Imaï.
IMAÏ Toshimitsu IMAÏ Toshimitsu (Japon 1928 2002) IMAÏ. Editeur Yoichi Kimura / Atsushi Oshita, 1989. 198pp. Ouvrage dédicacé « A Lucia Bouchetal, avec toutes mes amitiés ! Paris le 7 oct. 1989 ». Texte en anglais et japonais. Emboîtage dorigine toilé rouge et titré à lor. H360xL360mm. Etat de conservation : Légères traces de manipulation pour lemboîtage, sinon très bel état de conservation.- $670
- $670
Myrtis.
DELAUNAY Bernard; REVERDY Pierre; FARGUE; HESLER Michel Leon-Paul & DELAUNAY Bernard (Né à Poitiers en 1954) REVERDY Pierre, FARGUE Leon-Paul & HESLER Michel Myrtis. 1981. In-folio. H260xL290mm. Ouvrage complet de ses 9 gravures originales en couleurs accompagnées de leur texte. Exemplaire numéroté 9 dun tirage total à 15 exemplaires, sur papier vélin dArches. Imprimé sur les Presses de lENSAD à Paris en Juin 1981. Couverture rigide et ensemble conservé dans son emboîtage toilé beige dorigine. Légères traces de manipulation pour lemboîtage.- $391
- $391
LAdieu.
GERBIER Luc et VILDRAC Charles GERBIER Luc (Né à Saint-Tropez en 1940) VILDRAC Charles LAdieu. 1976. IN-4. In-folio. Paris Ed. Luc Gerbier 1976. H345xL240mm. Ouvrage complet de son texte par Charles Vildrac et des 8 gravures originales à laquatinte par Luc Gerbier. Edition conçue par Luc Gerbier et réalisée à ses dépens. Imprimé sur les Presses de Robert Blanchet. Exemplaire numéroté 8 dun tirage total à 100 exemplaires, et signé au crayon par lartiste sous le colophon. Couverture papier rempliée, avec titre gaufré. Emboîtage cartonné gris dorigine et titré. Rares et infimes rousseurs claires. Luc Gerbier aborde la peinture en 1960 et, quelques années plus tard, la gravure en compagnie de son ami Francis Mockel. A partir de 1972, il participe à diverses expositions collectives qui présentent à l'étranger (Suède, Italie, USA, Espagne, etc.) les courants de la gravure française contemporaine. Ses travaux voisinent avec ceux d'artistes tels que Yves Doare, Hélène Czech, Roland Seneca, Moreh, Enrique Marin, Jean Pierre Velly, etc.- $391
- $391
12 croquis de Frise.
BOGRATCHEW Claude BOGRATCHEW Claude (Né à Paris en 1936). 12 croquis de Frise. 1964. In-folio. H330xL250mm. Ouvrage complet de 12 eaux-fortes originales, sur papier Japon, toutes signées au crayon gris par le graveur, enrichi dune aquarelle et dun dessin titré « Dorrum » (tous deux également signés). Un des 5 exemplaires sur Japon ancien numéroté I (sur V), signé au crayon par lartiste, enrichi dun dessin à lencre en première page et dune dédicace « Pour Henry avec notre amitié ». Tirage total à 75 exemplaires. Les gravures ont été tirées par lartiste sur sa presse. Chemise papier bleuté à rabats, imprimée et titrée. Traces de manipulation pour lemboîtage, sinon bel état de conservation.- $670
- $670
Tulipan.
ABRAM Ronald ABRAM Ronald (1938 1999) Tulipan, 1973. Editions Deckart, à Paris. H450xL610mm. Portfolio complet de ses 13 sérigraphies sur papier calque ou Arch, signées dont 5 imprimées recto verso, une page de texte et un justificatif de tirage. Toutes les planches sont signées et numérotées. Exemplaire numéroté 23/110 (dun tirage total à 125), daté, signé par lartiste et conservé dans son emboitage dorigine titré. Réalisé en présence de lartiste dans les ateliers de sérigraphie Michel Caza à Franconville en 1973. Les dessins, les textes ainsi que la maquette du coffret ont été conçu par lartiste. Bel état de conservation.- $279
- $279
Rotella : Dal décollage alla Nuova Immagine.
Pierre RESTANY ROTELLA Mimmo (Catanzaro 1918 Milan 2006) Rotella : Dal décollage alla Nuova Immagine. Pierre RESTANY. Edizioni Apollinaire, à Milan. 1963. Texte en italien, illustrations en noir & blanc, & couleurs. Exemplaire numéroté 230, dédicacé « Alla simpaticissima Lucia con i piu casi auguri du buon compleanno / Mimmo / Parigi 21 giugno 1965 ». Etat de conservation : Bon état de conservation.- $502
- $502
Fantaisies Romaines
HOUTIN François & EROUART Gilbert HOUTIN François (Né à Mayenne en 1950) et EROUART Gilbert Fantaisies Romaines. 1985 Gravures de François Houtin accompagnées dun texte de Gilbert Erouart. Ancien jardinier-paysagiste, Houtin est notamment connu pour ses gravures de jardins imaginaires. 9 gravures à leau-forte ainsi que la couverture gravée en couleur par lartiste. Ces gravures sont signées, datées et numérotées HC 2/7 crayon. Y est cependant joint une suite de 5 gravures comprenant différents états de la même planche, numérotées 7/10 et signées au crayon. Ouvrage numéroté H.C. 7, parmi les 7 exemplaires réservés aux collaborateurs. Signé au crayon sous le colophon par lauteur et le graveur, et dédicacé à léditrice Michèle Broutta par ce dernier (« Pour Michèle avec tous mes remerciements pour ce livre que nous avons fait ensemble. Amicalement. François »). Imprimé pour le compte de Michèle Broutta, éditions uvres Graphiques Contemporaines, à Paris. In-folio de format oblong, conservé dans son emboîtage cartonné. Excellent état.- $3,350
- $3,350
GLASMALEREIEN FÜR JERUSALEM. TEXT VON JEAN LEYMARIE.
Chagall, Marc 213pp. WITH 2 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS BY CHAGALL. A FINE COPY with the original with the coloured dust-jacket and additional transparent clear plastic cover IN THE ORIGINAL BOX. Contains the double-page separate advertisement.- $500
- $500
I DISEGNI DI RAFFAELLO NEL GABINETTO DEI DISEGNI E DELLE STAMPE DEGI UFFIZI. RIPRODUZIONI IN FACSIMILE. Scede Critiche Di Pierluigi De Vecchi.
RAFFAEL - LARGE FOLIO LIMITED EDITION 234pp,Large folio (35 x 50cm) Italian text incl. 31 plates. Original red leather. Spine partly broken, with wear and loss at heads ( please see photo). Inside very clean clean and fresh copy. One of 999 copies of this beautiful book.- $200
- $200
VALENS AQUAEDUCT – CONSTANTINOPLE – ISTANBUL (Original antique etching)
De BRUYN - CONSTANTINOPLE - ORIGINAL ANTIQUE PRINT - FIRST EDITION Double-leaf with a marine scene on the Bosphorus and two depictions of VALENS AQUAEDUCT (etching is not titled), one of the most famous sites in Istanbul, dating back to Roman times, nowadays also known as "BOZDOGAN KEMERI BRIDGE. Drawn from nature by the famous Dutch traveler and topographer Cornelis de Bruyn (1652-1726) this is an accurate depiction of the late 17th century. FIRST EDITION.Published in " Reizen van Cornelis de Bruyn.". RARE LARGE PAPER EDITION with exceptional large margins. Size of the illustrated area : 36 27cm. - With margins: 48,5 x 39 Strong paper quality, clear imprint of the etching. Margins with light foxing, not visible on the illustration itself.With 1 tiny whole in the left margins not affecthing image.- $180
- $180
ALMANACH DES SCHOCKEN VERLAGS . KOMPLETTES SET IN 6 BÄNDEN auf die Jahre 5694-5699. ( 1933 – 1938/1939). Mit Beiträgen von Kafka, Wolfskehl, Buber, Rosenzweig, Werfel
JÜDISCHER ALMANACH - SCHOCKEN VERLAG ( 1933-1938/9) - COMPLETE SET IN 6 VOLS. Komplett in 6 Bänden. Erschienen 1933-1938 als eine der wenigen deutsch-jüdischen Publikationen bis 1938 während der Nazi-Zeit in Deutschland. Sehr schön erhalten. Selten komplett zu finden.- Jewish-German series published during the Nazi period in Germany 1933-1938/9. Rarely to be found complete.- $300
- $300
CONFESSIO JUDAICA. Ein Auswahl aus seinen Dichtungen, Schriften und Briefen Hrsg. Von DR HUGO BIEBER.
Heine, Heinrich - VORZUGSAUSGABE.(Eines von 300 Ex) VORZUGSAUSGABE. One of 300 copies Auf Bütten und in Ganzleder gebunden.283pp.Photographic portrait of Heine as frontispice. Head andtail of spine and corners with some wear. First and last pages and edges with some foxing. Otherwise very good. VERY RARE EDITION- $100
- $100
The Manufacturing Population of England: its moral, social, and physical conditions, and the changes which have arisen from the use of steam machinery; with an Examination of Infant Labour.
