[Oakland: 1909]. Six pieces, including three real photo postcards, typed letter, folding map, and transmittal envelope. Light creasing to images; light tanning to letter and map. Interesting promotional material for the La Blanc Oil Company for their developments in the Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, California in 1909. A...... More

San Francisco: Edward Denny & Co., 1912. Folding map, 25.25 x 23.75 inches. Original printed wrappers. Some soiling and light wear to wraps. A couple very minor separations and losses along map folds. Light tanning. A scarce pocket map of Kings County, California, south of Fresno, published by Edward Denny..... More

Houston: State Printing Co., 1907. 48pp. Original printed wrappers. Library discard, chopped at gutter, with ink stamps. Moderate chipping to edges of wrappers. Light toning and a few minor chips internally. Early 20th-century pamphlet providing information about Texas to potential German immigrants, published on behalf of the Deutsch-Texanischen Einwanderungsgesellschaft (German..... More

Tonopah, Nv. December 7 - 15, 1907. Ten letters, totaling 85pp. Mostly octavo sheets. Old fold lines, minor wear. Most with original envelope. With modern typed transcripts. Series of letters written by mining engineer and surveyor William Shockley to his fiancee, May Bradford, over the course of the week following..... More

Waterloo, Ia. [ca. 1925?]. Folding map, 11.5 x 17.5 inches, in a printed card cover, 6.25 x 4.75 inches. Light wear and soiling to covers. Map with slight separation at corner folds, lightly toned. A map of the roads in Iowa, prepared by the state Highway Commission. The map is..... More

Los Angeles: [ca. 1910]. Plat map, approximately 14 x inches. Folded, a couple of short separations and minor losses along or near folds. A few nicks at edges. Light, even tanning. Printed on thin paper. Ephemeral real estate map and advertisement for the Riverside Orange Heights Tract, located north of..... More

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1904. Folding map, approximately 21 x 27.5 inches. Original, wallet-style printed wrappers. Light wear to wraps; a few short separations along fold lines. Light tanning. Uncommon cartographic promotional for this early 20th-century mining company with operations near Cananea and Magdalena in the Northern Mexican state of Sonora..... More

Portland: George H. Himes & Co., 1898. 13,[2]pp. 12mo. Original blue printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling. Constitution and bylaws of the Indian War Veterans of the North Pacific Coast, a group defined within as "Any person who may have participated in any of the Indian wars of the..... More

Columbus: 1914. 33pp. Original green printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling, heavier to spine. Internally clean. A report prepared following the enactment of an Ohio constitutional amendment requiring the state to set a minimum wage. This report summarizes responses to a state-wide survey about women's wages in department stores..... More

New Braunfels, Tx. 1902. [32]pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stitched. Light wear and dust soiling to wraps. Light toning internally. Scarce, first edition of this early 20th-century promotional for New Braunfels, Texas, and the businesses operated there by the Landa Estate. By the end of the 19th century, the Landa family..... More

Lewiston, Id. Lewiston Commercial Club, [1926?]. [8]pp. Quarto. Original printed self-wrappers, stapled. Previously folded, short separation along old fold at edge of first leaf. Light tanning, scattered foxing. A scarce promotional for agriculture in Central Idaho and Southeaster Washington, "Written for the Lewiston, Idaho, Commercial Club, by Oliver M. Osborne..... More

[Gilroy]: Telegram Print, [ca. 1920s]. [11]pp. Small quarto, unfolded. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear to wraps. Light tanning and minor soiling internally. Some minor creasing to leaves; closed tears, one about two inches, at two fore-edges. Unrecorded promotional pamphlet for the California town of Gilroy, located east of Santa..... More

Austin: S.B. Hill, 1903. [20]pp. Oblong 12mo. Original printed wrappers, string tied. Light soiling and wear to wraps; small patch of worming to lower edge of wear wrapper. Contemporary ink annotation at top edge of initial leaf. Minor toning and dust soiling. Scarce promotional for the city of Austin as..... More