Philadelpia: C. & A. Conrad, 1809. Octavo. Quarter Leather. 400pp. Backed in contemporary red sheep with marbled paper covered boards; textblock is untrimmed (generous margins) and is a bit larger than the boards making this appear to be a publisher’s.....
![Item #286488 [AMERICANA] GOVERNOR TAYLOR’S LOVE LETTERS TO THE PUBLIC. TO UNCLE SAM,...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/286488.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1549743692)
Nashville, Tenn. The Illustrated Youth and Age, 1899. Soft Cover. First Edition. First Edition of Governor Taylor’s Love Letters to the Public, with in text illustrations throughout. Previous owner’s name and staining to the front cover, else no marks. Printed.....
![Item #288695 [AMERICANA] NEW YORK DAY AND NIGHT](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/288695.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1566332878)
New York: Harry D. Copp, [1939]. Soft Cover. A pocket guide book for New York and the World’s Fair, in 1939. With a folding map of the World’s Fair. Housed in the publisher’s paper sleeve.
![Item #277858 [AMERICANA] RE-PRINT [REPRINT] OF BLACKWOOD’S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, THE...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/277858.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1500733972)
New-Haven, [Conn.]: Peck & Newton, 1833. In the publisher’s plain printed sewn wrappers. With the Index, followed by pages 207 through 240. With printed Notice about Subscription, with list by state of Agents for the Reprint of Blackwood &c, along.....
![Item #286572 [AMERICANA] [AUTOGRAPH ALBUM] LYDIA A. EDWARDS. 1870-1880’s](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/286572.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1550608748)
A small autograph album (8 cm. x 12.5 cm.) belonging to Lydia A. Edwards, who name is penned floridly on the silk moire endpaper. Most of the autographs are signed without comment, with the name of some Florida locale (though.....
![Item #297473 [AMERICANA] [BROADSIDE] [FABRIC] MOSES COHEN & SONS, BALTIMORE](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/297473.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707167466)
c. 1890’s. Oblong advertising broadside, measuring approximately 40 x 21 cm. It has folds and shelfwear with a a few closed tears. One tear has an old repair with paper on the verso.~~One of those 19th century advertising broadsides where.....
![Item #296390 [AMERICANA] [CALIFORNIA] [EPHEMERA] SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION BULLETIN. VOL. I, No. 5](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/296390.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670196457)
[San Diego Exposition News Pub. Co.], 1915. Soft Cover. Stapled magazine; in printed wrappers; [1], 26 pages; “An Independent Journal Containing Reliable Information About the Panama-California Exposition and Devoted to the Interests of the Stockholder, Homeseeker and Tourist”.~~With advertisements, and.....
![Item #294779 [AMERICANA] [CHRISTMAS PARTY] [MAD MEN] MEMCO 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/294779.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1638745739)
Self-published. Four 8vo; in comb bindings with printed card stock covers; each booklet approximately 8 pages printed only on the rectos, and with two photographs of Christmas jollity; other than the covers, there is no text.~~Though we would love to.....
![Item #298358 [AMERICANA] [CHURCH HISTORY] [GERMAN LUTHERAN] DENKSCHRIFT ZUM 50-JAHRIGEN JUBILAUM...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/298358.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1730146665)
Blue Island, Ill. Fred. Klein, [1913]. Soft Cover. 8vo; string-tied pamphlet in copper-colored wrapper printed in gold; 40 pages on coated paper, with many black and white photographs; the string ties are broken but are holding.~~This fiftieth anniversary pamphlet issued.....
![Item #279206 [AMERICANA] [HANDBILL] PENROSE ROBINSON. 1818. SHERIFF. SHERIFFALTY. YORK...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/279206.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1500733972)
A handbill from 1818 promoting the candidacy of one Penrose Robinson, who was seeking to be elected Sheriff of York County, Pennsylvania. Robinson was a prominent local merchant. The handbill has been trimmed, affecting the border but not, we believe.....
![Item #268664 [AMERICANA] [NEWSPAPER] NEWPORT MERCURY. MARCH 23, 1811](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/268664.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1500733972)
Newport: Rousmanier & Barber, 1811. With lengthy address by Timothy Pickering who had been in a Senator from Massachusetts as a member of the Federalist Party, and was censured in 1811 for breach of confidence. In the address Pickering attempts.....
![Item #298610 [AMERICANA] [NEWSPAPER] SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOSTON-GAZETTE, , JUNE 5, 1769](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/298610.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1738021007)
Issue of supplement to the Boston-Gazette for Monday, June 5, 1769. 2 pp. Light browning but very good. It contains a speech by Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, the governor-general of the colony of Virginia from 1768-1770, delivered at the.....
![Item #276080 [AMERICANA] [ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT] AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY SUBMITS CHET...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/276080.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1500733972)
Dating from December of 1954, this assemblage of material is together in a comb binding. It consists of (1) a typed letter from Edwin Conklin from ABC News to O. W. Reigel Curator for the Alfred I. duPont Awards Fellowship.....
