Philadelphia: Lilienfeld Bros. Steam Power Printers, [1902]. Softcover. Good. 36 pp, with 3 illustrations from photographs, many ads. Original stapled wrappers have chipping and internal tape repairs and are detached from text block; internals very good. Not found in OCLC. The Pannonia Beneficial Organization was founded in 1896 through the..... Item #19917
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
![Jessie Benton Fremont, A Woman Who Maide History [SIGNED]. Catherine Coffin Philllips](/pictures/thumb/20996_1.jpg?v=1589339955)
Commercial string-tied photograph album (7" x 11") containing 161 black and white (all 3 1/4" x 5 3/8"), mounted one to a page, with 4 additional snapshots laid in. Records the 1915 journey of members of the Kora Shrine of Lewiston Maine to attend the annual session of the Imperial..... Item #21263
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
Philadelphia: Printed by Ormrod & Conrad for J. Ormrod, [1797]. Hardcover. Good+. Titile continues: Delivered before the Society in the First Presbyterian Church, in High-street, Philadelphia, on the 17th Dec. 1796. 8vo, 46 pp, in a later binding of 3/4 polished calf and marbled boards. Rubbing to corners and joints..... 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
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
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
![The Stoddard Lectures, Season of 1883-4 [Promotional Circular]. JOHN STODDARD](/pictures/thumb/19962_1.jpg?v=1544725145)
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
