Description: 95 pp., hardcover, minor library markings, text clean & binding tight in a worn dust jacket *Helping and promoting global literacy since 1961* read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ward Ritchie, L.A., 1967
Date Published: 1967
Description: The Story of James Lick of California. Gilt-stamped royal 8vo cloth. 95pp. Illust. One of San Francisco's great, wealthy developers, who "saw more potential gold in the sand lots of San Francisco than in the mines, ..." Lick's interest in education & science lead to the building & endowing of the Lick Observatory. Fine in slightly soiled, pc dj. read more
Edition: Foreward by Richard H. Dillon
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ward Ritchie Press, [Los Angeles]
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. This book is not ex-library. It is clean. bright and tight; small nick in dust jacket. xvi, 95 p. illus., port. 26 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits. read more
Description: Dust Jacket Included. 24 pp. illustrations. Pasadena, California: Ward Ritchie Press, 1967. First edition. James Lick (1796-1876) came to California in 1849 and made a fortune in real estate, buying tracts that included Catalina Island and the present site of Griffith Park. Primarily a Northern Californian, he gave generously to schools and charities in the San Francisco area, endowing the Lick Astronomical Observatory at Mt. Hamilton. Gray cloth binding, with gilt lettering. The dust jacket ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Los Angeles The Ward Ritchie Press 1967.
Date Published: 1967
Description: Book VG/VG. Bookplate on front paste-down. Very minor wear to DJ and discoloration to spine from sun (? ). Illustrated by none. no statement edition. Binding is no statement. read more
Edition: Royal 8vo. 1st edition. xvi, 95 pp.
Binding: Grey cloth binding with gilt lettering. Dust jacket.
Publisher: The Ward Ritchie Press,, (n. p. ):
Date Published: (1967).
Description: NF (some modest soiling to top edge)/VG (some soiling to dj/short closed tear/corner clip). Illustrated. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ward Ritchie, (L.A. ), 1967
Date Published: 1967
Description: The Story of James Lick of California (Association Signed) Gilt-stamped cloth. 95pp. Illust. Presentation copy inscribed to Perry Mason novelist Erle Stanley Gardner, "a friend you will never forget", by Chas. J. Lick (biographer's father). Preface by Richard Dillon & Intro by C. D. Shane. Nice treatment of the famous entrepreneur, philanthropist & gold rush figure. Fine in moderately soiled dj with couple of short tears at top & one tear/snag/wrinkle at bottom of front panel (tear: 5/8"). read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles
Date Published: 1967
Description: Near Fine. Hardcover, no dust jacket. 8vo. No statement of edition. SIGNED and inscribed by Charles J. Lick, a descendant of the pioneering astronomer and the father of the author, who is James Lick's great grandniece. Charles Lick's inscription reads to "Pennsylvania friends" (a Caltech professor and his wife). Book is in Fine condition on laid paper. Blue cloth boards show very minor wear. Lick, who died in 1876, is the creator of what was in his day the world's largest refracting telescope ... read more
Binding: Clothbound.
Publisher: Ward Ritchie Press
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very good in soiled & chipped dust jacket. Foreward by Richard H. Dillon, Introduction by C. D. Shane. Black and white photographs throughout. 1st edition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Ward Ritchie Press, Np. (
Date Published: 1967)
Description: First edition in VG+ condition, full dark grey cloth with gilt, octavo, illustrated, fore edge uncut, xvi+95 pages. VG printed DJ with darkened spine, mild scuffing and a few small nicks, in a Brodart cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Ward Ritchie Press
Date Published: 1967
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 95pp. Preface by Richard H. Dillon; introduction by C.D. Shane. Protected dj showing some light soil from shelving and handling. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ward Ritchie Press
Date Published: 1967
Description: Illustrated by Few Photos. Good+ with no dustjacket. Internally very good, name inside front cover and on page facing title page. Honors program stamp on ffep. Spine is darkened with a repaired rip in the surface cloth.; Story of the miser-millionaire who left $3 million in public benefactions and who founded an astronomical observatory and had a lunar crater named for him.; Large 8vo; 95 pages. read more
Binding: Gilt-stamped cloth
Publisher: Ward Ritchie Press
Date Published: 1967
Description: Acceptable in Acceptable jacket. VG/VG. Edges bumped and rubbed; Gilt-stamped cloth; 8vo; Date of Publication: '1967'; City of Publication: ''; Subject: 'Western men biography' read more
Binding: Gilt-stamped cloth
Publisher: Ward Ritchie Press
Date Published: 1967
Description: Acceptable in Acceptable jacket. Gilt-stamped cloth; 8vo; Date of Publication: '1967'; City of Publication: ''; Subject: 'Western men biography' read more
Binding: Gilt-stamped cloth
Publisher: Ward Ritchie Press
Date Published: 1967
Description: Acceptable in Acceptable jacket. Gilt-stamped cloth; 8vo; Date of Publication: '1967'; City of Publication: ''; Subject: 'Western men biography' read more
Binding: Blue cloth
Publisher: Ward Ritchie Press
Date Published: 1967
Description: Acceptable in Acceptable jacket. Blue cloth; 8vo; Date of Publication: '1967'; City of Publication: ''; Subject: 'Western Americana' read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: The Ward Ritchie Press
Date Published: 1967
Description: Fine (+) in VG (+) jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 95 pp.; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, f.e. deckled; no defects. Cover: gray, gilt titles front/spine; no defects. DJ: clipped (but not price clipped) in Brodart, gray, red/black titles front, black titles spine; 1/2" closed tear front bottom, minor edgewear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ward Richie Press
Date Published: 1967
Description: Booklplate on front pastedown, else fine. Quarto. grey cloth lettered in gilt, foredge untrimmed. dust jacket (spine lightly and top edge lightly rubbed) Illustrated. read more
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