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194927916Oakland: Grahame H Hardy 1949. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Cloth 8vo. 70 pages. Stated fourth printing. Illustrated with many black and white photographs. A very good copy in green cloth binding in a very good unclipped dustwrapper. This copy SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on the front endpaper. Grahame H, Hardy unknown books
187429097Chicago: R. R. McCabe & Co 1874. 1st edition Soliday IV 671 incorrectly listing the title as "Life in the Southwest"; Wright II 2193. Original publisher's orange cloth with gilt spine lettering & decorations. Violet colored eps. VG spine a bit faded/board showing at lower tips/po name stamp to ffep & poi to preliminary blank. 422 pp. Illustrated with 2 facing full-page wood engravings prior to t.p. 8vo. 7-1/4" x 5" <br/><br/>Per Soliday "Gives characteristics of western and Indian life from the author's observations and experiences on the Kansas Plains Texas Ranges and in California mines." which in turn relies on the preface verbiage which adds "in the hunter's camp and in the soldier's tent." R. R. McCabe & Co hardcover books
18951422Various locations in Iowa 1895. Very good. 149 albumen photographs on twenty cardstock leaves images measuring 4 x 5 inches. Oblong quarto. Original black cloth cover gilt; leaves laid in formerly string-tied. Light wear and soiling to cloth evidence of slight dampstaining to lower edge of binding and later leaves. Internal numbering sequence indicates first sixteen images lacking. Images generally clean some minor fading; one photograph partially removed and effaced. Wonderful photo album of images documenting late-19th century Iowa assembled by an unidentified young man with a clear passion for both amateur photography and the area's rivers. Internal evidence suggests he was a student at the University of Iowa possibly pursuing a course of study in the geological sciences. Each image is numbered captioned and dated in a tidy hand usually identifying location and any interesting features. The images span a full year from April 1894 to July 1895 ending with a self portrait.<br/><br/>There are two series of eighty-three images the first sixteen of which are not present. The first of these focuses on the area around Iowa City documenting explorations along the Iowa River. Captioned images include: "21 -- Looking across Iowa River - University buildings in the distance. May 3 '94"; "25 -- Looking up Iowa River from Iowa Ave. Bridge. - Water Works in the distance. May 26 '94"; "46 -- Children at play - Iowa River. May 12 '94". There are images of a baseball game between the University and Luther College views of lime kilns and images of natural specimens. Several photographs chart the "Great Hail Storm at Iowa City" on May 5 1894 with images of golfball-size hail and the damage done to the windows of buildings around town. There are also photos of the author's roommate and some of the activities they got up to including catching snakes and hunting. The roommate Bartsch appears to have been studying natural sciences and one photograph shows him seated at his desk "Blowing Bird Eggs."<br/><br/>The second series has a manuscript title of "Oneota Expedition" and documents a trip by boat from Decorah Iowa on the Upper Iowa River and down the Mississippi as far as Muscatine several miles below Davenport. The trip began on June 18 1895 and lasted through July 26th. Scenes along the river include "6. Women wading the river - w. of Decorah June 19 '95"; "14 -- Dragging our boat in the Oneota. June 24 '95" which shows a flat-bottomed boat laden with supplies being both pushed and pulled by a man at either end; a series of views taken from Oneota Bluff near New Albin on the Minnesota border; "37 -- Winnebago Indian Camp - Iowa Slough July 6 '95"; numerous lovely images of camping along the river and river towns as seen from the water; "77 -- Beds of Montpeliar Sandstone at water's edge - Below Montpeliar Ia. - Bartsch & 'Fitz' hunting fossils. July 23 '95." An interesting album full of wonderful and meticulously documented views of the Iowa River as seen through the eyes of a 19th-century university student. unknown books
