Search Results: Western Americana from Kate Mitas, Bookseller

Denver, CO: The Cycling West Publishing Co., 1897. Very Good. Approx. 6-1/4" x 8-1/2". Letterhead half-sheet, text and printing to recto only. Fold lines, slight crease to upper corner. Very good. TLs addressed to N. N Hill Brass Co., East Hampton, Connecticut, acknowledging receipt of a letter on the 19th and assuring the reader that "we take pleasure in giving publication to item regarding your factories, which will appear in our issue of Jan 28th. Electrotype will be returned to your office as soon as possible." The letter is signed by The Cycling West Publishing Co.'s business manager, G. A. Wahlgreen.The letterhead is lovely, featuring a cowboy riding a bicycle across the plains, lassoing a cow.According to an add in Spalding's Official Bicycle Guide of 1899, The Cycling West had "the largest circulation of any class or trade weekly west of Chicago" and was the "official organ for the California associated cycling clubs, reaching their entire membership weekly."

Chicago: Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, 1911. Very Good. 11" x 8-1/2". Circular, printed recto only. White stock printed in black, b&w illustration. Three holes punched to upper portion of leaf, slightly affecting text; old folds. Wanted circular for Edward J. Tierney, who, according to a contemporary newspaper account, "is the 'classiest' looking of all the criminals that the police have been asked to look out for" (Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer, Feb. 23, 1911). Wearing a dress coat in the photo provided for the circular, Tierney worked as a traffic clerk for the Western Electric Company in Dallas before disappearing in November, 1910. The reader is warned that he "might be found in the Shipping or Traffic Department of some electrical concern or railway office, and he may also endeavor to obtain a position as a chauffeur or at some Vaudeville House or Moving Picture Show as he is a competent chauffer and a good singer as well." Oddly, the 28-year-old Tierney is never implicated in… Read More

London: Richard Bentley, 1852. First edition. Good. 23 cm. x, 388, [2], [2, blank], [16, ads]. Original burgundy marbled cloth, frontispiece portrait of the author. Edgeworn, with slight chipping to spine foot and joints; evidence of adhesive removal (presumably library labels) to spine; front joint cracked, with corresponding gutter break following title leaf; one leaf detached but present; spine cocked; occasional minor foxing. Ex-library, with moderate markings and bookplate, signature and label of donor to title page. With the bookplate of the first French library in San Francisco.