Philadelphia: R. Rae & Co., 1856. 19 pp, in original pink printed wrappers, with two folding maps ("Map of the Halsey Estate" and "Map Showing the Connections of the McKean Coal Field with the Great Markets of Central and Western New York, and Lakes Erie & Ontario") and a profile..... Item #20832
New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago: Historical Publishing Company, 1886. Hardcover. Very good. 9.25 x 12 inches, pp [iv] 33-292, in original blind-stamped black cloth with gilt lettering reading " Industries of Pennsylvania" on upper board. Light rubbing to corners; rear board is dampstained, but interior is untouched, clean and sound..... Item #20050
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. 361 pp, indexed and illustrated. A fine copy in original cloth-backed boards with paper spine label, inscribed on the front pastedown "For______, with good wishes, Catherine Coffin Phillips." Dust jacket has a few stray..... Item #20996
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Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 487 pp, with index, bibliography, notes. As new, in as-new jacket. "Beginning with the fights over water in the California gold fields, this volume carefully shows how for fifty years the West became..... Item #14511
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a good dust jacket. x, 321 pp, with maps, index. Lightly bumped corners, bump to top edge on rear cover; binding tight, contents clean. Dust jacket shows shelf wear and some soiling. "This study of seven men provides..... Item #3008
Autograph letter in a beautiful hand, on Ross' pictorial letterhead. Hutto, Texas, 1914. 8.5 x 11 inches, framed with clear glass on verso so entire letter can be read. Very good. Born in Ohio in 1867, Grant P. Ross moved to Texas in 1879, when his father obtained a homestead..... Item #20872
Washington DC: J. & G.S. Gideon, 1849. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 16 pp, in original self-wrappers. Some handling wear, light foxing. Preston proposed the creation of a single new state from all of the former Mexican territory. It was generally assumed that this would not be a slave state..... Item #1533
Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1913. Softcover. Very good. 101 pp, with frontispiece. Light handling wear; clean and sound. Text is in English and Spanish. "On July 17th and 18th, 1781, the Yuma Indians rose against the Spaniards and, at or near the villages of San Pedro y San Pablo..... Item #985
New York: Daniel Fanshaw, 1828. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo, 10 pp, disbound. Light foxing, all else very good. Foundational document of the General Union, which according to one modern scholar "marked a new departure in the annals of American reform. Like the American Temperance Society, upon which it..... Item #16639
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News Co., 1887. First Edition. Softcover. vii, 98 pp, original sewn self-wrappers. External soiling, paper over spine lacking, but internally clean and sound. Good. Sloan offers a point-by-point rebuttal to accusations against the Mormons made in the House of Representatives, which he says repeat widely..... Item #14734
New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1873. Hardcover. Near fine. A volume in the Illustrated Library of Travel, Exploration & Adventure. 256 pp + 4 pp of ads, engraved illustrations (several full-page), colored folding "Map Showing the Location of the Yellowtone National Park and its Prospective Railroad Connection with the..... Item #20817
Seattle, WA: Superior Publishing, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. 123 pp, plus index. 8.5 x 10.75 inches. An as-new copy in a price-clipped and very lightly rubbed dust jacket. Includes "accurate illustrations of Indian implements, tools, and weapons which can no longer be seen..... Item #13911
Philadelphia: Printed by Ormrod & Conrad for J. Ormrod, [1797]. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 46 pp, in a later binding of 3/4 polished calf and marbled boards. Rubbing to corners and joints, evidence of bookplate removed from front pastedown, embossed library stamp on title page and pg. 46, otherwise very good..... Item #20588
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
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. 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 supporter of colonization..... 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
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Second printing. 252 pp, illustrated with b/w photos and line drawings; map endpapers. One corner bumped, gift inscription on front free endpaper. Otherwise unmarked, clean and tight. Dust jacket chipped at the corners and spine ends..... Item #12857
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
Pierre, SD: South Dakota Rural Credit Board. Undated, but 1930s. Four-panel brochure, 3.5 x 8.5 inches when folded. Fine. Feeling like a cog in the machine or a slave to industry? South Dakota is the answer! This 1930s promotional piece seeks "real men and women" to settle on the state's..... Item #19885
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
