This is copy 44 of a deluxe limited edition of 50 copies containing “a suite of ten original prints by Fritz Scholder, hand-printed in the Kallitype process on Rives BFK by James Hajick, and each signed by the artist.”

•  The book and the added material of the limited edition housed in a red cloth clamshell box with the artist's signature artfully reproduced on a rectangle of gold cardstock and adhered to the front of the box. All items in fine condition.  (30503)

NO U.S. editions in NCBEL.

•  Shoemaker 26032; NSTC 2S9985. No U.S. editions in NCBEL.   Period-style quarter tan cloth and light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Ex–social club library: pressure-stamp on title-pages and one other page, no other markings. One leaf with short tear from lower margin, not touching text; one leaf with tear from outer margin extending into text, without loss; two leaves with lower outer corners torn away. Occasional small spots of staining; minor offsetting in vol. II.  (28743)

•  Wright, II, 2174; Sabin 78641.   Publisher's brown cloth, covers blind-stamped with star-shaped design, spine with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped decoration; binding cocked and rubbed, spine extremities chipped. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and call number on pastedown and fly-leaf, front free endpaper lacking, title-page pressure-stamped. No other markings. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean.  (26565)

•  Richmond, Shaker Literature, I, 1279; MacLean, Shaker Literature, 441; McKinstry, Andrews Shaker Collection, 397.   Publisher's printed paper wrappers, unevenly age-toned; front wrapper with minor offsetting of printed text. Pages clean and crisp.  (27503)

Binding:  Publisher's brown cloth, front cover with black-stamped hunting scene and title framed in gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title.

•  Binding as above, corners and spine head lightly rubbed. Ex–social club library: call number on endpaper, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Pages clean.  (27113)

ten oversized, folding maps

•  Sabin 81135; Howes S461; American Imprints 44-5635.   Publisher's plain paper–covered boards, recently rebacked with olive green cloth, spine with new antiqued printed paper label; paper rubbed and stained. Hinges (inside) reinforced. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page and sectional title, no other markings. All leaves affected by an unusual sort of very light and remarkably even waterstaining that left the upper outer corners (only) untouched and even bright, with a variously wavy line of light to moderate brown marking the “border”; otherwise a few other pages with other soiling or staining; one page with smudge of green ink, touching but not obscuring text; one leaf with short tear from upper margin, not extending into text; and a bit of cockling. An excellent example of a good book that has suffered accidents but also is “better than it sounds.”  (29420)

A past user has helpfully labeled this book, “School/Slate.”

Provenance:  A note dated 1912, “Harry Wheeler from George Shrann”; another 1912 note, “Rememberance [sic] from George Shrann”; Harry's undated signature at front of volume.

•  Gently rubbed rust paper over boards with loop for slate pencil (not present) attached to back board. One page fully blank (except for “frame”), some “entries” rubbed away beyond deciphering, other markings as above. Interesting example of potential uses for a slate beyond schoolwork.  (37192)

•  Sewn in publisher's color-flecked grey paper wrappers. A crisp, clean copy.  (36079)

Binding: Publisher's ribbon-embossed green geometric-patterned cloth of Krupp's style Gt2; original printed paper labels.Do please click to enhance the image of this handsome American binding cloth— it's hard to show, but worth trying to see!

•  American Imprints 49627. On the binding, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England & America, 1823–1850, Gt2.   Bindings as above, cocked; edges, extremities, labels rubbed, chipped, spotted — far from fresh, but also far from devastated. Ex–social club library: bookplate on each front pastedown, call numbers in a 19th-century hand (lined through) on pastedown and front free endpaper, title-pages and a few others rubber-stamped. No other institutional markings. Front hinge (inside) of vol. I starting, text block pulling away from spine, first few leaves starting to separate. Front fly-leaf with pencilled numeral and pencilled doodle/sketch of a chubby child; occasional faint pencilled annotations. A few scattered spots of staining, pages mostly clean.  (26294)

•  Publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt on the front. Near fine.  (26702)

Provenance:  Ex–social club library with its bookplate; call number in a 19th-century hand on paper spine label and front pastedown; additional note of “duplicate” status on front free endpaper. Another label to pastedown notes this was a bequest of George Fox.

•  Howes S861. On the series, see: Sabin 85072.   Publisher’s dark olive cloth, gilt lettering and stamp on spine with blind decorative rolls and covers framed in blind; light rubbing with a small chip to top of spine, text ever so slightly cocked. Marked as above, with occasional spotting and some offsetting to and around plates. The illustrations here are lovely; the maps and diagrams most interesting.  (36235)

Provenance: Title-page with affixed presentation slip from the State Historical Society; front free endpaper with affixed envelope flap addressed to the Rev. E.A. Dalrymple of Baltimore, MD.

