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History of Sacramento County California With Illustrations 1880 [Facsimile]

By: Allan R. Ottley, Introduction

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Howell North Books, : 1960

Seller ID: vl191122c

Condition: Fine

Facsimile reprint of Thompson & West's 1880 edition, first printing thus. Oblong black cloth stamped in gilt. A fine, virtually pristine copy in poor dustjacket with numerous tears and tape repairs. Publisher’s prospectus laid in.
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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 Ex-libris Los Angelis Public Library with its bookplate affixed inside; penciled price of $8, apparently when withdrawn and sold.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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Valley Forge / A Play in Three Acts [Signed Copy]

By: Anderson, Maxwell

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Anderson House: 1934

Seller ID: k18022609

Condition: Very Good

1st ed., 12mo blue cloth. 169 pp. A historical drama of he dark days at Valley Forge when the fortunes of the rebellious colonists were at their lowest ebb. A splendid picture of Washington and his defiant troops. Good+; a very good, clean tight copy but covers lightly faded at extremities; d/w is fair with darkened, rubbed spine, a large 4” closed tear on back, and several smaller open tears front and back. Doubly signed and inscribed by Anderson with a flat signature on the title page and inscription to Hollywood screenwriter Frank Partos on the half-title page. Partos shared an Academy...
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LOCAL TALES AND HISTORICAL SKETCHES.

By: Bailey, Henry D. B.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: NY: Fishkill Standard: 1874

Seller ID: d17121004

Condition: Good

8vo, dark brown cloth, gilt titles on spine. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Bailey tipped in, 431 pages. Slavery, Freedom, and Ghosts in the Hudson River Valley - a mixture of fact and fable. Good. Rubbed at top bottom of spine, corners; bits of newspaper residue on back cover. Newspaper obituaries of Bailey glued to front end papers. Some damp-staining to flyleaf page with tipped portrait but not affecting the photo. Front hinge weak but intact. Text block otherwise clean and tight with no foxing.
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The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona....

By: BOURKE J.G.

Price: $185.00

Publisher: NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons : 1884

Seller ID: k200325c

Condition: Fair

1st ed., 8vo, 3/4 pebble-grained leather, gilt titles, ribbed spine, t.e.g. ; marbled end papers. (xviii 372pp.) With 31 full-page plates, including one fold-out; 15 colored, plus colored frontispiece. Tissue guards on all of the colored plates. The special binding here is contemporary not modern; signed Lippincott’s. Bourke fought in the Civil War and was awarded the Medal of Honor. He then attended West Point after the war, became an officer, and served as a cavalry officer in the American West and Indian Wars until his death. He wrote this book about the Moquis Pueblos of Arizona Territ...
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The Life of Sam Houston

By: C. E. Lester

Price: $85.00

Publisher: J. C. Derby, New York: 1855

Seller ID: k200418f

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, 402 pp (advts.) Publisher's original violet cloth, spine in four compartments separated by lightly raised bands, gilt lettering. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of Houston, and ten additional maps and engraved plates. This is the first complete edition; Lester had published a shorter book entitled "Sam Houston and His Republic" in 1846. [Howes L271][Sabin 33191][ ##### Condition: Ex-lib Warner Bros. Pictures Research Library, with studio label, pocket, and checkout card inside front cover. Contemporary ink signature on fep.. Interior good with light toning to pa...
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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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The Founding of Spanish California. The Northwestward Expansion of New Spain, 1687-1783.

By: Chapman, Charles Edward

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Macmillan, New York: 1916

Seller ID: k200814c

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles. 485 pp. [4 advts]. Frontispiece of Viceroy of New Spain, plus 6 maps. Condition: Good; a clean copy, with prior owner’s inked name and address on fep and back cover, rear hinge cracked; moderate wear to boards.
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PICTURES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF BRIGHAM YOUNG AND HIS WIVES

By: Crockwell. James H.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Salt Lake Cit, James H. Crockwell: 1900

Seller ID: k200225h

Condition: Good

12mo, violet wraps tied with red ribbon. 40pp + photographs + 4p ads, Undated but circa 1900. "A true and correct statement of the birth, life and death of President Brigham Young, second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. And brief biographies of his twenty six wives and names and number of children born to them". Silver titles. B/W photographs. Interior of text Is clean and tight. Covers faded at extremities, more so on the back; 1.5” closed tear at front binding edge.
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Manual of the Corporation [Common Council] of the City of New York, for 1866

By: D. T. Valentine

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Edmund Jones & Co., NY: 1866

Seller ID: k200329a

Condition: Very good

1st ed., 12mo.. [xvi], 820 pp. Color chromolith title page and 12 city views [4 folding] plus dozens of b/w engravings, 2 folding maps, 2 folding charts, 2 folding signature facsimiles. Rebound in modern tan library binding. The "Manuals of the Corporation" [contain extensive historical and contemporary records of New York City and are an indispensable source of early New York City history. Valentine (1801-1869) served as the Deputy to the Clerk of the Common Council for thirty-seven years. He published these books annually between 1841-1866; they include detailed information on the meeti...
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Personal Photo Album - Oahu 1940-41; on the Eve of World War II. 165 original b/w photos.

