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1..[African Americana] Brown, Wm. Wells. The Negro In the American Rebellion. His Heroism and His Fidelity. Boston & Cleveland: Lee & Shepard, 1867. First edition. 7.5" x 4.75". 380pp. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Corners and spine tips a little worn, light soiling to a few leaves, an old pencil ownership inscription, small ink price on the corner of the title leaf. A VG / VG+ example of a scarce and important book. Brown was a prominent African - American abolitionist, lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, Brown escaped to Ohio in 1834 at the age of 20. He settled in Boston, where he worked for abolitionist causes and became a prolific writer. In addition to working for abolitionist causes, Brown also supported other causes, including: temperance, women's suffrage, pacifism, prison reform, and anti-tobacconism. His novel Clotel (1853), considered the first novel written by an African American, was published in London, where he resided at the time; it was later published in the United States. This landmark effort to produce a military history of African Americans is mostly devoted to African American participation in the Civil War, but begins with a chapter each on the American Revolution, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner. $400.00 2. [Architecture] Day, Frank Miles. Inexpensive Homes of Individuality. Being a Collection of Photographs and Floor Plans Illustrating Certain of America's Best Country and Suburban Homes of Moderate Size. New York: McBride, Nast & Company , 1915. New and enlarged edition. 10" x 7". 80pp. Illustrated paper covered boards with a green cloth spine. Light rubbing and wear; nice VG+ condition. An excellent study of early 20th century American architecture. $45.00

3. [Architecture] Williams, Paul R. New Homes For Today. Hollywood: Murray & Gee, Incorporated, 1946. First edition. 11" x 8.25". 95pp. Beige cloth with brown lettering, in dust wrapper. Bookplate, else fine condition. The jacket is badly chipped and tape repaired on the reverse; the pictorial front panel is intact. Beautifully printed on light green paper, this volume features the eminent architect’s diverse dwelling designs, including Cape Cod style homes, haciendas, The Barn, The Versailles, Hillside Estates, even a design for an outdoor barbecue room. Williams was the first African-American admitted to the American Institute of Architects. His career spanned five decades. Williams has long been revered in the Los Angeles area for his willingness to put the client before convention, and for his attention to detail. He was posthumously awarded the prestigious AIA Gold Medal. $200.00

4. [Art] Mourlot, Fernand. Bernard Buffet. Lithographs 1952 - 1966. New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1968. First edition. 12.25" x 9.5". [179pp.] Color illustrated wrappers. With one very short closed tear on the front wrapper and a hint of other wear, else fine condition; in the original publisher's slipcase and chemise. Limited edition; number 69 of only 125 copies printed, each signed by the compiler / printer Mourlot. This edition includes 11 original color lithographs by Buffet, including the wrapper. Also with two additional color lithographs by Buffet, both of which are signed by the artist. With a preface by Georges Simenon. Buffet was a highly regarded French Expressionist painter. $450.00 5. [Auto Travel] Kimball, Winfield A. & Maurice H. Decker. Touring With Tent and Trailer. New York: Whittlesey House, 1937. First edition. 8" x 5.5". 302pp. Red illustrated cloth. One small spot on the rear board, else fine condition. With chapters on motor trail campfires, roads and routes, tents, camp beds and cots, motor camping clothes, folding trailers, vehicles, etc. With many black & white photo illustrations. $45.00

6. [Baseball] Armour, Mark, editor. Rain Check. Baseball in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. First edition. 11" x 8.5". 128pp. Color illustrated glossy wrappers. Fine condition. This excellent regional baseball history features numerous rare photographs from the David Eskenazi collection. With much on the Pacific Coast League, Dan Dugdale, John Barnes, African Americans in Pacific Northwest baseball, Fred Hutchinson, the Seattle Pilots, the Portland Mavericks, and much, much more. $35.00 7. [Baseball] Krueger, Joseph J. Baseball's Greatest Drama. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: (Privately Published, 1942). First edition. 8.5"x 5.5". 408pp. Gray cloth, in dust wrapper. Ownership signature, else near fine condition. The jacket has some edge wear and a few tape repairs on the reverse. Subtitled on the jacket "World Series History 1903 - 1942." With a four page advertising flyer for this book laid in. With many black & white photo illustrations of baseball greats on the big stage. $40.00

