HISTORY GEOLOGY Of The CARLSBAD CAVERNS.
(n.p.): John J. Moseley, (1948). Unpaginated. Illustrated. 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Pictorial stiff wrappers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
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ILLUMINATIONS 1. Summer 1965.
(San Francisco): Illuminations Press, 1965. 1st printing. 11 leaves (printed recto only). Intratextual b/w illustrations and images. 17-1/2" x 11-1/2". Leaves housed inside stiff printed folder, Color illustrated printed paper title label to front cover. Sheets of blue and beige. "Most of the writers and artists whose work fills out..... More
THEY GAVE THEIR ALL FOREVER - YOU LEND A LITTLE For A WHILE. The Victory Liberty Loan is in Liquidation of the Debt for Men and Munitions we Amassed, and Which Brought About the End of the War - Saving for Every Day it was Shortened Billions More in Money and Thousands More in Lives.
Portland: Morris Brothers, Inc., the Premier Municipal Bond House, (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed). Ca. 1919-20. Broadside, printed recto only. B/w graveyard illustration to left edges. 20" x 11-1/4". White printed paper. "Sixty thousand of our American Boys lie among the poppies of Flanders' Fields in France. To them only..... More
EXHIBITION Of RECENT SCULPTURE: JOHN ROOD. October 7 - 25, 1958.
New York: The Contemporaries, (1958). 1st printing (Polk AD1, C23). [4] pp. Welty's Introduction, pp. 2-3. 8-1/8" x 5-1/2". Lime green pictorial printed paper wrappers. Stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
The FIRE STICK. Incidents on the Shearers Strike. A Tale of Australian Bush Life.
(n. p.). (n. d.). SIGNED. 223, [1 (blank)] pp. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Yellow glazed paper boards with black title lettering and graphic printed to front board and spine. More
A MEMOIR Of The LIFE Of JAMES MILNOR, D.D. Late Rector of St. George's Church, New York.
New York: The American Tract Society, (1849). Ca 1850. 549, [1] pp. Last page publisher advert. Frontis. 12mo. Original publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamped spine lettering & boards stamped in blind. Pale yellow eps. More
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source PASSAGES and PHRASES in Common Use.
Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1864. 4th edition. 480 pp (including index). 16mo. 17.5cm x 11cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering & decoration. TEG. More
CROMWELL'S BLOODY SLAUGHTER-HOUSE or His Damnable Designs laid and Practised by him and his Negro's in Contriving the Murther of his Sacred Majesty KING CHARLES I. DISCOVERED. By a Person of Honor.
London: Printed for James Davis, and are to be sold at the Grey-hound in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1660. 1st Edition (Abbott 1043; Wing G351). [8], 131, [13] pp. A6 blank. 12 pages of bookseller offerings conclude volume. Engraved frontispiece (restored lower corner?). 12mo; A^6 B - G^12 [A1 = Frontis]..... More
WINE AWARDS. California State Fair and Exposition. September 2 Thru September 12, 1954.
(n. p.): California State Printing Office, 1954. 1st printing (presumed). 32 pp. 9-1/16" x 6". Stiff orange printed paper wrappers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Rare in the trade. More
A COMPENDIUM Of DOMESTIC POSTAGE And POSTAL LITERATURE.
Chicago: United States Mail Publishing Co., (n. d.). Ca 1886. 32 pp. Frontis of Patterson & illustrated (primarily with wood cuts), 8vo. 7-5/8" x 4-7/8". Printed grey wrappers. Rear wrapper with facsimile letter lauding this Compendium. Booklet now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. An uncommon item; a the time..... More
LECTURES On ARCHITECTURE And PAINTING, Delivered at Edinburgh, in November, 1853.; With Illustrations, Drawn by the Author.
New York: John Wiley, 1854. 1st US Edition (NCBEL III, 1344). vi, [7] - 189, [3 (blanks)] pp. Tipped-in advert leaf before frontispiece. Illustrated with 15 lithographed plates ["Sarony & Co. Lith N. Y."]. 12mo. 8" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's green cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Pale yellow eps... More
CORRESPONDENCE Between NATHAN APPLETON And JOHN G. PALFREY Intended as a Supplement to Mr. Palfrey's Pamphlet on the Slave Power.
Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1846. 1st edition (Dumond, p. 20; Sabin 1825). 20 pp. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers, stab-sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Appleton an anti-slavery activist who owned the North American Review. More
The FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1934. 1st edition (Rader 1432). [1-16], 17- 455, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontis + 11 inserted plates and one folding map. 9-1/4" x 6-1/2". Red cloth binding, gilt printed lettering to spine. Yellow and black printed DJ. More
MEMORIAL EXERCISES For GENERAL JOHN BIDWELL (Died April 4, 1900); Held Under the Direction of the County Officers of Butte County, in the Court - House at Oroville, California May 7, 1900.
