Description Building, Signed (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Angelo, Valenti (illustrator). Limited. Book Club of California, 1977. One of 400 copies; cover very barely soiled, spine very lightly sunned, cover corners/spine ends very lightly bumped, otherwise intact; binding tight; edges and interior intact and exceptionally clean. . Signed by Author. Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Angelo, Valenti. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. 26p., title page decorated with an invented armorial shield in four colors and gilt, initial text letter in red, six small line illustrations, one of 400 copies, signed by illustrator Angelo at the colophon. Hardbound in laid-lined grey-green paper over 8.5x5.5 inch boards, spine-titled gilt, is faintly sunned at spine, a very good copy. Publication No. 155. FYI, the clue that the Grabhorn-Hoyem firm involved themselves with presswork comes from a note laid into another copy we have seen.

First Edition. Account of the design, building of the Bridge and the local opposition to charging tolls for crossing it. Softcovers, well ilustrated. Gift inscription from the author to the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Valenti Angelo (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Signed by Valenti Angelo on limitation page. First edition thus. Limited edition, 1/400. 26 pages. Very good plus copy in light green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Tanning of covers and spine. No dust jacket. Included is the prospectus from Book Club of California for this publication. Publication Number 155 of the Book Club of California. Signed by Illustrator.

First Edition. Signed by the artist Valenti Angelo. First Edition. Near Fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. With a Prefatory Note by Oscar Lewis. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. First edition thus, one of 400 copies signed by Valenti Angelo. This essay was first appeared in the January 1880 issue of The Californian. Light green paper-covered boards, with gilt lettering. A fine copy.

Condition: Fine Condition. Valenti Angelo (illustrator). One of 400 copies signed by the illustrator Valenti Angelo. With an essay by Theodore H. Hittell and a prefatory note by Oscar Lewis. Publication 155 of the Book Club of California. Bound in publisher's original green paper boards with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Signed.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. [title continues: A description of the marine steam-engine and notice of the screw propeller: with short practical treatises on the various branches of marine insurance and average, and general information in regard to maritime affairs]. viii, 408pp, appendices, bw line drawings in text, 2 folding plates. Brown cloth with leather spine and corners (half leather) titled in gilt to spine. Leather scuffed with approx 2cm piece lacking from centre of spine, hinges cracked, cloth on rear cover water stained, prev owner details on preliminary blank. Internally clean and tight. INSCRIBED "To Robt F Bell Esq from his affectionate nephew, The Compiler" on preliminary blank. Size: 8vo. Inscribed by Author.

Two vols. 1st - Oblong folio. 11.25 x 15 in. [48 pp (unpaginated).], thick black paper stock, w/ 103 original silver gelatin photographs, sized 2.75 x 3.5 in., all neatly numbered in ink MS at corners, affixed to the leaves. Contemporary black flexible board post-binder, punch-sewn & glued at spine in black paper, paper title label partially torn on front cover, Building Committee title label affixed to first page (minor chipping, edgewear to fore-edges, some scuffing, tidemark to fore-edges), still a VG- exemplar w/ all images with bright strong contrast; 2nd - 4to. 8 leaves carbon copy typescript on onion-skin ruled paper (some ink annotations, corrections, 1 pencil MS annotated correction), still VG signed by R.J. Mueller on first leaf dated April 24, 1937, from the library of David G. Kohl (1946-2025), former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School, musician, artist, and historian. A remarkable photo album with images shot by three different Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) missionaries in China, along with the descriptive contents list compiled by Rev. R.J. Mueller detailing the purpose, and composition. He writes that the Enshih (Shihnan) Mission had prepared three albums "one for the Mission Board, one for the Building Committee of General Conference and one at the Enshih Station. The numbers all agree. However not all pictures listed appear in all books." This "Building Committee" album was intended to focus primary on the structures, homes, chapels of the mission, as well as surrounding areas, and was intended to aid in speeding up communications for fundraising, and building affairs issues, as correspondents could then merely refer to the master list of numbers held by all three parties. Enshih, China was one of the final mission stations established by the LCMS far from their other missions, and when Gebhardt returned to Enshih following the Civil War in 1928, there was significant damage to the mission structures to be repaired. Looting by bandits and marauding soldiers had caused over $ 2000 in damage, but was encouraged to find that the Lutheran evangelist Shen had continued the mission chapel, school, orphanage. He would later be joined by Mueller, and others, although primarily composed of Chinese Staff. These photos in the album includes views of Mueller's residence, windows, frames, and gutters looted; screens torn, doors boarded up, as well as views of the native house and threshing floor adapted into an orphanage at Yao Wan after 1930. Several others show the extent of the protective walls built around the properties, farm houses, the gates, as well as farms, bridges, and nearby fields at Enshih. Landmarks such as rocks shaped like Elephants in the river, and Big and Little Hog creek below farmland. A very nice series of photos depict the Ts'i Ts-ung-fu funeral, the blind, deaf, and other orphans about 1931, as well as textiles drying in the sun. Other photos capture the Ch'i-li-ping market, fortune teller, temple, noodle stand, and the T'ai shan shrine at Ch'i-li-p'ing. More photos depict Hu Ping-chih, the orphanage secretary, Yuen Ye-chih, cashier in 1934, Hsieh T'i-ya, seminary student who died later in 1937; along with the mission pulpit, nearby streets, and the rear view of the Yao Wan houses.Of additional interest are the images of the rugged roads to Liang Shui-chin, the temple, and steep steps, drying opium in Kuan-p'e which was a small town between the East Gate and Yao Wan before opium raising was banned in 1934; along with the nearby Ch'ing-Ching Clear River at the high water stage, the front of the True Light Chapel in 1934, as well as the gravestone of Mr. & Mrs. Wang, Japanese-Lutherans who had died in 1930. The final photo No. 169 again shows the Clear River below the city. Mueller (1905-1998) graduated from seminary in 1929, and left for China with his wife Dorothy for the Evangelical Lutheran Foreign Mission Board, returned briefly to the U.S. from 1937-1940, spent 1939-1942 teaching at a Lutheran seminary in China while being bombed by the Japanese, and also served in Shanghai where he would supervise the Lutheran Hour, and Lutheran Hour offices. Although he and his wife briefly returned to the United States in 1946 following World War II, they subsequently served again in Shanghai, China into the early years of Communist rule by Mao tse-tung before returning again to the U.S. See: David Kohl, Lutherans on the Yangtze: A Hundred Year History of the Missouri Synod in China (2014), pp. 103, 124, 131, 132, 166, 174, 99-131.