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[Philadelphia]: National Drug Company, [ca. 1935]. First edition of these exceeding surrealistic medical drawings by African-American artist Leon Brown. The portfolio consists of six quite large (9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches) photolithographs by the virtually unknown African-American artist Leon Brown. At the beginning is an introduction written by a fellow employees _-"These remarkable pencil sketches are the work of a young colored artist in charge maintenance and purchasing at the research laboratories of the National Drug Company." Each of these delightfully bizarre illustrations is accompanied by a text leaf by Brown explaining what he was trying to achieve with the print. Thankfully, they are equally as bizarre and fascinating. Those six sheets are headed The Surgeon, Eye Ear Nose and Throat Specialist, The Pediatrician, The Obstetrician, The Psychiatrist & the The "GP." In the original manila envelope. In the Psychiatrist text lead we read "The escapist is always tying to bury his face in the rock he… Read More

Newark, NV, 1884. Bifolio (4 pp.) autograph letter, signed by Robinson, dated Nov. 19th, 1884 and sent from Newark, Nevada. This letter written from Robinson to Yerington is quite legible and speaks mainly of the election betrayal of A. C. Cleaveland. In it Robinson states that, although A. C. Cleaveland was the person who nominated him and counseled him to make his headquarters in Hamilton, he lost the election through the duplicitous nature of Cleveland. E.g.: "He may tell you that I am not a friend of the Local Roads but if he says so he tells an infamous lie." On lined paper. Excellent condition.All three individuals mentioned in this letter are quite well known in Nevada history. H. M. Yerrington [sic], namesake of the town of Yerington in Lyon County, Nevada: "In 1863 H. M. Yerington came to Carson City and became one of its most prosperous business men. Among his earliest work was the construction of the Merrimac mill for the rushing of Comstock ore, the first mill in the state of that… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. First official edition. Part of the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution... Year ending June 30, 1902. Octavo. xxiv, 784 pp. plus 248 full page plates for Mason's report of Native American basketry. Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Spine a bit sunned. Old typographic bookplate. A very solid and handsome copy.

London: Marcus Warde and Co., [1882]. First edition. Square octavo. 56 pp. with color illustrations and vignettes on every page. Publisher's vividly colored boards with lettering to both covers, decorative endpapers. Some edge and corner wear.Thomas Crane was Walter Crane's older brother. He was also the art director at Marcus Ward & Co., and known for his colorful children's books and decorative greeting cards which often incorporated floral motifs. Crane was known for his ornamental work, which included floral designs and embellishments. With Ellen Elizabeth Houghton, a cousin, and John G. Sowerby, he produced a series of acclaimed picture books for children. Among the most celebrated, At Home (1881), Abroad (1882), and At Home Again (1883). They were described by librarian scholar Roger Dixon as "among the loveliest books ever produced."

Fresno: Fresno County Abstract Company, [ca. 1908]. First edition. Narrow quarto (8 1/4 x 14 inches). 235, [1] pp. Illustrated with numerous real estate development maps. Publisher's black cloth with gilt cover lettering. Excellent.Rancho Laguna de Tache was a 48,801-acre Mexican land grant in present-day Fresno County and Kings County, California given in 1846 by Governor Pio Pico to Manuel Castro. The grant is named for the lake of the Tachi band of the Yokut people. The grant extended along the north bank of the Kings River from Kingsburg down river for twenty six miles, and included the present-day Laton, Riverdale and Lanare. This grant is not to be confused with the grant of the same name on the South side of Kings River later claimed by Joseph Yves Limantour. The eleven square league grant was made to Manuel de Jesus Castro (1821-1885) in 1843, although a deed to secure the ownership was not issued until 1846. Castro's father, Simeon Castro, owned Rancho Bolsa Nueva y Moro Cojo. Manuel… Read More

Kalispell: Roberts Printing, (1979). First edition. Introduction by Mike Mansfield. [40] pp. All illustrations (but for the introduction). Publisher's stiff pictorial wrappers bound in. Nicely bound in black morocco-grain cloth with silver spine and cover lettering. Excellent.

Kalispell: Roberts Printing, (1979). First edition. One of 100 numbered copies, each with a signed Powell etching in the front pocket. Introduction by Mike Mansfield. [40] pp. All illustrations (but for the introduction). Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering, matching slipcase. A fine copy.Issued to commemorate Powell's death in 1979.

