[Wheaton, Il. 1888]. [4]pp. Narrow folio. Printed on pink paper, minor wear, including a few very short closed tears at edges. An appealing and scarce piece of ephemera relating to land sales in Nebraska and other Plains states in the late 1880s. J.A. Bent operated the Western Land Agency from..... 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

[Burlington, Ia. Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company, ca. 1872]. 24pp. 24mo. Original yellow printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear. Lovely little promotional work advertising lands along the Burlington Route in Nebraska and Iowa. At this time the Burlington Route ran from Burlington, Iowa, across Iowa and Nebraska to Fort..... More

Omaha: Ackermann Bros. & Heintze, [ca. 1888]. [6],112pp. 16mo. Original cloth. Light wear to cloth at edges and corners; boards slightly rubbed. Contemporary ink stamp on front pastedown; slightly later bookplate on front free endpaper. Light tanning and dust soiling internally. A fascinating and unrecorded book of ciphers used in..... More

[Chicago & New York: Rogers and Company, ca. 1910]. [48]pp. Oblong octavo. Original dark green printed wrappers, tied with cord. Light wear and soiling, small chip to front cover. Light wear and soiling internally. Promotional work for the small town of Aurora, Nebraska, located between Kearny and Lincoln, near the..... More

Denver: Clason Map Co., 1914. 48pp. plus folding map, 14.5 x 27.5 inches. 12mo. Green printed card cover. Light wear, moderate dampstaining to covers and text. Map with slight separations at some folds. Faintly musty. An early issue of Clason's Guide for Nebraska, copyright dated 1914. With some brief facts..... More

Kearney: W.H. Arnold, 1909. 186,iv,[1]pp. plus seven plates of ads and six maps (two folding). Original red cloth covers, stamped in black; sympathetically rebound with covers and front endpaper laid down. Original cloth lightly soiled and faded. Light soiling and wear to contents, a few leaves creased. Extensive manuscript notations..... More

Fremont: Hammond Printing Company, [ca. 1910]. [106]pp. plus folding plate. Oblong quarto. Original brown printed wrappers, tied with cord. Light chipping and wear to covers and spine. Some light internal wear, first page soiled. "Fremont is a city of 12,000 inhabitants possessing advantages and ambitions that distinguish it as a...... More

Madison, Ne. 1897. [12]pp. Small newspaper folio. Stitched and folded. Light wear at edges; short separations along fold line from fore-edge. Light tanning. Special twenty-fifth anniversary issue of this small-town Nebraska newspaper. The first four pages contain a history of the paper, but the work is more interesting for its..... More

[Columbus, Oh. Ward Bros. 1891]. [12]pp. in an accordion fold. Oblong 12mo. Original black-stamped cloth boards. Wear and chipping to spine ends and corners. First fold separated and reinforced with tape on verso. Light wear else. Pictorial souvenir for the tiny town of Beatrice, Nebraska, located in the southeast corner..... More

Hastings, Ne. Renner-Serf Printing House, [1911]. 71,[1]pp. plus folding map, 5.5 x 16 inches. Original buff printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear. "This Temporary Guide is issued by the Nebraska Division of the Omaha-Denver Good Roads Association. The Permanent Illustrated Guide will be issued about September 1st, 1911." The guide provides..... More

Fremont: Fremont Tribune, 1893. 32pp. Original green printed wrappers. Light wear and dust soiling. A scarce pamphlet publishing the rules of the local chapter of Freemasons in Fremont, Nebraska, as of 1893, and an interesting document of this outpost of the Odd Fellows in the rural eastern part of the..... More

Omaha: 1888. 66pp., plus errata leaf. Original printed wrappers. Spine edges chipped ; corners worn; light wear to edges. Contemporary ownership inscriptionLight tanning, otherwise internally clean. Scarce printing of nearly four hundred rules for the correct commission of military guard duty for soldiers in units of the Department of the..... More