Agriculture, Farming, Ranching from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1873. First edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), 12 pages including covers, with illustrations from woodcuts throughout. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps, sewn. OCLC locates 11 copies under 3 accession numbers as of 4/7/2024. Moderately toned & soiled, edge wear including shallow creasing at the corners, otherwise good or better. "This essay received the… Read more about this item

Neenah, Wisconsin: Neenah Historical Society, (1985). First edition, this copy signed in red ink at the half-title page by Suzanne Hart O'Regan. Quarto (12.25" x 9.25"), 95 pages, profusely illustrated throughout from photographs. Publisher's dark red textured paper over boards lettered in gilt on the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in lightly soiled very good… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C. United States Department of Agriculture, leaflet no. 48, 1929. Octavo (9" x 6"), two sheets folded vertically forming 8 pages, illustrated. Edge wear including nicks & tiny losses, some creasing, lightly soiled, otherwise good or better. Presents 16 recipes for all manner of enticing reindeer preparations including roasts, stews, & even three mouth-watering liver dishes. "The reindeer herds of Alaska, introduced… Read more about this item

No place [Columbia, South Carolina]: no publisher [the author ?], no date [1973 ?]. First edition, this copy signed in ink by Devereux at the ffep. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), viii & 125 pages, illustrated. Original tan cloth lettered & decorated in black in dust jacket which replicates the binding. A fine copy in very good price-clipped dust jacket, moderately browned… Read more about this item

Richmond, Virginia: Benj. T. Crump Company, Inc., no date [1933]. Quarto (11" x 8.5"), 72 pages, illustrated throughout (some in color). Original stapled, pictorial light card covers. Price list dated 1933 laid-in. Slight edge wear, light soiling, sporadic foxing/ handling marks within, otherwise Very Good. Mostly relative to horses, the catalog describes & illustrates the company's line of bits, whips, saddles, harnesses,… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, 1915. First edition. 16mo (6" x 4.5"), 6 pp. & cover, illustrated, with a printed slip tipped to the recto of the rear wrap providing an additional recipe. Original stapled, stiff paper wraps. Slight edge wear, staples rusted, otherwise very good. More commonly known as… Read more about this item

Columbus, Ohio: J. L. Stelzig & Co., 1861. First edition. 8vo (8" x 5.25"), [1], 2 - 8 pages. Printed paper self wraps, the lower cover with woodcut depiction of the Delaware Grape. OCLC locates one copy as of 7/24/2023 (Ohio History Center, accession # 35317536). Folded once horizontally, moderately toned & soiled, slight edge wear, otherwise very good. Provides a description… Read more about this item

Buffalo, New York: James Brayley, no date (ca. 1870). Promotional advertising broadside, 4to (11" x 8.5") printed in black ink on thin paper, with a pair of woodcut illustrations signed Wichtman depicting the equipment. Old folds, moderate edge wear, creasing, a bit toned & foxed, otherwise good or better. Provides descriptions of the advantages of the equipment, pricing, & a… Read more about this item

Odessa, Texas: The Rahtbooks Company (1964). "Edition DeLuxe," this copy with generic presentation signed by the author at a tipped in leaf adjacent to the front pastedown. 8vo, xv & 208 pp, with frontis from photograph & 16 unnumbered pages of illustrations. Publisher's gilt lettered blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket One corner bruised, previous owner's name, place & historic price… Read more about this item

Brandon, Mississippi: True Exposures Publishing, (2002). First edition, this copy signed in ink by Barnes at the ffep in 2003. Oblong quarto (9.25" x 12.5"), 142, [1] pp, profusely illustrated in color from photographs. Publisher's green cloth-patterned paper over boards lettered in gilt on the front cover, in pictorial dust jacket. Edges briefly rubbed, couple of bruises at the lower cover,… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, printed by the Neuner Corporation, no date (1926 or 27 per OCLC). 8vo (9" x 6"), 48 pages, profusely illustrated from photographs. Original pictorial, stapled light card covers, the upper cover embossed in gilt. Slightly rubbed at the spine, trace edge wear, staples rusted, otherwise Near Fine. Includes sections on home life,… Read more about this item

St. Albans, Vermont: the association, printed by Press of the St. Albans Messenger Co., (1894). Oblong 24mo, 28 & [8] pp., including 14 illustrations from photographs depicting the facility. Original embossed stiff paper wraps, stapled. Not found in OCLC (or any other material from this association) as of 5/26/2022. Covers toned & lightly soiled/ stained, wraps partially split at the spine,… Read more about this item

Buenos Aires: Casa Pardo, (1968) First edition, this copy with presentation in ink to Arthur E Khoui (?) by Jorge L Quiroga, Oscar Roldan, & others at a blank page adjacent to the half-title. Large quarto, unpaginated [256 pp], illustrated throughout mostly from photographs (some in color). This copy bound in cowhide edged in polished black calf simulating lacing, with… Read more about this item

[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: published by Hotel Harrisburger, no date, circa 1938]. First Edition. Oblong 16mo (3.75" x 6"), 12 unnumbered pages plus covers, illustrated throughout mostly from photographs, with accompanying descriptive text. Original pictorial paper warps, stapled. Wrinkled, minor edge wear, lightly soiled, staples rusted, otherwise Very Good. A wonderful promotional pamphlet for the Hotel Harrisburger which was built by Ray… Read more about this item

Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, (1995). First edition. Folio, xii, 153, [8] pp, profusely illustrated from black and white photographs. Original light brown cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. "We have not sufficiently been made to feel the presence of women in the history of the… Read more about this item

Adamsville, Ohio, Manuscript Diary for 1856 comprising entries by Evan J Crane as recorded in publisher Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman's Daily Pocket Diary For 1856: For The Use Of Private Families And Persons Of Business. 24mo (6" x 4"), 122 unnumbered pages of entries in ink followed by 2 pages of "memoranda," 13 pages of "cash accounts," & 4 pages… Read more about this item