•  Publisher’s cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title. Binding sturdy but with portion of spine cloth missing, exposing underlying material; corners bumped, extremities very lightly rubbed. Front pastedown with institutional stamp. Pages slightly age-toned, else clean.

Stern was the life and business partner of Leona Rostenberg, their firm of Rostenberg & Stern having been one of America's most respected during the post –WWII period and known for its dealing in early printed books Dufief (1776?–1834) was a refugee from the French Revolution who from 1793 to 1818 lived in Philadelphia, where he taught French and ran a bookstore. Among the libraries he acquired was the large residue of Benjamin Franklin's!

•  New. Publisher's light brown cloth with paper spine label.  (35753)

Binding:  Publisher's ribbon-embossed green floral-patterned cloth of Krupp's style Ft6.

•  American Imprints 53109; Palau 322394; Sabin 91388. Not in Smith, American Travellers Abroad. On the binding, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823--50.   Publisher's green floral-patterned cloth, spine with printed paper label; corners and spine foot rubbed, spine head pulled, paper label darkened with edges chipped. Front free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription; occasional pencilled annotations and marks of emphasis. Light to moderate foxing.  (25425)

Origin & Provenance: The writer was neither Lieutenant Colonel William Steuart, who died in 1839, nor William Steuart, chief statistician of the Bureau of the Census, who was born in 1861; rather, this was beyond a doubtthe William M. Steuart for whom Steuart Street in San Francisco was named — the acting chairman of the California State Constitutional Convention in 1849 and a one-time candidate for governor of the state.

Steuert first went to California as a secretary to Commodore Jones and maintained strong ties to the family.

•  Folded as mailed, with traces of original red wax seal; lower inner corner reinforced with cellophane tape some time ago. Two small spots of staining. A personal yet politically instructive window on contemporary opinion, written by someone who was surely (kindly!) “spinning” yet (also) knew whereof he spoke.  (36541)

The second part (pp. 267–403), which contains its own title-page, is a collection of testimonies by “inspired writers,” or Shakers professing their faith in the book's divine source.

“Read and understand all ye in mortal clay,” exhorts the title-page — “Received by the church of this communion, and published in union with the same.”

Provenance:  In the library of Colgate Rochester Divinity School; inscription on front free endpaper “To be returned to Amelia G. Mace, Office.”

•  Sabin 32664, 79708; and 90701.5 for revised collation.   Contemporary sheep, recently rebacked in plain calf with gilt-ruled bands and gilt-stamped green leather title-label. Ex-library copy, with rubber-stamp on all paper edges and p. [1]; rubber-stamped five-digit number at base of p. [iii]; inscription on front free endpaper in blue ink (see above); and faint traces of a librarian's penciling at inner margin of p. [iii] and verso of title-page. Small bookseller's ticket at lower outer corner of rear pastedown. Some foxing, especially to endpapers; offsetting from leather affecting title-page and following page, at edges; very good condition.  (24495)

Binding:  Publisher's quarter “tiger-striped” orange-brown cloth with gray cloth sides, front cover with gilt-stamped title and black-stamped door, spine with gilt-stamped title.

•  BAL 18880; Johnson, High Spots of American Literature, 69; Wright, III, 5242.   Binding as above; minor rubbing, spine gilt dimmed. Front hinge (inside) tender. Ex–social club library: call number in 19th-century hand on front free endpaper, rubber-stamp on half-title and title-page, no other markings. A very clean, nice copy.  (26250)

In this “Address” and in contrast to Sloat's slow, diplomatic, and we might now say “inclusive” approach, Stockton’s words and tone are not conciliatory in any way: “The Mexican Government and their Military Officers have without cause for a year past been threatening the United States with hostilities. . . . General Castro the Commander in Chief of the Military forces of California has violated every principle of international law and national hospitality by hunting and pursuing with several hundred Soldiers, and with wicked intent, Captain Fremont of the U.S. Army who came here to refresh his men (about forty in number) after a perilous journey across the Mountains on a scientific survey.” He further accuses Castro and his men of murder, rapine, desertion, “repeated outrages and hostilities.”

Stockton therefore announces that he “cannot . . . confine my operations to the quiet and undisturbed possession of the defenseless ports of Monterey and San Francisco, whilst the people elsewhere are suffering from lawless violence, but will immediately march against these boasting and abusive Chiefs who have not only violated every principle of national hospitality and good faith towards Captain Fremont and his surveying party, but who unless driven out, will with the aid of hostile Indians keep this beautiful Country in a constant state of revolution and blood.”

He concludes by saying, “The Commander in Chief does not desire to possess himself of one foot of California for any other reason then [sic] as the only means to save from distruction[sic], the lives and property of the foreign residents, and Citizens of the territory, who have invoked his protection.”

Less than a month later, martial law was formally declared.

