Montpelier, VT: Argus and Patriot Print, [1884]. Softcover. Very good. Title (from cover) continues: "These Two Finely Bred Trotting Stallions Will Make the Season of 1884, ending July 1st, at the Stable of Wm. McDougall, Prop'r, Tunbridge, VT. 4" x 6.5, 8 pp, in original orange printed wrappers. Minor soiling..... Item #22181
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1929. Softcover. Very Good-. 39 pp, with illustrations, maps, in original wrappers. Light handling wear and soiling to wrappers, name on front cover, remainder of removed bookplate on front inside cover; contents clean and sound. A brief history of the Bell System including details about..... Item #21764
San Francisco: Agnew & Deffebach, 1862. Softcover. Good. 5.75" x 8.5", 24 pp, in original printed wrappers. Light soiling, small chips to wrappers; very good. An interesting and scarce contribution to the then-ongoing debate over restriction of commercial activity and immoral behavior in California on Sundays. The first Sunday Laws..... Item #21977
New York: Great American Tea Company, 1886. Near fine. Original chromolithograph advertising poster, 22 x 32 inches. A stunning print with exceptionally rich color, archivally backed. Professional restoration to edges and a few small spots on the printed area. Near fine. "Ten minutes for refreshments!" was the well-known cry of..... Item #22219
Roswell, NM: Burns-Curry Realtors, [1973]. Four-fold brochure with map, illustrations from photographs. 8.5 x 4 inches when folded; fine. Much of this development was completed in the mid-1960s with the expectation of selling homes to people who worked at Walker Air Force Base. After the base closed in 1967, the..... Item #21467
[1855]. Softcover. Very good. Folio, 7 pp, printed on blue paper in two unsewn (unbound) gatherings. Minor handling wear; near fine. The Rogue River Indians were not a single tribe, but a conglomeration of several groups living in the Rogue River Valley of southwestern Oregon. This treaty was concluded by..... Item #20479
[New York]: Geo. Borgfeldt & Co., 1905. Hardcover. Very good. [84] pp, extensively illustrated with portraits and views of the company's various branches and departments. Bound in half-cloth and dark-green paper-covered boards with lovely art nouveau design stamped in black, endpapers patterened with the company logo, attractive design features throughout..... Item #21408
Evanston, IL: 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Volume 1, No. 1 (January 31, 1914) and Volume 1, No. 14 (May 2, 1914) of "The North Shore Review," a little-known weekly newspaper published in Evanston, Illinois that billed itself as the first paper with an all-female staff. Ironically enough, it was..... Item #22006
Softcover. Very good. Two publications: "The Chief Needs of Adult Blind Persons and the Chief Aims of the Michigan Employment Institution for the Blind (7 pp); and "A Free Lending Library for the Sightless, Circular of General Information (4 pp). Both published by the Institution in 1904, both with old..... Item #21820
[Philadelphia]: Ives pr. & stationer, 1862. Folding trade card, 2.5 x 3.75 inches, with views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and the attached hospital on the front and back and text inside. Light soiling; very good. The Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon was "staffed by volunteers and provided relief for..... Item #21231
Holliston [MA]: Parker & Plimpton, 1851. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Title continues "Also, Statistics ofthe Town Returns in 1850, as Required by the Act to Ascertain the Ratable Estates within this Commonwealth. Also, Statistics of the United States Census, as Taken and Returned by the Marshall, for June 1850." 51..... Item #19531
Woodstock, VT: State Board of Agriculture, [1905]. Softcover. Very good. 8 x 11 inches, oblong, in original pictorial wrappers. 99 pp, with dozens of illustrations from photographs. Light soiling and chipping to wraps, foxing to first two leaves, else very good. An attractive promotional that works hard to demonstrate that..... Item #21460
Tacoma: F.T. Houghton, 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 14 pp + [1] (membership application). Original printed wrappers are chipped and detached; text is clean. Explains the need for a state historical society, as "Washington was thirty-six years a territory and now nearly two years a State; having thus reached a...... Item #20634
Oregon City, OR: Grant B. Dimick, 1913. Softcover. Very good. 9" x 12", pp. 171-194, stapled binding. Light soiling, old dampstain to back cover, but still very good. Single issue of this scarce magazine, which billed itself as the "only journal on the Pacific Coast published in the interests of..... Item #21854
Salem, MA: Newcomb and Gauss, Printers, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 251 pp, with frontispiece and many sketches by the author (which are rather amateurish, but charming). Mild marginal dampstain to the first few pages, boards a bit scuffed, rubbed at corners and spine ends. The author joined the..... Item #12740
Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Westernlore Great West and Indian Series XXXIV. 206 pp, illustrated. Lower corners bumped, else fine. Dust jacket is price-clippedshows some rubbing at corners and spine ends and at folds. The jacket promotes this biography..... Item #22008
Soft cover. Very Good. No publication information given. Stapled pamphlet, 68 pp, with 10 tables and charts. Inscribed on the cover "Dear Mr. Bledsoe / Worth Reading / + to pass on/ JM Davis / 5/19/38." Very faint date stamp (May 21 1938) also on front cover. Otherwise only minor..... Item #11918
Phoenix, AZ: Heritage, 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. vii, 349 pp + index, with illustrations, bibliography. Very lightly bumped corners; else fine. Dust jacket shows minimal shelf wear. "Jean King beautifully captures the spirit of her great uncle, Arizona Charlie, who was a Legendary Cowboy..... Item #1012
New York: J.C. Derby, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 359 pp, in publishers's blind-stamped cloth. Spine faded and chipped at head and foot, corners rubbed through. Binding tight, text clean. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "Miss Esther Church with the kind regard of the Author, H.W. Beecher." Esther Church..... Item #21548
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San Antonio, TX: 1902. Softcover. Very Good. 131 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, in original wrappers. Light handling, two small chips to rear cover; text clean. Nicely illustrated little survey of the early history of Texas, the Missions, and the Alamo. Item #2987
Nueva York: Polhemus y Compania, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Title continues: Tomadas, por parte de México, Bajo la Dirección del Ingeniero Jacobo Blanco, Jefe de la Sección Mexicana de la Comisión Internacional de Limites que Restablecio los Monumentos en Anos de 1892 a 1895. 11 x 14 inches, oblong..... Item #21432
Los Angeles: Privately Printed by the Author for His Friends, 1934. Hardcover. Very good. First edition, one of just 100 copies issued. 109 pp + bibliography and folding map, with illustrations by Lawrence A. Patterson. Bound in quarter leather over paper-covered boards. Corners bumped, some scuffing to leather, internally clean..... Item #21767
Boston: True and Greene, 1825. First Edition. 22 pp, complete with original wrappers, but with the stitching perished, so gatherings are loose. Pink staining to front wrapper, edgewear, otherwise very good. Scarce pamphlet criticizing monopolies in general and, more specifically, the factions who opposed a new (toll-free) bridge in Boston..... Item #20637
Privately Printed, 1920. Softcover. Very good. 7 pp, in original printed wrappers. Light soiling on front wrapper; very good. Reprint of the 1885 edition. Item #22102
Springfield and New York: Samuel Bowles & Company; Hurd & Houghton, 1866. Hardcover. Good. Early reprint (first published 1865). 452 pp, with colored folding map. Original brown cloth, worn at spine ends. Small bookplate ("Marcy Mills") and bookseller's label on front pastedown, another label partially removed from rear pastedown, part..... Item #22151
