Chicago; San Francisco: ca. 1915. Two postcards, each approximately 3x5 inches. One card with a couple of creases. Both with minor wear and light dust soiling. Two attractive and scarce postcards featuring boxing icon Jack Johnson. The first comprises a full-length portrait of Johnson in boxing attire with two inset... More

Los Angeles: "Wood's" Print, [1912]. [8]pp. Narrow quarto. Original printed pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Scarce promotional for an early 20th-century Arizona club community, now fully subsumed by Phoenix. The town and resort were several miles northeast of central Phoenix, under Camelback Mountain. Much of the text centers... More

[Denver: 2006-2008]. 166pp. typescript, plus more than 100pp. printed email correspondence. Typescript with pencil corrections, presumably by the author. Original draft of the 2011 baseball novels, Seams, with pencil annotations and corrections by the author. Jan Sumner is the author of numerous books on baseball, and was active for six... More

Los Angeles: [1924]. 27,[5]pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear, contemporary ink stamp on rear cover. Internally clean. Handsome promotional work for the Arrowhead Hot Springs Resort located near San Bernardino. The pamphlet describes the healing power of the hot springs (the hottest in the world according to the chart... More

[Los Angeles: ca. 1920]. 137 maps cards, each 10.5 x 3.75 inches, plus folding map index. Light tanning, occasional light wear. Set numbered 1-221; lacks cards 6, 19, 32-35, 70, 88; cards numbered 135-199, 205-214 not present but not shown in index. A substantial collection of over 135 strip maps... More

[Chicago: W.H. Hall, ca. 1895]. 24pp. Original embossed, illustrated wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Internally clean. Promotional brochure for the Hotel Colorado and adjacent hot springs, with text, a small map, and many half-tone illustrations, including numerous exterior and interior views of the hotel facilities, the baths and vapor... More

Philadelphia: W.W. Weeks, 1842. 86pp. 12mo. Stitched; wrappers presumed lacking. Lightly dampstained throughout, lightly worn. A fun and rare little volume, comprising an alphabetical listing of terms and their interpretations as to significance in one’s dreams. For example, “Roast meat. To dream you eat roast meat, signifies that you are..... More

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1892. Broadside, 28 x 10.5 inches. Printed in brown ink. Folded, a few small tears and chips at edges. A rare and interesting broadside for the Burlington Railroad. The stated attractions include “music, dancing, boating, photograph galleries, merry-go-rounds, base ball games, and other wholesome and innocent diversions...a.... More

[Mexico City]: B. Lara, 1891. Broadside, 23.75 x 7.75 inches. Previously folded. Light wear along old folds. Printed on weak paper with several imperfections. An attractively printed broadside advertisement for a bullfight taking place on February 22, 1891, at the Plaza de Toros del Paseo Nuevo, the principal site for... More

Bellows Falls, Vt. [1908]. Broadside, 12 x 5.75 inches. Printed on grey paper. Old folds, formerly mounted in an album with remnant of mount attached to top of broadside. Contemporary manuscript date notation at bottom. Broadside advertising a performance of the play “A Night in Chinatown” starring the “clever little... More

[Tacoma: ca. 1900-1903]. Twelve narrow broadsides, slightly varying in size, but each approximately, 12 x 4.5 inches. Printed on various colored, thin paper stocks. Light wear at edges; a few rumpled corners. Light dust soiling. A wonderful group of twelve broadside advertisements for an early movie theater in Tacoma, Washington... More