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Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1975. 1957 University of Utah Edition. Cloth. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. (vii)168 pages. Sans dust jacket. Folding map of The Mariposa Indian War, showing the campaigns of the Mariposa Battalion, in and around Yosemite. Cloth. 7" x 10 1/4". Many unopened pages. Tipped in frontispiece portrait from photograph of Eccleston.This is the1957 edition by the University of Utah Press. The Utah editions continue the first published diaries of Robert Eccleston, under the title "Overland to California on the Southwestern Trail, 1849", distributed to the Friends of the Bancroft Library in 1950. In addition to the diaries, the Utah editions contain the aforementioned map, Dr. Crampton's useful notes and Introduction, a full roster of the Mariposa Battalion, and a bibliography. Eccleston is the only member of the Battalion known to have kept a contemporary record of the War. While pursuing the Indians, the Mariposa Battalion explored the Yosemite valley, the Fresno Big… Read More

Bad Wildungen, Germany: Tac Echelon, HQ 12th Army Group, 1945. First Edition. Single Sheet Paper. Very Good Plus/4-mil clear mylar envelope. This is an ORIGINAL folded MAP showing the travels of the "Tac Echelon", Headquarters 12th Army Group in WWII through England, France, Luxenbourg, Belgium and Germany from 15 July 1944 through 9 May 1945. On the verso of the map is the description of the "VICTORY IN EUROPE" Dinner Dance presented in honor of General Omar N. Bradley by the Officers of Tac Echelon, Headquarters 12th Army Group at the Hotel Furstenhof in Bad Wildungen Germany on 12 May 1945; i.e., 4 days after the Surrender of Germany. The document is SIGNED in ink by General Omar Bradley ("O N Bradley"). The map measures 11 1/2" x 20" opened and 6 3/4" x 5 1/2" folded. One of the MOST REMARKABLE MAPS of WW2, the map was hand-drawn by an artist who signs his name RWD in the print. The document was produced by "Engr. Repro. Det. 12 A Gp." The map shows the various locations of the Headquarters,… Read More

Denver: The Old West Publishing Company, 1962. First Edition. Illustrated Cloth. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. (xv) 304 (3) pp. Illustrated, including three folding maps. Edition limited to 1000 un-numbered copies designed and priinted by Lawton Kennedy, San Francisco. Small bookseller's sticker to front pastedown (The Cottage Bookshop. San Rafael, California). Notes. Index. Illustrated cloth. 7" x 10 1/2". Remarkably detailed writings by an argonaut in the California Gold Rush. Kurutz 157. Per Kurutz: "Erwin Gudde praised this work, writing: 'Next to Bruff, it is probably the best of the published Gold Rush diaries.'". A handsome book. A Fine copy, now in a custom clear 4mil protectve jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

New York: New Directions, 1974. First Edition. Fine. Original Cloth First Edition Fine in Near Fine DJ (ix), 80 pages. Note.Index of titles and first lines.SIGNED by William Everson in ink on the title page. Green cloth. a fine copy in a very slightly edgeworn near fine pictorial wrapper, now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. This is Everson's first collection since leaving the Dominican order in December of 1969, and with it, the name of Brother Antoninus. Signed by Author.

Newcastle, California: The Blue Oak Press, 1977. First Trade Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good +. 44 (3) pages. SIGNED in ink by William Everson (1912-1994) on the half-title (NOTE: Also on the half-title there is a faint pencil note that this copy was signed at Black Oak Books (Berkeley) on 9/28/87.) First trade edition, after limited edition of 100 signed copies. Brown boards with gilt spine titling. Illustrated dust jacket. 7 3/4" x 9 3/4". Author's Note. Afterword by Allan Campo. Illustrated from drawings by Richard Hotchkiss. Photographs by Jerry N. Uelsmann. Distributed by Capra Press. Two major poetic statements by the esteemed California poet/literary critic/fine press printer. A FINE copy in a slightly soiled and edgeworn, VG+ dust jacket, now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. Always FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967. First Edition. Cloth-backed cloth. Fine/Near Fine. (xiv) (1) 125 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Brother Antoninus in ink to fellow poet Robert Dawson on the half-title: " for Robert Dawson from Brother Antoninus with the presence of the poet in the man: good! / Oct 23, 1967 / Kentfield Priory". Illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth-backed maroon cloth. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". From the jacket flap: The Rose of Solitude, his fourth book of poems, grows out of a very real and personal encounter, the archetypal communion of man and woman, and is perhaps one of the most fiercely anguished and incandescently lyrical love poems in contemporary American literature." Born William Everson, Brother Antoninus was a lay brother of the Dominican order. In 1969, during a reading at University of California, Davis, he removed his Dominican robes, and became William Eveson again, to enter into marriage and resume his lay life. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket (some… Read More