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The Bank of California, National Association San Francisco, California. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Paper Money: US\National Banknotes”. The seller is “scotsmanauctions” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Certification: Uncertified
• Grade: Ungraded
• Year: 1902
• Circulated/Uncirculated: Circulated
• Denomination: $5

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Dated November 23,1855. The company appears to have been incorporated in Pennsylvania. It is unclear whether it was involved in land development in San Francisco or mining since William Lippincott, Secretary, was involved in a number of mining companies. Please visit my store to view other stock certificates and bonds. I have expanded the size of the scan so you can see the edges of the document. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Stocks & Bonds, Scripophily\Mining”. The seller is “pdaac” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to North, South, or Latin America, all countries in Europe.

• Circulated/Uncirculated: Circulated
• Type: Stock
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Modified Item: No

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VALENTI ANGELO – 1976 Book Club of Calif #154 – ASSOCIATION COPY HAND PAINTED. TITLE: Valenti Angelo Author Illustrator Printer. AUTHOR: Valenti Angelo; Anne Englund; Andrew Hoyem. PUBLISHER: San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem. EDITION: Four hundred copies of this book have been produced by Andrew Hoyem, Printer. Publication (Book Club of California), no. Includes : A bibliographical checklist of the works of Valenti Angelo/edited, i. Compiled, by Anne England. CONDITION NOTES: FINE with a tipped in item on the first fly page. Condition of laid in items varies but are generally very good. BINDING: Red cloth over patterned boards with a paper label. Created as a special, hand-colored example for Albert Spiersen, librarian of the The Book Club of California and widely known as “the Dean of San Francisco print production”. A longtime San Francisco advertising executive who was widely known as “the Dean of San Francisco print production, ” Sperisen was a former Foote, Cone & Belding executive and bibliophile who became better known after his retirement as the librarian of the Book Club of California, as well as for his expertise as a collector and consultant in the fields of graphic design, fine printing and typography. Born and raised in San Francisco, he attended Mission Dolores Boys School but left after three years to apprentice with his older brother, Francis, in the lapidary business. After a year of working on watch- face crystals, Mr. Sperisen decided to enrol a year of working on watch- face crystals, Mr. Sperisen decided to enroll in the California School of Fine Arts, which led to an apprenticeship as a wood engraver-printer with the Simpson Art Co. In 1928, he joined Lord and Thomas Advertising as an assistant to the art director. In the mid-1930s, Lord and Thomas became Foote, Cone & Belding, and Mr. Sperisen became an art director and worked on the Dollar Steamship and Southern Pacific accounts. In 1935, he earned a national reputation in the graphic arts world by winning a national typographical contest sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in New York. That same year, the first book he designed was named one of the year’s 50 best-designed books — an honor he was to receive four times. Sperisen became associated with the prestigious Colt Press as a book designer, and he went on to form two private presses, the Toyon Press and the Penguin Press. During World War II, he served as the senior noncommissioned officer for intelligence with the U. Army Air Corps’ 30th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, which flew P- 38s with cameras loaded in airplanes’ nose sections. In 2,400 missions, the squadron took more than 1 million photographs, from the Normandy beaches to Berlin. In 1953, he became a vice president of Foote, Cone, which by then was the premier advertising agency in San Francisco. He retired in 1974. His membership in the Book Club of California dated back to 1937 and continued until his death. A reference library was established at the the club headquarters on Sutter Street after a significant gift of books came from an anonymous donor. Sperisen was then named club librarian, a post he held at the time of his death. Today, the library includes about 2,000 rare volumes. During his lifetime, Mr. Sperisen also assembled a prodigious book collection of his own. In 1958, Stanford University made him honorary Curator of Typography. His fine printing collection is now housed there. His gifts and collected works of art are now found, as well, at Clark Library at the University of California at Los Angeles and at the Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco. Sperisen was awarded the Sir Thomas More Medal for book collecting by the Gleeson Library Associates of the University of San Francisco. He was also made a fellow of the Gleeson Library Association and an honorary member of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. One of the last exhibits he mounted for the Book Club was for his close friend and fellow bibliophile, actress Gloria Stuart, of “Titanic” fame. In a moving tribute to her “boon companion, ” Stuart called him my “completely involved sailing companion” on the adventure of making the Academy award-winning movie. “He seemed to delight in all my gossipy news of a reborn career, ” she said. He was a true friend. He enriched my life. Bon voyage, dear boy. Another book club member, William P. An eminent bibliographer, collector and founding partner of an Oakland accounting firm, said: If it were necessary to find a single word to describe Albert Sperisen, I would choose’taste. It is not an original suggestion, since Foote, Cone & Belding once used an image of Albert’s face and a glass of wine to illustrate that concept perfectly. It is a quality that has become scarce of late, and Albert’s will be sorely missed. Sperisen is survived by his twin sister, Mrs. Guy Penna of San Rafael, her children, Rosemary U’Ren and Will and Paul Penna, a nephew, Richard Sperisen and his wife, Diane, and two grandnephews. The memorial Mass will be held on Monday, August 2, at 10 a. Ignatius Church on Fulton Street. A reception will follow in the Donahue Rare Book Room of the Gleeson Library. A retrospective of Mr. Sperisen’s life and his collections will be on view. The family prefers that memorial donations be sent to the Book Club of California, 312 Sutter St. San Francisco, CA, 94108, or the Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog. This item is in the category “Books & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “poetryinpower” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Topic: Illustrated
• Publisher: Grabhorn-Hoyem
• Author: Valenti Angelo; Anne Englund; Andrew Hoyem
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Art & Photography
• Special Attributes: Numbered, Limited Edition, Inscribed, Illustrated, Illuminated, 1st Edition
• Language: English
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Signed: Yes
• Place of Publication: San Francisco
• Year Printed: 1976
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