19001880Various locations including the Southwest California Mexico and Colorado 1900. Very good plus. Forty silver gelatin photographs on thirty-eight leaves. Images 3 x 4 inches all but three one per page and captioned. Oblong 12mo album. Original black cloth with black paper leaves. Internally clean most images with good definition and contrast. A charming little photograph album documenting a holiday vacation across the country. The trip begins on a steamer off the Florida Coast with stops at New Orleans Arizona Texas Mexico and on to California. Images in the Southwest include Native American street vendors in Yuma adobe houses in El Paso and the prison and post office in Juarez. In California where the bulk of the images were taken the group visits Los Angeles Ocean Beach the ostrich farm at Pasadena Long Beach Catalina Island Santa Barbara San Francisco and Berkeley. From San Francisco they board a train snapping photos from the railway car. In Colorado they visit Pueblo Cripple Creek Colorado Springs Denver the Cave of Winds and Garden of the Gods -- all the usual tourist stops. The images have good contrast and the compiler has carefully labeled each image in a neat hand elevating this above standard tourist albums. An excellent example of cross-country tourist travel at the turn of the century. unknown books
19041259Various locations in South Dakota 1904. About very good. Twenty-seven silver gelatin photographs and six postcards on eighteen leaves; photos 4 x 5 inches. Small album. Original black cloth manuscript label on cover. Light wear and soiling. Some images lightly faded; most captioned in ink. Postcards a bit worn and soiled. A short but interesting album of photographs documenting life on the rural South Dakota prairie in 1904. A later caption reveals a bit of the backstory for the album: "Edward Merritt and ranch in S.D. when he and Rev. E.C. Smith had a week's vacation 1904. Carson's Ranch" and the first images in the album are of Carson's Ranch located about eight miles from Bradley South Dakota. Photos include shots of the house the family outbuildings and agricultural work. One photo shows two wagons back to back on an open prairie one of them stuck in a rut. Two mules stand patiently attached to the wagon in the foreground and the caption reads "Wagon with 80 bu wheat in the mire in the prairie on way from Carson's Ranch to Garden City S.D. Mr. Carson is in the wagon." During the week on holiday the author traveled around the northeaster corner of the state in the area between Aberdeen and Watertown. Named places include Waubay Bradley Garden City and Bristol. Several images show the parsonage at Montrose and we presume this is the home of the accompanying Rev. E.C. Smith as Montrose is near Sioux Falls farther south. Several images taken on the prairie show the group out in a buggy. In the first the buggy is slightly askew with horses disconnected and passengers standing around. The caption reads "Rev. L.L. Layne and wife & Edward Merritt after the accident crossing a bridge near Waubay S.D." The next photo shows the group laughing and eating pies "eating dinner on the prairie between Waubay and Enemy Swim Lake." The next two photos are blurry alas but both relate to local Native Americans. One shows a hole in the ground labeled "Dug out where 'Iron Star' Indian lived near Waubay S.D." and the second shows a cabin with a horse out front captioned: "Residence Indian ponies and canoe of Blue Dog Indian Enemy Swim Lake Sisseton Tribe Sioux Indians S.D." Though not an extensive album we nonetheless find it fascinating for its glimpse into life in rural South Dakota at the turn of the century. unknown books
19321252Various locations in California 1932. Very good. 219 photographs on fifty leaves most 3 x 5 inches; plus six real photo postcards. Oblong octavo. Original black cloth string-tied. Light wear to covers. Images crisp and clear. Many images with typed captions. A wonderful photo album documenting road trips taken in the Eastern Sierra and western Nevada in the area in and around Owens Valley. The photographer and his friends explored numerous mines and mining towns in the region braving the desert in their car. The album winds from Owen's Lake to the National Soda Products Company and the Estelle Mine to the tiny town of Keeler where they celebrated Easter. They continue on to the mining camps of Panamint City and Ballarat both now ghost towns. There are photographs of the town of Lone Pine the Cerro Gordo Mine Darwin and in Nevada the towns of Lida and Goldfield. They take an extended trek through Big Pine California staying in Glacier Lodge Canyon and spend time in Onion Valley. There is also a lengthy series of photographs taken out at Lone Pine California documenting the Universal Pictures film "Oh Promise Me" with images of the actors and sets and crew. An altogether fascinating album documenting the region of the Eastern Sierra and Owens Valley. unknown books
