume 1, by YOSHIMITSU YAMADA, SHIHAN, 8TH DAN, with Donovan Waite, 5th Dan. Produced by Oscar Medina with the cooperation of the United States Aikido Federation. No production date stated. VHS. 1 hour 31 minutes.

(3) AIKIDO: The POWER and the BASICS Volume 2, by YOSHIMITSU YAMADA, SHIHAN, 8TH DAN, with Donovan Waite, 5th Dan. Produced by Gary Samuels with the cooperation of the United States Aikido Federation. No production date stated. VHS. 1 hour 25 minutes.

(4) THE PRINCIPLES OF AIKIDO with SHIHAN MITSUGI SAOTOME. Produced by Small Planet Productions in cooperation with Aikido Today Magazine. VHS. Color. 58 minutes.

(5) AIKIDO: SEATTLE EXPO '93. Produced by Aikido Today Magazine. "At the Expo, 15 Seattle area Aikido instructors offered demonstrations, which have been captured on this tape. Narrated by Susan Perry of Aikido Today Magazine, this top quality, Professionally produced tape reveals Aikido's diversity, its martial potential and its extraordinary beauty." VHS. Length of tape unstated, but looks like a long tape.

CONDITION: All five VHS tapes seem to be gently used and feel solid and correct, but I do not have a VHS machine so they have not been tested. Items may be returned within 30 days of receipt for any reason.

NO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING ON THESE VHS TAPES. THEY WILL NOT WORK ON INTERNATIONAL VIDEO TAPE MACHINES.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE : A Journal of the Proceedings of the Honorable House of Representatives for said State, at their Session begun and holden at Exeter, the first Wednesday of DECEMBER, 1799.

EXETER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1799.

A scarce New Hampshire printing from 1799. Includes all the resolutions and votes of the New Hampshire House of Representatives for the year 1799.

Includes the setting of the Governor's salary, the setting up of various Toll Road and Turnpike committees, and lots of votes on various governmental affairs, including taxes and other matters involving the State Treasury.

GEORGE WASHINGTON DIED JUST PRIOR TO THE PUBLICATION OF THESE PROCEEDINGS and there are resolutions relating to his death on pages 96 and 97.

A genealogical as well as historical document, as all the members of the House are named at various places where votes were recorded, and many matters brought before the New Hampshire legislature involved various residents who are named.

Original string binding, 12mo, 4.5x7.5 inches. Missing the front wrapper and half title page (i.e. first 4 pages) else complete. Pagination: [5]-106 pages plus a blank page (rear cover).

Only FAIR condition, wear to the edges, toning, shorelining especially to the latter pages, some light staining, the blank rear page has lots of creases and a ragged look but is holding on. Overall this original early American document from New Hampshire remains well bound with printing that is legible throughout.

ABHANDLUNG ÜBER DEN CROUP, Welche den am Vierten Juni 1807 von dem Vormaligen Kaiser Napoleon Ausgesetzten Preis Getheilt Hat. Von LUDWIG JURINE (By LOUIS JURINE).

Louis Jurine's scarce early work on croup. TEXT in GERMAN. Translated from the French by Dr. Philipp Heineken. Foreword by Dr. J. A. Albers.

Published by Georg. Joachim Göschen, Leipzig (Germany), 1816. First German Edition.

Hardcover Book, speckled boards with leather spine and corners, 4to, 8x10 inches (20x24.5 cm). Pagination: xii, 303, [1] pages, plus a fold open table.

GOOD Condition: Covers are cracking at the spine folds but holding well, wear to the cover corners, edges, and spine ends, and some rubbing to the boards. Internally, the top 1.25 inches of the front free endpaper has been neatly clipped off (perhaps removing a previous owner's signature), there is an early ownership stamp of "F. Mayor Dr. Ch." on the title page, offsetting to endpapers, first and last few leaves foxed with scattered light foxing throughout; overall the inner pages are tight, bright, clean and clear. A solid, nice, very presentable copy.