8. Brown, Sterling A. The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown. New York: Harper & Row, 1980. First edition. 9" x 6". 257pp. Gray paper covered boards with a brown cloth spine, in dust wrapper. Small spot on the fore edge, else near fine condition. Near fine jacket. This copy signed and inscribed by the poet on the title page. Brown was a black professor, folklorist, poet and literary critic. He chiefly studied black culture of the Southern United States and was a full professor at Howard University for most of his career. $125.00 9. Canfield, Dorothy. Rough - Hewn. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922. 7.25" x 4.75". 504pp. Maroon cloth with green lettering, in dust wrapper. Light wear to spine tips, very mild foxing to page edges, pencil ownership signature, else fine condition. The jacket has been torn and heavily tape repaired on the reverse; a good minus example of a scarce 95 year old dust wrapper. The jacket features an ad for Sinclair Lewis's classic novel Babbitt on the rear flap. Canfield was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the twentieth century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. In addition to bringing the Montessori method of child-rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country's first adult education program and helped shape literary tastes by serving as a member of the Book of the Month Club selection committee from 1925 to 1951. $35.00

10. [China] Bryan, F. Catherine. At the Gates. Life Story of Matthew Tyson and Eliza Moring Yates of China. Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, (1949). First edition. 9" x 6". 374pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering, in dust wrapper. Near fine condition; near fine jacket. A good study of the influential nineteenth century missionaries in China. $125.00

11. [Colorado] Gems of Colorado Scenery. Photographic Reproductions of the Most Prominent and Magnificent Scenes in the Rocky Mountains. Denver, Colorado: The H.H. Tammen Company, [no date, circa 1910]. 10.25" x 13". 35pp. Color illustrated cord bound wrappers. Near fine

condition. A beautiful selection of images, with scenes of mountain peaks, railroads, vacationing people, mines and miners, etc. $45.00

12. [Economics] Fisher, Irving. The Theory of Interest. New York: Macmillan, 1930. First edition. 8.5" x 5.5". 565pp. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Ownership signature, else near fine condition. Fisher was an American economist, statistician, inventor, and Progressive social campaigner. Joseph Schumpeter described him as "the greatest economist the United States has ever produced", an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman. $200.00 13. [Food] Brown, Helen Evans; Philip S. Brown; Katharine Best; & Katharine Hillyer. The Virginia City Cook Book. (Los Angeles: Anderson & Ritchie The Ward Ritchie Press, 1953). First edition. Oblong paper wraps. 148pp., with index. Line drawing illustrations. Small rough spot on cover and spine, else a very good or better copy. A fragile book, not one of Ritchie's better productions. This example is a much better-than-average copy. An entertaining cook book of recipes from the "lively ghost town" of Virginia City, Nevada. Helen Evans Brown was the first of many talented chef writers to celebrate western and most especially "California cuisine" in the years after World War Two. She sometimes wrote with her husband, Philip, and was a co-author with and close friend of James Beard...a volume of their letters has been published. This copy signed and inscribed on the first leaf (the half-title): “Happy eating! Helen Evans Brown" and is signed below her name by husband Philip S. Brown and the other two co-authors, Katherine Best and Katherine Hillyer. $50.00

