Denison, Ia. 1915. 136,[1]pp. Original printed cloth wrappers, nearly separated from text block. Moderate wear and soiling to wraps; endpapers chipped. Some childish manuscript scrawlings. Light tanning, some soiling internally. Scarce World War I-era cook book for this ladies' club in the small town of Denison in western Iowa. With..... More
[Council Bluffs, Ia. 1908]. 161,[3]pp. Original printed cloth wrappers. Some wear, scuffing, and creasing to wraps. Light tanning and scattered minor soiling internally. Scarce, early 20th-century community cook book published by the Ladies Aid Society of the Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church in Council Bluffs, Iowa. “Four hundred recipes, embracing the..... More
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Co., [1905]. 105,[1]pp. Original printed cloth boards. Light wear to spine and edges; boards slightly rubbed, with minor soiling; front hinge. Title page somewhat browned; light tanning and soiling elsewhere. First edition, first issue (with "Price 25 Cents" printed on the front board) of this early 20th-century..... More
Brooklyn: Published by the Author, 1896. 47,[4]pp. Original red wrappers, printed in gilt. Spine rather worn. Light tanning and dust soiling internally. Unrecorded edition of this work on self-healing by Eleanor Kirk, the pen name of writer and women's rights advocate Eleanor Maria Esterbrook Ames (1831-1908). She was a regular..... 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
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 York: 1960. [4],97 leaves. Folio. Mimeographed typescript in original black folder, cover gilt. Cover heavily chipped with some loss. Light wear to contents. Mimeographed script of the off-Broadway play "Thistle in My Bed" by Gudrun Powers, noted in pencil as copy number four. The play opened in November 1963..... More
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[Grand Rapids]: 1924. 99,[13]pp. Original green printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers heavily chipped and worn, front cover detached. Text block lightly worn, light soiling. Contemporary pencil notations, blank leaves at end with manuscript recipes. Unrecorded cook book published by the East Fulton Circle of the Christian Psychopathic Hospital Association at Cuterville..... More
Wayne, Ne. 1926. 228pp. plus two plates of ads. Original cream boards, cover stamped in black. Light wear and soiling, particularly to spine. Very minor soiling internally. A handsomely produced cook book from the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wayne, Nebraska, a small town about a hundred miles north of Lincoln..... More
Tacoma: Thos. L. Jacobs, 1908. 39,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Hole punched in upper corner, light soiling and wear. Minor soiling and a few leaves loose. "This little booklet is published with the primary object of meeting the needs of cooks who come to the coast country from the central..... More
Omaha: Klopp & Bartlett Co., 1903. 44pp. Original red cloth, cover stamped in black. Corners lightly rubbed. Text lightly toned, last few leaves with lower corner rumpled. A series of eighteen diagrams illustrating the ceremonial movements for initiation into the Degree of Honor lodges in Nebraska. The Degree of Honor..... More
Austin: B.C. Jones, 1901. [2],v,105,[1]pp. plus color plate. Illustrated. 12mo. Original purple pictorial wrappers. Light wear and fading to spine and front cover, heavier to spine ends. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on title page. Light wear to text, lightly toned. Scarce first edition of this much-loved Texas history intended for..... More
[Various locations in California]: 1906-1908. 110 silver gelatin photographs on forty-nine leaves. Most images 4 x 5 inches, a few 3 x 4 inches. Oblong octavo album. Original black cloth. Wear and soiling to spine, light wear to corners. First and last leaf loose. Several photos loose, a few creased..... More