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Original Stereocard Photograph, "No. 1091. But-end of Original Big Tree, showing augur-holes made in felling, diam. 25 ft.

By: Soule, John P.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Boston , Mass, John P. Soule. 199 Washington St, Boston.: 1870

Seller ID: 017682

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Fine

Original stereocard on yellow boards. Boards dimensions 7 X 3 1/2 inches, photograph dimensions, 6 1/4 X 3 1/4 inches. Photograph shows the end of a large tree and the marking of the augur. Rubber stamps on the back read, California State Library and Purchased fm L. Dexter 4/62.
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Real Photo Post Card: "P-336; Community Center and Western Housing Area - Los Alamos, New Mexico"

By: Southwest Post Card Company

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Albuquerque, NM, Southwest Post Card Company: 0

Seller ID: 022663

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original black and white photo postcard. No date, circa 1930-1950. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. Imprint of "S.W. Post Card Co., Albuquerque" in the lower-right corner of the image. The style of "EKC" (Eastman Kodak Company) stamp box on the back was used from 1930-1950. Postcard is unused. Postcard is virtually pristine and intact except for slight edge and corner wear. A Fine copy. This postcard shows the community center and housing development in the city of Los Alamos, New Mexico. This postcard was published during the nuclear era when the atomic bom...
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Real Photo Post Card: "P-350; La Cocina De Santa Fe, Cerrillos Road - Santa Fe, New Mexico"

By: Southwest Post Card Company

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Albuquerque, NM, Southwest Post Card Company: 0

Seller ID: 022669

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Original black and white photo postcard. No date, circa 1930-1950. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. Imprint of "S.W. Post Card Co., Albuquerque" in the lower-right corner of the image. The style of "EKC" (Eastman Kodak Company) stamp box on the back was used from 1930-1950. Postcard is unused. Postcard is virtually pristine and intact except for slight edge and corner wear. A Fine copy. This postcard shows the restaurant called La Cocina which was located at 526 Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Four women pose by dining tables who seem ready to greet ...
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Mexican Land Grants, Sacramento County, Omuchumnes

By: Sperry, Baxter

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Galt, CA, The Laurel Hill Press: 1975

Seller ID: 022144

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition. No. 25 of 200 copies printed. Signed by the author in black pen on the title page. Former owner's signature is in blue ink on the copyright page reads, "Kittie Sheldon Cothrin," who is of likely relation to the people mentioned in the book. Original publisher's orange wrappers with staple binding. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4." Nineteen pages, complete. Five additional pages in the back comprising the Index, Bibliography, and the back colophon. Colophon reads, "Two hundred copies of this book have been handprinted and hand bound at The Laurel Hill Press, Galt, Nu...
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Catechism of the Inland Empire of the Pacific Northwest: Resource Opportunities and Advantages

By: Spokane Chamber of Commerce

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Spokane, WA, Spokane Chamber of Commerce: 0

Seller ID: 019133

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's wrapper. No date, circa 1910. 3 7/8" x 9." Wrapper and pages are very clean. Thirty-two pages, complete. This is a guide and information booklet that addresses land development and the use of resources of the Inland Empire which comprises Eastern Washington and Oregon, North and Central Idaho, Western Montana, and Southeastern British Columbia. The information is presented in question-and-answer format. Questions concern a wide range of topics such as the viability of certain crops, the price of materials, and the availability of health facilities for reside...
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Original Portrait Photograph

By: Spon, Frank H.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: North Yakima, Washington, Bushnell:

Seller ID: 8573

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Photograph 5 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches, on photographer's backing of 7 1/8 x 5 1/8. Identified on back as "F.H. Spon. 1900. Age 70." The photo show a prosperous-looking Frank Spon with a well-groomed beard and wearing a suit, vest and tie. Spon came to Ahtamum, Washington in 1869 and built the first saw mill in the Yakima Valley.
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Big-Hearted Joe. An Indian Tale.

