DON McNEILL And The BREAKFAST CLUB CELEBRATE 20 (Y)EARS Of CORN.
Milwaukee: Moebius, [1952]. More
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INDEPENDENCE DAY RACES. Golden Gate Park Stadium. July 4th 1929 At 1:30 P.M.
San Francisco: Mission Enterprise 1173 Valencia St. 1929. 1st Printing. 4 leaves of stiff blue card stock, printed both sides, staple-bound, flip format, forming 8 pages. Pp 2, 4 & 8 with local business adverts. 8-11/16" x 4-5/8". Self-wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
GOLDEN LOTUS. Hotel Filipinas. Pearl of Orient Hotels. Manila, Philippines.
Manila: (n. d.). Ca 1959. Unpaginated, though 4 pages, with separately typed [mimeo] pink paper broadside insert [Today's Menu. January 29. 1959] clipped to p. 3. P. 4 with priced wine & liquor list. Front cover with color image of a young Filipino woman. Folio: 14-7/16" x 9-3/4". Glossy white... More
SACRAMENTO AIR MATERIAL AREA. Directorate of Matenance Engineering. McClellan Air Force Base. 1954.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Published by Army and Navy Publishing Company Inc. 1954. 1st Edition. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated, primarily with b/w photographic images. 4to. 11-1/4" x 8-1/2". Blue buckram cloth binding with white & yellow embossing. A useful source of local history, including an illustrated 5 page history of McClellan AFB... More
MEMBERSHIP In The NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION Of SCIENTISTS.
[International Center, San Francisco]: Northern California Association of Scientists, (n. d.). Circa 1947 (?). Folliated: [5 (1st leaf blank)], 16, [3 (Constituion)] ll. Text recto only. Laid-in, a typescript form letter requesting the new NCAS member give the booklet wide circulation "among your friends and associates ... and encourage them... More
9232 -- In "CHINATOWN," San Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa: Keystone View Company, (1893). One photograph with the two views, dome top. Verso with 10 lines of printed text describing Chinatown, "Here 40,000 Chinamen are huddled together in quarters which would not accommodate one fifth that number of Americans..." 3-1/2" x 7". Pale peach stiff-stock card mount. Rounded... More
CHINATOWN, San Francisco, Cal.
New York: American Stereoscopic Co. (n. d.). Ca 1890. One photograph with the two views, square edges. Verso blank, i.e., no publisher printing. 3-1/2" x 7". Pale peach stiff-stock card mount. Rounded corners. Image shows a crowed street scene in Chinatown. More
In The HEART Of CHINATOWN, San Francisco, California.
Washington DC: J. F. Jarvis, Publishers. (n. d.). Ca 1890. Two separate photographs, domed top. Verso blank, i.e., no publisher printing. 3-1/2" x 7". Pale peach stiff-stock card mount. Rounded corners. Image shows a street scene in Chinatown, with a horse & wagon in the fore-ground. More
ILLUSTRATED CIRCULAR Of HOLCOMB'S NEW AMPLIFYING TELEPHONES.
Mallet Creek, Ohio (?): J. R. Holcomb & Co. (1881). 1st Printing. Printed bifolium, unpaginated, 4 pages. Woodcut of the telephone, center of page 1. 11" x 8-1/4". Printed self-wrappers. Holcomb, born and raised in Ohio, in the early 20s made his way by painting houses, followed by moving to... More
CABINET CARD. 2626 M Street. Sacramento, Calfornia.
Sacramento: (n. d.). Ca 1890. Image depicts a 2 story home, complete with picket fence, and the 6 person Huelsman family posing on the steps & front yard. A horse in buggy stand in the road in front of the house. Photograph: 4-1/2" x 7-5/8". Mount: 5-1/4" x 8-3/8". Stiff-stock... More
I. T. RELLING & CO. Importers, Publishers and Booksellers. 104 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago.
[Chicago]: I. T. Relling & Co. (n. d.). Ca 1880s. Dual photographs, square edges. Verso with publisher imprint. 3-3/8" x 6-7/8". Stiff-stock yellow card mount, slightly concave. Rounded corners. Relling a longtime Chicago bookseller who was known for selling Scandinavian books, as well as publishing the Norwegian newspaper, Norden. This stereoview... More
The AMERICAN ACCOMPTANT; Being a Plain, Practical and Systematic Compendium of Federal Arithmetic; in Three Parts: Designed for the Use of Schools, and Especially Calculated for the Commercial Meridian of the United States of America.
Lansingburgh: Printed by William W. Wands, 1797. 1st Edition (Evans 32366; Howes L196; Sabin 39719). xlii, [43] - 297, [15] pp. 2 appendices follow text, eratta, 12 page List of Subscribers. Lacks frontispiece. Tables throughout. 12mo 1 a^4 b - d^6 A - Y^6. 6-3/4" x 4". Period brown full... More
37. PORCH Of The OLD MISSION Of SAN JUAN-- Monterey Co.
San Francisco, Cal. Thomas Houseworth & Co. (n. d.). Ca 1884. One photograph with the two views, square edges. Verso blank [i.e., no publisher printing], lavender color. 3-3/8" x 6-7/8". Stiff-stock orange card mount, printed with black. Rounded corners. More
CORONADO BEACH, San Diego, California, Its Attractions as a Health and Pleasure Resort, Its Wonderfully Equable Climate Which Makes It as Delightful in Summer as in Winter, Its Luxurious Hotel, The Hotel Del Coronado, The Largest Resort Hotel in the World.
