BATTLE OF PEA RIDGE, ARKANSAS. MARCH 6, 7 & 8, 1862.
N.P., n.p., n.d. Condensed story of the battle presented by the Pea Ridge National Park Assoc. Folded pamphlet. 12mo.; no pagination (8pp.). One illustration. Very good. More
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Bear hunting in Pennsylvania, as depicted in a series of four cartoon-like pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings, more fully described individually below.
[Tamaqua, PA?]: nd [1910s?]. (1) "A Hunter and His Trophy / Capt. F.J. Carroll / Tamaqua, PA." [manuscript title below image]. Pen-and-ink drawing of a bear Captain Carroll killed, 10 x 8 inches, with watercolor highlights and with a real photo postcard portrait of Carroll filling an oval (3 3/4..... More
BEAUTIFUL FLORIDA: THE WINTER PLAYGROUND OF THE NATION.
Printed by Curt Teich & Co. Chicago, IL. n.d. (ca.1915). Color illus. paperwraps. 8vo.; (1pp. of text, & 15pp. of color illus. postcard views of sites in Florida). OCLC locates two copies (State Lib. of FL; University of FL). cf. Servies 16565. More
BEAUTIFUL ISLE, SONG ADDRESSED TO DAUPHIN ISLAND MOBILE POINT, (FORT BOYER, ALABAMA).; Adapted to a favorite Polish Air, and respectfully dedicated to Madame Walton Levert, by James G. Drake.
Louisville, (KY): Peters, Webb & Co., (c1850). Large 4to. 5 pp. Lithograph view of Dauphin Island in the bay just south of Mobile. Disbound (soiled, some tears into margin, one affecting view, tape-repaired on verso). Good copy. More
BEAUTIFUL LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. PHOTO-GRAVURES.
Los Angeles, CA: Western Publishing and Novelty Co., n.d. (ca.1921?). Oblong buff paperwraps (lightly soiled), bound with a cord. Illustration of Palm Drive on front cover. 16 x 21 cm.; (2), 24 photo-gravures, printed on rectos only, with caption titles. Included is a photo-gravure of the Hotel Ambassador which opened..... More
BEAUTIFUL PASADENA: SOME SCENES AND SOME INFORMATION, 1904 [cover title].
(Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Board of Trade), 1904. Small oblong 4to, tri-folded to narrow 12mo. (12) pp. Profusely illustrated, with text describing several hotels and giving a little promotional information. Apparently not in Rocq (with many other editions of a similar title). OCLC locates five copies (California - Berkeley, San Francisco..... More
The Beautiful Valley of the Lower Rio Grande [cover title].
(Houston, TX: Missouri Pacific-Gulf Coast Lines [printed by John S. Swift, St. Louis], 1925). First edition. 8vo. 64 pp. Illustrated, maps. Elaborate promotional and viewbook for the Rio Grande Valley, with one or more photographic scenes of the are on each page, with descriptive text. OCLC locates 11 copies, six..... More
BENJAMIN BRANHAM'S PROTRACTOR SYSTEM OF GARMET CUTTING, WITH INSTRUCTIONS IN MAKING UP; FOR THE BENEFITS OF LADIES
Huntsville, AL: Printed at the "Democratic Herald" Office, 1842. First (only?) edition. 8vo. (11) pp. 4 full-page diagrams (text on versos) that are metal cuts done from plates whose securing screw heads are evident. The title, copyright, and first page of text printed in portrait alignment, following pages of text..... More
BERLIN [Caption title]
Boston: J. N. Bang, Pr., 61 Cornhill, [185-?]. Broadside. 47.5 x 35 cm. Four columns of poetry each with twelve stanzas of eight lines, enclosed in a 1.5 cm decorative border, laid down on a netted backing sheet. A number of tears, two places with slight loss of words not..... More
Bessie Tift College, Forsyth, Georgia [cover title]
Forsyth, GA:, The college, (printed Albertype Co. Brooklyn, N.Y.), nd [ca. 1910?]. First edition. Oblong 8vo. (1) pp. Seven full-page views of the campus, including one folding panorama of the main campus quad. A Christian women's college dedicated to "giving the future mothers of the race the gracious enlightened tenderness..... More
"BETHESDA." A TRAVELLER'S CRITICISM ON OUR HEALTH RESORTS, THEIR SCENERY, CLIMATIC PECULIARITIES AND CURATIVE INFLUENCE.
Boston [MA]: Billings, Clapp & Co., Publishers, 1885. Pictorial tan paperwraps. 16 cm. (32) pp. Illustrations. Color illustrated ad for Nichols' Elixir Peruvian Bark & Protoxide of Iron on rear wrapper. Short critiques on the resorts of Atlantic City, Aiken, several locations in Florida, etc., interspersed with promotional material for..... More
BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA. A CATALOGUE OF A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, MANUSCRIPTS, MAPS, ENGRAVINGS, AND ENGRAVED PORTRAITS, ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA, AND THE WEST INDIES, ALTOGETHER FORMING THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION EVER OFFERED FOR SALE.
London: John Russell Smith, 1865. 22cm. [2], [6pp. index], 308pp., plus [32]pp. list of publications or books for sale by J.R. Smith. Leather backed cloth, head of spine worn down to page edges, gilt stamped title on spine. Foxing to title page, some overall toning to text. This copy bears..... More
THE BIG SHOW COMING! / THE STANDARD AND RELIABLE / SHOW OF AMERICA! / ENDORSED BY THE PRESS OF THE COUNTRY / HOWES' GREAT LONDON CIRCUS. / THE BIG SHOW AT / WACO, / SATURDAY, JANUARY 1st, 1876./ [followed by 17 panels of text offering cash prizes for various challenges involved with the circus entertainments, 14 wood engraved illustrations of acts and circus animals, and other promotional text; similar material appears on the verso].
