New York and London: Beadle and Company. 141 William Street. General Dime Book Publishers. (1861). 1st edition (cf. Johannsen BEADLE, 4-DBL [p. 369]). 95, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece, by Nathaniel Orr. 12mo. 6-7/16" x 4-3/16". Original publisher's printed orange wrappers (Type I-DBL). Cover title: GEN. ANTHONY WAYNE, ("Mad Anthony,") The..... More

[Oakland?]: 1892. 1st Printing (Rocq 958). 10 pp. 5-5/8" x 3-7/8". Printed buff paper covers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "California College (sometimes called Baptist College or California Baptist College) was founded in Vacaville in 1871, and moved to East Oakland's Highland Park neighborhood in 1887. The..... More

San Francisco: Bradley & Rulofson, (n. d.). Ca 1880. Albumen bust portrait of Sanger, looking to her right. Grey mount, imprint at bottom, under image; elaborate publisher imprint to verso. Image: 5-7/8" x 4"; mount: 6-1/2" x 4-1/8". Housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Rachel Mary Sanger made her professional..... More

San Francisco: H. S. Crocker Company, Inc., 1935. 1st edition thus. 507, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrations by J. Paget-Fredericks; b/w half-tone photographs throughout. 4to. 12" x 9". Red rought weave cloth binding with gold & red stamping. Gold foil eps. More

(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca 1940s? Bifolium, mounted & framed, green matte. Framed: 15" x 19-1/8". Map [visible]: 10" x 14-1/2". Housed in a simple black wood frame. Nice pictorial map of Alameda County, depicting as far West as "Goat Island", NW to Albany, South to the Dumbarton Bridge &..... More

Cincinnati, Ohio: Published by J. B. Elliott, 51 Fourth Street, 1860. 1st Printing. 16 pp. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6". Original publisher's printed brownish grey paper wrappers, stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Wilson was born in Cincinnati in June, 1818. He served as co-pastor of the 1st Presbyterian..... More

Lancaster, PA: The New Era Printing Company, 1908. 1st Printing. Pp 165 - 274, [2] pp. Illustrated. 9-7/8" x 6-5/8". Original publisher's printed brown paper covers. More

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

Boston: W. S. Best & Co., Printers, 93 Federal Street, 1889 - 1890. 1st printings. Sizes & paper color vary. Largest: 18-1/2" x 24", yellow paper. Smallest: 11" x 14", white card stock. The remaining 8 are long & thin in nature, ranging from 12" x 7-1/8" to 20-1/4" x...... More

[San Francisco?]: Dollar Steamship Line, 1923. 1st Printing. Single sheet of off-white card stock paper, printed recto only, 21 lines of text. Company emblem at top. 8" x 5-1/2". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Built in 1920 as Wolverine State, one of seven Design 1095 ships, by the..... More

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1895. 1st edition (Broadstreet [4th ed], p. 297). 222 pp. Red ribbon page marker. Illustrated. 12mo. 8" x 5-1/8". Publisher's white fine weave cloth binding with gilt stamping. AEG. More

San Francisco: B. C. Vandall, Publisher. 1877. 1st edition thus. Cf. Rocq 7993. 1431, [1] pp. Advert eps, as well as throughout. Some adverts with cuts. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Black cloth spine, gilt stamped, over advert paper-wrapped boards. More

Littleton, N. H. Photographed and Published by Kilburn Brothers, (n. d.). Ca 1870s / 1880s. Stereo image, two square albumen photographs, of Telegraph Hill mounted to yellow stiff card-stock paper, slightly rounded corners. View & card number printed under right image. Kilburn imprint to verso. Oblong format: 3-3/8" x 6-7/8"..... More