(Real Photo postcards) Two Views of Syracuse, Kansas 1916 by W. W. Kidwell, Photographer - 1916

A German composer and pupil of Carl Orff, "between 1927 and 1929 Egk established contact with Kurt Weill, Hans Flesch, Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator. The dramatic works that followed, for which Egk often served as his own librettist, embrace a range of genres from marionette theatre... to radio documentary." Andrew D. McCredie in Grove Music Online.

Chamber of Commerce. Palacios By-The-Sea. The Friendly Land that Loves a Playmate. Dallas, Texas: Melton Printing Co. [Circa 1923]. Pictorial wraps. One sheet 48 x 64 cm folded to 24 x 32 cm. Illustrated. Map. Edge wear, reinforced with tissue. Good.OCLC shows no holdings. Promoting both agriculture and tourism. Date is from one of the testimonial letters mentioning the crop of 1922.

[Railroad][Mexico] Plumb, Eduardo Lee.
Ferrocarril Internacional.
Lithographed map. 21 x 27 cm. With promotional text in Spanish. Dated at end: México, abril de 1872. Includes map of portions of the United States and Mexico showing railroads from New York to Texas and proposed railroad route from Texas through Mexico to the Pacific Ocean and south to Mexico City.
OCLC shows 5 holdings (Newberry; Harvard; Mus. NM; SMU & UT-Arlington). A project to extend a railroad from Texas to Mexico. This is a promotional urging Mexico to approve the route which was to connect the Texas lines with Mexico, then to Presidio and thence to either the Pacific or to the Gulf of Mexico.

[Vancouver, WA: Mid-Columbia Chamber of Commerce, 1932]. Tall 8vo. 4 x 8.8 in. 15, [1] pp., printed in green & black throughout, with photo illustrations, centerfold pictorial map by Burnham showing routes along Evergreen & Columbia River Highways. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers, splendid wraparound Art Deco cover art of the Columbia River Gorge by Burnham (slight shelfwear), NF. First edition of this exceedingly scarce photo-illustrated travel guide to the Columbia River Gorge, by driving the Evergreen Highway on the Washington side past Beacon Rock and along the Columbia River Highway as far as Celilo Falls and The Dalles. The charming pictorial map by Burnham shows mountaineers on Mt. St. Helens, skiers on Mt. Hood, fishermen in Washougal and on Merwin Lake, sailing on the Columbia River, and more. Burnham (1900-1985) was at the time the Chairmen of the Vancouver City Planning Commission, and a fervent advocate of tourism improvements, pushed for reconstructing the Fort Vancouver… Read More

[Texas] [Houston] Jerome H Farbar. Houston. "Where Seventeen Railroads Meet the Sea."
A descriptive view book in colors. Denver, Col.: H.H. Tammen Company. 1913. Light brown pictorial wraps. 15 x 21 cm. Illustrated. Map [28] pp. One small abrasion to spine of front cover, back cover corner bend else very good.
OCLC shows 17 holdings (Columbia Univ.; Yale; Autry Mus.; LOC; Duke; Univ. Okla.; Dallas Pub. Lib.; TAMU; TAMU-CC; Univ. of Houston; UT-Austin; UT-Arlington; & Texas Tech. Univ.) Photomechanical reproductions of color photographs of Houston, Texas, accompanied by a brief descriptive text by Jerome H. Farber. Many great photographs, including of the ship channel; Galveston causeway; Main Street; City Hall; Main Street from Bell Avenue; Harris County Court House; Preston Street; City Park; Rossonion Apartments; Union Station; Chronicle Building; First National Bank Building; Cotton Barge; City Auditorium; Rice Hotel; Bristol Hotel; Union National Bank; Causeway with train; Grand Central Station;… Read More

In a music studio, seated at an Ehrbar piano. With an autograph note signed to verso dated Vienna, September 24, 1936, addressed to the Colombian musicologist Otto de Greiff. With Bittner's return address stamp in purple ink to upper left corner, "Julius Bittner, Wien IX, Dietrichsteingasse 10." Very slightly worn. In very good condition overall. "Although Bittner's output embraces orchestral and chamber music, a large-scale Mass and several lieder and choruses, he devoted most of his creative energies towards writing for the stage. His passion for opera was fuelled by attending a performance of Lohengrin at the age of 12, and, following the precedent set by Wagner, he wrote the librettos for 15 of his own operas. Although his early attempts at the genre were not performed publicly, his friendship with the conductor Bruno Walter proved decisive in establishing his reputation, primarily with the opera Der Musikant produced in Vienna in 1910. His most successful work was Das höllisch Gold (1916) in… Read More

Limited first edition. Art and design by John H. Flores. Poetry by Thomas Hornsby Ferril. The Westerners is an organization that is focused primarily on western history. A limited edition in hardback with no jacket. This is copy number 713 of 1000. Book is Very Good to Near Fine with some wear at spine ends, and with a shallow dimple on the spine near the top. The book was dedicated to Fred Rosenstock who was a well-known book dealer in Denver. He opened his first store in 1922, and in 1962 opened Fred A. Rosenstock Books on East Colfax’s Book Row. He specialized in western history. This was a presentation copy from Rosenstock to a friend, as per written gift inscription on the half title page. Signed by Rosenstock and dated Sept. 5 – 1975. Rosenstck wrote a chapter for this book. He was the subject of a biography written by Donald E. Bower, Foreword by Frank Waters, and published by Northland Press.

San Francisco: A. ((Antoni) Roman & Company, 1863. First Edition 1st Printing. Brown Cloth, Gilt. Good. 8 1/8" Tall. Xvi, 464 Pp. Brown Cloth, Gilt. First Printing, Published By The Prominent San Francisco Bookseller Antoni Roman. Cloth Clean, Spine Gilt Present And Clear Although No Longer Brilliant. Cloth Worn Just At Corners, Small Losses At Tips And 1/8" Complete Loss Along Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine, Original Brown Endpapers With 1 1/2" Split At Top Of Front Hinge, Rear Hinge Completely Broken But Binding Sound. Name Stamp Of Chester Stock At Caltech On Title Page, No Other Names Or Marks, Pages Clean And Fairly Crisp.

323 pp. Introduced and edited by Garrick A. Bailey

N.A. Kovach. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover first edition copy in very good condition, expected age toning and light foxing to textblock and age toning to cloth at top edge. No. 25/25 limited edition copies offered for sale. Signed by Lyle H. Wright (who wrote introduction), John B. Goodman (Illustrator) and Nicholas Kovac (Publisher). DJ in good plus condition with mild age toning and small chip at spine tail, now in protective mylar cover. . Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 1946.