Magazine for Knanves, Number 2, 1944
Hollywood, CA, 1944. First Edition. 8 1/2" x 11" . [10 ] pages. One of the earliest of the Los Angeles Science fiction Clubs. (LASFS LA chapter of the Science Fiction League). T. Bruce Yerke had joined the League in 1937 and was one of the editors of Knanve (like many of the early sci fi misspelled knave whether intentional or not is unknown] The article on Bronholly Canyon [could this be Bronson Canyon) has two photographs mounted to... Read More
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(Arizona Law Enforcement Mohave deputies), Real Photograph
Phoenix: Associated Magazine Press. A photograph postcard including both Agnlo and Mohave Indian law enforcement together. The deputies identifed by number are: Jim Wakahaya, Fourth Chief, Mohave's, Tono Jack, Big Chief Tonto's, Capt. John Ketchum, Second Chief Mohave's, Jim Fielding, Second Chief, Wallapai's, Capt. Quasale, Big Chief Wallapai's, Pete Okeata, Big Chief Mohave's, Jim Ketchum, Second Chief Mohave's. No. 8 is C,H, Rutherford, U.S. Commission. What is unusual is to have both Anglo and Mohave law enforcement together. ... Read More
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[Plank Road Boom-Ohio] Plank Road Corporation Report in Manuscript
Octavo. Connecting Harrisville, Georgetown and Cadez, OH. An official 24 page document in its original note book, listing its origin, its donors (the initial investment was over $70,000. (There is a pastedown newspaper announcement showing the five major investors including John Heberling, a major manufacturer of threshing machines, whose $50,000 gift was by far the largest) The enthusiasm for plank roads was exceptionally strong in Northern Ohio. (Charles A. Hanna, Historical Collections of Harrison County, tells of the difficulty... Read More
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(Nevada) Carson City Savings Bank, 1876 and 1883
Cincinnati, 1876 and 1883: Aticot" Antiquarian Booksellers. Approx. 8 3/4" x 3 3/4" and 8 1/2" x 3/ 3/4" These checks were printed by Krebs of Cincinnati for the Carson City Savings Bank, which was incorporated in 1875. One was issued for gold (1876), another for currency (1883). Since those that could be used for gold were still preferred in the West over currencies in the late 19th century, they often relied on Krebs whose bonds could not easily... Read More
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Book Dealers in North American, 1960-1962
London; (1960): Sheppard Press. Small Octavo. Revised edition. 281 pages. These directories were issued every three years and were essential for both collectors, booksellers and libraries. Arranged by state, alphabetically by name and a section for specialties. There is a color folding map at the rear. Pages. 137-181 list several hundred book shops in New York (Manhattan and the Bronx) alone. A few are still with us (Argosy, Pageant and the Strand). Some of the most famous (Dauber &... Read More
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Yanks: A Book of A.E.F. Verse (in a Special Case Commemorating Joyce Kilmer's Poem "The Wood Called Rought-Bouquet" and "L'envoi" and Announcing his Death
France: Stars and Stripes, 1918. First Edition. Small Octavo. . 92 unnumbered pages. Includes Joyce Kilmer's most notable poem, "Rouge Bouquet" (1918) which commemorated the deaths of two dozen members of his regiment in a German artillery barrage on American trench positions in the Rouge Bouquet forest north-east of the French village of Baccarat. At the time, this was a relatively quiet sector of the front, but the first battalion was struck by a German heavy artillery bombardment on... Read More
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Fantasy Advertiser, April, 1951 [Arthur C. Clarke, "Space Travel in Fact and Fiction". Along with a black and white illustration of "Vomoon Maid". )
Glendale, California: Fantasy Advertiser, 1951. Octavo. Fifth anniversary issue. 30 pages. Arthur C. Clarke's lecture was given before the British Interplanatory Society on April 1, 1950. Here he speaks of the early writing about antigravitation in J. Atterley's "Voyage to the Moon" (1827). He notes that Atterley's real name was that of Professor George Tucker (one of his students at the University of Virginia was Edgar Allen Poe). When John W. Campbell, Jr. became the editor of Astounding Science... Read More
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The Holy Bible, Volume I Only. (Bertha McKee's Copy, Wife of J. Frank Dobie
Philadelphia: Printed By W.W. Woodward, 1816. 12mo. This bible has very small print, covers Genesis-Psalms and part of Proverbs 1. Bertha McKee's family moved from Pennsylvania to Brazoria, Texas in the late 1890's. Her father was Professor. R.A. McKee, who was born in 1864. Here are the early family names written both as John Mckee and John Mackey (presumably her great-grandfather). Editions of the Bible printed in early 19th century America are uncommon (see Hebert, Historical Catalogue of Printed... Read More
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Smoki Ceremonials [27th Annual]
Prescott, [AZ]: Np, 1948. Quarto. 12 unnumbered pages. The Smoki People were a group of Anglo men and women who performed interpretations of Hopi and Zuni dances. They performed these dances from 1921 through the 1980s. The program Cover: Navajo Jake Watchman, photo by Joseph Miller. Very scarce, none found for this year in OCLC. A fine copy.