There is no census of copies of this important Anglo-Californian foundation document. Using the Online Archive of California, NUCMC, and the OPACs of the Bancroft and Hungtington libraries and the California Historical Society, we locateonly the copy contained among the Templeton Crocker manuscripts at the CHS, this in a retained copy of a letter from Stockton to Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft. However, we do know of a copy, signed by Stockton, in a private collection.

Provenance:  The Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

As a side- or footnote not always recalled, Stockton's success in California must have been savorable not only as professional and patriotic triumph, but as redemption as well; his career had somehow *not* been wrecked by an incident in which a faulty cannon of his design had a few years before killed the Secretary of the Navy and a number of other dignitaries during its demonstration!

•  Written on unruled blue wove paper with no watermark or embossed logo. Old folds with some browning along fold lines; small fold tears, repaired; very good condition. One interlinear correction of a word left out and an erasure of the word “the” replaced with “a.” A note in a different, heavier hand: “Como. Stocktons Proclamation Aug, 1846.” In a quarter blue leather clamshell case.  (34855)

The second volume contains “The Sands of the Green River” (Neith Boyce), “The Unsullied Brow of the Viceroy” (Edwin Lefévre), “The Saving of Jim Moseby” (Anthony Leland), “The Escape” (Dabney Marshall), “Dick” (Maria Louise Pool), “The Primrose Dame” (John Regnault Ellyson), “When His Majesty Nicholas Came to England” (Clinton Ross), “At 'The Temple of Unending Peace'” (Alfred Dwight Sheffield), “The Tumbrils” (Nathaniel Stephenson), “Gil Horne's Bergonzi” (Maurice Thompson), “Her Last Love” (Clarence Wellford), “A Little Boy of Dreams” (Beatrice Witte), and “The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing” (Edith Franklin Wyatt).

Bindings:  Both volumes in publisher's pinkish-tan cloth, all edges gilt. Vol. I's spine in dark blue, each cover with A.E. Borie's Art Nouveau design of a woman walking down the street while reading, stamped in black, green, yellow, and blue. Vol. II's spine in red, covers each with striking black and red reproduction of Claude Bragdon's Chap-Book poster of the “Sandwich Man”: a vignette of a bowler-hatted man in triplicate, wearing Chap-Book sandwich boards.

•  Vol. I: Binding as above, minimal shelfwear, faint smudging to sides. Pages with a few instances of pencilled marks of emphasis, mostly but not entirely confined to the first essay, pages otherwise clean. Vol. II: Binding as above, very slightly cocked, sides with faint spots of discoloration, light wear to extremities. Two stories with faded inked marks of emphasis, and one with a few pencilled marks; a very few small spots of staining, pages otherwise clean.  (29013)

An abolitionist document important in its own right, not just as “support” of a fiction's faithfulness to fact.

•  BAL 19357 (for first London ed.).   Contemporary pebbled paper with roan shelfback, spine with gilt-stamped title, foliate designs, and “L, C” at foot; rubbed. Pages slightly age-toned, with occasional small spots of foxing. A solid copy of an early printing.  (34942)

•  Later pale green cloth. All edges marbled. Cloth ribbon placemarker.  (33239)

warmly inscribed with Christmas greetings from the poet

•  Clean, crisp copy in publisher's red cloth, slightly darkened, gilt-stamping on front cover still bright. Front free endpaper with number stamped in upper right corner, also with author's gift inscription as described above; pages clean.  (4898)

Provenance: “Miss Carrie G. Skinner, Fort Ann Village, NY.”

•  American Imprints 43-4820; Sabin 93131.   Publisher's violet cloth, covers blind-stamped with central gilt-stamped urn vignettes, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorations; cloth sunned especially at edges and spine, corners bumped, front joint with small spots of old insect damage. Front free endpaper with early pencilled ownership inscription, as above. Foxed; a few poems with early pencilled annotations (brief) — one is, simply, “Splendid.”  (27650)

•  Garrison A7.1.a. Publisher’s olive paper–covered boards, front cover and spine stamped in gold; lacking the now seldom-seen dustwrapper, spine very slightly darkened, extremities showing touches of wear. Top edge gilt. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1903. Pages clean. A good-looking copy.  (15733)

Binding:  Publisher's ribbon-embossed brown cloth with flower and acanthus leaf design (Krupp's style ft1), spine with gilt-stamped title.

•  American Imprints 53164; Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, 168. On the binding, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England & America, 1823–1850, ft1.   Binding as above; corners rubbed and small rubbed spot on front cover, spine extremities chipped, spine head with small lightly discolored area from now-absent label. Ex–social club library: bookplate and early inked call number on front pastedown, title-page pressure- and (faintly) rubber-stamped. No other markings. Front hinge (inside) partially reinforced with paper some time ago. Scattered light staining. A nice book.  (26289)