If you didn't have a chance to make it to Rare Books Palm Springs, we offer here our list of materials from the show for your perusal.  The list includes forty-five manuscript, archival, and photographic items from across Mexico and the American West.  Highlights include unusual vernacular photographs from Alaska; images from the Border War in Texas and Arizona; an account of a voyage around Cape Horn to the California gold fields; a large archive of a Colorado mining company; an important photographic record of post-War Okinawa and Saipan; and a wonderful photographic album of California views by William Tyler. Enjoy!

As per usual, we will have a wide array of archives and interesting imprints with us.  Highlights include a photographic archive documenting sealing in the Pribilof Islands of Alaska; a New Testament in the Cree language; a large paper copy of Thomas Nuttall’s American Sylva in a contemporary striped cloth binding; a gorgeous bespoke album of photographs of Mexico by Paul-Emile Miot; a group of documents on the trans-Atlantic slave trade; numerous interesting pieces of Latin and Western Americana, and much more.

The present list is comprised of twenty-five collections of vernacular photographs, primarily as albums, from a wide variety of times and places.  Highlights include agricultural photography from early-20th century New Mexico; two mid-20th century African American family photo albums from the Western United States; phosphate mining in Florida; images from the Jacksonville Fire of 1901; an album kept by a member of the Y.W.C.A. in Hawaii; several women’s travel albums; several family travel albums from the American West and the national parks; a teenage girl’s photo scrapbook from Skagway, Alaska; and more.  Enjoy!

Our list for the book fair, happening IN PERSON! One hundred choice items of Western and Latin Americana, with an emphasis on California and Mexico.  Enjoy!