[Rarebooks] FS: Short List of 7 Items related to San Diego, California

[John Howell]

Offered today, short list of items related to San Diego, California:

1 [San Diego]  Panama-California Exposition.  San Diego Panama-California Exposition, 1915-1916.  Souvenir Book.  San Diego: I. L. Eno, 1914.  Oblong Stapled Pamphlet.  5 1/2 x 8 inches.  [64] pp.  One page of introductory text printed within a decorative border followed by 63 pages of color illustrations of the Exposition grounds also within decorative borders; text clean, unmarked, some foxing to the covers.  Color pictorial wrappers, yapp edges; binding square, the bifold in the very middle (pages 29-30) is loose, rubbed, yapp edges with wear as is common.  SCARCE in the trade.  Very Good.  
$ 100
FIRST EDITION.  A very handsome series of illustrations.  From the Introduction: The San Diego Panama-California Exposition “is a triumphant display of what man can do by utilizing to fullest advantage the wonderworks of Nature in southern California.  No other section of the country is so blessed with winters which are balmy and summers which are cool - with twelve months of the year offering uninterrupted June.  And nowhere else could such feats be performed as have marked the erection of the magic Spanish city of mission and cathedral and palace, where twentieth century bustle is forgotten and the seeker after beauty finds himself transported to the romance and grandeur of the Spain of three centuries ago.”  

2 [San Diego]  Panama-California Exposition.  Official Views, Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, California, All the Year, 1915.  San Diego: National Views Company, Official Publishers of the Panama-California Exposition, 1914.  Oblong Pamphlet.  7 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches.  [24] pp.  Title page and 23 pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations all printed within decorative borders; text clean, unmarked.  Color pictorial wrappers, yapp edges; binding square, covers rubbed and soiled, yapp edges lightly worn.  SCARCE.  Very Good.  
$ 120
FIRST EDITION, designed and produced by Poole Bros., Chicago.  Nice black-and-white photographic illustrations, this is the first view book I’ve seen that has pictures of the Native American exhibits in the Exposition.  The landscape scenes are broader than many others available.  The photographs are marked copyright 1914 in white in the negative; this is the only date in the publication.  

3 [San Diego]  WINSLOW, Carleton Monroe (1876-1946).  The Architecture and the Gardens of the San Diego Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Aesthetic Features of the Panama California International Exposition.  Together with an Essay by Clarence S. Stein.  Illustrated from Photographs by Harold A. Taylor.  With an Introduction by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue.  San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, (1916).  8vo.  8 3/4 x 6 inches.  x, 154, [4] pp.  Frontispiece and 68 black-and-white illustrations tipped-in, the photographs opposed with descriptive text; text clean, unmarked.  Gilt-stamped tan cloth; binding square and tight, covers freckled.  Very Good.  
$ 75
FIRST EDITION.  Carleton Monroe Winslow, also known as Carleton Winslow Sr., was an American architect, and key proponent of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in Southern California in the early twentieth century.  Winslow studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; he joined the office of Bertram Goodhue in time for the planning of the 1915 San Diego Panama-California Exposition.  Winslow is credited for choosing the Spanish Colonial style for that project.  Later, Winslow moved to Southern California and completed the Los Angeles Public Library in 1924.

4 [San Diego]  BOOOTH, Larry, OLMSTED, Roger, and POURADE, Richard F.  “Portrait of a Boom Town: San Diego in the 1880’s.”  Offprint from: The California Historical Quarterly, December 1971.  Pamphlet.  10 x 6 3/4 inches.  [32] pp.  Tells the story, in text and black-and-white photographic illustrations, of the effects of the land boom of the 1880s on the little burg of San Diego; text clean, unmarked.  16 bifolds within glossy card stock pictorial wraps; binding square and tight, very light soiling to the covers.  Very Good.  
$ 12
Retells the story of the boom and bust in San Diego led by Alonzo E. Horton, but which went beyond the control of any one individual.  

