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(S.l.): (S.n.), 1942. Wrappers. Twenty-fourmo. 31 pages. Fine condition.. Black and white illustrations, map drawings. This was a handbook for newly arrived recruits at Camp McQuaide during World War II. Camp McQuaide was on the coast of the Monterey Bay just west of Watsonville, California, and home to the Coast Artillery Replacement Training Center from 1942-1943. <br /> <br /> This handbook contains information on the facilities and activities at the post as well as a section on "Amusements in Town." There is also a small pictorial map of the Monterey Bay Region and a centerfold map of the camp itself. A scarce handbook. <br /> <br /> The site of Camp McQuaide has been occupied by a boarding school since 1949. Monterey Bay Academy is an accredited co-educational high school operated by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.

Washington: Mathew Brady, 1863. Mounted on a 2" x 4" card. Clear image with a few insignificant brown spots, slight rubs to edges of card. Signature is clear and bold.. Black and white photograph. Original albumen photographic profile vignette of a seated General Hooker, facing left. Imprint of Brady Studio, Washington, in bottom margin. Inscribed on back of the mount "Joseph Hooker / Maj. Genl." General Hooker's aggressive fighting in 1862 led Lincoln to place him in command of the Army of the Potomac in January of 1863. He was defeated by Lee at Chancellorsville, and replaced by General Meade just days before the Battle of Gettysburg. Hooker's legacy is somewhat tarnished by his reputation for drinking, gambling, and womanizing.

San Francisco: Wine Advisory Board, 1960. Poster. 21" x 28 1/8. Tack holes in the four corners, a few light stains in margins, a small closed tear at lower middle of wine glass, and a couple of short closed edge tears. Very good overall.. Color offset lithography. Colorful California wine poster by Amado Gonzalez California Wine Advisory Board. Gonzalez was born in Mexico but immigrated to San Francisco in 1927 and studied at the California School of Fine Arts. He painted murals for the WPA in the 1930s.<br /> <br /> This colorful vintage poster would make a stunning focal point in any winelover's home.

Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1886. First edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 283 pages. Near fine. Bound in original brown cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine, boards have blind-stamped decorative borders. A few minor extremity rubs.. Reverend Bigham went to California as a missionary in the early years of the Gold Rush. The dramatized scenes and sketches here are loosely based upon his actual experiences as a preacher and miner. HOWES B444.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1917. First edition. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. xiv, 141 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Some browning to endpapers from dust jacket flaps, along with some light browning to textblock edges. Jacket has minor extremity rubs and a couple of tiny chips at head of spine.. An indictment of what the author believed was America's woeful unpreparedness for World War I, followed by his solution--a program of Universal Military Training. Well documented, with a brief bibliography. Col. Jennings C. Wise was a graduate of Virginia Military Institute and author of "The Long Arm of Lee," etc. Foreword by Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood.

Richmond: Wm. Ellis Jones' Sons, Inc., Printers, 1915. First Edition. Printed wraps. Octavo. 59 pages. Near fine. Faint browning to edges of covers, some discoloration around binding staples. Overall clean and sound.. A vigorous account of the Chancellorsville Campaign in the spring of 1863. McIntosh had just been promoted to major and was in command of a battalion of Confederate artillery during these actions. Uncommon pamphlet. <br /> <br /> Ref. DORNBUSCH III 1682.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 131 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Binding tight, unread copy. Head and heel of spine each have very slight bumps. White jacket has a few nearly imperceptible smudges. Bound in white paper over boards with cloth spine stamped in red foil.. When Lee Israel's celebrated writing career took a sudden downturn she embarked on an astonishing one-woman forgery racket run out of her Upper West Side studio. Using old typewriters, she fabricated hundreds of letters from the likes of Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, Edna Ferber, Lillian Hellman and others, skillfully imitating their individual voices and styles and then forging their autographs with a flourish. The 2018 film of the same name, starring Melissa McCarthy, is adapted from this memoir.