Kalispell: Thomas Printing, 1968. First edition. Octavo. 43, [1] pp. With illustrations of Powell's work throughout. Publisher's pictorial wrappers with a color cover illustration after Powell. Recently bound in black cloth with gilt cover lettering. Some minor sunning on upper front wrapper but a very good copy, thankfully bound in cloth for ease of preservation.

Seattle: Argus Print, 1924. First edition. Quarto (9 x 12 inches). 41, [1]; 17, [1] pp. plus 16 pp. of illustrations (predominantly full page portraits). Publisher's patterned green wrappers with black cover lettering. Some edge wear (as is always the case as the text does not sit flush with the wrappers). Overall, an excellent copy.A finely written early history written by a true pioneer. "Clarence Bagley, the only child of Daniel and Susannah, was born in Troy Grove, Illinois, on November 30, 1843. At age nine, Clarence had a front-row seat while moving across the plains and Rocky Mountains to a new home near Salem, Oregon...In October 1860, Clarence was a strapping 17 years old when the family climbed aboard a buggy and headed north to Seattle... For a time banking attracted Clarence Bagley, then more newspaper work, and again a return to state employment. He also served as an alternate state commissioner for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Bagley's true love, however, remained writing… Read More

New York: The Century Co., 1894. First edition of this elusive title. Octavo. xii, [4], 234 pp. including a frontispiece portrait of both cyclists standing beside their bikes plus numerous ful and vignette photographic illustrations of sights along the journey. Publisher's bleu cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, large gilt device resembling the globe n front (same device on rear blind-stamped). Aside front a very early (1901) previous owner's signature on the front blank, an excellent copy.Published at the height of the bicycle craze in America this book details the authors' voyage; The cycled across Europe, then headed west from Turkey (where they became the first Americans to summit Mt. Ararat) through the Gobi Desert, through middle China and all the way to Peking. A feat they claim had not been accomplished since Marco Polo. From the introduction - "We were actuated by no desire to make a "record" in bicycle travel, although we covered 15,044 miles on the wheel, the longest continuous… Read More

New York: Broadway Publishing, (1906). Third edition, great enlarged by the author's nephew. Octavo. iii, [1], 521, [1], [12, publisher's ads] pp. plus numerous full page illustrations and a foldout map. Publisher's green cloth with red spine and cover lettering, front cover with laid down plate as issued. Zane Grey's copy with his customary purple signature on front pastedown and his blind-stamp on front endpaper. Spine ends a little pushed in, but a very good and clean copy.First appeared in 1863 under the title Notes by the Way. Hewitt came to the Pacific Northwest in 1862 via the South Pass and these are his memories of that trip.

Washington City: Samuel Harrison Smith, 1801. First edition. Octavo. [3] 228-352, iv, [22, index] pp. As issued. Uncut and largely unopened. Printer's plain blue wrappers. Numerous small black ink dots to covers (deliberate?). Front cover with holograph "Town Clerk, Warwick" on front. Spine perished (though signatures still sewn). Minor edge wear to paper. A very good copy.

Jeffersonville (IN): {Reformatory Press], 1912. First edition. Octavo. 8 ll. printed on rectos only and bound at the top. Publisher's string-tied brown wrappers with printed paper title label on front. Excellent.This pamphlet lauds the fact that one of the very first psychological laboratories in the country was opening at the Reformatory at Jeffersonville (preceded by New York and Boston). This was a huge step forward in penal reform and reflects the growing importance of psychology in preparing inmates for the outside world. "The new laboratory was endorsed by academics and reformers across the country including sociologist Hasting Hart of the Russell Sage Foundation, Charles Henderson from the University of Chicago, Zebulon Brockway, and Maude Ballington Booth. Warden Peyton explained how the lab would disseminate knowledge and significantly advance prison reform. He also emphasized that both heredity and environment played a role in crime. Interestingly, Governor Thomas Marshall rejected this… Read More

Springfield: Lincoln Centennial Association, 1918. First edition. Small octavo. 108 pp. Uncut and unopened. Publisher's printed olive wrappers with an embossed bust of Lincoln on front. Front wrapper with a crease (not very noticeable) and a chip from the upper margin, old and ghostly tidemark to lower corner or text. A very good copy.

