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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Sidney Solomon (Design & Format) (illustrator). 248 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges. Multiple tears/rips on front and back of dj, along with spine.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dale, Dalton (original cover art); Wyman, RIck (photography); Margotta, Jenny (design format) (illustrator). 1st Edition. New condition color illustrated softcover wraps. Includes Author Dedication; List of Photos; El Gran Desierto del Mojave; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Epilogue; Descendants of Jose and Herminia Arredondo; Sources; Index; In Memoriam; and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Signed and dated (July 21, 2016) by the author plus also signed by a relation of the author with an accompanying paragraph regarding the personnel in the book, plus an additional third signature. Revised First Edition, April 2016. "This true story is based on family sources." - excerpt from the Introduction. "At age 13, he started by selling clothes from a burro's back. Became Section Foreman on the Santa Fe Railway in the Mojave Desert. Realized his dream of being Patron of his own Ranch - La Soledad!" - from the rear outer cover. "More than a family story or biography, Ruben Arredondo's book is an important American Odyssey of an American family searching for a life dream. Through hard work, Spartan thriftiness and discipline, the Arredondo family accomplished that American dream. Certain people have what it takes to succeed in life, but it's rare to see, in a teenage boy, the qualities that will make his life a success in what he wants to do. Fourteen-year-old José Arredondo had the cleverness, drive, and work ethic to achieve his dream of owning a rancho in Mexico. He did it Jose became a young ranchero in Mexico and started his family. Despite horrors in the chaos and ambivalence of the Mexican Revolution in the 1910s, he set out to a new country, and through determination and hard work, he and his family helped contribute to the growth of America's railroad and Mojave Desert prosperity and in so doing, established a proud American family. This too is a story of overcoming obstacles and achieving more than José ever expected. And the family is still contributing to the American dream. But what about José's "rancho dream"? Well, you'll just have to read this fine book, which will delight readers to the end: a railroad adventure, a Mojave Desert life book, a World War II book, and a success book -- a many faceted read!" - from the Preface. "Not just a book about raiilroad track gangs, but about a boy's dream coming true and becoming a great family patriarch." - Cliff Walker, author and historian. "It is fortunate that a book like this has been written. Thank you!" - Tom Hickey, retired Union Pacific Trainman, Former Nevada State Senator. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Near Fine. 1937 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [62], [2]. Blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. Gentle pushing to heel of spine, light stain towards leading edge of bottom board. Signed Christmas card laid-in (single sheet folded twice, 17.7 x 12.8cm, [pp. 4], typed poem 'Greetings 1938' by "Sands-Roux/ (Sally Tatham)" to front page and: "To Hilda/ With love and/ Christmas greetings/ from/ Charles & Sally Tatham" to inner recto). Offsetting to endpapers, else, pleasingly clean, tight and bright. In the original Airforce blue dust jacket: a little edgewear, soiling to front panel. A lovely copy of an early title by The Poets Press. No copies listed on COPAC. Near fine/ very good. Sands-Roux was the pseudonym of Sarah "Sally" Theresa Roe Tatham (1872-1948), whose poetry appeared in Poetry of Today and via the radio waves WINS and WNYC which she acknowledges, alongside Anita Browne, in this collection: "To the Radio, appreciation for being included in the great anthology of the air". Subsequently, the poet herself seems to have disappeared into thin air. Editor of The Poets Press and 'founder-organizer' of National Poetry Week, Anita Browne "the Tex Rickard of poesy" was an energetic promoter of poetry, particularly encouraging women's engagement. She founded The National Poetry Center in 1935, whose home was "Radio City" in the Rockefeller Center.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Lot of 8 privately printed works by Charles Dickens, most issued during the 1950s as Christmas greetings/ keepsakes from Samuel A. Dalton of Philadelphia. The condition of the volumes and their respective slipcases are given below. Several of the volumes feature illustrations and/or designs by Rey Abruzzi and typography by Robert Donald. All were printed by Dalton's firm, Typographic Service Inc. Included: 1950 - A Christmas Carol [284/600] NF/G. 1952 - The Chimes [442/900] F/VG-. 1953 - The Holly Tree [37/900, with presentation card] NF/NF. 1954 - Christmas at Dingley Dell [336/1000] NF/VG. 1956 - The Battle of Life [364/1000], with presentation card] NF/G+. 1957 - Somebody's Luggage [845/1000, with presentation card] F/NF. 1958 - Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy 1076/1200, with presentation card] F/VG+. 1963 - Excerpts from The Pickwick Papers: First Day's Journey and the First Evening's Adventures with Their Consequences. [1260/1300] F/NF. Between 1950 and 1968, Samuel Dalton issued 19 consecutive Christmas editions of works by Charles Dickens. The scarcest title, by far, is the first, appropriately being A Christmas Carol. Samuel Arnold ''Sam'' Dalton was the founder and longtime president of Typographic Service Incorporated, the Philadelphia firm he founded in 1930. In June 1962, he received a special award from the Philadelphia Museum College of Art for ''furthering the fine art of typography.'' He died at home on December 6, 1968. The free-lance artist Reynold Joseph ''Rey'' Abruzzi, Sr. (1914-2002), was a native of Philadelphia and a graduated from the South Philadelphia High School for Boys in 1931. In the early 1960s, he was the head of Abruzzi Design in Philadelphia. Interestingly, his son, Rey Jr., a graphic designer and typographer in his own right, worked for twenty years at Typographic Services Inc.