Gaskell, P. 8vo. viii, 361, (2 advts)pp. Uncut in original cloth backed boards, paper label, rebacked with original spine laid down. Title page lightly browned but otherwise good internally. Gaskell was a doctor who worked among the labouring population and here describes the appalling living conditions of many mill workers. He published an expanded and revised version entitled Artisans and Machinery in 1836. Both titles are rare.- $176
- $176
Operations.
RISTELHUEBER (Sophie). . In-4 reliure pleine toile éditeur, jaquette photo. Fort volume de 450 pages. Catalogue raisonné présenté par Bruno Latour. Plusieurs autres textes. Très importante iconographie en couleurs et en noir & blanc. Liste des expositions, bibliographie illustrée, etc. E.O.- $257
- $257
Untitled, from: 12th Anniversary Galeria Joan Prats 1976-88
MOTHERWELL, Robert Lithograph in colours with collage, 1986, on wove paper with Guarro watermark, signed in pencil by the artist, numbered from the edition of 100 (there were also 20 artist's proofs and 10 hors commerce impressions), printed and published by Polígrafa S.A., Barcelona, sheet size: 56 x 38 cm. (22 x 14.9 in.) This work was included in the portfolio "Carpeta Commemorativa 12e Aniversari" (Commemorative 12th Anniversary Portfolio), consisting of 20 lithographs and etchings by numerous artists.- $4,840
- $4,840
Planes of the Great War 1914-1918 With a Foreword by Capt. W.E. Johns.
LEIGH, Howard (illustrator). First edition; 4to (254 x 190 mm); 50 tipped-in collotype plates after etchings by Howard Leigh with descriptions printed opposite, minor spotting most margins but only affecting one or two plates, otherwise good; publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, stain to lower, inner corned, a few spots to endpapers, illustrated dust-jacket, toned, rubbed at extremities and chipped at spine ends and upper corners of flap-folds, otherwise good.- $182
- $182
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
SPARK, Muriel. First edition, first impression; 8vo; minor toning to leaves, else unmarked internally; publisher's sea-green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, slight rubbing to extremities, with the price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Victor Reinganum, a little rubbed on corners and spine ends, slight rubbing and soiling to rear panel, else very good. First published in 'The New Yorker', the novel achieved international success and is recognised as one of the best English novels of the 20th century.- $212
- $212
The Viceroy of Ouidah.
CHATWIN, Bruce. First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, map endpapers, with the price-clipped pictorial dustjacket, Jonathan Cape price label to front flap; near-fine. First edition of the author's second book.- $151
- $151
In Patagonia.
CHATWIN, Bruce. First edition, first impression; 8vo; frontispiece map, plates, map endpapers, unmarked internally; publisher's blue boards, titles to spine gilt, spine ever so slightly cocked, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket; a superb copy in the jacket without the typical fading at the spine. First edition of the author's first book. Scarce thus without the fading at the spine that plagues most copies.- $1,513
- $1,513
The Songlines.
CHATWIN, Bruce. First edition, first impression; 8vo; page stock somewhat toned (as often); publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket, slight toning to spine, minor creasing to head of spine, else very good. Widely considered to be the best work by the British novelist and travel writer, The Songlines is a poignant, elegiac, and cosmic exploration of Australian Aboriginal creation myths interspersed with a running philosophical reverie on the nature of nomads.- $151
- $151
Patagonia Revisited.
CHATWIN, Bruce & THEROUX, Paul. First edition, limited issue, number 240 of 250 copies, signed by the authors; 8vo; illustrations by Kyffin Williams, unmarked internally; publisher's red and grey patterned cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with original glassine dustjacket; a fine copy. One of 250 copies, signed by the authors. A superb copy in the original glassine dustjacket, illustrated by Kyffin Williams.- $333
- $333
The Flight from the Enchanter.
MURDOCH, Iris. First edition, first impression; 8vo; light offsetting and tape residue to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, unclipped pictorial dustjacket by Edward Bawden, with Book Society wraparound band, spine slightly tanned, else an exceptional example. The author's second novel, with intriguing jacket artwork by Edward Bawden (1903-89), one of the most influential artists of his generation. Hard to find in such good condition, especially with the Book Society wraparound band.- $1,513
- $1,513
Eating People is Wrong.
BRADBURY, Malcolm. First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's maroon cloth, silver lettering to spine, with the unclipped printed dustjacket, tanning to top edge, spine and flap folds, dust-soiling to rear panel, slight chipping to head of spine, else very good. First edition of the author's first book. Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE, author and academic, he is often compared with David Lodge, his friend and a contemporary as a British exponent of the campus novel genre. Bradbury drew on his career as a University Lecturer, at Hull, Birmingham and from 1965, the new University of East Anglia where, in 1970, he became professor of American studies; he was to remain in Norwich for the rest of his life.- $151
- $151
Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
CAPOTE, Truman. First UK edition, first impression; 8vo; light spotting to prelims and endpapers, slight toning to leaves, else unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth, silver lettering to spine, with the unclipped dustjacket by Patricia Davey, crentral horizontal crease running around jacket, light spotting and soiling to rear panel, minor rubbing to extremities, else very good. The first UK edition of Truman Capote's renowned novella, the basis for Blake Edward's film of the same name, starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.- $333
- $333
Men at Work. Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines.
HINE, Lewis W[ickes]. First edition, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper; 4to (253 x 203 mm, 10 x 8 in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure; minor foxing to endpapers, green cloth-covered boards, titles to upper side in black, mottling to boards along fore-edge, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, minor wear to edges, minor foxing to verso, price-clipped for presentation, a near-fine copy in a remarkable example of the rare dust-jacket; [48]pp. [With:] LOVEJOY, Owen R. The Negro Children of New York. New York, The Children's Aid Society, 1932. An important presentation copy in a remarkable example of the rare dust-jacket, inscribed: 'To Owen R. Lovejoy / for his never-failing appreciation / of our work, many of the results / being the direct outgrowth of his / suggestions and optimistic criticism. / May his vision never grow dim.' Owen R. Lovejoy was a vehement opposer of child labour. He served as the general secretary of the National Child Labor Committee from 1907 to 1926, where Lewis Hine was a staff photographer and art director of their magazine 'Charities and Commons (later 'The Survey') between 1908 and 1917. Men at Work contains photographs made between 1920 and 1931, issued amid the worst employment crisis the United States had ever known. Hine saw it as a way of reaching out to schoolchildren, providing them with constructive role models and emphasising the human element of industry, with photographs of railroad employees, coal miners, aeroplane assemblers, steelworkers, and others. Among the most striking photographs are Hine's images of the construction of the Empire State Building, which Empire State, Incorporated, had used widely for publicity purposes. Hine always insisted on exerting control over the layout of his photographs, regularly requesting to see magazine proofs before publication. It is probably for this reason that he was not selected to work for the Farm Security Administration during the 1930s, with Roy Stryker, head of the Historical Division of the FSA, expressing concern that Hine may be difficult to employ and that it would be impossible to make the type of arrangements that he would have found satisfactory. Men at Work is the only book of Hine's photographs published in his lifetime. The Photobook: A History I, p126; The Open Book pp1089; Auer Collection p187.- $18,150
- $18,150
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist.
MURDOCH, Iris. First edition, first impression, signed by the author; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's russet cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with the dustjacket, minor rubbing to head of spine and corners, else very good. First edition of the author's first book, a title in the 'Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought' series. Signed by Murdoch on the title page.- $2,118
- $2,118
In This Our Life
Glasgow, Ellen First Edition, First Printing with the words "first edition" printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy SIGNED by Ellen Glasgow on a publisher's page after the endpaper. The book was published January 1941 and this copy is dated April 1941, 3 months after publication. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears with some repair. This First Issue dustjacket has the publisher's $2.50 printed price present on the front flap. The book is bound in the publisher's black cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy seldom seen SIGNED by the author.- $4,500
- $4,500
A Confederacy of Dunces
Toole, John Kennedy First Edition, First Printing. A spectacular copy of this REVIEW COPY SIGNED by Walker Percy on the title page. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. The publisher's printed price of $12.95 is present on the front flap with the Walker Percy blurb printed on the back panel. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with the publisher's Review Slip laid in. We buy Toole First Editions.- $9,500
- $9,500
Ulysses
Joyce, James First Edition, First Printing with the words "First American Edition" printed on the copyright page. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket is rich in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy.- $3,750
- $3,750
Tender is the Night
Fitzgerald, F. Scott First Edition, First Printing with the Scribner's "A" and publisher's seal printed on the copyright page. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has the First Issue points with the earliest blurbs by T.S. Eliot, H.L. Mencken and Paul Rosenfeld printed on the front flap of the dustjacket. Later editions have blurbs by Mary Colum, Gilbert Seldes, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The book is in great shape with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy.- $10,000
- $10,000
The Cruise of the Corwin
Muir, John First Edition, First Printing with the 1917 year printed on the title page. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has the publisher's $2.75 net printed price present on the spine of the dustjacket. The dustjacket has some chipping to spine and edges NOT effecting any lettering. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy with a very good dustjacket.- $500
- $500
[MODERN SHOP WINDOW DISPLAY DESIGN] Pr?bojné aran?ování. 1. díl, Abeceda aran?ování [Cutting edge window design. Vol. 1 of the ABC of window design, series title].
