San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1878. 304,[6]pp. Modern library buckram. Very clean internally. Very good. From an edition of 500 copies. Includes sketches of the libraries of Hubert Howe Bancroft, the Society of California Pioneers, the University of California, Leland Stanford, J. Ross Browne, Charles and M.H. DeYoung, Bishop.....
[Washington. 1823]. [55-]108pp. Modern blue pebbled cloth, gilt spine label. Light tanning and foxing. Very good. The document accompanies President Monroe's Message of 1823, which consists of letters and reports concerning attacks of the Arikara Indians on General Ashley's trading party, and of the Blackfoot Indians on the Missouri Fur.....
[Phoenix. 1919]. [4]pp. 12mo. Self-wrappers. Minor edge wear. Very good. A short, but very interesting pamphlet issued by the Arizona Office of Live Stock Sanitary Board on May 1, 1919, printing the requirements for bringing live stock into Arizona. It lists separate guidelines for horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and dogs.....
Washington. 1957. [2],10pp. Original stapled printed wrappers. Fine. Official printing of the amended constitution of the Haulapai Indian Reservation located along the western Grand Canyon corridor in northern Arizona. Includes information relating to membership in the tribe, election to the tribal council, powers of the council, rights of the members.....
[Washington, D.C. (but copied in Philadelphia)]. 1863. 6pp. manuscript on recto only of six folio sheets. With original mailing envelope. Horizontal folds. Very good. An interesting pair of documents, being contemporary copies of an original manuscript on the potential of mining in Arizona, sent by George M. Willing to Thomas.....
Paradise Valley, Az. [ca. 1930]. 220 silver gelatin photographs, most 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches to 3 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, with a handful of larger photographs and some smaller-format panoramas. Oblong folio. Original brad-bound album. Minor dust- soiling. Overall very good. An engaging collection of original photographs.....
Prescott, Tucson & San Francisco. 1865-1885. Thirteen volumes, publication details and pagination provided below. Uniformly bound in 20th-century buckram, gilt leather labels. Minor shelf wear, some labels chipped. Ink stamp, embossed blindstamps. Overall good. Arizona had been administered as part of the Territory of New Mexico until its seizure by.....
[Phoenix: Arizona Corporation Charter Guarantee Company, ca. 1907]. 38pp. Narrow octavo. Original orange printed wrappers. Faint old stain in lower margin throughout, else near fine. In a half calf and cloth folding case, spine gilt. Issued only with a wrapper title, this copy bears a copyright date of 1905 on.....
Prescott or Phoenix. 1889-1899. Six volumes. Five volumes in 20th-century tan buckram, gilt leather labels; one volume in contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Leather dry and cracking, some shelf wear to other volumes. Institutional ink stamps on titlepages. Good. A late-19th-century collection of session laws for the territory of.....
[Mexico City. Oct. 18, 1830]. Folio broadside, 8 x 12.5 inches. Slight edge wear, faint browning. Very good. An early printing of this important Mexican government decree, dividing the former state of Sonora y Sinaloa into separate states of Sonora and Sinaloa. At this point, the new state of Sonora.....
[Tucson]. 1889. 48pp. Illus. Original printed wrappers, disbound from a larger volume, all leaves separated. Some edge chipping, affecting text on several leaves. Tanned and very fragile. Accession number stamped on front wrapper. Fair only. Rare 19th-century promotional for Arizona, singing the praises of the arid lands of the territory.....
New York, et al. Underwood & Underwood, [ 1904]. 64pp. booklet with two maps (one folding) bound in and eighteen loose stereoviews on captioned stiff mounts. Original printed wrappers. Textblock detached, a bit dusty. Folding map and stereoviews in excellent shape. Very good. In a lightly-worn black cloth pull-off box.....
Washington, D.C. Statute Law Book Co., 1896. iv,27pp. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and red morocco, gilt leather labels. Spine perished, hinges cracked. Ex- library, with ink stamps on front flyleaf and titlepage. A few ink stains, otherwise clean. Good. One of a hand-numbered edition of fifty copies. A later Washington, D.C......
Washington, D.C. Statute Law Book Co., 1896. iii,98pp. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and red morocco, gilt leather labels. Hinges cracked, corners worn. Ex-library, with ink stamp on titlepage. Lightly tanned, otherwise clean. Good. One of a hand-numbered edition of fifty copies. A later Washington, D.C. printing of the state laws of.....
Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes, 1861. viii,92pp. Antique style half calf and marbled boards. Old library stamp on half title. Light foxing, very good. An account of the laws passed at a special session of the Arkansas General Assembly, which took place from Nov. 4 to Nov. 18, 1861. This.....
Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes, 1862. 16pp. Antique style half calf and marbled boards. Old library stamps on title. Scattered minor soiling otherwise very good. An account of laws passed at a special session of the Arkansas General Assembly that took place in March, 1862. It contains several laws and.....
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, [1864]. 71,[1]pp. 16mo. Original pictorial salmon-colored wrappers. Wrappers slightly stained, ink number on front wrapper, wrappers a bit chipped around the edges. Internally clean. Very good. Second edition, first published the year before. The first few pages recount the by-then legendary story of the.....
Little Rock. [ 1889]. 59pp. Dbd., retaining original front wrapper. Very good. Cases between Black & Brother and J. Loewenbery (plaintiffs) and Arkansas and Louisiana Railway Company (defendant) concerning tariffs and extra expenses made on shipments carried by the railway.
Little Rock. [ 1890]. 14pp. Dbd., retaining original front wrapper. A sound copy. An early Arkansas legal petition questioning the constitutionality of an act providing for a system of railroad incorporation.
[St. Louis. nd, ca. 1893]. 30pp. Original printed wrappers. Some light dampstaining in margins. Still very good. This promotional tract for the southern states was issued by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company. Sets forth the agricultural, mineral, manufacturing and commercial advantages of the region, but with.....
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[Various locations in California and Texas. ca. 1940]s. 445 black-and-white photographs in mounting corners (a few photographs loosely laid in). On average measuring 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 or 4 x 6 inches, with a handful in a smaller format and a few as large as 8 x 10 inches.....
Philadelphia. [ 1906]. 380pp. Frontis. Illus. Pictorial cloth. Cloth soiled, else very good. A series of articles in the SATURDAY EVENING POST defending the Beef Trust, by its chief spokesman against the claims of prominent muckrakers led by Charles E. Russell. There is a London edition of the same year.....
Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1981/1991. Two volumes. [4],421pp. plus fourteen plates; [6],403pp. plus nineteen plates. Fine, in jacket. The first volume covers 1858-80, and the second volume covers the next decade.
Philadelphia: Indian Rights Association, 1884. 28pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor wear, small tears to front cover. Contemporary label pasted to front cover. Internally clean. Very good. An early Indian Rights Association report, detailing a trip through the Southwest and Oklahoma. Includes information on the Navajo, Yuma, Hualapi, Apache, and others.....
New York. 1940. viii,242pp. Cloth. Pamphlets and clippings pasted to endpapers, hinges cracked, else very nice. Cattle brands and branding lore.
