18th Exhibition, Cowboy Artists of America 1983
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1983. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 55pp. Illustrated checklist of artist members, with photograph, biographical sketch and signature facsimile. Each artist includes samples of recent paintings or sculpture. In illustrated wraps.
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Songs of Honour & Glory / Platoon on Tour. As Performed By Platoon Roadshow
Ulster. Stapled Wrap. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 23pp. 23 songs, from "her Lies a Soldier" to "Ulster Girl." In orange paper wraps printed black.
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KONIG WILHELM AUS SEINEM KRIEGSZUGE IN FRANKREICH 1870 - VON MAINZ BIS SEDAN - ZUM 22. MARZ 1897
Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler Und Sohn, 1897. Buckram w Silver Embossed Cove. A Very Good Copy 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 82 pp. Fraktur. Two large fold-out maps in exacting detail of the battles of Metz and Sedan in pocket at end of text in beautiful condition. Gleaming silver imperial device on imperial purple cover with... Read More
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Rangliste Des Aktiven Dienststandes Der Koeniglischen Armee, Und Des XIII (Koeniglich Wuerttemberischen) Armeekorps
Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler Und Sohn, (1901) But 1912. `. Octavo. Mit den Dienstalterslisten der General und der Stabsoffiziere, einem Anhange enthaltend; des Reichsmilitaergericht, die Marine-Inf anterie, die Kaiserlichen Schutztruppen und die Gendarmee-Brigade in Elsass-Lothringen. und einer anlage enthaltend die Bezirkskommandos I bes VI, Berlin. Nach dem Stande vom 6 October 1912. Auf befe hl Seiner Majestaet des... Read More
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Mountainside [Magazine], Vol. 1, Charter Issue
Blacksburg, Virginia: Plantation Willow Run, 1980. Quarto. 62p. Mountainside was a short-lived magazine that dealt with the New River Valley. Besides some articles on early history of the area, this issue dealt with a number of women's issues. This was the first volume and dealt with items of local interest dealing with accounts of the... Read More
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Animadversions on King James His Letter to the Pope;: Published in the Tryal of the Ld. Preston & Mr. Ashton
London: Printed and Sold By the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1691. Small Octavo. 10 pages, John Ashton was an official in the royal household and Jacobite conspirator who in 1688 lent James II's government 12,500 pounds but he distributed money for the Jacobian plot and he was captured at Dover in 1690 and he was linked to the... Read More
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Munsey's Magazine: Jan-Dec. 1894
New York: Frank A. Munsey, 1894. Thick Quarto. The long article "Wall Street" (321-362) with a history of Wall Street with biographical sketches of te Vanderbilts, Jay Gould, Henry Clews and the key words used in the trade of the 1890's, the role of the telegraphers, whose wires kept investors coast--to-coast informed of the latest stock prices, the "ghosts"... Read More
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Tommy Dorsey, Signed Napkin Adam Springs Hotel Undated
Boldly signed by Tommy Dorsey on a folded cloth napkin of the Adam Springs Hotel in California where the big bands played, booze flowed even under prohibition and gambling was wide open until 1949. Besides Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Xavier Cugat, Freedy Martin, and others played at their large outdoor dance pavilion. The bar and restaurant were opened around the... Read More
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Mezz Mezzrow Signed Note, December 17, 1959
a 9 1/2" x 5 1/2" note signed by Mezz Mezzrow "For the Hotel la Royale where we had a wonderful time in the past (1953), sincerely, Mel Mezz Mezzrow. Legendary for his obesseion with the black experience and the blues along with supplying large quantitites of marijuana to his friends, he was a good jazz musician... Read More
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[Photograph] The Ladies of Llangollen Card
Very Good. [Sarah Ponsonby; Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler]. The card issued ca. 1930 measures 2 !/2" x 4" and shows them at table with their books, china and cat on a chair. The original painting by Richard James Lane in 1887 now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. There is another more common card showing them in black... Read More
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The Leland and LaRita Boren Western Art Collection
Upland, Indiana; (2008): Avis Corporation. Oblong Quarto. 360p. Index of Artists and Works of Art. Profusely illustrated rich art of Joe Beeler, James Boren, Charlie Dye, and a variety of fine Western and Indian artists.Baound in white cloth lettered in gilt, a fine pristine copy in fine pristine pictorial dust jacket.(just out of shrink wrap). ... Read More
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[photograph] THE MARCH OF 10,000 WOMEN
THE MARCH OF 10,000 WOMEN WHO MARCHED IN JANUARY OF 1933 IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS TO PROTEST THE MINE OWNERS USE OF CLUBS AND BULLETS TO STOP UNION ORGANIZING Large 8 1/2;" x 12" wire photograph of the women leaders of the Progressive Miners of America who marched and met with Governor Horner in Springfield, Illinois. A very nice copy... Read More
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First Books, American Authors, Typed Bibliography
Unknown. 78 unnumbered pages, circa 1940's. A curious item from either a serious bookseller or collector of American authors' first books. Neither is the author identified nor is there a date in this carefully typed list. Since the latest item we noted is Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, we know it is after 1936. On the items we... Read More
