[Port Huron, Mi. W.B.A. Print Shop], 1927. 252,lvii pp. 12mo. Tan pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. Wear to extremities, lower right corner of front wrapper torn away, curling to lower right corner of first quarter of text block, internally quite clean. Very good. An apparently quite rare publication, this is the 1927.....
San Antonio. February 1, 1865. [2]pp. on a single folded sheet, docketed on verso of integral blank. Original mailing folds, light creasing, minor surface and edge wear. Very good. A Civil War-era letter written by William A. Menger (1827- 1871), the founder of the Menger Hotel in San Antonio. Menger.....
Cincinnati. [ 1902]. 313pp. Gilt cloth. Some edge wear, spine sunned, couple of minor marginal stains, else very good. A vivid description of life in Kansas, the Black Hills and Nebraska in the 1860s, including details of Indian depredations.
[Philadelphia. 1798]. 71pp. Dbd., early stitching still present. Final leaf detached but present, ink signature on first leaf, scattered foxing and toning. Good. Partially unopened. President John Adams' report to Congress on the infamous "XYZ Affair," in which the negotiators for the French government attempted to extort bribes from the.....
Portland, Me. February 18, 1854. [353]-360pp. Large folio newspaper. Dbd. Minor foxing and toning. Very good. A scarce newspaper printing of an important and well- written Indian captivity from Texas in 1853, when Mrs. Jane Adeline Wilson, her brothers-in-law, and some of her traveling party were captured and experienced "great.....
[Hong Kong, Saigon, Da Nang, Pago Pago, and other places]. 1960-1963. Eighty-seven photographs, most in color, most about 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches, including twelve slightly larger photographs laid in. Narrow quarto. Photograph album of black textured cloth, gilt label on front board. Photographs in generally nice condition. Very.....
New York: Published for the Author... 1859. 290pp. including map and illustrations, plus five plates (including frontispiece) and 2pp. advertisements. Original blindstamped brown cloth, spine gilt. Spine ends and corners worn. Very light, occasional foxing; some tanning near the plates. Very good. Later, enlarged edition (designated "twenty-second thousand" on the.....
London. 1766. 21,[3]pp. Modern yellow buckram. Light foxing and soiling. Small tear at fore edge, through text. About very good. Second edition, published the same year as the first. An account of Britain's taxation of its North American colonies, specifically the Stamp Act. The author blames the British administration for.....
[Various locations in Latin America. 1938]. [100]pp. containing 230 photographs, as well as postcards, maps, dozens of menus, greeting cards, and other travel ephemera. Thick folio. Contemporary brown paper-covered cloth, string-tied. Boards lightly scuffed and worn. Some leaves loose, moderate edge wear and chipping. Photographs clean and nice, annotations highly.....
New Orleans: Printed at the Office of the True Witness and Sentinel, 1860. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. Soft vertical crease throughout. Top margin of front wrapper largely torn away, wrappers soiled, a few small notations on front wrapper. Light stain in upper margin of first few leaves, light foxing. Still.....
Muskogee: Phoenix Directory Company, 1915. [6],500,[4]pp., plus [32]pp. designated "Memoranda". Later green buckram, black spine titles. Mild edge wear and soiling to boards. Ex-Sutro Library, with shelf mark on spine, bookplate on front pastedown, barcode on front free endpaper, and small ink stamps on front free endpaper, first ad leaf.....
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[Washington, D.C. Murray Brothers, Printers, 1914]. 12,[4]pp. Original printed wrappers. Mild edge wear, light creasing, minor surface soiling. Text toned but clean. Very good. A collection of short considerations on the state of African-American segregation in the United States civil service by renowned Howard University sociologist Kelly Miller. Here, in.....
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[Various locations in Mexico. 1941]. Forty-eight black-and-white photographs, each 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches, and three postcards, all captioned in white ink beneath the images. Quarto. Contemporary black cloth photo album. Some scuffing to edges and corners, minor soiling new endpapers. Photographs in excellent condition. Overall very good. A.....
New Orleans: A.L. Lee, State Printer, 1869. 30pp. Original printed wrappers. Soft vertical crease throughout, wrappers somewhat chipped, mild soiling. Small stain to upper corner of titlepage and following leaf, otherwise text evenly toned. Withal, a very good copy. A scarce and interesting report that is tantamount to a Reconstruction-era.....
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Dayton, Oh. Gazette Print, October 29, 1852. Letterpress broadside, 12 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches, with ornamental border. Old folds, minor foxing, two ink spots in left margin. Very good. A seemingly-unrecorded broadside detailing instructions on the planting, cultivating, culturing, pruning, gathering, and preserving of various fruit trees in Ohio.....
America...Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1775. viii,512pp. Quarto. Modern half dark brown calf and marbled boards, spine tooled and ruled in gilt, gilt leather label. A few small chips in foredge of titlepage, and with contemporary ink signature of English surgeon John B.B. Middleton on the titlepage. Moderate foxing and toning. Very.....
[Philadelphia. 1798]. 72pp. Dbd. Light even toning. Very good. This message is the second entirely devoted to the troubles of the United States with France, the XYZ Affair, and the naval "Quasi-War." The French government had attempted to extort a bribe from the American envoys Charles Pinckney, John Marshall, and.....
San Antonio: Summerville Photo, 1944. Panoramic photograph, 10 x 25 1/4 inches. Minor edge and surface wear, thick vertical crease in right margin. Ink annotations on verso. Very good. An evocative and informative panoramic group photograph of the motor pool of the Normoyle Ordnance Depot in San Antonio during World.....
San Antonio: Summerville Photo, 1944. Panoramic photograph, 10 x 27 1/4 inches. Minor edge and surface wear. Ink annotations on verso. Very good. An appealing and informative panoramic group photograph of a Women's Army Corps unit stationed in San Antonio during World War II. The women were members of the.....
Philadelphia: Published by James Webster, 1817. xv,427,xii pp. plus [1]p. errata. Frontispiece portrait. 19th-century calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, boards ruled in gilt, spine gilt extra, gilt morocco labels, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Rebacked, with gilt backstrip laid down, boards unevenly toned, minor shelf wear. Text.....
San Antonio: National Photo Service, [ 1925]. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 47 inches. Minor wear, a short closed marginal tear in the right edge. Very good plus. An eye-catching panoramic photograph of Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas during the middle of the Roaring Twenties. Camp Mabry is the third-oldest military.....
Seguin: Printed at the Office of the Texan Mercury, 1855. 21,[2]pp. Original printed yellow wrappers, stitched. Minor edge wear and toning, spine partially split. Two leaves with short tears in upper margin, text tanned. Still, a very good copy. A rare and early Seguin imprint containing the proceedings of the.....
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[El Paso. ca. 1919]. [4]pp., accompanied by large folded broadside, 21 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches, loosely laid in. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers toned, vertical crease throughout. Uniform toning to broadside. Overall, very good. A seemingly-unrecorded promotional for the Big 4 Oil & Refining Company of Texas. The pamphlet lists.....
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Pulaski, Tn. 1854. [1]p. printed form on folio sheet completed in manuscript and docketed on verso, plus a [12]pp. manuscript on folio sheets. Pages secured by string. Old folds, some foxing and offsetting from ink. Very good. Primary documentation of a curious case related to the sale a possibly "unruly".....
Washington: A. & G. Way, Printers, 1810. 15pp. Dbd. Minor toning to titlepage, occasional light foxing. Very good. One of the five publications by Julien Poydras concerning the famous New Orleans "batture case." The case was one of the several bitter controversies of Thomas Jefferson's administration and the remaining years.....
