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HOW To BE A DETECTIVE.; By Old King Brady (The World Known Detective). In Which He Lays Down...

HOW To BE A DETECTIVE.; By Old King Brady (The World Known Detective). In Which He Lays Down Some Valuable and Sensible Rules for Beginners, and Also Relates Some Adventures and Experiences of Well Known Detectives.

"Old King Brady" [Brady, James].

New York: Frank Tousey, Publisher, 24 Union Square, (1902). Later printing, ca 1904 [dated from a Work & Win advert]. 58, [6] pp. Preface signed [in type] by Brady, and dated April 1, 1890. Publisher adverts last 6 pages. 12mo. 6-1/4" x 4-1/16" White paper wrappers printed in blue. Rear..... More

Price: $350.00

HOW To BECOME A NAVAL CADET.; Complete Instructions of How to Gain Admission to the Annapolis...

HOW To BECOME A NAVAL CADET.; Complete Instructions of How to Gain Admission to the Annapolis Naval Academy. Also Containing the Course of Instructions, Descriptions of Grounds and Buildings, Historical Sketch, and Everything a Boy Should Know to Become an Officer in the United States Navy.

Senarens, Lu[is. 1863 - 1939].

New York: Frank Tousey, Publisher, 29 West 26th Street, (1898). Later printing, ca 1900. 59, [5] pp. Publisher adverts last 5 pages. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4-1/8" Printed paper wrappers, with full color image of 2 boys aloft, furling a sail, to front cover. Rear advert for the series, which lists..... More

Price: $750.00

1936 FORD V • 8. Automotive Promotional Booklet

1936 FORD V • 8

[Automotive Promotional Booklet].

Detroit, Michigan: Ford Motor Company, [1935]. 1st printing. Unpaginated, though 16 pp. Each page with a color illustration of a Ford V-8 model, beginning with the DeLuxe Tudor Sedan, p. 1 Oblong 8vo: 7" x 9". Color printed paper wrappers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. "New..... More

Price: $165.00

An ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE The LITERARY SOCIETIES Of AMHERST COLLEGE. August 25, 1835. ...

An ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE The LITERARY SOCIETIES Of AMHERST COLLEGE. August 25, 1835. Published by Request.

Everett, Edward [1794 - 1865].

Boston: Russell, Shattuck, & Williams (J. D. Freeman, Printer), 1835. 1st Printing (American Imprints 31563). 35, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More

Price: $45.00

SOUVENIR VIEW BOOK Of SAN FRANCISCO.; Containing a Selection of Reproductions of Interesting...

SOUVENIR VIEW BOOK Of SAN FRANCISCO.; Containing a Selection of Reproductions of Interesting Subjects from Photographs Taken by the Gabriel Moulin Studios, Famous California Photographers and Including a Bird's-Eye View of the Entire Bay Area from an Original Drawing by E. A. Burbank.

[San Francisco Local History].

San Francisco: Wobbers, Inc., (n. d.). Ca 1938. Not found in Rocq. Unpaginated, though 48 pages. Each page with a captioned b/w half-tone photograph of a San Francisco scene or landmark, e.g. "Scene at Fisherman's Wharf" and "Golden Gate Bridge". Oblong format: 9-1/8" x 11-1/8". Yellow paper covers, stapled. Now..... More

Price: $35.00

EXPEDITION Of 1871. Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridan. No. 1. T. H....

EXPEDITION Of 1871. Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridan. No. 1. T. H. O'Sullivan, Photo.; 1st Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers Commanding. War Department, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A.

[Stereoview]. Wheeler, First Lieut. Geo[rge]. M[ontague. 1842 - 1905]. O'Sullivan, T[imothy]. H. [c. 1840 - 1882] - Photographer.

[Washington]: (n. d.). Ca early 1870s. War Department seal, photo credit, and title imprinted on peach verso, all in red, followed by 4 lines descriptive text of the view, along with the initial portion of the expedition itself. Two domed b/w albumen photographs, affixed to a yellow mount, rounded corners..... More

Price: $350.00

RIDE The BIG RED CARS. How Trolleys Helped Build Southern California. Spencer Crump

RIDE The BIG RED CARS. How Trolleys Helped Build Southern California.

Crump, Spencer.

Los Angeles: Trans-Anglo Books, 1965. 2nd revised Edition. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the Author on the t.p. 238 pp. Profusely illustrated, primarily from b/w photographs. 4to. 11-1/4" x 8-5/8". Red cloth binding lettered in white. Route map eps. White dust jacket printed in red & black, with photographic image of..... More

Price: $45.00

CONCEPTS. Company Promotional Publication, Syd - Mead, 1933 - 2019

CONCEPTS.

[Company Promotional Publication]. Mead, Syd [1933 - 2019] - Illustrator.

Chicago: The Hansen Company, for U. S. Steel, (n. d.). Ca early 1960s. Unpaginated, though 84 pages. Illustrated in color by Mead. Oblong folio: 10-3/4" x 14". White vinylized cloth binding with embossed black title & tri-color U S Steel logo to the right thereof. Filled with wonderful illustrations by..... More

Price: $495.00

GEORGE MARDIKIAN'S DINNER MENU.; "Dinner at Omar Khayyam's" Restaurant Menu

GEORGE MARDIKIAN'S DINNER MENU.; "Dinner at Omar Khayyam's"

[Restaurant Menu].

