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19062222259<p>First edition first printing December 1906. Octavo. Illustrated by Carl Eytel with 337 pen and ink sketches from nature; 33 full page halftone photographs; maps one folding and plans. Original light blue cloth over grey stamped in gilt t.e.g. Dust jacket few chips; few nicks; few creases. Very good. 270 pages and 271 pages 2 page publisher's ads. 2 volumes.</p><p>Printed by The Griffith-Stillings Press Boston.</p><p>E. I. Edwards "Desert Voices" page 88-89. "The Classic and definitive account of the Colorado Desert." "Desert Harvest" pages 77-78. "The Enduring Desert" pages 130-131.</p> Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
190421531Pasadena CA: George Wharton James 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. pp. 504 2 index illustrated with line drawings. Good only with wear and soiling to the boards flexible cloth front hinge cracked. Includes a useful general history of the region and interesting detail on place names topography natural resources transportation agricultural production arts and education flora and fauna and historic landmarks and highlights for the tourist organized according to the various railroad routes. Rocq 16291; Berry and Klinicke 3753. George Wharton James hardcover books
19222222207<p>First edition first printing so stated. April 1922. Large octavo. Color frontispiece; 56 plates 8 are in color; foldout color map. 8 page foreword by George Wharton James. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in pink lavender light green and gilt with a scene of purple mountains and a green valley surrounded by lilies t.e.g. uncut; pictorial endpapers designed by M.C.M. Dust jacket unclipped; lightly toned. Enclosed in original publisher's box with two descriptive text labels. Rare thus. Fine. 371 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Box is toned. It has short crack and chip on leftside.</p> The Page Company hardcover books
199236139Princeton:: Princeton University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0691047774 . Edited by John Catanzariti. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Princeton University Press, hardcover books
199536140Princeton:: Princeton University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0691047782 . Edited by John Catanzariti. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Princeton University Press, hardcover books
200050194Duluth: Holy Cow! Press 2000. First edition 8vo pp. 75 1; fine in original pictorial wrappers. Signed on the title page by Jenkins and additionally inscribed "For John fellow-maker Louis." <br/><br/> Holy Cow! Press unknown books
196952383La Crosse: Sumac Press 1969. Edition limited to 300 copies 9 x 6.5 in pp. 24; tan printed wrappers in original manilla envelope fine. Rulon-Miller Wulling 115. <br/><br/> Sumac Press unknown books
193629238Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society 1936. First edition; 8vo; pp. xvi 157; 3 plates printed recto/verso; near fine copy in original stiff paper wrapper. <br/><br/> Minnesota Historical Society unknown books
1997257991Montgomery AL: The Academy 1997. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Covers soiled but binding sound; previous owner name and date inside front wrapper otherwise no markings in text. Illustrated with photographs throughout; digital images available upon request. Very Good binding. The Academy unknown books
1851002433Washington D.C.: C. Alexander Printer 1851. Very Good paper at spine is worn but still intact and contents are bright and clean. Prior owner name stamp front endpage. 218 pages of remarkable reading with the bulk of the report given to an account in the form of a journal of the march of the regiment of mounted riflemen to Oregon from May 10 to October 5 1849 led by Major Osborne Cross. Also includes reports from other officers in the Quartermaster's Corp from Texas New Mexico California Oregon and Florida. Laid in is a single page typed a "Description of Projectiles Field Artillery Civil War'" dated Mar. 12 1936. A SCARCE and important document on the history of the American West. No maps present. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. C. Alexander, Printer Paperback books
1976279698Jamestown Foundation 1976. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. A clean and fresh copy with no marks of any kind. Near Fine binding. Jamestown Foundation unknown books
1897006560Boyertown PA: John S. Dunkel Prop. 1897. RARE 1897 boarding house guest notebook front cover reads "THE UNION HOUSE JOHN S. DUNKEL Prop. Best Accomodations for TRANSIENT CUSTOM BATH ROOM and all other Modern Conveniences House Heated Throughout by Steam. BOYERTOWN PA." . Rear cover with 1897 calendat contents are approx. 36 pp.white ruled paper with no writing. Unique bit of travel Americana. Stapled Wrappers. Very Good. 2 1/2" x 5". John S. Dunkel, Prop. Paperback books
1967008463Berkeley: Bill Donaho 1967. Progress Report 1 September 1967 illustrations by Johnny Chambers 8 unnumbered pages in stapled illustrated wrappers. Mostly containing the schedule for the upcoming convention. With Anthony Boucher listed as Toastmaster and Parliamentarian significant because inside rear cover of Progress Report 3 contains memorial tribute to Boucher. Progress Report 3 June 1968 cover illustrations by Vaughan Bode 28 unnumbered pages stapled illustrated wrappers full page map of Berkeley. From the collection of noted science fiction artist illustrator and writer Henry M. Eichner with original mailing envelope addressed to him. Both Reports are Fine. RARE Baycon ephemera with excellent sci-fi provenance. . First Printing. Pamphlet. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bill Donaho Paperback books
19132161New York: Duffield and Company 1913. Hardcover. Good. 346 pp illustrations with frontispiece index. Rear hinge cracked front hinge starting light general wear to boards very light spotting to pages; else clean. No dust jacket. Johnson's personal impressions of travel in California including popular sites such as Santa Barbara Santa Maria Salinas Monterey San Francisco and Mt. Shasta. Duffield and Company hardcover books
