Recent Arrivals from R & A Petrilla

1862. Original manuscripts. Very Good. The letters from Gordon are datelined New York. The receipts cover an Oregon War Loan, a deposit slip for Phenix Bank, NYC, and a quarterly statement of Kimball's account Gordon. Partial contents of the letters include: The Burnside Expedition; price and availabilty of Java Coffee; Chinese shipping; financial matters, stocks and bonds; Civil… Read more about this item

1857. Original manuscripts. Very Good. Six documents in all. The Hudson letter, addressed to E.D. Kimball, Esq., recommends James R. Stray for second mate aboard the ship "Buckeye," in part: "...[he's] been in your employ on this coast five voyages...he's a temperate and hard working man..., Yours respectfully, Sam'l H. Hudson. Together with the letter are four handwritten… Read more about this item

various places: various publishers, various dates. First Editions. Softcover. Very Good. Nine folios with pictorial covers. "San Antonio Rose," NY, 1940 [2 folios, one with prior owner's name on cover]. "There's A Big Rock in the Road," Nashville, 1946. "Cotton Eyed Joe," Hollywood, 1947. "You Don't Care What Happens to Me," Nashville, 1945. "Smoke on the Water," Chicago,… Read more about this item

s.l.: Famous Art Co, 1930. Very Good. Sepiatone print on old stock, a 3/4-length studio portrait of Colonel Simmons wearing a dark suit and vest, high white collar with silk bowtie, watch chain with pendant, large ring on his left hand, holding his spectacles. Image size, 13" x 10"; overall, 17" x 14". Margins toned; dust soiling on… Read more about this item

Portland, Oregon: American Music, 1941. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 50 pages; one illustration from photograph. Contains words and music to 20 songs performed by Texas Jim, including: When the Robins Sing in Texas; Saddles in the Sky; Buckaroo at Eighty-two; Fiddlin' Fool of the Prairie; Out Arizona Way; and 15 more. In the original pictorial covers, 12.25"… Read more about this item

Portland, Oregon: American Music, 1939. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. pp: 31, (30; three illustrations from photographs. Contains a page of autobiography, along with words and music to 20 songs, five of them written or co-written by Duke Martin. Titles include: Old Worn Out Saddle; Yodel Mountain; Why Cowboys Sing; Yodeling Memories; Night Herder's Lullaby; Mockin' Bird Yodel;… Read more about this item

Washington DC: United States Postal Service, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 18pp; illustrated throughout in color. Bound in white, stiff wrappers, 8.5" x 7.25" Shows 63 different US postage stamps featuring women, with biographical sketches. [OCLC cites only the USPS Library holding of this title.].

1890. Original photograph. Very Good. The boy is dressed in a frilly white shirt, large bow tie, short pants, long stockings, and leather high-button shoes, his right hand resting on a stool. Oval photograph (3.5" x 2.5") is mounted on heavy card stock (6.75" x 4.75"), printed "Anderson, Necedah, Wis." Written in ink on the verso is "Uncle… Read more about this item

Paris: Paris Art Editions, 1925. First Edition. Very Good. Three items. An 8-page illustrated catalog (6.25" x 4.75"), offering: Music-Hall Albums (The Review of the Folies Bergere and Souvenirs of the Paris Music-Halls); Monthly Albums La Beaute [barenaked ladies]; Mythological Albums; The Ball of the Moulin-Rouge Album. Subscription form, printed on tissue stock. Original mailing envelope, postmarked Paris,… Read more about this item

New York: Czechoslovakia Government Information Service, 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. (16)pp text; two illustrations on coated stock. Bound in pictorial stiff wrappers, 8.25" x 5.25" Designed by Rudolph Ruzicka. Printed by Supreme Printing Service, New York.

New York: Cooper Union, 1951. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. (16)pp; three woodcuts, two examples of type design. Exhibition notes by Paul Standard. Bound in printed self-wrappers, 5.5" x 8.25

1872. Original archive. Hardcover. Good. This archive includes a bound volume and several leaves of a handwritten, personal diary in the form of a ship's logbook kept by US Navy officer Robert W. McCleery, starting at New York on September 30, 1871 and ending in November, 1872. Also present: a photographic carte-de-visite of McCleery, a couple of Civil… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Bonhams, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Quarto, pp: 74, (6); describes 271 lots, illustrated throughout. Bound in color-pictorial. stiff wrappers, 10.5" x 8.25" The sale featured modern fiction, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, Carl Sandburg's guitar, &c.

New York: Madison Square Theatre Print, 1881. First Edition. Very Good. Printed in green ink on card stock, folded to form six (6"x3.5") panels. Designed by William H. Day. One panel contains a Frank Fowler drawing of Mrs. Burnett, and another shows Miss Annie Russell in costume as Esmeralda. Lists the Cast of Characters, settings of the four… Read more about this item

Washington DC: American Federation of Labor, 1926. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Two volumes bound as one. pp: 11; 12; printed on blue stock. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 7.5" x 5.25" William Green was then President of the A.F. of L.

Washington DC: American Federation of Labor, 1925. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 16pp. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 7.5" x 5.25" William Green, then President of the A.F. of L., made this address before the Harvard Union.

New York: Workers Federation Bureau of America, 1925. Third Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 32pp, including organizational charts and list of publications. Bound in printed brown wrappers, neatly removed from a nonce volume. 7.5" x 5.5" Matthew Woll was President, International Photo Engravers Union, and Vice-president, American Federation of Labor.

Washington DC: American Federation of Labor, 1904. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8pp. Ad for "American Federationist" on back cover. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.5" Gompers was President of the A.F. of L.

Washington DC: American Federation of Labor, 1926. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. pp: 47, (1), including an index to the Constitution and an index of labor literature. Bound in printed blue wrappers, neatly removed from a nonce volume. 5.75" x 3.5" [Not found in OCLC.].

Washington DC: Press of the Law Reporter Printing Co, 1893. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8pp. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 9" x 6