Fremont: Fremont Tribune, 1893. 32pp. Original green printed wrappers. Light wear and dust soiling. A scarce pamphlet publishing the rules of the local chapter of Freemasons in Fremont, Nebraska, as of 1893, and an interesting document of this outpost of the Odd Fellows in the rural eastern part of the...
Mexico: En la Imprenta de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767. [24],160pp., plus engraved errata leaf. Short octavo. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Lacking frontispiece portrait, as usual. Light wear at edges of wraps. Errata leaf trimmed at fore-edge, slightly affecting text. Occasional light foxing. A foundational 18th-century dictionary and orthography for the native...
New York: [ca. 1860?]. Broadside, 15.75 x 9.75 inches. Old folds, some minor loss and chipping. Rare broadside prospectus for the New Universal Index Advertiser, a business newspaper in New York. The Universal Index Advertiser promoted itself as a paper that focused on the interests of business above all else...
Cincinnati: Printed by J.B. & R.P. Donogh, [1839]. 520pp. plus 10 plates. Lacks pp.25-26. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Scattered foxing and soiling to text, outer leaves with some chipping and wear. Top half of pp.43-46 cut away (ads), likewise bottom half of pp.55-56 (also ads). A solid copy.....
Austin: Sportsman Publishing Co., 1953-1959. 29 issues, varying pagination. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers, bound in gilt lettered leatherette binders. Light wear to wraps. Light toning in some issues. A nearly complete run of True West magazine from its inception in 1953 to the end of the decade, bound in purpose-made...
Great Falls, Mt. Cheely-Raban Syndicate, 1922. 56pp. Folio. Original green wrappers stamped in red. Light wear and fading to covers. Bookplate of Charles Russell inside front cover. Later ownership inscription on titlepage. Internally clean. A collection of fourteen stories of the Old West, illustrated by Russell, which originally appeared in...
[N.p. ca. 1949]. Poster, 18 x 24 inches. Minor wear. A handsome poster advertising travel on the Santa Fe Railroad, painted in the bold colors of the southwestern landscape. The poster features two cowboys on horseback in the center midground; two large saguaro cacti flank the foreground, and the red...
[N.p. ca. 1946]. Poster, 18 x 24 inches. Minor wear, a few minor chips and tears at edges. A handsome poster advertising travel on the Santa Fe Railroad, painted in the bold teals and earth tones associated with the Southwest. The poster features a Hopi dancer performing the Buffalo Dance...
San Francisco: [ca. 1902]. 22,[2]pp. plus folding map. 12mo. Original green pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and creasing. A very scarce informational pamphlet about copper production in Shasta County, California, at the beginning of the 20th century. The work promotes the Shasta May Blossom Copper Mining and Smelting Company, and...
San Francisco: F.P. Ramirez y C. Madero, 1866. 254,ii pp. Original blue publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt. Spine ends and corners worn, lower corner a bit gnawed, not affecting text. Contemporary bookplate of Juan Rivas on front pastedown. Minor internal wear, text clean. A rare and unusual Spanish-language.....
Waco: 1944. 4pp., on a bifolium. Light, even tanning. Unrecorded promotional for a night of wrestling to take place at a theater in Waco during the summer of 1944. The main event was a "nothing barred, no time limit" return match between Nell Stewart and Rose Evans, both of whom...
Houston: Printed at the Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1862. 11pp. Original printed wrappers. Light wear. Somewhat foxed. A very scarce Confederate imprint recording the assembly of the Texas Knights Templar in June 1862. The Grand Commander was absent, as were many, "Having drawn his sword in defence of his...
Tyler, Tx. 1861. [2]pp. Folio. Old fold lines, faint embossed seal. Light wear and soiling. A manuscript legal agreement to sell the press of a short-lived and unrecorded newspaper in Tyler, Texas. The initial publication of the States Rights Sentinel was announced in a Clarksville newspaper in May 1860, with...
[Papua New Guinea?]: 1945. [24]pp. Folio. Original printed pictorial card covers, stapled. Printed in multiple colors throughout. Some light wear, corners bumped. Rare commemorative brochure for the first year anniversary of Base Hospital Fifteen, an American naval hospital in Papua New Guinea, in the Admiralty Islands, during World War II...
[Venezuela]: 1937-1938. 97 silver gelatin photographs measuring 6.75 x 4.5 and 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Oblong quarto. Original red half cloth and boards, manuscript label on front cover. Photos affixed at corners to thin paper leaves. Photo captions printed on versos of images, visible through mounting leaf. An interesting album...
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