New York: Random House, 1928. Limited edition, #1223 of 1470. Cloth over boards. Quarto. 111 pages. Bound in coarse ivory cloth with gilt embossed titles, rules, and illustration on upper board, title and ornaments on spine, decorative endpapers. Binding shows some mild age toning, gilt dulled on spine, some rubbing to gilt illustration on upper board. Binding sound. An attractive copy, very good condition overall.. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. A beautiful edition of Voltaire's satirical and witty critique of the human condition, religion, politics, and philosophy. Illustrated and signed by Rockwell Kent. <br /> <br /> This is the first book that was published by Random House. The firm was founded in 1927 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, with the name inspired by Cerf's remark that they would "publish a few books on the side at random." Rockwell Kent, the leading commercial artist in the U. S. at that time, happened to be in Cerf and Klopfer's office when they… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, 307, [blank], viii pages. Bound in green cloth over boards with yellow and red title and illustration blocked on spine and upper board, pale yellow topstain. Old adhesive residue on front pastedown, mostly hidden by front jacket flap. Minor extremity rubs, quarter-sized dampstain to top edge of textblock. Jacket has edge chipping up to 1/4" deep at spine ends and edges of front panel. Separation along lower 2 1/2" of front panel fore edge fold. Still an attractive, overall very good copy in a good dust jacket.. Black and white plates. Biography of the Temperance firebrand, Carry Nation, whose signature was attacking liquor kegs with a hatchet.<br /> <br /> This copy is signed by the author and has a printed "Seasons Greetings" card from him and his wife laid in.

Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1822. First edition. Paper over boards with leather spine. Duodecimo. 155 pages. Very good. Yellow paper-covered boards with leather spine, which is titled and ruled in gilt. Minor extremity rubs and shallow bumps. Foxing throughout. Binding is sound. Bottom 1" to 1 3/4" of a rear blank leaf is lacking. Overall a very nice copy of this scarce manual.. Engravings. This manual is an early attempt to introduce a uniform system cavalry of exercise and movements for the U. S. military. Illustrated with eight copper-plate engravings. Includes significant instruction on swords.

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1901. First printing. Cloth over boards with printed paper sides. Tall octavo. 176 pages. Minor rubs to board extremities, shallow bumps, and a bit of sun fading along extreme bottom edge of upper board. Jacket has chipping at heel of spine and a 1 1/2" triangular chip from head of spine. There is a hole in spine near heel, about the size of corn kernel. Neat prior gift inscription dated 1901 at top fore corner of front free endpaper. Overall clean and sound. Very good in a good plus dust jacket.. Black and white photographs, illustrations. Beautiful depiction of child life in China, revealing something of their nursery's, school rooms, and playgrounds. Numerous photographs throughout, along with old prints, to illustrated nearly every page. Printed page backgrounds give alternating pairs of pink and blue borders to the text and images.

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1844. First printing. Unbound, tied with string. Octavo. iv, 44 pages. Fine, with just slight toning.. Thom was a British Crown judicial officer, and makes a very able argument in favor of British ownership of the Oregon Territory. He refutes the American claims advanced by Robert Greenhow in his 1840 Memoir of the Northwest Coast. <br /> <br /> This pamphlet was published in the thick of the Oregon boundary dispute. With the outbreak of war between the United States and Mexico in April 1846, the Americans could no longer afford the distraction and risk of a possible second war, and the Oregon question was finally settled along the 49th Parallel by the Oregon Treaty signed in June of 1846. <br /> <br /> Ref. WHALE 1508; HOWES T161.

Cambridge: Peabody Museum, 1942. Paper covers. Folios. xviii, 327 and xiv, 292 pages. Very good. Black and White Photographs, Drawings, Maps. These are volume VII and VIII, "Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. " Superbly illustrated large format volumes in tan printed paper covers. Covers show some extremity wear consisting of short tears, shallow wrinkles, and a few small chips. Part II has a 1" split at top of upper joint which has been repaired with tissue. Part I has a 1/2" split at bottom of lower joint. Very good overall.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 671 pages. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Slight fading to jacket spine and front panel.. Robert Creeley was an important poetic voice in post-World War II American literature. This collection gathers his poetry of thirty years, exhibiting his development and the singular inventiveness that made him a master of modern poetry. <br /> <br /> This copy is signed by Creeley under an inscription dated 2002.

