Search Results: Titles starting with C from Bartlebys Books

[Chicago: C.M. Henderson & Co, 1890. 16 x 31 cm., printed on both sides, lightly creased from folding. One side has an outlined illustration, printed in red and black, of the "red school-house," plus cut-outs of people, a chimney, trees, and a fence, all to be assembled with a series of folds and a bottle of glue, to "construct in miniature the famous little building." Any boy or girl found wearing or purchasing a pair of the Henderson shoes was entitled to the cut-out illustration. This one is uncut and unused. On the verso is text advertising the Henderson Company's signature kid and goat button shoes, which are stamped with the trade-mark Little Red School House on the bottom of one of each pair, as well as instructions on how to assemble the cut-out, and the ad for R.M. Fariss, a dealer in Hot Springs. C.M. Henderson, born in Connecticut, joined his uncle in the shoe business in Chicago in the early 1850's. When his uncle died, Henderson took over the company which he had to rebuild twice after… Read More

Shreveport, (LA): Louisiana State Collector's Office, 1864. Handbill, 8 ½ x 5 ¼ inches, the supplemental instructions printed recto (13 numbered paragraphs, signed in type at the end "P. W. Gray / Agent of Treasury"), "Additional Instruction to District Collectors and Assessors of the War Tax" printed verso (one paragraph, eight lines). Not in Parrish & Willingham. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Confederate quality paper browned, tiny hole in text (affecting two letters), but very good.

Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Co, 1981. First edition. 4to. 238 pp. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings, plates, color frontispiece from a painting, maps, diagrams, tables, illustrated endpapers. History of the railway that served Leadville and Gunnison. Brown cloth, gilt spine title, color illustrated dust jacket. Very good.

NY: Passenger Traffic Dept., United Fruit Company Steamship Service, 1915. Small 4to folded to narrow 8vo. 15 pp. Illustrated, includes deck plans for 11 different models of steamships in the line, one of which is double-page. Original illustrated wrappers, stapled. Very good. Promotional for the "Great White Fleet," a steamship line serving the Caribbean with twice weekly sailings from New York and New Orleans and one from Boston. Unrecorded on OCLC.

Colfax, IA: Railroad Car Press, 1977. First edition. Oblong 4to. (6), 88 pp. Mostly captioned illustrations from photographs, plates, one in color, schematics, car roster. Signed by the author on the title page in the year of publication. Comb-bound color illustrated stiff wrappers. Small owner's label at head of title page, else very good.

[NY]: [American Museum of Natural History], 1901. Memoirs of the Amer. Museum of Natural History, vol. IV, part II. Part of the Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. Printed paper wrappers (some chipping and loss along spine). Folio; pp.55-75. Map, in text illus. & 5 plates. Unopened pages. Very good.

Joliet, Ill: The Gerlach-Barklow Co, 1942. Stiff manila card stock, folded along top edge to 15 x 12.5 cm., with small calendar sheets for the year 1942, printed in black and red, stapled to the inside of the folder. A brief reminiscence of Rogers, and a greeting from George Crawford and the Tarbell-Watters Company is printed above the calendar pages. Tipped on to the front cover is a color portrait of Will Rogers, entitled "I See By the Papers," reproduced from the original painting by Antonio d'Elia. Rogers is depicted sitting in a rocking chair reading the paper, while chickens peck the ground just outside his door. The calendar folder is bound along the top with ribbon. A very good copy. Will Rogers (1879-1935) was known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son."

Nashville, TN: Southern Agriculturalist, 1929. First separate edition ("reprinted from Southern Agriculturalist"). 12mo (16 cm). 24 pp. Prints an illustrated two pages of poetry (country songs, not necessarily Country Music) and a calendar for each month. Grimes also produced an edition for 1928. Printed publisher's note laid in. OCLC locates two copies (Louisiana State, Tennessee State Library & Archives). Original illustrated glossy wrappers, stapled. Very good.

Richmond, VA: Confederate Museum, 1908. First edition. 1/1000 copies. Tall 8vo. 620 pp. Corrigenda leaf. Original gilt-stamped dark green cloth; old tideline through lower margin, else very good. The ownership signature of North Carolina public servant and book collector Burton Craige. Nevins II, p. 9: "Very useful research guide to the papers in the Confederate White House; mostly chronological, with full comments."

Nashville, [TN]: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1886. First edition. 8vo. 283 pp. Original red cloth. Very good. With a Sept. 25, 1886 ownership inscription. Author was a missionary in the California gold fields, somewhat fictionalized account of events he saw. COWAN p. 832. HOWES B444. ROCQ 15697. Not in GRAFF or WHEAT.

Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1935. First edition. 396 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, one folding, portraits. "Of all the Indian fighters, army scouts, and frontiersmen produced by the old West ... none were better known in their day than Moses E. Milner, famous from Missouri to the Pacific as ‘California Joe'" (preface). Howes M-635. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth. Small paper label on spine, else very good.

Chicago (IL): Burlington Route [Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roger & Smith Co., Printers], 1914. Revised edition. Large broadsheet folded to narrow 8vo. 18 panels of promotional narrative, profusely illustrated from photographs, describing areas and scenes of California on recto, the verso with a large map of California, with lists of hotels, boarding houses, and resorts, another map of the Burlington route, and illustrated information conerning accommodations, with rates, on the train. Apparently not in Rocq. OCLC locates only an edition from 1903, with two locations. Very good. Original illustrated wrappers (several short separations at folds). (6127).

San Francisco: I.N. Choynski (printed Bonnard & Daly), 1875. 8vo. 41 pp. Original printed wrappers (some wear to spine and edges). Very good copy. First edition. Eberstadt 132, 138: "Early history of the missions and mission life and thought in the seventies." Howell CALIFORNIA: CATALOGUE 50, 533.

San Francisco, CA: Southern Pacific, 1902. First edition. 16mo. 32 pp. Illustrated from photographs. Promotional for those thinking of moving to the state, emphasizing agricultural and other employment opportunities. OCLC locates three copies (California State Library, California - Berkeley, California - Davis). Very good. Original decorated tan wrappers, stapled. (6143).

Westerly, RI: Champlin & Hoyt, Printers, 1853. Broadside. 27 x 19 cm. Eight stanza of eight lines each, printed in two columns, enclosed in a decorative border. Old fold lines, some separation across central fold with a neat repair on verso, shallow chipping around edges. Poem of a dying man asking his brother to remember him to various members of his family. Date taken from the few imprints shown in OCLC for this publisher. No location found.

Oakland, CA: Oakland Chamber of Commerce, 1932. Promotional pamphlet, measuring 23 x 20 cm., folded to 23 x 10 cm. Red lettered white paper wraps, with color illustrations presented as oversized postage stamp views of tourist attractions in the two states; (24) pp. Illustrated with black & white photos and a map. A very good copy. Two listings on OCLC: California Poly; UC Berkeley.

London: Trubner and Co, 1858. First Edition. 8vo. [4], 168 pp., [1] advertisement, 22 illustrations on 18 plates, 8 are tinted; two folding maps, one with a long closed tear where the map is attached to a tab, and small closed tears at some folds, the other with a short tear at tab. Publishers black pebbled cloth, front board with gilt stamping, spine reinforced with black cloth tape. Ex-libris of NY Mercantile library with usual stamps. Some edge chipping, corners of boards worn. A good copy. The Yosemite illustrations are considered to be the first images of the area used in a book. They were done from drawings by Thomas A. Ayres. The caption title on the frontis. misspells the name of the falls as "Yo-Hamite Falls," which a previous owner has corrected in pencil. One of the best early guides to the resources of California with fair amount on gold mining. Cowan 64 p. 577. Currey & Kruska 296. ROCQ 17136. Wheat Gold Rush Books 181. Wheat Gold Rush Maps 312.

San Francisco, (CA): David Magee, 1967. First edition, 1/475 unnumbered copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. Folio. 171 pp. Illustrated, 59 full-page plates of the letter sheet illustrations, some folding, facsimile in pocket on rear pastedown. "[Produced] in the two decades following 1849 [as] vivid pictorial records on sheets of writing paper, [California letter sheets] remain the major surviving visual account of California in that era. California letter sheets are a curious blend of local enthusiasm and topical recording ... [ranging] from rough, on-the-spot 'impressions' to studied photographic realism" (Introduction). Very good. Publisher's red morocco-backed patterned boards. (8382).

Berkeley, (CA): U. of California Press, 1956. First edition. 8vo. vi, (2), 220 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portrait frontispiece. Very good. Red cloth (a little spotted), gilt spine title. (10397).

Sacramento: Solomon Alter; San Francisco: Marvin & Hitchcock, 1853. First edition. 12mo. 261 pp. Six plates. With an inscription " To David R. Knox" dated in the year of publication at Sacramento City, California. Soliday II, 85: "The author arrived in California in 1849 where he founded and was pastor of the Congregational Church. The six plates are apparently the earliest works of Charles Nahl." Original black cloth (joints repaired, some old interior soiling and staining), gilt spine. Good solid copy.