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Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1903. xi,[5],281pp., including marginal vignettes interspersed throughout and three half-tone plates. Frontispiece. Half title. Original olive cloth with a design in green, gray, black and gilt by Adrian Iorio. Spine gilt, t.e.g. Faint rubbing to the corners, otherwise a fine copy. In.....
![Item #WRCAM57106 SHALL DECENT WOMANHOOD PREVAIL? [caption title]. California](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM57106.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1637080636)
[Oakland. 1912]. Handbill, 9 x 6 inches. Tanned, small chips to top edge, glue and paper residue to blank verso. Good plus. A vitriolic political attack from the midst of Oakland, California's first ever recall election. The recall was initiated by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the.....
[N.p.]: 1946. [20]pp. containing eighty black-and-white photographs, each 7 1/4 x 9 inches. Oblong large folio. Contemporary blue cloth, gilt. Minor edge wear, corners worn. Photographs in excellent condition. Overall very good. A substantial and perhaps unique collection of large format photographs chronicling a 1946 hunting trip in British Columbia.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910. 318pp. plus thirty-nine plates and two folding maps. Original dark green cloth, front board and spine gilt. Light shelf wear, spine extremities slightly frayed, rear board a bit pinched and stained. Small gouge to lower margin of first thirty pages and very occasional light foxing.....
[Ouray, Co.]: J.J. Mayers Mercantile Company, 1898-1904. 703pp. including three pages of continuously paginated letterhead paper pinned to the rear pastedown, plus one cabinet card photograph. Large, thick folio. Original calf and reverse calf, raised bands, three gilt leather labels. Leather a bit stained and scuffed. Old dampstain in lower.....
Littleton, N.H. B.W. Kilburn, 1877-1890. Seventeen cards measure 3 1/2 x 7 inches; the final two cards listed measure 4 1/4 x 7 inches. Penultimate card on the list cropped at top upper edge (dimensions listed below), else the group is unblemished. Some of the images are slightly faded. Very.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. 190,[2]pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Small chips at spine ends and edges of wrappers. Early ownership inscription of "Adelaide Forrester" in upper margin of first text page. Very clean internally. Near fine overall. This book chronicles an exciting year by anyone's standards, the life.....
Lexington, Ky. J. Clarke & Co., 1836. [2],viii ,410pp. plus folding engraved frontispiece map of Texas on onionskin paper, 26.8 x 34 cm., with original handcolored outline and shading. Original tan muslin, printed paper label (chipped). Cloth faded and with some wear. Moderate foxing. Map with a short closed tear.....
Baltimore: Armstrong & Plaskitt, 1833. 167pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Original purple cloth with "Texas" stamped in gilt (within a gilt frame) on front cover. Cloth faded from purple to a brown tone, and with some light staining. Light foxing. A very good copy, in unsophisticated condition. In a cloth.....
London: John Murray, 1844. Two volumes. viii,314; viii,360pp., plus ten plates (seven lithographs by Day & Haghe [two portraits and five views], three wood- engraved plates [two signed "SW"]). Frontispiece in each volume. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., by Ringer. Minor shelf wear, joints.....
[Emmett, Id.; Sweet, Id.; Portland, Or. ca. 1915-1921]. Two albums. 169 total photographs, mounted, from 1 x 1 to 3 x 5 inches. Matching albums of black textured cloth, with blindstamping on front boards. Wear, rubbing, and some light soiling to boards. Twelve leaves detached (but present and undamaged) in.....
[Dallas. 1931]. [6],32pp., including portrait frontispiece printed on verso of titlepage. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor toning and wear around the edges of the wrappers. Text lightly toned, but clean. Very good. Inscribed on the titlepage in blue ink: "Limited to 100 copies, Gilbert J. Jordan." A brief but informative.....
Seattle: The Lumbermen's Printing Co., 1907. 291,[1]pp. Profusely illustrated with photographic portraits. Original maroon cloth, front board gilt. Minor edge wear, some rubbing to boards. Later bookplate of Seattle collector Ben A. Maslan on front pastedown, early ownership signature on verso of frontispiece. Occasional light thumb-soiling to outer margin. Very.....