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VALENTI ANGELO – 1976 Book Club of Calif #154 – ASSOCIATION COPY HAND PAINTED. TITLE: Valenti Angelo Author Illustrator Printer. AUTHOR: Valenti Angelo; Anne Englund; Andrew Hoyem. PUBLISHER: San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem. EDITION: Four hundred copies of this book have been produced by Andrew Hoyem, Printer. Publication (Book Club of California), no. Includes : A bibliographical checklist of the works of Valenti Angelo/edited, i. Compiled, by Anne England. CONDITION NOTES: FINE with a tipped in item on the first fly page. Condition of laid in items varies but are generally very good. BINDING: Red cloth over patterned boards with a paper label. Created as a special, hand-colored example for Albert Spiersen, librarian of the The Book Club of California and widely known as “the Dean of San Francisco print production”. A longtime San Francisco advertising executive who was widely known as “the Dean of San Francisco print production, ” Sperisen was a former Foote, Cone & Belding executive and bibliophile who became better known after his retirement as the librarian of the Book Club of California, as well as for his expertise as a collector and consultant in the fields of graphic design, fine printing and typography. Born and raised in San Francisco, he attended Mission Dolores Boys School but left after three years to apprentice with his older brother, Francis, in the lapidary business. After a year of working on watch- face crystals, Mr. Sperisen decided to enrol a year of working on watch- face crystals, Mr. Sperisen decided to enroll in the California School of Fine Arts, which led to an apprenticeship as a wood engraver-printer with the Simpson Art Co. In 1928, he joined Lord and Thomas Advertising as an assistant to the art director. In the mid-1930s, Lord and Thomas became Foote, Cone & Belding, and Mr. Sperisen became an art director and worked on the Dollar Steamship and Southern Pacific accounts. In 1935, he earned a national reputation in the graphic arts world by winning a national typographical contest sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in New York. That same year, the first book he designed was named one of the year’s 50 best-designed books — an honor he was to receive four times. Sperisen became associated with the prestigious Colt Press as a book designer, and he went on to form two private presses, the Toyon Press and the Penguin Press. During World War II, he served as the senior noncommissioned officer for intelligence with the U. Army Air Corps’ 30th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, which flew P- 38s with cameras loaded in airplanes’ nose sections. In 2,400 missions, the squadron took more than 1 million photographs, from the Normandy beaches to Berlin. In 1953, he became a vice president of Foote, Cone, which by then was the premier advertising agency in San Francisco. He retired in 1974. His membership in the Book Club of California dated back to 1937 and continued until his death. A reference library was established at the the club headquarters on Sutter Street after a significant gift of books came from an anonymous donor. Sperisen was then named club librarian, a post he held at the time of his death. Today, the library includes about 2,000 rare volumes. During his lifetime, Mr. Sperisen also assembled a prodigious book collection of his own. In 1958, Stanford University made him honorary Curator of Typography. His fine printing collection is now housed there. His gifts and collected works of art are now found, as well, at Clark Library at the University of California at Los Angeles and at the Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco. Sperisen was awarded the Sir Thomas More Medal for book collecting by the Gleeson Library Associates of the University of San Francisco. He was also made a fellow of the Gleeson Library Association and an honorary member of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. One of the last exhibits he mounted for the Book Club was for his close friend and fellow bibliophile, actress Gloria Stuart, of “Titanic” fame. In a moving tribute to her “boon companion, ” Stuart called him my “completely involved sailing companion” on the adventure of making the Academy award-winning movie. “He seemed to delight in all my gossipy news of a reborn career, ” she said. He was a true friend. He enriched my life. Bon voyage, dear boy. Another book club member, William P. An eminent bibliographer, collector and founding partner of an Oakland accounting firm, said: If it were necessary to find a single word to describe Albert Sperisen, I would choose’taste. It is not an original suggestion, since Foote, Cone & Belding once used an image of Albert’s face and a glass of wine to illustrate that concept perfectly. It is a quality that has become scarce of late, and Albert’s will be sorely missed. Sperisen is survived by his twin sister, Mrs. Guy Penna of San Rafael, her children, Rosemary U’Ren and Will and Paul Penna, a nephew, Richard Sperisen and his wife, Diane, and two grandnephews. The memorial Mass will be held on Monday, August 2, at 10 a. Ignatius Church on Fulton Street. A reception will follow in the Donahue Rare Book Room of the Gleeson Library. A retrospective of Mr. Sperisen’s life and his collections will be on view. The family prefers that memorial donations be sent to the Book Club of California, 312 Sutter St. San Francisco, CA, 94108, or the Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog. This item is in the category “Books & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “poetryinpower” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Topic: Illustrated
• Publisher: Grabhorn-Hoyem
• Author: Valenti Angelo; Anne Englund; Andrew Hoyem
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Art & Photography
• Special Attributes: Numbered, Limited Edition, Inscribed, Illustrated, Illuminated, 1st Edition
• Language: English
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Signed: Yes
• Place of Publication: San Francisco
• Year Printed: 1976
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