By: Drake, Robert L.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Oahu, 1941

Seller ID: k180331d

A wide variety of photos of camp life at Schofield Barracks and activities of the Hawaiian Division Command -- extra-illustrated with original cartoons drawn by one of the soldiers stationed there. Appears to be assembled by Sgt. Robert J. Drake of Columbus Georgia. Camp social life, barracks, scenery. Not much military history, but a great portrait of life on base.
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A Voyage from Boston to California, 1852

By: Duchow, John Charles

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Kentfield, Mallette, Dean [Allen Press}: 1959

Seller ID: dg17121005

Condition: Fine

4to, quarter cloth, blue on green boards with ocean wave pattern; printed title label on spine. [66] pp. One of 200 unnumbered copies set in Bulmer types and printed on handmade Umbria paper. After a pioneering voyage from Boston to California to seek fame and fortune, Duchow settled in the gold rush town of Columbia where he became a respected journalist and newspaper publisher.
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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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Lincoln in the Political Circus

By: Gernon, Blaine Brooks

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Black Cat Press: 1936

Seller ID: g1010

1st ed., in d/w, limited to 1000 copies. A critical study of Abraham Lincoln's political relationships, with previously unpublished election materials. Some light soiling along top edge and pencil erasures on ffep where a price was apparently removed, otherwise a fine copy. Dustjacket is fair only with several large open tears and darkened spine.
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HISTORY OF THE INDIANS OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA. By the Author of Peter Parley's Tales

By: Goodrich, Samuel G

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston, Bradbury, Soden & Co : 1844

Seller ID: k200705i

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor

First Edition. 12mo, brown calf, 320 pp; b/w illus frontispiece and several interior illustrations. Spine labeled “Parley’s Cabinet Library” ##### Goodrich, using the pseudonym Peter Parley wrote over 170 books and edited several journals during his lifetime. This volume is a history of the native tribes of North and South America, including Inca & Aztec. It was published in several formats, this being the single volume edition. ##### Condition: Poor. Covers well worn, front cover detached, title label on spine missing; endpapers toned and foxed. The text block itself is good; clean...
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THE SMOKED YANK. [Inscribed]

By: Grigsby, Melvin.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Dakota Bell Publishing Co: 1888

Seller ID: k200418d

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, tan covers with black decorations, gilt illustration. 227 pgs. Grigsby served in the Second Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil War and was a prisoner for six months in the infamous Andersonville Prison. Inscribed by Grigsby on the front free end paper. #### Condition: Good. Moderate wear to covers, especiall at edges and corners. Several small stains on lower edge of front cover, more moderate staining to lower edge of back. Inscribed b Grigsby on ffep; another penciled name is obscured by a vintage lending library label affixed to the page. Text block in good condition with...
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From the Backwoods of Old Tuolumne

By: Grigsby, Russell C.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Stockton CA, Russell C Grigsby: 1943

Seller ID: dg17121605

Condition: Good+

1st ed., 8vo, dark green boards, 154 pp. Grigsby lived in the Tuolumne/Yosemite region of the Sierra Nevada from 1907. This memoirs cover his early years, through the Depression and his work with the California Conservation Corp, through the publication date 1943. Good+: Presents as very good-near fine overall but chip at top of spine results in loss in 1/8” of cloth, lightly rubbed corners. Inscribed by Grigsby on fep to Ruth Ann Newport, County Historian, Tuolumne County CA. Good+ dustwrapper has ½”open tear at top of spine; similar at top back panel, and some light spotting
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AFFAIRS IN OREGON. Letter from the Secretary of War Communicating.Correspondence with General Harney, Relating to Affairs in the Department of Oregon

By: Harney, Brig. General William S.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: House of Represedntatives, HED 65, 36-1: 1860

Seller ID: k200225a

Condition: Fair

8vo, 269 pp. Lacking original wrappers -- but complete. A clean, tight copy with some light toning to the first twenty pages. Practically no foxing. A collection of data and correspondence concerning San Juan Island; details the claims of British subjects and developments in "the war against the Indians of Washington and Oregon territories." Important contemporary material on the territory Washington at the outbreak of the Civil War.
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Category: U.S. History