NY: Chappell Music, 1940. First Edition. 6pp, words and music, in part: "Until I fell in love My life was very easy; The moon just made it moonlight, The breeze just made it breezy....Somewhere there's music, How faint the tune! Somewhere there's heaven, How high the moon!..." 12" x 9"..... More
Arcadia, California: Hamblen Music Co., 1953. First Edition. 4pp, words and music, in part: "Mommy told me something a little girl should know, It's all about the devil and I've learned to hate him so...." Cover photograph of Sue Ann who recorded this song with The Cowboy Church Sunday School..... More
Chicago: Norman S. Weiser, 1955. First Edition. Softcover. 34pages; illustrations from photographs. In the original pictorial covers, 11" x 8.5" Features include: Stuart Hamblen--I Should Know Him; Redd Stewart--After 18 Years, What Now; Shorty Warren--Eastern King of Western Swing; &c. Departments include: Cross Country Jamboree; Songs of the Month; Pickin'..... More
various places: various publishers, various dates. First Editions. Softcover. Nine folios with pictorial covers. "San Antonio Rose," NY, 1940 [2 folios, one with prior owner's name on cover]. "There's A Big Rock in the Road," Nashville, 1946. "Cotton Eyed Joe," Hollywood, 1947. "You Don't Care What Happens to Me," Nashville..... More
Jordan: Army Map Service, 1969. First Edition. Full-color road map with place names in English and Jordanian Arabic. Compiled and drawn in 1969 by the Dept. of Lands and Surveys of Jordan. Includes Israel and part of Syria. Location of sites in English and Arabic. Sites of antiquities are marked..... More
s.l. Famous Art Co., [1930]. Sepiatone print on old stock, a 3/4-length studio portrait of Colonel Simmons wearing a dark suit and vest, high white collar with silk bowtie, watch chain with pendant, large ring on his left hand, holding his spectacles. Image size, 13" x 10"; overall, 17" x...... More
Portland, Oregon: American Music, 1941. First Edition. Softcover. 50 pages; one illustration from photograph. Contains words and music to 20 songs performed by Texas Jim, including: When the Robins Sing in Texas; Saddles in the Sky; Buckaroo at Eighty-two; Fiddlin' Fool of the Prairie; Out Arizona Way; and 15 more..... More
Portland, Oregon: American Music, 1939. First Edition. Softcover. pp: 31, (30; three illustrations from photographs. Contains a page of autobiography, along with words and music to 20 songs, five of them written or co-written by Duke Martin. Titles include: Old Worn Out Saddle; Yodel Mountain; Why Cowboys Sing; Yodeling Memories;..... More
Nashville: Acuff-Rose, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. 47pages; 6pages of illustrations from photographs. Contains words and music to 20 songs performed by Bob Atcher, including: Forever and A Day; One Careless Night; Pins and Needles; We'll Be Pals; and 16 more. In the original pictorial covers, 12" x 9" Robert Owen..... More
Portland, Oregon: American Music, 1941. First Edition. Softcover. 46pp; two illus from photographs. Contains words and music to 20 cowboy songs, including: My Prairie Blue Bell; Rose of the Rolling Range; Sway Back Nag of Mine; Ploddin' Down the Trail; Tumbleweed Town; and 15 more. Bound in the original pictorial..... More
NY: Hill and Range Songs, 1954-1956. First Editions. Softcover. Volume 1 comprises 36 pages, including 12 illustrations from photographs. It contains words and music to 15 songs, written and performed by Hank Thompson, including: Rub-A-Dub Dub; You're Walking On My Heart; When You're Lovin', You're Livin'; Cryin' In the Deep..... More
Washington DC: United States Postal Service, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. 18pp; illustrated throughout in color. Bound in white, stiff wrappers, 8.5" x 7.25" Shows 63 different US postage stamps featuring women, with biographical sketches. [OCLC cites only the USPS Library holding of this title.]. More
Los Angeles: Aaron Blake, 1986. First Edition. Full-color, pictorial map, folded as issued, opens to 16" x 25.5". Housed in pictorial card covers. This colorful map designates 150 locations used in Steinbeck novels. More
New Orleans: s.n., circa 1940s. Original documents. Eight (8) divided-back postcards (3.5" x 5.5") with Sarrazin's pen-and-ink views on the rectos and descriptive captions on the versos. Unused, in the original illustrated envelope. The New Orleans views are: Patio Royal, Pirates Alley, Claiborne Courtyard, Little Theatre Courtyard, "Lacy Balcony," Spanish..... More
1901-1907. Original postcards. Undivided backs, unused, burnished albumen prints. Views of the Waywide Inn are: The Old Kitchen; The Parlor; The Washington Room; Lower Hall; Old Fashioned Garden. 3.5" x 5.5" More
Washington DC: U.S. House of Representatives, 1938. Original document. Accomplished and signed by Smith. Dated May 19, 1938. Addressed to Hon. A.W. Hall, Bureau of Engraving. "Any courtesy you may extend to Mr. A.C. Heald and party will be appreciated [signed] Clyde H. Smith, M.C., Maine." Clyde Harold Smith (1876-1940)..... More
Princeton: Princeton University, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. (16)pp, accordion-fold card stock; 4-page essay by Andrea Immel, 12 illustrations, most in color. Pictorial self-wrappers, 6.5" x 4.75" More
(Princeton): Cotsen Family Library, 2002. First Edition in English. Softcover. (24)pp, accordion-fold broadsheet; six illustrations fro photographs. Captions under the photos are in German, translated into English on facing versos. Incluces a one-page essay by Mus White, a note on albumen prints, and suggestions for further reading. Self-wrappers, printed on..... More
New York: Blue Note Records, circa 1951. First Edition. Softcover. 4pp, printed in blue on white stock. Lists the personnel, each with a biographical sketch: George Lewis, clarinet; Kid Howard, trumpet; Jim Robinson, trombone; Lawrence Marrero, banjo; Edgar Mosley, drums; Chester Zardis, bass; Jim Little, tuba. A two-page essay by..... More
New York: Commodore Records, 1941-1944. First Editions. Softcover. (1) broadsheet printed in purple on white, folded to 10 pages. One page is devoted to an essay on jazz collectors and the United Hot Clubs of America. Listed are U.H.C.A. red and blue labels, including King Oliver, Louis Armstrong. Bessie Smith..... More
Detroit: Cornell Studios, circa 1915. Original document. Unused card. Shows a man in a chauffeur's cap, holding the end of an air-horn, and a woman in a very large hat, both facing the camera from a studio-prop automobile. Imprint of Cornell Studios on verso. Approx 3.25" x 5.5"... More
New York: Czechoslovakia Government Information Service, 1944. First Edition. Softcover. (16)pp text; two illustrations on coated stock. Bound in pictorial stiff wrappers, 8.25" x 5.25" Designed by Rudolph Ruzicka. Printed by Supreme Printing Service, New York. More
New York: Cooper Union, 1951. First Edition. Softcover. (16)pp; three woodcuts, two examples of type design. Exhibition notes by Paul Standard. Bound in printed self-wrappers, 5.5" x 8.25" More
Miles City, Montana: Foster Photo Co., 1920. Original document. The photograph is captioned, "At A Boy Mose." On the verso is a handwritten message to a Pennsylvania woman: "...This is a sample of the real rough west as it is in reality never the less it is the life /..... More
Denver: City Ticket Office, 1924. Original document. Softcover. 4pp, printed black on pink stock. Contains time tables for Denver, Idaho Springs, Georgetown and Silver Plume as well as Forks Creek, Black Hawk and Central City. Lists round-trip summer fares from Denver. 6" x 3.25" More