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Philadelphia: W. N. Jennings, 1907 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Long panoramic printed postcard. 33x3½ inches. "Undivided Back" postcard. Hand-tinted. Unfolded. Small unobtrusive spot to left portion of image. A wonderful unfolded panoramic postcard showing numerous battleships (the Great White Fleet) surrounded by smaller craft at Hampton Roads, Virginia. The card is titled, "Souvenir, U.S. Battleships, Jamestown, Virginia." Sixteen battle ships are shown and named. The 1907 Jamestown Exposition had just begun. President Theodore Roosevelt endorsed the exposition, attended on opening day, and had the Great White Fleet anchor in Hampton Roads before sailing around the world. The "Great White Fleet" was the popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from December, 1907 to February, 1909, by order of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt sought to demonstrate growing American military power and blue-water… Leer más

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1949 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. 320pp. Over 225 illustrations from old photos, broadsides, maps, prints, etc.; chronology, bibliography, index. Decorated rust cloth stamped in blue and gold. Spine faded. A fine copy with lightly worn pictorial dust jacket (jacket lacking area of lower right corner). One of the best works on the subject, well-illustrated with historic photographs, prints, facsimiles, and maps..

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1826 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 1250 copies signed by the author. Spine-ends lightly rubbed, rubbing to the extremities, spine has some discoloration, and dust jacket is lightly worn. A very good copy..

Berkeley: The Bancroft Library, 1976 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Edited, with a foreword, by Mark Schorer. Photographic frontis portrait of Luhan and 4 black & white plates. Original printed gray wrappers. A fine copy. Deals with the friendship between Mabel Dodge Luhan and Una and Robinson Jeffers. Includes portraits of Una and Robinson by Johan Hagemeyer and Edward Weston as well as a shot of Jeffers' Tor House and Hawk Tower in Carmel..

Chicago: J.G. Ferguson Publishing Company, 1977 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Oblong quarto. Illustrated in color and black & white throughout. Cream cloth, lettered in brown. Dust jacket has minimal rubbing and a light crease to the rear, else a fine copy. An overview of unusual building techniques..

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. xvi, 538pp. Frontispiece, photographs; index. Gilt-lettered red cloth. A very fine copy. Covers America's Southwest from the early days of the ancient Cliff-Dwellers to date of publication. Includes a vast amount of specific information such as the number of inhabitants of the early Pueblo period; irrigation for Indian fields, Indian dances and other religious ceremonies, desert plant pioneers, natural bridges, mines and miners, dude ranches, etc. [Adams, Herd: 1923]..

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird and Co., 1915 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Later, expanded edition. 16mo. 6¼ x 4¾ inches. Pp. [4], 211, 16 [ads]. Frontis of a prospector, 4 further plates, title page vignette of a California gold nugget, printed in gold. Appendix, indexes. Brown cloth decorated and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Minor repair to lower inner hinge, two tiny worn spots to upper edge of front cover. A fine, tight and clean copy. First published in 1872. A very popular title that went through a number of printings. Usually found in very worn condition, our copy is very nice. One chapter is titled the Discovery of Gold in California. This edition includes an appendix on ore dressing and the testing of minerals with an extensive section of statistics of gold and silver production up to 1899. The indexes includes a general index and an index to the Appendix. Interestingly, this title is not noted in any of the standard bibliographies, including Cowan, Graff, Kurutz and… Leer más

New York: Charterhouse, 1973 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. [10], 371pp. Previous owner's bookplate. Faded along lower edge of covers, one small ding to rear cover. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. A fictional novel keeping true to the known fats of the Donner Party..

Glendale: The Barbe Associates, 1949 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardback boards. Slight damage to center of outer front hinge, else a fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Based on contemporary records, documents and letters of Lewis Hanback, hitherto unpublished..

