Lowell, MA: J.C. Ayer & Co., 1880. Scarce specimen book containing eleven complete issues (including wrappers) of the company's 1881 almanac in nine different languages--with two each for English (American and British) and Portuguese (Portuguese and Brazilian). There are also ads on the endpapers in Turkish, Armenian, Greek, Bulgarian, and... (Item #20418)
Auburn, NY: 1819. First Edition. 4 x 6.5 inches, 320 pp, with errata slip pasted to rear blank, folding map. A very good copy in a contemporary full-leather binding. Rubbing to extremities, occasional minor foxing, bookplate of Frank L. Hadley on front pastedown. Map has one closed tear repaired on... (Item #20413)
Columbus: J. Kilbourn, 1819. Seventh edition, "carefully revised and corrected." 12mo, 204 pp, in contemporary full leather binding with gilt rules and black label on spine. With two folding maps (Map of Ohio, 1821, colored in outline; Plat of Columbus as Incorporated, June 3, 1818), both in very nice condition... (Item #20412)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 5.25 x 7.75 inches, 113 pp. Extremities lightly rubbed, with a touch of fraying to the cloth, else fine. Notable for the beautiful art nouveau binding by Henry Thayer of the Decorative Designers. (Item #20409)
Guadalajara, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 1973. Softcover. Very good. Facsimile reprint of the 1742 edition. Approx. 8 x 12 inches, pp xxiii, 626, in illustrated wrappers. One corner lightly bumped, causing creasing to the first few leaves, slight edgewear, else about fine, with unopened pages. Number 3... (Item #20408)
Washington, DC: Compass Press, 1992. Hardcover. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. 272 pp, indexed, illustrated. Owner's signature on title page, else fine, in fine dust jacket. Publisher's description: "With the Soviet reoccupation after World War II, Estonians faced a choice of submitting to Communist puppets or trying to... (Item #20406)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Very good. Early printing, with no date on title page, slightly enlarged from the first edition. Kimes (237) suggests a 1909 date for this printing, based on dated footnotes on pages 12 and 27. 382 pp, indexed, illustrated with 11 plates from photographs and a map... (Item #20405)
Mountain View, CA: R. James Bender, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 256 pp, with illustrations from photographs, maps, bibliography. Pictorial boards. Previous owner's signature/info on front endpaper, else fine. Content on Arturs Silgailis, Rudolfs Bangerskis, petition for a Latvian Army, 15th SS Division (including comat history), 19th and 20th... (Item #20404)
Deadwood, SD: Edward L. Senn, 1939. Softcover. Very good. Pamphlet, 4 x 7 inches, 23 pp, in original self-wrappers. Some staining to front wrapper, otherwise very good. Scarce biography of the first preacher of any denomination in the gold camps of the Black Hills. A Methodist preacher and Civil War... (Item #20329)
Cincinnati: Htichcock and Walden, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 432 pp, in publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Some losses/chipping of cloth at head and foot of spine and a few places on rear board, which appear to have been somewhat amateurishly dyed to match the cloth. Internally... (Item #20326)
Boston: Colby & Rich, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 402 pp + 4 pages of ads for other works by Davis. Illustrated. Publisher's brown cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Minor insect damage to boards, otherwise a very nice copy, clean and sound. Ink-stamped signature of a Joseph... (Item #20325)
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. Hardcover. Fine. Title pages undated, copyright 1898. Complete set of twelves volumes, unifornly bound in tan buckram with titles printed in gilt on a darker brown panel on the spine, top edges gilt. . Each volume with an illustrated frontispiece and an introductory essay... (Item #20324)
New York: Dodd, Mead. Hardcover. Very Good. Early printing (no date on title page, copyright 1880). 12mo . xi, 400 pp, with illustrations and folding map. Original decorated blue cloth. Mild wear to edges, corners lightly bumped, internals clean and tight. Jackson was the first Presbyterian missionary to work in... (Item #20323)