![Item #297361 [AMERICANA] [PHONE DIRECTORY] COLORADO. 1934-35. COLLBRAN. WHITEWATER. PALISADE....](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/297361.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1704744344)
[1934]. Large 8vo, in printed stapled wrappers; [1], 2-40 pages; with a yellow card stock advertising tab for the Grand Junction cleaners and an advertisement card for the New Method Laundry in Grand Junction;attached to the string for handing; with.....
![Item #299823 [AMERICANA] SHRINER’S CONVENTION PHOTOGRAPH](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/299823.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785180739)
Kansas City, Missouri: 1924. This is a unique 8”x10” image by an unknown photographer of the Shriners International Golden Jubilee, in 1924. They lavishly decorating the streets of Kansas City with Egyptian-style columns, sphinxes, and obelisks throughout the downtown area.~~The.....
![Item #297591 [AMERICANA] [BOOKS ON BOOKS] A DOZEN ENGLISH BOOK LISTS, EARLY 20th CENTURY, ALL...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/297591.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1709589003)
A dozen catalogues from several English book dealers, all relating to the United States and Americana. The group includes “Gray’s Catalogue of Americana Consisting of Books, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Maps, etc; 3 different catalogues issued by Henry Gray, Book & Print.....
![Item #292996 [AMERICANA] [CAPITOL BLDG.] MORRISON’S STRANGER’S GUIDE AND ETIQUETTE, FOR...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/292996.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1611335772)
Washington: W. H. and O. H. Morrison, 1864. 24mo. Sixth Edition. 24mo in brown cloth in a fine hexagonal grain, over flexible boards; embossed in blind, with titling in gilt to the upper board. Illustrated with 3 folding plans of.....
![Item #299432 [AMERICANA] [ENGINEERING] THE HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE BETWEEN FORT LEE, NEW JERSEY AND...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/299432.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753735539)
New York City: The Port of New York Authority, 1931. Soft Cover. Folded sheet; 8 x 19” inches unfolded; with black and white photographic illustrations of the bridge; the Cable Constrution on the bridge in October 1929, and the Tower.....
![Item #297884 [AMERICANA] [NATURAL BRIDGE] SNAPSHOTS ALBUM, 1926](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/297884.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1715626041)
5 ¾” x 7 3/8” x 3/8” black imitation leather album with black title on front cover, “SnapShots”. Top and bottom front edges of spine wearing away; surfaces on front and back somewhat worn; stapled pages intact but separated from.....
![Item #300239 [AMERICANA] [NEWSPAPER] SPIRIT OF THE VALLEY. ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. ONE ISSUE](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/300239.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773689546)
A relatively early issue of the Rockingham County newspaper “Spirit of the Valley”, issued by Dechert & Son, Editor and Publishers. The newspaper began in 1878. This issues is Saturday, October 22, 1881 (Volume IV, No. 6). The issue is.....
![Item #289551 [AMERICANA] [PHOTO] BOSTON. STATE HOUSE AND PARK STREET STOP. BLIZZARD FEBRUARY 1898](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/289551.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1573595523)
An albumen photograph of a major snowstorm in February 1898, showing a most wintry view of the State House and Boston Common, and a very early image of the Park Street Subway stop. The Park Street Station was one of.....
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New York | Richmond: West, Johnston & Co., [1881-1882]. Half Leather. A sammelband of four Richmond imprints, on early American history, or proceedings of historical societies. Contemporary owner’s name on the front endpaper, of Dr. Mann Page, a teacher at.....
![Item #298971 [AMERICANA] [WOMEN] [THEATER] CABINET CARD OF MISS IRENE WOODWARD](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/298971.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745264060)
Richmond, VA: 1875. Chicago, IL: 1880s. 6 ½” x 4 ¼”. Fair.~~Cabinet card with printed signature of Miss Irene Woodward, “America’s Original Tattooed Lady”. Known as La Belle Irene, she toured America and Europe. She claimed variously to have been.....
Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1897. Royal Octavo. Hard Cover. First Edition. 638pp. Rare; copiously illustrated with black and white photos of prominent citizens; no pencil or ink markings evident in text; black leather binding, light edge wear to extremities;.....
![Item #295985 [BOUND VOLUME] MISCELLANY: FIFTEEN AMERICAN MAGAZINES, 1840’s. THE SYMBOL AND...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/295985.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1661545711)
1842, 1843, 1844, 1846. Octavo. Half Leather. 15 different 19th century magazine's bound together: 6 issues of THE SYMBOL AND ODD-FELLOW'S MAGAZINE [Vol. III, No. IV, June 1844; Vol. III, No. VIII, Oct. 1844; Vol. IV, No. VII, July 1845;.....