Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1963. First edition, 1/110 copies in a special edition printed on Ticonderoga text, bound in leather and marbled papers, and signed by the editor. 8vo. 2 volumes: 457; (4), 458-825 pp. Illustrated from old wood engravings, title page vignettes, folding map in rear pocket of volume..... More
Hiawatha, KS: Herald News, Book & Job Office, 1876. Second edition (slightly altered title, same collation and date as first). 12mo. 82 pp. Howes M-820. Title from cover. Original printed self-wraps bound into red quarter-morocco (joints rubbed) and marbled boards; institutional bookplate on pastedown, but well preserved copy. More
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 1962-1963. Second printing of volume one, first edition of volume two. 4to. 2 volumes: xv, (1), 443, (10); xiii, 454-933 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, maps, endpaper illustrations of railway passes. Gilt-stamped brown cloth, color illustrated dust jackets. Very good. More
St. Louis, (MO): St. Louis Historical Documents Foundation, 1952. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xv, (3), 375; (13), 376-853 pp. Five large folding maps and plans. Laid into volume one is a two-page single-spaced typed letter, signed by Nasatir, 4 November 1954, dealing with the legitimacy of Le Raye's Journal..... More
Alamogordo, NM: Alamogordo Printing Co., 1966. First edition. 8vo. (12), 81 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits, illustrated endpaper map at front, schematic on rear endpapers. Signed by the author on the dedication leaf. Two-tone decorated cloth, gilt spine title, illustrated dust jacket. Fine. More
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(Washington, DC: The author, 1894). 8vo. 10 pp. Original printed green wrappers (edges browned and somewhat brittle); stapled; small Library of Congress perforation on front wrapper. First edition. "How the heralds of discontent are soiling the fair name and fame of California." Uncommon; NUC locates three copies (CU, NN, NBHi)..... More
Madrid: Imprenta de Fortanet, 1881. Paperwraps (original salmon colored front cover; spine and rear cover supplied, chipped with some loss to spine). First edition. 28 cm.; 223 pp. Unopened pages. Bound with "Ultima Teoria Sobre La Atlantida," a dissertation by the same author. Published for the "Cuarto Congreso Internacional de..... More
Philadelphia [PA]: printed and published by Thos. H. Palmer, 1821. First edition. 8vo. xii, [9]-296 pp. Folding frontispiece map (by H.S. Tanner; short teat at hinge, not affecting image, some offsetting, else crisp) and five engraved plates (with tissue guards, as issued); ownership signature of Cleveland physician Henry Kirke Cushing..... More
[Guthrie, OK? 1907]. 8vo. 64 pp. [printed double-column]. Light rubberstamp at head of front wrapper "Printed Matter from Democratic Headquarters, Lee Hotel, Oklahoma City." Original self-wrappers, stapled; poor quality paper browned, else very good. An early form of the first Oklahoma state constitution, with 40 amendments and a separate prohibition..... More
New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Inc., 1935. First editon. 23 1/2 cm. xvii, (ii), 200 pp., illus. Red cloth with title stamped in black on front cover and spine, in green dust jacket. Some edgewear and darkening to dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on endpaper. Some offsetting on title and..... More
New York: Special Subscription Edition, made by J.J. Little & Ives Co., 1909. First edition. 8vo.; 448pp. Frontis. photo. & 7 plates (4 in color). With an introductory letter by Theodore Roosevelt in facsimile. White lettered blue cloth (lettering on spine rubbed; lettering on front board partially rubbed); spine a...... More
NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1964. Green lettered tan paperwraps. 8vo.; 102pp. Frontis. & illus. Blank bid sheet laid in. Very good. More
Folio. One page, approximately 125 words; docketed on verso. Parker, a native of Ohio, opened a law office in St. Joseph, Missouri, on the eve of the Civil War, served as city attorney there during the war and as a judge for the first time there, 1868-1870. After a brief..... More
Folio. 2 pages, approximately 350 words. Folded, but very good. At the February, 1861, spring term of court, a suit against a New York City company had been dismissed because the plaintiff's attorney "was in attendance upon the State Convention held in the city of Austin" [i.e., the secession convention]..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. Two volumes. First editions. Vol. one: No. 39 of 501 copies. Vol. two: No. 8 of 501 copies. 4to.; 331pp.; 404pp. A chronicle of the firm, and of the artists and their work, with notes on collecting. Vol. one contains reproductions of 142 prints..... More
Norman, (OK): Univ. of Oklahoma Press, (c1961). First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xxvi, 686; viii, 696 pp. Illustrated from old prints and paintings, plates, portraits, maps. The standard history of the fur trade in North America, from the colonial period through the opening of the west. Tan cloth, gilt spine..... More
Monadnock Block, Chicago: Compliments of The Baldwin Syndicate, n.d. [ca.1910-19]. A black & white image, on glossy paper, measuring 22 1/4 x 95 cm. Noted in type: "Road to Globe" [on left]; "Phoenix & Eastern Railway" [left of center]; "Town of Kelvin (500 inhabitants) at right." No. 1, 2 &..... More
Washington: David M'Intosh, printer, 1872. 8vo. 205 pp. Bound with: (Pike, Luther H.) IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, WARD H. LAMON, ET AL., VS. HENRY E. MCKEE:, NO. 11,238, EQUITY DOC. 28: A BRIEF [caption title]. Leather and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt title on spine;..... More
San Francisco, (CA): Colt Press, 1947. First separate edition (first published serially in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, in six installments, January – June, 1840), 1/500 unnumbered copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. 4to. (6), 76 pp. Illustrated from colored wood engraving by Mallette Dean. “An account of the first passage across..... More
Broadside reprinting of the three-page original, 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. The original, signed in type by President Jose Joaquin de Herrera, was issued in Mexico, 4 June 1845, then reprinted and issued by governors for various states (Streeter locates one for the state of Mexico). Cf. Streeter 1021..... More
(Houston Texas: Passenger Dept., Southern Pacific-Sunset Route), (1909). Popular viewbook and promotional, reprinted a number of times in the early 20th century. Oblong 4to. 39, (5) pp. Illustrated, captioned photographic plates of scenes along the route, marginal line drawings by Trezevant. The text describes the route across West Texas, with..... More
Marshall, MO: Marshall Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1914. First edition. 12mo. 94 pp. Illustrated. No further volumes were published. Black-printed grey paperwraps (with cover illustration); stapled. Scattered pencil in margins. Edgewear to wraps, minor chipping, else very good. More
Palestine, Texas: July 9th, 1859. Printed broadsheet, 23 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches, the title in a single small (3/8 inch) display type. This political circular prints Judge Reagan's response to election-campaign disagreements with his opponent Judge William B. Ochiltree (1811-1867). The two were candidates for Congress from Texas's First..... More
NP [Territory of Montana]: np, 1865. Small receipt, partially printed on lined paper, completed in manuscript, measuring 12 1/2 x 8 cm. Printed on one side only. A very nice example of an early Montana Territory printing. The Territory of Montana was formed in May 1864, with Virginia City as..... More
