Rambo Ralph (63 results)

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48pp. stapled spine, used book, light use clean, no marks or tears. Illustrated with line drawings by author. History of Santa Clara Valley, California. 11" tall. Ralph Rambo (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Wraps (PB) in very good condition with some browning to covers. Signed by author. Written mostly about San Jose, California, a collection of boyhood reminiscence and nostalgia beginning in 1908. Memories of a vanished way of life, well illustrated. Rambo, Ralph (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

Paperback. Condition: Good. The covers have some toning around the edges from age. 6" by 9" with 48 pages. Clean and unmarked otherwise. ; 8.4 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches; 48 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. shows minor wear and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Fine and bright with no wear or markings in a good used jacket protected in an archival sleeve. Illustrated with maps and other and also 2 maps as called for in the back pocket in fine condition. Signed with just her name by the author on the dedication page: "Frances L. Fox." No limitation number. Ralph Rambo (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Black cloth quarto hardcover with bronze titles, limited first edition in dustjacket. A very good copy with bending at the lower corners and spine tips. Clean, bright and solid - with original foldout map tucked into a pocket at rear. The dustjacket is not nearly as good - with a long tear and paper loss to the rear panel and shorter tears and chipping along the panel edges. Original bookstore sticker to the top of the front flap. 192 pp., filled with Rambo's cartoon illustrations. A nice blend of autobiography and local history for the Santa Clara Valley.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: Very Good. 4th printing, paperback. 56 pages. SIGNED and dated by the author! Very good, a hint of browing and some light wear along the spine fold, overall a nice, clean copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. There is some toning to the spine joints and edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "Francis Ralph Rambo was born in San Jose, California, on May 16, 1894. He worked as an illustrator, and later served as an art director at San Jose's Muirson Label Company circa 1914-1966. After retiring, he began writing books (many humorous) and map posters on the history of the Santa Clara Valley, illustrated with his original pen and ink cartoons. Rambo had a large local following, who often corresponded with him, and he collaborated with other individuals and groups interested in local history. Rambo's design was featured on the First Civil Settlement in California U. S. Postage stamp in 1977. He died in Palo Alto, CA on May 19, 1990. " (from Online Archive of California).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, softcover, VG in green pictorial stapled wraps. 40 pp. with b & w Illustrations and hand-written text by Rambo. Vasquez was a stage robber, horse thief and killer. He died at 40 in 1875. b & w illustrations throughout and epilogue. Illus By Author (illustrator). Book.…

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Edition Stated. Signed by author on title page; light edgewear, light toning; 48 pages; Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Stapled bound. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975. Size: Octavo. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975. Size: Octavo. Rambo, Ralph (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Moderate wear and scuffing to boards and dust jacket due to age and use. Previous owner's name on front endpaper, all pages are intact, binding is sound. This book shows minimal sign of wear to the cover, binding, or pages. Dust jacket condition is Acceptable. This copy is the Limited Edition of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

1965 Grey G+/--, published without DJ?, a boy's-eye view of an old valley, 56 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This work is the story of San Jose, California, under Spain and Mexico. This was pioneering with mules instead of covered wagons, and adobe huts instead of log cabins. Through it all was Luis Maria Peralta, the most responsible man in the pueblo in its early years with his enormous land grant. His home still stands--the two-room adobe where a number of his seventeen children were born. The book contains photographs, illustrations, a table of weights and measures of provincial California, a glossary of Spanish terms, notes, and an index. Map is in rear pocket. Limited Numbered Edition, number 696 of 800. Jacket is worn, lacks a portion on the front, no text is missing; otherwise, this copy is clean and solid. Facsimile signature is on the dedication page. Ralph Rambo (illustrator).…

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. 3rd Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; Signed edition. This is an oversized paperback with heavy cardstock covers and a stapled binding. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription on the title page. Written, illustrated and hand lettered by F. Ralph Rambo. "Several years ago I decided to write Looking Backward, 1900, for my grand-daughters. I felt that some day the girls would develop a curiosity about our amazing valley and what it was really like half a century ago. Remember When could qualify as a sequel.The latter being informal history and how this book; simple, rambling, boyish memories of the Old Valley." ; Signed by Author. Illustrated by F. Ralph Rambo (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Book is in great shape, clean and sharp all around, with a tight binding and minor overall wear/aging.

Paperback. First edition, 1970. Santa Clara Valley, California, 8.5 x 11 inches with pen and ink illustrations by the author. 48 Good. Light shelf wear, soiling and creasing on the covers. Signed by the author.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Signed by author on title page; mild edgewear, light toning; 16 pages; Signed by Author.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. (NAP). With notes, bibliography and index. A solid copy with tight binding and square, uncreased spiine. Pencil mark corner front flyleaf, else no marks. Covers faded at spine and edges. One tiny spot front panel, creasing at very tip of top front corner, else hardly any cover wear. Monochrome sketches by Ralph Rambo (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy in hardcover with near fine jacket. Jacket has very faint toning along edges. Now in mylar. Three maps in back. California.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., 40 pp., photos, illus., map, stiff pi. wps., nice 6-Guns #1794 A concise, fairly accurate account.