Rare books from Bradley Ross Books

Chicago, 1936. Book. very good-. Soft cover. First edition. Rand McNally 1936. Very good- softcover in stiff wrappers. 32 pages. Dampstain to corner of front cover and visible on interior covers. No writings or tears. Cover shows Babe instructing a youngster on how to bunt. Includes chapters on selecting bats, batting, batting order, pitching, pitching control, warming up, catching, first base, second base, third base, shortstop, outfielding, backing up throws, advancing base runners, sliding into bases, and more, each accompanied by an instructional photo of the Babe. Scarce..

1884. Book. Good. Hardcover. First edition. Our Continent Publishing 1884. 3/4 heavily rubbed leather over marbled boards. Binding firm. Contains a run of 25 illustrated issues of The Continent from 1884, its final year of publication. 832 pages. Hundreds of articles, poems and illustrations including the first publication of Dorcas The Daughter of Faustina by Nathan ben Nathan an Essenean ( Nathan Kouns ), first publication of A Legend of Polecat Hollow by Tobe Hodge ( Charles McIlvaine ) , Donn Platt, Tenants of an Old Farm by Henry C. McCook, Once There Was A Man by R. H. Newell ( Orpheus C. Kerr ), William Willard Howard, Helen Campbell, The Canadian Capital by James Macdonald Oxley, J. L. Harbour, Hosea Gordon Blake, Julia F. Magruder, Ernest Kanufft, Henry Lewis, Music Among the Aztecs by H. T. Cresson, Alfred Trumble, Mountain Parks of Colorado by Edwards Roberts, Krao The Missing Link, Henry Blackburn, John Preston True, Henry James On American Traits by James Lane Allen, Robert Todd… Read More

United Artists, 1937. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Original script from the 1937 movie starring Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall, directed by John Ford. The script, which was reworked by an uncredited Ben Hecht, is in English with line by line translation in Japanese. Originally bound in wrappers (with the original wrappers present in fine condition), the entire softcover script has been bound in green cloth boards. Script is clean and unmarked. A very scarce piece of movie memorabilia..

Book. Good. Soft cover. Barker Moore & Mein Medicine Co. Circa 1903. Good softcover. First edition issued in this fifty page format. Rare promotional comics for Barker products, with satirical scenes involving baseball, fishing, Indians, dentist, jury trial, farming, sea monster, horse racing, World's Fair, circus, North Pole, pig racing, etc. Full color cover remains bright and depicts a farming scene, full color reverse depicts a pig race with monkeys for jockeys. Many of the scenes depict stereotypical images of African Americans. 1" chip to rear edge, smaller chip to front edge, closed tears to spine..

1882. Book. Illus. by Burr, Alfred. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, Printing House of A. G. Walling 1882. 447 pages plus index and 66 page Biographical Supplement. Good brown tooled boards with complete gilt lettering and landscape scene. Leather spine has complete label but most of the leather is worn and rubbed away. Binding of this large heavy book is surprisingly solid although some mild cracking. No writings. Chipping to spine heel. All plates present and in very good or better condition, containing well over one hundred illustrations. Important historical and genealogical reference. The author Gilbert was a resident of Walla Walla, Washington and a noted historian. Illustrated by Alfred Burr whose sketches depict properties and landscapes of Walla Walla County. The author's intent was to provide "a glimpse of the Coast from its discovery; of California until Oregon ceased to be a part of it; of Oregon while Washington Territory was within her boundary limits; of the latter… Read More