About LOUIS JURINE (from Wikipedia):

******Louis Jurine, b.1751 d.1819, was a Swiss physician, surgeon and naturalist. He lived in Geneva.

He studied surgery in Paris and quickly acquired a great reputation for his expertise in medicine and natural history. He taught courses in anatomy and surgery at the Société des Arts in Geneva and was made honorary professor of zoology at the Academy (today: University of Geneva). He also founded a maternity hospice in 1807 and was awarded prizes for his work on the gasses of the human body, artificial feeding of infants, and pectoral angina.

Upon learning of Spallanzani's experiments with bats, in which Spallanzani showed that bats do not rely on sight when navigating in darkness, Jurine conducted a series of experiments from which he concluded that bats use sound to navigate in darkness. Jurine's collections of Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera are in the Natural History Museum of Geneva.******

HISTORY OF HARTFORD COUNTY 163--1928 : Being a Study of the Makers of the First Constitution and the Story of Their Lives, Their Descendants, and of All Who Have Come, by Charles W. Burpee.

FOUR BOOK SET.

Published by Higginson Book Company, Chicago, 1999. A FACSIMILE REPRINT of the work originally published by S.J. Clarke Company in 1928.

FOUR BOOKS (3 Volumes in 4 Books), red cloth covered boards, gilt lettering on the spines, 8x11 inches. Pagination: Vol. I and Vol II (pages numbered consecutively): xxvi, 1383 pages; Vol. III Part I and Vol. III Part II (pages numbered consecutively): 1368 pages.

Volume I and Volume II contain the History of Hartford County. Volume III Parts I and II contain numerous biographies of the notable men (and some women) of Hartford County. (It is well known that most of the men in this work PAID to have their biographies and portraits included. It is how the publisher covered much of its costs. Though a vanity publication at the time, it is now considered an important genealogical and historic resource.)

ILLUSTRATED with historic b&w photos of Hartford County buildings and sights in Volumes I and II, and numerous b&w portraits accompanying biographical sketches in Volume III.

All 4 Books are in FINE condition, there are a couple pages with a few letters or numbers at their edges that appear to be part of the facsimile reprint; overall the volumes basically look and feel as new.

A hard to find four volume set of books on the history and genealogy of Hartford County, Connecticut. A solid, usable, attractively produced facsimile reprint.

INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: These four books are heavy and will require substantial additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

DE PRAESAGIENDA VITA & MORTE AEGROTANTIUM - LIBRI SEPTEM (this book has SEVEN SECTIONS, therefore the "Libri Septem" statement)... Cum Praefatione Hermanni Boerhaave. Editio nova...

By PROSPERI ALPINI (aka PROSPERO ALPINI, Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio, Prosperus Alpinus).

Published by ISAACI SEVERINI (Isaac Severini), Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden, Netherlands), M.DCC.X (1710).

The work is considered one of the greatest Renaissance Classics on MEDICAL PROGNOSIS and DIAGNOSTIC SCIENCES.

Hardcovers, calf leather covered boards, five raised spine bands, spine decorated in gilt, morocco spine title label, marbled endpapers, title page printed in red and black, 6x7.5 inches. Pagination: [16], 541, [23] pages.

GOOD CONDITION: Covers are worn at the spine ends and corner tips, show some rubbing and light scrapes, but remain solid and attractive. Internally, there is a small old bookseller's label at the bottom of the front pastedown "Librarie Ancienne / J. Mongenet / Geneve", old ink spots and a bit of old writing to the verso of the front free endpaper, a couple early ink stamps to the title page including one that states "Annulé", some old small handwritten notations to the title page including one at the bottom edge that reads "Donné par Mr. Aubert-Sarasin" (Donated by Mr. Aubert-Sarasin) (Aubert-Sarasin seems to have been someone of note), the pages are lightly toned and have a bit of foxing here and there but are overall tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, nice copy.