Studio Henrych (Josef Henrych) Prague: self-published (printed by J. Andreska), [1946]. Octavo (25 × 19.2 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 77, [2] pp. 54 illustrations, mostly shop window photographs. Professional repair to spine; light wear, ink stains, and small owner signature to wrappers; still good or better. A post-war publication by the typographer and commercial designer Josef Henrych (1907-1977), apparently a second, expanded edition of his earlier work on "cutting-edge shop window arrangements" published in or around 1945. Atelier Henrych has now become Studio Henrych. The drawn wrapper design incorporating the logo of Studio Henrych is likely also by Henrych. The light-hearted preface, signed "your bespectacled Henrych," contains background information on the author's personal and professional development. Among the topics discussed are the why and how of modern arrangements and display design, the use of price labels, colors, figurines, fonts, photography, varous materials, flowers, drawings, elements of movement, and many other details. The book contains fifty-four images, mostly photographs of sample shop window arrangements showing Henrych's cutting-edge approach.As of April 2024, KVK, OCLC show only the copy held by the Czech National Library.- $447
- $447
[CONSTRUCTIVISM ? PHOTOMONTAGE ? AVIATION] Samolet: organ Soiuza Aviakhim SSSR. [Airplane: organ of the Aviakhim Union of the USSR.]. Vol. II, no. 4 (April 1925).
Moscow: ODVF (Society of Friends of the Air Fleet), 1925. Large quarto (35.2 × 26.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers, 56 pp. Numerous illustrations, mostly from photographs. Light overall wear to spine and wrapper edges; professional restoration to spine and rear wrapper; else about very good, given the large format. Single issue of the exceedingly rare journal ?Samolet? (Airplane), published by the "Society of Friends of the Air Fleet". The original iteration of the journal was published in thirty-one issues from 1924 to 1926 and served as the primary print organ for early Soviet aviation enthusiasts. It eventually became aligned with the Soviet Society for National Defense, Aviation and Chemical Construction which operated until 1948, and the title was changed in 1926. The organization trained the Soviet public in aviation and chemical defense. As part of the program, the organization provided semi-extra curricular training (via a network of circles and teams) in defense and action in case of air and chemical attacks. Citizens were also encouraged to take an aviation test, which included basic parachute deployment, and receive certification in ?preparedness for air and chemical attacks.? The present journal contains articles on ODVF, the Society of Friends of the Air Fleet, the first non-professional aviation association in the Soviet Union, various advances in aviation and flight technology, the use of planes for transportation, how photographs are taken from the air, aviation propaganda among children, and the use of "agitpolety", long-distance flights used for propagandistic and educational goals.The journal is perhaps most noteworthy for the large poster-like avant-garde photo-montage designs to rear wrappers, most of which were unsigned, but which also included work by Aleksandr Rodchenko and David Shterenberg.As of February 2024, these early issues could not be traced via KVK, OCLC.- $279
- $279
ON ARCHITECTURE SELECTED WRITINGS 1894 – 1940
Wright, Frank Lloyd Oblong thick small quarto. Cloth. Private bookplate on front pastedown. Usual slight tanning to endsheets, otherwise about fine in very good, or better, spine-sunned dust jacket, with the jacket price ($3.50) intact, and with a few minor nicks and smudges. First edition, edited, with an introduction, by Frederick Gutheim. SWEENEY 532.- $150
- $150
REQUIEM AND OTHER POEMS
Rilke, Rainer Maria 147pp. Errata slip. Cloth. Portrait. Bookplate on front pastedown, with typical foxing to end leaves, otherwise very good in somewhat tanned and lightly nicked and chipped dust jacket. First edition of these translations by J.B. Leishman. Printed in an edition of 1075 copies. WOOLMER 375.- $250
- $250
Celebrating Peace Day, Rotorua
Soper, George Original watercolour painted by George Soper which was reproduced as a lithograph in The Graphic, July 19, 1902. The picture shows Maori women dancing around a bonfire, watched by a large group in a general celebration of the ending of the Boer War. Soper (1870-1942) was an English artist and illustrator, whose work appeared in numerous magazine and papers. This is the original painting of a well-known, and widely reproduced image, thus very special.- $2,348
- $2,348
Ashburton campsite, New Zealand
Photograph of 'The camp at mouth of the Ashburton, March 1905'.The image shows a number of cabins and tents on a rather bleak campsite above a beach at the mouth of the Ashburton river. Some foxing on mount, but the photographic print is clean. 15 x 10.5 on 25.5 x 20 mount.- $105
- $105
The Last of the Arctic Voyages: being a Narrative of the Expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher in search of Sir John Franklin.
BELCHER, Capt. Sir Edward 2 vols. Full contemporary calf. Complete with all plates, coloured lithographs and folding maps. A handsome complete copy.- $1,883
- $1,883
The Central Route from Chicago to San Francisco is 500 Miles The Shortest
[Western Americana - Railroads] Chicago and North-Western Railroad Chicago, 1882 Chicago: Rand, McNally and Co, 1882. Lithographic broadside illustration printed in color measuring 11 x 5 ¾ inches. Closed tear to margin, paper reinforcement to corners verso, very good condition, quite bright and attractive. Very Good. An attractive advertisement for the Chicago and North-Western's routes to San Francisco, printed during the tenure of the railroad tycoon Marvin Hughitt as General Manager, a position he held from 1876 to 1880 before being named Second Vice President. The advertisement was printed by Rand, McNally and Company, which in its early years focused on railroad-related materials. The Omaha and California line of the Chicago and North-West Railway connected passengers from Chicago to California. Other maps printed by Rand, McNally and Co. during the period illustrate the route. We find no other examples of this broadside.- $950
- $950
Four Mounted Photographs of Deadwood and Lead City, South Dakota
[Western Americana - Photography] Locke, Henry Robinson Deadwood, 1890 Deadwood: H.R. Locke, 1890. Albumen photographs measuring 9 x 7 inches on larger mounts. Very good contrast, some chips and wear to mounts. Very Good. A group of four photographs by Henry Robinson Locke, who operated a studio in Deadwood, South Dakota in the early statehood years. He photographed the Black Hills region. This collection of four photographs shows a gold mill in Deadwood, a cyanide mill in Deadwood, and two views of Lead City, which was the home of the Homestake Mining Company during the period, and continued to be a center for natural resource extraction for several decades following the initial Gold Rush period of the 1870s which brought the first wave of Euro-American settlers to the area.- $1,500
- $1,500
Scenes in the Philippines / Cuba….. / Porto Rico / The Hawaiian Isands / And scenes Relating to Soldiers. J.D. Givens, Photographer / San Francisco, CA. [Supplied Title] [251 Half-Tone Photographs of the Philippine-American War]
[Philippine-American War - Photography] Givens, James D.; Rockett, Perley Fremont San Francisco, 1905 San Francisco, 1905. Loose photographs in box, images measuring 5 x 7 inches. 251 Half-Tone images, generally fine condition, box torn with missing panel. Fine images and good-only box. Fine. James D. Givens had a studio in San Francisco's Presidio for many years, and traveled to the Philippines in 1903 on an Army transport ship, where he took photographs of the Philippine-American War. This collection, with Givens' studio's imprint on the box, contains a mix of Givens work as well as many photographs by Perley Fremont Rockett, and many photographs by uncredited photographers, copied and sold by Givens without attribution. According to an article in the Spring, 2002 issue of Prologue, Givens would publish several different later books claiming credit for other photographers' work. This collection - of which we find no record, save for a similar assemblage with a different title housed at Stanford - seems to be earlier, likely pre-1905. Despite the title on the box, all but a couple of images show the Philippines. The numbering system at work in the photographs is inconsistent, with some of Givens' images having their own numbering system different from the typed captions, and Rockett's images with different numbers in the negative. This collection contains 251 images, whereas Stanford's contains only 229, though due to the numbering inconsistencies we cannot collate for completeness. Regardless, a rare and interesting collection of images of the conflict, with the violence on graphic display and many images showing domestic Filipino scenes.- $1,500
- $1,500
An Archive of Songs, Some Annotated, and a Partial Draft of Guthrie’s Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People from the Collection of Harold Ambellan, Guthrie’s Collaborator and Benefactor
