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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Son of Dracula" (starring Harry Nilsson as the Son of Dracula and Ringo Starr as Merlin)
Scottsdale, Arizona. A leaflet [measuring 5 1/2" X 9") advertising the remake of "Son of Dracula" with Harry Nilsson as the son of Dracula and Ringo Starr as Merlin. This film was shown in the newly opened Camelview Twin One (before it became Camelview Five). Besides music by the two stars, it included music by George Harrison, Keith Moon,... Read More
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A Collection of Little Blue Books
Girard, Kansas(ca.1922-1935): haldeman-Julius Co. 3 1/2" X 5" 55 titles. These were the books that were read by those who hungered for knowledge as well as entertainment that were published in the millions. Often these readers had not finished high school nor could not dream of college so in reading they became aware in an abbreviated way of the... Read More
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A Century of Retablos; the Janis and Dennis Lyon Collection of New Mexican Santos, 1780-1880
Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 2009. 239p. index. One of the great collections in private hands here in a wonderful catalogue with a foreword by James Ballinger, the Museum Director.
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Erinnerungsfeier Der Mariahilfer Abiturienten Von 1879
Wien [Vienna]: Publisher Unknown, 1904. 12 unnumbered pages from the 25th anniversary in 1904 of the graduates from the class of 1879 at the Maria Abiturienten in Vienna. Of the twenty-two in the class, 17 of those who attended signed at the gedenblatt (the commemorative sheet). This institution was composed of those who had passed the... Read More
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The Picayune's Guid to New Orleans
New Orleans, (1908): Picayune Job Print. Octavo. . 8th edition. 144pp., ix pp. index, (7)pp. illustrated ads. illustrated throughout of various business, historic buildings, places to visit and things to do. Includes a large folding street map of New Orleans as frontispiece, bound in color pictorial paper wraps, some chipping and a few creases, Some loss of paper on... Read More
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Letter from William S. Hart Estate re: Divorce and Unborn Baby (1922)
One of the great divorce scandals in the early 1920's following that of Chaplain, Fairbanks, and Pickford was this between Winifred (Westover) Hart and her husband, William S. Hart, the legendary cowboy of the early silents. In the Washington Times of September 3, 1922 on page 5, there is a eight column story of the divorce, the charge of... Read More
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[Aviation in Arizona Territorial Period] Photographs
While there are articles in the Arizona Republican on February 9, 1910 about the aviation event at the Territorial Fairgrounds, there are no photographs of the event. Card #1 postmarked Phoenix Feb 13, 1910 is a cyanotype photo of Louis Paulman "Making his record breaking flight for altitude 4600 feet" showing the crowd below, on the verso of the... Read More
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Herschel Fenton, Importer of Musical Instruments, Fine Old Italian, French, German and English Violins, Cellos and Double Basses, ..Violin Bows..guitars, Banjos, Etc.
New York: Herschel Fenton. Quarto. 8 pages, double folded, not recorded in OCLC. Herschel Fenton was a violinist who was given a Strativarius in 1878 and went into the music business selling both instruments and publishing sheet music. Since this price list is undated (but numbered as No. 3), it seems to fall into the circa 1880 period. While... Read More
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Republic of Texas, 6 Page Legal Document, March 24, 1845, Presided Over By Royall Tyler Wheeler (1810-1864)
6 leaves, handwritten legal document in the County of San Augustine in the district court presided over by Royall T. Wheeler, also with Samuel Davis, sheriff, and Robert W. Martin, Clerk. The case was to secure payment for a debt owed to James M. Johnson, who complains that James Perkins had failed to pay the debt. Judge Wheeler... Read More
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Prescott A.T. Court House 1878, Bid for Furnishings
1 autographed bid for furnishings for the new Prescott County Court House signed Campbell & Parker, builders, August 26, 1878. The advertisement for bids appeared in the Weekly Arizona Miner, August 23, 1878 issued. The bidders note their bids for the furnishings made by H.G.. Howe. In the August 9, 1878 edition of the same publication, the editor notes:... Read More
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Tresor De Numismatique et De Glyptique Out Recueil Geneal De Medailles, Monnales, Pierres Gravees, Bas-Reliefs..tant Anciens que Modernes...mythologique
Paris: Didier, 1858. Folio. 154 pages, 52 plates. The only copy of this edition on OCLC is found at Saarlandsiche Universitat und Landsbibliothek. The process that began in 1932 with M. Collas was developed so the Tresor Njumismatique came out in various editions each with a beautiful images of the plates (in this case over 600 images of medals... Read More
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Republic of Texas. San Felipe De Austin. Austin County Election Results, 1837