Prospero Alpini, b.1553 d.1617, was a noted Venetian physician and botanist. You can read about his life and works on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the Internet.

THE SAN FRANCISCO BLOCK BOOK: Comprising Fifty Vara Survey, One Hundred Vara Survey, Mission, Western Addition, Richmond District, Sunset District, Flint Tract and Horner's Addition.

Showing SIZE OF LOTS AND BLOCKS and NAMES OF OWNERS, compiled from Latest Official Records. OCTOBER, 1901.

Published by The Hicks-Judd Company, Publishers, San Francisco, California, October, 1901.

From the introductory "To Subscribers" page: "It is with pardonable price that the publishers issue this, the second edition of the San Francisco Block Book. The first edition is long since exhausted...The present publication contains nearly twice the amount of data as appeared in the first edition, and all the maps, over 700, have been enlarged to double the size...The former edition comprised the Fifty Vara and One Hundred Vara Surveys, Western Addition and Mission. The present work in addition to the foregoing contains in full the Richmond District, Sunset District, Flint Tract, Horner's Addition, and a few other tracts. The paper is of the finest quality made especially for this work with a view to strength. The work was produced in the establishment of The Hicks-Judd Company...a volume unequaled in value as a reference book to San Francisco real estate. / San Francisco, October, 1901."

LARGE FORMAT HARDCOVER BOOK, leather spine and corners with pebbled cloth covered boards, gilt titling to spine, marbled endpapers, 10x13.5 inches. Pagination: [i-iii] title page and "To Subscribers" page, [iv]-xvii Index MAPS, xviii-xx blank pages for notes, 34-730 MAPS, 731-736 blank pages for notes. Complete, as issued. The book is thick and heavy.

GOOD condition: The covers are worn at the spine folds including 2 inches of splitting at the top of the spine folds and 1.5 inches of splitting at the bottom of the spine folds, the spine leather is rubbed, the covers are worn at the corners and edges, still the covers are sturdy, doing their job well, and attractive in a Harry Potter Hogwarts Library fashion. Internally, there are a couple edge chips here and there, the upper hinge is splitting for an inch or so at a few places, overall the inner pages are very nice, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, nice copy. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This book is large, thick and heavy and will require substantial additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

Dakota Constitutional Conventions of 1885 and 1889. TWO VOLUME SET.

(1) DAKOTA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION Held at SIOUX FALLS, September 1885

and

(2) SOUTH DAKOTA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION Held at SIOUX FALLS, July 1989.

(The 1885 convention was unsuccessful in obtaining statehood for Dakota so a second convention was held in 1889, which split the territory into two states. Thus BOTH volumes are essential for understanding how the conventions brought about statehood for North and South Dakota.)

"Published under the Editorial Supervision of Doane Robinson, STATE LIBRARIAN." Printed by Huronite Printing Company, Huron, South Dakota, 1907. FIRST EDITION.

This Set is ONE of only 1000 COPIES bound in half sheep binding. From the "Authority to Publish" page at the beginning of Volume I: "Number of Copies: One thousand sets of such debates shall be printed and substantially bound in half sheep binding, under the direction of the commissioner of public printing."

Two Volumes, Hardcovers, Half Sheep Leather (i.e. leather spine and corners) with marbled paper covered boards. Burgundy leather title labels on the spines, 6x9 inches, 700 and 575 pages respectively (Volume Two actually has 569 pages, the last page number 575 is a printer's error, should have been 569).

ASSOCIATION COPIES. These volumes both have the ownership signature of E. L. STAVIG (1888-1965), who was a member of the South Dakota State Senate from 1939 to 1948.

FAIR condition: The covers are rubbed and worn, especially at the edges, spine ends, and spine folds, but are still quite attractive and doing their job. Internally, the inner hinges are split and tender but holding; Volume I has a 1 inch closed tear on pages15 to 30 and much more significantly has numerous stiff creases to the top corner area of pages 31 to 160, as if stepped on (nonetheless these pages still remain tightly bound and their text is fully legible); otherwise the pages of both volumes are just lightly toned and remain tight, bright, clean and clear.

