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AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE Volume 43 Jul-Dec 1930

By: AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE

Price: $125.00

Publisher: NY, AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE CORP: 1930

Seller ID: k200128c

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: Good

Six issues of approx. 200 pages each. 1st ed.,8vo, black cloth. Approx. 1200 pp. Articles, photographs, diagrams, and advertisements for city planners and municipal managers and buyers. Hundreds of b/w photos depiciting architecture, roads, and vehicles. Condition: Good; text block is very good, clean and tight. Covers with moderate surface wear and soiling but no significant damage. Ex-libris Los Angelis Public Library with its bookplate affixed inside; penciled price of $8, apparently when withdrawn and sold.
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AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE Volume 8 January-June 1913

By: AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE

Price: $125.00

Publisher: NY, AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE : 1913

Seller ID: k200128d

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: Good

1st ed.,8vo, black cloth. 684 pp. Articles, photographs, diagrams, and advertisements for city planners and municipal managers and buyers. Hundreds of b/w photos depiciting architecture, roads, and vehicles. Ex-libris Warner Brothers Studios research library with its paper seal affixed inside front panel; also ex libris Alfred F. Rosenheim, with his bookplate, -- one of the leading architects in Los Angeles in the early part of the 20th century. His major works include the Hellman Building and Second Church of Christ Scientist. Condition: Good; moderate wear to covers, two large chips at top ...
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American Remembrancer; or, an Impartial Collection of Essays, Resolves, Speeches, &c.

By: CAREY, Mathew, ed.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Phila.: Printed by Henry Tuckniss, for Mathew Carey: 1795

Seller ID: cr191112e

Condition: Poor

The American Remembrancer; or, an Impartial Collection of Essays, Resolves, Speeches, &c. Relative, or Having Affinity, to the Treaty with Great Britain. Phila.: Printed by Henry Tuckniss, for Mathew Carey, 1795. 1st ed. 288pp. Noted as Volume I [of a 3 volume set] contains the first four issues of Carey's periodical "American Remembrancer" dated Aug. 20, Aug. 27, Sept. 4, and Oct. 1, 1795. A collection of printed documents in support of “Jay's Treaty”, signed Nov. 19, 1794, which resolved severa; Anglo-American diplomatic issues arising out of the Definitive Treaty of Peace of 1783. A...
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Manual of the Corporation [Common Council] of the City of New York, for 1866

By: d.t. valentine

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Edmund Jones & Co., NY: 1866

Seller ID: k191118a

Condition: Fair

1st ed., 12mo. publisher's embossed brown cloth with seal of New York on front and spin. [xvi], 820 pp. Chromolith title page, 11 color plates [4 folding] and dozens of b/w illustrations, maps, and tables. Condition is fair: Text block is clean and tight overall with occasional foxing. Fold-out map and diagram to accompany “The Great Fires in New York City in 1776 and 1778], opposite p. 786, is detached and tattered. Covers: Corners rubbed, front hinge cracked at both ends with chipped lower gutter; rubbed at both spine ends; 1” cracks at both ends of rear cover. Presentation copy from F...
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LABOR AND AUTOMOBILES (Near Mint in d/w)

By: Dunn, Robert W

Price: $75.00

Publisher: NY, International Publishers: 1929

Seller ID: s200703c

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: As-new

First Edition. 12mo, black cloth, gilt titles. 224 pages plus index, Illustrated frontispiece, plus 2 b/w illustrations and 3 photo plates within the text. Black cloth with gilt titles on spine. Blue/grey d/w with illustration and blue titles by Louis Lozowick; interior illustrations by Morris Pass. Condition: Fine/Fine. A pristine copy in fine d/w with only a few tiny edge nicks; not price clipped. The best copy we have seen. A history of the automobile industry, production methods, employee working conditions and efforts to organize [and methods employed to thwart unionization.] One ...
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Cotton Is King And Pro-Slavery Arguments

By: E. N. Elliott

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Augusta, GA, Pritchard, Abbott, & Loomis: 1860

Seller ID: k200408a

Condition: Fair

Subtitled: "Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on this Important Subject, by E. N. Elliott, L.L.D., President of Planters' College Mississippi.With an Essay on Slavery in the Light of International Law". ##### 1st ed., (8vo) 908, [4] ad pp. Engraved portraits. Publisher’s brown calf, black/red spine labels. Includes "Liberty and Slavery: Or, Slavery in the Light of Moral and Political Philosophy" by A.T. Bledsoe; "The Bible Argument: Or, Slavery in the Light of Divine Revelation" by Thornton Stringfellow; "Slavery In the Ligh...
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An Impartial History Of The Late Revolution In France From Its Commencement To The Death Of The Queen And The Execution Of The Deputies Of The Gironde Party (Two Volumes)

By: G. G. And J. Robinson

Price: $225.00

Publisher: London, G. G. And J. Robinson: 1794

Seller ID: s200703b

Binding: 1/2 morocco and marbled boards

Condition: Good.