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Torre De Collserola [the First of June Nineteen Ninety-five - Collserola Tower - Barcelona
Barcelona: Privately Printed, 1995. Square Octavo. 110 unnumbered pages of a great celebration in Barcelona with black and white photographs in and of the tower--The 1995 celebration held in the Torre de Collserola for seventy-five select guests. Copies were later mailed to the guests and were not available to the public. Bound in gray pictorial paper over boards lettered and decorated in whit, a light bumping to corners, else a near fine copy.
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Register of Commissioned Officers and Privates of the New Jersey Volunteers, in the Service of the United States; (New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office)
Jersey City, NJ: John P. Lyon (printer), 1863. Octavo. 584pp. Tipped in is letter from the Adjutant-General of New Jersey to Col. John P. Nicholson, dated Dec. 30, 1875. John Page Nicholson, of course, was the Chairman of the Gettysburg National Military Park from 1893 to 1922. Born in 1842 in Philadelphia, he learned the trade of book-binding and enlisted as a Private in Company K of the 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Within a year, he rose to 1st... Read More
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South Side Rail Road, Coffee Theft, 1864
Document measures 5 1/2" x 4 3/4". As the needs for the Confederacy grew more desperate, the demands placed on the South Side Rail Road had increased demands placed upon them by Lee's Army. While it was still privately owned business, its infrastructure was in decline as rails were often in disrepair, oversized locomotives used by the Confederacy being a factor while the line established in 1846 attempted to survive in spite of the demands of war. This document... Read More
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Connecticut. 2nd Regiment. 1864. (Civil War Pass)
The document measures approximately 5" x 5". Written a week after the end of Cold Harbor as the men of the 2nd Regiment of Connecticut's Heavy Artillery moving slowly toward Richmond. In Vaill's History of the Second Connecticut Volunteer Artillery, p. 75ff., Colonel Randl [sic] S. McKenzie yelled: "Tell Meramble to get his head down before it gets knocked off." As they moved toward Petersburg, McKenzie had two fingers shot off, returning to battle two weeks later with a... Read More
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An Impartial History of the War, from the Commencement of the Revolution in France Containing an Accurate Description of the Sea Engagements, Battles, Expeditions and Conquests of the Various Contending Powers Including the Various Mutiny Among the ...
Manchester: Russell and Allen (Printers), 1811. Thick Quarto. (title cont'd) Seamen, at Spithead and the Nore, Together with a Particular Narrative of the Rise, Progress and Various Events Accompanying the Rebellion in Ireland. xlviii, 844pp., (4)pp. index and (1)pp. directions to the binder, 16 full page engravings, 3 folding maps, lacks frontispiece. The long introduction introduces the reader to the contents of this uncommon work. "The first meeting of the Three Estates, The seizure of the King, at his... Read More
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A Collection of Sacco-Vanzetti Ephemera
. 1) Walled in This Tomb; Questions Left Unanswered by the Lowell Committee in the Sacco-Vanzetti Case and their Pertinence in Understanding the Conflicts Sweeping the World at This Hour. Boston: Excelsior Press, 1936. 29 pages. (Authors include Malcolm Cowley, John Dos Passos, and others); (2) William Floyd, there is Justice: a Summary of the Sacco-Vanzetti case; New York: Sacco-Vanzetti League, 1927, 21 pages. (3) The Sacco-Vanzetti Case Twenty Years Later. Boston, Excelsior Press, 1947. 12] pages. A very... Read More
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Martyrologium Romanum Gregorii XIII : jussu editum, Urbani VIII & Clementis X. auctoritate recognitum
Venetiis: Ex Typographia Balleoniana, 1759. Octavo. This is the latest edition, enlarged and chastened by our most holy lord, the blessed 14th pontiff, in which some of the names of the saints omitted in the past editions, and other names of the saints and the blessed are added from among others. 352, 40, 8, 23 pages in mauscript in ink noted as Addenda in martirologia pro Conventa St. Marie B-?. Vignette title page and text in red and black.... Read More
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The Nineteen Hundred and Thirty Four Makio (Illustrated By Rockwell Kent)
Columbus, Ohio: Published By the Junior Class of Ohio State University, 1934. First Edition. Quarto. 399 pages. The negotiations to get Rockwell Kent to illustrate the 1934 edition were confirmed in the campus newspaper The Lantern in January 11, 1934. The six zinc etchings were received on January 24, 1934. The book was printed at the Stoneman Company of Columbus, but the Rockwell Kent engravings were not added until three weeks before classes ended. The book was issued in... Read More
