Category: U.S. History

AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE Volume 43 Jul-Dec 1930

Price: $125.00

Publisher: NY, AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE CORP : 1930

Seller ID: k200128c

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 Ex-libris Los Angelis Public Library with its bookplate affixed inside; penciled price of $8, apparently when withdrawn and sold.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 A...
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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 Territor...
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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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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 Light ...
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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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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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COLLECTION OF 10 ORIGINAL ISSUES OF THE NILES WEEKLY REGISTER, Mar-June 1815.

By: Hezekiah Niles

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Baltimore, H. Niles : 1815

Seller ID: k210331c

Binding: Loose sheets

Condition: Good

Small format (approximately 6x9) newspaper, original and complete but disbound from a larger volume. Each issue 16 pp. consecutively numbered.The Niles Weekly Register was a national magazine published in Baltimore from 1811 to 1848. The most widely circulated magazine of its time, the Register was the nation's first weekly newsmagazine and exerted a powerful influence on the early national discourse. This is a broken run of ten issues from March 25-April 8 [3]; May 6-May 13 [2], and June 3-June 24 [5]. Contents include extensive news and commentary on the final weeks of the War of 1812, the...
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The Coast Rangers A Chronicle of Adventures in California

By: J. Ross Browne

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Paisano Press : 1959

Seller ID: dg17121004

Condition: Fine

Large 8vo, ochre linen covered boards with gilt writing on spine with gilt illustration on cover. 86 pages. .Limited edition, # 408 of 500 copies; reprinted from Harper's New Monthly Magazine 1861-62. Fine copy in very good d/w. The book itself is as-new; the dustjacket has light surface wear and several small nicks at edges; no tears or chips, not price-clipped.
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SIGHTS IN THE GOLD REGION AND SCENES BY THE WAY

By: Johnson, Theodore T(aylor)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Baker & Scribner, New York : 1850

Seller ID: k191118e

Condition: Good Ex-lib

2d ed. revised and enlarged. 8vo, violet embossed cloth. xii + 324pp. An account of the gold rush and gold fields, starting with embarkment from New York to Panama and then from Panama to California. Kurutz [363a] -- calls this book, "one of the earliest, liveliest, and most detailed accounts of the Gold Rush." Ex-lib with call number on spine, several inked and penciled notations on dedication page; pocket or residue. A clean tight copy overall, with scattered foxing and faint soiling throughout. Covers somewhat faded, with wear to corners and spine ends; discoloration in gutter
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Lockwood, Charles A. & Adamson, Hans Christian

By: Lockwood, Charles A. & Adamson, Hans Christian

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Chilton : 1960

Seller ID: k211215a

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First edition. 243pp. Illus. The Honda Point disaster is the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships. On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers ran aground at Honda Point, a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel. Twenty-three sailors died in the disaster. This history of the incident is a relatively common and inexpensive book. But accompanying it are 13 vintage 3x5" b/w photographs, 8 original b/w negatives with different images, and 9 b/w photos from the negatives, possibly printed later. The book is good in d/w. The photos were apparently taken by an...
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Fair Angelica / Black Cargoes - Original screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship during the middle passage, circa 1835

By: Matthiessen, Peter

Price: $4,500.00

Publisher: : 1972

Seller ID: s180622m

Original unpublished and unproduced screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship [the Fair Angelica] navigating the middle passage, circa 1835. A very unusual subject for Matthiessen. “Fair Angelica” is a first draft, typed carbon, 123 loose leaves -- an agency copy used to solicit producers and investors -- one of whom was the progressive filmmaker Martin Ritt. “Black Cargoes” is a revised and retitled draft, 112 pp. in black studio 2-post covers. Mostly mimeographed, but with a dozen typed and corrected pages interleaved; numerous holographic additions or changes throughout by Matthi...
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Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley Illustrated / Together with a Geographical and Historical Description of Utah. A History of the Latter-Day Saints' Emigration from Europe

By: Piercy, Frederick

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, [Westernlore Press] : 1959

Seller ID: k1210115k

Binding: Black pebbled cloth

Condition: Very Good

[Westernlore Press], [Los Angeles], 1959. Facsimile edition. 4to (12 1/4 x 9 1/4"). 120pp. Blind-stamped Black pebbled cloth with gilt title on front board and backstrip. Folding map frontispiece. "Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley" is one of the most important publications devoted to the Mormon emigration. This original 1855 edition was produced by a young convert, Frederick Piercy, and Samuel Richards, who was then the president of the Liverpool Mission president. They envisioned a travel guide for English converts who wanted to make the trek to the Salt Lake Valley. Piercy was ...
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Category: U.S. History