First Edition. Scottish-South African explorer Archibald Colquhoun "traversed through the unknown lands of western China and scampered along the jungle-covered middle stretches of the Mekong River. When he returned to London he lectured widely and wrote... Burma and the Burmans... He had one message: All that stood in the way.....
Price: $500
![Item No: #362401 Betsuten shiko [Poems]. Kinji Ushijima, George Shima](/pictures/thumb/362401.jpg?v=1674324266)
First Edition. The second collection of poems by the first Japanese American millionaire, the Stockton "potato king" Ushijima Kinji, known in the United States as George Shima. In 1920, Ushijima's "Shima Fancy" brand of potatoes had an 85% market share and were grown on 28,000 acres in California's.....
Price: $500
First Edition. "A biography of the well known Issei pioneer, Ushijima Kinji (1864–1926), designed especially for young readers. Known in English as George Shima, the Potato King, the subject [of the book] was a native of the city of Kurume in Fukuoka Prefecture who came to America in 1888. His.....
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First US edition. This book, translating a 19th century work on gold and a sixteenth century work on payments and the power to issue coinage were published following the 1900 Gold Standard act, which connected the value of the dollar to gold. "In the Fluctuations of Gold [originally published in.....
Price: $250
![Item No: #361865 [A General Survey of the US] Beikoku tsukan. Tomotsune Mizutani](/pictures/thumb/361865.jpg?v=1664165082)
First Edition. An economic survey of the United States, covering geography, the political system, transportation, banking, insurance, agriculture (including chapters on specific crops), manufacturing (with sections devoted to more than twenty separate industries), newspapers, and religion, plus an appendix on Canada. The book makes few references to Japanese already in.....
Price: $1,000
First Edition. An inspirational business book by the author of Think and Grow Rich. 283 pages. First edition (with no additional printings noted). A very good copy, lacking the surprisingly scarce dust jacket. This copy is signed by Hill on a special bookplate promoting the idea of the "twelve great.....
Price: $850
A homefront poster from the middle of the Second World War explaining the need for gasoline rationing on the East Coast. It reads (ellipses or ... in the original), "Last year... we used about 22,000,000 gallons of gasoline a day in the gasoline rationed Eastern States alone. This year... Because.....
Price: $125
An illustration of a soldier in the Pacific sits above a list of seven key steps for inflation control during the Second World War. 20-1/8 by 28-3/16 inches. A near fine example, folded as issued. This is an original World War II poster, not a reproduction. Ships FOLDED.
Price: $150
A blank poster for menus or price lists for price controls during the Second World War. The poster, folded to make four pages, as issued, includes a page of instructions to merchants and restaurant owners; the interior spread provides forty lines for filling out price information. An interesting piece of.....
Price: $125
![Item No: #308145 Canned Foods Are Vital for Victory [Poster]. United States...](/pictures/thumb/308145.jpg?v=1653148821)
A poster announcing the beginning of rationing during the Second World War, accompanied by a notice that consumers will need to report how much canned and bottled goods they have in their pantries. The poster concludes with the admonition, "Do not buy more than you need." (The short-term shortages at.....
Price: $150
A Second World War homefront poster encouraging Americans to participate in price-control efforts in order to keep inflation under control. The main graphic shows two women reaching for their baskets of groceries. The woman from 1918—the First World War—finds the basket out of reach. The "modern" 1944 woman can easily.....
Price: $200
A homefront poster from the Second World War, issued as part of a government effort to eliminate the black market for gasoline. The poster, printed in red and blue on off-white paper, lists eight actions a gas station attendant must take to ensure that the customer's ration card is valid.....
Price: $100
A homefront poster of a woman holding an empty basket while contemplating full store shelves. During the Second World War, the US government encouraged stores and consumers to abide by price controls and ration limits. 20 by 14 inches. This is an original World War II poster, not a reproduction.....
Price: $150
During the Second World War, posters like this one hung in most of the grocery stores in the United States, but few of them have survived. A key homefront concern of the federal government was runaway inflation, which had posed a significant economic problem during World War One. In addition.....
Price: $250
A rather fierce-looking poster encouraging women to participate in the federal efforts to control inflation driven by shortages during the Second World War. An illustration of a woman wearing an apron, her teeth and fist clenched dominate the poster. Below the image are a list of seven key actions: buy.....
Price: $150
![Item No: #308106 Rationing Is Sharing with Our Fighters and Neighbors [Poster]....](/pictures/thumb/308106.jpg?v=1653148805)
A Second World War homefront poster encouraging Americans to participate in the federal efforts to ration scarce foodstuffs and goods. The text is presented in fields of red, white, and blue. 22 by 28 inches. O.P.A. Poster 1943-O-518863. A near fine copy, folded as issued. Minor splits at the folds.....
Price: $150
A 12-by-18-inch "window emblem" poster from the federal effort during the Second World War to keep inflation in check. Text reads, "We charge only ceiling prices or less / We post ceiling price lists prominently / We welcome questions about our prices." This poster was intended for distribution to participating.....
Price: $100
First Edition. 399 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Wildavsky to another scholar of British politics, "To Peter Stansky, best wishes, Aaron Wildavsky."
Price: $30
First Edition. A reprint of this precursor to Malthus' work on population. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by Montagu to the evolutionist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould: "For Steve, Affectionately from Ashley. 29 June 1981." Montagu (born Israel Ehrenberg) was.....
Price: $75
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 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. 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
First Edition. The American representative of the Comisión Reguladora del Mercado de Henequen [Regulatory Commission of the Sisal Fiber Market] narrates his actions in the US, from 1915 to 1917. The Mexican Revolution broke the US monopoly on sisal fiber cultivation in Yucatán, Mexico, and that led to great wealth.....
Price: $65
Two pages (single sheet). 8 by 10 inches, on ruled paper. A nice California business letter. This letter details a number of speculative business ventures in Southern California, and the writer and the recipient appear to be partners in a number of investments. There is a lengthy discussion of the purchase.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A day-by-day account of Witter's month-long safari in British East Africa in September and October 1948. With a record of animals killed at the back. The illustrations are reproductions of color photographs, printed with particularly intense color, lending an air of hyper-reality to many of them. Witter was.....
Price: $60
