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190589p. + Engraved Portrait Frontis. Thin 4to. Original full olive green cloth binding, embossed in blind and lettered in gold. Binding slightly spotted. Hardbound. First edition. AMERICANA BOX 3 x2
1992270 pages. "Documents the men and the ships of a little-known period in west coast history. Pays funny and fascinating tribute to the unsung heroes of an inglorious history." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Dust jacket in Archival-quality Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
Best.-Nr. LITT5765M1953 / Albert Guillot, Paris. In-8, en feuilles, couverture rempliée, sous chemise et étui éditeur rouge, 194pp illustrées de 21 compositions en gravure originale de René Proner. Exemplaire numéroté 1317 sur les 1500 tirés sur papier pur chiffon du Marais filigrané spécialement à la signature de l'auteur. Dos insolé. Très bel exemplaire
1932Features: Sanity, Prohibition, and the federal deficit; A gasser blows in - heroic measures necessary to combat flames in oil fields; Where diamonds earn their keep - interesting life of a diamond in an industrial plant - whence it comes, how it is used, and how it ends; Editorials - radium waters - Philippine Independence - Frightfulness in warfare; A Nerve center of communication - how your radio or cable message is speeded through; Eclipses and the Sund's atmosphere - solution of an outstanding solar problem; Flying as fast as sound - considerations of what the future may hold for aviation - some physiological and mechanical aspects of the question; An early Christian cemetary - the Libyan desert gives up further secrets of antiquity; Viscount Grey and Lord Haldane - conclusion of a study of two famous World War personalities; Power from pipe lines to wires - natural gas used as fuel in steam electric plant; Watching the creation of the stars - more concerning the evolution of the galaxies; Unusual fishes - they build nests, walk on land, live in dried mud, and breathe air; Forty-noners starved in the midst of plenty - survey of plants and animals in Death Valley shows that pioneers could have survived the trials of the desert; Modern alchemy - photographing the birth of an atom; What next in elevator technology?; Inter-glacial man in England - human remains and artifacts tell an interesting story of pre-glacial migrations to and from England. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
Fine/fine (no faults with book or dj, as new) SIGNED FIRST EDITION Inscribed ' Here's to you my Friend, Salute!' illustrated. Titles continue '... Italians hijacking wine, cops, gangsters, all for the love of wine'
1930Best.-Nr. 022635Washington DC: U.S. Treasury Department/Bureau of Prohibition 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VG/none used caramel colored cloth binding with black text on spine and upper iii-xxi 233pp although there is a blank page of lined paper bound in-between each numbered page. Interior clean no marks except the name stamp of the former owner on the top of the ffep binding tight. Slight shelf rubbing to exterior corners are not worn. This is not a reprinted item. U.S. Treasury Department/Bureau of Prohibition hardcover
1920Best.-Nr. LIST120American 1920. Gelatin silver photograph 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches on Cyko stock photo paper. Very Good. A scarce photograph of a bootlegging operation c. early 1920s. The photograph is printed on Cyko stock which was used through the early 1920s. Few images of bootleggers have survived. The six men in the picture look quite serious in their work and it's difficult to imagine why they allowed a picture to be taken. A very good example with good contrast well preserved. unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. LIST120American 1920. Gelatin silver photograph 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches on Cyko stock photo paper. Very Good. A scarce photograph of a bootlegging operation c. early 1920s. The photograph is printed on Cyko stock which was used through the early 1920s. Few images of bootleggers have survived. The six men in the picture look quite serious in their work and it's difficult to imagine why they allowed a picture to be taken. A very good example with good contrast well preserved. unknown
1928Best.-Nr. 26283Couverture souple. Broché. 109 pages.
Best.-Nr. 1264Editions Lemarget. 1928. In-8° broché. Couverture rempliée. 109 pages. E.O.
