[San Antonio, TX: Buckhorn Curio Store, 1939]. Promotional brochure for the store and for San Antonio, printed on buff paper, with text and illustrations in red. Single sheet, 30 x 35 cm., folded to 16 x 8.5 cm., printed on both sides. Included is a brief history of the Buckhorn..... More
St. Augustine: Record Company, (ca. 1910). Stapled orange wraps with green lettering. 5 by 5 3/4 in, 8 pp., illustrated. Very good. Not in OCLC or Servies. More
Philadelphia, PA: The saloon, 1865. The photograph is housed in a gilt-stamped light green envelope, produced for the purpose with a window on the upper panel through which the photo could be viewed, and annotated "The UVR Saloon / as it appeared in 1864 & 1865" in ink manuscript by..... More
![Item #61668 Bully for Us. [caption title] Composed and sung by Harry Fox, the Popular Negro...](/pictures/thumb/61668.jpg?v=1622559501)
New York: H. de Marsan, nd [1861?]. First edition. Broadside song sheet, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (trimmed to edge of ornamental border), printing five verses and a chorus in two columns separated by a thin rule, and enclosed within a wide ornamental and illustrated border, with pictorial scenes..... More
Columbia, SC: The State -- The Columbia Record, February 16-17, 1965. Centennial edition. Folio. 80 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings of the period, portraits, map; illustrated Civil War themed ads for local businesses. Prints contemporary accounts of the burning and the march, 20th-century commentary, biographical sketches of leaders from both..... More
Richmond, (VA): Printed by James E. Goode, 1864. 15 pp., 12mo, original printed wrappers. First Confederate edition. Very good copy. Parrish 8662. More
Atlanta, GA: The club, 1934. First edition (?). 16mo (16 cm). 15 pp. “The object of this organization shall be the encouragement of organized rifle and pistol shooting by civilian citizens of the United States.” We were unable to locate any publications for this club; several items are marked through..... More
Louisville, KY: printed at Mrs. Palmer's Price Current Office - Wall Street, 1833. First edition (?). 20 cm. 11 pp. (printing error resulting in an extra signature being bound in, repeating pages 9-11). The Bank of Louisville was chartered in 1832. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Not in Sabin, American..... More
[Houston, TX?]: np, nd [ca.1919]. Brown paperwraps, stapled. 15 cm. 16 pp. Black lettering and a small decorative vignette on front cover. A list of officers, directors and members printed on verso of front wrapper. A very good copy. Camp Sterett was organized "for the purpose of making and maintaining..... More
Charlotte C. H. Charlotte Gazette Printing Office, 1874. 16mo. 10 pp. Original printed blue wrappers. Very good. First edition (?). Includes a list of the lodge's officers. Scarce; apparently unrecorded on OCLC. More
Greenfield, (MA): Franklin Job Printing Office, 1866. 12mo. 11 pp. Original gilt-stamped blue wrappers. Fine. First edition. Cover title: The Federal Union Gold Mining Company. "Whereas, Napoleon B. Buford of Illinois, Erskine McClallen of Cororado, Joseph Beals, Elisha Wells and others of Massachusetts, having acquired a large mining property on..... More
Charleston, (SC): Evans & Cogswell, 1861. Revised edition (previous rules for operation had been published in 1806, 1839, and 1852). 8vo. 40 pp. Parrish & Willingham 7837. Turnbull III, p. 332. Very good. Original printed yellow glazed wrappers (spine a little eroded, old tideline in lower corner). (10161). More
(Pine City, GA): Daily Democrat Job Print, 1891. 16mo. 8 pp. Original printed red wrappers (faded, with some bleed through to text), stapled. Very good. Prospectus for the capitalization of the company. More
[Brattleboro, Vt: np, 1847]. Broadside, 44 x 36 cm. Text in three columns printing a list of 19 by-laws. Old fold lines, with some short separations at folds. This was Vermont's first Savings Bank. Apparently unrecorded. More
NY: Passenger Traffic Dept., United Fruit Company Steamship Service, nd [ca. 1915]. Small 4to folded to narrow 8vo. 15 pp. Illustrated, includes deck plans for 11 different models of steamships in the line, one of which is double-page. Original illustrated wrappers, stapled. Very good. Promotional for the "Great White Fleet,"..... More
Oakland, CA: Oakland Chamber of Commerce, 1932. Promotional pamphlet, measuring 23 x 20 cm., folded to 23 x 10 cm. Red lettered white paper wraps, with color illustrations presented as oversized postage stamp views of tourist attractions in the two states; (24) pp. Illustrated with black & white photos and..... More
Chicago (IL): Burlington Route [Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roger & Smith Co., Printers], 1914. Revised edition. Large broadsheet folded to narrow 8vo. 18 panels of promotional narrative, profusely illustrated from photographs, describing areas and scenes of California on recto, the verso with a large map of California, with lists..... More
San Francisco, CA: Southern Pacific, 1902. First edition. 16mo. 32 pp. Illustrated from photographs. Promotional for those thinking of moving to the state, emphasizing agricultural and other employment opportunities. OCLC locates three copies (California State Library, California - Berkeley, California - Davis). Very good. Original decorated tan wrappers, stapled. (6143)..... More
Westerly, RI: Champlin & Hoyt, Printers, [1853-58]. Broadside. 27 x 19 cm. Eight stanza of eight lines each, printed in two columns, enclosed in a decorative border. Old fold lines, some separation across central fold with a neat repair on verso, shallow chipping around edges. Poem of a dying man..... More
NP: ("Printed in Germany"), nd [ca. 1895]. First edition (?). 8vo. 15 plates of views on a single sheet, folded accordion-style into gilt-stamped cloth boards. The 33 views presented here form an architectural photo-essay of the California 1894 Mid-Winter Fair, including a panorama of the grounds and views of individual..... More
A group of 55 photos, most 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (a few smaller), laid down one or two to a page, in a hand-made album of stiff grey paper, hole punched at gutter and bound together with string. Each photo has a caption title done in a neatly..... More
Cambridge: The society, 1880. Society membership card for 1880-81, 3 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches, printed on blue card stock, the text printed within a bold red border, with the member's name ("H.K. Smith") and address ("Ely") written in appropriate spaces left on the partly printed card which is signed..... More
Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., 1955. Stapled illustrated paperwraps. 8vo.; 43pp., (1). Small hole punch in upper left corner. Lightly creased vertically. Includes classified ads & residential directory. Very good. More
As reflected in four autograph letters, signed, 24 February-21 November 1862, from junior cavalry officer W.D. Stafford to his wife Hattie in West Union. From 12 x 8 in. to 8 x 5 in. (16) pp. News of Weather, dullness of day to day activities, activities of friends, etc. Accompanied..... More
(Durham, NC: The university), 1938. First edition, “Centennial Edition” (founded as Union Institute” in Randolph County, 1838). 4to. (32) pp. Illustrated from photographs, all full-page plates, picturing campus buildings, interior views, and aerial view of the football stadium, bird’s-eye views of the campuses; street map and plan locating each campus..... More
