Daytona Beach: Daytona Beach Chamber of Commerce, Circa 1940. Folding brochure with 12 panels. Illustrated promotional brochure, including reference to the 1935 breaking of the land speed record at Daytona Beach. A bit creased and rubbed, very good.
Various Places, including Panama and California: 1849. Cloth journal binding measuring 5.5 x 3.25", of which 45 pages contain writing in pencil manuscript. The diary and day book of an unidentified 49'er, documenting his trip from New York, across the Isthmus of Panama, and up the west coast of Mexico.....
Portland, Maine: Wilbur Hayes, 1894. 8vo, 182pp, original green cloth with gilt, gilt advertisement for Grand Trunk Railway to rear cover, numerous illustrations and ads. A good copy with spotting and wear to covers, binding loose, toning to pages.
Honolulu: Mercantile Press, [1920s]. 8vo, folding brochure with 16 printed panels, printing photographic illustrations, promotional text, and room rates for the historic Hawaiian hotel. Some soiling and creasing, very good.
Honolulu, Hawaii: Aala Automobile Union, Circa 1930. 9.25 x 4.5", folding double sided map, photographic illustrations. Covers detached, staples rusted, chipping and weear to covers. A guide to Honolulu published for Japanese tourists by a Honolulu based automobile union and taxi company. The guide prints descriptions in English and Japanese.....
El Centro, California: [1924]. Stapled booklet measuring 9 x 6", [20] pp. A booklet telling the story of the murals located in the lobby of the Hotel Barbara Worth, a popular destination in El Centro, California that was finished in 1914 and burned down in 1962. The text is illustrated.....
Hawaii: 1921. 8vo, 4pp, single folded leaf. Program for an easter sunrise service held atop a the Punchbowl volcano in Honolulu, likely held by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The text prints hymns, lyrics for songs performed by the Royal Hawaiian Band, and more. Soiling and creasing.....
N.P. Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line), Circa 1910s to 1920s. Folded booklet measuring 10.5 x 7.5", map and photographic illustrations, pictorial covers. Additional leaflet laid in. Mild wear and soiling, slight chipping along two folds, very good overall. An ephemeral Japanese language guide to the Seattle shipping route, produced.....
London: J. Newman, 1843. Octavo, 7.75 x 5", blue cloth with gilt, [4], 52 pp, frontispiece and six engraved plates. A good copy with offsetting, soiling and bit of staining to covers, toning and foxing to pages, owner inscription to front endpaper, chipping to cloth at spine ends.
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1895. Hardcover. Octavo, 8.75 x 6.5", cream cloth with elaboratate cover illustration and titles in blue and gilt, 309 pp, illustration plates. A bright, attractive copy with fraying to spine ends, toning to pages, mild staining and soiling to covers.
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press, 1914. First Edition. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration, 214 pp, photographic illustrations, two folding maps at rear. Gift inscription to front endpaper, from one mining engineer (W.R. Crane) to another (C.W. Wright). A good, bright copy with.....
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922, 1923 and 1925. Three volume set, each a first US edition. Quartos, blue cloth with gilt titles, xi,356; xi,339, xi,372 pp. Complete with all frontispieces, plates and maps; 1921 with 32 plates and 3 maps, 1922 with 35 plates and 2 maps, 1924.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. With laid in autograph letter by Johnson, dated 1956, on personal letterhead. Together with a three page letter from "Brigantine Yankee, Inc", also dated 1956, on Johnson's letterhead, describing an upcoming voyage. A very good copy, DJ.....
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1861. Octavo, 8 x 5.5", green cloth with gilt illustration, textual illustrations, illustration plates, and folding map. An excellent copy in a lovely green and gilt illustrated publisher's binding. Bookplate of Cecil Foljambe, First Earl of Liverpool, and owner inscription of Henry Foljambe, to front.....
Los Angeles, California: Vincent Printing Co, 1926. 9 x 6", purple leatherette binding with grey lettering and illustration, 250, [2] pp, one color plate, many photo illustrations within text. Title in English translates to "Through Sacred Lands and Through Profane Lands, Impressions of a Guatemalan on His Journey Around the.....
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1890. First UK Edition. Two volume set, 8vos, in original pictorial cloth. All five folding maps/charts present, plus numerous illustrations. Spines cocked, cloth worn and chipped along corners and edges of binding, hinges cracking, covers sunned, foxing and soiling to endpapers, minor foxing to rest.....
London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jennings and Chaplin, and E. Moxon, 1830. 8vo, 284pp, fine binding of elaborately tooled gilt and morocco, with spine in six compartments, gilt text block edges, and marbled endpapers. About very good with foxing and toning to pages, leather rubbed and worn along spine ends.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. 8vo, green cloth with gilt lettering, xvi, [6], 380 pp. With 88 illustrations and diagrams, folding map. First American edition, first printing. A very nice copy with a bit of foxing to pages, slight spine lean, mild wear to spine tips, corners and edges.....
New York City: Nichi-Bei Jironsha, 1937. First Edition. Octavo, 9.25 x 6.5", color illustrated wrappers, 10, 165, 16, 3 pp, [1] folded leaf of plates, illustrations from line drawings throughout. A Japanese language guide to New York City, written by a Japanese American reverend who emigrated from Japan to Hawaii.....
Boston: James H. Stark, 1902. Octavo, viii, 207 pp plus ads, orange cloth with black cover lettering, green illustration, and gilt spine lettering, numerous illustration plates, two folding maps. Very good with foxing to pages, bit of soiling and discoloration to covers.
Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Company, 1905. Third Edition. Octavo, green cloth with gilt, 318 pp. A collection of writings on Polynesia by a gay California author, which "serve as imporant documents for tracking the development of a homosexual identity" ("Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History", 500). An excellennt.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Quarto, blue cloth with gilt, 230 pp, illustrations, maps and plans. First edition, first printing. Good plus with staining to covers, bowing to covers, fading to spine, owner inscription to front endpaper.
Jerusalem: The American Colony Stores, Inc, 1930. Third Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, blue cloth with gilt, 333 pp plus ads, illustration plates, folding maps. Slight bowing to covers, mild cover wear, fading to spine, slight toning and smudging to pages, a good, sound copy.