UNUSUAL 1945 LOOK AT A VERY FANCY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COMPANY LUNCH ROOM

14. [Food - Restaurants] The Restaurant of the Braun Plant. Alhambra, California: C.F. Braun and Company, 1945. First and only edition. 9" x 11.75". 30pp. Blue cloth. Fine condition. With photo illustrations. A very curious and unusual picture book of the food service building on the campus of the C.F. Braun Company, an industrial engineering firm then headquartered in Alhambra. The founder of the company, Carl F. Braun, made a fortune with his innovative products for the petroleum and other industries and was the creator of a new system of book-keeping. He was also a book collector who published his own books about management and other business topics, along with nice editions of classics and other works. But this particular volume doesn't really fit into any of the categories of other Braun publications...it is a picture book of what at other companies would have been called the lunch room, cafeteria, mess hall or some such, but Braun here calls it a restaurant. Actually it was several restaurants in one, as the factory workers, the office staff, the sales force and the execs each had their own separate dining room. Of course the big shots got the nicest space but even the large room for the factory workers looks nice. Each of the 30 pages has a visually pleasing gravure photo image, including the exterior, the kitchen, the restaurant office, the various rooms, restaurant employees, etc. Although there is not much text, the photos themselves form a very valuable archive of what a busy and functioning restaurant looked like in the mid-1940s. Although this was not open to the public, I imagine the operation was not that different from the food service in a large urban hotel, which might have had a dining room, coffee shop, banquet space, etc. I am not sure why the Braun company would have created such an elaborate book about their own employee food facility but I'm glad they did. The Braun Company was bought out by Santa Fe International in 1979 at which time they vacated their campus and its many buildings, including the "Restaurant." Since then, the building offices have been occupied by a variety of private and government concerns. As of 2017, the old Braun campus is now called The Villages at Alhambra...a very ambitious mixed-use community of office, residence, and retail. Our detective work has not determined the current state of the building which housed the restaurant, but we can be pretty sure it is still standing and incorporated into the new operation. This book seems to be very scarce...perhaps not surprising given what was surely a very small printing, and what must have been rather limited interest at the time. OCLC locates but one copy, and a search of the Internet has failed to find any other copy for sale. $175.00 15. [Food] Sarich, John with Lori McKean. John Sarich at Chateau Ste. Michelle. For Cooks Who Love Wine. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, (1997). First edition. 9.5" x 6". 176pp. Maroon buckram, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket (which has a bookshop sticker affixed to the front panel. This copy signed and briefly inscribed on the title page.

Sarich was the beloved and legendary culinary director at Washington's Chateau Ste. Michelle winery. He spent three decades inspiring and educating people around the world with his passion for food and wine through his TV shows, cookbooks, and Chateau Ste. Michelle. This volume collects some of his favorite recipes with tips on wine pairings. $35.00 16. [Food] Schlosser, Frank. The Greedy Book: A Gastronomical Anthology. London: Gay and Bird, 1906. First edition. Small 8vo. 175pp., with index and 15pp. of publisher's ads, including one for the author's earlier book, The Cult of the Chafing Dish. A very entertaining collection of light-hearted but also informative essays about all sorts of food matters. Chapters include ones on Salads in Literature, Waiters and Snails [!], Dishes in History, Lenten Fare, The Poet in the Kitchen, etc. The chapter on oysters is of course from the viewpoint of an Englishman, and offers thoughts and advice about all sorts of oysters we don't see here in the US. Very nice, near fine copy. $75.00

17. Geddes, Norman Bell. Magic Motorways. New York: Random House, 1940. First edition. 10.25" x 8". 297pp. Beige and brown cloth. Spine tips a little worn, else nice VG+ condition. A study of automobiles and transportation in the United States by the eminent American designer. This book includes his detailed plan for a new national motorways system. With many black white illustrations. $65.00

18. [Haiti] Vandercook, John W. Black Majesty: The Life of Christophe King of Haiti. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First edition. 8.25" x 5.5". 207pp. Patterned paper covered boards with a black cloth spine and corners. With the original glassine wrapper and the publisher's slipcase. Bottom corners lightly bumped, else fine condition. The slipcase is a little worn. With illustrations by Mahlon Blaine. A study of the 19th century former slave of Bambara ethnicit and a key leader in the Haitian Revolution who proclaimed himself king. $40.00

