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193920438Deadwood SD: Edward L. Senn 1939. Softcover. Fine. Pamphlet 4 x 7 inches 15 pp in original self-wrappers. Fine copy. Adams Six-Guns 1976: "The author makes an effort to debunk some of the unreliable statement of earlier writers." Edward L. Senn paperback books
1988008256No Place: Star-Kist Inc. 1988. Advertising calendar for the year 1988. Fine 12" w x 11" h with spiral binding. The twelve months each with a different picture and one page of manufacturer's coupons. Morris the Cat became the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food in 1968. One of the most successful campaigns in advertising history his successors are still featured in the company's advertising over 50 years later. First Printing. Calendar. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12" w x 11" h. Star-Kist, Inc. Paperback books
1989008257No Place: Star-Kist Inc. 1989. Advertising calendar for the year 1989. Fine 12" w x 11" h with spiral binding. The twelve months each with a different picture. Morris the Cat became the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food in 1968. One of the most successful campaigns in advertising history his successors are still featured in the company's advertising over 50 years later. First Printing. Calendar. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12" w x 11" h. Star-Kist, Inc. Paperback books
1991008258No Place: Star-Kist Inc. 1991. Advertising calendar for the year 1991. Fine 13" w x 11" h with spiral binding. The twelve months each with a different picture. Morris the Cat became the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food in 1968. One of the most successful campaigns in advertising history his successors are still featured in the company's advertising over 50 years later. First Printing. Calendar. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 13" w x 11" h. Star-Kist, Inc. Paperback books
1894002434Indianapolis IN: The Bowen-Merrill Co. 1894. SCARCE and early publication of the Indiana Historical Society. Very Good in grey printed wrappers wrappers chipped at spine tips and along edges sticker stain front wrapper. Pages are uncut and in excellent condition. 28 pages. Volume II Number 10. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. The Bowen-Merrill Co. Paperback books
1984004942New York: Pantheon Books 1984. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page -"Peace Studs Terkel". Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Pantheon Books Hardcover books
19302221866<p>First edition limited. Octavo. Foreword by Bishop John J. Cantwell. 10 b/w illustrations. Original gilt stamped brown pictorial cloth several small spots mostly visible when tilted. No dust jacket. Very good. 122 pages.</p><p>Copy #955 of 1000.</p> The Times-Mirror Press hardcover books
1886006420No Place: Excelsior Stereo Views 1886. No Date No Place the wedding of President Grover Cleveland to Frances Folsom was June 2 1886 in the White House. Two images printed one side Very Good top corner small chip faint writing in ink to unprinted verso. . First Printing. Stereo Card. Very Good. 3 1/2" x 7". Excelsior Stereo Views Paperback books
188421455New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 148 pp publisher's catalog. Red cloth decorated in black and gilt. A volume in the Standard Library series. Spine lightly sunned corners rubbed text clean binding sound. BAL 13799; Wright III: 3740 Cowan p. 429. Gold rush fiction. Funk & Wagnalls hardcover books
026064Lederer Street and Zeus Printers; Berkeley California; 1946. Oblong Quarto. Construction battalion detachment was the one assigned to the Solomon Islands where they performed major tasks to create a major docking facility while fighting malaria and insects. This remarkable volume has hundreds of photographs that document the 1008th which was one of the larger battalions some on smaller islands had as few as sixty men. Laid in are papers of how the Association funds were spent on the printing engravings editing and other task in producing one of the most thorough Seabee volumes at the cost of $9480.50 in 1946. Only two copies are found on OCLC. Also laid in is a mimeographed list of the men and where they were located in the photographs of the entire battalion. A handsome copy near fine bound in brown and blue cloth lettered in brown and blue Owner's subscriber name stamped in gilt to upper board. [Lederer, Street and Zeus, Printers; Berkeley, California; 1946] unknown books