1920Best.-Nr. List1317Southern California 1920. Limp leatherette album oblong 4to measuring 10 x 7 inches with seventy photographs most measuring 4 x 2 ½ inches. Wear to binding photographs with excellent contrast very good to near fine overall. Near Fine. An energetic album of photographs belonging to one Eddie Jones a fun-loving banjo player from Santa Ana mostly composed of photographs of musicians performing at small parties and functions during the prohibition era. Jones was apparently quite active on the local scene and the album is mostly made up of candid photographs of musicians all captioned some humorously. Many of the photographs show small bands playing guitars many of them playing with slides likely due to the popularity of Hawaiian music at the time. Also included are many photographs of parades in and around Los Angeles as well as photographs of the 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake showing damaged buildings. Two photographs feature a glass of rye others show agricultural scenes. Newspaper clippings in the back center on the Santa Ana and it’s possible that Jones - who was the common name mentioned in these clippings - was also a farmer from the Santa Ana area when he wasn’t playing music. One photograph shows San Diego a couple show a bullfight in Tijuana. Overall an evocative and well preserved piece of California Prohibition-era history. unknown books
1922Best.-Nr. 236901922. Woodland California Judicial Township justice court fee book 1922 to 1930 recording eight years of misdemeanor enforcement and the transfer of fines from R. W. Harrison's courtroom to Yolo County and California fiscal offices. Ninety nine of the ledger's 100 pages are completed with defendants' names abbreviated charges fines fees and docket references. Entries for liquor possession and other alcohol offenses appear beside motor vehicle violations gambling disturbing the peace assault battery and local ordinance cases while attached receipts document the sums Harrison remitted to county and state authorities. Harrison R. W. General Fee Book Justice of the Peace Woodland Judicial Township. Woodland California April 1922 to June 1930. 100 pages 99 completed in manuscript. 10.5 × 16 inches. Each monthly section provides columns for the date "Description of Work or Service" fees and remarks; Harrison supplied case names and abbreviated causes marked payments received calculated monthly totals and cited corresponding docket numbers. County auditor's receipts pasted over the entries certify payments for fines and fees. Receipts from the California Controller's Department and State Treasurer's Office record further transfers. The state documents bear the printed name of Treasurer Charles G. Johnson while the county forms carry signatures and date stamps from the Yolo County auditor and treasurer. The ledger covers most of national Prohibition which began in 1920 and records alcohol prosecutions as one category within the ordinary monthly business of a township court. Its growing number of motor vehicle matters documents the corresponding expansion of traffic enforcement often through small fines entered beside assault gambling peace disturbance and fish and game cases. Yolo County Archives maintains 18 linear feet of justice court dockets dating from circa 1878 to 1959 including criminal civil small claims and motor vehicle records whose entries generally identify the township litigants complaint and proceedings; Harrison's fee book supplies the financial sequence that followed those proceedings from the assessment of a fine through its remittance to county or state government. Quarter leather binding chipped at the outer corners; spine covering stripped although the binding remains tight; several threads loose at the edges; staining and discoloration to the front cover. Overall good condition. A nearly complete fiscal register of Prohibition era policing traffic regulation and misdemeanor justice in Woodland Judicial Township. unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. List1317Southern California 1920. Limp leatherette album oblong 4to measuring 10 x 7 inches with seventy photographs most measuring 4 x 2 ½ inches. Wear to binding photographs with excellent contrast very good to near fine overall. Near Fine. An energetic album of photographs belonging to one Eddie Jones a fun-loving banjo player from Santa Ana mostly composed of photographs of musicians performing at small parties and functions during the prohibition era. Jones was apparently quite active on the local scene and the album is mostly made up of candid photographs of musicians all captioned some humorously. Many of the photographs show small bands playing guitars many of them playing with slides likely due to the popularity of Hawaiian music at the time. Also included are many photographs of parades in and around Los Angeles as well as photographs of the 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake showing damaged buildings. Two photographs feature a glass of rye others show agricultural scenes. Newspaper clippings in the back center on the Santa Ana and it’s possible that Jones - who was the common name mentioned in these clippings - was also a farmer from the Santa Ana area when he wasn’t playing music. One photograph shows San Diego a couple show a bullfight in Tijuana. Overall an evocative and well preserved piece of California Prohibition-era history. unknown
