Brooklyn: Bunny Studio, 1960. Seventeen leaves, with thirty-four black-and-white photographs, each 8 x 10 inches. Oblong folio. Contemporary off-white pebbled leather, gilt stamping on front cover reading, "Our Wedding Anne and Earl April 17, 1960." Photographs individually inserted into cloth picture window sleeves, then mounted into corners of album leaves..... More

San Francisco: 1944. 98pp. Original printed wrappers, stabled. Reproduced typescript. Light wear, some staining and soiling to wraps. Text moderately toned. A scarce and detailed sociological study that focuses on the 60,000 African Americans that migrated to San Francisco during World War II. The work considers many aspects of the..... More

Mexico City: 1829. Four volumes in two. [4],xv,[1],150; [6],xiv,220; [6],x,172; [8],viii,199pp. Contemporary marbled sheep, spines gilt tooled and lettered. Slightly later bookplates affixed to front pastedowns. Light scuffing and staining to leather; small geometric design etched into front board of first volume. Mild spotting and dust soiling; light tanning and..... More

Warr Acres, Ok. Southwestern Publishing Co., [ca. 1940s]. Lithographic map, with advertisements in top and right margins, the whole printed in blue, 18 x 24.5 inches. Folded. Top left and top middle quadrants toned, small tape remnant at top left, minor edge wear. An attractive midcentury promotional cadastral map of..... More

[Boston: 1960-1961]. Twenty-two mimeographed typescripts, totaling fifty-eight pages, some stapled, all with printed notice reading, "Not for Publication or Reprint." Housed in contemporary mailing envelope stamped from Marsh Chapel and sent to Mrs. Arthur Poquett in Wollaston, Massachusetts. Minor edge wear and foxing. A collection of mimeographed typescripts authored by..... More

[Various locations in Europe, mainly Italy, but also France and Germany: 1942-1945]. Forty-seven album leaves and plastic sleeves, illustrated with approximately 350 photographs, many with manuscript annotations, a handful of personnel documents, and numerous ephemeral items. Later black three-ring binder used to re-house original album leaves and sleeves. Moderate soiling..... More

[Houston: 1913]. [3],44pp., mimeographed text, including some folding charts, printed on rectos only. Folio. Original limp maroon leather folder, string tied with leather tie. A couple of manuscript additions. A rare surviving business report for the Old River Rice Irrigation Company in Texas in the early-20th century. The audit covers..... More

Mexico City: 1925. 178,vi,[1]pp., plus fourteen pictorial plates (one folding) and two tables (one folding). Small quarto. Modern black quarter morocco and black cloth, spine gilt. Minor soiling to half title, otherwise minimal occasional foxing or thumb-soiling. A detailed and extensive treatise regarding the challenges, benefits, and importance of emigration..... More

New Orleans: December 26, 1862. [1]p. Old folds, short closed edge tear, one repaired edge tear. A rare general order from the Department of the Gulf, issued by Major General Nathaniel Banks as he was taking over command of the Union's western forces in December 1862. This order, dated December..... More

Mexico City: 1936. 83pp. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Some tanning to covers and text, minor edge wear, minor marginal chipping to top of first text leaf. Presentation copy of a rare work printing the rules and regulations of American football, compiled by the founder of La Federacion de Futbol..... More

Mexico City: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, [ca. 1900-1920]. Five small pamphlets, each 8-16pp. Light wear and a few short closed tears, minor toning and occasional foxing. A few leaves roughly opened, some leaves unopened or uncut. A nice group of chapbooks for Mexican children, printed by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo and the..... More

Hartline, Wa. E.D. Reinhart, [ca. 1910]. Large format sepia-toned albumen photograph, 6.25 x 8.25 inches on a slightly larger gray studio mat stamped "E.D. Reinhart Hartline, Wash." at lower middle. Small abrasions and scratches to mat above the photograph, one small scratch to right side of image, minor rubbing, moderate..... More

Havana: 1842. 144,[1],24,[9-]22,10pp., plus ten leaves of lithograph advertisements with interleaved blanks. Small quarto. Original quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt. Some wear to corners and spine ends; boards well rubbed. Light toning and scattered foxing internally. An excellent example of an rare directory for Havana, featuring a vast..... More