THE SAN FRANCISCO BOOK
by CAEN, Herb (text), YAVNO, Max (Photography)
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good Minus
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Minus. vii, (1) 119 pages. First Edition. SIGNED in ink by Herb Caen on the front free endpaper. Illustrated price-clipped dust jacket. Profusely illustrated from wonderful period black and white photographs and one color photograph by Max Yavno. Technical photographic information on pages 116-119. Green cloth. 6 3/4" x 9 3/4". Neat bookplate on front pastedown. A marvelous collection of words and pictures describing The City in 1948. From the jacket, "There have been lots of books written about San Francisco, some fact and some fiction, but there has never yet been a book about The City with text by her most popular journalist and illustrations by a famous photographer." Both now, sadly, gone forever. A Near Fine (minor edgewear) copy in a Very Good Minus jacket (considerable chipping at spine-ends; edgewear). ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via USPS media mail, to any United States Address.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hardy Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2798
- Title
- THE SAN FRANCISCO BOOK
- Author
- CAEN, Herb (text), YAVNO, Max (Photography)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- California, Chinatown, photography,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books; San Francisco;
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About the Seller
Hardy Books
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Nevada City, California
About Hardy Books
Hardy Books is a rare and out-of-print book and ephemera seller located in Nevada City, California, in the heart of the California Northern Mines Gold Country. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) and follow the IOBA Code of Ethics.
Our specialties are Californiana, Western Americana, Books About Books, Fine Press, Original Posters and Movie books, photos and ephemera.
Our specialties are Californiana, Western Americana, Books About Books, Fine Press, Original Posters and Movie books, photos and ephemera.
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Chipping
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