1979 CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY-DRAWINGS-SIGNED

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1979 CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY-DRAWINGS-SIGNED POURADE, Richard F. Commissioned by: HELEN K. COPLEY Illustrated by: EUGENE GILBERT "THE CALIFORNIA TO REMEMBER" Signed by: RICHARD F. POURADE, HELEN K. COPLEY and EUGENE GILBERT I, 100% unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the signature forever . Please . Published by Copley Books. 1979. First Edition. Octavo. 191 pp. Hardcover with Slipcase. Bound in Beige cloth with gilt title and design on top panel and spine. Special Limited Triple Signed and Numbered Edition. This is #415. With numerous B&W in text illustrations, plus a map of California on endboards. Internally and externally clean. In Fine condition. Slipcase in Very Good condition with some minor staining. Helen K Copley who commissioned the book. California , and how it all came about. There are about 300 handsome pencil sketches of historic California , from Spanish-Mexican days to the beginning of the modern era. They are the works of anoted architect, who designed--among other famous structures--Duke University...The California to Remember is designed to satisfy historians and to fulfill what most people would like to know about the history of the nation's most populous state." This is an exceptional copy in this excellent condition. Provenance: James S. Copley / Copley Library - This item is formerly from the collection of James S. Copley (1916 - 1973) who owned the Copley Press and founded the Copley Library in San Diego California . James Copley was born in St. Johnsville , N.Y. , in 1916. Both of his parents died in the flu epidemic that swept the U.S. in 1918, and when he was 4 he was adopted by Col. and Mrs. Ira C. Copley. Col. Copley bought The San Diego Union and Evening Tribune from the Spreckels family in 1928. Copley graduated from Yale in 1939 and started his journalism career at another of his father's papers, The Culver City Star News, where he solicited ads and circulation as well as sweeping the floor and writing news stories. When the elder Copley died in 1947, Jim became Chief Executive Officer of the corporation publishing a large family of newspapers, the flagship of which was, and is today, the Union-Tribune. He pursued a dynamic program of expansion of the newspaper plants, both technologically and in size. He took an active personal interest in the editorial quality of his papers. In the 26 years he headed the enterprise until his death in 1973, the Union's circulation tripled and the Union-Tribune moved into a wholly new plant with new presses in Mission Valley . Copley's politics were unabashedly conservative, Republican and pro-American, and still have a deep influence on the voting populace of San Diego . He was President of the Boy Scouts San Diego County Council, the Navy League San Diego Council, and received so many industry and patriotic awards that they are too numerous to list here. He also was a notable philanthropist to local causes, including large, key gifts to build the Copley Auditorium at the San Diego Museum of Art and Copley Library at University of San Diego . His widow, Helen K. Copley, has continued the tradition of philanthropy through gifts to finance Copley Symphony Hall and the City-County Animal Shelter. The Copley Collection - Later in life, James Copley and his wife embarked on an Americana collecting odyssey the likes of which few institutions have achieved - much less an individual has even dreamed of assembling. The exceptional collection contains highlights such as: 1. One of a few surviving broadside Declarations of Independence printed in the weeks after July 4, 1776 2. An official letter from 12 July 1776 from the Marine Committee of Congress to John Ashmead signed by Button Gwinnett, the most prized of all the signers of the Declaration of Independence 3. Personal notebooks belonging to John Lans... read more

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