1904. [31] pp, with illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Spine covered with archival tape, line in ink on the margin of one page, otherwise clean and sound. In 1898, the Salvation Army undertook a project intended to relocate urban working poor people to rural areas and enable them to..... Item #20638
Erie, PA: Herald Printing and Publishing Company, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 512 pp, in original gray cloth binding, with faded gilt titles. Illustrated with portraits and somewhat amateurish line drawings. Boards edgeworn, previous owner's name on front free endpaper; front hinge just a bit wobbly, but binding sound, text..... Item #21726
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xx, 293 pp + illustrations from photographs, map, with frontispiece, bibliography, index. Light wear to boards, name and ink stamp on front endpaper, paper over front hinge splitting (but hinge sound); text clean. No dust jacket. Saunders was inspired..... Item #2583
New York: E. Wells Sackett & Rankin, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Pamphlet, 32 pp. Original printed wappers, but with cloth tape at spine (where this was probably once bound into a larger volume). Light handling wear including a few spots of discoloration to wrappers; contents clean. A review..... Item #1511
Deadwood, SD: Edward L. Senn, 1939. Softcover. Fine. Pamphlet, 4 x 7 inches, 15 pp, in original self-wrappers. Fine copy. Adams (Six-Guns) 1976: "The author makes an effort to debunk some of the unreliable statement of earlier writers." Item #20438
Softcover. Near fine. 8vo, 23 pp, in stapled self-wrappers. No publication information given, c. 1890. Abrasion to one spot on front wrapper, with loss of a few letters, else fine. An original Oneida Community member offers (for posterity) an explanation and defense of Perfectionism and the community's other doctrines and..... Item #19057
Andover: Warren F. Draper, 1857. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Pamphlet, 24 pp, in original sewn wrappers. Author's name and an old ink stamp on the front wrapper, else clean, with a mild vertical crease and light handling wear. Very good. Shedd (1820-1894) was a distinguished Presbyterian theologian and enthusiastic..... Item #17948
New York: Damon & Peets. Undated sideshow pitch book, c. 1880. 3 x 4.5 inches, 16 pp, in original illustrated wrappers. One full-page illustration and 2 within the text. A few small chips/short tears; very good. Waino and Plutano (also called Plutanor) were a pair of exceptionally strong dwarf brothers..... Item #19343
Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Senate issue (32d Congress, 2d Session, Executive, No. 59). Complete as issued, with 198 pp + 79 lithographed plates (23 views, 6 mammals, 5 birds, 21 reptiles, 3 fish, 21 botanical plates) and large folding map. Original brown cloth, with chipping and..... Item #18346
Salem, Oregon: Printed for the author at the Oregon State Penitentiary, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 262 pp. A fine copy in original cloth. Webb spent ten years incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary, providing him with more than sufficient material for this reasoned and well written critique. He argues..... Item #14968
On February 15, 1898, a mysterious explosion destroyed the battleship USS Maine while it was anchored in Havana Harbor, killing 260 men and helping to propel the United States into war with Spain. Although the cause of the explosion was unclear, American newspapers were quick to allege that the ship..... Item #21688
Chicago: Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. xi, 315 pp, with index. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Light wear to boards and edges, spotting to fore edge; text clean, but with a slight odor, possibly of tobacco. Includes a historical introduction, and the narratives of..... Item #2579
Boston: Deland and Barto, Printers, [1883]. Softcover. Very good. Six-panel, accordion-folded booklet cut into an unusual shape (a rectangle with two corners cut off). One short closed tear, minor foxing at the folds. John L. Stoddard (1850-1931) was a popular American traveler, photographer, and lecturer. Although the 10-volume set of..... Item #19962
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939. Hardcover. Fine. #25 of 500 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. 8 x 10.5 inches, 333 pp, indexed, with a color frontispiece, 103 illustrations from old prints and photographs, and endpapers and chapter heads by Wiese. Original brown cloth, stamped..... Item #14163
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Denver, CO: Reinert Publishing. Hardcover. Good. 151 pp + index + publisher's catalogue, with frontispiece, illustrations. Shelf wear and soiling to boards, hinges a bit wobbly, gift inscription on front free endpaper; text clean. No dust jacket. From the Foreword: "The stories here collected, and which have been published previously..... Item #2338
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950. Hardcover. Near fine in a good dust jacket. xviii, 122 pp, with illustrations, bibliography. Light spotting to top edge of text block, else fine. Dust jacket has significant losses from biopredation to rear panel; now in mylar. The dust jacket describes this volume..... Item #1361
1961. Softcover. Very good. 8.5 x 11 inches, stapled at the upper corner. [11] pp, extensively illustrated from photographs, one map. One horizontal folding crease, otherwise minimal wear. Provides a brief but useful history of Jacksonville, Oregon, along with a historic walking tour. Item #14556
Perth Amboy, NJ: Yukon Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. "Rollicking Ballads of the Last Frontier." 232 pp. Tight binding, minimal wear. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Dust jacket has some chipping and short tears. Swerdloff worked and traveled..... Item #11905
Wasburn, ND: 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. Published by the author. Second edition, revised and enlarged. pp 218 pp + [4]ads. Re-bound in modern blue cloth. Tight and unmarked, with minimal wear, but some mild age-toning to the pages. Taylor was among the first white men to take up residence in..... Item #11732
New York & Washington, D.C. Telepost Company, n.d. (but ca. 1910). [20] pp, 6.5 x 8.25 inches (folding to 3.25 x 8.25 inches), in stapled wrappers printed in black and red, illustrated with photographic portraits. A little soiling at the creases, staining at the bottom edge of the front wrap;..... Item #19624
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications. Softcover. Very good. Digest 18. Title page undated, copyright 1944. 23 pp, in white printed wrappers. Pages toned, light surface wear to wrappers. Vance Randolph (1890-1982) was best known for his studies of the folklore of the Ozarks, but--somewhat ironically-- this pamphelt is dedicating to conveying..... Item #21273
San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. xx, 141 pp, indexed. A fine copy in original red cloth. Dust jacket has mild wear to the top edge and a small nick in the front panel. Toulmin was a Unitarian minister who..... Item #15861
London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. ix, 257 pp + illustrations from photographs. Original red cloth with gilt spine lettering; no dust jacket. Light sunning to spine, else fine. This precedes the American edition by two years. A native of England, Richard..... Item #2978
Camden, NJ: Victor Talking Machine Company, 1920. 5 x 7.25 inches, 38 pp, with halftone photographic illustrations. Soiling and some loss to front wrapper, one signature loose from staples; good. 4 copies located in OCLC. This promotional booklet for the Victor Talking Machine Company argues for the use of music..... Item #19778
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 454. Rebound in green buckram with gilt titles on spine. Old bookseller's description affixed to front free endpaper; pages a bit wavy from storage in a humid environment, but quite clean and sound. Very..... Item #14884