[Music - Folk Music] Guthrie, Woodrow Wilson; Ambellin, Harold New York, 1940 New York, 1940. Eighty-five pages, including sixty loose pages and a partial draft of Guthrie's Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People, totaling twenty-five pages. With one handwritten page. One page - a typewritten copy of "The Ballad of Harry Bridges" - with a handwritten note by Guthrie to Ambellan. With photocopies of several letters from Guthrie to Ambellan included. Also with a broadside of the Carol Tree Carol by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax (1940) and a notecard with the lyrics to "Hawl Away Joe" written Inscription states "Here you are Harold, hope it aint late. Well if it is will be singing about old Harry for a many a day to come. Pour it on em, Boy. Woody G. A fascinating collection of material from the collection of Harold Ambellan, Woodie Guthrie's friend, collaborator and landlord during an important creative period for Guthrie in the 1940s. The group contains a partial draft of Guthrie's Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People, which was written while Guthrie was living in Ambellan's loft, as well as a collection of over sixty loose songsheets not included in the book. Of these, over thirty are not listed in Tulsa's Woody Guthrie Center finding aid. The sixty pages include variant titles and verses to recorded and published versions, with some items attributed to Ledbelly, and overall the group should shed light on scholar's efforts to map out the landscape of the American folk song at the time of Guthrie's work. The typescript draft generally matches the published version, with the occasional typo. Nora Guthrie writes in her introduction to Hard Hitting Songs of the influence of Ambellan on Guthrie's creative process. Ambellan was an artist and sculptor and part time musician, and Guthrie lived in Ambellan's loft on 21st Street. "The loft was mostly filled with Ambellan's sculptures, which were abstract and very large. However, the couple managed to throw a cot up in the back of the loft for Woody to crash on... Evenings at the loft often included impromptu hootenannies, where Woody and Pete's [Seeger] musician friends would gather to raise some money to help pay the Ambellans' rent... There was a lot of singing, and a lot of songwriting, and it was in the 21st Street loft that Hard Hitting Songs came into existence." Guthrie wrote "Vigilante Man" and "Hard Travellin" while staying at the Ambellans' loft. Nora Guthrie continues: " Alan Lomax's father, John Lomax, had collected a group of songs that dealt with migrant workers', share crop farmers', and industrial workers' issues, many of the lyrics protesting workers' conditions and advocating for their rights. At the time, the material was considered 'too hot to handle' by government employees, so Alan handed it over to Pete [Seeger] and Woody to browse through. They loved the material and together with Alan, they decided to create a new songbook they would embellish with their own writings and commentary, as well as some additional original songs. Working fourteen hours a day, they completed the songbook in about five months. [...] The manuscript, which they had titled Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People, was left behind in the loft, literally saved by Elisabeth Higgens until its existence became known in the 1960s, when it was first published in 1967." Overall a very scarce relic of an important period in Guthrie's career with a fantastic association. Guthrie ephemera and archival pieces are notoriously scarce on the market, with single letters occasionally surfacing.- $12,500
- $12,500
A Long Account of a Violent Attempt to Occupy Land in Chihuahua by a Canadian Citizen Working for a Plumas County-Based Mining Company, 1883
[Mexico - Land Schemes - Mining - California - Misdeeds] Unknown Author Quincy, 1883 Quincy, 1883. 8 x 6 inches. Twenty page letter by an unknown author written to his mother. Some tears, quite legible, very good overall. Very Good. [Warning - this description contains violent content and racist language] A long, highly unusual and and descriptive letter written by an employee of a mining company based in Quincy who leaves San Francisco for Guaymas before heading into the mountains on a very violent journey in which he attempts to occupy land in the hills outside of Guaymas based on an incorrect assumption that his Canadian citizenship will allow him to circumvent Mexican laws regarding American seizure of land. After getting arrested and possibly extorted by Mexican forces, he is eventually freed when a British captain finds him and persuades the Governor to formally charge him with a crime. He is acquitted in court in Chihuahua, and closes the letter by lamenting the lack of opportunity in California and the United States more broadly, as he is eventually sent back to California unsuccessful in his endeavors. He begins the letter by describing his employment by a Plumas County-based company, which we are unable to identify, before describing his arrival in Guaymas and the trip into the mountains. He writes, "I hired a couple 'hard cases' to take charge and look after the greasers - I had 20 of them - as a guard. Of al. the incorrigible lot of thieves and cutthroats commend me to the average Mexican for the first three days out we had to keep watch... to prevent the scoundrels from deserting with the whole train and goods, but after we got them in the mountains we had more control over them, particuarly after Maxwell one of my white desperadoes caught "Jesus" (every other Lousy Indians named 'Jesus' or after some other saint) trying to sneak off the fifth night with his mustang and two pack mules, for he took a short way of stopping him, which was simply shooting him. This had a good effect on the other fellows." After he arrives at his destination in the mountains - in an unnamed town, he then describes building a "fort or hacienda... so that in case of attack I could make a good fight or 'hold the fort.'" After sending notice of his arrival to Guaymas, a brigade of soldiers arrives to arrest him based on charges of "[taking] possession of Mexican soil, [building] a fort and [holding] it with armed men." He is then imprisoned in his house and put under guard, and though he thinks he could have bribed any of the guards and escaped to Guaymas and back home, he does not due to the three thousand dollars of the company's money deposited at the "German bankers" in Guaymas. Choosing to stay, he writes a letter to the agent at Quincy, which is burned by the guard. He writes another letter, puts it in a bottle with directions for a carrier, and positions his hammock at the edge of his fort, waiting to pass the letter to someone outside the walls. His chance comes when a number of British ships enter the port and he is able to pass his note to a commander of the HMS Comus while visiting the town square with his captors. The captain of the ship, possibly James East, eventually has a meal with the author and his captors, making inquiry into the author's detention a the hands of the Governor. He writes, " the captain gentrly requested a little explanation from his Excellency as to my detention for months without a charge being made against me... his excellency of course was much astonisthed that my letters had never reached their destination, that was the only reason that I had been detained (of course the old rascal did not hint at the $3000 which he had hoped I would have given him long ago...)." The Captain is successful in securing the author's freedom, at which point the author returns to Guaymas and eventually takes up residence in the house of the banker, a Mr. Goldberg, who is holding the company's funds. He writes to his company in California, and awaits formal charges from 'Don Cavallo,' which eventually arrive. He leaves for Chihuahua and is "met with quite a crowd of English-American and Californians, who were quite ready to back [him] in anything [he] wished..." He is charged with illegal seizure of land, and states in the letter that he had been under the impression he had allowed to take it as he was not a resident of the United States but instead "had sworn allegiance to Victoria (it is later revealed that he is Canadian). It becomes clear that the company had attempted to use him in this land grab plot due to his not being a US citizen. The court dismisses his case and returns his money, stating that he had been ignorant of the law, after which he returns to California and explains the situation to his bosses, who put him on a different case involving a quartz mine. He is saddened by his inability to make money and relates this to his mother, stating "I am getting used to failure to make money, after all I do desire great riches for myself as my tastes are simple enough if I became a California Banana King tomorrow I would probably be in the interior of Africa in six months, I would like to get some money for you though..." The letter ends with talk of friends and family back home in Canada. The author offers the following advice to a family member considering coming to California, "if he has not money sufficient to start in some business, or to take him out of the country again he will be sorry that he ever came. If he wishes to waste a dozen years of his life in learning a totally new way of living let him come. But let him go to Montana he will bet all he wants of a new country there. California is fearfully overcrowded with fellows from the east allured by stores of sudden acquired wealth, where one succeeds 1000 fail. California is after all a poor country." He signs the letter as John. Overall a fascinating account of a failed attempt at a land grab by a Canadian citizen working for a California mining company in Plumas County - unusual in its detail and scope.- $1,500
- $1,500
Lengthy Letter Describing the Food and Scenery of Vera Cruz, Written by Captain George Clutter of Wheeling, [West] Virginia, Captain of the the ‘Mountain Boys of Monongolia.’