New York: William B. Clayton, 1913. Original program and flyer for a performance of February 19, 1913. Octavo. [8] pp. Original stapled self wrappers. Very faint crease to program. The flyer is smaller (5 1/2 x 7 inches) and is a 4-page bifolio with a cover photograph of Adeline Genee in her dance outfit. A nice little package.Adeline Genee was born in Denmark in 1878 (nee Anina Kirstina Margaret Petra Jensen) and by 1895 the principal dancer of the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen. Subsequently, in 1896, she danced with the Berlin Royal Opera Ballet and the Munich Opera Ballet. By 1897 Adeline had moved to England where she performed at the Empire Theatre for years solidifying her reputation. In November 1907, Genee sailed to the USA to perform in The Soul Kiss at the New York Theatre. The producer, Florenz Ziegfeld, described her on the posters as "The World's Greatest Dancer."On 3 December 1912 she made her debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera, with a program of divertissements which… Read More

(Santa Barbara): The author, 1957. First edition. One of 1015 numbered copies, signed by the author. Quarto. [16], 124, [2] pp. With illustrations (some in color) by Edward Borein, Duncan Gleason, Henry C. Ford, Carl Oscar Borg and others. Publisher''s salmon cloth with brown cover and spine lettering and decoration, pictorial endpapers. Bookplate and a bit of sunning to spine but a very good copy.A nicely put together and illustrated history of the Santa Barbara area.

Portland: Metropolitan Press, 1935. First edition. One of 800 numbered copies, signed by Skiff. Octavo. [12], 366, [2] pp. Publisher's quarter brown cloth over green boards, printed paper spine label. Original dust jacket; spine ends with a bit of tape reinforcement, some nibblings to edges but complete and whole. A very good and clean copy.

New York: Privately Printedd, 1864. First edition. Conventional lore has it that this was issued in only 75 copies but we can find no verification of this. Introduction and Notes by Charles I. Bushnell. Octavo. 316 pp. plus eight full page tinted plates. Publisher's quarter beige linen over blue boards, printed paper spine label. Corners slightly bumped and spine label a bit darkened but an unopened copy very nicely situated in it's original binding.Christopher Hawkins was a 13-year-old from Providence, Rhode Island, when he abandoned an apprenticeship and joined a privateer ship to fight the British in the War of American Independence. Unluckily for him, he was captured and made to be a cabin boy on a British ship. He escaped but was later captured again. The second time Hawkins was captured, he was thrown into the HMS Jersey, a notorious prison ship anchored in New York Harbor. About 11,000 rebellious colonists died aboard such crammed ships, many from disease or malnutrition. That was more than… Read More

Karachi: Din Muhammadi Press, (1955). Second edition (both published the same year). Inscribed by A. K. Brohi on the front blank, Karachi, 1959. Octavo. xxx, [2], 446, [2, blanks], [2, reviews] pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. In the original color dust jacket. Bit of wear to jacket but an excellent, inscribed copy.Allah Bukhsh Karim Bukhsh Brohi was a prominent Pakistani politician and lawyer. Originating from Shikarpur in Sindh, his sister Husn Afroze was married to veteran politician Qaim Ali Shah, but died of breast cancer in 1971. He was the first partner, and mentor of famous Indian lawyer Ram Jethmalani as acknowledged in his authorized biography. He also served as the High Commissioner of Pakistan in India from 1 February 1960 to 31 March 1961. He was a scholar and author affiliated with the Traditionalist School of metaphysics (more precisely René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon and Martin Lings). These thinkers and Brohi's admiration of… Read More

New York: Sheldon and Company, 1865. 2nd (?) edition. Twelvemo. 192 pp. Illustrated in the text. Publisher's elaborately blind-stamped salmon cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, pale yellow endpapers, Minor sunning to spine, else a very good copy."The Adventures of Billy Bump" is a mixture of comedy, adventure, social satire, and etiquette lessons: Billy, a yokel from "Sundown," goes to live with relatives in Boston, with humorous results. Young readers quickly became Billy's champions, resenting the author's sometimes-satiric tone. Billy Bump went on to become an Argonaut in "The Adventures of Billy Bump on the Pacific Coast; A tale of '49".