[Various locations in Utah and Colorado. ca. 1908]. 150 original photographs, from 2 x 1 1/4 inches to 4 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, and a handful of studio shots, most captioned in white ink. Oblong octavo. Contemporary black cloth, covers and interior pages ruled in white ink, ownership name.....
![Item #WRCAM55441 VIEWS OF HOME MEMPHIS MO. TAKEN BY HORACE IVIE 1898 [manuscript title]. Missouri...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM55441.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712041)
Memphis, Mo. 1898. Twenty-six photographs mounted on rectos only, each image approximately 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Oblong quarto. Contemporary brown cloth, brad-bound. Minor corner wear, a few of the prints over-exposed. Overall very good. A rare peek into rural northeast Missouri at the turn of the 20th century.....
[Various places, mostly Birney, Mt. 1940-1942]. 142 mounted photographs, from 3½ x 4½ inches to 1 x 1½ inches, plus fourteen laid-in photographs. Four laid-in Christmas cards or postcards, and a 5pp. original typed poem. Tall quarto photograph album. Contemporary green cloth, spine and boards gilt. Light general wear, several.....
[Lincoln, Ne. and surrounding locations. ca. 1900]. Thirty-seven photographs, most approximately 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches, all but four mounted on album pages. Oblong quarto. Limp cloth photo album. Cloth a bit stained and discolored around the edges. A few of the images lightly faded. Very good. An album.....
Cincinnati. 1901. [6],260pp. Original green cloth. Some bleach spots on covers, binding a bit cocked. Title- leaf mounted on silk. Overall a good copy. First American edition, after the first British edition printed in London in 1898. A scarce account of an Englishwoman's quest for good health and happiness raising.....
[Orlando and Perry, Oklahoma Territory]. 1893. Seventeen silver gelatin prints, 6 x 4 inches (15 1/4 x 10 cm) each, mounted on 9 x 7-inch (22 3/4 x 17 3/4 cm) embossed card stock. Each image captioned in the negative. Card stock rubbed and occasionally chipped at corners. One mount.....
[Various places, mostly Sand Point, Id. and Victor, Mt. 1915-1938]. Two volumes. [2],142; [142]pp., nearly all filled in in manuscript. Quarto. Original three-quarter leather and pebbled black cloth, gilt. Leather rubbed, both spines perished, boards detached and most leaves of first volume loose, hinges of second volume cracked but holding.....
[Various places in Idaho, Utah, and California (see below). ca. 1907-1929]. 421 photograph negatives, 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches each. Housed in three button-fastened negative albums. Moderate wear to albums. One negative torn, a few negatives faded or warped. Very good overall. A fascinating collection of original photographic negatives.....
[N.p., possibly Sioux Falls, S.D. or Sioux City, Ia. ca. 1880s to early 1890s]. Fifteen black-and-white photographs, each 4 x 5½ inches, on slightly larger card mounts. Mounts slightly bowed. One image with short horizontal crease, some slight surface wear and light soiling to several images. Overall, very good. A.....
[Various locations in South Dakota, including Pierre, and Oahe. 1918-1928]. 230 photographs mounted on album leaves, captioned in white or red ink throughout. Images range from 2 1/2 x 2 inches to 3 1/2 x 5 inches. Oblong octavo. Contemporary black leatherette photograph album, string-tied. Minor edge wear. Several leaves.....
Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1919. Two volumes. [7]-1287; [1289]-2603pp., including full-page photographic plates. Thick quarto. Original three-quarter black morocco and black cloth, spines gilt. Cloth a bit frayed. Very clean internally. Very good. An absolutely massive history of Fresno County, California, one of the most productive agricultural regions in.....
London. 1759. Two volumes. [20],455pp. plus folding map and two plates, including frontispiece; [8],387pp. plus two plates, including frontispiece. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Moderate rubbing and wear to boards and spines, spine titles partially rubbed away, spine heads a bit chipped. Armorial bookplate of Lord Sandys.....
