Prescott: Office of the Arizona Miner, 1866. Arizona stated the exact rights of a woman in the Territory. During this session the legislature ratified an act outlining the rights of married women, consisting of thirty-three sections. Also passed during this session was the "Act To Incorporate the Mowry Silver Mine... Read More about Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the Second Legislative Assembly of the Territory of...

San Francisco: The History Company, Publishers, 1890. Read More about The History of Texas and the North Mexican States

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. First edition. One of the most acclaimed works on the Indian wars, by an army officer and ethnologist who served on Crook's staff. "A truly great book, on both the Apaches and the Arizona frontier" - Dobie. Read More about On the Border with Crook

10 Austin Friars [London]: 29 April [n.y.]. A pair of letters from brother-humorists James Smith (1775-1839) and Horatio Smith (1779-1849), authors of the celebrated parody anthology "Rejected Addresses" (1812) which included imitations of Byron, Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, Scott, et al, "undoubtedly the best known collection of parodies published in the... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("James Smith"), declining an invitation to attend a...

Tucson: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, 1965. From an edition limited to 750 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. A detailed study of the contributions made to the cartography of Sonora, Arizona, and California by the noted missionary, Eusebio Kino, in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Read More about Kino and the Cartography of Northwestern New Spain

Little Rock, Arkansas: printed by M.G. Pugh and Company, [1927]. Women of the Ku Klux Klan. Two items from the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan, which began in 1915 and took shape as a national organization perpetuated by a well-established beauracracy with codified recruiting techniques and forms. The... Read More about Constitution and Laws of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. Adopted by First Imperial Klonvocation at...

[New Castle, Delaware: 1842]. A charming group of ink and wash drawings by the talented artist and United States Navy Lieutenant, John B. Dale. Only one of the drawings is titled, but they all show scenes along a river, presumably the Suwanee in southern Georgia or northern Florida, and two... Read More about ORIGINAL INK DRAWING OF NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, BY UNITED STATES NAVY LIEUTENANT JOHN B. DALE

Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1950. First edition. With Dobie's bookplate and a TLS from Dorothy Hayner telling about this copy. Read More about The Ben Lilly Legend

Boston: George R. Holbrook & Co, 1848. Twelfth Edition. The author, a clerk on a steamboat and then a Mexican War Volunteer, was captured by Canales' band of Guerillas and experienced a rigorous Captivity. He describes the wretched internal conditions, incidents of the War, his final escape and perilous return... Read More about Adventures in Mexico; Experienced During a Captivity of Seven Months

July 9, 1938. "To Alfred Eisenstaedt / with admiration for his / art and appreciation for his / comradeship / Jonathan Daniels / Raleigh, N.C. July 9, 1938"Daniels was editor the Raleigh, North Carolina, News and Observer. In 1938 he published his account of a ten-state tour of the South... Read More about Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852. First edition, second issue. "The standard account of the financial history of the Texas Revolution, this book is much more interesting reading than the title suggests, mixing humor, anecdotes, and historical sidelights with statistics, finance, and fiscal theory ... Although the Texans did not... Read More about The Fiscal History of Texas. Embracing an Account of Its Revenues, Debts, and Currency, from the...