By: Springer, J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Ivers & Co., Publishers: 1909

Seller ID: 14820

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

'Beadle's Frontier Series, No. 72'. 97 pages; [5] pages of ads in back; color illustrated cover (4 3/4 x 7 1/4 inch). Unopened, minor chipping to the top of the spine. Very good clean copy.
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Plants of Glacier National Park

By: Standley, Paul C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, Government Printing Office: 1926

Seller ID: 14526

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

"U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Services, iv, 110 pages; plates, figures; index; gray paper wrapper (5 7/8 x 9 1/8 inch) with minor folds at the corners, small tear at the back. Contains a brief introduction with a listing of plants found in the park with illustrations and descriptions. Very good copy.
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Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including A Reconnaissance of the New Route Through the Rocky Mountains.

By: Stansbury, Howard

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, Robert Armstrong, Pubic Printer: 1853

Seller ID: 12117

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Good

[Special Session, March, 1851, Senate. Executive, No. 3] 495 pages; tables; appendix, index; plates (missing four - 'Old Elk and his Squaw', 'Baron L Hontan's map of the Long River', and 'Valley Between Promontory Range and Rocky Butte', along with scientific plate 'Acephala'); also the three maps are missing. Chipping with a few small pieces missing to the spine, splitting along the spine, sun fading to the cover, some foxing not effecting text or plates. Becker - PLAINS & ROCKIES (1982) #219:3. "Stansbury commanded the detachment of the Army's Topographical Engineers which was directed i...
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On the Deep; or, the Missionary's Daughter. A Story of the Pacific Ocean.

By: Starbuck, Roger

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Ivers & Co., Publishers: 1908

Seller ID: 14821

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

'Beadle's Frontier Series, No. 14'. 100 pages; [2] pages ads in back; color illustrated cover (4 3/4 x 7 1/4 inch). Missing chips from the top of the spine. Very good clean copy.
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Receipt for State and County Taxes, County of Sacramento, 1866

By: State of California

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Sacramento, CA, State of California: 1866

Seller ID: 019878

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Tax receipt for property in Sacramento printed in black ink on beige paper. Dated September 16, 1866. 7 3/4" x 12 1/2." Handwriting in brown ink. Paper, handwriting, and printed text are all very clean and intact. Document begins with Description of Property: "S 1/2, E 1/2 of Lot 8 H + II + 10 + 11th, $550" and "N 1/8 of Lot 8 I + J [+ II + 10+ 11th], $200." The next section is Recapitulation: "Real Estate, $750," "Improvements, [$0]," and "Personal Property, $1750." The last section is Synopsis which lists city and country tax totals: ...
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State Controller's Warrant and Deficiency Claim; Carson, Nevada, 1882-1883

By: State of Nevada, State Controller's Office

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Carson, NV, State of Nevada, State Controller's Office: 0

Seller ID: 019876

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

State Controller's pay warrant with deficiency claim note form on the back with official "x" punched in the center; both documents printed on beige paper. Warrant dated 1883; deficiency claim dated 1882. Warrant measures 5 1/4" x 10 1/4"; deficiency claim measures 8" x 3 3/4." Part of text printed in black ink. Portions of text handwritten in black ink. Some parts (such as dates) are stamped in pink, blue, or purple ink. A black and white decorative border and a couple images of building and a man standing with a shovel and pickaxe are on the warrant. Paper, hand...
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State Controller's Warrant; Carson City, Nevada, December 2, 1898

By: State of Nevada, State Controller's Office

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Carson City, NV, State of Nevada, State Controller's Office: 1898

Seller ID: 019877

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

State Controller's pay warrant printed on beige paper. Dated December 2, 1898. 10" x 5 1/4." Embossed Nevada state seal in center of document. A black and white decorative border and a couple images of a dog and building are on the warrant. Paper, handwriting, and printed text and images are all very clean and intact. The warrant says the following: "No. 1747, Controller's Office, State of Nevada, Carson City, Dec 2, 1898. The State Treasurer will pay out of the Orphans' Home Fund, To the order of John Porterfield [$8.36]. Appropriation for E[...] at O. H. Kind of service,...
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The City That Is. The Story of The Rebuilding of San Francisco in Three Years.