Omaha: Barnhart Press, 1960 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. 2 volumes. Oblong quarto. No pagination (approx. 160; 166pp). Illustrated throughout with photographs and hundreds of detailed specification diagrams. Stiff boards, spiral bound. Some light wear or rubbing to extremities, a few rings broken on plastic spiral spine. A very good set. Very scarce and very desirable. These volumes are crammed with detailed engineering diagrams (the RR model hobbyists love these volumes!). Volume I focuses on the Union Pacific in general, while volume II focuses on the subsidiary lines: OSL, OWRR & N, LA & SL, SJ & GI, and the LNP & W..

New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1958 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Illustrated with black & white prints and facsimilie reproductions. Index. A fine copy bound in blue cloth. A compilation of battle reports, governmental pamphlets, ephemeral sheets, etc. relating to the Union and printed in the North during the Civil War..

Secaucus, NJ: Blue and Gray Press, 1984 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket..

El Paso: Rainbow in a Tree Publications, Inc., 1987 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First printing. Quarto. Illustrated with more than 200 color photographs. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in lightly worn pictorial dust jacket. This book illustrates and provides a base for understanding the economics and culture of El Pao/Juarez, an area that presents a bewildering complex of political, commercial, and social structures..

Book. Fine. Hardcover. United Bank and Trust Co. Oval Coin Bank. 3¾x1¾x 2 inches high. Highly polished metal casing, possibly chromed, with handle, coin slot, and the original key for opening the bottom of the bank. With red title medallion riveted to the outside. A very fine example housed in the original cardboard box (lightly worn). (San Francisco): United Bank and Trust Co. of California, no date (c.1925). An individual coin bank, issued by this Bank and Trust Company. The red title medallion riveted to the side reads, "United for Service and Strength. United Bank and Trust Co. of California. Rudolph Spreckels, President. James D. Phelan, Chairman of the Directors." Ultimately, Spreckels bank, a $49,000,000. Institution was sold off to Giannini in 1927..

New York: Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc., 1990 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Auction catalog for auction held June 13, 1990. First edition. Octavo. 415 illustrations, a few in color. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. A very fine copy. An extremely important auction sale catalogue of the most extensive private collection of clipper ship cards ever assembled. These elaborate lithographed cards, beginning about 1853, advertised to firms wishing to transport equipment and supplies primarily to California. They are very rare and are seldom offered. This auction catalogue illustrates all 415 cards being offered. It has become the primary reference on the subject. Price list included..

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. 326pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs and engravings. Navy blue cloth, gilt. The slightest of rubbing to spine ends and corners. A fine copy. A pictorial panorama of the first hundred years of the University, covering every facet of University life, from the first freshman class of 12 members to the latest developments..

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Thick quarto. Profusely illustrated with black & white plates, and two in color. Numerous appendixes; bibliography; index. Tan cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Dust jacket has light chipping with an inch section missing from the foot of the spine. Overall, a fine copy. A complete history of the medical branch at University of Texas in Galvaston from its first graduating class in 1892 to the time of publication..

Sussex: The Harvester Press, 1982 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Notes, index. Red cloth lettered in gilt. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket..

Santa Clara and Berkeley: Santa Clara University and Heyday Books, 2004 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Presentation inscription, SIGNED by the author. Foreword by Kevin Starr. xvii, 342pp. Illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth-backed boards. A very fine copy with dust jacket. Prison reform, women's rights, Spiritualism, phrenology, abolitionism, suffrage: these fervent women believed not only in the perfectibility of humankind, but in their personal responsibility to point the way..

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Bulletin 38 of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Octavo. 288pp. Frontis, 24 photographic plates3 figures and 16 musical scores. Index. Original dark brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. This work is the first title in the Bureaus' Hawaiian series. Prior to this, only titles on American Indians were issued. The material was "collected and translated, with notes and an account of the Hula." The author was born July 1, 1839 in Waialua, Oahu, the son of Protestant missionaries. Well-educated, Emerson was a well-known historian and writer of Hawaiian mythology..