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R.L.S. to J.M. Barrie: A Vailima Portrait

by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1962 First edition. Limited to 475 copies printed at The Grabhorn Press. Introduction by Bradford A. Booth. Quarto. (42pp.). Four sketches by Isobel Strong, page of facsimile manuscript. Cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label. A very fine copy. Published here for the first time is a letter written by Robert Louis Stevenson, a year before his death, to his fellow Scottish author and friend, J.M. Barrie. [Grabhorn: 634]..
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R.V.R.: The Life of Rembrandt van Rijn

by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem

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New York: The Heritage Reprints, 1939 Revised especially for this edition by the author. Illustrated with 150 reproductions of the drawings, etchings and paintings of Rembrandt selected and arranged by J.B. Neumann. Pictorial cloth. Minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. Spine slightly cocked. A fine copy in rubbed and spine-faded dust jacket.. Illus. by Rembrandt.
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RAF. A History of the Royal Air Force Through Its Aircraft.

by Fitzsimons, Bernard

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Seacaucus: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1983 First Edition. Illustrated throughout with photographs in both black & white and color. A fine copy in dust jacket. A History of the Royal Air Force..
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Railroads in America

by Jensen, Oliver

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New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, Inc., 1975 First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Quarto. A fine copy with publisher's slipcase. The story of rail travel in America..
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Rails to Carry Copper. A History of the Magma Arizona Railroad.

by Chappell, Gordon

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Boulder: Pruett Publishing Company, 1973 First edition. Introduction by David Myrick. Quarto. [12], 243pp. Profusely illustrated throughout with maps, photographs, facsimiles, large folding map in rear pocket; bibliography, index. Brown cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. The Magma Arizona Railroad began in 1915 as a narrow gauge line to haul ore from the Magma copper mines around Superior, Arizona, and was converted to standard gauge in 1922-23. In the 1960's, diesel replaced steam, but this railroad was among the last commercially operated steam powered railroads in the nation. Includes over 200 photographs, maps and scale drawings. A superior, well-illustrated history..
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The Railway Art in the Age of Steam

by Kennedy, Ian and Julian Treuherz

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New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008 First edition. Foreword by David Flemming and Marc F. Wilson. Small oblong folio. 288pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Checklist of the exhibition, timeline, bibliography, index. Black cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A large, well-designed, handsome book. This work captures both the fear and excitement of early train travel around the world as it surveys the artistic response to steam locomotion. Features paintings, photography, prints, and posters, the book includes numerous masterpieces by 19th- and 20th-century artists, including J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Charles Sheeler, and Edward Hopper..
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Ralston's Ring. California Plunders the Comstock Lode

by Lyman, George D.

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937 First edition. Presentation inscription signed by the author to printer, Lawton Kennedy. xii, 368pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings, pictorial endpapers. Red cloth, gilt lettering. A fine copy with slightly chipped dust jacket. A good history of Nevada's Comstock mines. Illustrated from photographs and drawings, including the major investors and developers..
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Ramblings in California: The Adventures of Henry Cerruti

by Cerruti, Henry

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Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1954 First edition, printed from the original manuscript in The Bancroft Library. One of 500 copies printed at The Gillick Press. Edited by Margaret Mollins and Virginia Thickens. 143pp. Frontis portrait. Parchment paper spine, light brown boards. Spine slightly darkened, some minor fading to the boards. Overall, a fine copy. Cerruti reached San Francisco in August of 1873. He describes his adventures in Sonoma with his new friend, Vallejo. Also covers their travels to different parts of California..
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The Rampaging Herd: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Men and Events in the Cattle Industry

by Adams, Ramon F.

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Norman: Univeristy of Oaklahoma Press, 1959 First edition. Pp. xix, [1], 463. 9 reproductions of title pages. Original green cloth. gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. The major comprehensive bibliography of the cattle industry, listing approximately 2,600 titles. Well-annotated. Considered the standard reference on the cattle industry. Quite scarce as a first edition, especially in this condition..
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The Rampaging Herd: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Men and Events in the Cattle Industry

by Adams, Ramon F.

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Cleveland: John T. Zubal, Inc., 1982 Reprint of the University of Oklahoma first edition of 1959. Pp. xix, 463. Nine reproductions of title pages. Original green cloth. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. A comprehensive bibliography listing approximately 2,600 titles. Well-annotated. Considered the standard reference on the cattle industry..
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The Randlords

by Wheatcroft, Geoffrey

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New York: Atheneum, 1986 First American Edition. xix, 314pp. Illustrated with 40 photographs and 9 maps and diagrams. Biographical notes, bibliography, index. Cloth-backed boards. A fine copy with fine pictorial dust jacket. Excellent story of the South African diamond and gold strikes in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and of the exploits and exploitations of South Africa's mining magnates such as Cecil Rhodes, Barney Barnato, Solly Joel, Julius Wernher, Paul Kruger, and J.B. Robinson: financial alliances, intricate maneuverings, mining rights, black laborers, the Pass System, the beginnings of Apartheid, etc. .
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Random Lengths. Forty Years With "Timber Beasts" and "Sawdust Savages."

by Cox, H.J.