[Mexican-American War - Correspondence - Food] Clutter, George Vera Cruz, 1847 Vera Cruz, 1847. Folded letter to Wheeling, Virginia with learly struck two-line datestamp with "Paid 10" manuscript rate and blue "Steam" handstamp of New Orleans on 1847, with an unusual "Steam" marking applied in New Orleans. Fine condition. Fine. A descriptive and interesting letter from Captain George W. Clutter of Wheeling, Virginia, describing the scenes and food in Vera Cruz in detail. Clutter had enlisted a detachment of thirty-two men in early 1847 in Monongalia County for service in the war, who would eventually become known as the "Mountain Boys of Monongalia." Clutter was promoted to the captaincy upon the resignation of John Tyler. The company sailed in June of 1847 on the Brig "Tuckahoe" from Old Point Comfort to Point Isabel, where they marched to join General Taylor's forces. This interesting letter, written by Clutter from Vera Cruz, describes the city and cuisine of Vera Cruz in detail. He writes, "I am now boarding at the best Hotel in the city - it is called "Bells Stage House'. It is kept by a German lady, in great grandeur. The quantity of fruit here is astonishing. Oranges are for sale at about the rate apples would sell in the Wheeling market. I only wish I could send you and the children some of them - such ones as you never eat in the United States, as it would be impossible to carry them so far without rotting. As we get dinner here at 3 o'clock and no such thing as supper is known, I stepped out this evening and obtained a 'cup of chocolate' and 'toast'. If an American (or rather United States) cook could taste such chocolate as the Mexicans make, they never would attempt making the article again - and it is not so much in the simple making of the chocolate, but it's in preparing it at the start - for every family, even the provost, understands making the article from the Cocoa." Clutter offers additional details on troop movements and logistics of the campaign. Other letters by Clutter during the period are held at the West Virginia Regional History Center at WVU. Full contents follow: Vera Cruz, Mexico Thursday Sept. 30th 1847 When I wrote to you from the Brazos, I felt in rather a bad humor, and as I have arrived at this splendid city, the first splendid place I have found in Mexico, I will endeavor to write to you more at length than I did from the above named place. We left the Brazos at 5 o'clock P.M. on Monday, on board the Steamship Ohio, and without ever seeing the sun once during the voyage, arrived here today (Thursday) about 11 o'clock A.M. - truly a quick trip. None of our Regiment, except those who were favored with a passage on the Ohio, in Company with Brig. Genl. Cushing, are here yet. Those of our Regiment here, are as follows: Lieut. Col. Withers, Capt. Clay & his Company and Capt. Campbell & your humble servant, who came upon the sick list. I am much improved since the commencement of the voyage and will with a day or two's rest be able to take up the line of march by the time the Regiment gets ready to move forward to join Genl. Scott. [I must explain here, the balance of the Regiment is coming in ships, which may detain them two or three days, in which event I will have become rested]. I am now boarding at the best Hotel in the city - it is called "Bells Stage House'. It is kept by a German lady, in great grandeur. The quantity of fruit here is astonishing. Oranges are for sale at about the rate apples would sell in the Wheeling market. I only wish I could send you and the children some of them - such ones as you never eat in the United States, as it would be impossible to carry them so far without rotting. As we get dinner here at 3 o'clock and no such thing as supper is known, I stepped out this evening and obtained a 'cup of chocolate' and 'toast'. If an American (or rather United States) cook could taste such chocolate as the Mexicans make, they never would attempt making the article again - and it is not so much in the simple making of the chocolate, but it's in preparing it at the start - for every family, even the provost, understands making the article from the Cocoa. In this City may be seen all the fashionable, fine buildings and streets to be found in any city of the United States. Also, all the various, fancy and other goods now in the cities of the North & East can be found here. I have not yet found another horse since my arrival, but must try and get one tomorrow. I hope my friend Pollock will receive the Mexican roan, 'J.B.' which I sent him from Brazos. From hard usage he is not in very good order at present, but with little care will be a very useful horse. Don't you ever ask the privilege of riding him, however. Mind I know him well. As you have heard before this, Genl. Scott is in the City of Mexico, having sustained a very heavy loss in getting there. We expect to have considerable fighting between here and the City of Mexico ourselves. Time, however, will reveal all things. The soreness in my legs which I complained of is better, but I fear exercise will cause it to return. What it will terminate in I am unable to say at present. I received a letter from you at this place today, which was read with the usual interest, notwithstanding it was written on the 13th August, 17 days previous to the last one received at Sabinito, which was dated 30th August. I have just bought five Vera Cruz papers, which I will send you. They are half Mexican, which half you can dispose of as you see proper. By the bye, Mr. Fleeson promised to send you the Matamoros Flag regular. Tell me if you get it. Oct. 1st 1847 This morning I have been all over the city. It would take me a month to describe all the curiosities I have beheld. I will save that for a private chat some long evening, after my return. I would like to have you, Dear little Ada, to examine and see the curiosities to be seen. When papa comes home he will bring you some of them. My love to Sarah Ann. I would write longer to her had I time. My love to all my friends & acquaintances. I am Dearest Sarah your loving husband Geo. W. Clutter [to] Sarah M. Clutter.- $950
- $950
Muster Roll for Company B of the First Battalion, Native Cavalry California Volunteers [“Californio Lancers”] – Aug. 31, 1865
[Mexican - Americana, California - Civil War - California Native Cavalry] Camp Low, 1865 Camp Low, 1865. Original partially printed document, 26cm x 77cm. Printed on both sides of the sheet, completed in manuscript. Darkening at folds from old tape repairs; partial splits to folds and extremities; complete and quite Good. Docketed verso, signed in ink by Lieutenant M[organ?] Owen. Lists twelve enlisted soldiers, most with Spanish surnames (two with French surnames). Fine. The formation of the California Native Cavalry in 1863 marked a significant chapter in the state's history. Comprising primarily Mexican-American individuals, colloquially referred to as "native" Californians, the California Native Cavalry unit was formed 1863. Initially commanded by Maj. Andreas Pico, a distinguished hero from the Mexican-American War, and later under Salvador Vallejo, the regiment drew its ranks from diverse backgrounds. Recruitment efforts began with vaqueros from southern California, expanding to include individuals from San José and San Francisco. The unit boasted a varied composition, encompassing not only Mexican-Americans but also Chilenos, California and Yaqui Indians, and even French legionnaires. Company "B," a contingent largely recruited from the northern part of the state, is reflected in the existing muster roll. The company assembled at Camp Low near San Juan Bautista in 1865, making a striking entrance into the town. Described as "gay and gallant Spanish lancaroes," the cavalrymen presented a formidable sight with lances in hand and flags flying, leaving a lasting impression on the townspeople who had never before encountered soldiers."The gay and gallant Spanish lancaroes [sic] came dashing through the town with the lances in their hand, a flag flying from each of them. I assure you that they presented a war like appearance, the people here had never seen a soldier in their lives - Yes Sir!.." (letter, Maj. Michael O'Brien to Gov. Frederick Low, January 1865; quoted in Prezelski, "Lives of the Californio Lancers: the First Battalion of Native California Cavalry" in Journal of Arizona History, v.40, no.1 (Spring 1999). Under the command of Capt. Porfirio Jimeno, Company B swiftly engaged in a critical mission: dismantling the notorious Mason-Henry Gang that had terrorized the San Juan region in the preceding months. Despite successfully wounding John Mason in early April 1865, the gang persisted for another month until Mason met his demise at the hands of a miner he sought to kidnap. However, Company B faced challenges, including low morale and a high rate of desertions, with over 40 men leaving the company in 1865 alone. Transferred to Tubac, Arizona Territory, to confront the Apaches, the company encountered further desertions along the way. The muster roll, listing only twelve soldiers alongside Capt. Porfirio Jimeno, reflects this tumultuous period. Overall the muster roll provides scarce documentation of the role of Mexican-Americans in the Civil War, with few other examples in the trade or institutionally.- $4,250
- $4,250
A 19th-century Seafaring Shantyman’s Daybook Kept on a Journey to Brazil on a Steam Frigate
