New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Hardcover. Good+. Complete set of 40 volumes. Holly Edition, number 599 of 1000 sets issued. Title pages undated, copyright date on Volume I is 1892. Bound in dark red cloth with gilt decoration, top edges gilt. Each volume with illustrated frontispiece; additional..... Item #20814
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In the Savoy [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling, 1726, 1728. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two quarto volumes bound in later quarter leather and brown buckram, with red and black spine labels. One-inch split to front joint at head of Vol. I, some scuffing to..... Item #20813
New York and London: M. Walter Dunne, 1904. Hardcover. Very good. Bouvard edition. Complete set of ten volumes, uniformly bound in aqua cloth with leather spine labels. Top edges gilt, floral endpapers. Scuffing to the labels, some very faint soiling to cloth. Internals sound and clean. Armorial bookplate signed D.T...... Item #20812
San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1892. Hardcover. Very good. 384 pp, in original brown cloth decorated in black and gilt. Rubbing to edges, dent to top edge of front board, otherwise very good. Binding tight, text clean. Beautifully illustrated with engravings of various hot springs and scenic locations in California..... Item #20811
New York: Macmillan, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 106 pp + publisher's ads, with maps and illustrations from photographs. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt; no dust jacket. Some dark staining to front cover. Binding sound, text clean. Rocq 2200. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 142 "The book ably presents..... Item #20809
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Copy #161 of the limited edition of 300 copies. 8 x 11 inches, x, 221 pp, illustrated with etchings by Loren Barton. Original boards with cloth spine and corners, paper label, in orignal black slipcase. Upper corners very slightly bumped..... Item #20808
Nineteen unused b/w postcards, all captioned in the negative, clear, and in very good condition. Captions label the location as "Camp 'Iowana'" (presumably an informal name reflecting the presence of many Iowans) and as "Co. 1750." According to Hard Work and a Good Deal, The Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota..... Item #20807
San Bernardino, CA: San Bernardino County Museum Association, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 499 pp, approx. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. Spine sunned, base of spine bumped, otherwise sound and clean. Includes images of the brands recorded in San Bernardino County between 1853 and 1917, with an index of owners..... Item #20806
Pasadena: A.C. Vroman, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 54 pp, in illustrated cloth boards. Slight wear to extremities, else a fine copy, signed by Saunders (without inscription) on the front free endpaper. No dust jacket. In 1880, Ezra and Jeanne Carr "retired to Pasadena with the intention of raising..... Item #20804
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Denver, CO: Old West Publishing Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Fine copy, partially unopened. Dust jacket is toned at the spine and has some wear to the bottom edge. Inscribed on the front flyeaf "To Lawton and Renee. This book was a long..... Item #20802
Album containing eleven 7"x 9" professional linen-backed photographs showing the process and results of installing new street lights along a main commercial thoroughfare in Hamilton, Ohio. Hamilton is the county seat of Butler County, about 20 miles north of Cincinnati. In the early twentieth century, “the town was a heavy..... Item #20798
London: Methuen, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. 166 pp + publisher's catalogue. Small bump to top edge of boards, offsetting to front free endpaper. Attractive bookplate of Los Angeles photographer Will Connell on front pastedown. Dust jacket is toned at the spine and has..... Item #20797
Chicago: Regan Publishing Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Previous owner's name stamped on front pastedown, else a fine copy. No dust jacket. One of 975 copies issued. Six-guns 193; Cowan p. 45. Murrieta was a legendary bandit who became a hero of the Mexican-Americans in California. The details..... Item #20796
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. xv, 269 pp, indexed. Mild wear to edges of boards, binding tight, text and endpapers unmarked. Dust jacket has rubbing, small chips. As described on the jacket, "This book explores...the distinguishing characteristics of the..... Item #20795
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 30 pages of text, 15 plates illustrated with half-tone photographs,and two large folding maps, one showing Fresno and Tulare County Holdings and the other the location of all Big Tree groves. Bound in original brown cloth stamped in gilt on the..... Item #20793
New York: Taintor Bros., Merrill & Co., 1886. Softcover. Very good. 4.5 x 6.5 inches, in original illustrated blue wrappers.123 pp + many engraved plates, 12 unnumbered pages of ads, two folding maps. Additional illustrations in the text. Light wear and creasing to corners, small tear to paper at head..... Item #20792
New York: Hastings House, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a good dust jacket. First printing. xxv, 530 pp + illustrations, with maps, bibliography, index, map endpapers. Light dust soiling to top edge, archival tape repair to one page, else clean and sound. Dust jacket has a large chip..... Item #20791
Washington: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1942. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 136 pp, in original black printed wrappers, with numerous photographic illustrations. Corners bumped, small tears to head and foot of spine, previous owner's name on title page. Otherwise unmarked and sound. Rusinow (1915-1990) was an American filmmaker and photographer best..... Item #20789
London: Coldharbour Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. 328 pp. Corners bumped, sticker telling you to "Order from The Thunderbolt, Inc." of Savannah, Georgia placed over publication information on title page. Otherwise clean and sound, in the original dust jacket, which has a chip..... Item #20788
Edinburgh: Hamilton, Balfour & Neill, 1858. Poor. 85 pp, containing the complete text but lacking both title pages (one in each language). First two leaves with long closed tears. Staining throughout. Homemade sewn binding of perculiar wrinkled leather, fore edge/outer corners worn to a rounded shape, but the only loss..... Item #20787
Very good. Original photograph, 4x5.5 inches, mounted on 6x8 inch board with decorative border and printed captions. Credited on the mount to Dexter, McKeesport, PA. Ca. 1900. Doranto was one of several actors in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries regularly performed Chinese impersonations in traveling variety shows. Claiming..... Item #20785
Paris: Theophile Barrois, le jeune, 1789. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 volumes, 8vo, in contemporary full leather bindings. Vol. 1: [12] + 376; Vol. 2: [4] + 375 + [1] pp. Half-titles present in both vols; two folding copper-engraved plates. Loss to one of the spine labels on Volume..... Item #20781
Southern Pacific Railroad, 1924. Softcover. 16 pp, 8 x 9 inches (folding to 4 x 9), with numerous illustrations form photographs, map showing railroad lines and cotton growing areas .Punch-hole at one corner, minor ink notations on one panel, still about very good. A relatively scarce promotional brochure with detailed..... Item #20780
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
Charlestown: Printed by C. Rand & Co, 1857. Only edition. 33 pp, in original printed wrappers. Chipping, wrappers partially detached from spine, tape repairs to verso of front wrapper; good. Scarce pamphlet, apparently published by the accused for the purpose of clearing his good name. Thomas M. Crossan (1819-1865) was..... Item #20778