1969196764Washington DC: GPO 1969. Paperback. iii 89p. wraps creased previous owner's name on front wrap minor internal creasing. GPO paperback books
196226875New York: R. R. Bowker for The Newberry Library 1962. Revised. Cloth. Very Good. Tall clothbound 8vo. 652 pp. Compiled by Wright Howes. This is the 1962 revised and expanded edition of this dense reference work. A very good copy in sinple browncloth covers printed in gilt at the spine. R. R. Bowker for The Newberry Library unknown books
1986131178Tokyo: The National Museum of Western Art; Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc 1986. Softcover. VG. Color illustrated wraps. 298 pp. 111 color illustrations. In Japanese and English. Includes three essays a catalogue of 111 works maps chronology list of exhibitions bibliography. The National Museum of Western Art; Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc paperback books
164883Los Angeles California: Western Publishing & Novelty Co. 19.5 x 24 cm title leaf 20 plates original overlapping tan and green patterned wrappers printed in black and gold string tied. First edition. An album of views of Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove published circa the 1920-1930s. Handwritten date "Fourth of July 1937" at upper fore-edge corner of the inside front wrapper. A very good or better copy. #164883 Western Publishing & Novelty Co.] unknown books
190627672Newton-le-Willows Eng. McCorquodale & Co. 1906. 12mo pp. 142; 3 plates 2 in color folding map and numerous sepia-colored half-tones in the text; a very good copy in original color pictorial wrappers. NYPL only in OCLC. <br/><br/> unknown books
192216363Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1922. First Edition. With 8 illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. 1 vols. Sm 8vo. Original pictorial blue cloth faint wear to extremities some occasional foxing else near fine. First Edition. With 8 illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. 1 vols. Sm 8vo. Superb Presentation Copy From William S. Hart's Horse. Ghost-written by the famous actor this is an account of his pony's adventures in films. INSCRIBED BY HART IN DISGUISED HANDWRITING possibly written with his left hand "July 25th 1928 / Dear Kathleen Milne Bartle / It is mighty seldom a lady what has books all round her fer breakfast dinner an' supper--will buy a book--Especially a book written by a horse---but maybe thats the reason- / Anyhow I'm sure grateful an proud to call you friend / sketch of horse's head / Bill Harts Pinto Pony / P.S. Thats my picture--not Bills--He'd like to claim it."<br/><br/>ACCOMPANYING THIS ARE AN ALS AND TWO TLS 1928-29 ON HART'S LETTERHEAD to Miss Bartle of the San Mateo Public Library agreeing to autograph her copy conveying the inscribed volume and acknowledging her thanks all in the most charming fashion "I have ridden many horses in pictures. The king of them all is the Pinto. He likes to write his name over anything and tell folks just how good he is too!". A delightful human view of a Hollywood legend the first great Western star.<br/><br/>UNIQUE. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1875457Cincinnati 1875. Very good. Broadside 11 x 8 inches. Slight worming at edges minor wear. Contemporary ink stamp on lower corner. Broadside advertising the services of George A. Knight ticket agent for the Ohio & Mississippi Railway. "Bear in mind the fact the Ohio & Mississippi is the only line that runs its entire trains through from Cincinnati to St. Louis with NO MIDNIGHT CHANGES!" The broadside bears the ink stamp advertisement of Henry H. Hannan Land and Emigration Agent based in Swan Creek Ohio. A nice ephemeral piece. OCLC records three institutional copies at the University of Missouri the Hagley Library and Southern Methodist University. unknown books
183129035Nelson Ohio 1831. Broadside 7.5" x 34.5" three leaves joined end to end with wax. Manuscript petition written on unlined paper bold calligraphic heading followed by small neat handwriting. Signed by sixty-one petitioners from the Township of Nelson. A dampstain runs through the right edge of the petition light scattered foxing. Very Good. <br/><br/> This is a petition for the Court to provide the village of Garrettsville Ohio with a justice of the peace. Garrettsville was founded in 1804 by Col. John Garrett III and was officially incorporated in 1864. The citizens complain that the township of Nelson had only two justices neither of which was easily accessible to Garrettsville leaving Garrettsville "entirely destitute." The petition is followed by the signatures of sixty-one residents. The Court refused the request. <br/> Among