Resultados de búsqueda: U.S. History- The West from Dale Steffey Books, ABAA

Sacramento, California , 1855. Two manuscript letters in ink, both on ruled paper with folding creases, the 1855 letter 8" x 12 1/2", with single spaced writing both sides, approx. 500 words. The 1856 letter 15" x 10", folded in half to make 4 pp., approx. 300 words, with small blindstamp top left corner depicting an eagle. The earlier letter is headed "September 18th 1855 Naperville Dupage County Illinois" and ends "Michael direct your letters Nevada County, Nevada post office, California". George writes to his brother Michael in Naperville that he has "seen a good dele sins i rote you they last letter", including a hundred "inshins" and some "Buffellow". He adds that "we had good luck all they way of may we left Council Bluff", and that he is not home sick yet. He then talks of the gold mines, river mining, what they are paying, and the cost of things such as board ("from five to ten dollars a week"),… Leer más

Topeka, KS: J. F. Cummings, Printer to the State of Kansas , 1870. Dated the fourteenth day of September, 1870. " To the Sheriff of Any County, Kansas: Whereas requisition in due form has been made by the Governor of the State of Illinois of one John Randell a fugitive from justice, who stands charged with the crime of Forgery. Now Therefore, James M. Harvey (signature) Governor of the State of Kansas ....command you to apprehend, arrest and deliver said fugitive to the custody of John W. ? of the State of Illinois....". SIGNED at the bottom right, James M. Harvey and COUNTERSIGNED by the Secretary of State Thomas Moonlight. The warrant is Very Good, printed on this paper that has been backed with thicker construction paper at some point, written parts faded but mostly legible, with State Seal lower left, numered 33 top left, and with three engravings. James M. Harvey was the fifth Governor of Kansas, and served in the U.S. Senate: January 11, 1869, to January 13, 1873, serving the… Leer más

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. , 1878. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end page - "With regards of the author Henry Carrington". Very Good in original blue cloth stamped in gilt front cover with decoration of Native American war chief, gilt lettering and rules at spine, cloth rubbed at spine ends, spine a bit sunned, front hinge starting. rear fold-out map #1 with 3" horizontal tear and small tears at fold edges, fold-out map #2 Fine. A classic of Western Americana. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Fourth Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Portland, OR: Hotel Hoyt RARE, (Worldcat locates 2 copies) advertising brochure for the legendary Portland Hotel Hoyt. No Date, circa 191?. Near Fine, small (1/4") tears at folds. 1 folded sheet. ([6] pages) : color illustrations with color drawing of the hotel, color photos of two of the rooms and the lobby, rates, and 4 paragraphs of description. The hotel featured 200 rooms and 100 private baths. Built in 1912, the Hoyt closed in 1972 and was demolished in 1977. After its 1962 renovation by owner Harvey Dick, its nightclub Barbary Coast Lounge and Roaring 20s Room attracted celebrities such as Johnny Carson and Duke Ellington. . One Page,Folded Twice. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 3 1/2 x 6".

Sioux City, Iowa : Sioux City Tent & Awning Co. No Date, circa 1904. Advertising card for Sioux City Tent & Awning Co. measuring 3 1/4" x 6", the front side features a black and white photograph of Camp Security, the verso reads "If You are Going to BONESTEEL Stop at CAMP SECURITY. Because - There are accomodations for about 1000 persons; the tents are all furnished with from two to four cots, new bedclothes and camp furniture; it is enclosed in a 6-ft. tight wire fence and is carefully guarded day and night; meals are served on camp grounds; everything will be run in strictly first-class order. Sleeping accomodations can be reserved any time at our Sioux City office. SIOUX CITY TENT & AWNING CO. 412 Jackson Street." In 1904 the Rosebud Sioux Reservation was opened to homesteaders, resulting in a land rush causing 100,000 people to come to North Dakota, about 30,000 of which came through Bonesteel, N.D. RARE. Worldcat does not locate any copies. . Cardstock. Very… Leer más

Dayton, OH: Dayton Spice Mills No date, circa(1888) which was the year the Bryson Bonebreak Block was built in Los Angeles, and the date in ink at bottom margin below photo that someone has added. From the verso: " Handsome, Historical, Instructive. Photo-Lithographic View Cards. One card in each package of Jersey Coffee! ... Jersey Coffee is pure, clean, strong and fine flavored, and is the best package coffee on the market. Sold only in 1-lb. packages. Dayton Spice Mills Co., sole manufacturers, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A." A Good complete card, several creases and small tears at edges. SCARCE, not listed at OCLC, which does list 9 of the 100 views that were issued to advertise Jersey Coffee by The Dayton Spice Mills Co. in the late 1800s. . Cardstock. Good. 2 5/8" x 5 3/4".

