First Edition. The classic history of the huge King Ranch in Texas, published in two volumes designed by Carl Herzog. Illustrated with maps and drawings by the author. Research by Holland McCombs; annotations by Francis L. Fugate. First edition (first trade printing with page 507 beginning "Alice", fixed in the.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

An original sepia-tone moutned photograph of the Bayside Lumber Co. mill, once located between Eureka and Arcata on California's far northwest coast. A handwritten caption penciled on the back of the mount reads, "Track to the log dump and part of the log pond." The company operated a steam railroad.....

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."

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.....

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.....

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.....

First Edition. A Southerner argues that a revived foreign slave trade was crucial to the Southern economy. Spratt believed that bringing newly enslaved people to the US from Africa would reduce the price of slaves in the United States, lower labor costs, and put enslavement of Africans within the economic.....