198949823Lynchburg VA : H.E. Howard 1989 . First edition; # 984 of an edition limited to 1000 copies signed by author. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. Lynchburg VA : H.E. Howard 1989 . First edition; # 984 of an edition limited to 1000 copies signed by author. Signed by the author. Illustrated with b/w portraits and a number of maps. 210 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Beige cloth. Without noticeable flaw. Very good/No dust jacket. [ H.E. Howard ] hardcover books
194942795Atlanta: Albert Love Enterprises. Very Good. 1949. Paperback. Atlanta: Albert Love Enterprises 1945-49. Interior is clean with the spine splitting at the rear hinge. Pictorial paper wrappers are complete with light soil and edgewear. Overall a good copy. . Albert Love Enterprises paperback books
1998122821998. Soft cover. Very Good. 109 pp plus ads. Comb binding. Short tear and a few smudges to front cover no internal markings. Reproduces many historic photographs and early maps and includes short text about notable events and institutions as well as census records. unknown books
1983004465Watseka IL : Iroquois Co. Genealogical Society 1983. With surname index and 175 pages of genealogical records. SCARCE. First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. As New/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Iroquois Co. Genealogical Society Paperback books
1863006939United States Army 1863. One sheet of paper backed with an attached second sheet two horizontal folds one vertical fold fragile yet Very Good sheets separating at folds. light age toning. Discharge papers for Thomas Fulford a private in Company B 64th Regiment Infantry Indiana Volunteers dated Sept. 30 1863 at St. Louis Mo by reason of Surgeon's Certificate of Disability. In left margin handwritten in red ink "Phthisis-hereditary-developed by exposure. He is unfit for the Invalid Corps". Signed at bottom "By Order of Maj. Gen. Schofield" and then signed "J.K. Hudson" with more writing below illegible. Stamped in red ink "paid by Robert Smith St. Louis Oct. 2 1863 Paymaster U.S.A." Also another stamp faint with just the word Ohio at right side above top fold. Verso bears handwritten "Discharge Certificate of Thomas F. Fulford Late of Co. B 64th Regt. Indiana Vols. Infantry". Private Fulford went on to live to the age of 68 fathering 8 children. At his death in 1899 his obituary referred to him as "well known old soldier of Washington Township". Major General John McAllister Schofield 1831 -1906 held major commands during the Civil War and later served as U.S. Secretary of War under Presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant and Commanding General of the United States Army. . One PageFolded. Very Good. 8 1/4" x 10 1/2". United States Army Paperback books
1985007320San Francisco: Sales Corp. Of America 1985. SCARCE. This fantastic Statue of Liberty poster by Lowell Herrero features the backdrop of a night sky with fireworks two large American flags and a harbor full of tall ships. Wonderful folk art imagery issued to commemorate the 100 year anniversary and Fine as issued. Exceedingly suited for framing and will be shipped loosely rolled in a sturdy mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Fine. 22 2/4" x 34 1/4". Sales Corp. Of America books
1887007655Poughkeepsie NY 1887. Flexible leather album front cover stamped in gilt with title "Autographs" surrounded by gilt flourishes spine decorated in gilt all edges gilt. 98 pp 19 of them blank leaving 79 with manuscript and 78 signatures 4 with writing in Japanese as well as English 3 with full page calligraphic drawings of birds with 38 photographs in the form of stamps including one oversize stamp measuring 1 3/4" x 2 1/4" of Mrs. C.C. Gaines wife of the President of Eastman College the other stamps all measure 7/8" x 1". The rest of the stamps are males either students or faculty. The photographic stamps were done by C. H. Gallup of Poughkeepsie NY. The album belonged to student Clif. J. Prosser. Very Good the leather rubbed at edges rear leather cover about half loosened from the board light soiling. A wonderful early Eastman Business College autograph album perhaps from the beginning of the use of photographic stamps. . SIGNED. Album. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 5" x 7 3/4" . Hardcover books
