(divers locales): 1947 - 1991. The core of the collection dates 1953 - 1980. This phenomenal collection consists of 894 letters, postcards, and greeting cards, 27 loose clippings, three church pamphlets, and two black and white school portrait photos. The letters are primarily to and from Martha Lee Newman Westgate..... More
[San Rafael?]: (1906). 1st Edition thus, and 2nd Edition overall (Axford, p. 357 [giving a date of 1907 ?]; Cook, p. 29). Cf. Brown 51, for the first edition of 1898. [3] - 222 pp. Contributions attributed. Advertisements throughout. Half-tone b/w photographic vignette of the First Presbyterian Church to first..... More
Yokohama: Published by the Author, 1910. 1st Edition. 2 volumes. Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth bindings with gilt stamping. More
Zanesville [OH]: 1857. 1st printing. One printed sheet, folded once vertically, for 4 pp. 13" x 9". Printed self-wrappers. Zanesville High School was founded in 1855. This monthly newspaper, begun 2 years later, written and published by the students of school [primarily the students' Scroll & Repartee Associations], with the..... More
[San Francisco?]. Ca 1850s (?). Blank base. Wraparound image, in red, of San Francisco harbor. Height: 2-3/16" Diameter: 2-1/4". Overall width, with handle: 3-1/4" The scene on the mug reminiscent of an 1851 Currier & Ives print of San Francisco harbor, after a drawing by Wm. B. McMurtrie (cf. Currier..... More
[New York]: 1923. 1st Printing. Broadside, with a 'plate' impression applied. Image of Farrand, with credits & accomplishments listed underneath. Graphics by T. Sindelar [signed in the plate]. 18-1/8" x 13-1/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Livingston Farrand was an American physician, anthropologist, psychologist, public health advocate and..... More
Seattle: The Metropolitan Press, (1905). 1st Printing (Smith 4109 [incorrectly noting 112 pages]). [8], 132, [24 (adverts)] pp. Illustrated throughout with b/w half-tone photographic images Folding map at rear. 9-1/2" x 6-3/4". Blue printed paper covers, gold & black lettering, image of a dog sled traveling across a map of..... More
London: The Nonesuch Press, [1925]. 1st Edition (Keynes 27). Unpaginated. Beautifully illustrated with color lithographic plates. Oblong format: 7-5/8" x 10-1/4". Original tan paper boards with red decorations & red medallion in center of top board. No dust jacket. More
![Item #44898 NOREMBEGA HALL PLAYBILL [for] The OLD CURIOSITY SHOP or, Little Nell, the...](/pictures/thumb/44898.jpg?v=1542149991)
Boston: Boston Job Print, Alden Street, (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca 1880. Not found in Bolton. Single sheet broadside, 10-1/4" x 4-3/8", 17 lines of text. A playbill advertising LeMoyne & "His Celebrated Company", with "the entire Company in both Pieces." as appearing at Bangor Maine's famed Norembega Hall..... More
New York. C. R. Gibson & Company, (1923). 60 ll, printed. Assorted material affixed to leaves throughout; handful of laid-in material, primarily letters. Few blank or partially filled pages; most pages filled with writing and/or pasted-in material. Printed green line drawings, illustrations and ornaments by Leta Hazzard Schell throughout. 9-1/4"..... More
[San Francisco]: [San Francisco Branch Society for Sanity in Art, Inc.], [1943]. 12 unnumbered pages. No illustrations, text only. 9-1/2" x 6". Stapled cream self-wrappers printed in dark brown. In original postmarked envelope. Catalogue from an exhibition by the Society for Sanity in Art, an organization dedicated to the rejection..... More
Portland OR: David Steel, 1889. 2nd edition, revised & enlargedition. 40 pp. 4" x 5 5/8". Printed pink paper wrappers. More