[Oroville]: Oroville Register Print, 1900. 1st Printing (Rocq 1308). Unpaginated, though 32 pp. Half-tone b/w photographic image of Bidwell, p. 3. 8-1/4" x 5-3/8". Original publisher's printed purple paper covers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Bidwell was a California pioneer, politician, and soldier. In March 1848, he..... More
REPORT Of The COMMITTEE Of ELECTIONS, to Whom was Referred the Petition of Sundry Citizens of the District of Norfolk, in the State of Massachusetts, Remonstrating Against the Return of John Bailey, Esq. as a Representative of said District, in the 18th Congress. February 20, 1824.; 18th Congress. 1st Session. No. 67.
[Washington, D.C.]: 1824. 1s printing (American Imprints 18982). 23, [1 (blank)] pp. Untrimmed. 4to. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". 3 gatherings, stab sewn with a single stitch. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
ECHOES Of The PAST ABOUT CALIFORNIA. An Account of the First Emigrant Train to California, Fremont in the Conquest of California, the Discovery of Gold and Early Reminiscences.
Chico, CA: Chico Advertiser, (n. d.). Ca. 1914. 91, [1] pp. A couple b/w photographic reproductions within. 7" x 5-1/8". Green printed paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
POPULAR EDUCATION In AMERICA, Illustrated by Extracts drawn Chiefly from the Official Reports of the United States. By John G. Cromwell, M.A., Brasenose College, Oxford; Principal of St. Mark's College, Chelsea; and Honorary Canon of Durham Cathedral.; With an Appendix Relating to Popular Education in England.
London: Published by Groombridge & Sons, Paternoster Row. 1868. 1st Printing. 44 pp. 8-1/4" x 5-3/8". Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Uncommon work on the subject... at the time of cataloguing, we see no others in the trade, with OCLC recording only a handful of..... More
MEMORIAL Of A DELEGATION From The CHEROKEE INDIANS. Presented to Congress January 18, 1831. To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled.
[Washington]: [Government Printing Office], [1831]. 1st edition (American Imprints 6483; Field 291; Sabin 12466). 8 pp. 8-3/4" x 5-5/8". Printed paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
HEAR JOHN F. CUNNEEN Of CHICAGO At The OPERA HOUSE - FOUR NIGHTS. Including a business card for John Cunneen.; Mr. Cunneen has Addressed hundreds of Thousand of People in 21 States.
Chicago. Allied Printing. 1916. 1st Printing. Two broadsides. Portrait of Mr. Cunneen to head of flyer. Flyer: 9" x 6". Business Card: 2" x 3-3/4". Card is white card stock with black lettering. Flyer is white paper with black lettering, both now housed in a mylar sleeve. Business card reads..... More
MENDOCINO FUNNIES. No. 1.
Mendocino, Calif. The Mendocino Review, (1975). 1st edition. Unpaginated, 32 pages. Comic-book style illustrations, b&w. 9-1/2" x 7". Pictoral color wrappers. Likely the only issue, and rare thus, of an obscure Northern California counter-culture comic. More
The CASE Of The ISLAND TRADER.; A Romance of Thrilling Adventure and Detective Work in the East Indies. The Sexton Blake Library No. 175. 4d.
London: The Almagated Press, Limited, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca 1921. 64 pp. Text double column. 7" x 5-1/2". Color pictorial paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. None recorded on OCLC. More
RCA TELEVISION PICT-O-GUIDE. Volume I.
Harrison, NJ: Radio Corporation of America, (1949). 100 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs & diagrams. 4 1/4 x 6 3/4 in. Red vinyl with 4-ring binder inside of spine. Housed in original card board box. An early manual for television technicians. More
RCA TELEVISION PICT-O-GUIDE. Volume III.
Harrison, NJ: Radio Corporation of America, (1952). 220 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs & diagrams. 4 1/4 x 6 3/4 in. Red vinyl with 4-ring binder inside of spine. Housed in original card board box. An early manual for television technicians. More
A DISCOURSE In TWO PARTS, Preached at the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century.
Boston: Printed by E. Lincoln, for John West, No. 75, Cornhill, 1801. 1st Edition (American Imprints 790; Sabin 39181). 40 pp. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/8". Bound in later red half-leather binding, dark red cloth boards. A sermon on Psalm LXXVIII. 2 & 3, 6 & 7. More
ADVICE To SABBATH SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Northampton: J. H. Butler / John Metcalf, 1838. 1st printing (presumed). 24, [2] pp. Woodcut illustrations within. 5-3/16" x 2-7/8". Light blue printed paper wrappers, with later navy blue cloth spine reinforcement. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More