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The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island
Providence, R.I.: National Biographical Publishing, 1881. First Edition. Thick Quarto. 589p. illustrated with exceptionally nice and bold full page steel engravings of these men with most tissue guards present. This copy belong H (Harry) T. Beckwith author of the History of Rhode Island whose father, Truman Beckwith 1783-1878, is featured in the volume. He was a major businessman, banking, building, cotton and more. A gift given to the Long Island Historical Society to the Cary fund by Mrs. Cary... Read More
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Reminiscences of Chicago During the Forties and Fifties (with an Introduction By Mable McIlvaine)
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1913. First Edition. Small Octavo. 137p. A remarkable association copy inscribed by two prominent Chicagoans: Thomas E. Donnelley, President of Lakeside Press to William A. Dyche, who became Mayor of Evanston and was instrumental in getting the elevated train from Chicago to that city. His huge contributions contributed to North Western's Dyche Field (later renamed in 1997 as Ryan Field). He was also publisher of the City Directory where both he and Thomas E. Donnelley were... Read More
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El Prodigio Mining Co., March 23, 1904 Autographed Document Signed with Carbon Copy [Spanish Translation]
Once Porfirio Diaz became President of Mexico, he proceeded to limit the tax liability for investors. At the same time, he began a process of protecting mining interest against both Indian and bandit raids. By 1890 American investors began to aggressively add mining, railroads and ranching as a new "gold rush" mentality developed. These two documents from 1904 show two things: (1) the ways mining was still expanding; and (2) the U.S. corporation officers remained in Los Angeles, but... Read More
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Correspondence Between Dr. Frances Gillmore and Jerry Crouch, 1967-1968
Dr. Frances Gillmor in the English Department was better known as the specialist at the University of Arizona on Mexican art and culture but she was a good friend of the Publisher of the University of Kentucky Press, Jerry Crouch who had been her student. He begins by sending her a 2 ALS 32 line message on Christmas card hand printed in exquisite calligraphic hand of a forthcoming book on the California Gold Rush but how it caused him... Read More
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![Law Intelligence: Fogarties & Stillman Vs. The State Bank..(Charleston [S.C.], 1860](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/266/821/1436821266.0.l.0.jpg)
Law Intelligence: Fogarties & Stillman Vs. The State Bank..(Charleston [S.C.], 1860
1860. Octavo. . 11 pages. The large part of the substance of this document on banks and use of checks was reprinted in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review with some variations: it deletes Law Intelligence and has an inserted summary, also it omits the name of John Belton O'Neall, the well-known attorney in South Carolina who was the author of Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina (Charleston, 1859). Staple bound in orange wrappers. ... Read More
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Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practical and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean Made Under the Directions of the Secretary of the War in 1853-1854. 33d Congress. 2nd Senate. Ex. Do
Washington: Beverley Tucker, 1855-59; George W. Bowman, 1861 and Thomas H. Ford 1860. Quarto. 12 Volumes in 13. As stated by Wagner-Camp, these reports were printed as they were received. There is no overall system or arrangement, nor are there general indices to the volumes, and as Camp has pointed out, there is the usual duplication of print and lithography by both houses of Congress. Some of the published volumes were lacking plates; others have a few duplicate plates.... Read More
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The Eugene B. Adkins Collection; Selected Works
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 275p. Bibliographic references, Index. Adkins stunning collection began with Tao artists and included Joseph H. Sharp, Charles M. Russell, Maynard Dixton and one of the great collections of Native American basket and pottery.
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Watchmen Portfolio
DC Comics, 1988. Although not as scarce as the Portfolio signed edition (our order for that edition is number is 12573), it is seldom seen with the illustrated slip case l(12x16) and three sets of folders complete: 12 folders from the American edition of Watchmen, 6 new covers for the French edition and 6 promotional folders all by Dave Gibbons.
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