London: Printed by J. Sowle, 1707. 1st Edition (Smith 2, p. 84). [30], 156 pp. 12mo: A^12 a^3 B - G^12 H^6. Modern quarter-calf binding with marbled paper boards. Maroon title label to spine second compartment. Renewed eps. More
Detroit: General Motors Corporation, Chevrolet Motor Division, 1959. 1st edition. 116 pp. Over 200 color illustrations, color plates (many large, folding double-page), intratextual illustrations & diagrams. 36 interior upholstery color samples and 36 car color combinations spiral bound in rear. Oblong format: 10" x 13-1/8". Housed in a blue 19-ring..... More
Oakland, California: 1911. 1st edition. Unpaginated. T.p. & Foreward only text pages. 138 images, printed to the recto of each leaf. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Tan suede binding, with 3-hole rawhide cord tie. Yapp edges. From the Foreword: "Just in fun and in all friendliness, we present a book of..... More
New York / London: D. Appleton - Century Company, 1938. 1st edition. INSCRIBED by the Author, on the t.p. xii, [2], 296, [2 (blank)] pp. Illustrated by James Reid. 8vo. 7-13/16" x 5-1/2". Linen cloth binding with green stamped title lettering to spine & front board. Facsimile dust jacket... More
Hanoviae: Sumptibus Casparis Wächtler, Bibliopol. 1655. 1st edition thus- an 1655 edition from Frankfurt also recorded. [24], 1 - 143, 142 - 510 [i.e., 512], [8] pp. Errata last 8 pages. Engraved t.p., which reads: "De Jure Aedifichii cum Illustribus juris publici fragmentis." Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial captial letters. 12mo..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1958. 1st Edition. xxiii, [5], 79, [3] pp including Index. Illustrated with facsimlies. 14-1/2" x 10". Leaf designed papered boards with tan cloth spine. Gilt title lettering stamped to label on spine. More
San Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co., Printers. 1906. 1st printing. 15, [1] pp. Attached to the front wrapper is an ALs from Adam to the editor of Astronomical Notes, asking for 'careful consideration'. Illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Printed self-wrappers, stapled. The author attempts to explain the..... More
London: Printed fro C. Dilly, In the Poultry, 1794. 1st edition thus, and one of 2 authorized editions this first year of publication. [4], 75, [1] pp. Last page the Epilogue. 8vo. Disbound, with leather spine remnants. Cumberland was a civil servant in the Board of Trade and Plantations as..... More
Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, (1849). Ca 1849. Cf. Cagle 685 (listing a later issue, per adverts). 2 volumes in 1 (196; 154, [6] pp). Sectional t.p. for CONFECTIONER. Adverts last 6 pages. Frontis depicting 2 women at work in a mid-19th C kitchen. COOK illustrated by intra-textual cuts. 12mo. 7-1/2"..... More
![Item #25458 CHANTS D'AUTREFOIS. [Songs of Another Time]. French Music History, Louis De Cassagnac](/pictures/thumb/25458.jpg?v=1542148691)
Paris: Imprimerie D. Jouaust, 1878. Presentation copy. 209 pp. 7-1/8" x 4-1/2". Period brown qtr-leather with marbled boards & eps. Spine gilt lettered. Inscribed by the author. More
![Item #22416 The SPEECHES Of Sr. BENJAMIN RUDYER [sic] In The HIGH COURT Of PARLIAMENT. English...](/pictures/thumb/22416.jpg?v=1542148656)
[London]: Printed for T. S., 1641. 1st edition thus (Wing R-2201). [2], 19, [1] pp. Last page a blank. Printer's decoration to title page. 4to: A - C4. Lacks A1, presumed half-title. 17.5 cm x 13 cm. Modern plum-colored wrappers. Rudyerd a noted politician and poet of the period... per..... More
![Item #19264 REPORT Of The COMMITTEE On INDIAN AFFAIRS. [In Assembly, Eigth Session]. Native...](/pictures/thumb/19264.jpg?v=1542148608)
[Sacramento CA]: James Allen, State Printer. (n.d.). Circa 1856/57. 5 pp. 8vo. Disbound. Not in Greenwood. More