1819007976Newburyport MA: No Publisher 1819. Original hand-made book front cover reads "Day-Book B" in contemporary embossed calf 13" x 8 1/2" containing 32 pp. with both sides covered with pasted-in poems clipped from newspapers of the time approx. 6-8 per page. Most are likely from the Newburyport Daily Herald as there is a partial page from that newspaper laid in. The final page verso with a long poem handwritten titled "The Birds of Passage" by Mrs Hemans Felicia Dorothea Hemans. The names Betsy and Johnson handwritten but separated on rear paste down. Good calf chipped bottom 2" of spine pages brittle with edge chips and tears two pages with top right corner poems torn out soiling and staining the bookplate of noted Celtic and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down. A unique piece of Americana. . Calf. Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. No Publisher Hardcover books
1941008923Chapel Hill North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press 1941. Limited and Numbered First Edition # 165 of 900 copies printed 850 of which were for sale. With the inked ownership inscription of The North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Architecture Inc. which was existent from 1939-1974. Very Good Plus toning associated with only the first few pages front and rear interior clean and lovely no slipcase or jacket. Blue buckram with gilt device front cover xxxv 290 pages with numerous black and white photographs map end papers. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Buckram. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. University of North Carolina Press Hardcover books
184758914New Orleans LA: J. Jaehne for the State of Louisiana 1847. Broadside document 16 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches. In part: "P.S. Hoes . to take acknowledgement and proof of deeds depositions conveyances mortgages sales transfers and assignments of any property etc. . and to authenticate and attest the signature & official capacity and acts of the public officers holding a commission or acting under the authority of the State of New York for and on behalf of the State of Louisiana." Folded but very good. Official form illustrated at the head with the seals of Louisiana and the United States. #5538. <br/><br/> J. Jaehne [for the State of Louisiana] unknown books
184958915New Orleans LA: J. Jaehne Stationer for the State of Louisiana 1849. Document. Broadside document 9 7/8 x 8 inches. In part: "George Y Bright . is and was at the time of his signing the same 2d Justice of the Peace in and for the Parish of Orleans State of Louisiana that all his official acts as that are entitled to full faith and credit." Folded but very good. Official form on blue paper illustrated at the head with the state seal. #5528. <br/><br/> J. Jaehne, Stationer [for the State of Louisiana] unknown books
1963180943San Francisco: Bender-Moss Company 1963. Hardcover. 219p. numerous b&w period portraits buff paperstock throughout; title page is rubricated as are initials throughout main entries other spot-color embellishment. Casing has a maroon cloth spine over salt & pepper boards spine-titled in bronze; it is a little dished edges and endsheets lightly foxed a good good-only copy. Please note v.I as a singleton. Bender-Moss Company hardcover books
184455563N.p. Augusta 1844. Folio broadside approx. 16" x 20" text in multiple columns under a running head all within a Greek key border; very small loss in right hand corner touching the border; previous folds; very good. Contains a detailed summary in tabular form of the financial picture of 35 Maine banks from South Berwick to Calais. These abstracts were apparently issued annually from 1820 to 1860. OCLC locates a single copy for 1844 at Harvard bound together with examples from 1843 and 1845. Offered with: Abstract of the Returns . for 1835 similar in size and format to the above; worn and defective lacking the lower right quadrant about 25%. This year is not among those recorded in OCLC. Neither the 1835 nor the 1844 broadsides are recorded in American Imprints. <br/><br/> unknown books
198319777Afton MN: Johnston Publishing 1983. First edition square 8vo pp. 69; illustrations throughout; fine in red cloth and very good jacket. Inscribed by Johnston on the half-title. Johnson's portraits of the Ojibwe date from 1856 and 1857 when he spent time at Pokegama Bay and Grand Portage. <br/><br/> Johnston Publishing hardcover books
1915008918Washington D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Fisheries 1915. SCARCE study of the Alaska fishing industry 155 pages with numerous black and white photographs many of them of Native American fishermen. This copy finely bound and from the private collection of Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt noted North Carolina geologist conservationist and state and local civic leader and later during WW I he was colonel in command of the First Battalion of the 105th Engineers and part of the famous Thirtieth "Old Hickory" Division the first to break the Hindenburg Line. Bound in full black calf without original paper wrappers A distinctive copy of this SCARCE title. with gilt lettering Pratt's name in gilt and gilt rules marbled end papers and edges. Near Fine final blank end paper with worm holes at edge. . First Edition. Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries Hardcover books
1936178707n.p.: WPA 1936. Paperback. 139p. statistical appendix illustrations tables figures photos very good report in trade paperback format plain printed gray wraps with very minor wear. Not noted in Dyke or Powell. Extensive report on the WPA programs successes failures etc. in Pennsylvania. WPA paperback books
192821080New York: William Edwin Rudge 1928. Accompanied by the supplemental third volume: Americana collection of Herschel V. Jones. A check-list 1473-1926 compiled by Wilberforce Eames New York: privately printed by William E. Rudge's Sons 1938. Together 3 volumes folio edition limited to 200 copies numerous facsimiles throughout a fine set in orig. black cloth gilt t.e.g. first two volumes in the publisher's box. Jones 1861-1928 bought The Minneapolis Journal in 1908 and he remained associated with that paper for the rest of his life. He is perhaps best remembered however as a bibliophile and among other collections assembled one of the greatest collections of Americana ever here memorialized and described in detail. <br/><br/> William Edwin Rudge hardcover books
19261061Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 332 pp in original publisher's cloth. Front hinge has a slight wobble light wear to edges; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Signed by Jones on title page. Set in 1850s California. Doubleday, Page, & Company hardcover books
