Abraham Lincoln and the Jews
New York: Privately Printed, 1909. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 60 pp. Tan printed wrappers in very good condition (wear & fraying to spine with loss at spine ends; uneven darkening to covers). More
Americana
New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South
Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; xvi, 370 pages. Ex-library w/usual flaws, o/w a Fine, unread copy. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
American Merchant Ships 1850-1900 Series One & Two (Two Volumes)
Marine Research Society, 1930-31. 1st. Hard Covers. Quartos; xvi, 399 pages and xii, 358 pages. Marine Research Society Publications Number 21 and 23. More
Henry J. Raymond and the New York Press for Thirty Years. Progress of American Journalism, 1840--70
Hartford, Conn. A.S. Hale and Company, 1870. 1st. Hardcover. "Published by subscription only." 8vo. 501pp. Index. Frontispiece portrait of Raymond with tissue guard; 12 plates; 2 folding plates. Publishers sheepskin with black leather, gilt-stamped labels to spine; gilt decoration to corner board edges. A very good plus copy (wear to..... More
Four Volume Set of: Poetry, Essays, Speeches, Press Releases, Articles, Comments, Interviews, Arguments, Analysis, Memorials & History 1916-2001
Np: George C. McGhee, 2003. 1st. Paperback. Quarto; iii, 405; ii, 397; ii, 355 and iii, 453 double-spaced typed pages. McGhee was a geophysicist who struck it rich in oil and became a top-ranking State Department troubleshooter and ambassador to West Germany in the cold war era. Volume 1 covers..... More
The Burr McIntosh Monthly (Vol. 1, No. 1 - 4, 1903)
New York: Burr McIntosh, 1903. 1st. Hardcover. Narrow 4to. Color plates; black & white photo-plates; illustrations. The magazine's first four issues bound in green cloth boards with red lettering; decorative endpapers. Cloth cover somewhat worn & cloth at rear joint starting to split; internally as new. The first four issues..... More
The American Thoroughbred 1905
Los Angeles: Commercial Printing House, 1905. 1st. Hardbound. Octavo, 244 pages. More
Kent State: What Happened and Why (SIGNED)
New York: Random House, 1971. 1st. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author. 8vo. 559, [4 pp map illustrations]. Blue cloth in color, illustrated endpapers printed dustjacket. A near fine copy (damage to paper at bottom inside front cover and ffep) in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities; mild fading to..... More
The Far Shore (Inscribed by author)
New York: Whittlesey House, 1945. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; 173 pages. Inscribed on front free end paper 'For Ingle Barr/- Because Gene Ahern/- that grand guy we both/know - wants you to/have this book. And my/greetings to you go with/it. Take care of yourself/- Max Miller/La Jolla , California' llustrated with..... More
My Story
Washington DC: Published by the Author (Printed at the Press of Byron S. Adams), 1918. 1st. Leather bound. INSCRIBED by MIlls' son-in-law, Major Winfield Scott Overton, (pictured on p.239). Octavo; 412pp, First Edition. 8vo. 412 pp. Copiously illustrated from photographs, drawings, portraits, maps; appendix. Near Fine copy (erasure to ffep)..... More
Great Lakes Picture Book: 101 Official U.S. Navy Photographs of the World's Largest Naval Training Center
Chicago: Milson Publishing Company, c. 1945. Softcover. Quarto; Milson Publishing Company. INSCRIBED on front cover "To Cmdr. J.B. Morse - who/gave me my first design opportunity/while a 'boot' under his command/ in the old 8th Regiment - this/record of Recruit Training is ded-/icated to you - whose creative im-/press was..... More
Plan of the City of Detroit
Philadelphia: Bradley, 1882. 12" x 15". Color engraved map in fine condition. This map of the city of Detroit is from the 1882 edition of Mitchell's New General Atlas. More
The Rise And Progress Of The Standard Oil Company (with original photographs)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First Edition. Small 8vo. 143 pp. "With the Compliments of Harper & Brothers" slip laid in. Included are 5 original black & white photographs (3 1/2 x 2 1/2", with negatives) depicting men and 1 boy in the oil fields, most likley around Fresno..... More
Political Prisoners in Federal Military Prisons
