Search Results: Ephemera from Dale Steffey Books, ABAA

Sacramento, California , 1855. Two manuscript letters in ink, both on ruled paper with folding creases, the 1855 letter 8" x 12 1/2", with single spaced writing both sides, approx. 500 words. The 1856 letter 15" x 10", folded in half to make 4 pp., approx. 300 words, with small blindstamp top left corner depicting an eagle. The earlier letter is headed "September 18th 1855 Naperville Dupage County Illinois" and ends "Michael direct your letters Nevada County, Nevada post office, California". George writes to his brother Michael in Naperville that he has "seen a good dele sins i rote you they last letter", including a hundred "inshins" and some "Buffellow". He adds that "we had good luck all they way of may we left Council Bluff", and that he is not home sick yet. He then talks of the gold mines, river mining, what they are paying, and the cost of things such as board ("from five to ten dollars a week"),… Read More

United States Army, 1863. One sheet of paper backed with an attached second sheet, two horizontal folds, one vertical fold, fragile yet Very Good, sheets separating at folds., light age toning. Discharge papers for Thomas Fulford, a private in Company B, 64th Regiment Infantry, Indiana Volunteers, dated Sept. 30, 1863 at St. Louis, Mo, by reason of Surgeon's Certificate of Disability. In left margin, handwritten in red ink, "Phthisis-hereditary-developed by exposure. He is unfit for the Invalid Corps". Signed at bottom "By Order of Maj. Gen. Schofield" and then signed "J.K. Hudson" with more writing below, illegible. Stamped in red ink "paid by Robert Smith St. Louis Oct. 2 1863 Paymaster U.S.A." Also another stamp, faint with just the word Ohio at right side above top fold. Verso bears handwritten "Discharge Certificate of Thomas F. Fulford Late of Co. B, 64th Regt. Indiana Vols. Infantry". Private Fulford went on to live to the age of 68,… Read More

Topeka, KS: J. F. Cummings, Printer to the State of Kansas , 1870. Dated the fourteenth day of September, 1870. " To the Sheriff of Any County, Kansas: Whereas requisition in due form has been made by the Governor of the State of Illinois of one John Randell a fugitive from justice, who stands charged with the crime of Forgery. Now Therefore, James M. Harvey (signature) Governor of the State of Kansas ....command you to apprehend, arrest and deliver said fugitive to the custody of John W. ? of the State of Illinois....". SIGNED at the bottom right, James M. Harvey and COUNTERSIGNED by the Secretary of State Thomas Moonlight. The warrant is Very Good, printed on this paper that has been backed with thicker construction paper at some point, written parts faded but mostly legible, with State Seal lower left, numered 33 top left, and with three engravings. James M. Harvey was the fifth Governor of Kansas, and served in the U.S. Senate: January 11, 1869, to January 13, 1873, serving the… Read More

Poughkeepsie, NY, 1887. Flexible leather album, front cover stamped in gilt with title "Autographs" surrounded by gilt flourishes, spine decorated in gilt, all edges gilt. 98 pp, 19 of them blank, leaving 79 with manuscript and 78 signatures, 4 with writing in Japanese as well as English, 3 with full page calligraphic drawings of birds, with 38 photographs in the form of stamps including one oversize stamp measuring 1 3/4" x 2 1/4" of Mrs. C.C. Gaines, wife of the President of Eastman College ( the other stamps all measure 7/8" x 1"). The rest of the stamps are males, either students or faculty. The photographic stamps were done by C. H. Gallup of Poughkeepsie, NY. The album belonged to student Clif. J. Prosser. Very Good, the leather rubbed at edges, rear leather cover about half loosened from the board, light soiling. A wonderful early Eastman Business College autograph album, perhaps from the beginning of the use of photographic stamps. . SIGNED. Album. Very Good/No… Read More