1906005736New York: Lindon W. Bates 1906. SIGNED two page letter typed folded twice with original postmarked envelope Very Good paper clip impression top edge both pages. On Bates' personal stationery dated Jan. 6 1906 and headed "Hon. Knute Nelson United States Senate Washington D.C. Dear Sir:- I have the honor to enclose under separate cover a copy of "The Panama Canal System and Projects" and venture to hope that some of the matter contained therein may be of interest to you." Bates then goes on to explain the cost scale and completion time for his plan in the next paragraph. The rest of the letter goes on to explain how his plan will ".submerge entirely the swamps at sea level which at the present time extend all along the prospective canal." making ".fresh water lakes of clean water in which a vessel having large steerage can make twice as rapid speed as in the constricted earth bounded out of any lakeless canal.". And finally stating that "The radical sanitary improvement to be brought about by drowning under twenty-seven feet of water all the fever swamps in the vicinity of the canal is apparent." Which it certainly was given that the French had lost over 20000 lives in their failed attempt to build a canal in Panama due to mosquito-carried diseases. Lindon W. Bates was an American engineer author of the 1905 book "The Panama Canal: System and Projects" who worked with Theodore P. Shonts head of the Panama Plan Commission and with John F. Wallace the engineer of the Panama Canal. Senator Knute Nelson was a Civil War veteran served in both the Wisconsin and Minnesota Legislatures was Governor of Minnesota and was the first Scandinavian-born American to be elected to the Senate where he served from 1895 until his death in 1923. Material pertaining to the Panama Canal from this era is SCARCE. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Very Good. 8 1/2" x 11". Lindon W. Bates unknown books
1910007149Milwaukee Wisconsin: Milwaukee Daily News 1910. Calendar for 1912 10 1/4" w x 37 1/2" h single sheet with 2 folds with three James Ross Bryson lithographs of lovely women of the period published by the Milwaukee Daily News as a carrier's greeting. Very Good old tape mends verso at folds several rubs to paper 1" tear to right margin each of the three sections not affecting lithographs which are bright and clean. Silk tie top edge for hanging. James Ross Bryson 1856 - 1918. was best known for his elegant paintings mostly of women. . First Edition. Calendar. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Illus. by Bryson James Ross . Milwaukee Daily News Paperback books
1932008916Los Angeles: Neuner Printing & Lithograph Co. 1932. SCARCE. Map of Long Beach California printed by Neuner Printing Los Angeles and done by Noordwall & Son Mapmakers of Los Angeles for Lyon Van & Storage Co. Folded size 7" x 3 3/4" opens to 21 3/4" x 14". With photos of Lyon Van's operations and procedures both sides. Fine red dot marked on map presumably locating the new address where customers were being moved. Folded Map . Fine. 7" x 3 3/4" . Neuner Printing & Lithograph Co. Paperback books
1972005609Washington D.C.: Committee to Re-Elect the President 1972. No Place No Date unmarked . Nonetheless this original 1972 campaign poster of a smiling Nixon in front of his San Clemente CA home was published by the Committee to Re-Elect the President. Near Fine a few small edge creases. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 17" x 22". Committee to Re-Elect the President books
1974196092Washington: GPO 1974. iii 151p. 7p. appendices 8.5x11 inches very good in wraps. MB72-3. GPO unknown books
1974102161Washington: GPO 1974. iii 151p. 7p. appendices 8.5x11 inches slightly worn and soiled wraps. MB72-1. GPO unknown books
197854465Washington: GPO 1978. Magazine. vii 54p. 8.5x11 inchesintroduction examinations photos and tables very good booklet in stapled brown wraps. GPO unknown books
1984005610Dallas: Republican National Convention 1984. Near Fine tiny corner creases. Reportedly the First Printing of this poster which has Reagan to Bush's left in the inset picture which Reagan had covered over before the convention as he always wanted to be pictured with Bush to his left. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. Illus. by Don Adair. 19" x 25". Republican National Convention books