By: Steele, Rufus

Price: $50.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Ca., A. M. Robertson: 1909

Seller ID: 017806

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original illustrated brown cloth with a monk sitting on a bench examining a map with a magnifying glass on the front cover. 7 X 10 1/4 inches. 101 pages. Copy has 31 pages of black and white photographs. Ornamental boards surround the text on each page. Previous owner has put his imprinted initials on the first page. Front cover has several spots and several cracks along the spine. However, pages are very clean and complete. Binding is tight.
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Remembering Laughter.

By: Stegner, Wallace

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown & Co.: 1937

Seller ID: 11283

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

FIRST EDITION. 154 pages; rebound in brown full leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine. This was Wallace Stegner's regularly published first book for which he won the Little Brown Prize which included a $2,500 stipend. It was a literary and financial success and helped him get a position at Harvard. Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) taught at Stanford University where he created the creative writing program. In 1972 he won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for ANGLE OF REPOSE and the National Book Award for THE SPECTATOR BIRD in 1977.
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The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons from the First Vision of Joseph Smith to the Last Courtship of Brigham Young....

By: Stenhlouse, T.B.H.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah, Shepard Book Company: 1904

Seller ID: 019049

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Publisher's blue cloth with paper label on spine. Some rubbbing and chipping to spine label, but enireely readable. This is the first Utah edition of Stenhouse's famous anit-Mormon history. Frontispiece portrait of Brigham Young. Former owner's signature on front end paper. Joints strong. A nice, clean copy. 761 pages, including index. 6 x 8 1/4 inches.
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Typed Letter Signed from the State of California Governor's Office - William Dennison Stephens

By: Stephens, William Dennison

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Sacramento, 1918

Seller ID: 6472

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

One page typed letter of introduction, 8 x 10", on behalf of Mr. Fielding J. Stilson, who was about to travel to China and Japan, signed Wm. D. Stephens. Stephens (1859-1944) was Governor of California from 1917 to 1923. A Progressive, he is remembered for his suppression of the I.W.W. and for commuting Tom Mooney's death sentence.
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Typed Letter Signed By the President of Stanford University - J. E. Wallace Sterling

By: Sterling, J.E. Wallace

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Stanford University, Calif., 1952

Seller ID: 6483

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

8 1/2 x 11" letter to Mr. Fielding J. Stilson of Los Angeles, thanking him for his letter, noting that "Mr. Hoover has been staying with my wife and me.It was a great pleasure to see him in such good health and, given the world situation, in relatively good spirits", and eagerly accepting the gifts he has offered to the Hoover Library and Institute.
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Narrative of My Experiences in the Earthquake and Fire at San Francisco

By: Stetson, James B.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: (Palo Alto, CA)., (Lewis Osborne).:

Seller ID: 8660

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-As New

Publisher's maroon buckiram with gilt lettering and decorations. In publisher's slipcase. Number 284 of 1400 copies printed. Illustrated with drawing by Vernon Howell Bailey and photographs. Stetson was a San Francisco businessman, who first published his recollections of the earthquake and fire in a privately printed pamphlet in 1906. 53 pages, including colophon.
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Letter from the Secretary of State to the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Communicating the Report of Governor Stevens of Washington Territory to the Department of State of June 21, 1854, Relative to the Property of the Hudson's Bay and Puget Sound Company in fthat Territory

By: Stevens, Isaaac I

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Washington D.C., 33d Congress, 2nd Session: 1855

Seller ID: 018854

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Ex. Doc. No. 37. 5 3/4 x 9 inches. 22 pages.
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Category: Western Americana