All issues are letter sized except for "Protection in the Nuclear Age" which is 8 1/2 x 5 /12". Staplebound illustrated wrappers in fine condition. All the information you need to construct your own fallout shelter. Of special interest is the snack bar fallout shelter with a smart illustration of a cocktail party in progress: it's the end of the world as we know it, party on! The 10 FEMA brochures in the collection are: Protection in the Nuclear Age. H-20, June 1985. 38 pp Home Blast Shelter. H-12-3, November 1983. 8 pp Home Fallout Shelter modified ceiling shelter - basement location plan a. H-12-A, April 1980. 8 pp Home Fallout Shelter modified ceiling shelter - basement location plan b. H-12-B, May 1980. 8 pp Home Fallout Shelter concrete block shelter - basement location plan c. H-12-C, May 1980. 4 pp Home Fallout Shelter snack bar - basement location plan d. H-12-D, April 1980. 4 pp Home Fallout Shelter tilt-up storage unit shelter - basement location plan e. H-12-E, April 1980. 4 pp Home Fallout Shelter lean-to-shelter - basement location plan f, H-12-F, April 1980. 4 pp Aboveground Home Fallout Shelter. H-12-2, November 1983. 8 pp Belowground Home Fallout Shelter. H-12-1, November 1983. 8 pp.
Crabb, Richard; with research by Burt Sell
"An official publication of the Nebraska Centennial. This is number 180 of a special edition of 250 copies SIGNED by the author". 8vo. x, 373 pp. Index. Illustrated by Ernest L. Reedstrom and with photographic plates and portraits throughout, map endpapers. Two original paper "Nebraska Centennial" blue promotional wrap-around bands laid in (one in fine condition, see image). Decorated tan cloth spine, rust paper covered boards in publisher's pictorial dustjacket. Housed in publisher's box with jacket image applied to top. A fine copy; minor rubbing to box corners else fine. A trade edition was also issued in pictorial cloth. Ramon Adams in his Six-guns mentions the trade edition but apparently was unaware of this scarce special edition. We find only one copy of this special edition in online institutions. A rousing adventure in a fascinating history of the Great Plains from the Civil War until the 1880's. The book was supressed (and copies ordered destroyed) by the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, as a result of a suit by Alan Swallow (publisher of titles by Sage Books) which proved plagerism from Harry Christman's "Ladder of Rivers" published by Swallow. This copy is certainly from the few copies that were surrendered to Alan Swallow. How many copies Swallow had is not known. In any case, this is one of the best books on the constant fight of I. P. Olive and his cowboys in Texas and Nebraska and their fight with the homesteaders and the rustlers. It is "one of the most nearly complete histories of the feud between the Olives and Luther Mitchell and Ami Ketchum" (Adams). Also includes material on Doc Middleton, Jesse James, and Johnny Ringo.
Speed, John
JohnSpeed's celebrated map of theAmericas, "the first published in an atlas to depict California as an island, and an accurate east coast of NorthAmerica, particularly between Chesapeake Bay and Cape Cod." - Burden p. 269. London: George Humble, 1626 [1627]. Archivally framed (23 1/4" x 27 1/4") to allow exposure of the English text on the verso. This first state map, pre-dating the addition of Boston and Long Island, is from the 1626-1627 edition of Speed's "Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World". The map was engraved by Abraham Goos. It is decorated in the popular carte-a-figures style with panels of costumed native figures at each side and vignettes of major cities at top. The figures at left represent the native people of NorthAmerica, and at right the major SouthAmerican tribes. The cities illustrated include Havana, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Cusco, and other important SouthAmerican settlements. A number of sea monsters, flying fish and sailing ships also decorate the map. Burden 217; McLaughlin 3; Tooley pg. 113.
The Gold Rush made Sacramento a major commercial center and distribution point for Northern California, serving as the terminus for the Pony Express and the First Transcontinental Railroad. Founded in 1850 (as R. Stone and Co.), by the late 1800s Alexander Van Voorhies and son-in-law George Phinney, now the Van Voorhies-Phinney Co., had established a reputation as one of the premier saddle and harness firms in California, rivaling the best San Francisco had to offer. Over time, and with the arrival of the automobile age, the company diversified its product line to include industrial supplies, mechanical rubber goods, boots and shoes and rubber footwear. By 1920 the company (now known as 'Vanco)' had become the sole western representative for the iconic Converse Rubber Shoe Company. The firm, family-operated for over 130 years, was one of the oldest in California when it closed its doors in 1986. Included in this rare collection of an early California saddle and harness firm: 'Threescore Years and Ten' (a string-tied history published in 1920 on the 70th anniversary of the firm); Six scarce trade catalogs c. 1920s-1940 that illustrate the firm's successful transition from saddles to shoes; Two printing blocks, one for 'Vanco Shoes' and one for 'Vanco Cowboy Outfits'.
Stiff gray folder (9" x 6") with brief history of the Mount Lowe Railway with sea level elevations, maximum grades and inclines with illustrations of the railway. Original photograph showing 46 passengers at the Echo Mountain Terminal. The photo is mounted on the inside right panel and text printed on the folder under the photograph indicates that duplicates of the photograph could be obtained from photographer C.S. Lawrence, Mount Lowe, California, using the number written on the back of the image - in this case, 6034. Slight tanning to covers else a fine copy. The Mount Lowe Railway was the third in a series of scenic mountain railroads in the United States created as a tourist attraction on Echo Mountain and Mount Lowe, north of Los Angeles, California. The railway, originally incorporated by Thaddeus S. C. Lowe as the Pasadena and Mt. Wilson Railroad Co.,[1] existed from 1893 until its official abandonment in 1938, and was the only scenic mountain, electric traction (overhead electric trolley) railroad ever built in the United States.