Catalog 240 contains 65 items relating to Americana, including photo albums, journals, diaries, scrapbooks, hand-written letters, broadsides, and more!
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New York: William Morrow, 1932. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Standing Bear. Octavo. Modest wear at the edges of the boards, a nice very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Very uncommon. More
![Item #414791 Convento de Regina en la Ciudad de Mexico [Convent of Regina, Mexico City]...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/414791-10b.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647959281)
Convento de Regina, Mexico: (1726-34). Folio. Measuring 8½” x 12¼”). Set of 28 folio sheets and nine interleaved half-sheets, stitched, spanning a nine year period from 1726-34. Light soiling at the edges and small folds at the bottom corners of some leaves, near fine. Housed in a cloth chemise and..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1923). Hardcover. Reprint. Large bookplate the Dolph Judd collection of Western Americana (consisting of a gelatin silver print photograph) else fine in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with a chip to the crown. A handsome copy. More
![Item #420234 [Typed Manuscript]: A Prospectus for a Dissertation on The Gold Rush as a Literary...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/420234.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1555949633)
[No place]: The Author, [circa 1930?]. Softcover. Quarto. 11, 17 (bibliography) typed pp. Clasp bound into buff card folder with typed paper label. Small chips on the folder, very good or better, internally fine. An outline for the dissertation with an interesting topic. *OCLC* locates no copies of this or..... More
1771-1780. Hardcover. Contemporary calf. A few ink notes in the margins, some overall toning to the text, but a remarkably crisp, clean set of late Colonial and Revolutionary War-era almanacs, superbly preserved, and featuring four engraving by Paul Revere, a publication by Hannah Watson, one of the first American woman..... More
Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1866. Hardcover. First edition. Large paper copy. Measuring 6½" x 9". 451pp., illustrated with three mounted albumen photographs (two portraits, one bust). Bound in contemporary half leather and marbled paper over boards, and with marbled endpapers. Scuffing to the edges and joints, the front hinge is..... More
Knox, Nebraska: Published for the Dakota Mission at Santee Agency, 1889-1900. Softcover. Miscellaneous lot of 22 issues of the newspaper *The Word Carrier*, an English language periodical published for the Eastern Dakota Indians at the Sioux Santee Agency in Nebraska. Each issue is in tabloid format and has four pages..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1958. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Irene Robinson. Printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press in Los Angeles. Near fine. Number 149 of 320 copies numbered and Signed by Irene and W.W. Robinson, Saul and Lillian Marks, and Lawrence Clark Powell. A...... More
![Item #436978 [Stage Coach Ledger, cover title]: Walter Smith's Stage and Express Book. Walter SMITH](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/436978.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1564587523)
(Setauket and vicinity: 1879-1883). Hardcover. Octavo. Blank ledger book with lined pages. Slightly flexible blue pebble-grained leather over thin boards. Approximately 190pp. Each page, including endpapers, and almost every line of the ledger is used to record fares collected by Walter Smith's stagecoach, which mostly operated in a small radius..... More
![Item #421849 [Photo Album]: Family Travel Album Along the West Coast and Mid-West States,...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/421849-1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1536589737)
Nevada / Mexico / Illinois / Wisconsin: 1915-1930. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Measuring 11½“x 8". String-tied black leather boards with embossed decorations. Contains 169 gelatin silver black and white or sepia toned photographs measuring between 2”x 2½” and 5½” x 3½”, with captions. Lightly bumped corners else fine with fine photographs. A...... More
[Mobile, Alabama]: Printed at the Office of the Daily Register and Advertiser, 1863. Softcover. First edition. Removed. Printed self-wrappers. 23pp. Faint embossed library stamp and equally faint released stamp on the front wrap, small chips and dogears at the edges, else very good. Statement of future foreign policy for the..... More
[Troy, New York: Privately Printed], 1880. Softcover. 12mo. Ribbon-tied printed wrappers. 40pp. Illustrated with a mounted albumen portrait photograph. Near fine. Memorial tributes to a Troy, New York man. *OCLC* locates only two copies. More
Burlington: Published by the Author, 1853. Hardcover. Third edition. Rebound in later dark green buckram. Each section paginated separately: 224, 224, 200, 63 (appendix), 6 (index) pp. Folding frontispiece map in color; illustrated. Dampstains in the text, but a sound and pleasing good or better copy. *Howes* T209. More
Hardcover. A collection of 72 books and much related correspondence. Almost all of the books are Inscribed by their authors to Sylvester L. Vigilante, Head of the American History Room located in Room 300 at the New York Public Library, and where he apparently provided dozens of authors with invaluable..... More
![Item #436584 [Photo Album]: Pioneer Aviator. Clarence WALKER](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/436584.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1576510331)
San Mateo, California: [circa 1920]. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Measuring 12½" x 9". String-tied brown cloth over stiff paper boards. Contains nine sepia-toned gelatin silver photographs measuring between 3" x 4" and 3½" x 6½", without captions. Fine album with near fine contents. Photo album of pioneer aviator, Clarence Walker of..... More