Ruth Peebles (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The life of a San Francisco Cable Car, it's passengers and driver, and the city around it. Author is future film actor/director Melvin Van Peebles, who was himself a cable car gripman. Told in black and white photography. Book is about fine under a lightly worn jacket with one small chip. Ruth Bernhard (photography) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Quarto in b/w pictorial jacket; 77 pages: illustrations; 26 cm. Chiefly b/w photos accompanied by short paragraphs in narrative form, from the point of view of a cable car operator. Melvin Van Peebles' first book. Contents are unmarked, Dust Jacket has short closed tear to top front, else very light wear and is not price clipped.…

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features text by Van Peebles who was then simply a gripman on the San Francisco cable cars but who went on to be an actor and movie director. Includes black and white photographs from Bernhard in a rather sharp departure from her previous works. An ex-library copy with extensive stamps, wear and tape stains, thus a fair copy and in a fair price clipped dust jacket that has been trimmed and with some tape stains and a sticker to the spine. Signed by Ruth Bernhard on the title page. Uncommon signed. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. There Never Were Such Men Before: The Civil War Soldiers of Polk County, Texas 1861-1865 by Ruth Peebles. First edition published in 1987 by the Polk County Historical Commission. Large format hardcover with red boards. 648 pages of text, notes, and photos. Boards are spotless. No underlining in book. Exhaustive study of Polk County veterans of the Civil War brief biography of each man mentioned in the book with another summary of the Civil War units that the veterans fought with. Notes penciled on front pastedown. Upper page ends moderately foxed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. There Never Were Such Men Before: The Civil War Soldiers of Polk County, Texas 1861-1865 by Ruth Peebles. First edition published in 1987 by the Polk County Historical Commission. Large format hardcover with red boards. 648 pages of text, notes, and photos. Boards are spotless. No underlining in book. Exhaustive study of Polk County veterans of the Civil War brief biography of each man mentioned in the book with another summary of the Civil War units that the veterans fought with.…

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. An unusual work for Ruth Bernard (published just a few years after she moved to San Francisco, where she spent the rest of her life): a photo-essay on San Francisco's cable cars and the people who ride them, narrated by young cable car gripman Melvin Van, with unposed black and white photographs by Bernhard on every page. The first book (written when he was just 25) by the independent African American film director and producer, Melvin Van Peebles. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Bernhard with the words "to one who knows" and dated January 24, 1958. A rather uncommon book, and especially so signed by Bernhard. Slightly oversized format, 10 1/4 inches tall by 7 3/16 inches wide. 78 pp. Near fine in a near fine photographic dustjacket.…

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features text by Van Peebles who was then simply a gripman on the San Francisco cable cars but who went on to be an actor and movie director. Includes black and white photographs from Bernhard in a rather sharp departure from her previous works. A near fine copy in cloth boards with some slight indentations to the front panel and in a very good price clipped dust jacket with some light edge wear and a small faint circular stain to the front panel. Still, a nicer than usual copy of a book that is often found in inferior condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Near fine condition. 1/2 inch white paint line on spine. A few tiny white paint specks on top edge of back cover. Two tiny light spots on covers. Binders sticker at bottom of back endpaper. 648 pages with index, bibliography, and illustrations. 4to size.…

Photograph. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. NSCRIBED by noted photographer Ruth Bernhard on dedication page. Close to fine in a good dust jacket. (Small S. F. Bookshop stamp at base of rear paste-down. Tiny hint of off-setting on front end-paper & paste-down. Interior clear tape repairs to jacket. Some fairly shallow chipping at spine ends, and 1 1/2"-inch chipping along upper edge of front cover. Soil spot and rubbing to jacket. ) Melvin Van is the Afro-American film director Melvin Van Peebles, whose first book this is. Most uncommon signed by Ruth Bernhard, who's own copy this may well be as it was acquired in the Monterey region of California where she resided for many years. Photographs of San Francisco cable cars. (LR).…