Brooklyn: D.S. Holmes, [1864]. Near fine. A scarce pro-Lincoln political broadside couched in (pseudo) biblical language, supporting "Father Lincoln" over McClellan in the election of 1864. It recounts the Democratic nomination of McClellan (who is "ill-advised" and listens to "evil counsels") and implies that he will violate the "people's new... Item #20531
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[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
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 248 pp, indexed, in original black cloth boards. Light shelf wear to boards; binding tight, text clean. Established by Congress in 1869, the Board of Indian Commissioners was authorized to provide advice on the conduct of federal policy regarding... Item #2927
St. Paul: Riley Brothers, 1886. Hardcover. Very good. 5 x 7 inches, 370 pp + 3 pages of ads. Original flexible brown cloth, titled on the cover "Guide to the Northern Pacific Railroad and its Allied Lines. Official Edition, 1886-7." Light rubbing to extremities, a bit of dust soiling, else... Item #20458
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
Stamford, TX: Swenson Land and Cattle Co, Inc. Softcover. Very Good. Undated, likely 1950s. 6 x 9 inches, oblong. 47 pp, with many illustrations, in original illustrated wrappers. Light spotting and handling wear to wrappers, including a little nibbling to one corner; text clean. The SMS band, one of the... Item #3032
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]: [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
New York: Macmillan Company, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. x, 354 pp, with illustrations. Light dust soiling to top edge; else clean and sound. Dust jacket with clipped front flap, light shelf wear. "This vast and encyclopedic account of the American cowboy is... Item #1371
Trail's End Publishing: Pasadena, CA, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good+ dust jacket. xii, 350 pp, with 150 illustrations, including 12 color plates; colored pictorial endpapers. A fine copy with no markings or wear. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has two short, closed tears and some minor... Item #14340
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
Printed by the Compton Litho. Company, St. Louis. Trade card, 3 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches. Undated, but 1880s. Some light rubbing to image, one tiny corner crease; very good. This uncommon and attractive card invites inquiries "for full and complete information touching on the products of Arkansas, her climate... Item #19870
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
London: Richard Phillips, 1809. Hardcover. Good. Second edition (first published 1808). pp 316, [4] (index). Re-bound in quarter cloth and marbled boards. Spine slanted; significant dampstain (not affecting readability) to pages 87-123, otherwise clean. Ashe (1770-1835), an Irish novelist and travel writer, was unfailingly critical of all he saw in... Item #2436
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
Boston: B.B. Russell & Co., 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 431 pp, in original brown cloth decorated in gilt and black. Mild wear to extremities; binding tight, text unmarked. Previous owner's name on flyleaf. Phillips (1811-1884) was a noted abolitionist and advocate for the rights of Native Americans. In... Item #13255
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