5 [San Diego]  San Diego Electric Railway Company and San Diego & Southeastern RY. Co.  Trolley and Rail Trips.  San Diego: San Diego Electric Railway Company and San Diego & Southeastern RY. Co., n.d. [but circa 1915].  Brochure.  8 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches.  1 15 1/4 x 8 1/4 inch sheet,   folded thrice.  Front cover with black and orange half-tone illustration by C. E. Clark shows man and woman above the Mission Cliff Gardens vista, first opening gives Round Trip Rates Quoted, the inside spread is a map of the entire railway system from Tijuana on the South, to Foster on the East, and Mission Bay on the West and North and includes 8 photo vignettes in circles showing various destinations, the rear panel is a time table and list of Car Line Numbers within a decorative border; text unmarked.  Lightly soiled, small tears starting a folds, 3/4 x 1/2 inch abrasion on top margin of front cover.  Very Good.
$ 100
The San Diego Electric Railway (SDER) was a mass transit system in Southern California.  It was established by the “sugar heir,” developer, and entrepreneur John D. Spreckels in 1892.  At its peak, the SDER operated throughout the greater San Diego area over some 165 miles of track.  The Panama-California Exposition in 1915 spurred a period of rapid growth for the SDER, adding two new lines, while the company logged 3,521,571 car miles.  San Diego’s original Victoria style train depot is demolished and replaced with a new Mission Revival Style Santa Fe depot building.  The photographs in this brochure, made at the peak of the SDER’s operations, include the Tent City at Coronado, Tijuana Bull Fights, Ramona’s Marriage Place, and more.  

6 BRANDES, Ray, editor.  Times Gone By: The Journal of San Diego History.  San Diego: San Diego Historical Society, 1965.  Pamphlet.  9 x 6 inches.  [vi], 49, [1] pp.  Illustrated; text clean, unmarked.  Color pictorial wrappers; binding square and tight, covers soiled.  Very Good.
$ 36
FIRST EDITION of this important periodical about San Diego history, this is Volume XI, Number 3, June 1965.  It includes the following articles: “Pioneer Spanish Families of California, A Reprint from The Century Magazine,” by Charles Howard Shinn (with the original illustrations); “Father O’Keefe: Rebuilder of Mission San Luis Rey,” by Reverend Valentine Healy; “The Politics and History of William Kettner,” by Joan M. Jensen; “Documents of San Diego History: The Diaries of Dr. George KcKinstry Jr., 1858-1879;” and “Rufus Choate: A Taped Interview of Reminiscences.”  The front cover has a color illustration by Jack Schlichting, captioned “United States Naval Captain of the period (c1846-1848) being entertained at a baile in Old San Diego.  Dancing was a favorite pastime of the people of this period.  For such occasions officers wore dress uniforms with white trousers.  The ranchero is wearing pantaloons called calzoneras, and a dress vest and jacket.”  

7 Standard Oil Company of California.  Adventuring Through the National Parks of the West.  N. p.: Standard Oil Company of California, 1935.  Pamphlet.  8 x 5  inches.  [14] pp.  Map of the western United States “Showing Locations of National Parks and National Monuments in the West” inside the front cover, black-and-white photographic illustrations throughout highlight the special features of each Park with accompanying text, also illustrated with drawings, “Tips to National Park Motorists” inside rear cover, printed in green and black; text clean, un-marked.  Self-wraps in green and black, stapled; binding square and tight, shelf wear to covers, front and rear covers foxes with light soiling.  Very Good.  
$ 35
This charming Art Nouveau pamphlet was “Presented by the Standard Oil Company of California” in the interest of enjoyable motoring.  It encouraged Americans to “Drive all the way” to visit the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, California in 1936.  The rear cover has a drawing of the Standard Oil Exhibit Building at the Exposition, while the text introduces the reader to the various national parks and monuments the motorist might visit on their way to and from the Exhibition.  


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