New York: Random House, 1967. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, faint corner crease bottom corner rear flap. . First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Glendale, CA: La Siesta Press, 1961. SCARCE in the 1961 First Edition. The first publication La Siesta Press published in the transportation field, this being the story of a "tiny, inclined railway that carries townsmen to the heavily populated summit of Bunker Hill". Los Angeles History, Railroads. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Fine in Wraps, as Issued/No Jacket, As Issued. Illus. by Ruth Daly . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Washington, D.C.: C. Alexander, Printer, 1851. Very Good, paper at spine is worn but still intact, and contents are bright and clean. Prior owner name stamp front endpage. 218 pages of remarkable reading, with the bulk of the report given to an account, in the form of a journal, of the march of the regiment of mounted riflemen to Oregon, from May 10 to October 5, 1849, led by Major Osborne Cross. Also includes reports from other officers in the Quartermaster's Corp from Texas, New Mexico, California, Oregon, and Florida. Laid in is a single page typed, a "Description of Projectiles, Field Artillery Civil War'" dated Mar. 12, 1936. A SCARCE and important document on the history of the American West. No maps present.. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. SCARCE -SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to W.A Ferguson, inscription dated May 19, 1939 - " for Ferguson and his Panaca CCC outfit, S.C.S.- Nev.-3, with great respect. Russ Lord". The Civilian Conservation Corp was established by Congress March 31, 1933 as part of Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, as a way to provide jobs for young, unemployed men during the Great Depression. The Panaca, Nevada "outfit" built the water tower at Cathedral Gorge State park among other projects in the area. Near Fine, top edge a bit dusty, in a Very Good dust jacket, old tape mends, spine faded. Introduction by William Allen White, 310 pp. including bibliography, illustrated with more than 30 black and white photos, mostly credited to named individuals who were part of the SCS (Soil Conservation Service) . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1908. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CONTRIBUTOR William Phipps Blake at front end page - "Professor Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill, N.C. with compliments of W.P. Blake (?) Oct. 28, 1908 (Leafs 45)". Phipps contribution starts at p. 45, titled "Geological Sketch of the Region of Tucson, Arizona". Phipps (1826-1910) was the Territorial Geologist of Arizona, a noted mining consultant and educator who started the first school of mines in the Far West in 1864. Professor Joseph Hyde Pratt (1870-1942) was a prominent North Carolina geologist, conservationist, and state and civic leader. Near Fine, bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering at spine, 111 pages, illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, 3 fold-out maps, scattered light toning and light rubbing to boards, Pratt's ownership signature front paste down. SCARCE in hardcover, a great geology ASSOCIATION COPY.. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CONTRIBUTOR. First Edition.… Leer más

No Place: No Publisher SCARCE publisher's promotional poster, no publisher, no place, no date, but for the 1999 University of Oklahoma Press soft cover edition. Features the front cover image from a painting by M. Kunstler. Fine. Will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. well suited for framing. . First Printing. Poster. Fine. 24" h x 16"w.

Los Angeles: City of Los Angeles, 1949. Near Fine, faint crease rear wrapper, small chip bottom edge at spine. 99 pp., with illustrations, charts, and several black and white photographs. Stamped "Compliments John C. Holland Councilman 14th District" inside of front wrapper. . First Edition. Pictorial Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Tall 8vo.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -" To Ethan D. Alyea, Who helped with this volume as the acknowledgements show - With thanks & regards, Harry T. Peters". With laid in one page TLS on author's stationery with New York City letterhead, dated December 23, 1935 to Mr. Alyea - "My dear Ethan, I am enclosing you herewith a copy of 'California in Stone', together with your California Volume which you so kindly lent me. I am trying to return all the material I borrowed before Christmas to make the book. You will note that your book helped me in many places in the book. My notes only show that you loaned me this one volume, however, if you find in checking over that you lent me any others, kindly call it to my attention as I want to be sure to return all I borrowed and my notes may not be complete in the confusion. I hope you will like the book and enjoy it as much as I did in making it. Sincerely yours, Harry".… Leer más

Berkeley, CA: The California State Historical Association, 1924. 16 page stapled off-white wrappers. Bottom corner front wrapper small triangular chip, and faint vertical crease to this pamphlet. Small stain front wrapper.. First Printing. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.

Los Angeles: The Times-Mirror Press, 1929. Near Fine, bound in original blue cloth with gilt lettering, pages evenly browned, no jacket, foldout map is Fine. 139 pages, black and white photographs. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1893. Handsomely bound in 20th c. dark blue cloth with gilt lettering front cover, Near Fine, old tape mend front end page, triangular section of top corner p. 87 detached and laid in, easily repairable. Bound without original wrappers and publisher's ads. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Herbert B. Adams, Editor, Eleventh Series, VII-VIII. 92 pages. . First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York / Santa Barbara : Wallace Hebberd, 1929. SCARCE in dust jacket. Very Good, spine lean, small tear to cloth bottom edge rear gutter, remnants of label and prior owner stamp front end page. Contents are clean and unmarked. In a Very Good dust jacket, chips at spine ends, jacket torn through and loose at rear spine fold, 2" tear front flap fold. Foreword by John Steven McGroarty, illustrated by Alson Clark. 524 pp., map end pages. An important chapter in California pioneer history, being the autobiography of a pioneer who left his humble home in the Green Mountains for the gold mines of California, and detailing the sufferings of the band of men, women and children who gave "Death Valley" its name. . First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Alson Clark . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Topeka, KS: The Author, 1907. 670 pp., 27 illustrations, 8 maps ( 2 fold-out maps, both Near Fine, creases ) , 29 portraits, in original decorative grey cloth, gilt titles, Very Good, two small chips to decorative pastedown front cover, light soiling to page block edges and cloth. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Denver: Hardesty Floral Co., 1947. SCARCE promotional pamphlet 32. pp string tied, with numerous black and white photographs of buildings in the Cherry Creek district. Very Good, dampstain to wrappers at string tie, going a bit onto first page, light waer to wrappers at the tips. . Limited Edition. String Tied. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.