An ORIGINAL, COMPLETE, TWO VOLUME SET with an ASSOCIATION to an EARLY SOUTH DAKOTA STATE SENATOR with the creased pages as noted above.

INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: These two books will be heavy to ship and will require substantial additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

Original STANFORD PHD THESIS titled CONCEPTUAL TRENDS in VOICE and DICTION TRAINING in AMERICAN COLLEGES and UNIVERSITIES. By Ward Thorvel Rasmus.

"A Dissertation Submitted to the Department of Speech and Drama and the Committee on Graduate Study of Stanford University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Dated April 1955.

Hardcovers, burgundy cloth covered boards, gilt titling on the spine, 8.5x11 inches, carbon copy typescript pages (the type can be felt on the backsides), 254 pages plus some introductory pages.

Original HAND SIGNATURES of three members of the Stanford University Committee on Graduate Study. They approved the thesis as fully adequate for the PhD degree.

VERY GOOD condition, the spine gilt titling has mostly faded but is still legible, the covers have shelf rubs but are otherwise solid and doing their job well; the last two pages have creasing at the upper corner area, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, very nice copy.

From the last page: "This dissertation was typed by Miss Louise Kent Hale, 2329 Princeton Street, Palo Alto, California." Now there's a job that no longer exists!

COMANCHE THE RECALCITRANT MULE & THE MENDOCINO RESERVATION, by A.G. Tassin.

Published by the Mendocino County Historical Society, Ukiah, California, 1978. First Edition, so stated. Published as Monograph No. 1 in a series of animal stories in Mendocino County. At the end of the last page of text is the statement "From the 1880 History of Mendocino County", meaning these tales involving Mules were likely excerpted from that work.

A tale of how MULES played an important role in Round Valley, Fort Wright, and the Mendocino Indian Reservation, with the star of these historic tales being Comanche, The Recalcitrant Mule.

Booklet, printed paper covers, side stapled with black cloth tape covering the staples and spine, 8.5x11 inches, 29 pages plus 6 unnumbered pages of b&w photographs.

FAIR condition, the front cover is scraped along its spine margin apparently from the removal of a strip of tape; both covers have soiling, areas of light staining, and some edge wear; there is shorelining / water staining to the front edge of the front cover and to the front edge of most of the inner pages, not affecting text; the page edges (edges of the closed booklet) are foxed; nonetheless a complete copy of this scarce booklet.

PERSONAL CONCERN. Catalog of Appalachian Folk Art Carvings primarily from Northern Kentucky. The items in the catalog formed the basis of an exhibition that took place at the Crafts and Folk Arts Museum in Los Angeles from August 3 through August 30, 1975.

Printed paper folder containing 22 unbound sheets of photo-offset photographs with some text. The inner covers of the folder contain two essays, one by DeLoss McGraw who created this publication and organized the exhibition, the other by the anthropologist MaryCarol Moses.

From the folder: "The selection of contemporary sculpture from the collections of Northern Kentucky State College and Diane and DeLoss McGraw were acquired primarily from the Kentucky region...(and) will hopefully broaden the view of this quiet art. This project was made possible through a research grant from Northern Kentucky State College."

GOOD condition. The folder has corner creases and a few other creases from handling, the inner loose leaves are solid, bright and clean.

There is no date or place of publication that I can find. However I was able to glean a date and other information on the CAFAM archives website:

******Appalachian Folk Art: Woodcarvings, August 3 - 30, 1975. Exhibition publication: "A Personal Concern," by DeLoss McGraw 1975. Scope and Contents note: 22 unbound sheets of photo-offset photos with some text; includes two essays, one by McGraw and one by the anthropologist Mary Carol Moses.******