1st ed. xi, 518 pp.; vii, 466 pp. Original half morocco, marbled Boards. 5 raised bands, gilt titles and rulings. Marbled edges. Compiled by the publishers from a variety of sources listed in the introduction. Portions previously published in the periodical New Annual Register, 1791-1793. With Appendices Containing The New French Constitution 1791, The Declaration Of The Rights Of Man 1793, And The New French Calendar ##### Condition: good; corners and extremities lightly rubbed. faint crack in outer hinge of vol. 2; slight crack in inner hinge, vol. 1. Moderate foxing to title pages and e...
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Manual of the Corporation [Common Council] of the City of New York, for 1868

By: Joseph Shannon

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Edmund Jones & Co., NY: 1868

Seller ID: k200120a

Condition: Fair

1st ed., 8vo. publisher's embossed brown cloth with seal of New York on front and spine. [xiv], 912 pp. The first of a new series, enlarged, with new engravings and smaller type so that the book contains nearly double the aount of matter in forer compilations. Chromolith title page, 8 color plates [2 folding] and dozens of b/w illustrations, maps [several folding], and tables. Condition is fair: Text block is clean and tight overall with only very occasional foxing. Frontis fold-out map of New York is hand colored; larger b/w fold-out map is torn but intact. Oversized chromolith of Tammany H...
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The Assassin

By: Liam O'Flaherty

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London: 1928

Seller ID: k190126a

Condition: Very good

Novel based on the assassination of the Irish government minister Kevin O'Higgins in 1927.CONDITION: Very good. A bright, crisp copy overall; some toning to end papers, half-title and title pages -- the latter lightly so. Dust jacket is good only; chipped corners, nicks and cracks at spine ends; price clipped; toning to interior flaps.
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Reflections of a California Governor.

By: Low, Governor Frederick F.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Sacramento, Sacramento Book Collectors Club,: 1959

Seller ID: 000254

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Fine

The texts of a "Memoir" (1877-1878) and an interview (1883) between Low and H.H. Bancroft, in which the ninth governor of California (1863-1867) reflected on his business and political life, with particular emphasis on the Gold Rush, the railroads, and the question of Chinese immigration. Club publication number 7. Limited to 310 copies, printed by the Grabhorn Press. 78 pp. Edited, with Preface and Notes by Robert H. Becker. Quarto. Pp. xiii, [1], 78. Frontis portrait in color. Initials printed in red, yellow and black. Notes, index. Half tan linen over red patterned boards, leather spine la...
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Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled at Philadelphia in the Year 1787, for the Purpose of Forming the Constitution on the United States of America

By: Martin, Luther

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, Alston Mygatt: 1838

Seller ID: 1067

"From The Notes Taken By The Late Robert Yates, Esq. Chief Justice Of New York, And Copied By John Lansing, Jun. Esq. Late Chancellor Of That State, Members Of That Convention Including The Genuine Information Laid Before The Legislature Of Maryland By Luther Martin, Esq. Then Attorney General Of That State, And A Member Of The Same Convention Also, Other Historical Documents Relative To The Federal Compact Of The North American Union." This is a later printing; first published in 1821. Fair condition: Interior is very sound and clean with no loose signatures but some light foxing. Front and ...
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

By: Matthiessen, Peter

Price: $22.00

Seller ID: 39702

First edition. NY: Viking, 1983. Fine in price-clipped d/w. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse chronicles the history between the Sioux and the United States government, with emphasis on the 1971 shoot-out at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, a 71-day, armed stand-off between federal and state agents and upon the 1975 shootout involving the AIM activist Leonard Peltier in which two FBI agents were killed. Matthiessen investigates his later trial and conviction; and the controversies surrounding the case. Bill Janklow, the former Republican state attorney general and governor of South Dakota, and...
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Sal Si Puedes [Signed by both PM and Cesar Chavez]

By: Matthiessen, Peter

Price: $625.00

Publisher: NY: Random House: 1969

Seller ID: s180622q

A nonfiction account of Cesar Chavez and the struggles of the United Farm Workers to form a migrant workers' union to end the dramatic exploitation of temporary farm labor that was so prevalent in the 1960s and 70s. This book was the subject of a lawsuit, and later issues of the first edition came with a legal disclaimer pasted in. Matthiessen also revised it, and a new edition was issued a couple of years later. A significant piece of reporting and social criticism, chronicling one of the important labor movements of the Sixties. signed by Matthiessen and by Cesar Chavez, who comments "This...
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America's Retreat from Victory