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Eugene, Oregon: the author, 1949 First edition. One of 1,000 numbered copies, signed by the author. Additionally, on the front endpaper, a presentation inscription, signed by the author. [8], 310pp. plus 16 pages of illustrations, text drawings. Green cloth, gilt. A fine copy. Account of the author's 40 years in the lumber industry in the Pacific Northwest. The illustrations reproduce vintage photographs of the logging industry..
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Rank and File: Civil War Essays in Honor of Bell Irvin Wiley
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Rank and File: Civil War Essays in Honor of Bell Irvin Wiley

by Robertson, James I., Jr. and Richard M. McMurry

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San Rafael: Presidio Press, 1976 Cloth. A very fine copy with very price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. . First Edition.
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Reading Trout Streams

by Rosenbauer, Tom

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Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996 Full color frontispiece. Numerous illustrations, drawings, and photographic plates. Index. Watered silk endpapers. Bound in black leather, lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. A very fine, as new copy. An extremely handsome title on angling..
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by Michener, James A.

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New York: Random House, 1994 First trade edition. Purple cloth backed boards, lettered in gilt. One tiny blemish to lower edge of cover, else a very fine copy in dust jacket. A novel based around a Florida retirement center..
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Recollections of the Last Ten Years, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi, from Pittsburg and the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Florida to the Spanish Frontier...

by Flint, Timothy

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Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Company, 1826 First edition. [2], 395pp. Original paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label. Early Essex Institute embossed circular stamp to title, some light flaking to paper at spine ends, very light foxing to first three leaves, but a fine, clean, and untrimmed copy in the original state. Housed in a custom clamshell box with leather spine label. One of the most significant accounts of early 19th century travel in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and the first book by one of the more notable literary men of that period. The author traveled to New Orleans, Covington, Alexandria, Cape Girardeau, St. Charles, and New Madrid. He comments on virtually all aspects of life as he saw it in the region including commerce, slavery, morality, geography, agriculture, transportation, etc. He takes special note of the flurry of land speculation. Flint returned from his journey expecting to die due to a long and exhausting illness. Instead, he recovered and began his… Read More
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Recollections of the California Mines. An Account of the Early Discoveries of Gold, with Anecdotes and Sketches of California and Miners' Life, and a Description of the Great Tulare Valley

by Carson, James H.

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Oakland: Biobooks, 1950 One of 750 copies printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press; reprinted from the Stockton edition of 1852. Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. x,113 pp. Wood engravings by Henry Shire. Large folding map, pictorial endpapers. Two-tone cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Spine ends show light rubbing, else a fine copy. The original edition is very rare, being the first book printed in the city of Stockton. It is one of the earliest to give both an account of the discovery of gold and conditions in the mines and provides one of the few early sketches of the San Joaquin Valley. Carson's description of the Tulare (San Joaquin) Valley is considered the best of the early predictions on this great district. The folding map is a reproduction of the rare 1850 Charles Gibbs "Map of the San Joaquin River," and shows the Southern mines in 1852..
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Recollections of a Tule Sailor

by Leale, John

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San Francisco: George Fields, 1939 First edition. Limited to 1,000 copies. With interpolations by Marion Leale. 311pp. Illustrated with 22 photographs. White pictorial sailcloth stamped in black. Small oval bookplate. A very fine copy. A history of San Francisco Bay Area river and ferry boat traffic by the Master Pilot of San Francisco Bay. Scarce. The sailcloth binding is often found extremely foxed and soiled..
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Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem

by Olson, James C.

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Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965 First edition. Pp. xiii, [1], 375 plus 32 historic photographs, 2 maps. Bibliography, index. Rust cloth, gilt. Owner's name on front endpaper. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A narrative of the relations between Red Cloud and the U.S. Government from the mid-1860's until the end of organized Indian resistance. Red Cloud epitomized the Indian problem. As a Chief of the Ogala Sioux, he used every means at his disposal to preserve the life and culture of his people. Includes details of Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Custer, Crook, Indian agents, treaties, etc..
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Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians

by Hemming, John

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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978 First edition. Octavo. With black & white photographic illustrations. Red cloth with silver lettering. Spine ends very lightly rubbed, else a fine copy in ver lightly rubbed and spine faded pictorial dust jacket. .
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