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ROSAMUND: A DRAMATIC POEM, by GEORGE STERLING. Robertson, San Francisco, 1920. Limited Edition of only 500 copies, this being hand numbered copy 188, as shown on the limitation page (the last page). Softcovers, 5.5×8.5 inches, 120 pages. SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by GEORGE STERLING to CLARE SHERIDAN on the front free endpaper: For Clare Sheridan, This melodrama of another “golden lily, ” without apologies for end her conduct. Clare Consuelo Sheridan (née Frewen) b. 1970, was an English sculptor, journalist and writer known primarily for creating busts of the famous (including her cousin Winston Churchill) and writing diaries recounting her worldly travels. She enjoyed travelling around the world; and among her circle of friends were Princess Margaret of Sweden, Lord and Lady Mountbatten, Lady Diana Cooper, Vita Sackville-West and Vivien Leigh. She led an adventurous life. Please read all about her on her Wikipedia page. FAIR condition: The covers are worn at the corners and edges, the spine covering is missing its top 1 inch, has some scrapes, and is splitting at the bottom rear fold for about 2 inches, the front cover has a stiff and tender crease about 1 inch in from the spine where it was attached to the front free endpaper, nonetheless these original covers are still holding and doing their job; there is a crease to the upper front corner of the book leaving a crease at that corner of the covers and inner pages; internally the staples binding the text block are rusting, the pages are tight, bright, clean and clear. A used copy with some flaws that remains solid and presentable. A wonderful Signed and Inscribed copy with a great Association to an impressive English woman. About George Sterling (from Wikipedia). 1926, was an American writer based in the San Francisco, California Bay Area and Carmel by the Sea. He was considered a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century. His work was admired by writers as diverse as Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, and Sinclair Lewis. In 1905 Sterling moved to Carmel by the Sea, California, an undeveloped coastal area, and soon established a settlement for like minded Bohemian writers. Carmel had been discovered by Charles Warren Stoddard and others, but Sterling made it world famous. Sterling joined the Bohemian Club and acted in their theatrical productions each summer at the Bohemian Grove. For the Grove play of 1907 the Club presented Sterling’s “The Triumph of Bohemia”. Sterling carried a vial of cyanide for many years. In November 1926, Sterling used it while at his residence at the San Francisco Bohemian Club. Kevin Starr wrote that When George Sterling’s corpse was discovered in his room at the Bohemian Club… The golden age of San Francisco’s bohemia had definitely come to a miserable end. This item is in the category “Books & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “blankversobooks” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden, Korea, South, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Republic of, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Vietnam, Uruguay.