Best.-Nr. 0266579876.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1922Best.-Nr. 236901922. Woodland California Judicial Township justice court fee book 1922 to 1930 recording eight years of misdemeanor enforcement and the transfer of fines from R. W. Harrison's courtroom to Yolo County and California fiscal offices. Ninety nine of the ledger's 100 pages are completed with defendants' names abbreviated charges fines fees and docket references. Entries for liquor possession and other alcohol offenses appear beside motor vehicle violations gambling disturbing the peace assault battery and local ordinance cases while attached receipts document the sums Harrison remitted to county and state authorities. Harrison R. W. General Fee Book Justice of the Peace Woodland Judicial Township. Woodland California April 1922 to June 1930. 100 pages 99 completed in manuscript. 10.5 × 16 inches. Each monthly section provides columns for the date "Description of Work or Service" fees and remarks; Harrison supplied case names and abbreviated causes marked payments received calculated monthly totals and cited corresponding docket numbers. County auditor's receipts pasted over the entries certify payments for fines and fees. Receipts from the California Controller's Department and State Treasurer's Office record further transfers. The state documents bear the printed name of Treasurer Charles G. Johnson while the county forms carry signatures and date stamps from the Yolo County auditor and treasurer. The ledger covers most of national Prohibition which began in 1920 and records alcohol prosecutions as one category within the ordinary monthly business of a township court. Its growing number of motor vehicle matters documents the corresponding expansion of traffic enforcement often through small fines entered beside assault gambling peace disturbance and fish and game cases. Yolo County Archives maintains 18 linear feet of justice court dockets dating from circa 1878 to 1959 including criminal civil small claims and motor vehicle records whose entries generally identify the township litigants complaint and proceedings; Harrison's fee book supplies the financial sequence that followed those proceedings from the assessment of a fine through its remittance to county or state government. Quarter leather binding chipped at the outer corners; spine covering stripped although the binding remains tight; several threads loose at the edges; staining and discoloration to the front cover. Overall good condition. A nearly complete fiscal register of Prohibition era policing traffic regulation and misdemeanor justice in Woodland Judicial Township. unknown
1927Best.-Nr. List387654379New York City: Underwood & Underwood 1927. Press photo measuring 8 x 10 inches. With editorial marks recto and verso Underwood & Underwood stamps and caption verso. Excellent contrast. Some damage to margins and some small areas of ink staining not intersecting with subject. Overall very good to excellent. A glamorous shot of "Texas" Guinan in about 1927 attending opening day at Belmont Park a horse racing track just outside New York City. Guinan 1884-1933 was born Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan in Waco Texas. Trained in singing and horseback riding she typically played a gunslinging girl heroine in "Wild West" shows making it from New York to Hollywood in 1917. She returned east in the 1920s to sing and emcee in clubs-becoming known for her signature "Hello sucker!" greeting-in New York Chicago and Florida working closely with entrepreneur and rumrunner Larry Fay. During this time Guinan became infamous as an alleged though never proven bootlegger; clubs in which she worked were routinely raided throughout Prohibition though charges against her never stuck. She leveraged her fame as "Queen of the Night Clubs" as she is described on the verso of this photograph to return to Hollywood for several unsuccessful autobiographical films and then attempted to tour Europe where her reputation preceded her and her ship was denied entry at every port on which it called.1 1 Debbie Mauldin Cottrell "Mary Guinan: The Trailblazing Texas Star of Broadway and Hollywood" Texas State Historical Association Handbook of Texas Online accessed May 26 2026 https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/guinan-mary-louise-cecilia-texas. Underwood & Underwood unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. List38121New York City: Underwood & Underwood 1927. Press photo measuring 8 x 10 inches. With editorial marks recto and verso Underwood & Underwood stamps and caption verso. Excellent contrast. Some damage to margins and some small areas of ink staining not intersecting with subject. Overall very good to excellent. A glamorous shot of "Texas" Guinan in about 1927 attending opening day at Belmont Park a horse racing track just outside New York City. Guinan 1884-1933 was born Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan in Waco Texas. Trained in singing and horseback riding she typically played a gunslinging girl heroine in "Wild West" shows making it from New York to Hollywood in 1917. She returned east in the 1920s to sing and emcee in clubs-becoming known for her signature "Hello sucker!" greeting-in New