Camp Custer, Michigan: Base Hospital, 1918 - 1919. 1st printing(s). ASSOCIATON COPY, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Berkowitz to Morrison Wood, whose father, LTC Wood, "built" the hospital. Unpaginated, generally one leaf per issue, printed recto only. Occasional drawings. 14-1/8" x 8-1/2". Bespoke brown cloth binding with maroon leather title label... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970). 1st Edition. [10], 180, [2] pp. Illustrated with drawings by Deane Cate, including 3 maps. 8vo. Green cloth binding with black stamping. Dust jacket. More
Austin TX: Dorothy Sloan Rare Books Inc., 2003. 1st edition. xv, [1 (blank)], 319, [3 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 4to. Printed blue wrappers. With the commentary provided by Kurutz & Mathes, this has become an invaluable reference source. More
Oakland, Cal. Pubished by William Halley, 1876. 1st edition (Bradford 2068; Cowan II, p. 260; Filby, p. 21; Norris 13; Rocq 3). iv, [2], v - xv, [1], 586, [6] pp. Illustrated with wood engravings, though lacking the sometimes-present hotel wood engravings at front. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth binding... More
Boston: Published by Wm. B. Fowle & N. Capen, 1843. 1st edtion thus, i.e., by this publisher (American Imprints 43-4144). Also known as the "Massachusetts Edition", as a special print run was commissioned for MA schools. 552 pp. Separate dated title pages for each part. Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher's full... More
San Francisco: Girls' High School, 1886. 1st Printing. One rectangular sheet, printed, in purple ink, on both sides, folded once vertically, to form a 4 page program. P. 1 with the program title, p. 2 the "Argument", p. 3 the Cast [Miss Minnie Bullis in the lead] & p. 4... More
Boston: McKenzie Engraving Co., 1928. 1st Printing. Unpaginated, though 8 pages. Frontispiece. 8vo. 9" x 7". Original publisher's off-white stiff cards stock covers, with tasseled red cord tie [and center stapled]. Front cover with gilt embossed company arms, and lithograph of "Feneuil Hall. One Hundred Years Ago. From a rare... More
Boston: Tuttle and Weeks, Printers. 1835. 1st printing (American Imprints 31691). 30, [2 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-1/2". Lacking original wrappers, with later oversize heavy stock brown rear cover affixed. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Chicago: National Safety Council, (n. d.). Single sheet, printed recto only. 12" x 8-1/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Scarce iteration of this oft used phrase... a cursory search of the internet found none with this image of a German U-Boat sinking a freightor. 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
San Francisco: (n. d.). Ca 1970. Unpaginated, though 4 pages. At base of p. 4, "Variety performers appearing in this show are represented by the A. G. V. A. - AFL - CIO" Center 2 page b/w photographic image, "World's Most Famous and Talented Female Impersonators". 7-3/8" x 4" Printed... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1844. 2nd Edition (Sabin 84314). 24 pp. Half-title leaf present. 8vo. 7-13/16" x 5". Lacking original wrappers, with later oversize heavy stock brown rear cover affixed. "The letters relate to the repudiation by the state of Pennsylvania of the interest on its bonds, in... More
York: Philadelphia, Printed. Reprinted and Published by W. Alexander and Son, Castlegate: Sold also by Harvey and Darton, and W. Phillips, London; M. M. and E. Webb, Bristol; and Christopher Bentham, Dublin. 1823. 1st printing thus, i.e., by this printer (Smith, p. 949). 23, [1 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 6-1/2" x.... More
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San Francisco: 1918. 1st Printing. Printed on light brown stiff stock paper, 4 pages. P.1 a 'remembrance' of the "Wild Goose Club Excursion Around Lake Tahoe, Tuesday, June 4th, 1918. Pp 2-3, the menu, featuring 10 categories, beginnning with salad, and concluding with coffee. Each category with a cutsey saying... More
Seattle: 1952. Single card, printed in red & black on green stock. Horizontal orientation: 3-1/8" x 5-7/8". Now housed in an archival stiff mylar sleeve. "In 1928, Fujimatsu Moriguchi, a native of Japan began business in Tacoma, Washington. Moriguchi sold homemade fishcakes and other Japanese staples from the back of... More
Tulsa, Oklahoma. Watts-Payne. [1947]. 1st Edition, stated. 16 leaves of plates, in similar wrappers. 16 photographs tipped in. 14" x 11". Off white, thick paper wrappers and leaves, spiral bound, printed in brown. Plates tipped in. More
Concord: Asa McFarland - Printer. 1829. 1st Printing (American Imprints 37916; Sabin 6967). 29, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 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
Provincetown, Mass. The Advocate Press - Howard F. Hopkins, 1887. 1st printing thus. [2 (blank)], 14 pp. Last page an advert for the press. Illustrated with cuts. 8vo. Printed buff paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Published in the New York World, May 16, 1886, and Re-Published... More
Brooklyn, NY; Jamaica, L.I. 1861-1886. Approx. 126 ll. of ms receipts, many tipped in. Oblong format 5- ” x 7 ¼”. Full calf with brown-stamped borders to upper and lower boards, gilt-stamped, red calf label to backstrip. Cornelius Duryea and his seven daughters are part of the sixth generation of... More
[1851]. Bifolium, i.e., 4 pages of lined paper, 23 lines per page, ~ 10 words per line, ~ 900+ words. 9-3/4" x 7-5/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. While no year is written on the ALs itself, we posit 1851, as the Maritime Heritage website shows the only... More
Sag-Harbor [Long Island]: Corrector Office, 1835. 1st Printing. Broadside, 12 lines of printed text. Typographical ornament under "Notice". 10-3/4" x 8-3/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. In this printed notice, Nathan Corwin informs "all persons indebted to the late firm of N. & G. Corwin, that all notes... More
[New York]: 1938. 1st Printing. Menu: 4 pages. Passenger list: 8 pages, which includes, on the last 4 pages, general shipboard information as well as shore excursion options [4] while in Bermuda. Lot also include single sheet of blank "Eastern Steamship Lines" stationery & accompanying envelope, as well as "Eastern... More
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca 1870s / 1880s. 6" x 4-1/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