• Year Printed: 1920
• Modified Item: Yes
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Topic: Poetry
• Binding: Softcover, Wraps
• Region: North America
• Author: George Sterling
• Subject: Literature & Fiction
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Language: English
• Modification Description: Signed and Inscribed to the famous English female sculptor and adventuress, Clare Sheridan.
• Signed: Yes
• Publisher: A. M. Robertson
• Place of Publication: San Francisco, California
• Special Attributes: Association Copy, 1st Edition, Inscribed

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California auto association san francisco porcelain road sign 30s/40s Original. The item “California auto association san francisco porcelain road sign 30s/40s Original” is in sale since Tuesday, August 3, 2021. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Transportation\Signs”. The seller is “mustangs4203″ and is located in Grants Pass, Oregon. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Featured Refinements: Road Sign
• Country/Region of Manufacture: Australia

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California auto association san francisco porcelain road sign 30s/40s Original. The item “California auto association san francisco porcelain road sign 30s/40s Original” is in sale since Thursday, July 29, 2021. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Transportation\Signs”. The seller is “mustangs4203″ and is located in Grants Pass, Oregon. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Featured Refinements: Road Sign
• Country/Region of Manufacture: Australia

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California auto association san francisco porcelain road sign 30s/40s Original. The item “California auto association san francisco porcelain road sign 30s/40s Original” is in sale since Wednesday, July 14, 2021. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Transportation\Signs”. The seller is “mustangs4203″ and is located in Grants Pass, Oregon. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Country/Region of Manufacture: Australia