York Chicago and Florida working closely with entrepreneur and rumrunner Larry Fay. During this time Guinan became infamous as an alleged though never proven bootlegger; clubs in which she worked were routinely raided throughout Prohibition though charges against her never stuck. She leveraged her fame as "Queen of the Night Clubs" as she is described on the verso of this photograph to return to Hollywood for several unsuccessful autobiographical films and then attempted to tour Europe where her reputation preceded her and her ship was denied entry at every port on which it called.1 1 Debbie Mauldin Cottrell "Mary Guinan: The Trailblazing Texas Star of Broadway and Hollywood" Texas State Historical Association Handbook of Texas Online accessed May 26 2026 https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/guinan-mary-louise-cecilia-texas. Underwood & Underwood unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. List387654379New York City: Underwood & Underwood 1927. Press photo measuring 8 x 10 inches. With editorial marks recto and verso Underwood & Underwood stamps and caption verso. Excellent contrast. Some damage to margins and some small areas of ink staining not intersecting with subject. Overall very good to excellent. A glamorous shot of "Texas" Guinan in about 1927 attending opening day at Belmont Park a horse racing track just outside New York City. Guinan 1884-1933 was born Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan in Waco Texas. Trained in singing and horseback riding she typically played a gunslinging girl heroine in "Wild West" shows making it from New York to Hollywood in 1917. She returned east in the 1920s to sing and emcee in clubs-becoming known for her signature "Hello sucker!" greeting-in New York Chicago and Florida working closely with entrepreneur and rumrunner Larry Fay. During this time Guinan became infamous as an alleged though never proven bootlegger; clubs in which she worked were routinely raided throughout Prohibition though charges against her never stuck. She leveraged her fame as "Queen of the Night Clubs" as she is described on the verso of this photograph to return to Hollywood for several unsuccessful autobiographical films and then attempted to tour Europe where her reputation preceded her and her ship was denied entry at every port on which it called.1 1 Debbie Mauldin Cottrell "Mary Guinan: The Trailblazing Texas Star of Broadway and Hollywood" Texas State Historical Association Handbook of Texas Online accessed May 26 2026 https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/guinan-mary-louise-cecilia-texas. Underwood & Underwood unknown
1927Best.-Nr. List38121New York City: Underwood & Underwood 1927. Press photo measuring 8 x 10 inches. With editorial marks recto and verso Underwood & Underwood stamps and caption verso. Excellent contrast. Some damage to margins and some small areas of ink staining not intersecting with subject. Overall very good to excellent. A glamorous shot of "Texas" Guinan in about 1927 attending opening day at Belmont Park a horse racing track just outside New York City. Guinan 1884-1933 was born Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan in Waco Texas. Trained in singing and horseback riding she typically played a gunslinging girl heroine in "Wild West" shows making it from New York to Hollywood in 1917. She returned east in the 1920s to sing and emcee in clubs-becoming known for her signature "Hello sucker!" greeting-in New York Chicago and Florida working closely with entrepreneur and rumrunner Larry Fay. During this time Guinan became infamous as an alleged though never proven bootlegger; clubs in which she worked were routinely raided throughout Prohibition though charges against her never stuck. She leveraged her fame as "Queen of the Night Clubs" as she is described on the verso of this photograph to return to Hollywood for several unsuccessful autobiographical films and then attempted to tour Europe where her reputation preceded her and her ship was denied entry at every port on which it called.1 1 Debbie Mauldin Cottrell "Mary Guinan: The Trailblazing Texas Star of Broadway and Hollywood" Texas State Historical Association Handbook of Texas Online accessed May 26 2026 https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/guinan-mary-louise-cecilia-texas. Underwood & Underwood unknown
1859pp. viii, 124. Illustrated. Foxed. Manuscript poetry on fly leaves. 12mo. Original full gold stamped brown cloth binding. Nice copy. Very scarce temperance oriented science. MED 1
2003Best.-Nr. 13934Equinoxe / Carres gourmands 2003 175 pages 16 5cmx16 5cmx1 5cm. 2003. Broché couverture rempliée. 175 pages. Cet ouvrage de Marie-Claude Delahaye explore l'histoire et le mythe de l'absinthe de son apogée à la Belle Époque jusqu'à sa résurgence contemporaine. Il examine les aspects culturels artistiques et rituels associés à cette boisson ainsi que son retour en force dans le monde moderne
1919Best.-Nr. 111600Partitions sur l'Alcool Leo Feist inc. 1919
1918Best.-Nr. 111555Partitions sur l'Alcool Leo Feist inc. 1918
