San Francisco: The History Company, Publishers, 1887. 1st Edition. xxxi, [1 (blank)], 792 pp (including Index). Original publisher's printed 1887 Prospectus Leaflet laid-in. Fold-out map at front. Numerous other intratextual maps. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-7/8". Original full publisher's deluxe full black morocco binding, with elaborate gilt stamping to spine. AEG..... More
Mountain View, California: Printed .. by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press, 2008. 1st Printing. Unpaginated bifolium, so 4 pages. P. 2 blank. Cut to pp. 1 & 4. 9-3/8" x 6-1/2" White paper, printed in black. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Mencken's quote found on p. 3..... More
Boston: John Eliot, 5, Court-Street, 1815. 1st printing (American Imprint 35218). 20 pp. 8vo. Original printed blue paper wrappers, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Rear wrapper with advert for other publications available from "the Printing-Offfice of John Eliot" More
Concord: Printed by Henry E. Moore, 1828. 1st Printing (American Imprints 32454; Sabin 6966). 31, [1 (blank)] pp. Untrimmed. 8vo. Printed self-wrappers, stitched [lacking outer wrappers?]. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Boston: Published by Cummings, Hilliard, and Company. 1825. 1st printing (American Imprints 23265). 40 pp. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-1/4". 19th C. plain brown wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A popular publication, going through 5 editions in 1825 alone. More
New York: Geographia Map Co. Ca 1940s. Single sheet, printed in colors, recto only, folded into 27 panels. Unfolded: 27" x 40-1/8". Folded: 9-1/2" x 7/8". Housed in publisher purple & yellow paper portfolio. Map shows postal zones, main auto routes, railroads, and motor coach and street railway lines. Also..... More
San Francisco. c. 1930s (?). Two broadsides. Both leaves are 11" x 8-1/2". White and off-white paper, loose leaf, black typed lettering, now housed in a mylar sleeve. These seem to being trying to rally the possibly tired workers. As the initial letter states " 'Hard Times' are an opportunity..... More
Worcester, Mass. 6th March, 1945. 1st Printing. SIGNED. Broadside. 11" x 8-1/2". White paper, loose leaf, typed in black ink, signed in black ink, now housed in a mylar sleeve. Paul Alvin had a companion that he bought along with him on his lecture circuits, his name was Herman Beck..... More
New York. National Temperance Society and Publishers House. (n.d.). 1st Printing. Broadside. One small vignette and decorative boards. 8-1/2 x 5-1/4". Loose leafe, black ink on white paper, now housed in thick mylar sleeve. More
San Francisco: Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, (1918). 4th edition. [24], 155, [3] pp. Illustrated. 10-3/8" x 4-1/2". Tan rough weave cloth binding with black stamped title lettering to front cover. Red edgestain. More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1937. 1st revised and extended edition. One of 600 copies printed in July 1937. [13], 299, [2 (blank)] pp. Intratextual illustrations. 9-3/4" 6-1/2". Salmon cloth binding with title label pasted to spine. Gilt printed lettering to title label. Signed by "J. R. Knowland" -- Joseph Russell..... More
Newark NJ: 1915. Single sheet, folded horizontally. Writing on recto only. 10.8 cm x 14.2 cm. Douglas a well-known late 19th century/early 20th century childrens author, who used the series format to much success [The Little Girl Series & Helen Grant are perhaps her two best known]. Her first book..... More
Keokuk: R. B. Ogden & Son, Print. 1887. 1st edition (Nevins I, p. 57). 644, [2 (blank)] pp. Errata slip tipped-in after p. 6. Frontis. Facsimile broadside. xx inserted plates, primarily portraits. Map. 8vo. Publisher's original blue decorated cloth, with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Bevelled boards. A..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1862. 1st thus. xvi, 294 pp. Filled with tables. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's blue-green cloth binding. Useful data for the historian. More
Hartford: J. B. Burr & Hyde, 1872. xx, [21] - 665 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-3/8". Full publisher's sheep binding (recent respining) with black leather title labels to spine. More
Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862. 1st edition. 458 pp. 8 pp publisher catalogue at rear. Frontis. 12mo. Bound in 6s. Original publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., (1890). 1st edition. xi, 354 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. Royal 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/2". Red decorative cloth with lettering in gilt & designs/pictorial of a soldier on horseback done in black with gilt background. Bevelled boards. Marbled edges. Yellow patterned paper eps..... More
Philadelphia: G. G. Evans, 1860. 1st edition (Sabin 34776). 526 pp + 18 pp publisher catalogue at rear. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 5". Original brown publisher's cloth with gilt stamped spine lettering. In form of letters purportedly written by Kate Conyngham [pseud. of Rev. James Holt Ingraham]. More
Montgomery, Ala. The Brown Printing Co., 1893. 3rd Edition, 'Carefully Revised to Date'. 328 pp. Illustrated with cuts. No map, if called for. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/4". Printed white paper wrappers, stapled. More
Iowa City, Iowa: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1911. 1st book edition (Broadfoot, p. 486; Nevins I, p. 41; Seagreave, p. 563). 134 pp (including Index). Frontis of Rich. Maps. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/8". Bound in red broad-weave cloth with gilt stamping to spine & front board. TEG. "The..... More
Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, 25 Cornhill, 1845. 1st printing (American Imprints 45-6701; Blockson Catalogue 10153; Dummond, p. 113). vi, [7] - 119 pp. Preface by Maria Weston Chapman, a noted Boston abolitionist and the editor of the anti-slavery journal The Non-Resistant. T.p. cut of a branded hand. 3..... More
Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, 25 Cornhill, 1846. Early printing (American Imprints 46-7296; Blockson Catalogue 10153; Dummond, p. 113), first published in 1845. Not in the Library Company Afro-Americana Catalogue, though see 10892, listing a Marsh imprint. vi, [7] - 126 pp. Frontispiece of Walker. T.p. cut of a...... More
New York: C. Gerhardt, 1916. 1st Printing. 24 pp (including wrappers) 6-1/2" x 4-3/8" Printed buff paper covers, stapled. About Gerhardt himself, Guido Bruno, in his Adventures in American Bookshops [pp 54 - 55], describes Gerhardt as a specialist in "out of the way books by out of the way..... More
Milwaukee: Moebius, [1952]. 1st printing (presumed). 46, [2] pp. Illustrated with drawings & from photographs. Oblong 8vo: 7" x 10". Yellow paper wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
[Boston]: [Massachusetts Historical Society], 1890. Four-panel folded menu. Menu offerings printed to interior panels, rear panel blank. 6-3/8" x 4-1/4". Stiff tan cardstock printed in brown to front panel with decorative half border; interior printed in black. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Priced menu from the Food Exhibition..... More
