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London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. Six octavo volumes. Each volumes is separately paginated. Index at rear. Publisher's green/yellow cloth with gilt rules n lettering to spine. The blank endpapers have some foxing but it is a very clean copy, tight and study in the publisher's binding.."The Paston Letters" are a collection of correspondence dating from the 15th century, primarily between members of the Paston family of Norfolk, England. e letters are not only historical documents but also literary works. They contain vivid descriptions, personal dramas, and compelling narratives, making them significant from a literary standpoint. Overall, "The Paston Letters" are important for their multifaceted contributions to our understanding of medieval England, encompassing history, literature, law, language, and social dynamics. They offer a unique window into a bygone era and continue to be studied by historians, scholars, and enthusiasts alike.

Galena: Gazette Print, (1902). First edition. Oblong octavo (7 x 9 inches). Tile page and [110] pp. Consists entirely of photographs of scenes in and around Galena, printed on rectos only and with captions beneath. Plain stapled wrappers. Small chips to wrapper corners but a very tight and clean copy,[together with](GALENA). Galena's Century Milestone: A Brief Review of Its History and Historic Spots with original Modern Photographs. Galena: Bale's Drug Store, (1927). First edition. Oblong octavo. 62 pp. with numerous photographic illustrations and ads for local businesses thoughout. Publisher's decorative brown wrappers with dark brown cover lettering. Previous owner's name (Henry X. Cromer; a liquor dealer in Galena) on top of front wrapper and rear, spine reinforced with like-colored tape a long time ago. The author thanks Miss Felt from the above publication for the use of her photos (though others were used as well).[together with](Galena). HOWARD, Bushrod B. The Charter and Ordinances… Read More

[San Francisco]: John Howell, 1966. First edition. One of 3000 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. Folio. 116 pp. plus two large folding maps at rear. Illustrated from Abert's diary (many in color). Publisher's cream cloth with gilt spine lettering, color device on front, mylar jacket. A beautiful copy.

[Akron, OH], 1908. The photograph of Gamater in his plane ready for take off is 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. It is affixed to a sheet of thick black craft paper. The long manuscript caption below the photo reads: 1908 Built by John Garameter and George Muckensturm. First Trial Flight Portage Country Club, Diagonal Road. 2 cylinder gasoline engine. Lift; 6 ft for 150 ft. Photo taken by Geo Muckensturm. John Gameter in cock pit. Fine condition.This photo of two rank amateurs building their own plane and flying it was taken only 5 years after the Wright Brothers historic flight. The Portage Country Club is in Akron, Ohio. Many of the early developments in flight took place in Ohio. And the field on which Gameter's plane sits certainly looks like a golf range. Goodrich employee and golf enthusiast, John Gameter, invented the automatic golf-ball winding machine, which used two threads simultaneously and mechanised thewhole ball-making process. A born tinkerer.

Washington [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, 1905. First edition. Octavo. 70, [4] pp. Publisher's printed wrappers. Previous owner's stamp (?) blacked out at bottom f front wrapper and title page (not affecting any lettering and quite small) else a very good and clean copy.Contain much information about "Indian Territory," the area that is described in 1905 as "bounded on the north by Kansas, on the east by Arkansas, on the south by Texas, and on the west by Oklahoma." Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th State of the Union in 1907 and included the bulk of Indian Territory. Despite its name, whites comprised more than three quarters of the population of Indian Territory at the turn of the century. The remainder was roughly split between Indians and blacks who were former slaves of the Indians or their descendants. The Indian population was largely comprised of the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw which came to be known as the "Five Civilized Tribes." A variety of other tribes were… Read More

Flagstaff: Northland Press, (1976). First edition. One of 30 specially bound and numbered copies, each with an original pencil sketch of a horse. This copy out-of-series but inscribed for the publisher, Paul Weaver. Oblong octavo. 81, [1]. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's quarter black calf over blue boards, gilt spine lettering, blue endpapers. matching slipcase. An excellent copy.