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Les Fleurettes
[Marcilly, Paris], 1836. 2 x 2.7 Cm. 63pp., illustrated with 8 full page illustrations, bound in full gilt decorated red morocco, all edges gilt, lacks front and rear free endpapers, pencil markings on pastedowns. A very good little copy and quite scarce locating only two auction records and only one copy via OCLC. [Welsh, D.V. Miniature books, no. 2840]... Read More
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The Dome; an Illustrated Monthly Magazine (Vol. 4, Aug-Oct) Yeats, W.B. "Death Hath Closed
London: Unicorn Press, 1899. Small Quarto. 244p. p. 161-166 contains W.B. Yeat's "Death hath closed Helen's eyes" from which comes the line: "beauty is but a flower" and one of his richest Celtic images. Also besides Laurence Housman, a series of short essays on Chopin. Bound in blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt,... Read More
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Original Photograph of a Territorial Williams Arizona Fourth of July Celebration With Staged Gunfight
8 1/2" x 6" photograph circa 1905 during the 4th of July Celebration. Since the large general merchandise story of Jacob Saltzman had been sold to the Babbit Brothers in 1908, it wold place the scene here in the early 1900's. The scene was taken from the balcony of the Grand Canyon Hotel from which most... Read More
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Postcard of Jack Dempsey-Jess Willard fight in Which he Became World Champion (inscribed By Jack Dempsey)
Boston: Colour Picture Corporation. Colour Picture Corporation, 195-? A nice color postcard with the image by James Montgomery Flagg of the famous Dempsey-Jess Willard fight in Toledo in which Jack Dempsey became world champion. Inscribed: To Anthony, good luck, Jack Dempsey. Signed menus and bar ads from the late champion's restaurant occasionally appear as well.
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The Representation Examined; Being Remarks on the State of Religion in England
London: Printed for A. Baldwin, at the Oxford-Arms-Inn, in Warwick Lane, 1711. Quarto. 12 pages, The unknown author of this tract states that the laws of the Church of England against religious dissent cause more harm than good. The common people cannot attend a dissenting group on Sundays, hence are given to races and sports on what should be... Read More
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A Collection of Rare Winchesters
Brownsboro, Texas; nd: Art & Reference House. This list accompanied white Three Winchester Shell displays that came up at auction in 2010. This item is in a brown folder with a gold label on the front reading "A Collection of rare Winchesters" Art & Reference House, Brownsboro, Texas. It contains 58 copies of various Winchester blueprints mostly of lever... Read More
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A Collection of Hollywood Celebrities at the Premeier of "Wilson", August 1, 1944
1944. The collection includes: (1) America's Reception of "Wilson", the Screen Dramatization. 24 pages, map of showings, reviews (entirely laudatory since in the heart of World War II as Americans have seen the tide of war begin to change; (2) "Fashion at the 'Wilson' Preview" 7 mimeographed pages on recto only in detail of how Mrs. Darryl F. Zanuch... Read More
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Crimes of Preachers
New York, Nd(ca.1914): Truth Seekers. Small Octavo. 227(1) pp. 10th edition, last and most complete edition. While most public sins recorded here, over 2,000 are of authenticated sins of adultery or sex by pastors or priests of prepubescent girls. There are cases of arson, bigamy, embezzlement, murder, and a host of other crimes. The statistical study shows Methodist ministers... Read More
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Driving Your Own Car in Germany
Berlin: Reichsbahnzentrale Fur Den Deustschen Reiseverkehr, 1934. Small Quarto. 32 pages. Page 31 proclaims: Germany, the land in which the government takes a personal interest in making motoring comfortable. It quotes an English motoring magazine The Motor in the December 19, 1933 issue that acclaims Dr. Todt "Inspector General" of roads and notes Adolf Hitler is an enthusiastic motorist... Read More
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Sports Illustrated, Vol.1, No. 1(First Issue) with 6 Pages of Baseball Cards and Original Mailing Envelope
Chicago: Time Inc, 1954. First Edition. Quarto. First issue. A fine copy in every respect not only with all the marvelous Topps six baseball card foldout but in the original mailing envelope which is worn though in the process of mailing it which protected it beautifully. One of the most important items to the baseball collector. It included many... Read More
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Lone Indian: Official Organ of the Indian Fraternity, (7 issues) and Boy Lone Indian (3 Issues) (1933-1935)
Kankakee, Illinois: Lone Indian Fraternit. Octavo. A very scarce collection (no copies are found on OCLC) of the Lone Indian Fraternity which began in 1926 and was continued up until World War II when its youth became members of the U.S military. The issues of the Lone Indian are: Vol. 8 nos. 6(pt. 1 and 2), Vol. 8 no.... Read More
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The Tradition of the Pump Room
Chicago (nd. ca. 1949): The Ambassador Hotels. 12mo. 14 unnumbered pages. Introduction by Ernest Byfield. The elegance and flamboyance of the Pump Room was legendary. Here is an introduction and with the list of The lobby of the hotel, including the entrance to The Pump Room, is seen in Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 North by Northwest. Besides Frank Sinatra and... Read More
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