Denton, Tx. 1920-1938. [131]pp. Typescript on rectos only. Folio sheets, loose. Light wear and soiling, primarily at edges. Manuscript corrections and notations throughout. An apparently unpublished typescript of a story about ranch life in Texas at the turn of the century. There is substantial detail about ranch life, farming practices..... More

Oroville, Ca. [ca. 1900]. Three letters, [13]pp. total on seven lined sheets. Previously folded. Minor wear and toning. An engaging group of three letters from a mining engineer named Jack in Oroville, California, to his partner and perhaps brother Eric that discuss the development of their investments in an area..... More

[Various locations in Iowa and Illinois]: 1858-1862. Sixty-eight pieces (33 letters and documents, 33 receipts and manifests, and 2 pieces of related ephemera). Minor soiling and wear, old fold lines. Highly legible. Small archive of material relating to the business activities of Charles H. Liscom of Clinton, Iowa, as per..... More

Brownville, Ne. [1870]. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Minor wear and dust soiling. Faint tanning and foxing. A brief instructional pamphlet on the transplant and cultivation of fruit trees from Furnas Nurseries of Brownville, Nebraska. Robert W. Furnas was one of the early territorial pioneers who came to Nebraska from Ohio..... More

[San Francisco: 1893]. Approximately [500]pp., unpaginated. Quarto. Contemporary limp black calf, cover gilt; spine perished, extremities worn and chipped. Contemporary ink stamps on front end leaves, light wear and soiling to first few leaves. Contemporary typed slip pasted to title page. The first freight tariff reference book issued for the..... More

Waco: Texas Telephone Company, 1919. [4],132pp. Original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Covers worn and chipped, some annotation. Text lightly worn, several corners torn away, not affecting text. An unrecorded phone book for Waco, Texas, issued by the Texas Telephone Co. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in Waco, the Texas Telephone..... More

[Okinawa and Saipan: 1944-1952]. Two volumes. [130]; [140]pp. containing 268; 315 mounted photographs and three maps. Folio. Original grey cloth binders, manuscript titles on front covers. Light wear and soiling to covers. Contents mounted on leaves of ruled notebook paper. Annotated extensively in a neatly printed hand. These exceptionally well-documented..... More