Portland, ME: Published for E. S. Babcock, Manager, By Lakeside Press, [1891]. 1st printing. Cf. Rocq 7572, noting a date of 1890? 31, [1] pp. Cover title: "Coronado Beach, California. 'A unique corner of the earth.' Charles Dudley Warner" Text printed in red & black. Illustrated, with charts, graphs &... More
POWELL STREET From MARKET, San Francisco.; Descriptive Views of the American Continent.
Continent Stereoscopic Company Publishers, (n. d.). Ca 1880s. One photograph with the two views, square edges. Verso blank. 4-1/8" x 6-7/8". Stiff-stock card mount, light brown printed with dark brown. Rounded corners. More
YOUR 2 WEEKS VACATION In SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ... and what it will cost.
[Los Angeles ?]: (n. d.). Ca mid-to-late 1920s. Unpaginated, though 24 pages (including wrappers). Illustrated, primarily from b/w photographs. Map, p. 22. 9-1/8" x 4". Printed self-wrappers, stapled. A guided two week tour of [primarily] Southern California, with a total expected cost of only $103.40. These days, that *might* buy... More
CLOSING ARGUMENT Of ADOLPH SUTRO, on the Bill Before Congress to Aid THE SUTRO TUNNEL, Delivered Before the Committee on Mines and Mining of the House of Representatives of the United States of America, Monday, April 22, 1872.
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
SAILOR - AUTHOR'S COLLECTION Of MANUSCRIPT And ARCHIVAL MATERIAL Documenting Life in the Merchant Marine during the Depression. Including an Unpublished Autobiographical Story, MS Correspondence, a Yearbook, and 250+ Photographs.
(various): (various). Ca. 1918 - 1936. Total of 83 manuscript and 2 typescript letters, plus 1 V-mail, comprising 250 pp; of these, 54 are from Arthur to various friends, etc. (155 pp), and 29 are from Arthur's parents and 3 are from others (97 pp). "Notes" folder: 64 ruled leaves... More
ACAPULCO. Western Airlines.
(n. p.): Western Airlines, (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed). [ca 1960s]. Broadside. Large image [22-1/2" x 22-1/2"] of smiling couple sharing a moment together poolside on a sunny day, inside the cutout of a large angelfish. Title printed in multicolored lettering to white background. 39" x 25" More
ROYAL AMBASSADOR.
(n. p.): Trans World Airlines, (n. d.). Ca late 1960s. 4 pages, with the first & last blank, available food & drink options listed on pp. 2-3. 8" x 10-1/2". Covers of white glossy stock, with red 'sash' to lower right, with "RA" sunburst medallion in center. More
COMPLETE LIFE Of WILLIAM McKINLEY and Story of His Assassination.
(n. p.): The Historical Press, (1901). Zinman 469. Specimen pages and plates. Laid-in 4 page leaflet, "Instructions to Agents. How to Sell the Complete Life of President McKinleyu and Story of His Assassination. ... Call particular attention to the number and character of illustrations..." Half-broadside of volume description/prices, follows by... More
QUEEN VICTORIA Her Reign and Diamond Jubilee.
Chicago: The Dominion Co. (1897). Not in Zinman, though see 1158 for this title issued by another publisher. Specimen pages and plates, with note affixed prior to t.p., "Special Notice. Only part of the illustrations are shown in this prospectus. The full book will contain...." Volume description page followed by... More
On The ROAD To RICHES or How to Succeed in Life.
Chicago: F. C. Smedley & Co. 1896. 1st printing thus. Not in Zinman. Specimen pages & plates. Testimonials. Volume description/price page. Lined horizontal subscription leaves. 8vo. 8" x 5-3/8". Original brown cloth binding with gilt & black stamping. Brown patterned paper eps. Spine panel replica to front eps. More
LIFE And PUBLIC SERVICES Of WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. A SKETCH Of The LIFE Of ARTHUR J. SEWALL, ESQ. and the Free Silver Issue of 1896.; With an Introduction by Hon. R. P. Bland.
(n. p.): Edgewood Publishing Company, (1896). 1st printing thus. Zinman 1068. Specimen pages & plates. Volume description/price page. Subscription leaves. 8vo. Original blue cloth binding with dark blue & silver stamping. More
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The STORY Of MEXICO. A Land of Conquest and Revolution. [with] The STORY Of The PANAMA CANAL.
Philadelphia: Universal Book and Bible House, (1914). 1st printing thus. Zinman a541/1027. Specimen pages, plates, and spine/front cover samples, with the two titles bound dos-a-dos. Subscriber sheets at end of each text. Illustrated with maps & from photographs, some color. 8vo. Original red cloth binding. More