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VALENTI ANGELO – 1976 Book Club of Calif #154 – ASSOCIATION COPY HAND PAINTED. TITLE: Valenti Angelo Author Illustrator Printer. AUTHOR: Valenti Angelo; Anne Englund; Andrew Hoyem. PUBLISHER: San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem. EDITION: Four hundred copies of this book have been produced by Andrew Hoyem, Printer. Publication (Book Club of California), no. Includes : A bibliographical checklist of the works of Valenti Angelo/edited, i. Compiled, by Anne England. CONDITION NOTES: FINE with a tipped in item on the first fly page. Condition of laid in items varies but are generally very good. BINDING: Red cloth over patterned boards with a paper label. Created as a special, hand-colored example for Albert Spiersen, librarian of the The Book Club of California and widely known as “the Dean of San Francisco print production”. A longtime San Francisco advertising executive who was widely known as “the Dean of San Francisco print production, ” Sperisen was a former Foote, Cone & Belding executive and bibliophile who became better known after his retirement as the librarian of the Book Club of California, as well as for his expertise as a collector and consultant in the fields of graphic design, fine printing and typography. Born and raised in San Francisco, he attended Mission Dolores Boys School but left after three years to apprentice with his older brother, Francis, in the lapidary business. After a year of working on watch- face crystals, Mr. Sperisen decided to enrol a year of working on watch- face crystals, Mr. Sperisen decided to enroll in the California School of Fine Arts, which led to an apprenticeship as a wood engraver-printer with the Simpson Art Co. In 1928, he joined Lord and Thomas Advertising as an assistant to the art director. In the mid-1930s, Lord and Thomas became Foote, Cone & Belding, and Mr. Sperisen became an art director and worked on the Dollar Steamship and Southern Pacific accounts. In 1935, he earned a national reputation in the graphic arts world by winning a national typographical contest sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in New York. That same year, the first book he designed was named one of the year’s 50 best-designed books — an honor he was to receive four times. Sperisen became associated with the prestigious Colt Press as a book designer, and he went on to form two private presses, the Toyon Press and the Penguin Press. During World War II, he served as the senior noncommissioned officer for intelligence with the U. Army Air Corps’ 30th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, which flew P- 38s with cameras loaded in airplanes’ nose sections. In 2,400 missions, the squadron took more than 1 million photographs, from the Normandy beaches to Berlin. In 1953, he became a vice president of Foote, Cone, which by then was the premier advertising agency in San Francisco. He retired in 1974. His membership in the Book Club of California dated back to 1937 and continued until his death. A reference library was established at the the club headquarters on Sutter Street after a significant gift of books came from an anonymous donor. Sperisen was then named club librarian, a post he held at the time of his death. Today, the library includes about 2,000 rare volumes. During his lifetime, Mr. Sperisen also assembled a prodigious book collection of his own. In 1958, Stanford University made him honorary Curator of Typography. His fine printing collection is now housed there. His gifts and collected works of art are now found, as well, at Clark Library at the University of California at Los Angeles and at the Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco. Sperisen was awarded the Sir Thomas More Medal for book collecting by the Gleeson Library Associates of the University of San Francisco. He was also made a fellow of the Gleeson Library Association and an honorary member of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. One of the last exhibits he mounted for the Book Club was for his close friend and fellow bibliophile, actress Gloria Stuart, of “Titanic” fame. In a moving tribute to her “boon companion, ” Stuart called him my “completely involved sailing companion” on the adventure of making the Academy award-winning movie. “He seemed to delight in all my gossipy news of a reborn career, ” she said. He was a true friend. He enriched my life. Bon voyage, dear boy. Another book club member, William P. An eminent bibliographer, collector and founding partner of an Oakland accounting firm, said: If it were necessary to find a single word to describe Albert Sperisen, I would choose’taste. It is not an original suggestion, since Foote, Cone & Belding once used an image of Albert’s face and a glass of wine to illustrate that concept perfectly. It is a quality that has become scarce of late, and Albert’s will be sorely missed. Sperisen is survived by his twin sister, Mrs. Guy Penna of San Rafael, her children, Rosemary U’Ren and Will and Paul Penna, a nephew, Richard Sperisen and his wife, Diane, and two grandnephews. The memorial Mass will be held on Monday, August 2, at 10 a. Ignatius Church on Fulton Street. A reception will follow in the Donahue Rare Book Room of the Gleeson Library. A retrospective of Mr. Sperisen’s life and his collections will be on view. The family prefers that memorial donations be sent to the Book Club of California, 312 Sutter St. San Francisco, CA, 94108, or the Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog. The item “VALENTI ANGELO 1976 Book Club of Calif #154 ASSOCIATION COPY HAND PAINTED” is in sale since Sunday, March 7, 2021. This item is in the category “Books\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “poetryinpower” and is located in San Marino, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Topic: Illustrated
• Publisher: Grabhorn-Hoyem
• Author: Valenti Angelo; Anne Englund; Andrew Hoyem
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Art & Photography
• Special Attributes: Numbered
• Language: English
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Signed: Yes
• Place of Publication: San Francisco
• Year Printed: 1976
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

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