New York: Lindon W. Bates , 1906. SIGNED two page letter typed, folded twice, with original postmarked envelope, Very Good, paper clip impression top edge both pages. On Bates' personal stationery, dated Jan. 6, 1906 and headed "Hon. Knute Nelson, United States Senate, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:- I have the honor to enclose under separate cover a copy of "The Panama Canal, System and Projects", and venture to hope that some of the matter contained therein may be of interest to you." Bates then goes on to explain the cost, scale, and completion time for his plan in the next paragraph. The rest of the letter goes on to explain how his plan will "...submerge entirely the swamps at sea level, which, at the present time, extend all along the prospective canal.." making "...fresh water lakes of clean water, in which a vessel having large steerage can make twice as rapid speed as in the constricted earth bounded out of any lakeless canal...". And finally stating… Read More

Germany, 1909. Very Good, partial postmark front of card, postally used with 1909 postmark, mailed from Chicago to Chicago. SCARCE early baseball postcard.. First Printing. Postcard. Very Good.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Daily News, 1910. Calendar for 1912, 10 1/4" w x 37 1/2" h, single sheet with 2 folds, with three James Ross Bryson lithographs of lovely women of the period, published by the Milwaukee Daily News as a carrier's greeting. Very Good, old tape mends verso at folds, several rubs to paper, 1" tear to right margin each of the three sections, not affecting lithographs, which are bright and clean. Silk tie top edge for hanging. James Ross Bryson (1856 - 1918). was best known for his elegant paintings, mostly of women. . First Edition. Calendar. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Illus. by Bryson, James Ross .

Los Angeles: Neuner Printing & Lithograph Co., 1932. SCARCE. Map of Long Beach, California printed by Neuner Printing, Los Angeles and done by Noordwall & Son Mapmakers of Los Angeles for Lyon Van & Storage Co. Folded size 7" x 3 3/4", opens to 21 3/4" x 14". With photos of Lyon Van's operations and procedures both sides. Fine, red dot marked on map presumably locating the new address where customers were being moved.. Folded Map . Fine. 7" x 3 3/4" .

Los Angeles: Atlantic Releasing, 1987. Original Script -1969 -, screenplay by Ernest Thompson, Directed by Ernest Thompson, Produced by Daniel Grodnik, Starring Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, and Winona Ryder. Revised Draft, dated 7/21/87. Stiff cardstock covers, 3 holes punched held by two brads, title in marker on spine, 117 pages, 8 1/2" by 11", all white, about half the pages state Revised 7/21/87 top right corner. Near Fine, several pages top corner creased, covers lightly soiled, no internal writing. Released in 1988. . Near Fine.

Matthieu AG Zurich: Editions Olympia 1972 GmbH, 1971. Artists Series # 28. Near Fine, small faint creases at edges. Well suited for framing, will bw shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 25 "x 40".

Washington, D.C.: Committee to Re-Elect the President, 1972. No Place, No Date, unmarked . Nonetheless, this original 1972 campaign poster of a smiling Nixon in front of his San Clemente, CA home was published by the Committee to Re-Elect the President. Near Fine, a few small edge creases. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 17" x 22".

New York: Socialist Worker's Party, 1972. Four page newsprint, centerfold, printed in black and red, 11 1/2" x 17 1/2". Very Good, curling at corners. RARE. The 1972 Presidential campaign platform for Linda Jenness and Andrew Pulley, with a slate of local candidates and bios of the two candidates. . First Edition. Newsprint. Very Good. 11 1/2" x 17 1/2".