1933Best.-Nr. 157897Cincinnati: Romach and Groene 1933. Vintage photograph of the first legal whiskey produced in Ohio during prohibition at the Carthage Distilling Company in Cincinnati with contemporary annotations of location dates and personnel and a "Rombach and Groene Commercial Photographers Cincinnati Ohio" stamp on the verso. A fascinating prohibition artifact depicting fifteen men and one woman standing in a warehouse before a stack of three whiskey barrels the topmost barrel prominently marked "1" less than two months before the passage of the 21st Amendment December 5 1933 repealing prohibition. On the verso in a contemporary hand is written: "First Barrel Whiskey produced in the State of Ohio since the 18th amendment became effective / manufactured and produced at the Carthage Distilling Corpn. plant Cincinnati Ohio / mashed under date Oct. 20th 1933 / drawn and entered under date Oct. 23rd 1933." Cincinnati Ohio second only to Louisville Kentucky in the production of bourbon prior to the end of prohibition was best known during prohibition as the headquarters for the "King of Bootleggers" George Remus. Cincinnati was located within a 300 mile radius of 80 percent of all of America's bonded whiskeys making it an ideal location for a massive bootlegging enterprise as well as for the headquarters to the Schenley Distillery one of only six distilleries nationwide with a license to sell medicinal spirits during prohibition. An October 26 1933 article from the Cincinnati Enquirer entitled "Big Blending Plant Planned For Reading; First Legal Whisky In Ohio Is Produced" confirms the annotations on the photograph "Simultaneously with the actual production of medicinal whisky at its plant in Carthage-said to be the first legal whisky turned out in Ohio since prohibition-it became known yesterday that the National Distillers Products Corporation New York largest distiller in the country will locate one of its major blending and bottling plants in the immediate vicinity of Cincinnati." The article continues "The Carthage Distillery on Anthony Wayne Avenue Carthage is the only distillery now operating in the state of Ohio." In 1933 the Carthage Distilling Company was acquired by the National Distillers Products Corporation and in 1987 was bought by Jim Beam. Established in 1883 Cincinnati photographers Rombach and Groene specialized in commercial and landscape photography. In 2001 the Cincinnati Museum Center acquired the Rombach and Groene Collection a collection of over 6500 glass and film negatives and a hundred prints dating from 1870 to 1970. The company closed in 1973. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with some modest creasing four small bruises and a small repair to the surface of the image to the center right. Romach and Groene unknown books
1933Best.-Nr. 157897Cincinnati: Romach and Groene 1933. Vintage photograph of the first legal whiskey produced in Ohio during prohibition at the Carthage Distilling Company in Cincinnati with contemporary annotations of location dates and personnel and a "Rombach and Groene Commercial Photographers Cincinnati Ohio" stamp on the verso. A fascinating prohibition artifact depicting fifteen men and one woman standing in a warehouse before a stack of three whiskey barrels the topmost barrel prominently marked "1" less than two months before the passage of the 21st Amendment December 5 1933 repealing prohibition. On the verso in a contemporary hand is written: "First Barrel Whiskey produced in the State of Ohio since the 18th amendment became effective / manufactured and produced at the Carthage Distilling Corpn. plant Cincinnati Ohio / mashed under date Oct. 20th 1933 / drawn and entered under date Oct. 23rd 1933." Cincinnati Ohio second only to Louisville Kentucky in the production of bourbon prior to the end of prohibition was best known during prohibition as the headquarters for the "King of Bootleggers" George Remus. Cincinnati was located within a 300 mile radius of 80 percent of all of America's bonded whiskeys making it an ideal location for a massive bootlegging enterprise as well as for the headquarters to the Schenley Distillery one of only six distilleries nationwide with a license to sell medicinal spirits during prohibition. An October 26 1933 article from the Cincinnati Enquirer entitled "Big Blending Plant Planned For Reading; First Legal Whisky In Ohio Is Produced" confirms the annotations on the photograph "Simultaneously with the actual production of medicinal whisky at its plant in Carthage-said to be the first legal whisky turned out in Ohio since prohibition-it became known yesterday that the National Distillers Products Corporation New York largest distiller in the country will locate one of its major blending and bottling plants in the immediate vicinity of Cincinnati." The article continues "The Carthage Distillery on Anthony Wayne Avenue Carthage is the only distillery now operating in the state of Ohio." In 1933 the Carthage Distilling Company was acquired by the National Distillers Products Corporation and in 1987 was bought by Jim Beam. Established in 1883 Cincinnati photographers Rombach and Groene specialized in commercial and landscape photography. In 2001 the Cincinnati Museum Center acquired the Rombach and Groene Collection a collection of over 6500 glass and film negatives and a hundred prints dating from 1870 to 1970. The company closed in 1973. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with some modest creasing four small bruises and a small repair to the surface of the image to the center right. Romach and Groene unknown