Austin: Pemberton Press, (1969). First edition. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by all six authors, the illustrator and John Jenkins. 175, [1], [2, colophon] pp. Illustrated (some in color). Publisher's quarter brown leather over boards, gilt spine lettering, slipcase. A fine copy.Additionally inscribed by Melvin Warren on the half-title and by Dorman Winfrey on the title page (both to Dr. Travis Green). The Butterfield Overland Mail Trail, by D. H. Winfrey.--The Old San Antonio Road, by J. B. Frantz.--The Chisholm Trail, by W. Gard.--The Santa Fe Trail, H. G. Frost.--The Dodge City Trail, by D. Krakel.--The Goodnight-Loving Trail, by D. Bubar.

Tanger [Morocco]: Editeur Ph. Gau, [ca. 1950]. First edition. Folio (8 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches). 36 mimeographed pp. (due to self-wrappers). Publisher's hand-stenciled and very colorful wrappers. Some edge crimping as the text is not flush with the wrappers but overall a very good copy of this scarce work of activism against colonialism. Only one copy (Bibliotheque Nationale) located by OCLC.Rene Gau was a big proponent of France giving up its colonies after the war. In this piece he is telling the French to wake up and chaos and trouble is coming. He wrote it as anti-colonialism protests were intensifying throughout Northern Africa and Tangier was increasingly becoming a center for exiled writers and artists. France finally gave Morocco its autonomy in 1956. Not much is known about R. Gau except that he wrote a novel in 1949 entitled Un roman de Tanger, La guerre nouvelle (roughly-A Story of Tanger, the New War).

Harrisburg: N.p., 1868. A fine letter written by one noted Western pioneer to another. Written on lined letterhead paper ("Pennsylvania Executive Chamber, Harrisburg, Pa, ___, 186_.") on verso only (8 1/2 x 11 inches). While the hand for the body of the text is secretarial, the signature is correct. In the letter Geary compliments Prince on his new book (E Pluribus Unum: The Articles of Confederation vs. The Constitution, New York, 1867). Small tear to fold-line, else very good. John White Geary (December 30, 1819 – February 8, 1873) was an American lawyer, politician, and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was the final alcalde and first mayor of San Francisco, California, a governor of the Kansas Territory, and the 16th governor of Pennsylvania.L. Bradford Prince was born on July 3, 1840 in Flushing, Queens, New York. He was a delegate to Republican National Convention from New York in 1868. From 1870 to 1874, he was a member of New York State Assembly. From 1876 to 1877, he was a… Read More

Northamption: The Gehenna Press, 1967. One of 400 numbered copies. Quarto. [26] pp. including colophon. Baskin illustrations on nearly every page. Running headers printed in red. Publisher's brown boards with printed paper spine label. Very skight corner wear (hard to discern). An excellent copy.

New York: Macmillan, 1905. First edition of this title by the son of the great political theorist Henry George. Octavo. xii, [20, 421, [1], [2, publisher's ads] pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. In the original dust jacket (some edge chips, tape repairs to verso of spine and soiling). A very good copy.Henry George Jr. was a United States Representative from New York and the son of the American political economist Henry George. George Jr. was born in Sacramento, California and attended the schools there. At the age of sixteen he started working for a printing office, where he was employed for one year. He moved with his parents to Brooklyn, NY in 1880 and worked as a reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle in 1881. In 1884 he accompanied his father as his secretary on a lecture tour of Great Britain, at the close of which he joined the staff of the London Truth. He then returned to the US and joined the staff of the North American Review. He was then managing editor of the Standard from… Read More

Berlin: Bruno Schultz Verlag, 1931-1936. First editions. Quartos. Text in German. Three of the volumes with 160 full page illustrations after photographs by German artists; 1932 with 180 plates. Publisher's uniform light gray cloth with black spine lettering, front covers with shorts bars in white and black and with the date below. A former owner has translated a very few of the captions. 1932 with a tidemark to the cover but it does not extend into the book itself. 1931 with a split in the cloth at the top. Some foxing (almost entirely to text and margins). Very good.

