[Prescott?]: Printed for the Author, 1888. 50pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine reinforced with tape, lower corner reinforced with brown paper. Light chipping and wear to covers, contents clean. Final lead reinforced at top edge with later paper. A political rant decrying the administration of territorial Governor C. Meyer Zulick. Zulick..... More

San Francisco: George Spaulding & Co., 1893. 90pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Front cover detached, a bit chipped. Light toning to first and last leaves. Minor scattered foxing. "This annotation of the General Street Law, as amended in 1889, 1891 and 1893, attempts only to clarify the text where that..... More

[San Francisco? 1890]. Twelve handbills, each approximately 9 x 6 inches, plus 7pp. pamphlet and three small promotional cards. Mounted to card backings. Several chips and short closed tears at edges. Tanned. An interesting series of twelve small broadsides or handbills relating to the 1890 California state elections, in which..... More

San Francisco: Bunker & Hiester, 1877. xxiii,[1],184pp. plus three maps (one folding). Original yellow printed wrappers. Some light wear and soiling, minor chipping to spine ends. Internally clean. Work on the election law of California, covering a broad range of material from the Constitution of the United States to information..... More

Ogdensburgh, N.Y. Hitchcock, Tillotson & Stillwell's Steam Presses, 1857. 130pp. Original pictorial wraps. Remnants of plain overwraps on spine and gutter margins of wrappers. Some wear at edges, particularly to initial leaves. Light tanning and dust soiling; occasional patches of light dampstaining. A lengthy and scarce account of a trial..... More

Indianapolis: Central Printing Co., 1880. 16pp. Original blue printed wrappers. Moderate soiling and wear, heavier to lower edge and outer leaves. Evenly toned. Scarce first edition of this pamphlet regarding the circumstances of the murder of John R. Goodwin in Brookville, Indiana, published under the auspices of the Women's Christian..... More

Mexico City; New York: 1875; 1882. Five volumes in one, varying paginations. Later quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt lettered. Light wear to raised spine bands and edges, minor scuffing to boards. Manuscript contents list on front free endpaper. Light tanning and scattered foxing. Mexico and Guatemala quarreled over..... More

New York: G. & R. Waite, 1804. 78pp. Dbd. Trimmed close at lower edge, occasionally affecting last line of text; light damage at lower edge of initial two leaves. Light tanning and foxing. An important record of speeches before an upstate New York court in a landmark First Amendment case..... More

Berkeley, Ca. 1907. 133pp. Original printed wraps. Corners and spine ends chipped; minor fading to spine and wrapper edges. Contemporary ownership inscription on title page. Minor toning. An extensive treatment of institutional and social racism against Japanese immigrants in California during the early 20th century. The author, Herbert Johnson, had..... More

Washington, D.C. 1879. 9pp. Stitched; stitching perished, leaves loose. Lightly soiled, some chipping and wear to first leaf. A rare speech given by the Senator from Ohio, Stanley Matthews, arguing against a bill restricting Chinese immigration to the United States. These debates were part of the political outcry against the..... More

Mexico City: 1844. [3]pp., on a small bifolium. Light wear at edges. Small wormhole through center, not affecting text. Light dust soiling. A scarce decree of Mexican interim president Valentin Canalizo, printed and published by the Ministry of Foreign Relations on December 2, 1844, which attempted to dissolve the government..... More

[Deer Lodge, Mt.]: 1889. Large broadsheet, 26 x 20.5 inches. Old folds. Separation at some folds with slight losses affecting several words in six lines of text. Light toning and soiling. A rare supplemental issue of the New Northwest printing the newly-passed Montana State Constitution. Montana held its constitutional convention..... More

Santa Fe: 1889. 17pp. Printed in two columns. Original beige printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling; top half of spine reinforced with tape. Minor creasing and wear. A rare pamphlet published to defend the reputation of the first University of New Mexico president, Horatio O. Ladd, who had been accused..... More