New York: National Civil Liberties Bureau, November 21, 1918. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. Small 8vo. 21, [3]pp. Laid in is a printed notice dated December 7, 1918, announcing the abolition of manacling and other forms of corporal punishment in Federal Military Prisons. Staplebound tan printed wrappers. A very good..... More
Navy Directory; Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps
Washington DC: Bureau of Navigation, 1929. 1st. 1st edition thus. Octavo; 263 pages. Also Including Officers of the United States Naval Reserve Force (Active) Marine Corps Reserve (Active), and Foreign Officers Serving with the Navy. Includes alphabetical list with addresses of active duty officers, retired officers, changes in officers since..... More
Henry White: Thirty Years of American Diplomacy (SIGNED by President Herbert Hoover)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. 1st. Octavo; xxi (ii), 518 pp. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Spine sunned, some soiling to upper part of boards o/w Very Good. Laid in is an envelope addressed to "Mrs. Hoover/The White House/Washington" bearing a card engraved "Mrs. Henry White/Elm Court". The..... More
Valiant Odyssey: Herbert Nicholson in and out of America's Concentration Camps (SIGNED)
Upland, CA: Brunk's Printing, 1978. 1st. Paperback. 8vo. 78pp. Black & white photo-reproductions; map. SIGNED by the author on ffep. Photo-illustrated perfect bound stiff wraps in near fine condition. Interview and personal stories of Herbert Nicholson, pastor of the West Los Angeles Japanese Methodist Church in 1941, who traveled to..... More
The Endangered Sector (SIGNED)
New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. 1st. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author to Richard Lyman, former President of Stanford University. First edition. 8vo. x, 279pp, including index. Black cloth covered boards; white and red titles to the spine; original illustrated dust jacket. Book is near fine in a very good..... More
The Real War (INSCRIBED to Justin Dart)
New York: Warner Books, 1980. First Edition. INSCRIBED by President Nixon (on a tipped-in publisher's"the Real War" bookplate, as usual for this book) to Justin Dart, longtime major Republican supporter. Dart was a member of President Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" of advisers during hsi presidency. 8vo. 341 pp. Index. Red..... More
U.S. Government Personnel in Turkey D-I--R-E-C-T-O-R-Y
Ankara(?): NP, 1950. 1st. Hardcover. Quarto; iv, 60pp. A Near Fine copy in orange cloth lettered in black. Typescript complete listing of U.S. personnel in Turkey. Includes Alphabetical listing including Name (& spouse, if applicable), Address, Group and Home and Office Telephone Numbers of all personnel including 'U.S. Consulates' (Istanbul..... More
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: Blockades and Coast Defense (translated from the Spanish)
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1899. 1st. Softcover. Octavo; 120 pages. With Tables, Maps, Diagrams. More
Reflections: A Pioneer Alaskan's Personal History from the Gold Rush of '89 to 1980 (SIGNED)
New York: Vantage Press, 1988. 1st. Cloth. Small octavo. (xi) 65pp. Photo-illustrations. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in yellow and blue decorative dustjacket. (SIGNED by the author). A personal sharing of a life fully lived in the natural beauty, wilds and challenges of Alaska. More
Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmsted and Covering a Period of Nearly Three Centuries, 1632-1912
Evansville, IN: Unigraphic, 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xx, 913, [[66]pp. Indices. 54 leaves of plates; illustrations. Red board with silver lettering in near fine condition; a few ink notations by an Olmsted family relative provide corrections and additions to entries. Referred to in the Olmsted family as the 'red bible.'..... More
The Story of Hawaii
London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. 219 pp. Frontispiece and 7 photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Slight leaning to spine; darkening to upper page edges; minor wear to extremities; small snag rear board edge; still a near fine copy. Personal..... More
Bring Us Together (SIGNED)
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1971. First Edition. 8vo. 380pp. Index. SIGNED & dated by the author. Photo-illustrated wrappers in very good condition (spotting to page edges & rear cover; general wear; owner name). An account of Panetta's tenure as Civil Rights director in the Nixon administration. More