[Life at Sea - 1860s - Brazil - Musicology] Littlefield, Otis Massachusetts, Brazil, et al., 1861 Massachusetts, Brazil, et al., 1861. (Newport, England; Bahia, Brazil; Vp, MA and ME; Charleston, SC): (April 20, 1860 - March 1, 1861). Large 16mo (3" x 5"; 76 x 127mm). Pocket journal(s) in marbled self-wrappers rebound in contemporary or old boards; front board absent, back board present but detached, scuffed, bumped, and rubbed. 48 leaves machine-ruled paper, paginated in pencil, comprising approx 82pp mss text recto-verso also in pencil; original marbled self-wrapper and first signature detached from a shaken text block, internally uniformly toned with some smudging. Manuscript contains text of three (3) 19th-century sea shanties, some of which showing possibly unattested verse variants. Good. In this journal, American mariner Otis Littlefield vividly documents one important phase of his career as a rigger on a 19th-century transatlantic shipping vessel. He names himself as author at the outset, and announces the scope and purpose of his narrative: "[This is] the journal of Otis Littlefield showing some of the events that transpired on his passage from Newport, [England], to Bahia in Brazil on board the ship Tranquebar [under Captain] Goodwin. We sailed Friday, 20 April [1860]. It is called an unlucky day...." In what follows, Littlefield does not only describe his passage to Brazil; instead, he also records his subsequent northbound voyage to America, with port calls in Bath, ME, and Charleston, SC, respectively, and his final return voyage to England early the next year. Apart from Littlefield's proem, there is only limited internal evidence to establish his identity, or his place of birth. However, his scattered references to "the folks Downeast," and his ostensible familiarity with the port of Bath, ME, do suggest that he was a denizen of that latter state. External evidence more securely corroborates this e.g. a listing in a Maine census of 1860, and later a federal census of 1870; an epitaph of 1922, housed in the Maine tombstone surname indices, and supplementary records in other Maine cemetery archives; and abundant holdings in the Maine Vital Records. In sum, it is very likely that Otis Littlefield was born in 1843 Chelsea, ME, and that he died in Augusta in 1922. His ship was certainly of Maine extraction: a decade later, South Carolina shipping records of 1870 do mention a certain Ship Tranquebar, whose embarking port was Richmond, ME, with its regular destination port in Liverpool, England. Against the broader context of Littleton's youthful career at sea, this journal necessarily begins in medias res. In an entry of May, 1860, just one month after his April embarkation from England, Littlefield notes he has been at sea six months to the day. What happened in the five months prior is, of course, uncertain, but what follows unto the conclusion of this journal constitutes a very thrilling story. Littlefield vividly describes catching flying fish for dinner; eating the sickening flesh of a porpoise, whose braised brain veritably poisoned his superior officers; stalking unhygienic cockroaches below deck; collecting desperately needed rainwater, both for drinking and washing; making various strategic alliances with with crew members, and seeing intense fights on board; longing for home, and the idyllic farm life he left behind; seeing sharks, and "a whale as long as our long boat" [p12]; and repairing his own clothes and making a checkerboard to pass the time. Furthermore, Littlefield's account of 1860 Bahia, with contemporary recollections of his first view of its plantations and surrounding landscape, are likewise compelling, and they will be of interest to students of Brazilian colonial history. It may be musicologists, though, who are most impressed by Littlefield's journal, because it retains the text of three early shanties in manuscript form: "Annie Lisle," the verses of which conclude with one of Littlefield's droll but mysterious illustrations [pp 14-16]; "All the Girls Around the Horn" [pp 38-41]; and the "Salt Horse Shanty" [pp 43-44]. It is conceivable that Littlefield's three shanties are among the earliest extant in manuscript form; they do, at the very least, evidence important textual variants in comparison to other known iterations. Overall an engaging and substantive seafaring journal.- $1,750
- $1,750
‘Go For Broke’ / 442nd Combat Team Song
[Japanese-Americana - World War Two - 442nd Infantry Regiment] Hamada, Harry Hattiesburg, 1944 Hattiesburg: Earl M. Finch, 1944. Sheet music measuring 12 x 9 inches, 4 pp. Signature of a Nabuko Hayashida on front cover. Slight tears at fold, some toning, two small pinholes, very good overall, quite attractive. Very Good. In Hawaii in May 1942, a battalion of Nisei volunteers was assembled for service in World War Two, despite earlier failures of efforts to recruit Japanese-Americans due to the Army's labeling of Nisei recruits as 4-C enemy aliens. Designated as the 100th Infantry Battalion, they were deployed to North Africa in June 1943, integrating with the 34th Division in active combat. Their subsequent deployment to Italy in September 1943 exposed them to intense warfare, earning them the moniker of the "Purple Heart Battalion" due to their notably high casualty rate. In January 1943, the U.S. War Department officially declared the establishment of the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT), which was comprised of Nisei volunteers originating from Hawaii and the mainland. The culmination of this initiative transpired in June 1944 when the 442nd RCT merged forces with the 100th Infantry Battalion in Europe, subsequently absorbing the latter into its structure. The notable achievements of Nisei soldiers in combat operations prompted the reinstatement of the draft in January 1944, specifically targeting Nisei detainees to augment the ranks of the 442nd. Over time, the 442nd RCT expanded to encompass the 2nd, 3rd, and 100th Battalions; the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion; the 232nd Engineering Company; the 206th Army Band; Anti-Tank Company; Cannon Company; and Service Company. Offered here is a very scarce piece of sheet music entitled "Go For Broke," which was written by the Hawaiian musician Harry Hamada, reflecting the slogan of the 442nd, and performed by Shelby and others during the war as part of efforts to boost morale. Hamada would feature in the 1951 movie "Go For Broke" as Masami alongside several other veterans of the 442nd. This publication of "Go For Broke" is from 1944, seven years before the movie's release. The piece is dedicated to Colonel C.W. Pence. Hamada was a Hawaiian musician who performed with a band called the Shelby Hawaiians or the Shelby Serenaders. They performed as early as 1943. The Hattiesburg, Mississippi merchant Earl M. Finch, who ran an Army and Navy store close to Camp Shelby, befriended Hamada and other members of the 442nd and acted as a sponsor for the group, and eventually published this version despite his business being a dry goods merchant house and not a publishing house. The group, with the support of Finch, performed throughout the country to lift morale. At some point Hamada penned this composition, likely in 1944, as we find no reference to it in 1943 articles, and Finch published it - Hamada's composition would become the theme song of the 442nd, and Hamada would perform at the Halloran General Hospital in New York and the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1944, likely performing this composition. Another composition called "Go For Broke" exists as well, and it is unclear to what degree Hamada's work caught on among the regiment. We find two records of Finch's published version of the composition, one listed as part of an online remembrance of the 442nd by the Smithsonian Institution (https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/day-remembrance-70-years-after-executive-order-9066), which appears to have been on loan from the National Japanese American Historical Society, and another copy held at Stanford, though not listed in OCLC. Finch's story is also interesting, and is the subject of a remembrance on a 100th Battalion History page online (https://www.100thbattalion.org/history/stories/earl-finch/). We find no copies listed in OCLC. Overall a very scarce piece of Japanese-American wartime history.- $2,500
- $2,500
Document Noting the Capture of Patrick Keegan and Patrick O’Brien for the Murder of Colonel Henry F. O’Brien who Was Murdered in the New York Race Riots, and the Payment of a Reward for the Capture, Signed by New York City Mayor George Opdyke and Others
[Irish-Americana - New York Race Riots] [O'Brien, Colonel Henry] Opdyke, George, et al. New York, 1863 New York, 1863. Document measuring 9 ¾ x 8 inches, folded. Signed by George Opdyke and others. Very Good with some splitting at folds else fine. Very Good. In July 1863, the Civil War draft in New York City led to protests, escalating into widespread riots by July 14th. The Irish-born Colonel Henry O'Brien, who had been put in charge of recruiting for the New York 11th Infantry, would die gruesomely in the riots, highlighting the class elements of the unrest which existed alongside the racial elements. Born in Ireland in the 1820s, O'Brien had served with Company H of the 155th New York State Infantry before resigning in February 1863. He returned to New York, promoted to Colonel in June, tasked with recruiting for the 11th New York State Volunteers. The aggressive mandate coincided with high casualty rates for Irish New Yorkers in the Union Army. The Battle of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg increased the challenges, coupled with the perceived injustice of the $300 exemption clause in the Conscription Act. To protest the draft, thousands gathered in Central Park on July 13th, marching across the city. In the 18th Ward, armed protesters gathered on 14th Street. Reports of a threatening mob on Second Avenue and 34th Street prompted police response. O'Brien, offering aid, saw his house attacked, but spared from fire as he didn't own it. Chaos ensued as police faced resistance, and O'Brien led military reinforcements from the 11th NYSV. Attempts to disperse the crowd resulted in violent clashes, with bullets causing casualties, including two children. A fierce battle at the Union Steam Works led to O'Brien's gruesome death at the hands of the rioters, after he had returned to his house likely in a misguided attempt to salvage any belongings. Though multiple assailants caused O'Briens death, no one was ever convicted of the crime, partially due to the mob's intimidation of witnesses and the complicity of his neighbors in the murder. The first people arrested were Patrick Keegan and Patrick O'Brien, after the coroner deemed them responsible. However the charges were later dropped. No one would ever be convicted of the crime. Offered here is the original certification of the arrest of Keegan and O'Brian, signed by multiple officials including George Opdyke, the mayor of New York. The document was first certified by an official with the last name Ramsey, then signed both by the mayor and the officers Albert Bogart and Valentine Gass, who were responsible for the apprehension of Keegan and O'Brian, acknowledging the receipt of the $100 reward. The document is docketed, and crosshatched writing notes from the comptroller's office note the payout to Gass and Valentine. Opdyke's note states that he offered the reward initially on July 22nd. We find no similar documents relating to the riots in the trade, with the closest examples being contemporary manuscript accounts of the riots which turn up occasionally. Overall a remarkable ephemeral survival of the riots and the death of Henry O'Brien. References: Reynolds, Kelly Ann. Henry F. O'Brien, The Man Murdered by the Mob. Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, accessed online at: https://ethnic-village.org/henry-f-obrien-the-colonel-murdered-by-the-mob/, 1/24.- $2,750
- $2,750
The Speech of Robert Emmet, Esq. As Delivered at the Sessions House, Dublin, Before Lord Norbury, One of the Chief Judges
