San Francisco: 1984. Screen-printed poster, printed in green, red, and gold on glossy black cardstock, 23 x 17.5 inches. Rolled. Minor wear and staining, two short archival tape repairs to verso. A visually-arresting poster created for a Juneteenth musical celebration and parade in San Francisco in 1984. The central visual..... More

Tuskegee, Al. Tuskegee Institute Steam Print, 1906. 12pp. Original printed self wrappers, stapled. Soft vertical crease throughout, minor edge wear and dust-soiling. A rare bulletin composed by Frank H. Cardoza, the Staff Horticulturist at the Tuskegee Experiment Station. Cardoza's subject, the San Jose Scale is a tiny and most unwelcome..... 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

[Los Angeles or Chicago: ca. 1926]. Single sheet, 9.25 x 16 inches, folded three times vertically to form a slim 8pp. pamphlet. Minor edge wear, dust-soiling, and rubbing. A very rare, and until recently unrecorded, pamphlet touting the advantages of Eureka Villa, a new real estate development near Los Angeles..... More

[N.p., but perhaps Oakland or Berkeley: 1944]. Printed broadside, 5.25 x 8 inches. Minor foxing and staining, light edge wear, penciled note covering most of verso. A small and apparently unrecorded broadside calling for African Americans interested in working as bus drivers and street car operators in the San Francisco..... More

Tokyo: Nihon Kokusai Shinzen Kosei Zaidan, 1963. 384pp., plus twelve halftone plates. Original green cloth, spine gilt lettered; publisher's printed cardboard slipcase. Minor wear to slipcase. Small bump to head of spine. Light tanning. "An autobiography of an Issei nursery operator in Gardena [California] with essays on American life, money-making..... More

[N.p., probably Portland: 1916]. 36pp., plus two multi-panel folding panoramic photographic plates. Original tan wrappers printed in brown, accompanied by original printed mailing envelope reading, "A Souvenir of The Third Oregon Infantry on the Mexican Border." Very light wear. A scarce work featuring the officers, staff, and soldiers of the..... More

San Francisco: California State Automobile Association, [ca. 1925]. Eight maps, comprised of three folding maps (two measuring 14 x 18.75 inches, and one 9.5 x 7.25 inches) and five strip maps, each 3.75 x 9.5 inches. Some light wear, manuscript notations. With original envelope. A nice group of eight maps..... More

Ashtabula, Oh. January 29, 1849. [1]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light dampstaining and short closed tears along gutter, somewhat affecting first few lines of text but not overall sense. An interesting letter from O.H. Field, an aspirational field representative of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company in Ashtabula, Ohio..... More

Coyoteville: September 12, 1855. [2]pp., plus integral blank. Original mailing folds, moderate toning, staining, and ink spotting, but still easily readable. Bottom fourth of integral blank excised. An informative Gold Rush letter about mining in the long-vanished ghost town of Coyoteville, which was an extraordinarily rich gold area for a...... More

Santa Cruz: H. Coffin, 1879-1880. 8 issues, [8]pp. each, plus two broadsheet supplements. Folio newsprint. Contemporary sales agency ink stamps. Light wear and chipping at top edges; a few nicks and minor wear to other edges. Light toning and dust soiling to regular newspaper issues; broadsheets moderately toned and slightly..... More

[Various locations in California, mostly Sausalito and other locations in Marin and Sonoma Counties: 1870s to 1930s]. Nine photograph albums in a variety of bindings, containing approximately 810 photographs, the great majority paper prints but with a fair share of tintypes and CDVs in the earliest two albums, plus 102..... More

San Francisco: 1921. Folding map, 41.75 x 16 inches. Folded into card covers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Minor wear to map, light rubbing and wear to covers. A large folding map of the state of California showing primary highways, secondary and tertiary roads, rivers, borders, and railroads. Useful for navigating..... More