Americana/Regional Interest from Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.

Vari-typed and mimeographed for Miss Margaret McHale by Antonio "Tony" Altamirano, 1952. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Near Fine. Stapled typescript of the Acting Version of the play first performed in the nineteen-teens, but set first in the California of 1759. Staple at upper-left of title page. First Edition Thus, the true First Edition having been 1911 and then… Read more about this item

Los Angeles, California: Bonibel Press, by members of English 505 at the University of Southern California, 1972. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce item in the trade, no copies being available on-line currently. Sterling condition softcover copy of an unusual item, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very… Read more about this item

London: Printer for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1783. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Rare First Edition in unbound state, toning and some light foxing, chipping to edges, dog-earing. Skinny, sewn octavo softpaper format, 230 x 142 mm. Scarce in the trade, there being no other copies in this state available but for… Read more about this item

Lowell, Massachusetts: J.C. Ayer & Co, 1865. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Stringbound yellow printed pamphlet, fine black-and-white engraved printing to front cover, with some penned inscriptions ("Nashville"?) to front panel. Month by month accounting of astronomy and astrology, sociodemography, tides, star signs… Read more about this item

New York: The Tribune Association, 1866. First Edition. Softcover. Fair. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Printed, illustrated blue wraps, soiled of covers, toned of interior, but clean and unmarked. rubbing to edges, short splits to spine head and tail. Period advertisements galore, roughly 40 pp. thereof,… Read more about this item

Washington, D. C: Gideon and Co. Printers, 1850. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Edited by and presented by Charles Hudson, a speech delivered in Committee of the Whole in the House of Representatives of the United States, February 21, 1850. Tan wraps, toned and a bit chipped along the edges, but clean and… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C: Congressional Globe Office, 1850. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. A perfectly serviceable reference copy but perhaps missing wraps; nothing fancy, sewn, threads showing. but complete and sturdy. Speech of Hon. Chas. E. Clarke, of New York, on the Admission… Read more about this item

San Francisco, CA: Bacon & Company, 1877. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. Twelve disbound pages laid into a card stock-backed sleeve, chipped along edges, comprising a lecture or address delivered to the Territorial Pioneers of the eventual State of California in San Francisco at the Pacific Hall. This was on the 27th anniversary of… Read more about this item

Published for the trade. Softcover. Fair. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fair condition copy, an octavo, softcover format copy, bound in pictorial light tan wrappers featuring a black-and-white printing and an engraved likeness of the author. Inaugural lecture in the series. Undated, but feels 1880s. Mildly soiled, moderately worn panels, but clean, unmarked of interior, and with… Read more about this item

Portland, Oregon: L. Samuel, Publisher, 1889. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Good condition copy housed in a Mylar sleeve of The West Shore magazine for January of 1889. Plentiful duotone illustrations of both "Salem, Oregon - Asylum of the Insane" and "Oregon - State Penitentiary, Salem," and of state principals. Suffused with articles… Read more about this item

Chappaqua, New York: Christian Herald Books, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author boldly at first free endpaper, inscribed warmly to Gerald Frank, he of Meier & Frank fame, a long-term downtown Portland, Oregon business hub and name. Stated First Edition, bound simply in blue cloth over boards, sharp and… Read more about this item

Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author boldly at first free endpaper, inscribed warmly to Gerald Frank, he of Meier & Frank fame, a long-term downtown Portland, Oregon business hub and name. Stated First Edition, bound simply in brown cloth over boards, sharp… Read more about this item

Ashland, Oregon: White Cloud Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author boldly at first free endpaper, inscribed warmly to Gerald Frank, he of Meier & Frank fame, a long-term downtown Portland, Oregon business hub and name. Stated First Edition, bound simply in red cloth over boards,… Read more about this item

Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author boldly at first free endpaper, inscribed warmly to Gerald Frank, he of Meier & Frank fame, a long-term downtown Portland, Oregon business hub and name. Stated First Edition, bound simply in two-tone, red and black cloth… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author boldly at first free endpaper, inscribed warmly to Gerald Frank, he of Meier & Frank fame, a long-term downtown Portland, Oregon business hub and name. Stated First Edition, bound simply in brick-red cloth over boards,… Read more about this item

Boston, Massachusetts: Le Roy Phillips. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 12mo 7" - 7. Unique in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. Twenty-five numbered, captioned plates tipped-in, being black-and-white engravings by the Scottish illustrator Jessie Marion King (20 March 1875 – 3 August 1949). Known for her illustrated children's books, she also painted… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Two-tone vanilla paper over boards, blue cloth-backed. 494 pp. and with plentiful black-and-white photographs and illustrations, and with notes, index,… Read more about this item

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An uber-important set, complete in eight volumes including an Index, of the justly infamous sale across several years (1966-1970) at the Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York, of the massive collection of U.S. History and Americana of the noted collector Thomas Winthrop Streeter. Sturdy, attractive,… Read more about this item

Egg Harbor City, New Jersey: Atlantic County Historical Society, 1963. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Jack E. Boucher. One of 1,000 copies in a Limited Edition but unnumbered and thus out of series. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, blue linen cloth over boards, gilt… Read more about this item

Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine contribution to the Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology series. Sterling condition softcover copies, complete in two volumes, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the illustrated card… Read more about this item