Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1848. Hardcover. Very good. Fourth edition, apparently one of several printed in 1848 (its first year of publication). 6.25 x 3.75 inches, 199 pp, in publisher's brown cloth with blind-stamped decoration, lettering in gilt on front board. A few small chips to the cloth..... Item #21171
Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, 1918. Softcover. Good. USDA Bulletin No. 719. August 29, 1918. 15 pp, with 2 maps, one photographic illustration. Foxing, general cover wear; good. Interesting content on how "women whose homes are on the farms are taking advantage of the improvement in means of..... Item #21170
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
Hartfort, CT: Hartford Police Mutual Aid Association, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Title continues: With reminiscences of the past, including some notes of important cases. 167 pp + 54 pages of ads, illustrated with photographs and many portraits. Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Boards show old insect damage..... Item #21163
Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO), 1974. Good. Two-page circular (both sides of single sheet measuring 8.5 x 10 inches) dated 27 April 1974. Creasing, toning, one small hole at lower margin. Good. Published two days after the military coup in Portugal known as the "Carnation Revolution," this statement reaffirms the organization's..... Item #21155
St. Louis: A.R. Fleming & Co., 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 220 pp, with frontis portrait of the author. A very good copy in original cloth, with mild rubbing to corners and spine ends. Inscribed on the front flyleaf "Presented by the author Mrs. Louisa Harris." Women first entered..... Item #21154
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North Logan, UT: Newell J. Crookston, 1959. 1st Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 22 pp, in tan illustrated wrappers. Old price sticker on back cover, else fine.The story of an outdoorsmen, Frank Clark, and his efforts to track down a massive grizzly bear in Cache National Forest of northern Utah and..... Item #21153
Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1951. Hardcover. Very good. First America n edition. pp. xi, 308, with index and glossary. Blue cloth covers, sunned at the spine, tiny bit of rubbing to extremities, previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Classic text describing Confucianism and Taoism in China and how..... Item #21152
Whittier, CA: Governor Pico Mansion Society, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. pp. 107, illustrated with black and white images of Herbert Hahn paintings, hardcover with red cloth boards, no dust jacket, binding tight, text clean. Pio Pico served as the last governor of Alta California from 1845 to 1846..... Item #21151
Stockton, CA: University of the Pacific, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. pp. 47, yellow cloth boards, no dust jacket, corners lightly bumped, near fine. Provides a history of Pacheco Pass in central California and its role as a thoroughfare in California's development, as well as a biography of the..... Item #21150
Providence, Rhode Island: 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 519 pp + extensive (ca. 100 pp) local advertising section. Original maroon cloth decorated in black and gilt. Mild rubbing to extremities; near fine. Although the history of policing in Providence dates back to 1651, when the city's first town sergeant..... Item #21121
Chicago: Press of H. G. Adair, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 196 pp, with two folding tables, in original cloth boards. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "Compliments of Judge Charles W. Goodnow" (a municipal court judge). Old dampstain visible on rear board and top margin of first 40 pages..... Item #21116
Berkeley and San Francisco: Western Star Press, 1971. Softcover. Very good. Trade paperback, 81 pp. Light handling wear; very good. Describes the research and conclusions of a two-year, grant-funded study of the SFPD that found numerous systemic problems. The Introduction lays out the broad (and familiar) issue quite well: "The..... Item #21111
Softcover. Very good. Menu and program, 8.5 x 12 inches, [8] pp, in wrappers illustrated with a photo of a bust of Thompson. Light soiling to back cover, light handling wear; very good. Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) was a prominent American journalist we was early to recognize the dangers posed by..... Item #21085
Clermont-Ferrand: Michelin & Cie. 1920. Hardcover. Near fine in a good dust jacket. 146 pp, with illustrations, maps. Bound in flexible cloth boards. Minimal wear to edges; else fine. Dust jacket has an old price stamp on the front and creasing and chipping to the top edge. In a protective..... Item #21084
Austin: Encino Press, 1968. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. First edition, second state, in a first state dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else fine, in a very good dust jacket with some light soiling. Original $7.50 price present. No letter on copyright..... Item #21076
Santa Barbara, CA: Fithian Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bound in brown cloth boards. Light spotting to top edges of pages, binding is tight, text is clean. Dust jacket has very small chip to top edge of front panel. From the dust..... Item #21072
Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. pp. x, 260, with bibliography and index. Bound in brown cloth boards, with dust jacket. Binding tight, text clean. Dust jacket sunned, crease near bottom edge of front panel. Publisher's description: John..... Item #21071
New York: A.S. Barnes & Company. Hardcover. Good. pp x, 219, illustrated with reproduced black and white photographs, Later printing, year of publication not stated on title page, last copyright date given as 1941. Red cloth boards are lightly soiled, slight spine lean, binding tight, text clean. No dust jacket..... Item #21070
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. pp xv, 322, illustrated with printed photographs, bibliography and index. Cloth backed boards, slight sunning to top edge of boards, scuff mark to cloth on rear board, else fine. Dust jacket..... Item #21040
New York: Wm. C. Martin, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 6 x 4 inches, pp viii, [1], 10-71, [1] (errata), in publisher's green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Moderate foxing throughout, frontis portrait of the author lacking, but still a good of a scarce book. The Appendix is titled..... Item #21029
New York: Munson Steamship Line. Travel brochure. Undated, ca. 1923. 9 x 8 inches (folding to 9 x 4) , [28] pp + folding "Map Showing United States Government Passenger Routes Throughout the World" at center. Photographic illustrations throughout. Light rubbing; very good. Text touts the attractions of Sao Paolo..... Item #21028
Chicago: Fredeicl J. Drake & Company, 1917. Hardcover. Very good. Title continues: "Including Air Brush Designs, Posters, Show Cards, Business Cards, Letter Heads, Sign Ends, Ribbons, Scrolls, Panels, Book Covers, Hanging Signs, also Thirty Pages of Ornamental Work in Color, and Numerous Alphabets." New and enlarged edition. 10 x 8..... Item #21025
Berkeley, CA: R.H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, [1968]. Softcover. Very Good. 8.5 x 11 inches, 20 pp, in original wrappers. Some very light external wear, contents unmarked. The Kiowa Indians were a small tribe (approximately 2000 individuals) who occupied, along with other groups, a territory that included western Oklahoma and..... Item #21022
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1954. Hardcover. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. First American edition, signed on the front free endpaper by expedition members Edmund Hillary, George Lowe, and Charles Evans, and the London Times correspondent James Morris (now Jan Morris), who accompanied the party. xx, 300 pp..... Item #21020
