A full sheet of twenty blue revenue stamps from the ca. 1886 issue. Unused, with nice gum. 5-5/8 by 9-1/8 inches. A nice sheet, with very good gum on the back (verso).
Price: $40
Later printing. Extensively illustrated from photographs, mostly of the Palco Mill (Scotia was a company town). 32 pages. Sixth printing, 1963. A near fine copy in wrappers (pamphlet).
Price: $15
A facsimile of the 1927 edition. 141 pages. A very good paperback copy.
Price: $30
First Edition. With an annotated checklist of 250 books, pamphlets, and broadsides acquired from 2003 to 2009, or, white men explain American history. With 80 full-page color illustrations. One of 1000 letterpress copies. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no jacket, as issued.
Price: $50
First Edition. A catalog of an impressive collection of autograph material from the great white men of American history (plus a few wives). Two hundred and fifty items are described, sixty-four in color. One of 1000 letterpress copies. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no jacket, as issued.
Price: $50
36 pages, each with five or so clippings of O'Brien's column on prison life and policy. In addition to being the publisher of the paper, he was a director of the California State Board of Prisons. Approximately 150 columns. String-bound into scrapbook covers, 8 by 11-1/2 inches. Very good; one.....
Price: $65
A terrific and dramatic home front propaganda poster encouraging lumber production published by a lobbying group of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association (now the National Forest Products Association). The poster depicts Uncle Sam, illustrated in a wood-cut style, holding an ax and pointing toward forested mountains. An article in the.....
Price: $750
First Edition. A former Secretary of State and a refugee from World War Two describes one of the 20th century's defining characteristics, the struggle between democracy and fascism. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a like dust jacket, with light bumping.....
Price: $40
The first of five projected volumes in Caro's biography of LBJ, a biography series that has taken Caro almost as long to write as it took Johnson to live. This book won the National Book Critics Circle award for biography. It traces Johnson's life to 1941, when he failed to.....
Price: $300
One of perhaps a dozen World War Two propaganda posters promoting the participation of African Americans in the war effort. This poster depicts an African American man working alongside a white man in a factory with an American flag above. 22 by 28 inches. OWI poster no. 38. The National Archives.....
Price: $650
Eleanor, a teacher, writes to Harry, a friend or possibly a relative. She writes about planned trips to San Francisco for shopping and about her parents. Then she starts complaining about Eureka: "Eureka is on the fritz. The lumber industry is nil & Humboldt is dead—Eureka looks deserted & forlorn.....
Price: $50
![The Little Sod Shanty on the Claim [Cabinet Card]. J. N. Templeman, Jasper Newton](/pictures/thumb/306905.jpg?v=1600749735)
A nice image of a sod house on the Dakota prairie with its likely inhabitants, a white woman standing at the door, with a white man sitting on a barrel against the house holding two young children. This is a good illustration of pioneer family life and the exceptional hardships.....
Price: $300
![CDV of Viola Myers, Bearded Woman, with Her Husband Amos]. James Mahon, photographer](/pictures/thumb/306901.jpg?v=1600749733)
Viola E. Myers (6 June 1854 to 24 April 1931) was born in Wilcox, Pennsylvania and in the 1870s and 1880s was the best-known bearded woman in the US. In 1883, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared Madame Meyers (as she was also known) "the best bearded woman in the business".....
Price: $300
![Mrs. Woodhull (Broker) [CDV]. Victoria Woodhull](/pictures/thumb/306900.jpg?v=1600749732)
A circa 1870s carte-de-visite photograph (CDV) of the first woman to run for President in the US. 2-7/16 by 4-1/16 inches. Thick mount; rounded corners. This CDV shows Victoria Woodhull in profile from the waist up wearing a ruffled gown and a matching cap. The verso of the photograph is blank.....
Price: $750
First Edition. A eulogy for Judge Bushrod Washington (1762–1829), who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1798 until his death. His uncle was George Washington, and Bushrod inherited Mount Vernon and the rest of President Washington's estate. Hopkinson provides a brief biography of Bushrod and includes.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A speech on commercial debts and the American bankruptcy laws. Hopkinson begins with the observation that merchants are the United States' ambassadors to the world: "The American merchant then should never forget, that he holds the character of his country, as well as his own, in a sacred.....
Price: $100
First Edition. An appeal for religious faith over theology. "I have all my life avoided all knotty and disputed points of religion. I argue with nobody about the trinity or the unity of the Godhead; the mysteries of free knowledge and free will; or the profound doctrine of the atonement by.....
Price: $75
A speech given at the start of Webster's second year in the House as a representative of New Hampshire. He opposes a plan to pay a bounty to men enlisting in the army and to those who convince people to join. His argument is that the United States does not.....
Price: $75
![March on Washington Funds Solicitation]. Martha Elwell](/pictures/thumb/306800.jpg?v=1598906105)
A letter to members of the Highland Congregational Church in Portland, Oregon, soliciting funds to send a delegation to the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. Elwell, the chair of the church committee, needed to raise $3500 to charter a......
Price: $200
First Edition. A biography of Abraham Lincoln written in Albanian. The author (1904–1989) was an Albanian Sufi Muslim journalist who emigrated to the US after World War Two. He worked for the Albanian section of the Voice of America and in retirement wrote several books (this seems to have been.....
Price: $50
First Edition. 226 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches. The most detailed 19th century directory of Humboldt County, a remote region in far northwest California that at the time was only reachable by ship. This is also one of the only Western directories compiled and published by a woman. The first 126 pages.....
Price: $1,850
First Edition. The foundational work proposing the Universal Basic Income, the precursor to the US Social Security program and the current proposals and experiments to guarantee people a basic stipend for living. iv, 5–32 pages. On the title page, Paine lays out the basics of his plan, an idea perhaps.....
Price: $1,750
A compelling but unidentified vintage cabinet card of two women wearing elaborate striped dresses, fringed hats and cross necklaces while holding playing cards. Just visible at their feet are the bases of stands used by the photographer to hold them in place during the long exposure needed for the photograph.....
Price: $50
First Edition. Testimony before Congress on the possible effects of taking the US off the gold standard, which happened a few weeks later. Scarce. The witness was John Janney, Chairman of the Executive Board of the American Society of Practical Economists, who spoke to Congress on "a bill to protect the.....
Price: $30
Various sizes, most roughly 7-1/2 by 25 inches; on blue paper, folded and docketed. The documents offer a glimpse into the lives of four Mexican Americans living in southern California shortly after it became part of the United States.: 1) Preemption claim of Gerónimo Ybarra, dated December 29, 1853. Long blue legal.....
Price: $1,500
