[Various locations in Alaska: 1937-1939]. [43] leaves, illustrated with approximately 450 mounted photographs, plus about fifty-five loose or detached photographs paid in, the album leaves profusely annotated with manuscript captions in white ink, and many of the loose photographs captioned on the verso. Oblong folio. Contemporary crimson textured limp cloth..... More

[San Diego: 1909-1916]. Eight volumes, totaling 2,635 pages, and approximately 85,000 words, with individual daily entries ranging from a single line to an entire page. Six volumes octavo, final two volumes twelvemo, all matching "Date Book" annual diaries, uniformly bound in matching limp red cloth. Varying levels of rubbing, edge..... More

San Francisco: Theatrical Publishing Co., 1889. Broadside, 17 x 6 inches. Previously folded. Small closed tear at top edge. Even tanning. An attractive broadside advertisement for entertainments at a downtown San Francisco theater in 1889. The Wigwam Theater was built in 1884 on the corner of Stockton and Geary Streets..... More

[Various locations in Hawaii, mostly in and around Honolulu: 1933-1934]. [44] leaves, illustrated with 233 photographs and a few real photo postcards in mounting corners, and nine loose images. Square large quarto. Contemporary Japanese-style photograph album bound in limp blue cloth, sewn in red thread. Minor edge wear, light soiling..... More

New Orleans: 1844. [2]pp., partially-printed form completed in manuscript on a single folio sheet, docketed on the verso of the integral blank. Old folds, short separation along two fold lines, minor dust-soiling. A sobering mid-19th-century slave sale document in which Matthew Rae May of New Orleans sells "a certain negro..... More

[Clearwater, Nb. ca. 1900]. Thirteen original photographs, varying sizes but most approximately 3.5 x 5 inches. Small oblong album, with string-tied paper covers. Some splitting at spine; light rubbing and wear to wrappers. Photos mounted to album leaves; light fading and soiling to images. Contemporary manuscript captions. A charming group..... More

El Paso, Tx. 1914. x,120pp., including a photographic portrait of the authors. Small quarto. Original printed wrappers. Spine perishing; small, personal shelf label at foot of spine. Light dampstaining and minor chipping to wraps. Text somewhat browned, but not brittle. Final gathering bound in upside-down. A fabulously scathing attack on..... More

Aberdeen, S.D. 1907. [162]pp., with numerous photographic reproductions. Oblong octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Wraps with light wear and a few small chips. Scarce promotional for the town of Aberdeen, South Dakota, located in the northeastern corner of the state. Known as "the Hub City of the Dakotas," Aberdeen was a...... More

[Texas: 1901]. Broadside, 7.25 x 8.5 inches. Text printed in two columns. Minor wear. Broadside advertising lands for sale in Pecos County, Texas. Four sections are offered, ranging from 5,200 acres to 18,560 acres, at a rate of 75 cents an acre. "The day is at hand when the cattleman..... More

[Various locations in Texas Or Oklahoma, Arizona, and Nevada: ca. 1940s]. [25] leaves, illustrated with eighty-eight black-and-white photographs in corner mounts, about 3 x 4 inches or slightly larger. Contemporary brown cloth photograph album, title stamped in silver on front cover, reading, "Snaps." Minor wear at spine ends and corners..... More