The Golden Gate Bridge: Report of the Chief Engineer to the Board of Directors of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District -- California

San Francisco: Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, 1938. Pictorial cloth. Near Fine. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY JAMES E. RICKETS, THE GENERAL MANAGER OF THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE AND HIGHWAY DISTRICT, on the half-title. A tight, unusually clean copy to boot of the January 1938 1st edition. Crisp and Near Fine in its brick-red cloth, with bright, completely unrubbed titling and design to the front panel and spine. Quarto, lovely fold-out frontispiece (reproduction of a striking painting of the Bridge), dozens and dozens of black-and-white photos chronicling the construction of the Bridge and 12 fold-out plates at the rear. Truly a collector's copy. (Inventory (truncated) #: 21207)