[Irish-American Imprints - Robert Emmet] Emmet, Robert; Barralet, John James [Artist] Seymour, Samuel [engraver]; Simms, John [Printer] Philadelphia, 1814 Philadelphia, 1814. Composite broadside measuring 20 ½ x 17 inches, consisting of an engraving credited to Barralet and Seymour measuring 17 x 13 inches at upper portion and the text of Emmet's speech, measuring 17 ½ x 7 ½ inches on lower portion. Verso with various reinforcements including with two manuscript receipts dated 1814, which would date the print to around that time, when all three men were in Philadelphia. "No 111" written in margin in ink. Various creases, small tears and some soiling to engraving, good overall and quite presentable. Good. A fabulous mock-up for a broadside created by the artist John James Barralet, the engraver Samuel Seymour, and the printer John Binns in Philadelphia, this being a preliminary version of OCLC 191261216, which would be entitled A correct copy of the speech of Robert Emmet, Esq. delivered at the Sessions House, Dublin, on the 19th September, 1803, before Lord Norbury, one of the chief judges of the Court of King's Bench, and others, before whom he had been convicted of high treason. The design was used for a broadside printed by Menzel and Co. and copyrighted in 1852, as well as a version by the Irish-American publisher William Smith of Philadelphia several decades after the original. OCLC locates two copies but may have the date incorrectly listed as 1803, which despite being the date of Emmet's death was actually four years before Binns moved to Philadelphia, and several years before the receipts on the verso. Overall the broadside represents an early and significant expression of Irish-American anti-English sentiment. "[Binns] was exposed to the advanced ideas of the Irish patriots and Volunteers, making him a republican. Between 1792 and 1794 he played a small role in the Dublin Society of United Irishmen, which was seeking parliamentary reform and Catholic emancipation. In 1794 he moved to London, where he worked first in the plumbing trade, then lived off the fees from hiring out debating rooms that he rented in the Strand. He joined the radical London Corresponding Society and was soon prominent on its executive committee. In 1796 Binns traveled the provinces as an LCS delegate hoping to revive the movement for political reform. In Birmingham he was arrested for uttering seditious words in a public house. After long delays he was acquitted in 1797, probably because a sympathetic court official rigged the jury. Soon thereafter, Binns left the LCS, but almost certainly joined the underground revolutionary United Irishmen in London (his comments on this part of his life in his autobiography are disingenuous). He was arrested twice more, the most important occasion, in February 1798, leading to a charge of high treason. Again he was acquitted, although one of his associates, the Catholic priest James O'Coigley, was hanged. In March 1799 he was jailed under the Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act and released after nearly two years." -ANB Barralet and Seymour's involvement were also significant. Barralet had emigrated from Ireland several decades earlier. Seymour would later gain fame for his illustrations of westward Euro-American travels among indigenous Americans, and being a native-born Englishman his involvement in this project is notable. Overall a very scarce early Irish-American broadside, this being the third known copy and the only which exists in draft form.- $7,500
- $7,500
18th-century American Schoolboy’s Computation Notebook, Kept by Joseph Brewer of Maryland, Using Aspects of Trade and Diplomacy as the Basis for Mathematic Exercises
[History of Science and Mathematics - Children's History] Brewer, Joseph Maryland, 1787 Maryland, 1787. One Volume. "Arithmetic Book." Brewer, Joseph (Newton). [Maryland]: June 17, 1786 - (April 21,1789, or after). Folio, half calf bdg, contemporary or old boards; scuffed and chipped and bumped, later rebacking. 80 folio sheets (of which 15 blank) with seated Brittania watermarks. 135 pages mss text in brown ink, original manuscript pagination recto-verso, sgd and dated on front pastedown; internally toned, some closed tears. Near Fine. This manuscript journal comprises an 18th-century American student's mathematics course from 1786 - 1789. The author, Joseph Brewer, signs and dates the journal on the front pastedown, but he never mentions his hometown or his parentage. It is only in the last exercises of 1789 that he reveals himself more fully as "Joseph Newton Brewer," and further, firmer internal evidence regarding this identity is wanting. However, inasmuch as he was ostensibly a student in his mid-teens at the time of composition, and makes frequent reference to Maryland in numerous exercises in his book, it is likely that he was Joseph Nathaniel Newton Brewer (January 10, 1771 - January 8, 1841) of Edgewater, Anne Arundel, MD. Marriage and birth certificates found among online genealogical corpora do corroborate this. Joseph Brewer's "Arithmetic Book" is noteworthy among other extant 18th-century curricular manuscripts, because it showcases a variety of word problems, all of which relate explicitly to period themes. There are expected school subjects such as fractions and decimals, and practice tables, but most of Brewer's assignments are more practical in scope. They treat topics of an especially economic, even mercantile, nature, including problems of currency conversion; partnership, exchange, and barter; loss and gain; legacies and wills; land and surveying. The commodities Brewer emphasizes his math exercises are also of interest, as they emphasize in most instances prestige goods and other expensive imports e.g. beer, rum, chocolate, gold dust, coffee, and tobacco. He writes, in one example, "Three merchants A. B. & C. freight a ship with 248 tons of wine," before extreme weather causes them to throw much of it overboard, necessitating calculations. In another, three men spend a guinea at a tavern, each consuming varied amounts. The persons described in the word problems are also worthy of further study, as in one case where various farm personnel are featured: "one man, three women, and one boy made a crop of 1700 pounds of tobacco...." (p14). Brewer's journal also contains several practice exercises in letter-writing, as to foreign traders (p93). The author of the "Arithmetic Book" seems to have enjoyed this work, and there are many whimsical flourishes in his handwriting (and a few occasional doodles). Most surprising however, is Brewer's decision to conclude his journal with a composite psalmic coda: "Oh God, who didst command the light to shine out of darkness / speak but the word and light shall dart into my soul at once / when thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth my / praise shall burst out into a chearful [sic] song" Overall an interesting relic of education during the years following the Revolution, which should be of interest to scholars of early American education due to its detail and thematic content.- $1,375
- $1,375
Highway Map of Oklahoma. “The Right Way.” Complete Road Information
[Great Depression - Automobile Travel - Oklahoma] Author Unknown Topeka, 1930 Topeka, 1930. Folded map measuring 28 x 17 inches. Some small tears at folds, very good. Very Good. A scarce depression-era map of Oklahoma, with graphic advertisements to the verso showing the range of automobile-centric establishments in the state at the time. The map shows all the automobile routes of the time, with text along the borders listing the towns and the telephone numbers of various services and lodging options. The instructions on the the top read "Put Out Your Fires / Leave a Clean Camp / Keep the Streams Pure / Don't Be a Road Hog." According to the single copy in OCLC, at the Denver Public Library, the map was printed in 1930, though we see no date on the map itself. The depression hit Oklahoma following the drought in 1930, which also coincided with the opening of the East Texas oil field. This map is a relic of the period just before the state's economic downturn, with the early automobile infrastructure still intact and vibrant.- $450
- $450
Circular / Treasury Department, March 25, 1795. Sir, It is necessary that I inform you that John Kean, Esquire, has resigned the office of Cashier of the Bank of the United States, in consequence of an Infirm state of health, and that George Simpson, Esquire, as been appointed his Successor. [Signed by Wolcott and Simpson]
[Finance - Early Republic] Simpson, George; Wolcott, Oliver; United States Treasury Department Bath, Massachusetts, 1795 Bath, Massachusetts, 1795. Folded circular, franked by Wolcott and addressed to William Webb, Esquire of Bath, Massachusetts [now Maine]. With the signature of George Simpson. Fine condition. Fine. An uncommon treasury circular announcing the appointment of George Simpson as cashier, following the retirement of John Kean due to illness. Simpson would serve as cashier from his appointment in March of 1795 until the Bank's decommission in 1811. Simpson would take up residence across the street from the bank on Chestnut Street, and was hired by Stephen Girard as cashier of the Girard Bank, which operated out of the same building, in 1811. He would serve in this position until his death in November of 1822, after which Girard promoted Simpson's first teller, Joseph Roberts, to be Cashier. We find no other examples of Simpson's signature in the trade, though several letters to him have surfaced over the years. Despite his low profile from a policy standpoint he was a key figure in the Bank of the United States. We find no record of this circular institutionally, though it is listed in Bristol and Shipton and Mooney. Wettereau, James O. "The Oldest Bank Building in the United States." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 43, no. 1 (1953): 70-79. https://doi.org/10.2307/1005663. Wettereau, James O. "New Light on the First Bank of the United States." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 61, no. 3 (1937): 263-85. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20087054. Bristol B9395. Shipton & Mooney 47660.- $1,500
- $1,500
Collection of Maps, Diaries, Manuscripts and Photographs Documenting the Life and Work of the Con Artist, War Correspondent and Cartographer Jack or Jacques de Beaufort aka “The Dude Reporter,” with a Focus on His Cartographic and Literary Activities in Mid-Century Los Angeles