New York: David Longworth, 1808. Disbound. Octavo. 56 pages. Edges are worn and somewhat curled. Some soil to external leaves. Last leaf is detached, has tears with old stitched repairs, and is partially missing. However, complete text of said leaf supplied by images of another copy.. The courtroom proceedings as a Black man is charged with bastardy in New York at the beginning of the 19th century. Alexander Whistelo was claimed by the mother herself to be the father of her female bastard child, which she had left in the care of the New York City Alms House. The municipality then sought compensation from Whistelo for the ongoing care of the child "under the act passed 6th March, 1801, for the relief of cities and towns from the maintenance of bastard children." Whistelo denied being the father and this trial before Mayor, Recorder, and Several Aldermen of New York resulted.<br /> <br /> The mother, one Lucy Williams, was a mulatto, and ultimately the evidence failed to convince… Read More

London: William Pickering, 1836. First Nicolas edition. 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Quartos. ccxii, 129 and [130]-436, [32] pages. Dark green leather spines and fore corners with marbled paper sides, gilt ruled boards, marbled endpapers, and all edges of textblocks gilt. Spines are titled and ornamented in gilt with five raised bands. Mild rubs to leather along joints, some light rubs to board edges, and some faint scattered foxing inside. Front endpaper of volume I has separation along hinge but still sound. Very good overall.. Black and white engravings throughout. A handsome set of the large paper first Nicolas edition of Walton, acclaimed as the finest "Angler" ever published. Sir Harris Nicolas not only secured excellent illustrators and an outstanding publisher for his edition, he also brilliantly edited and annotated the text, which is that of the 1676 fifth edition. The fifth edition was the first edition of Cotton, the first issue combining Walton and Cotton, and the last… Read More

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1938. Limited Edition, #317 of 800 sets. Full calf. Octavos. xxviii, 415 and viii, 389 pages. Near fine. Full leather over boards with gilt-stamped spine title labels, five raised bands, top edges gilt. Slight darkening to spines. Housed in original slipcase which has modest wear along extremities.. Rousseau's "Confessions" is notable as one of the first major autobiographies ever written. Unlike other early autobiographies which focused on religious experiences, Rousseau shares his worldly experiences and personal feelings, and even some humiliating and shameful moments. <br /> <br /> Rousseau coined the phrase translated as "Let them eat cake," in an incident described herein involving a great princess. This phrase has since become associated with Marie Antoinette, though there is no evidence that she ever uttered it.<br /> <br /> The text is from the anonymous English version first published in 1783 and 1790, here revised… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918. First Edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 96 pages. Near Fine. Bound in coarse tan cloth over boards, with title printed in black on upper board. Contemporaneous prior owner name in ink on front pastedown.. Fold-out plans, tables, photographs. Scarce, Confidential manual on the weaponry associated with U. S. Army aircraft and pilots in World War I. Sections on the Marlin, the Lewis, and the Vickers aircraft machine guns, synchronizing gears, machine gun sights, bombs, bomb-release mechanism, bomb sighting, ammunition, pyrotechnics, and small arms. Three fold-out plates, one of which is a detailed and colored schematic of the Lewis machine gun. Notice on the first page warns that this book "...is issued for the instruction and guidance of all concerned, and contains information of military importance, none of which may be copied, printed, or published, under any conditions." Only 16 copies located in OCLC as of 10/1/2019.

Lincoln: The Woodruff Press, 1913. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 311 pages. Bound in light blue cloth over boards with ornamental titling in white to upper board. White spine titles quite faded. Minor extremity rubs. Slightly cocked, hinges sound. Very good to near fine overall.. Black and white photographic frontispiece plus 15 other plates (16 in total). Scarce, heavily autobiographical first novel by Oscar Micheaux, relating his experiences as a homesteader in Gregory County, South Dakota and the failure of his first marriage. Though published anonymously as by "The Pioneer," with names of characters changed, the protagonist is Oscar Devereaux (Micheaux's middle name). <br /> <br /> Micheaux's theme is African Americans realizing their potential in pursuits outside of their accustomed roles. He contrasts the more common city lifestyles of African Americans with the life he chose as a lone Black pioneer in the far West.<br /> <br />… Read More

Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1995. First Edition. Full cloth. Octavo. xxxvi, 421 pages. Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. Black and White Photographs, Illus.. Study of the admiralty system as it was transmitted from England to America, with an emphasis on Maryland. Based on extensive manuscript research on both sides of the Atlantic. Includes appendices on Nicholas Greenberry, Daniel Dulany, Sr. , Governor Horatio Sharpe's "commission" as Vice Admiral, and much more. Excellent bibliographical essay included as well. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine titles.. Jacket in Mylar protector.