Advantages of the City of San Jose California As a Manufacturing Center Published by the Society for the Promotion of Manufactures

San Jose, Ca, The Rosicrucian Press, 1990. Limited Facsimile Edition. Wraps. 16mo; pp; (x), 64, (vi), ads; illustrated with black and white views of buildings and a map; original slick red printed paper wrappers inserted into a black case with a facsimile of the printed wrapper on the front. This is a facsimile reprint of an original pamphlet published c1884. This copy inscribed by Mayor Susan Hammer c1995. Near fine .

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Book number: 18528

Catalogue: Western Americana

Souvenir Views of Hartford Conn

Portland Me, L. H. Nelson Co, 1904. Oblong octavo; pp; (32); illustrated in black and white; original gilt lettered purple wrappers. Street scenes, prominent buildings, homes, parks etc. one small stain at bottom right corner else very good .

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Book number: 16575

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Ephemera New Englandiana

Adams, Alexander B.

John James Audubon, a Biography

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. 510 with index; Black and white photographs; red cloth, gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 12994

Catalogue: Americana

Aiken George D.

Aiken: Senate Diary January 1972 - January 1975

Brattleboro, VT, Stephen Greene Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x (2), 3-, 370, index; photographs; gray cloth and blue paper covered boards, lettered in gilt, in a dust jacket; Very good, edges toned. Sen. Aiken was referred to as "the conscience and work horse of the United States Senate. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14259

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Vermont; Vermontiana; Rural America; New England; Politics Vermontiana

Asch, Frank and ted Levin

Sawgrass Poems: A View of the Everglades

San Diego, Harcourt Brace and Company, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto (10.25" x 9"),marsh grass patterned boards. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Inscribed and signed by the author and photographer. Beautiful color photos of wildlife accompany poetry about the subject. Notes and photo captions discussing the subject and/or poem follow the main work. Very good +/very good.

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Book number: 15247

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Natural History; Florida; Everglades; Poetry Poetry Southern Americana

Baker, Will

Mountain Blood

Athens, University Of Georgia Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. 1xi, (i), 75 with list of illustrations; Thirteen plates; red cloth and tan boards in a dust jacket. First Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction ~The recollections and yarns, historical meditations and reportage brought together in Mountain Blood are written out of a sensibility formed in the American West. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 12917

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Logging; Southern Americana

Ballentine, George, Edited by William H. Goetzmann

Autobiography of an English Soldier in the United States Army

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1986. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; lxxxiv, 354, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait, and thirty-nine additional plates including two maps plus; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. "Ballentine's account of his years of Army service at "Ft. Pickens, Florida and with Scott from Vera Cruz to Mexico City in the Mexican American War;" Howes B-77. Very good .

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Book number: 19178

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Militaria Mexico, Central & South America

Barker, Roger G. and others, Steffen, Jerome O. (Editor)

The American West: New Perspectives, New Dimensions; Edited and with an Introduction by Jerome O. Steffen

Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; ix, (i), (2), 3-238, index; Charts; red cloth in a dust jacket. The American West in its frontier context, the study of the West in fiction and symbolism, and the rise of the industrial, urbanized West. Near fine/very good.

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Book number: 13849

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Western Americana, Modern West, Urbanized West. Western Americana

Barzman, Sol

The First Ladies

New York, Cowles Book Company, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiii, (i), 370, index; illustrated; burgundy cloth, gilt in a dust jacket. Intimate biographical portraits of the Presidents' wives from Martha Washington to Pat Nixon. Very Good/very good.

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Book number: 14182

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana, Presidents, First Ladies Presidents, First Ladies & the Presidency

Birney, Hoffman

Zealots of Zion

Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 317, bibliography; Illustrated, frontispiece and sixteen additional photographs plus drawings by Charles Hargans; brown cloth lettered in black, pictorial endpapers. A small stamp on a preliminary from the "Deseret Sunday School Union"; An overview of Mormon history and the settlement of Utah. Very good, partially uncut, a nice copy .

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Book number: 18508

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Mormons

Blythe, LeGette

William Henry Belk, Merchant of the South

Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1958. First Thus. Hardcover. (1958). Octavo, green cloth, gilt, in dust jacket. 271pp. with index nd appendices. A list of the Belk stores in=s included. Illustrated with frontis and black and white photographs. Good in fair jacket. Sporadic foxing. Light wearing of extremities. Boards lightly soiled. Front free fly corner clipped. Price-clipped jacket moderately edgeworn, scratched and soiled with several one inch tears. Good/fair.

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Book number: 7347

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana; the South; Reconstruction; Merchant; Merchandising Southern Americana

Bolenius, Dr. R. M.

Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, October 5, 1906; Germans in Pennsylvania

Lancaster, Reprinted From The New Era, 1906. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 325-352; one black and white plate; Original printed salmon wrappers; wrappers lightly toned, else very good. Discusses the Saur Printing House and other German printing. Very good .

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Book number: 15292

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Colonial America; Printing; Saur; Pennsylvania; Middle Atlantic Americana

Brewerton, George Douglas

Overland with Kit Carson; a Narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in '48

Lincoln, University Of Nebraska Press, 1993. First Bison Book Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; xxviii, 301, index; line drawings by the author; Introduction and original map by Stallo Vinton; original printed paper wrappers. Howes R-537. Russell's first hand account of events in the golden age of the fur trade. Near fine .

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Book number: 15311

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Trans-Mississippi West; Fur Trapping; Mountain Men; Exploration; Mormons: Western Americana

Brinlley, Alan

Liberalism and Its Discontents

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xii, 372, index; white cloth and green paper covered boards in an unclipped dust jacket. How did liberalism, the great political tradition that from the New Deal to the 1960s seemed to dominate American politics, fall from favor so far and so fast? In this history of liberalism since the 1930s, a distinguished historian offers an eloquent account of postwar liberalism, where it came from, where it has gone, and why. The book supplies a crucial chapter in the history of twentieth-century American politics as well as a valuable and clear perspective on the state of our nation's politics today. Near fine/very good.

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Book number: 16418

Catalogue: Americana

Brodie, Fawn M.

Richard Nixon; the Shaping of His Character

New York, W. W. Norton & Co, 1981. Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (7), 8-574, index; decorated red cloth and brown boards lettered in gilt in a dust jacket. Brodie, best known for her work on Thomas Jefferson & Joseph Smith, grapples with the question, "Why did Nixon behave the way he did in the Watergate Scandal?. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14177

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Richard Nixon; Presidents; Elections; Watergate; Viet Nam; Presidents, First Ladies & the Presidency