Folks do get born. Illustrated by Clare Leighton

Campbell, Marie / Rinehart & Co. 1946
first edition, first printing; 245 pp., hardcover, very good in a worn and darkened dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: african americana black literature fiction

Item #: 1323723

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$95.00

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Annual Report. Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Fiscal year July 1, 1929 to June 30, 1930

Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners / Los Angeles 1930
91 pp., large color folding map tipped in a the back, b&w folding map within the text; original illustrated paper wrappers, hand stamp to the front free endpaper, else very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: western americana rw2

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Item #: 1323709

$45.00

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Nevada ghost towns & mining camps

Paher, Stanley W. / Howell North Books 1970
first edition, first printing; 492 pp., hardcover, top edge lightly foxed, else fine in a worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0831070757
Subject/Keywords: western americana rw2

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Item #: 1323582

$29.39

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They Felled The Redwood. A Saga of Flumes and Rails in the High Sierra

Hank Johnston / Trans-Anglo Books 1978
third edition, revised (1978); 160 pp., hardcover, fine in an edge-rubbed dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 087046003X
Subject/Keywords: western americana logging rw2

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Item #: 1322750

$28.23

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What Price Peace? A Handbook of Peace for American Women

Kathleen Thompson Norris / Doubleday, Doran & Company 1928
first edition; 71 pp., original paper covered boards (hardcover), jacket darkened, else very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: women pacificism americana

Item #: 1322482

$34.00

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The Nixon Poems. Illustrated and designed by John Gerbino

Merriam, Eve / Atheneum 1970
first edition, first printing; 97 pp., hardcover, fine in a foxed dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: poetry americana

Item #: 1322463

$24.01

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Flying

Millett, Kate / NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1974
first edition, first printing; 546 pp., hardcover, fine in an edge-rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0394489853
Subject/Keywords: feminism women americana

Item #: 1322451

$33.61

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South Carolina: A Guide to the Palmetto State. American Guide Series

Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of South Carolina / Oxford University Press, 1941
first edition, first printing, 514 pp., plates, folding map in sleeve at the back; original blue cloth (hardcover), very good in an edge-worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana wpa

Item #: 1321236

$80.93

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William Pynchon: Merchant and colonizer

Ruth A. McIntyre / Connecticut Valley Historical Museum 1961
first edition; 44, [1] pp., original printed paper wrappers, fore edge rubbed, else very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana pynchon fbf

Item #: 1321192

$73.50

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Atlas to Marshall's Life of Washington

John Marshall, Joseph Yeager, engraver / Philadelphia: J. Crissy 1832
first edition, the hand colored issue with the proper title page; engraved title leaf with vignette, 10 double page maps (slightly larger than 21.5 cm. x 27.5 cm. when opened), all hand colored, the first has only minor coloring in red as issued, the others with water features and borders in aqua, pink, yellow, etc.; original boards & red leather spine and printed cover label; edges worn, spine frayed and rubbed, a few bits of light foxing, otherwise the plates are clean and bright. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana maps

Item #: 1321180

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$269.53

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The American Revolution. In seven volumes (concluding with George the Third and Charles Fox and The Early History of Charles James Fox)

George Otto Trevelyan. The Knickerbocker Press Bindery / Londong: Longmans, Green 1880
7 vols., a mixed set published between 1880 and 1914 but uniformly bound in early 20th century maroon three quarters crushed French levant and cloth covered boards, t.e.g.; heads of spines slightly chipped, old inked ownership markings to the half-title of the first volume, else very good. Volumes Included: 7

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana leather bindings office

Item #: 1320003

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$336.14

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The Illustrious Dunderheads. With an introduction by Frank Sullivan. Illustrated by William Gropper

Rex Stout, editor / NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1942
first edition, first printing; 192 pp., hardcover, fine in an edge-worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana humor art

Item #: 1319985

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$363.86

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The Columbiad (Plates only). Engraved by A. Smith, A.R.A. Printed by R. Fulton

Joel Barlow, Robert Fulton, Anker Smith / Philadelphia: Fry and Kammerer for C. and A. Conrad and Co. 1807
12 plates (the Barlow portrait frontis. and 11 others), measuring 10.75 x 8.5 inches, with the tissue guards; in contemporary boards with leather backstrip and corners, disbound and lacking the leather spine covering, covers very worn, modern armorial book plate inside the front cover, light to moderate foxing to the plates, good only. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: art americana

Item #: 1319978

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$147.01

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The Federalist, on the New Constitution; Written in 1788, by Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Jay, and Mr. Madison. A new edition, with the names and portraits of the several writers

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison / Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner 1818
504 pp., 3 portrait plates; contemporary full leather, binding worn, ex historical society library with a few remnants of an old paper label to the spine, book plate to the front paste down, hand stamp to the top margin of the title page, old inked signature of Stephen Dodd 1823 to the top margin of the verso of the Hamilton plate which caused some bleed through to the image side; light foxing throughout, albeit heavier on the plates and endpapers. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana rare2

Item #: 1319975

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$4,900.50

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By the Waters of Manhattan. With an introduction by Louis Untermeyer

Charles Reznikoff / NY: Albert & Charles Boni 1930
first thus; 255, [1] pp., original illustrated light gray cloth (hardcover), lacks the jacket, else very good; front cover designed by Rockwell Kent. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana

Item #: 1319783

$85.00

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Portraits in Color

Ovington, Mary White / The Viking Press 1927
first edition; 241 pp., hardcover, bottom edges and corners rubbed, else very good in an edge-worn, spine-faded dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: african americana black studies

Item #: 1319535

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$291.09

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Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution

Breyer, Stephen / Knopf 2006
inscribed by Stephen Breyer at the title page; 176 pp., hardcover, fine in a fine dust jacket; fifth printing (2006). Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0307263134
Subject/Keywords: law americana

Item #: 1319317

$42.54

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The Northwestern Pacific Railroad, Redwood Empire Route

Fred A Stindt & Guy L. Dunscomb / Published by the authors 1964
first edition, first printing, signed by Fred A. Stindt at the title page; 272 pp., hardcover, previous owner's name to the half-title page, else very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: trains railroads western americana rw2

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Item #: 1319199

$43.30

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Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California (Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise Series)

Friedricks, William B. / Ohio State University 1992
229 pp., Hardcover, fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0814205534
Subject/Keywords: western americana rw2

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Item #: 1319202

$31.51

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Rails of the Silver Gate: The Spreckels San Diego Empire

Richard Dodge / Golden West Books 1962
third printing (1962); 143 pp., HARDCOVER, very good in an edge-rubbed dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0870950193
Subject/Keywords: interurbans trains railroads americana rw2

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Item #: 1318335

$19.24

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