Kake, Alaska: September 1925 - April 1926. 24 multi-page letters, 132 manuscript pages, 14 typescript pages; about 20,000 words. In September 1925 the recently-divorced Pauline Shelley Talmage, seeking a "place to forget men," left Seattle to take a teaching position at an Indian school in Kake, Alaska. According to US... More
1876. 3½" x 7" wallet-style memorandum book in flexible calf, approximately 150 pages. According to genealogical information J. K. M. Looker (1832-1895) was a minister and phrenologist, born in Pennsylvania and married to Sara Elizabeth Scott 1850. He lectured in Illinois, Ohio and Iowa, and died in Rock Island, Illinois... More
Honolulu. Two folio albums, 16½" x 14½" and 14½" x 12¼", about 200 pp. total, containing ephemera, news clippings, and photographs. Ululani Franklin Lemon - "Uncle Nani" - was born in Honolulu in 1881 to a naturalized Canadian father and a Hawaiian mother. He lived his entire life in Honolulu... More
New York: Committee to Defend the Panthers, 1970.]. 11" x 8½" bifolium, 4 unnumbered pages, text in double column, portraits Ericka Huggins, Bobby Seale, and Lonnie McLucas; lightly toned but fine, without folds. More
New York: Committee to Defend the Panther 21, 1970.]. 11" x 8½" broadsheet, text in double column, portrait of Genet on the recto; lightly toned but fine, without folds. Reprinted from Ramparts magazine, June, 1970. Genet's appeal to defend Bobby Seale against murder charges in New Haven. More
n.p., n.d. [New York: Black Panther Party, 1970.]. Folio bifolium, 4 unnumbered pages; some toning, previous fold, otherwise fine. Unfolded, this is designed as a poster with an article by Cleaver, To my Black Brothers in Viet Nam, surrounded by photos of prominent Black Panthers in U.S. military uniforms. More
[1867-1931]. William H. Crane (b. 1845-1928) a prominent American actor who worked in opera, comedy, farce, and vaudeville. Crane's first appearance was in Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment in 1863 in Utica, NY with the Holman Opera Company with whom he toured for eight years. Perhaps best-known for his... More
London: George Routledge, [ca. 1879]. Square 8vo, pp. 56; illustrations in color by Edmund Evans, accompanied by music scores & text; decorated endpapers, binding cracked in the middle, exterior a bit worn and toned, otherwise very good or better in original pictorial boards. A beautifully illustrated collection of children's nursery... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. [ca. 1877]. Square 8vo, pp. 54; color illustrations by Crane engraved by Edmund Evans; original terra cotta-backed pictorial boards (upper cover a touch soiled), all edges red, edges rubbed; contemporary ownership signature on title page, else interior about fine. One of the earliest Crane-Evans collaborations, originally... More
London: Printed for T. Davies, 1772. Small 8vo, pp. [2], lxv-[lxxvi], 235-236; contemporary calf with decorative gilt-lettered spine, the extremities rubbed with corners showing, top of spine mostly chipped away, the joints cracking but secure, and some minor foxing confined to prelims and terminals; lacking the frontispiece and plates. Consisting... More
London: printed for the author by Strangeways and Walden, 1871. First edition, 4to, pp. xxxii, 124; 23 black & white plates at the back; original blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, light wear to extremities, more so to spine ends, staining to lower corner of first few pages... More
Canton: China Baptist Publication Society, 1903. First edition, 8vo, pp. 70, [8] (adverts); black & white illustrations, folding map in color; advertisments on endpapers; original quarter brown cloth over pictorial boards; light, general wear, a very good copy of an uncommon title. A travel diary by the author of his... More
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Bangkok: [American Bible Society], 1880. 8vo, 93, [1], [2] (blank); bound with: [St. Mark's Gospel in Thai]. Bangkok, 1880, pp. [3], 94-153, [1]; bound with: [St. Luke's Gospel in Thai], Bangkok, 1881. pp. [3] 155-254, [1]; bound with: [St. John's Gospel in Thai], Bangkok, 1881, pp. [3], 256-331, [1]. Contemporary... More
Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1927. 8vo, pp. [2], xii, [2], 434; frontispiece, black & white plates; original yellow cloth, very good. Fictional "recollections" which are true to events in the stormy days of China's mid-century wars against colonialist powers. Morse was the author of books on the currency, trade and international relations of China. More
Tokio: Tokio Times, 1879. 8vo, pp. 7, [1]; publisher's printed wrappers; old fold marks else very good. Abstract of remarks made before the Biological Society of the Tokio Dai Gaku, January 5, 1879. Morse was an American zoologist and orientalist. In 1877 he first visited Japan and, while looking out... More
Tientsin: Tientsin Press, 1904. First edition, small 8vo, 3 p.l., pp. iii, [1], 91; 2 black & white folding maps: a fold-out 'Plan of Peking' with index to map, and a fold-out 'Map of the Country Around Peking'; business adverts in front and rear, black & white photo of steamer... More
Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury, 1901. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 197, [3] (errata at rear); original red and gilt cloth over decorative paper-covered boards, occasional pencil lining in text, else a near fine copy. Inscribed, with author's compliments and a sheet of paper with his ownership inscription in Chinese characters; "A... More
[St. Louis]: printed by the Round Table, 1903. First edition, pp. 32; original gray printed wrappers, very good. "A Paper Read December 12, 1903 Before the Round Table, St. Louis." Scarce pamphlet on Chinese banking by Wong Kai Kah, Imperial Vice-Commissioner for China to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. OCLC locates 2 copies. More
New York: John B. Alden, 1884. First American edition, 12mo. pp. 215; black & white frontispiece portrait, owership inscription and stamp on front blank; original green cloth with a dragon stamped in gilt on front cover; fine. Major-General Charles George Gordon, also know as Chinese Gordon, was a British Army... More
San Francisco and Berkeley: Published for Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Chinese Six Companies) by Chinese World and Fred Borland, [1927]. First edition, 8vo, paginatuion varies; original red cloth with gilt lettering in English and Chinese on the upper cover; slight fading to spine; light wear; else a near fine copy... More
n.p. 1915-1920s. Folio, pp. 85; with typescript and manuscript text, photos, clippings, and ephemeral items tipped in; bound in a worn folio leather album with a stationer's stamp from "The Japan Gazette Press. No. 10, Yokohama Printers, Publishers, Lithographers, Bookbinders, &c." The "USS Supply" was a schooner-rigged iron steamer built... More
Shanghai: Navy YMCA, 1938. Pocket map, 13 x 25 inches, duotone (red and black) map folds into a printed card cover (6¾" x 3½"); light wear to card cover, else fine. Text in lower corner of map lists various places of interest including bands, hospitals, churches, clubs, hotels, parks, theaters... More
Macao: Macao Review, n.d. [c.1930]. 12mo, pp. 20; frontispiece, original printed tan wrappers, very good. Essays on Governor John Bowring, early Christian envoys, and China and books - originally published in the Macao Review. This is their first appearance in book form. This copy inscribed to Howard F. Bowker, a.... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937. First edition, 4to, 2 volumes, pp. 469 (continuous pagination); black and white plates and illustrations throughout; a fine set in the rarely seen dust jackets. An influential text; nearly 2500 patterns of lattice from ancient Chinese windows, including the history of development and classification of designs. More
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. First edition, 2 volumes, small 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 351; x, 341, [3]; hand-colored aquatint frontispiece in each volume; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, with gilt lettering and decoration on spines; some rubbing and wear to extremities; early ownership labels of "Miles... More