Berlin: Geschäftsstelle Saarverein, 1935. 6 issues of this Saarland (the smallest state in Germany) pro-Nazi periodical . Comprises Special Editions (Sondersgaube) Nos. 2 & 3, two issued form February of 1934 and 2 issues from March of 35. Continuous pagination but for one break. Each issue about 32 pp. Numerous half-tone photograph illustrations. Printed on wood-pulp paper. Very good condition.This periodical ended when Hitler came to power. As this state was close to France it likely did not feature the Third Reich until 1935, its last year of publication. Information about it is minimal. Neither of the Special Editions bear any illustrations. . But Saarland was important to both Hitler and Gen. Patton. Hitler's plans to strengthen Germany and undermine the Treaty of Versailles were given a boost in 1935. The German-speaking Saar region voted to reunite with Germany. Important for coal production, Saar had previously been removed from German control as a term of Versailles to weaken Germany… Read More

Pasadena: Weather Bird Press, 1971. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Oblong octavo. [7], 44, 7, bibliography, index and colophon] pp. Predominantly consists of photographic illustrations of printing equipment on the rectos with explanatory text on the opposing versos. Publisher's printed brown wrappers. Bit of sunning to spine else a clean and attractive copy.

Pasadena: Weather Bird Press, 1971. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Oblong octavo. [7], 44, 7, bibliography, index and colophon] pp. Predominantly consists of photographic illustrations of printing equipment on the rectos with explanatory text on the opposing versos. Publisher's green cloth with printed paper spine label, brown endpapers, dust jacket (a split along upper front fold). Inscribed by Ernest Lindner on the half-title and dated 1976. A very clean and attractive copy.

Paris: Braun et Cie., (1932). First edition. Qyarto (9 1/4 x 12 inches). 66 pp. of text in English, German, French and Spanish, including a short description for each of the 280 plates. 280 full page plates after photographs of Chile by Gerstmann. 6 pp. index at rear. Rebound at the time in brown cloth with red morocco gilt spine label and original front cover laid down. They seem to have not bound in the map. Some light rubbing to front inlaid cover, else a very clean and bright copy.

New York: D. C. Heath and Co., 1915. First edition. Small octavo. 190 pp. including frontispiece and 18 full page monochrome illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with a dense illustration of life in the jungle in gilt and brown on the front, gilt spine lettering. A youngster by the name of John has affixed his naive signature to the front blank. Some minor wear to extremities. else a handsome, clean and tight copy.Prince A. Sarath Kumar Ghosh (Prince Sarath Ghosh), claimed to have been born in 1885 in India. He arrived in San Francisco on February 23, 1912 aboard the liner Siberia. This was a decade after Swami Vivekananda had made two tours of America, lecturing on Indian religion and society. He claimed to be a prince of the royal family of Ghosphara, and told everyone that he was making a trip to investigate the social, economic and religious conditions in the United States of America. At various times, he claimed to be the Maharajah of Patiala, head of the Sikhs, a nephew of the maharajah of… Read More

Holyoke, MA: Sidney Radner, 1946. Inscribed by the author. Quarto. 96 pp. Profusely illustrated. Spiral-bound wrappers with lettering and designs in red, gree and black. An excellent copy.Gibson was a rather amazing fellow. A Colgate University graduate, he is probably best know as the creator of the famous radio program The Shadow but he also wrote more than a hundred books on magic, psychic phenomena, true crime, mysteries, rope knots, yoga, hypnotism, and games. He served as a ghost writer for books on magic and spiritualism by Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, Harry Blackstone, Sr., and Joseph Dunninger. This is one of his most famous books. The word "Bunco" brings to mind criminals but in reality this book is almost entirely about midway cons; ball toss, wheel of chance, etc. He explains exactly how the odds are rigged against the mark.It bears a very nice inscription; "To Lew Dick, as one con artist to another, Walter B. Gibson, Sept, 27, 1972." It is a wonderful irony that Lew Dick was a… Read More

Los Angeles: Dawson's Books Shop, 1942. First edition. Printed in Orange County by Thomas Williams at his Fine Arts Press (although he usually got his students to do most of the hard work). [xii], 146, [colophon], [1 blank] pp. with two photographic illustration. Publisher's two-tone brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. A slight lean and light rubbing to joints. A very good copy of one of the scarcer Dawson's publications.Covers the history of Fort Tejon from it's time as a Spanish land grant until its becoming a U.S. Army fort in the 1860s. Inscribed by San Francisco Hotelier Harry Troupe. Inscribed by Helen Giffin to Mr. & Mrs. Merl Wood.

Brighton: R. Falthorp, 1853. Third edition. Small octavo. cxl, 357, [2, errata and publisher's slug], 8 [ads] pp. plus 8 full pages illustrations that look remarkably like nature printing. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's blind-stamped green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Armorial bookplate and some minor extremity wear, else a very good copy.