[Birmingham, AL]. Softcover. Very Good. 115 pp, in original wrappers. Moderate soiling and handling wear to wrappers, some rusting to binding staples; contents clean. Includes list of officers, treasurer's report, resolutions, reports on meetings and activites of committees (art, civics, child welfare, education, publicity, literature and library) and advisory bodies..... Item #2374
Denver: Tribune Book and Job Printing House, 1876. Softcover. Near fine. 65 pp, in original printed wrappers. A few chips, finger smudge on front wrap, internally fine. First edition of the Constitution that brought Colorado into the Union as the hundredth state. Eberstadt notes that "the address to the voters..... Item #20633
New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1978. Softcover. Very Good. Part One: Unpaginated, approximately 150 pp, with b/w illustrations. Part Two: Unpaginated, approximately 120 pp, with b/w illustrations. Top edges toned, light handling wear; contents clean. Auction catalogues for Sotheby Parke Bernet sales 4114 and 4179. Item #2479
[Germantown, PA]: [Germantown Print Works]. Textile. Good. An appealing illustrated broadside on cloth bearing a very early appearance of the famous "I cannot tell a lie" cherry tree story. Collins (Threads of History) says it was printed by the Germantown Print Works in Pennsylvania, ca. 1806. The story itself, which..... Item #20532
[Mobile, AL]: 1923. Softcover. Very Good. 90 pp, in original wrappers. Light soiling and shelf wear to wrappers, some rusting to binding staples; contents clean. Interesting report including a variety of statistics and details of the accomplishments and work performed by vaious city departments over the course of the year..... Item #2376
Cincinnati: Feicke-Desch Printing Co. Softcover. Very good. Undated, ca. 1912. Oblong 8-1/4 x 5-1/2" brown paper wraps printed in black and copper gilt, with a photo-gravure lozenge depicting the Covington suspension bridge tipped onto the upper wrap; [64} pp, each illustrated with a photograph colored in blue (imitating cyanotype) in..... Item #20300
Boston: Boston Chemical Printing Company. Undated, but ca. 1835. Handkerchief printed in black on white cotton. 10.25 x 11.25 inches. Text in three columns, decorative border, small illustration at the head of each column. A very good example, with some scattered foxing. Technological developments of the early nineteenth century made..... Item #20039
[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
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
Washington, DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1970. Very good. Oirginal official "wanted" circular, 10.75 x 16 inches, issued by the FBI on watermarked paper. Old creases from folding for mailing, pinholes at corners, two-hold punched at top, with one small loss to top margin. Still an attractive, very good example..... Item #20678
Boston: True and Greene, 1825. First Edition. 22 pp, complete with original wrappers, but with the stiching 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
[Washington]: [1848]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Senate Executive Document No. 23, 30th Congress, 1st Session. 132 pp + folding map and 24 plates. Modern buckram binding with leather spine label; original wrappers not bound in (although, according to the Streeter catalogue (168) some copies were issued without wrappers). This..... Item #16526
Cincinnati: Derby, Bradley & Co., 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. viii, 13-260, [3] (ads). Contemporary brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Bookplate and bookseller's label on front free endpaper, mild to moderate foxing throughout; else clean and sound. Very good. An "extended edition" of Hall's Statistics of..... Item #14810
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
Branson, MO: The New Menace, [1921]. [11] pp. Stapled wrappers, lightly toned, a few spots of foxing. Very good. The New Menace was a virulently anti-Catholic newspaper founded in 1911 (as The Menace) and boasting a subscriber base of more than a million after just three years. Circulation declined during..... Item #18043
Cincinnati, OH: Queen City Publishing, 1874. Hardcover. Very good-. 226 pp + 29 ('Descriptive Catalogue of T.S. Arthur's Popular Works"), with wood-enrgaved frontispiece. Original green cloth decorated in gilt and black. Light shelf wear to boardss, corners rubbed, light soiling to pages edges and occasional margins. Binding tight and square..... Item #2519
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a Fair dust jacket. 308 pp, with index, illustrations, notes, map endpapers. Corners lightly bumped, small pale stain to lower corner of front board. Front free endpaper has a previous owner's name written in ink and is a...... Item #13987
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. Hardcover. Near fine. Number 633 of an edition of 1,000, signed by editor on the flyleaf. 187 pp + notes, with frontispiece. Light shelf wear, contents clean; in glassine dust jacket (chipped at spine ends). Bookplate of Leonard Levinson, designed by Rockwell Kent, on..... Item #2848
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." Faint date stamp (May 21 1938) also on front cover. Otherwise only minor wear; no internal markings. Baruch was an advisor..... Item #11918
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 493 pp, illustrated, in publisher's plum cloth, sunned to brown at the spine. Wear to edges of boards. Binding sound, contents clean, other than the author's name being written in ink under "A Haole" on the title page and..... Item #20528
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
[Washington]: 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 35th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 124. 87 pp, with large folding map in rear pocket covering. Modern blue buckram with gilt title on spine. Old archival tape repair to final two leaves at gutter; map has one old..... Item #16534
Houston, TX: Stagecoach Press, 1962. Softcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 30 pp, in original pictorial jacket. Tiny stain to upper right corner, else fine. Dust jacket has faint staining to fore edge. "Here are the two scarcest original accounts of the most famous gunfight in the..... Item #1304
Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 325 pp; original brown cloth. Stamp of W.W. Henry, Ashland, IL on front board (only just visible) and front free endpaper, extremities rubbed; a few pages soiled. A circuit riding preacher in Indiana and Illinois in the 1820s and 1830s..... Item #14089
London: Chapman and Hall, 1869. First Edition. Two volumes, pp lxv, 236; vii, 322, complete with 20 colored lithograph plates, 3 botanical plates, woodcuts in the text, a colored folding map and a colored plate with three small maps. An attractive set, recased, with new endpapers but original cloth binding..... Item #16422
