Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, [1912]. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. "Supplement to Statement issued by Bishops' Council to the General Conference, Kansas City, Mo., May, 1912." 9 x 6 inches, 19 pp, including nine half-tone photographic plates, in original stapled wrappers. Some soiling to first page, moderate general handling wear..... Item #20988
Mexico: Fondo Pagliai, 1973. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, 133 pp, illustrated with maps and facsimiles. One of 1000 copies printed, this one unnumbered. Bound in full leather with gilt lettering on spine. Extremities rubbed, a few scuff marks to the leather; binding sound, text clean. Previous owner's name on front..... Item #17707
Hardcover. Very good. Black leather album containing 54 tissue-guarded leaves of watercolor paper, of which 43 have been used. 10 x 12 inches, stamped in gilt on the front "Sketches on the Nile / Alan Hinch / 1938." Leather scuffed, cloth tape reinforcement to inner hinges, all else very good..... Item #21433
London: Chapman and Hall, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First English edition. xvi, 520 pp with illustrations, index, folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped and rubbed, mild wear to bottom edge. Hourst explored the Niger from Timbuktu to the sea on behalf of the French..... Item #12969
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp xii, 228 + ads, with illustrations, folding maps of Mammoth and Wyandot. Original embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped, minor soiling on back cover, original owner's inscription ("D.W. Garrigues, Bot. 12/4/85 at Luray Caverns, Luray..... Item #20615
2000. Hardcover. Very Good. University of San Diego Master's Thesis. 8.5 x 11 inches, bound in blue buckram, vii, 141 pp + notes, with maps, illustrations, bibliography. A few pencil annotations, all else very good. Includes chapters on the Historiography of Women and Power in Alta California, California Indian Women..... Item #3220
Seven signed manuscript letters on United States Internal Revenue letterhead, each on is on a single sheet, ranging in length from approximately 50 to 100 words. Old folding creases, minor spotting; very good. The Internal Revenue Service was created in 1862, when an income tax was enacted to help fund..... Item #20048
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. xxiii, 940, + ads, with many plates (including one folding panorama), portraits, and five folding maps. Plates are from photos by the author and drawings by R.W. Macbeth, Clifford Carleton, Harry C. Edwards, E.F.W. Frohawk. Original blue..... Item #20473
Cincinnati: Elm Street Printing Company, 1881. Softcover. Good. Single issue of this periodical (which was in the midst of undergoing a name change to better reflect its broad content) dated December 1881. pp 401-428, including index for the entire year. Includes much content on the state of missions and living..... Item #20779
Pasadena, CA: Radiant Life Press, 1917. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo, pp. 48 + 7 b/w plates, in original stapled pictorial wrappers. Some chipping and tiny tears to wrappers;contents clean. James first saw Captain, a performing horse owned by W.A. Sigsbee of Chicago, at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San..... Item #18962
[Palo Alto, CA]: Dramatists' Alliance of Stanford University, 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 106 pp, ca. 8.5 x 11 inches, original illustrated wrappers. Moderate handling wear, including creasing to cover resulting from a binding error; very good. Second volume in the Coester Series of Translations from the drama of..... Item #20734
Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott and Co., 1875. Hardcover. Near fine. New edition with sixty-eight illustrations on wood. A near fine copy of this beautifully illustrated work. 10.5", 210 pp, bound in brown cloth with decoration stamped in black and gilt. Corners and spine ends rubbed, otherwise a fine copy of this..... Item #22244
Salt Lake City, UT: Privately printed for the author by Western Printing Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Copy 274 of a limited edition of 350. 128 pp, indexed, illustrated. Bound in textured green cloth with embossed illustration of a covered wagon. Lower corners bumped and rubbed, mild wear..... Item #21413
London: Macmillan, 1881. Hardcover. Near fine. 5" x 7", xi, 245 pp, with 12 color plates and additional illustrations in the text. Attractive full-red leather prize binding, with spine in six compartments tooled in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Inscribed "J. Royden, Classics, Class I, Yarlet, Christmas 1884" on the..... Item #14264
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Boston: George A. Chapman, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 132 pp, in original plain brown cloth. Some chips in cloth at spine, front board just holding on, moderate foxing throughout. Small label "Coll. Immac. Conc. S.J." on front pastedown. A scarce account by the last man jailed in the..... Item #18533
San Francisco: H.H. Bancroft and Company, 1864. Hardcover. Good. 4.25" x 6.5", pp 440 + [9] (advertisements, some printed in blue and red), with additional advertising printed on endpapers. Losses to backstrip, cloth frayed over front jont, front cover loosening and delicate, but still attached. Possibly lacking a front blank..... Item #22149
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Glocester: R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, 1764. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Quarto, pp. [8], 280, [8], with 7 engraved maps and plates (4 folding). Contemporary calf boards with new, complementary calf spine in six compartments. Some edgewear to boards; minor foxing to endpapers; text and plates exceptionally clean and..... Item #15085
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. #137 of 300 copies, signed by both authors in pencil on the colophon. 193 pp, with color frontispiece, illustrations in black and white. Light dust spotting to top edge of text block, slight fading to top inch of rear..... Item #20494
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New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 208 pp + publisher's ads. Spine has a small paper label (likely a private library number) and is chipped at both ends, corners rubbed through; binding tight, text and endpapers unmarked. "Charles Lanman (1819-1895), a writer, amateur explorer and..... Item #22272
Washington, DC: Press of Byron S. Adams, 1912. 6 x 9.25 inches, 72 pp, with chromolithograph frontispiece, many b/w illustrations from photographs. Near fine, with mild edgewear to wrappers. Stamp of the Bolivan Consulate in San Francisco on front endpaper. An attractive informational booklet aimed at potential investors, with description..... Item #18158
Washington: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1865. Very good. Single leaf, 5 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches, possibly originally issued with two leaves, the second being blank. 1.5 pages of text, signed in print by Lincoln, William Seward, and E.D. Townsend. Faint folding creases; near fine. Issued March 11, 1865..... Item #21167
Concord, NH: Daniel Cooledge, 1813. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition (first published 1809). 16mo, 143 pp, with wonderful wood-engraved sheep vignette on title page. Contemporary binding of calf-backed marbled boards with black spine label. Bookplate of Catholic priest and book collector Joseph M. Gleason on front pastedown. Five-digit number ink-stamped..... Item #21533
London: John Murray, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Title continues: And a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the West Coast; thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. 8vo, 687 pp + 8 -pg publisher's catalogue (dated Nov. 1, 1857)..... Item #22045
New York: Welch, Fracker Company, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. First edition in English. 12mo, 343 pp, illustrated by Benjamin Constant and Aime Marot. Publisher's green cloth with decoration in gilt, image of a warrior on horseback on front board. Mild rubbing to extremities, a few pages chipped at..... Item #14049
California: Historic Record Company. Hardcover. Good. Undated, ca. 1927. Title continues "Containing also short, well-written personal sketches of many men and women, deceased and living, who by their own unaided efforts have made this one of the foremost sections of the State." 10.5 inches, 983 pp, with illustrations from photographs..... Item #21243
