Detroit: Detroit Photographic Co., 1905. Original document. 1905 Vicksburg postmark on verso. Addressed to a NJ man. Handwritten message on recto: "These people have cotton on the brain. Waste space, time and money on it where they could make more on some other crop...." More
NY: Shapiro, Bernstein, 1927. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. 6pp, words and music, in part: "When the sun goes down, the tide goes out The darkies gather 'round and they all begin to shout `Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud...." 12" x...... More
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1915. 1915 edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. pp: 68. (2) ads. Tipped in is a full-color map, opening to 18.5" x 25", folded into brown card covers printed in black. 6.5" x 4" More
Chicago: Privately Printed, 1932. First Edition. Softcover. 39pp; frontispiece from the first book printed west of the Mississippi River. Printed on octavo signatures and laid into orange wrappers with lettering and decoration on cover. 9.75" x 6.25" One of only 200 copies; this one not numbered. More
Monroe City, Missouri: Monroe City Ice Co., 1940. First Edition. Decorative wraps. 11pp; coupons printed in blue and red. 2.75" x 4.75" This World War II ration booklet authorizes the holder to purchase ice at one half-bushel per coupon. Not used. More
St. Louis, Mo. Stereotyped & Printed by Aug. Wiebusch & Son, 1867. First Edition. Original Wrappers. 96pp. Printed gray wrappers, sewn. Professor Waterhouse of Washington University, St. Louis, wrote this book for the State Board of Immigration in order to attract settlers. The attractions include education, commerce, railroads, homesteading on..... More
NY: Jerry Vogel Music, 1944. Copyright 1931. Pictorial Cover. 6pp, words and music, in part: "Now Louis came home to the flat, He hung up his coat and his hat .... `Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, Meet me at the fair'...." 12" x 9" This song was featured in..... More
Chicago, New York, Los Angeles: Rand, McNally & Co., 1911. 1911 edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. 38pp, including ads for Fred Harvey's Santa Fe System of Hotels and other hotels in Montana. Full-color map opens to 21" x 28". Folds into brown card covers printed in black, 6.5" x 4" [OCLC..... More
1919. Original photograph. Contains head-and-shoulders portraits of eight young women in white nursing caps and uniforms, arranged within a shield labeled "Great Falls Columbus Hospital, 1919" with a white cross at the bottom. Image size is 10" x 8". Mounted in the original mat, with the names of the eight..... 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, Colorado: Forward Mining Development Co., (1905). First Edition. Original Wrappers. (12)pp. Bound in decorated white wrappers. On the back cover is a pink-tinted photographic view of "The Famous Combination Mine and Mill at Goldfield." 9.25" x 4" With a capital stock of $500,000, three members of the Patrick family..... More
Reno: Univ of Nevada Press, 1981 & 1991. First Editions. Hardcover. Two volumes. pp: (iii), 421 with index; (v), 403 with indices. First volume bound in blue cloth, second one bound in brown cloth, both with gilt spine lettering and printed dust wrappers. 10.25" x 7" The first volume contains..... More
Rawhide, Nevada: N.E. Johnson, 1908 [1970s]. Softcover. pp: (1) text, (41) views from photographs with captions, (1) portrait of Ned E. Johnson (photographer), folding panorama bound in at back. The one-page text, "Rawhide," is by F.W. Clark, Pacific Coast Agent. Bound in pictorial green wrappers. Private bookplate inside cover, otherwise..... More
Boston: John F. Jewett, 1849. First Edition. Morocco & Cloth. 264pp; frontispiece view and two plates with tissue guards; plates foxed, scattered foxing in the text. Bound in blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-pictorial black morocco spine; spine ends chipped. 7.75" x 5" [Sabin 31071]. More
Concord, NH: 1856. Original document. One page, on billhead of Webster & Bixby, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in West India Goods, Groceries and Country Produce at No. 2 Phenix Block. The view of their building (3" x 2-1/4") shows a horse & wagon and patrons in front of the store..... More
Hampton Beach, NH: Board of Trade, 1921. Original edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 24pp; several views from photographs. Includes illustrated ads for carnival acts: The Newmans, "Cycologists"; The St. Onge Trio, Aerialists; Capt. Schell's Trained African Lions; "Dare Devil" Van Norman; Salem Cadet Band; Japanese Day & Italian Night Fireworks; etc...... More
Hillsborough, New Hampshire: L.D. Hines & Co., 1873. Original edition. Broadside, black display type on salmon stock, 8.75" x 12.6" Turkey Shoots on the day before Thanksgiving were frequent small-town activities in 19th-century America. [This broadside not found in WorldCat.]. More
Laconia, NH: 1856. Original manuscript. 2pp, written in sepia ink on blue laid paper, in a legible hand; with original small envelope, stamp removed. In part: "Saphid wishes Me to Say that we expect to be at Holderness Tomorrow on the Noon Train. You said I Might Let you know..... More
Lancaster, NH: Bisbee Press, 1935. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. 16pp; 13 full-page aquatone views. Includes two pages of text on accommodations (74 cabins), sports and recreations (trout fishing, swimming, canoeing). 3.5" x 6" More
Portsmouth, NH: Press of Arthur G. Brewster, 1910. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. 34pp; 8 plates of views from photographs, including: Oceanic Hotel; Appledore Cottages; Mrs. Thaxter's Cottage; Church at Star Island; &c. String-tied tan wrappers, view on back cover. 4.5" x 6" [WorldCat records this edition only..... More
Portsmouth, NH: s.n., circa 1917. First Edition. Original Boards. Broadsheet, opens to 25" x 19". Recto contains views of eight historic houses with accompanying text. That format is repeated on the verso with four more views and a large street map of Portsmouth. Folds to 6.25" x 4.25" [Not seen..... More
Chicago & NY: Rand, McNally & Co., 1914. Early edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. 38pp, including six pages of pictorial hotel ads. Tipped in is a colored map, opening to 26" x 18.5". Folded into brown card covers printed in black. 6.5" x 4" More
NJ: Standard Oil Co., (1925). First Edition. Softcover. pp: 44, (4); 11 b&w maps, text vignettes. This automobile travel guide to New Jersey also includes Hudson River ferry schedules. Pictorial paper covers. 8" x 5.5" More
Trenton, NJ: MacCrellish & Quigley, Printers, 1921. First Edition. Original Wrappers. 61pp. Printed gray wrappers. Removed from bound volume of pamphlets: three small stab-holes in spine, paper spine covering intact. 9" x 6" Details four provisions of New Jersey prohibition laws in line with the US 18th Amendment and the..... More
Trenton: Trenton Printing Co., 1939. First Edition. 64pp; illus throughout from photographs. This town-by-town guide includes directories of historic trees, hotels, books on New Jersey, etc. Pictorial stiff wrappers. 9" x 6" More