[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
Visiting Nurse Association. Very good. Undated (c. 1920s) trade/advertising card for the Visting Nurse Association of New Britain, Connecticut. 3.5 x 6 inches. Light soiling and edgewear, about very good. Text on one side describes what visiting nurses do, including offering in-home care to the sick, advising expectant mothers "on..... Item #20961
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
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
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 221 pp, with folding map (Hyposometric Map of the South West, or New Spain with Lines of Railways West of the Mississippi River in Operation 1877 also The Ocean Warm Streams). Publisher's green cloth with map printed on cover..... Item #21006
Milan, IL: Rail Splitter Press. Sixteen pamphlets in original wrappers, averaging around 40 pp each, some with illustrations; all in very good condition, most quite scarce. William Lloyd Clark was a venomous anti-Catholic who founded the Rail Splitter Press to publish tracts, handbills, and postcards elaborating his views and those..... Item #20685
Baltimore: Christian & Fleet, Printers, 1885. Softcover. Very good. 15-page pamphlet in original printed wrappers. Partial split at spine, chip to one corner of front wrapper, otherwise very good. The author was Secretary of the State Tax Commission of Maryland and was also a member of the Baltimore City Tax..... Item #21184
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
Philadelphia: Thayer, Merriam & Co. Undated, ca. 1889. Publisher's broadsheet prospectus, 9.5 x 12 inches, for "Barnum's Own Book," apparently one of many editions of The Life of Barnum, the World-Renowned Showman, which came out under several different imprints in 1890. Printed on very thin paper, it has old tape..... Item #20775
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
Small broadside and cabinet card photo of El-Joseph Robert Raycroft. Undated, but ca. 1905. Broadside measures 5.75 x 12 inches and has some old creases and short tears. Cabinet card is in fine condition and credited to photographer Geo. F. Reil of Chicago. Both of El-Joseph's parents were preachers, and..... Item #20692
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. Volume XX in the Western Frontiersmen Series. 300 pp. Fine copy with original prospectus laid in. Beale was a sailor, solder (and hero of the Mexican War), explorer, and Indian superintendent who shared friendship and adventures with John C. Fremont, Kit Carson..... Item #21001
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume X. xi, 793 pp, with Ives' map (18" x 19") laid in; index, bibliography. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Slight scuffing..... Item #19321
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. Blue cloth boards stamped on the spine in gilt; no dust jacket..... Item #18544
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. A fine copy bound in 3/4 red leather and marbled boards; signed by..... Item #17389
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862. First American Edition. Hardcover. good. 8vo, xii, [4], 574+ [2] ads. Illustrated with engravings; 3 maps on one folding sheet. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine darkened, fraying to spine ends, corners rubbed, front hinge partially cracked. Embossed library stamp on a...... Item #13758
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Facsimile reprint of the 1859 edition published by D. Appleton and Company. 130 pp, bound in green cloth. Light shelf wear to boards, bookplate on front pastedown; contents clean and tight. No dust jacket. The author was a British Member of..... Item #2356
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. good+. xiv, 552 pp, indexed, with four folded maps in rear pocket, in original mustard cloth binding. Paper over front hinge split (but hinge still secure), penciled ownership signatures on front free endpapers, occasional penciled annotations in the margins. Binding sound, all..... Item #21422
San Francisco: Henry Grobe, 1917. Sheet music. 10.5 x 13.5 inches, 5 pp. Old dampstaining to back wrapper, abrasion to upper corner front wrapper, partial split at spine; good. An example of the Indianist movement in American classical music, this composition was based on a text and melody transcribed by..... Item #20880
