New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. 7.5 x 10 inches, original color pictorial paper boards and matching dust jacket. Illustrated on every page, in alternating monochrome and full-color spreads. Very slight wear to lower corners, else fine; light edgewear and one..... Item #23127
Los Angeles: Pacific Folder Co. Softcover. Very good. Small illustrated cardstock folder containing 11 accordion-folded panels, all but one printed on both sides. Includes 17 halftone illustrations from photographs and four panels of text. Folded size 3 1/8 x 4 1/4 inches. Advertising on the back cover for Fresno Agricultural..... Item #23125
Hope, AK. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Souvenir view book, 9 x 12 inches, oblong. 22 pp, with many photographic illustrations, map on inner rear wrapper. Undated, but several external sources give the date as 1946. Lightly rumpled, small tear too top edge of front cover and first two leaves..... Item #23123
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology Volume 7. Three volume set, complete. 11.75" x 9.25", 1373 pp, in original wrappers, with illustrations, bibliography, maps. Mild warp to Volume I, otherwise a very nice set, with no markings and minimal wear. A...... Item #23122
Noumea, New Caledonia: Imprimeries Reunies, 1942. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8.25 x 5.25, 31 pp, printed wrappers. Moderate handling wear (creasing, dog-ears), text clean, binding tight. Overview of the history and resources of New Caledonia aimed at American troops. A French territory, New Caledonia was a critical stop on the..... Item #23121
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1911-1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes bound in red cloth, pp. 372, 412, with portraits, facsimiles, double-page map in Volume I, bibliography, index. Prospectus (4 pp) and "The Late Emma Helen Blair" (2 pp) laid in. (Blair died while the work was in publication)..... Item #23120
Polygraphic Company of America, 1951. Hardcover. Very good. 7.75" x 10", oblong. Spiral binding. Pages lightly tanned, some cover wear, but overall a nice copy, complete with all 6 cut-out dogs and their beds. The plot centers around an escape of six dogs from the pet store. They are eventually..... Item #23119
Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Southern Railway Company, 1911. Softcover. Good. 10" x 6.5", pp. 153-190 + ads. Stapled binding. Chips, staining to cover edges, internally very good. Issue 35 of this scarce and interesting publication from the Kansas City Southern Railway Company. Includes advertising for agricultural and industrial real..... Item #23117
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932. Soft cover. Very good. Official NPS visitor's guide to Wind Cave, 1932 edition. 12 pages, stapled, with double-page map (Underground Survey of Cave in Wind Cave National Park) at center and railroad route map on back cover. Cover photo shows Elk in the..... Item #23116
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932. Soft cover. Near fine. Official NPS visitor's guide to Grand Canyon National Park, 1932 edition. 78 pages, stapled, illustrated with b/w photos, three-panel foldout map of the Park. Cover photo by Fred Harvey shows the canyon from near Hopi Point. Covers the history..... Item #23115
New Haven, CT: William Reese Company. Softcover. Very good. Seventy-six [76] Americana catalogues issued by the William Reese Company between approximately 1981 and 2019. All in very good or better condition. Includes many titled "Western Americana" or "Rare Americana," as well as some covering specific themes such as California and..... Item #23114
John Ross House Association, 1963. Softcover. Good. 85 pp, illustrated, stapled binding. Wrappers somewhat soiled, old dampstain visible on upper front cover and first two leaves, otherwise clean and sound. Includes a biography of John Ross (Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828 to 1866), short history of the..... Item #23113
Akron, OH: Saalfield Pub. Co., 1932. Softcover. Good+. "Real cloth" book, 8" x 10", 11 pp including back cover, each page illustrating one animal. Some creasing and general wear from handling, but overall a nice copy of a scarce title. In addition to the fox on the cover, the animals..... Item #23111
New York: Payson & Clarke, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 474 pp, in original maroon cloth boards; no dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown, evidence of name erased from title page, rubbing to edges, with small tear in cloth at head of spine. Good to very good overall. Robert Penn..... Item #23109
11.25" x 9", 8 pp, stapled wrappers. Trade catalogue from Prince-Smith & Stells, Ltd. of Keighley, England. Describes a new machine for making "fancy yarns," examples of which are illustrated in color, along with four full-page views of the machine from different perspectives. According to the introductory text, recent changes..... Item #23105
Bruxelles: O. De Rycker. Softcover. very good-. Undated, ca. 1924. 8.25" x 5.5", [26] pp, with many half-tone photographs, in illustrated stapled wrappers. Light dust soiling, text block detached from wrappers, otherwise very good. A rare promotional booklet for Huileries du Congo Belge (HCB), a subsidiary of the British soap manufacturing..... Item #23104
Very good. Autograph letter signed, 1 page on Democratic National Congressional Committee letterhead, from Josiah Hazen Shinn (1859-1917) to a Mr. Weaver. Undated, ca, 1910. Shinn was an educator and historian from Arkansas who published extensively on Arkansas history, among other subjects. This letter documents his attempts to determine the..... Item #23103
Softcover. Near fine. A beautifully illustrated premium booklet advertising Tetley's Teas with rather startling tagline (at least to modern sensibilities) -- "Like Good Children, Never Beaten." 5 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches, 8 pp + covers, stapled binding. Chromolithograph covers and 4 full color illustrations (3 with anthropomorphic animals), as..... Item #23100
Very good. A small but interesting gathering of correspondence relating to 23-year-old Isaiah "Ike" Klingman (1902-1966), who was picked up on a disorderly conduct charge while selling fake obscene photographs (i.e., photos in sealed envelopes that he falsely implied were pornographic, telling customers not to open them until later) on..... Item #23099
Nederland, TX: Nederland Printing and Office Supply, 1986. Softcover. Near fine. 28 pp, in stapled wrappers. Slight soiling to cover, else fine. Reprints an sketch of the life of Zavala prepared by the author for The Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, published in November 1985. Lorenzo de Zavala (1788-1836)..... Item #23098
San Antonio, TX: Naylor Company, 1935. Softcover. Very good. Second printing. xii, 128 pp, with bibliography, index. Light toning to edges of wrappers, stain on half-title page, else clean and sound. A compilation of historical material from a variety of sources, in three sections representing "three of the major epochs..... Item #23097
Hallettsville, TX: 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Ca. 9 x 6 inches, 89 pp. Spot of abrasion and discoloration on front cover, gift inscription on acknoweldgedments page. Signed by the author (without inscription) on the title page. Account of the author's life growing up on a farm in outside..... Item #23096
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Gainesville, TX: Gainesville American Revolution Bicentennial Committee, 1975. Softcover. Near fine. 9" x 6", 66 pp, with illustrations, bibliography. Stapled binding. Near fine, with minor discoloration on back cover. A scarce and useful survey of the history of Black social, cultural, and political life in Cooke County, which Smallwood sees..... Item #23095
Very good. A collection of advertising circulars, price lists, and related correspondence from companies selling lumber, shingles, wood flooring, saws, and logging tools. All were sent to Arthur Kimball, owner of a shingle and clapboard mill in East Grafton, New Hampshire, between 1899 and 1903. Includes items from 24 different..... Item #23093
New York: The Graphic Co., 1879. Good+. 14.5" x 20" plan on a 16" x 23" sheet, issued as part of the November, 1879 edition of Demorest's Monthly Magazine. Full title: Proposed Site for World's Fair in 1883. Between 110th and 125th Streets, Morning Side and River Side Parks N.Y...... Item #23091