Chicago: Callaghan & Company, 1876. Hardcover. Very good. Complete set of four volumes, 6 x 9.25 inches, uniformly bound in publisher's maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering, black rules on boards and spine. Rubbing/slight fraying to spine ends, some general scuffing to boards, previous owner's signature on front flyleaf of... (Item #20322)
![Speeches of Lord Erskine While at the Bar, Volumes I, II, III, IV [Four-Volume Set]. Thomas E. Erskine, James L. High.](/pictures/thumb/20322.JPG?v=1545869943)
Los Angeles: 1970. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 132 pp, in original pictorial boards, illustrated with b/w photos. Fine copy in like dust jacket. Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera was a 4,219-acre Mexican land grant in present day Los Angeles County given in 1843 by... (Item #20321)
Long Beach, CA: Christar Publishers, 1984. Softcover. Near fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1932 original, which was distrbuted by the Long Baach Chamber of Commerce. 24 pp, illustrated with b/w photos. Minimal handling wear; about fine. Includes sections on parks and playgrounds, amusements, golf courses, hotels and apartments, beaches, the... (Item #20320)
Ramona, CA: Ballena Press, 1973. Softcover. very good. v, 46 pp, with bibliography. Light soiling and general wear to wrappers; contents clean and sound. Contemporary accounts from both printed and manuscript sources about Ishi, the last known survivor of the Yahi tribe of California Indians and the model for Scott... (Item #20319)
New York: Viking Press, 1954. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Book club ediition. 273 pp, in original yellow cloth decorated in red and blue. A fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with slight chipping to the spine ends. Jacket design by Paul Goldone. Photo of Steinbeck... (Item #20318)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Hardcover. Very good. Sixth printing. 451 pp, bound in red cloth. No dust jacket. Boards show moderate general shelfwear, one pinhole in spine cloth, a few spots of foxing to fore edge. Inscribed on the half-title page simply "Best Wishes, Ray Bergman" and dated 1943. (Item #20317)
![Trout [SIGNED]. Ray Bergman.](/pictures/thumb/20317.jpg?v=1545714175)
London: C. and J. Ackers, 1753. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 11.25 x`9.25 inches, pp [14], v, 78, [1] (ad), with 13 leaves of plates (one folding). Illustrations engraved by Pierre Fourdrinier after Francis Price. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked with new spine with raised bands, original black leather spine label... (Item #20316)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. A very good copy in original cloth with black lettering. Mild wear to extremities (including slight fraying to corners of front board, gift inscription dated 1942 on front free endpaper; otherwise unmarked, clean and sound... (Item #20314)
London: William Paterson, 1884. Hardcover. Very good. Four-volume set, complete. 6 x 9.5 inches, bound in full brown leather with raised bands and gilt rules on spines, black ribbon bookmarks bound in, satin moire endpapers. "Edition de luxe," limited to 100 sets (of which this is number 82), with a.... (Item #20312)
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1924. Hardcover. Very good. First printing of this edition, translated by Rene Francis, with 12 color plates (including frontispiece) and additional b/w plates and illustrations in the text by Jean de Bosschere. Copy No. 68 of an edition of 3000. pp. xlv. 231... (Item #20311)
London: Archetype Publications, 2000. Hardcover. Near fine. 174 pp, in original illustrated boards; no dust jacket. Very mild wear to edges, else as new. Aimed at curators, owners of textile collections, collection management staff, conservators, and conservation students. Includes an overview of the most common fibres, production processes, and techniques... (Item #20310)
Seattle: Self-published. Undated, ca. 1915. 4-1/4 x 6" stapled printed and photo-illustrated wraps, signed in pencil by the author on the upper wrap; pp. 30 [2]; worn, the wraps loose from the pages with chips out at the staples, and several closed tears, internally clean. Fair to good overall. Contains... (Item #20306)
![Story of the Lost Trail to Oregon {SIGNED]. Ezra Meeker.](/pictures/thumb/20306.jpg?v=1545278910)