the signers is Elisha Garrett son of Garrettsville's founder; Lyman W. Trask 1809-1863 a physician and editor of the Western Pearl a short-lived literary newspaper of the 1830s; Edwin Atwood who built the Garrettsville Grist-mill with Leman Ferry and the first church with John Garrett; and Abraham Dyson a blacksmith and War of 1812 veteran. Other names include: Willis Hall Robert H. Scott Richard A. Denison Hiram Austin Warren Waste John M. Tilden E.L. Jones Martin McClintock Samuel Fuller Ferriss Couch Henry Gillmore Mylowe Eggleston Joseph Gillmore John Zubull Anson Booth Joseph A. Chapman John Noah by his mark and many more. Brown: HISTORY OF PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO. 1885. unknown books
191115569Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company 1911. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 331 pp. Frontis photo. A good to very good copy in marron cloth binding. Spine lettering bright and unmarked. Some general light wear to covers. With an attractive signed bookplate afixed to the inside front pastedown. <br/><br/> The Arthur H. Clark Company hardcover books
2998S.l.: The Company 1857. . Single card stock printed on one side only 7 x 4 3/8 inches With the notation that this was to "be used only on the 2d June" and that "The regular Passenger and Freight Trains East and West will be run as usual upon this day. S.l.: The Company, 1857. unknown books
1980Embry 190727Doubleday & Co. 1980. Later printing. Fine in near fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Doubleday & Co., 1980. Later printing. unknown books
191817497New York: Western Union Telegraph Company 1918. Small 8vo. 40 pp. <br><br>Original wrappers. Call number pencilled on front wrapper. Fine. Western Union Telegraph Company unknown books
198817371.11988. Softcover. VG. Wraps. 94 pp. Numerous color plates. 37 artists represented by at least as many works. Lengthy introductory essay. unknown books
1988173711988. Hardcover. VG. Rust cloth gilt lettering white DJ. 94 pp. Numerous color plates. 37 artists represented by at least as many works. Lengthy introductory essay. hardcover books
192212978Boston: Little Brown 1922. 1st edition. Orange-red cloth with black lettering & patterned border. Dust jacket. NF tight/bright cloth/pos on ffep/VG edgewear/sm pc msg at base of spine & in white center of dj panel. 278 pp. Frontispiece by Frank Tenney Johnson. 8vo. <br/><br/> Little Brown hardcover books
1883513221883. Western Australian Statutes 1883 Australia. The Statutes Of Western Australia. By Authority. Melbourne: M'Carron Bird & Co. 1883. 2 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Contemporary calf rebacked lettering pieces to spine. Moderate rubbing with some wear to extremities internally clean. Ex-library with shelf location labels to spines small property stamps to title pages. $500. Contents digested alphabetically. Topics include Aborigines administration of justice admiralty lands aliens hawking immigrants industrial schools intestates' estates jetties and bridges juries joint stock companies justices of the peace wild horses and wrecks. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:91. unknown books
194627609Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1946. 1st edition. Red cloth binding with stamped black lettering. Color pictorial dust jacket by Cleveland Woodward. VG aging to paper/VG spine panel sunned/edgewear/pc. 241 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
196624984Ibadan: Ministory of Information 1966. Revised Edition. Slim folio 27.5cm.; original white and blue pictorial wrappers; unpaged; chiefly plain photographic illus. About Fine. Ministory of Information unknown books
18394904Edinburgh: Printed for the Maitland Club 1839. First edition. Leather. Very Good/First printing of a fifteenth-century Scottish version of the Arthurian romance that was composed for the court of James III. It survived in a unique and incomplete manuscript in the Cambridge library. The text was edited by the librarian of Durham Cathedral Joseph Stevenson and published by the Maitland Club an association dedicated to the promotion of Scottish literature and culture. 28 cm; xxiv 185 pages. Bound in contemporary red half morocco over pebbled boards edged with gilt rules . Spine decorated and titled in gilt. Marbled endleaves. Moderate wear especially at extremities with spine chipped a bit at heel. Two labels removed from pastedowns. A little foxing at front blank and the pages are not bright but text is effectively unblemished. Reference: Graesse 4 92; Printed for the Maitland Club hardcover books