By: McCarthy, Senator Joseph

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Devin-Adair Company: 1952

Seller ID: 1068

12mo, blue cloth, 186 pp. Good: External appearance is fine, but pages were printed on cheap paper and have browned along edges. Small ink star on front end paper. In good d/w with numerous creases and nicks along edges and a 1" open tear at bottom of front cover.
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

By: Peter Matthiessen

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York: Viking: 1993

Seller ID: s180623a

1st ed., 8v, sienna boards/brown cloth. Matthiessen's controversial and suppressed book on the conflict between agents of the federal government and members of the radical American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, which culminated in a gun battle that left two FBI agents and one Indian dead. Matthiessen argues that the conviction of Leonard Peltier for the agents' death was a miscarriage of justice. His book was the subject of two lawsuits -- by one of the FBI agents involved in the case and by the former governor of South Dakota -- which effectively suppressed it for nearly a decade. A Su...
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse [Samizdat edition] [Signed]

By: Peter Matthiessen

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Peter Matthiessen: 1983

Seller ID: s180623d

Softcover “Samizdat” edition. One of several photocopied underground editions of the book, purportedly for distribution to tribal members after the publisher withdrew the book from distribution. The number produced is undetermined, but probably 50 copies or less. Very good: a bright copy internally but with several small stains to covers and light crease at left edge of front. No tears or marks. Signed by Matthiessen on the title page.Matthiessen's controversial and suppressed book on the conflict between agents of the federal government and members of the radical American Indian Moveme...
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Original WW2 Mimeographed Military Orders signed by Ronald Reagan

By: Reagan, Ronald

Price: $325.00

Publisher: 1945

Seller ID: k1706304

Original World War 2 mimeographed military orders signed [in the plate] in by Capt. Ronald Reagan - 5 leaves, 8-1/2x11, dated February-April 1945. Reagan served in the 18th Army Air Force Base Unit (the Motion Picture Unit) as Captain and Adjutant. One of his duties was to sign the unit's official orders. These five sheets are all related to duty assignments given to Hollywood producer/director Jack J. Bernhard, another member of the Motion Picture Unit. One sheet is very good - brown-toned with a 3/4" closed tear at left. The other four are in fine condition. All sheets are top-hole punche...
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Sacramento City and County Directory, 1869

By: Robert E. Draper

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Sacramento, H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers: 1869

Seller ID: k181231c

8vo, cardboard covers with advtg, 275 pp. i-iv, 1-275 Includes list of Post Offices on the Pacific Coast, Money Order Offices, General Directory, City Business Directory, State Offices, Sacramento City Government, County Directory, local history and statistics, hundreds of advts. Ex Libris William Neely Johnson, with his signature on p 13. Johnson was Secretary of California’s Board of Land Commissioners, was the State’s second appointed State Librarian [an interim appointment for 4 months in 1870], and brother of Gov. John Neely Johnson [1856-1858]. Condition: Covers heavily worn; ...
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TLS, Gov. Ronald Reagan “the most dependable anti-Communist on the West Coast” takes care to appoint judges who share his concerns.

By: Ronald Reagan

Price: $175.00

Publisher: 1971

Seller ID: k181227f

Typed letter signed, Ronald Reagan; Aug 16, 1971. 2 pp; 8-1/2”x11”, gubernatorial stationery. A letter to a Los Angeles constituent who had written Reagan expressing her concerns about the threat of communism. “I, too, believe it poses a very real danger. … [C]ommunist influences in the disturbances which have occurred on our university and college campuses are documented….Every precaution must be taken to make sure our schools are not utilized as tools of subversion. A distinction must be made between the advocacy of the overthrow of our constitutional form of government on the o...
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ALS, Ronald Reagan [President of the Screen Actors Guild] to Hollywood producer Jerry Wald -- personally signed as “Ronnie”, [1959]

By: Ronald Reagan

Price: $1,800.00

Publisher: 1959

Seller ID: k181228b

A one-page handwritten letter from Reagan to his close friend, film producer Jerry Wald, thanking him for his televised production of the 31st annual Academy Awards [1959]. 7-1/2”x11”, 1 page, on Reagan’s personal letterhead, dated March 27 [1959] “Dear Jerry / It is the “morning after” and my only regret is that I did not make a speech to a loud and large audience of our contemporaries. Subject of my speech would have been “Jerry Wald and how grateful we should all be because he made us look like ‘big leaguers.” In 1938 we knew we were “big leaguers” but in 1958 we ...
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