Delkin James (33 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo, 126 pgs, illustrations. Publisher's stiff printed paper covers. Lightly soiled, minor chipping to spine. Interior the pages are separating from the glued spine; inked names of former owner and gift provider; else clean. Nice post-WWII guide book.…

Original Wraps. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First. Good in original wraps, back cover detached, handling, wrinkling, minor soiling to wraps. 160p., fold-out map. Guide to San Francisco. Not dated, appears circa 1940. Interesting advertisements. Smith, Bashford (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Book in light blue illustrated boards has bumped bottom front corner, slightly sunned spine, slightly wavy pages with no sign of liquid damage, pages yellowing, tight and unmarked. Black and white photos. 'Compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Works Projects Administration in Northern California'. …

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. original wraps show heavy wear and tear, light staining. pages clean.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 5th revised edition. Nicely illustrated book about the charms of San Francisco. With a little age-toning to the wraps, else about fine. Valenti Angelo, et al (illustrator).

Repr 1941 ed. Fine, as new, condition. Cloth.

Hardback. 2nd revised edition, 1946. American Guide Series, Monterey Peninsula, California. There are b&w photos and an index. 200 Good. Long owner inscription on the front free end paper. In a fair dust wrapper that has chipping and wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized. James Ladd Delkin (illustrator).

1st. 12mo. Mildly EX LIB: Bookplate from the N. E. Historic Genealogy Collection, stamped withdrawn, no pockets, etc. Couple small tape stains on covers from where an old mylar was applied. VG EX LIB in a VG, lightly stained price-clipped DJ.

hc. Condition: very good, spine soiled. 207 Illustrated guide to the scenic and architectural wonders of California's Monterey Peninsula. Compiled by the WPA writers' project.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Duodecimo in green staplebound wrappers; 149 numbered pages; advertisments; maps; 18 cm. Though there is no publication date, there is an ad for KYA 1260 AM which started in the Bay Area in 1958. Very good copy with fine map; wrappers are edgeworn and creased; wrappers attached solidly albeit could be fragile at the staples; though pages have edgewear, they are clean and free of marks and foxing; map is very clean; a gently well-loved copy. …

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Decorated hard cover. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (spine lightly sunned). 200 pps. American Centennial Edition. Second revised edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pictorial green cloth titled in brown. Stated first edition. PO inscription to ffep, ffep corner torn off. Price number and bookseller stamp to rear endpage. DJ in mylar is mildly toned and edgeworn with a few small closed edge tears. Sound binding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First, dust jacket. Light cocver soil, somehow DJ fused to spine, lower 3/4. Internally clean and sound. VG/VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Second Edition; First Printing. Illustrated blue cloth boards, near pristine, sharp and bright. Book firm in binding, 200 pages include Index, b&w historic photographs throughout. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . Hardback. No dustjacket. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Good to Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs and bumps to edges and corners of covers, some browning and dustsoiling to covers and edges of interior pages, slight bow to covers. No statement of later printing on copyright page. No Signature.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 207 pp.; 8vo; green cloth; illustrated with black & white photographs by: Howard Hoffman, Brett Weston, Sibyl Anikeyev, Robert Kerrigan. Remnant of James Ladd Delkin ownership plate front and rear endpapers; cloth a bit mottled along bottom rear edge and rear leading edge.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. American Guide Series. Light blue cloth covers with illustration. Tan Dj with same illustration on front. This is an unusual Dj. Stated Second Revised Edition. Pages are toned. Filled with b/w photographs of the area people and buildings. Brodart cover. 8.…

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Quarto. 11": x 7" Small quarto. Decorated boards. Cream buckrum spine. 67pp. Limited to 1000 copies. Full page color frontispiece and other full page color illustrations and headpieces. Each month celebrates numerous festivals of different nationalities. Edges of front cover lightly sunned. Gift inscription of previous owner on front free endpaper. Prepared by the Northern California Writers Project, Works Projects Administration.…

Stanford Univ.: (1941). Photos; maps, 8x5.5", pict cloth, 207 w/index, offset from dw on e.p.s., corners bumped else ok in taped, badly torn and chipped dw. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. One of one thousand copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. American Guide Series. A product of the North American Writers Project of the Work Projects Administration, sponsored by the International Institute. 15 color illustrations from various international sources. The book is divided into twelve chapters, one for each month of the year. Bound in publisher's original quarter tan cloth with yellow paper on boards. Cover illustration.…

No Dust Jacket. Hardback : hard cover edition in good to better condition, a typical used book with slight wear to edges and spine. Overall good / nice copy of this scarce title. Excellent reading on the subject. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand for yourself, or would make a GREAT GIFT for the fan / reader in your life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. Please send us a note if you have any questions. Thank you. Illus with b/w Drawings (illustrator). Book.…

DELKIN, James Ladd. Monterey Peninsula. Compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Northern California. [Berkeley, 1941]. 1st ed. Illus. 207pp. A very good copy in orig. cloth.

DELKIN, James. Monterey Peninsula. Stanford, [1946]. 2nd ed., revised. Illus. maps. 200pp. Orig. cloth, d/j (chipped). A scarce WPA guide.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition, 1943. A Very Good copy. 12mo., 130 pp., illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and numerous text engravings. Bound in stiff grey paper wrappers with title on red and vignette in blue on the front panel. Wraps toning along the edges. Clean, tight. Published during the war, with "Buy War Bonds" ads on the inside rear panel. …

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 132. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1943 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 132.…

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 146. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1942 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 146.…

Limited Edition. Small Quarto. limited to 1000 copies. color frontispiece, 4 preliminary leaves, 67 [1] pages, color illustrations. Includes feasts and celebrations of various nationalities in U.S. Arranged by month. For example, October includes Pulaski Day (Polish), Columbus Day (Italian), Fiesta de la raza (Spanish), Madre del lune di porticello (Italian), Independence Day (Czechoslovakian), Octoberfest (German) and Succoth (Jewish). bound in 1/4 beige cloth over orange pictorial paper covered boards, paper spine label printed in orange, a little rubbing to corners, faint finger soiling, previous owner's bookplate. very nice.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1938 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 139 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 139 Language: English.…