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.....
Price: $100
A poster to encourage the quick unloading of freight trains by railroad employees. The text on the back (verso) says, "It is designed for posting in freight yards, on shipping platforms, and around all other points of freight car loading and unloading operations." The poster, produced for the U.S. Office of.....
Price: $400
First edition. A commodities market thriller. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $40
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An English mid-century modern wallpaper sample book with 100 examples of the John Line and Sons handprinted papers from about 1950. With designs credited to William J. Odell, Jacqueline Groag, Georges Dupon, G. Fisher-Jones, and others. The catalog is undated, but it bears the royal warrant of appointment to his.....
Price: $250
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. 52 pages plus 9 leaves of plates with a color photograph reproduced on each side. 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. 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.....
Price: $60
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.....
Price: $450
First Edition. The first book on economics written by a Spaniard and published in Spain (a critical edition was published by the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales in 1989). Elementos was an official university textbook for a generation, drawing on the work of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and K. H. Rau.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. 33 pages. Statement of John Janney, Chairman of the Executive Board of the American Society of Practical Economists. Testimony before Congress on the possible effects of taking the US off the gold standard, which happened a few weeks later. This separate publication does not appear to be catalogued on.....
Price: $50
First Edition. 59 pages. Statement of John Janney, Chairman of the Executive Board of the American Society of Practical Economists. Based on his testimony before the United States House of Representitives Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, February 8 and 9, 1933. First edition (first printing). Near fine in self wrappers.
Price: $30
159, [1] pages. Printed front cover; blank rear cover. Stapled signatures; no separate covers, as issued. Transcripts of hearings on the falling price of silver (which would hit a record low of 25 cents per ounce by the end of the year, resulting in Roosevelt's nationalization of silver and a federal.....
Price: $30
