Recent Arrivals from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

New Orleans:: [The Railroad],.. Not illustrated; 29–[30–32] pp. 12mo, white stiff wrappers, printed in purple, front pictorial and very badly faded. OCLC lists 6 holding libraries (June 2021).Date is arrived at by a short notice in the September 1898 issue of Sunset (the railroad’s monthly magazine; Vol. I, No. 5, p. 78) of the first nine titles of a… Read more about this item

Ingram, Kerr County, Texas:: [The Camp],.. Fifteen halftones; [16] pp. 8vo, stiff printed wrappers, front pictoria. No other copy located; OCLC has a 1947 brochure for this camp which is still in existence today.Herbert Crate opened Camp Rio Vista in 1921 between Ingram and Hunt on the Guadalupe in Kerr County. One of the camp counselors was… Read more about this item

[New Orleans]:: [The Artist],.. Single card, cream card stock, 4 x 3 inches.  Ellsworth Woodward and his elder brother William were the founders of the Newcomb Pottery, they taught at Newcomb College and were regarded as two of the most influential figures in Southern art. They were born in Seekonk, Massachusetts, but made New Orleans… Read more about this item

[Chicago:: The Company, Printed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons, ,.. Twelve volumes each illustrated and containing [6] pp., including self-wrappers. . Oblong 12mo (3 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches); front wrappers pictorial; back wrapper of Vol. 12 creased.

Merced, California:: [The Railroad],.. Twenty halftones; 3 maps (one a double spread at the centerfold) on 14 unnumbered pages including the wrappers. 4to, 9 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches folded to 9 1/4 by 4 1/8 inches. One other copy located: University of Wyoming.Dating is based on a timetable on the penultimate page for service to and from San… Read more about this item

Dublin:: [The Auctioneer],.. Not illustrated, 16 pp. 4to, self-wrappers; side-stitched; some separation at top and bottom of spine. No other copy located. Mostly 18th and 19th century artists.Sharpe was a major Dublin auctioneer who held auctions from 1820 until his retirement in 1851. An Englishman by birth, he moved to Dublin in the first quarter of the nineteenth century,… Read more about this item

San Francisco:: [The Company],.. 4to, brown pebbled cloth, black leather spine and tips; company’s name on front cover in gilt as well as “Earl V. Burke”. Six-month run of an in-house organ of a company that provided large advertising cards used in electric street cars on the West Coast. It was published every Saturday and did not have… Read more about this item

[Chicago:: The Company, ,.. Many color illustrations; [36] pp. on different colored paper showing various configurations of sleeping cars available. Small 4to, scarlet stiff wrappers; bottom outer corner slightly bumped.

[Saratoga, N.Y.:: The Newspaper],.. Two fold-out small maps; [2], iv and127 pp. 8vo, pale pink printed wrappers, printed in red and bearing the date 1911 The Saratogian is a daily newspaper published in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States. The paper has been published daily since 1855, first as The Daily Saratogian and then as The Saratogian beginning… Read more about this item

Walton, Aylesbury [Buckinghamshire, U.K.]: : S.G.P.R.,.. Mixed media, (uneven 6 4 inches) printed menu on card stock within a watercolor horseshoe, with a watercolor racehorse at the inner top of the shoe; below the shoe an original photograph (miniature train with driver pulling three flat-beds on which are 10 be-hatted men and a small boy with… Read more about this item

New York:: [The Company],.. Title and sixteen unpaged leaves with images on the rectos only. Oblong 8vo, green simulated [?]snakeskin, worn at edges; gilt title on front cover; newly sewn with silk cord through existing holes in binding. Twenty wonderfully crisp and detailed images on sixteen pages from the workshop of the brothers, Adolph and Herman Wittemann, founded in… Read more about this item

Boston:: American Unitarian Association,.. Not illustrated; [2], [i–v]– vi–x, 232 pp. 8vo, black ribbed cloth, front upper corner bumped; white title lettering on front cover partially flaked away, as in most copies; some minor spotting; t.e.g. others uncut. Three African-American men and four white men write about Historic Black Institutions of Learning.Institutionally common, but scarce in trade. The… Read more about this item

[Austin:: The Board; Printed by Prison Print Huntsville, Texas,.. Six sepia halftones; 34 pp. . 8vo, tan stiff printed wrappers, printed in dark brown. OCLC shows six holdings, all in Texas.Inscribed by Havins on the front free endpaper: “The copy for this brochure was written by O. B. Ellis, Director of the Department of Corrections and T. R.… Read more about this item

Chicago:: [The Railroad] Passenger Department, Santa Fe Route,.. Map on final page; profusely illustrated with line-drawings in the margins and some full-page; 176 pp. 12mo, original wrappers (front pictorial) adhered to book-boards, cloth spine and inner hinges supplied by previous owner: bookplate of Robert W. Jones on supplied front pastedown and note by Jones on the supplied front free… Read more about this item

Milan: [The Company],.. Folio portfolio with 23 loose chromolithographic plates; paper-covered stiff board with overall pattern of plates in gray tones; four hinges of brown cloth; very slight wear. Numbering of the plates is not sequential as is often the case in this type of portfolio. Each plate is 10 3/4 x 7 inches.Ginori was founded in the 1730s… Read more about this item

Phoenix:: [The Board],.. Single sheet. 8 16 inches, printed on both sides, folded to 8 4 inches. Halftone on front cover; 2-inch separation in first fold. Pamphlet outlining the great success the state Board of Agriculture had had with the development of improved methods of cultivation and selective breeding of seeds

New York & London:: [The Company, ,.. Frontispiece bird’s-eye-view of the Knickerbocker Press; [ii] and 188 + [2] pp. Large 8vo, stiff printed wrappers with a few minor chips and small loss and separation at foot of spine. OCLC lists the Grolier Club as the single holding.Date of publication is on the spine.

Carson City, Nevada:: [The Department],.. Single sheet, printed on both sides, 22 17 inches, folded to 8 5 inches; minor chips in the margins, not affecting image; several small separations in folds and one 2-inch closed tear going inch into the map; paper rather brittle This is apparently the fourth map… Read more about this item

Chicago:: [The Railroad], Passenger Department, Santa Fe Route,.. Map on final page; profusely illustrated with line- drawings (marginal and some full-page); 176 pp. 12mo, stiff gray wrappers (front pictorial). Revised, Enlarged, Second Edition. Originally published in 1893 and reissued in 1897 with 151–[152] pp.

London:: Methuen & Co. Ltd.,.. Not illustrated; iv; 56+ 8-page publisher’s catalogue: “A Few of Messrs. Methuen’s Publications.” . 8vo, white paper-covered boards; dust jacket, spine of which is very slightly darkened; text block fore-edge uncut and with some foxing; outer bottom corner of front cover bumped. The “travelling” in this case is confined to travel from Britain to… Read more about this item