San Francisco: Bell & Company, General Publishers of Songs and Ballads, No. 639 Kearny Street. (n. d.). 1st printing, ca 1870s. Not in Wolf, 15 holdings recorded on OCLC. Single sheet, printed recto only. 8 verses, each of 8 lines. No music. Typographical decorative border, unsigned. 10-7/8" x 4-/12". Now..... More
San Francisco: Bell & Company, General Publishers of Songs and Ballads, No. 639 Kearny Street. (n. d.). 1st printing, ca. 1870s. Not in Wolf, 11 library holdings recorded on OCLC. Single sheet, printed recto only. 4 verses, each of 9 lines. No music. Typographical decorative border, unsigned. 11" x 4-1/4"..... More
San Francisco: I. S. Cohen, Publisher. No. 912 Kearny Street. (n. d.). 1st printing, ca. 1870s (Wolf 401). Singe sheet, printed recto only. 4 verses of various lengths, with spoken lines in between. No music. Typographical decorative border with curved edges, unsigned. 11-1/2" x 4-1/2". Now housed in a clear..... More
St. Louis, Mo: Rooms Western Sanitary Commission, No. 10, North Fifth Street. Printed by R. P. Studley and Co., 1864. 1st Printing. 44 pp. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-7/8". Original publisher's printed light brown paper covers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "The Western Sanitary Commission was a private agency..... More
San Francisco, Cal: A J McDonald, (n. d.). Ca 1890. Photographer imprint lower left; photographer location lower right. Image caption, "Old Spanish Church (Monterey)", stamped directly under image. Verso blank. Albumen photograph Landscape format: 5-1/8" x 8-3/8". Off white, scalloped-edge mount. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. The..... More
New York: Reprinted for Joseph Sabin Munsell Printer, 1865. 1st edition thus (Sabin 11709). #39 /250 cc. Large paper copy. Limitation statement initialed by Sabin. 24 pp. T.p. printed in red & black. 4to. 11-1/2" x 9" Disbound. A facsimile reprint of the original edition published in London,1643 [or 1644]..... More
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca 1825 - 1826. Various paginations [though ~ 600 pp]. Index first 15 pp. No t.p. per se. Fold-out charts. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8". Period full sheep. A bound volume of the divers reports 1 - 130, though not strictly sequential; for example, we note 71-75..... More
La Haye: Van Cleef et al, 1781. 1st edition thus (Howe H728; Sabin 3339). viii; 70; 116 pp. 8vo: *4 A - D4 E3; A - G H2. 7-7/8" x 5". Contemporary blue-grey paper wrapped boards. Title hand-inked to spine crown. Howe the British Commanding General during the Revolutionary War..... More
(n. p.): 1821. 1st Separate Printing (American Imprints 5281). Broadside, black wide-rule mourning border, text in 4 columns divided by black vertical single rules. Cut of coffin under title. 17-15/16" x 10-1/2". Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Clark convicted of intentially setting fire to a stable owned..... More
New York: 1893 - 94. 1st bound volume. 192 pp. Illustrated. 4to. 11" x 8". Original publisher's grey cloth lettered in gilt to front board (professionally restored). More
Washington: Beverley Tucker, Printer. 1856. 1st edition thus. Quarto Edition (Hasse p. 62; Meisel III, pp. 208-210; Wagner-Camp 264). vii, [1], 193, [1], 288 pp. Folding, hand-colored 'Botanical Profile of Forest Trees'. 59 inserted plates (Cactaceae 24; Botany 25; Mosses & Liverworts 10). 4to. 11-1/2" x Original brown cloth (professionally..... More
Philadelphia: Wilmer Atkinson Company, 1916. 1st edition. 208 pp. Illustrated from photographs. Map [25-1/4" x `6-1/4"] laid-in. 8vo. Photographically illustrated, printed white paper boards over grey cloth spine. Advert eps. Scare item of local Ohio history- OCLC records just 2 holdings. More
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company at the Tomoyé Press, 1904. 1st edition (Mostardi 375). [6], 64, [4] pp. Binder's blanks at beginning & end of volume. Drawings by Florence Lundborg. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-3/8". Publisher's deluxe leather presentation binding by Root & Son, London: full brown morocco with 5..... More
Boston: Alexander Moore, 1872. 3rd edition, first printing (Cowan II, p. 333; Currey & Kruska 225; Farquhar 10c; Kurutz CA PHOTO BOOKS, 84). xii, [13] - 97, [1 (Index)] pp. Each page of text with a red-rule perimeter border. Illustrated with 10 albumen photographs taken by John P. Soule. Image..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909. 1st Printing. 23, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with 9 b/w half-tone photographic images. 8vo. Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. "This bulletin gives an account of the recent mouse plague in Humboldt Valley, Nevada. Its object is to acquaint farmers..... More
New York / Cincinnati: Phillips & Hunt / Walden & Stowe, 1883. 1st issue of the 2nd edition (Cowan, p. 82 [incorrectly citing "Walden & Stone"]; Currey & Kruska 26 [who picture not this 1st issue, but a later issue by Cranston & Stowe]; Sutton, p. 342 [for timeline of..... More
San Francisco: Published by John Howell Books, 1971. 1st edition thus. [10], 130 pp (including index). Illustrated with 4 contemporary maps and 6 illustrations in full color from the Brush & Pencil of Louis Choris, who was at San Francisco in 1816. 4to. Blue cloth binding lettered & decorated in..... More
Washington, D.C. M'Gill & Witherow, Printers and Stereotypers. 1872. 1st edition. Issue with map. 92 pp. Fold-out color-printed topographical map & section of the Tunnel / Comstock Lode. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping. AEG. More
(San Francisco): 1915. 1st Printing. Bifolium. Color illustration to upper wrapper along with an picture the Inside Inn. 7-1/4" x 4-1/2". Off white, card stock, self wrappers, gilt lettering to upper wrapper, menu items printed in light brown. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
(n.p.): December 25th 1936. 1st Printing. Bifolium. Small illustration of waves and Poseidon. 6" x 4". White card stock, self wrappers. Upper wrapper printed in light blue and silver. Menu items printed in dark blue. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
New York. C. Jourgensen, Printer. 1885. 1st Printing. 4 pp. unpaginated. Small vignette to upper wrapper. 4-3/4" x 3-1/4". White card stock self wrapper, printed in blue. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. Inside this program lists "Order of Danses" Part I and II. More
(n.p.). 1955. 1st Printing. Bifolium. Picture of "Yosemite Falls" to upper wrapper. 7" x 4-3/4". White card stock, color photograph to upper wrapper, menu items printed in black. Short description of Yosemite Falls to lower wrapper, printed in gray. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
(n.p.). (n.d.). 1st printing. Bifoliuim. Picture of "Yosemite Falls" to upper wrapper. 6-1/4" x 4-6/8. White card stock, color photograph to upper wrapper, menu items printed in black. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
Amsterdam. Studio Certo. June 11, 1956. 1st Printing. Illustrated bifolium. Illustrated upper wrapper. 7-1/4" x 5-1/2". Card stock self wrappers, full color illustration to upper wrapper, menu items typed in blue ink. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Lunch and Dinner menu. More
(Denmark). 21.8.36. 1st Printing. Broadside. Small vignette to upper wrapper. 7-3/4" x 4-1/2". White card stock leaf, vignette of a flag and "Menu" in blue ink, typed in black ink, now housed in a mylar sleeve. MS Amerika was a restaurant outside of Copenhagen. It its now permanently closed... More