[San Francisco]: (n. d.). Ca 1944. Unpaginated, though a bifolium, so 4 pages. Interior menu printed in red. P. 4 with "A Description of Old World Delicacies Served at Omar Khayyam's" Artwork to front cover. 12-3/8" x 8-5/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More

Price: $15.00

LONG BEACH SANITARIUM. Breakfast Menu. January 31, 1917.

[Hospital History / Cuisine].

Long Beach: 1917. 1st Printing. Single sheet, header & footer job printed, with bill of fare printed mimeo style in the center, recto only. 20 lines of mimeo with date at head. At bottom, included in the 2-line footer, are places for Name & Room number, blank in this copy..... More

Price: $75.00

MSS ITEMIZED SALES RECEIPT. Boston Jany. 27, 1807-. US Bookseller History, Sa . - Bookseller....

MSS ITEMIZED SALES RECEIPT. Boston Jany. 27, 1807-

[US Bookseller History]. Parker, Sam[uel]. H[ale. 1781 - 1864] - Bookseller. Atherton, Charles H[umphrey. 1773 - 1853] - Purchaser.

Boston: 1807. Bifolium, with manuscript sales receipt to p. 1 [19 lines]; mss address to p. 4 [Charles H. Atherton Esq / Amherst. N.H.]. 9-7/8" x 7-3/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Parker was a prominent publisher and bookseller in 19th C Boston. He published musical scores as..... More

Price: $325.00

LIKEWISE LIMERICKS. American Humor

LIKEWISE LIMERICKS.

[American Humor].

Boston: The Carol Press, 1910. 1st Edition. Unpaginated, though 98 pp. 4-3/4" x 3-1/8". Parchment spine over blue paper boards, printed paper title label to front cover. One limerick per page, a total of 96.Somewhat uncommon book with OCLC recording just 5 institional holdings of this 1910 first edition [also..... More

Price: $45.00

The TWENTIETH CENTURY COOK BOOK. California Regional Benefit Cookery Book

The TWENTIETH CENTURY COOK BOOK.

[California Regional Benefit Cookery Book].

Berkeley: Published by the Twentieth Century Club of Berkeley. Press of A. Newman. 1914. 1st Edition (Glozier 325). Not in not in Axford, Brown nor Wheaton & Kelly. 146 pp. Adverts throughout. Newspaper extract & mss recipe card laid-in. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Very pale green plactized binding, with dark..... More

Price: $175.00

INTERNATIONAL AEROSPACE HALL Of FAME. Fourth Annual Awards Banquet. Banquet Program

INTERNATIONAL AEROSPACE HALL Of FAME. Fourth Annual Awards Banquet.

[Banquet Program].

[San Diego]: [1968]. 1st Printing. A tri-fold blue paper folder, with interior pocket housing 6 sheets, each depicting a drawn image of one of the honored guests. Accompanied by an IAHF brochure / membership application. 8-1/2" x 7". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "The International Aerospace Hall of..... More

Price: $45.00

AIRCRAFT DESIGN SKETCH BOOK. US Aviation History, W. M. - Former Owner Cattrell

AIRCRAFT DESIGN SKETCH BOOK.

[US Aviation History]. Cattrell, W. M. - Former Owner.

Burbank, California: Compiled and Published by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, (1940). 1st Printing. Part I: Major Breakdowns [Wings, Controls, Fuselage, etc]: Part II: Complete Aircraft [Single Engine, Twin Engine, Multi-Engine]; Part III: Miscellaneous, comprised by 12 sections all together, with divers paginations in each section. Profusely illustrated with drawings, and..... More

Price: $135.00

U. S. MAIL OFFICIAL POSTAL GUIDE. Published by the Authority of the Postoffice Department at...

U. S. MAIL OFFICIAL POSTAL GUIDE. Published by the Authority of the Postoffice Department at Washington, Under the Supervision of the Postoffice of San Francisco. 1893.

[San Francisco Local History]. Robinson, G. H - Letter Carrier No. 56.

San Francisco: Cooperative Printing Co., Publishers, 408 Sacramento, [1892]. 1st Edition thus. Not in Rocq, though see 12628, for one the year prior. 96 pp. Tipped-in advert leaf, printed on pink paper, after p. 4. Adverts throughout. Contains a b/w half-tone photographic image of all local post office branches. 10"..... More

Price: $575.00

FIRST ANNUAL CATALOGUE And CIRCULAR Of The STRAFFORD COUNTY COMMON SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, 1850.;...

FIRST ANNUAL CATALOGUE And CIRCULAR Of The STRAFFORD COUNTY COMMON SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, 1850.; Organized Nov. 9, 1850.

Fenner, Albert G. - Former Owner.