19. Ingersoll, Robert G. The Writings of Robert G. Ingersoll. New York: The Dresden Publishing Company, C. P. Farrell, 1908. Thirteen 8.75" x 6" volumes. Each bound in 3/4 morocco leather with gilt spine lettering, marbled boards, top edges gilt. Spines a little faded, light edge wear, else near fine condition. The collected works of the American lawyer, Civil War veteran, politician, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought. Ingersoll was noted for his broad intellectual range and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic". $250.00 20. [Military History] Groves, Lieut. - Col. Percy. History of the 91st Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders Now the 1st Battalion Princess Louise's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders...1794 - 1894. Edinburgh & London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1894. First edition. 9.75" x 6". 43pp. Red beveled cloth with gilt lettering and cover device. Near fine condition. Limited edition, one of only 530 copies printed. With a full page color frontis and eight other full - page plates by Harry Payne. A very uncommon book of Scottish military history. $175.00

21. [Military History] Katzeff, Dave, editor. The Observer. Stalag IV B. Reproduction of a Hand - printed Prisoner of War Wall Newspaper and it's Story. Johannesburg: The Springbok Legion and the Central News Agency, Ltd., [no date, circa 1947]. 10.5" x 8". Appr. 300pp. Stiff illustrated paper covered boards, in dust wrapper. Near fine condition; the jacket is chipped and worn. With many black & white illustrations from drawings. With a foreword by Field Marshal The Rt. Hon. J.C. Smuts. Aimed at South African POWs, this newspaper included articles and short stories by prisoners, notices of camp activities and special events, noted sports scores, announced forthcoming inter - prisoner rugby matches, etc. $100.00 22. [Military History] McClung, Nellie, told by Private Simmons. Three Times and Out. Toronto and Boston & New York: Thomas Allen and Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. First edition. 7.25" x 4.75". 247pp. Blue cloth. VG+ condition. The author was a prisoner of war in Germany for sixteen months, but managed to escape. With a black & white photograph of a group of prisoners mounted on the front free endpaper. With the bookplate of T.V. Scudamore, a Canadian military officer who also wrote a book entitled Lighter Episodes in the Life of a Prisoner of War. (See below.) $45.00

23. [Military History] Scudamore, Major T. V. Lighter Episodes in the Life of a Prisoner of War. Aldershot, England: Gale and Polden, Ltd., 1933. First edition. 7.25" x 4.75". 92pp. Beige cloth stamped in black & red. Near fine condition. With a photo frontis of the author. With illustrations from drawings by Captain Neil Duncan. Much of the material in this book first appeared in the journal Canadian Defence Quarterly. While the anecdotes in this volume do appear amusing one still must conclude that Major Scudamore was quite possibly the all - time Canadian Silver Lining Optimism champion. $45.00

24. [Military History] Quinn, Colonel Michael A. Love Letters To Mike. Forty Months as a Japanese Prisoner of War, April 9, 1942 to September 17, 1945. New York, etc.: Vantage Press, (1977). First edition. 8" x 5". 329pp. Maroon cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket. Quinn served as Chief of Transportation under General Jonathan Wainwright, was captured at the fall of Bataan, and was imprisoned in camps in the Philippines and Manchuria. This volume is his harrowing account of his ordeal. $75.00

25. [Military History] Woelfer, Captain Carlyle P. The Combat History of Combat Infantry Company K 222nd Infantry, 42nd Infantry (Rainbow) Division. New York: Privately Published, 1946. First edition. 10.5" x 8". 74pp. Original color illustrated wrappers. Fine condition. This important military history work contains many black and white photo illustrations. This company fought with distinction in the Rhineland and Central Europe. The text provides in depth details about their activities, personnel, various awards and commendations given to members, and more. $100.00

26. [Minnesota, University of] Niles, Henry C., Junior C. Buck & Roman A. Bohnen, editors. 1923 Gopher. The University of Minnesota. Volume XXXVI. Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Graduating Class of 1923 of the University of Minnesota, 1922. 10.75" x 7.5". Full brown leather with gilt lettering. Light rubbing and wear, two signatures, else VG+ condition. A nicely produced yearbook, with the usual sections on classes, scholarships, student government, athletics, activities, organizations, etc. With many illustrations from drawings, including several comic cartoons by Levon West and several color and black & white illustrations by Hugh M. Hutton who went on to be a very successful editorial cartoonist. $40.00 27. [Photography] Lyon, Danny. Conversations With the Dead: An Exhibition of Photographs of Prison Life. Houston, Texas: Institute for the Arts: Rice University, 1970. 9" x 6". 6pp. Stapled wrappers. Near fine condition. This booklet is the catalog for the exhibition of Lyon's important photojournalistic study of prisoners and particularly convicted rapist Billy McCune. With text from and illustrations from Lyon's photos and McCune's drawings. $25.00

