Washington: Government Printing Office, 1932. 1st printing. Not found in the Arents catalogue. xxxvi, 284 pp inculding index. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographic images 9" x 6" Green paper wrappers with black title lettering printed to front wrapper and spine. More
(n. p.): [1856]. 1st printing (presumed). 8 lines of type. Verso blank. Small cut of a river packet in center. Oblong format: 1-7/8" x 2-3/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
London / New York: E. Butterick & Co, 1878. 1st printing. 31, [1] pp. Illustrated with cuts. 10-1/4" x 7-1/2". Printed pale green-grey paper covers, stapled. More
New York: Frank Tousey, 1905. Later printing, ca 1906. Rear advert lists through #388. 28, [4 (adverts)] pp. Text double column. Color woodcut illustration to front wrapper. 11-1/8" x 8". Color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Fred's adventures mining for gold in an unspecified mining..... More
Chicago: Lovejoy & Foster, 88 State St. 1874. Yellow mount [recto], greenish grey verso, rounded corners. Printed title label to verso. Two separate domed /b/w albumen images. Publisher imprint to left; series title / date to right. 3-15/16" x 7" Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Philadelphia: M. P. Simons, 1320 Chestnut Street, (n. d.). Ca 1870s/. Green mount, rounded corners, publisher imprint to left, series title to right, image caption under right photograph. Verso blank. Two separate square b/w albumen images. 3-3/8" x 6-15/16". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Demand for paper grew..... More
[Blair County, Pennsylvania]: [1855]. 1st printing. SIGNED by Calvin at the top of the front wrapper. 15, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 9-3/4" x 6-3/8". Plain dull yellow paper covers, subject hand-inked to front cover, Calvin's signature to both front & rear covers. Calvin was a lawyer, member of the 31st..... More
Harrisburg: George Bergner & Co., Cheap Book and Job Printers, 1860. 1st printing. SIGNED by Calvin at the top of the front wrapper. 11, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6". Origninal publisher's printed dull yellow paper wrappers, sewn. Calvin was a lawyer, member of the 31st Congress (March 1849..... More
[Lawrence, Mass. ?]: Eagle Tribune Job Print, [1943]. 1st Printing. Unpaginated. Primarily adverts for local businesses. 9-3/16" x 6-1/16". White paper covers printed in blue & red. Useful for tracking active businesses in Lawrence, mid-WWII. More
Los Angeles: Santa Barbara Directory Co., (1943). 1st printing of this year (Rocq 13470). 580, [38 (Telephone directory)] pp. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4". Maroon cloth spine over printed yellow cloth boards. Edges with printed adverts. More
Los Angeles: Santa Barbara Directory Co., (1945). 1st printing of this year (Rocq 13470). 646, [42 (Telephone directory)] pp. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Maroon cloth spine over printed green cloth boards. Edges with printed adverts. More
Los Angeles: Santa Barbara Directory Co., (1942). 1st printing of this year (Rocq 13470). 675 pp (includes rear paste-down). Index at rear. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4". Maroon cloth spine over printed green cloth boards. Edges with printed adverts. More
[Oneida, N.Y.]: 1850. 1st Printing. Afro-Americana, 2nd Supp, 1607. 14, [2 (blank)] pp. Folded & stiched, unopened. 6-5/8" x 4". Printed self-wrappers, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Universally attributed to John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community, a perfectionist religious communal society established in 1848, which believed..... More
Cleveland: Church of God Publishing House, 1928. 1st edition. [9], 229, [6 (blank)] pp. 5 inserted plates. 9" x 6". Blue cloth binding with green stamped lettering to cover. More
San Francisco: Mission Journal Publishing Co., 2222 Mission Street, [1886]. 1st Edition (Zamorano 10). [106] pp. Fold-out map of San Francisco at front [Pine to Broadway, Montgomery to Mason]. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. "Every search for the true..... More
Berkeley: Lederer, Street & Zeus Co., [1921?]. 1st Printing (Rocq 440). Unpaginated, though 24 pages. Illustrated throughout with campus scenes, portraits, plans, etc. "Designs and drawings by the H.K. McCann Company, San Francisco". 12-3/4" x 9-1/2". Flexible tan linen covers, with state outline printed in blue, with large "C" overlay..... More
Berkeley: University of California Regional Oral History Office The Bancroft Library, (1993). 1st Printing. Copy #6. [14], vii, [1 (blank)], viii, [1 (blank)], 309, [5] pp. Half-tone photographic portrait of Luna Leopold. 11-1/4" x 8-5/8". Bright blue buckram binding with silver stamped spine lettering. More
New York / Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931. 1st Edition. xi, [1], 212 pp. December 1962 "Indian Affairs" newsletter laid-in. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 7-1/8". Orangish-tan cloth binding with dark brown stamping. Pictorial eps. No dust jacket. 1932 Newbery Award winner, story of a young Navajo boy..... More
Maceline, Missouri / Oroville, California: D-Books Publishing / Mercury - Register, (1995). 1st Edition. 96 pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographic images. 11-1/4" x 8-11/16". Maroon cloth binding with silver stamping to front cover. This volume "... undertaken as a special project of The Mercury-Register. Our primary purpose was to..... More
Trenton, N. J. Ca 1911 - 1913. The scrapbook consists of 176 numbered pages. Material in the book is sectioned off under the different headings, (e.g. “Autographs”), and no material was entered into the first 73 pages of the book. The last item pasted into the book is on page..... More
Guthrie, Oklahoma: Co-Operative Publishing Co., 1930. 1st edition. [4], viii, [4], 922 pp + Index. Illustrated. 8vo. 10-1/4" x 6-3/4". Original blue buckram cloth with gilt stamping. Pictorial eps. NB. "Vol I" stamped on spine; we find no evidence of other volumes ever published. More
Spokane, Washington: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1996 - 2001. 1st Edition. 8 volumes [of an eventual 9], divers paginations. 8vo.10-1/4" x 7-1/8". Tan fine-weave buckram cloth bindings with gilt stamping & red hightlights. Issued without jackets. More
New York: F. M. Lupton, Publisher. 106 Reade St. 1896. Later edition, first published by Lupton in 1884. Not found in Axford., nor Wheaton & Kelly. 14 pp [incomplete? Pagination, when present, discontinuouis & jumbled]. Text triple column. Wood engraved masthead. 11-3/4" x 8-1/2". Printed self wrappers, with later spine..... More
Philada., New York, ... San Francisco: The Cottage Library Publishing House, 1884. 1st Edition (Axford, p. 245). Not in Wheaton & Kelly. viii, [4], 15 - 369, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated, including 2 inserted color plates. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Original publisher's embossed brown cloth binding, gilt highlights ["Cottage Library"..... More
Madrid: Enda Imprenta de Don Antonia Perez de Soto, de la Real Biblioteca. A costa de la Real Compania de Impresores, y Libreros del Reyne. (n. d.). Early edition, ca mid-18th C. Cf. Palau 8977 for the 1st edition of 1745; Cagle 1208 & 1209 for 1767 & 1788 editions..... More