Dover: Printed at teh Dover Gazette Job Office, 1850. 1st printing. SIGNED 4x by Fenner. 11, [1 (blank)] pp. Of particular note are pages 8 & 9, which list 48 ladies of the Association. 7-13/16" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's printed buff paper wrappers, stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar..... More

Price: $95.00

LAWRENCE & HOUSEWORTH. THOMAS HOUSEWORTH & CO. A Unique View of the West 1860 - 1886. Peter E....

LAWRENCE & HOUSEWORTH. THOMAS HOUSEWORTH & CO. A Unique View of the West 1860 - 1886.

Palmquist, Peter E.

Columbus, Ohio: National Stereoscopic Association, (1980). x, 150 pp (including Index). Illustrated with b/w photographic images. 4to. Brown cloth binding. Maroon dust jacket. Essential reference for those researching, or otherwise trying to date/identify, Houseworth views. More

Price: $45.00

A DAY In The WOODS ... or ... The Picnic. Alice E. Turtellah, Alice E. pseudonym for Lyon

A DAY In The WOODS ... or ... The Picnic.

Turtellah, Alice E. [pseudonym for Lyon, Alice E.].

San Francisco, Cal. Hayden Printing Company, 1902. 1st Edition. 36 pp. Illustrated with b/w drawings. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 5-1/8". Grey paper wrapped boards, with silver lettering outlined in gold. Scarce Children's book; scarce San Francisco imprint. OCLC records just one holding: UCLA. The NUC adds one more: LC... More

Price: $295.00

CALIFORNIA TYPE DESIGNERS. Featuring Fourteen Designers and Eighteen Typefaces with Quotations...

CALIFORNIA TYPE DESIGNERS. Featuring Fourteen Designers and Eighteen Typefaces with Quotations from Classic California Literature and Memoir.; The Book Club of California 2020 Keepsake.

Kelsey, Matthew - Editor.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2020. 1st Printing. 10" x 8-1/8". Mustard colored portfolio, with green & black printing. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More

Price: $45.00

"Mining Regions of California" [as published in]. Leavitt's FARMER'S ALMANACK, And Miscellaneous...

"Mining Regions of California" [as published in]. Leavitt's FARMER'S ALMANACK, And Miscellaneous Year Book, for the Year of Our Lord 1853 ... Containing a New Map of California.

[California History]. Boynton, George W. (fl. 1831 - 1884) - Engraver. Leavitt, Dudley [1772 - 1851] - Publisher.

Boston: Edward Livermore, 5 Cornhill, (1852). 1st printing of this issue (Wheat, Maps of the Gold Rush, 212). Cf Drake 4698, for the 1797 first edition. 48 pp, including wrappers, untrimmed. CA descriptive text p. 39, providing details on local gold rush municipalities: San Francisco ["principal port of entry"], Sacramento..... More

Price: $950.00

"Wireless Telephony" [as published in] ANNUAL REPORT Of The BOARD Of REGENTS Of The SMITHSONIAN...

"Wireless Telephony" [as published in] ANNUAL REPORT Of The BOARD Of REGENTS Of The SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Showing the Operations, Expenditures and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30 1908.

Fessenden, R. A. - Contributor. Walcott, Charles D. - Secretary.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909. 1st edition. x, 801, [4 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 9-1/8" x 5-7/8". Green cloth binding, gilt stamped lettering to spine & gilt stamped medallion to front cover (professionally recased). Also contains "Phototelegraphy" by Henri Armagnat, and "The gramophone and the Mechanical recording and reporduction of musical..... More

Price: $225.00

SIGNED CHECK, No. 605. $21.35 Pay to Bohemian Club. SEP 15 1912. Jack London, 1876 - 1916

SIGNED CHECK, No. 605. $21.35 Pay to Bohemian Club. SEP 15 1912.

London, Jack [1876 - 1916].

San Francisco: The Merchants National Bank, 1912. SIGNED by London. Check: 2-5/8" x 6-1/8". Holder: 3-5/8" x 6-7/8". Now housed in a clear acrylic check holder. "The Bohemian Club is a private club with two locations: a city clubhouse in the Union Square district of San Francisco, California and the..... More

Price: $495.00

SPEECH Of MR. EVERETT, Of MASSACHUSETTS, In The House of Representatives, On the 14th and 21st of...

SPEECH Of MR. EVERETT, Of MASSACHUSETTS, In The House of Representatives, On the 14th and 21st of February, 1831, On the Execution of the Laws and Treaties In FAVOR Of The INDIAN TRIBES.

Everett, Edward [1794 - 1865].

[Washington]: 1831. 1st printing. 23, [1 (blank)] pp. 8-1/2" x 5-1/4". Disbound. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More

Price: $115.00

UP - TO - DATE SMALL HOMES.; Price $1.00. Promotional Brochure

UP - TO - DATE SMALL HOMES.; Price $1.00

[Promotional Brochure].

Shreverport, La. Published by United Home Building Plan Service, (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca early 1940s. Unpaginated, though 24 pp, each page depicting a different house plan. Short paragraph of descriptive text for each. Each plan illustrated with a b/w halftone photograph, with accompanying architectual plan / footprint. 10-1/2"..... More

Price: $95.00

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