[Indianapolis, IN]: Indianapolis Journal Print, 1875. First edition (?). Illustrated advertising broadsheet, 28 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches, employing a large number of sizes and styles of type, including nice display types. The show traveled via its own fleet of 42 railroad cars, "Mr. H. Barnum, with years of experience..... More
Bill of lading, a partly printed document, completed in manuscript and signed by a clerk, C.A. Green, reporting that "34 Bales of Cotton / One Head Out & One hoop off" will be shipped from Shreveport to New Orleans on behalf of H. Ware & Son ("for G.B. Adkins" added in pencil) aboard the steamboat Lady Grace, with "Hammond" as master, for $53.55.
Shreveport, LA: (H.G. Stetson, Printer, Camp St., New Orleans), November 5, 1866. Ephemera. Half-sheet folio, 5 3/8 by 11 inches, illustrated with a small engraving, 3/4 x 1 7/8 inches, of a steamboat in the upper corner; docketed on verso. Henry Ware, a native of Georgia, engaged in the commission..... More
A Bill, Incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company [caption title]
[Richmond, VA: 1824]. First edition. 4to. 15 pp. Each line of the text is numbered. George Washington founded the Potowmack Company in 1785 to make navigability improvements to the Potomac River, with an ultimate goal of using waterways to connect the eastern seaboard to the Ohio River and the Great..... More
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND PICTURES OF COMPANY B: Confederate Veterans of Nashville, Tenn.
Nashville: Foster & Webb, Printers, 1902. 12mo; 80 pp. First edition. Rebound in modern blue fabrikoid, with original paper wrappers bound in. Illustrated with photographs. Inscribed by Patrick Griffin (one of the subjects of the Sketches) on front wrapper. Small stain on title page, with some chipping to bottom of..... More
BLACK BIRD'S NEST A TALE.
Philadelphia: Published by Johnson & Warner, 1812. 12mo., 13 cm. [4], 5 - 36pp., Illustrated with 11 engravings. Lacks wrappers. Bound in black leather with gilt designed borders on boards, gilt title on spine. Chipping to head of spine, front joint starting. A moral lesson of friendship and deception. This..... More
"Black Mountain College," pp. 19-27 [printed in four columns], in Form 5, comprising three essays: "Black Mountain College: A Foreword" by John A. Rice, "Scheme for College Buildings (1939)" by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, and "A Personal Memoir, 1944-1945" by George Zabriskie.
Cambridge, England: Philip Steadman, 1967. This issue only. 4to. 32 pp. Illustrated from photographs, floor plans. "Form" was a short-lived periodical, 1966-1969; 10 numbers were issued during that period. This is the second of four issues partly devoted to Black Mountain College. The essay by Rice printed here was first..... More
Black Studies: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications
Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1984. First edition. 4to. xi, 97 pp. "This catalog list the National Archives and Record Services microfilm publications of records that relate directly to blacks in the United States … brief narratives describe these publications" (Introduction). Very good. Illustrated gold wrappers, stapled. (#6513)..... More
Bladen Springs, Choctaw County, Alabama [caption title]. W.A. Turner, Proprietor, Successor to J. Connor & Co.: The First Watering Place in the South.
Bladen Springs, AL: The proprietor, nd [ca. 1877, the latest testimonial is dated December 29, 1876]. First edition of this early promotional. 8vo. (8) pp. "12 hours by steamboat from Mobile, on the Bigbee River. Daily communication during the winter season. Large hotel and pleasant cottages." Includes a description of..... More
Blakely.; [followed by a long poem celebrating General Edward Canby's victory over the Confederate forces led by General Richard Taylor at that Alabama town on 9 April 1865; 13 verses, the first 12 of eight lines each, the final verse of 12 lines]. Signed in type "Cyrenius." Mobile, AL: np, 7 May 1865.
Printed broadside, 12 x 8 1/2 inches, with a one-line head, the text enclosed with an ornamental border. Folded; somewhat frayed along the left edge, several small holes, taking a half-dozen letters, foxed. First edition (?). A stirring, patriotic account of the Union victory that allowed Canby's forces to take..... More
Blanchard's Guide Map of Ohio and Indiana.
Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1874. Broadside map, 21 x 25 inches, the counties hand-colored in light shades of several colors, railroads, both finished and proposed, cities, and towns, including county seats, delineated. Cover title: "Guide Map to Ohio." Not in Phillips. Not recorded on OCLC (which does locate one copy of..... More
BLISS ELECTRICAL SCHOOL. CATALOG, 1925-1926.
Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. N.P., n.d. Blue lettered buff paperwraps (some short splits to wrappers, at spine ends). 8vo.; 76pp. Photo illustrated. A very good copy. The Bliss Electrical School was founded in 1893 and located in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Included in the catalog is a description of..... More
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THE BLUE AND THE GRAY. [cover title]; STATUES IN STAMPED COPPER AND BRONZE.
Salem, OH: W.H. Mullins Co., 1913. Color illustrated blue and gray stiff paper wraps. 8vo.; 79 pp. [two poems and two pages of text; the remainder is photo illustrated plates]. Chipping to bottom of spine; short splits at joints near head of spine. An overall very good, tight copy. More
BLUM'S FARMER'S AND PLANTER'S ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR 1878 [cover title].
Salem, NC: L. V. & E. T. Blum, 1877. "Fiftieth Year" (at head of front wrapper). Small 4to (21 cm.). 38 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings; title and front wrapper illustration enclosed within a wide ornamental border. Includes fiction, farming tips, recipes, etc., and the usual almanac fare. Text uniformly..... More