[Republic of Texas, San Felipe Election Record, February 6, 1837]. Four-page handwritten record of the election at San Felipe, listing all candidates, vote totals, and offices won. John York (Indian fighter and soldier) elected Sheriff; Benjamin Thomas as President of the Board of Managers; results sent to Hon. Thomas Barnet, newly appointed Chief Justice of Austin County by Sam... Read More
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Augustus Alonzo Hoyt [Hoit] (1825-1900)
1853. folio sheet (folded), August 16, 1853, 1 page handwritten authenticating he was known by Curtis Gupthill and A.G. Gupthill to confirm he was known in Gouldsboro, Hancock county, Maine under the name of Augustus A. Hoit and a native of Cabot, Vermont and he was known by them for four years and we saw his land warrant that... Read More
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U.S. District Court. Morristown, New Jersey, 1799. Court Summons for Enoch Hobert
Court summons form of William Nichols, Marshal to Enoch Hobert to served as Grand Juryman at the U.S. District Court at Morristown, New Jersey. September 16, 1799. Ernest Hobert was mariner and a charter member of The Society for the Relief of the Poor and Distressed Masters of Ships, their Widows and Children (1765-1812). It was known as the... Read More
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Original 1842 Paymaster's Check to Washington, D.C. Officer, Lt. Josiah Watson, February 1, 1842
Check measures approximately 6 3/4" x 2 3/4". It is signed by Major George W. Walker who had been appointed paymaster of the USMC by President Andrew Jackson in 1836 and he served until his death in 1862. The USMC was quite small at the time and there was usually only a couple of qualified paymasters with Walker being... Read More
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Catalogue De Monnaies Grecques et Romaines En or, Argent et Bronze..fromee Par Un Amateur Bien Connu..1934 (includes Auction results]
Lucerne, Switzerland: A. Hess, 1934. Quarto. 32p. with 16 plates. OCLC only records five copies (one in U.S. at the Getty). The auction records from 1934 are laid in and provide items that sold for what were considered high prices in the depression (e.g., 10,000 Swiss francs for Panticapee (400-300). Tete de Pan... Read More
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Journal of the Outdoor Life; the Anti-Tuberculosis Magazine (15 Issues, 1910-1913
New York: Anti-Tuberculosis Campaign. Good. an important group of the major magazine on the treatment of tuberculosis just after the beginning of the 20th Century--when there were no effective cures though pasteurization had limited some of the rapid spread of TB--the first immunization appeared in 1906 but was not used on humans until after World War I. ... Read More
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Records of Travel
Boston: Otis, Broaders & Company, 1838. 180p. Shaw & Shoemaker 52596. The North American Review, p. 495-496 noted it was a warm firsthand account of travels in the Meditterrean world. Contains the errata printed on p. 8. the chapter on "Burying Alive" speaks of the common fear and gives cases of those who... Read More
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The Royal Tank Corps Journal, Vol. 11
Royal Rank Corps Center: Bovington Camp. Buckram. Quarto. May 1929-April 1930. Articles from the German by Major F. Heigl, on Anti-Tank Weapons; Field Marshal Sir George Milne's artilce on "The Evolution of Armoured Fighting Vehicles" (p. 204-218) with a full page picture if the Medium Tank Mark I as it was at the time and a... Read More
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[Photograph] Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) , carte De Viste
(The London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company London, 1862). Very Good. One of the most important CDV's for the 1862 International Exhibition. What made CDV's was that they were ideal for collectors as opposed to those earlier photographs printed on card stock and consequently were more durable and did not have to be pasted into a scrapbook to protect.... Read More
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The Boers and the British; a History of the Events Leading to the Hositilies in South America
Melbourne and London: A.N. Smith, 1899. Original Paper Wrps. Fragile. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 139p. Map is laid in. The account is contemporary on the event of the Boer War. Spine has been reglued, clipped corner but text is clean and housed in clam shell box.
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The Ruba'yat of Omar Khayam, Translated By Mrs. H.M. Cadell, with an Introduction By Richard Garnett
London and New York: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1899. Octavo. 144 pages, with an Introduction by Richard Garnett. Jessie E. Nash Cadell who learned Persian while her husband was a British officer in India, devoted herself to the study of Omar Khayyam, the Persian astronomer and poet. Not only was this the first translation of the Rubaiyat... Read More
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American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge
Boston; 1834-1837: Ball and Marshal; John L. Sibly and Benjamin H. Greene, and William D. Ticknor. Small quarto. This comprises all three volumes, each in the original monthly parts fully illustrated throughout.. Volume I: 536 pages (Sept. 1834-August 1835). Voluime II: 520 pages (Sept. 1835--Aug. 1836) and Volume III, 486 pages (Oct. 1836-Sept. 1837). The publisher in 1836 gave... Read More
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