Camp Custer, Battle Creek, MI: T.F Mock, 1918. Original panoramic photograph, 6 1/2" x 42 1/4", unframed, rolled. Near Fine, faint creases near ends, scant light soiling rear of photo. Stamped in blue ink rear -"Passed by Intelligence Section Office, Chief of Staff". Written in ink rear -" 355th Battalion Q.M.C., Camp Custer, Mich. T.F. Mock Sept. 29, 1918". Unclear whether this is in Mock's handwriting. Theodore F. Mock was listed as the Camp Custer Photographer in David V. Tinder's "Directory of Early Michigan Photographers" published by Clements Library, 2013. Camp Custer, at Battle Creek, Michigan, had over 100,000 US Army troops pass through its doors between 1917-1919. Sept. 29th, 1918 was the day in 1918, after a 56-hour-long bombardment, Allied forces breached the so-called Hindenburg Line, the last line of German defenses on the Western Front during World War I. SCARCE photograph of Negro troops during World War I, with many interesting poses by… Read More

New York: International Committee of the YMCA, 1920. Great Art Deco cover by Lawrence Harry. Very Good Plus, front wrapper vertically creased and a small amount of edgewear. A 63 page magazine in printed stapled wrappers, with great ads and articles. Copies of this magazine are quite scarce, and collectible copies are rare. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

No Place: Bernhardt Wall SCARCE. A set of 26 pencil SIGNED individual drypoint etchings plus the unsigned title page etching to Wall's book "Following Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865". With tissue guards for all but 3 of the etchings, all of the etchings are Fine, No Date, circa 1933-1942. On heavy laid paper, the sheets ranging in size from 8 1/2" x 9 3/4" to 10" x 12 1/2". Each etching with small "Lilly Library" stamp verso at corner, the whole set housed in a plain manila envelope marked "Dups.". A unique array of Wall's Lincoln etchings that could, if matted and framed, grace the walls of any Lincoln collection.. SIGNED BY ARTIST. Etchings . Fine.

( Chicago ): Libby, McNeill & Libby Co. No date, circa 1870's. Founded in 1869, Libby, McNeill & Libby began in Chicago as a maker of canned brined corned beef. Sharp chromolithograph image, Very Good, small chip bottom left corner. , verso not printed, with some staining, not affecting image on front. . Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 3" x 5 ".

No Place: Royal Baking Powder 11" h x 21" w original trolley car advertising sign for Royal Baking Powder. No Date, circa 1920s. Very Good Plus, printed on stiff cardboard,a rubbed spot and light edge wear. A SCARCE sign with wonderful graphic imagery of a plate of biscuits, not found in online searches. Will ship flat, please select Priority Mail shipping to help defray costs. . Poster. Very Good Plus. 11" h x 21" W.

Worcester, MA: A. B. F. Kinney, 1900. Verso reads " A.B.F. Kinney, Importer and Manufacturers' Agent for ALL KINDS OF GUNS Parker & Colt's Guns a Specialty. Winchester, Wesson and other Sporting Rifles Always on Hand. 12 Front Street ( Up Stairs ) Worcester, Mass. " No date, circa 1900. . Lithograph by Sunshine Publishing Co., Philadelphia. Near Fine, small abrasion letter side. . Cardstock. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 3" x 4 3/8".

No Place: Burnett's Vanilla 11" h x 21" w original trolley car advertising sign for Burnett's Vanilla. No Date, circa 1920s. Near Fine, printed on stiff cardboard, small stain right margin, 1" tear left edge, light edge wear."A cake or a dessert is 'made' by full flavor." A SCARCE sign with scrumptious imagery of desserts, not found in online searches. Will ship flat, please select Priority Mail shipping to help defray costs. . Poster. Near Fine. 11" h x 21" W.

San Francisco: Woods - Drury Co., Operators, 1930. Tri-fold advertising brochure for the new William Taylor Hotel built in 1930. In the late 1930's it became the Empire Hotel. 5 1/2" x 9" sheet with 3 foldss, contains 5 interior sepia tone photos of the hotel plus rates, and a half-page ad with artist'srawing of the Hotel Whitcomb, also operated by Woods-Drury Co. Near Fine, horizontal crease. . First Edition. Pamphlet. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 2 1/4" x 5 1/2" to 9" x 5 1/2".