28. Religious Album. [Cover title]. 1851. 7.5" x 6". (120pp.) Bound in full tooled leather with gilt lettering. Light rubbing, spine tips chipped, else VG+ condition. A blank book with four full - page religious themed engravings. This autograph / memory book includes many pencil signatures of the owner's friends and family, one tiny mounted photo portrait, a seventeen line calligraphic sentiment entitled Virtue is the Best Treasure, a nice pencil landscape drawing, an inscription in Tamil by a missionary who was stationed in Batlagundu in southern India, and an acrostic. $40.00

29. [Religion] Gallaudet, Rev. T.H. The Child's Book of Repentance, Designed Also For Older Persons. New York: American Tract Society, (1834). 5.75"x 3.5". 147pp. Brown cloth boards with a black leather spine. Spine a little dull, 1836 ownership inscription, some foxing. A VG+ example. A treatise on Christian spiritual instruction by the renowned pioneer of deaf education in the United States. With an engraved frontispiece entitled "The Pious Mother Instructing Her Children." $35.00 30. [Seattle Architecture] MacIntosh, Heather. Rebuilding a Legacy: The Story of the Starbucks Center Building. Seattle & New York: Nitze - Stagen, 2004. First edition. 9.5" x 9.5". 104pp. Bound in glossy color illustrated paper wrappers. Fine condition, in the original printed publisher's cloth slipcase. This nicely produced book details the historic preservation of the 1915 Sears building by Nitze - Stagen, and its conversion into the corporate headquarters for the Starbucks Company. Filled with color and black & white photo illustrations. $35.00

31. [Sheet music - The Marx Brothers] Sailin’ Away on the Henry Clay. Lyric by Gus Kahn. Music by Egbert Van Alstyne. NY: Jerome H Remick and Co. (1917). 10.5" x 13.75". VG copy with a few tiny edge chips and some wrinkling. A long - forgotten novelty tune by two of Tin Pan Alley's most prolific artists. Van Alstyne's old-fashioned writing style was soon quite out of date, but Kahn continued on to be one of the most successful and best lyricists in popular music, especially in early 1920s collaborations with Isham Jones, and after that with Walter Donaldson. But the interest here is not so much for the song or the song writers but for the young quartet of vaudeville entertainers whose picture is on the front: The Marx Brothers. Pictured left to right are: "Zeppo" (real name Herbert), "Chico" (Leonard), "Harpo" (Arthur) and last and certainly not least, Julius, and if you don't know his stage name you probably aren't interested in this item anyway. The Marx Brothers first went on stage as a "kid act" in 1905, when the brothers were between the ages of 12 and 18. Young brother "Gummo"(real name Milton) quit the act in 1915 and was replaced by the youngest of the brothers, who remained with the act until 1933. This 100-year old photo image of the Marx Brothers is one of the very few times they appeared on sheet music before their big successes on Broadway and later in the movies.

$45.00

32. [Theater] Lederer, Charles and Luther Davis. With Music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest. Kismet. New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. 8" x 5.25". 174pp. Ownership signature, a tiny bit of fading to the edges, else near fine in a VG+ or near fine dust jacket. With several black & white photo illustrations of scenes from the original Broadway production. $35.00 33. [Washington, University of] 1906 Tyee. Seattle: The Junior Class of the University of Washington, 1906. 10" x 7.25". 326pp., plus ads. Original brown cloth, with gilt lettering and gilt "fadeaway" style illustration of a Native American man paddling a canoe. Front hinge weak, else nice VG+ condition. An uncommon early University of Washington yearbook. Includes numerous b&w photographs, drawings, sections on the various classes, clubs, fraternities, etc, as well as great advertisements for period businesses. $40.00