[Con Artists - Cartography - War Correspondence - California] De Beaufort, Jack or Jacques Europe and California, 1950 Europe and California, 1950. Includes two small diaries from 1901 and 1917 with sporadic entries, a large photo album measuring 14 x 11 with appx. 400 small photographs from 1906-1909 attached to album pages, most measuring 3 x 2,, as well as a few larger format images laid in. With 100 plus pages of typed pages including retained correspondence, story ideas, and various other manuscripts. With eleven maps, produced for his "Of Men and Maps" series, including five copies of a large map entitled "Whither Russia," in varied states and in large sizes up to 30 by 36 inches, and a handful of small ephemeral pieces. Generally near fine condition, with the exception of the album, which is missing its rear board and has some pages loose and torn. Very Good. J.M. de Beaufort, a war correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph and New York American during World War I, recounted his wartime adventures in the 1917 book "Behind the German Veil: A Record of a Journalistic War Pilgrimage." Originally arriving in Chicago in 1909, he married a steel magnate's daughter and pursued a career in show business. However, by 1912, he had gone through a divorce and transitioned to newspaper work, earning the moniker of the "Dude Reporter." Originally born in the Netherlands as Jacques Albert Uilenbroek, he was thought to be a deserter. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, apparently jailed in San Francisco for a stint in the 1920s, and eventually settled in Los Angeles. Offered here is an interesting smattering of material from the life of the mysterious De Beaufort, which bookends his most unusual career and life with a large visual photographic record of his life in Europe as a young man and over a hundred pages of manuscript material from late in his life, with a highlight being several maps in draft form for an apparently unpublished project called "Of Men and Maps." As a group the material shows the work of an ex-con artist and war correspondent trying to regain his form while living in Los Angeles. He was still writing as a "Special Correspondent" at this point, though the title seems to have been fully honorary. Also included are two small pocket journals, with sporadic notations from his life in Europe in 1900 and in 1917. In its entirety the group gives an interesting visual and manuscript record of a literary, fraudulent and imaginative transatlantic life and intellect. The cartographic highlight of the group is several iterations of a large map called "Whither Russia," in varied forms, which show an interesting interpretation of the sphere of influence of the USSR and its growth from 1939 to 1946. Also included are two drafts of a map of Operation Market-Garden in the Netherlands in 1944, an unidentifed tactical map of a military battlefield, a map called "Middle East Jackpot," showing the division of territory between the Allied and Axis powers, a map called "Dawn's Early Light, some reproduced small format maps from the De Beaufort's and a small map called "Gifts from Yalta." De Beaufort was working on these maps for a column called "Of Men, Maps and Memories," that was published in the East Los Angeles Tribune. He also sent the columns out in newsletter form from his address at 1635 N. Ogden Drive in Los Angeles. The collection of manuscripts, drafts and retained correspondence tackle a range of subjects, perhaps most interestingly those detailing De Beaufort's creative process - drafts of stories, lists of ideas for stories, and letters. His over the top style is on display in a lot of the writings, some of which are of unknown origin and purpose. The documents contain correspondence between De Beaufort and Edwin Pauley, the oil man and presidential advisor. In one untitled essay, he asks himself the question "What has been your most thrilling experience?" and his reply is, " Silly questions. Who or at least what newspaperman of some 25 turbulent years standing - and falling - could answer such a question. A reporter's life has a thousand thrills. There was that rainy day in Marcy 1915, in the fortress of Loetzen, when I stood face to face with Hindenburg. Hm, yes, that was quite a thrill..." De Beaufort was entrenched in the Los Angeles journalistic scene at this point, and the documents show the degree to which he relied on his former glories to attempt various career revitalizations endeavors. The album of photographs from 1906-1909, over 400 in total, give a visual record of the young Uilenbroek's life in Europe. The star of the collection is his bulldog Bob, who travels throughout Europe with him and eventually comes to America by 1907. Mary, who we presume to be his future wife, is featured heavily in the images. It is unclear whether he was working at this point, the images show affluent young people (and their dog) in varied cities and are purely of a personal nature. Other photographs laid in are relics from his war correspondent period. The loose photographs and ephemera are a mix of portraits from different periods from his life, including two pictures of Sydney Turing Barlow Lawson, one signed by his widow. The journals are sporadically filled and hard to decipher though one legible passage says "drinking all day." Overall the group gives evidence of this intriguing life and is the only extant group of material relating to Beaufort, to our knowledge, with the exception of a single journal from his time in Belgium during WWI that was sold at Bonhams and is still available in the trade as of this writing.- $3,250
- $3,250
Letter to John K. West, Member of the Notorious New Orleans Attorney, Discussing a Conversation with John Austin Wharton Concerning a Crime in Texas, a Hanging, and Fugitives in Jamaica, 1838
[Crime - Texas - New Orleans] Andrews, Edmund Republic of Texas, 1838 Republic of Texas, 1838. Stampless letter, folded, with red two-line handstamp of Steam Packet Columbia on January 16, 1838 from Brazoria Tex. to New Orleans. Fine condition. Fine. An intriguing letter written by Edmund Andrews, a judge in Brazoria, Texas, who had arrived in Stephen Austin's colony eight years before he penned this, in 1830. The letter is written to John K. West, the New Orleans attorney who was an original member of the notorious "New Orleans Associates." Andrews discusses a conversation he had on behalf of West with John Austin Wharton, who would die later in 1838, relating that Andrews had a conversation with Wharton on West's behalf. The conversation with Wharton revolved around a man with the last name Chase and Andrew Mills, who had both left Texas, presumably, and traveled to Kingston, Jamaica, where Mills was hanged for an undisclosed crime. Andrews writes that Wharton related that that Mills told him he "would not have done it if he had not been drunk," presumably talking about the crime for which he was hanged. Overall a very intriguing letter relating to crime, exile and misdeeds in the Republic of Texas, which should be of interest to scholars of the Republic. Full text follows: Brazoria, Jan'y 16, 1838 Mr. John K. West Sir, Since I wrote to you in reply to yours under date 19th ulto., I have seen Col. John A. Wharton upon the subject contained in your favor. He says he does not recollect who the person was referred to in yours, but recollects to have heard Haney speak of it, and says, he, Haney told him that he actually saw Andrew Mills hung and says he described the rope he was hung with. Col. Wharton seems to think Haney's statement entitled to credit. These facts can be known, if they are really facts, by sending a commission to Kingston, Jamaica, for although both Chase and Mills had no doubt assumed names, yet a person of so much notoriety as Capt. John Chase must have been known to some there. Haney said Mills begged him when he saw him in Kingston never to make known his fate and that he would not have done it if [he] had not been drunk. The foregoing is the substance of the conversation held with Col. J. A. Wharton. I am yours truly, Edmund Andrews.- $1,250
- $1,250
Collection of Seventy-Six Checks Written to Chinese Businesses in Montana, 1870-1872
[Chinese-American Communities - Montana - 1870s] L.H. Hershfield & Brother Bank Montana Territory, 1872 Montana Territory, 1872. Lot of seventy-six checks measuring 8 ½ x 4 inches, with vignette illustration of a prospector and his dog. With one additional document relating to the Hershfield account with the Bank of California. Most checks issued to "Gold Coin," and drawn on the Bank of California in San Francisco. The checks are printed by Robert F. Macey Stationery in New York. Fine condition with an occasional tear and chip. Fine. In 1870, one out of ten residents of Montana Territory were of Chinese descent, a figure that would decline precipitously in the ensuing decades until Chinese-Americans made up less than one percent of the population around the turn of the century. Chinese immigrants arrived in Montana following the discovery of gold in Bannack and Virginia City in the 1860s. Many of the Chinese immigrants settled and worked in the Big Belt Mountains east of Helena, including the Cave, Cooper, Oregon, and Confederate Gulches. Collected here are a collection of seventy six checks from Helena in 1870 and 1871 written to Chinese-owned businesses and cashed at the L.H. Hershfield and Brother bank in Helena, and drawn on the Bank of California in San Francisco. The checks contain the names of over thirty different Chinese merchants operating in Montana at the time - with some companies like Wan Yuen and Co. having multiple checks present. As a group they offer an interesting map of the Chinese-American business community operating at the time, and the duplicate checks, which sometimes have notes on the verso, giving a representation of the relative size of the firms and individuals involved. The LH Hershfield & Bro. Banking House in Helena operated from 1865 to 1882, in Last Chance Gulch, near the corner of Bridge and Warren Streets. It later became the Merchants National Bank, from 1882-1898, then the Union Bank and Trust Company from 1898 to 1859. Hershfield also had a banking operation in Virginia City during the Gold Rush period. Overall the group documents the Chinese-American community during the period and the breadth of economic activities of Chinese-Americans in Montana's early mining camps.- $4,500
- $4,500
Lighte & Bradburys’ Patent Insulated Full Iron Frame New Scale Piano Fortes! Also, Piano Fortes from John B. Dunham. Sheet Music and Music Books Sold at New York Prices. Martin’s Guitars
[California - Music - Ephemera] Salvator Rosa's [Martin Guitars] San Francisco, 1864 San Francisco, 1864. Broadside measuring 12 x 8.5. Some wear and archival tape repair to margin, fine contrast, excellent condition overall. Very Good. An interesting broadside advertising the Lighte and Bradbuiry piano as well as Martin Guitars, printed for the Salvator Rosa music store at 615 Montgomery Street in San Francisco. Lighte and Bradbury was in its third iteration in the period from 1858-1864 when this broadside was printed, having been started by the German immigrant Ferdinand C. Leuchte in 1847, who did business with a range of partners after anglicizing his name to Lighte. Among the testimonials listed on the broadside is praise from Lowell Mason, the composer and music director. Salvator Rosa's store was around from at least 1852, when a fire in the city destroyed the building on Clay St., making this location at 615 Montgomery Street at least the second for the firm. The firm published sheet music including "Fireman's March" and "Garibaldi's Hymn." Martin Guitars had been based in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, since 1838 and were a relatively small company at this point before the growth of popularity of guitars and the shift to steel strings that happened in the early twentieth century. We find no other nineteenth century examples of broadside advertisements for Martin in trade records.- $1,500
- $1,500