Nevada Fine Books — Antiquarian & Rare Books in Reno, Nevada, Specializing in Western Americana

Rules and Regulations of the Transportation Department. Salt Lake City: 1907. 6.75 inches, sextodecimo. Brown cloth over limp boards, gilt-titled front board, red-tinted edges. A fourth line below “Lines East of Sparks,” reading “Union Pacific Railroad Co. (Lines West of Green River),” is overstamped in solid gilt, faintly legible through wear. Pp. [1-4], 5-147. Tipped-in amendment notices: full pages dated 1911 and 1912, and several smaller undated slips. Color-printed semaphore and signal diagrams throughout; several printed forms in text.

Los Angeles: The First National Bank of Los Angeles et. al., 1925. Single sheet, printed both sides, folding into original pictorial wrappers. Opened: 19 x 24 inches; Wrappers: 3.75 x 6.75 inches. Front wrapper with a decorative pictorial map of California south of the Bay Area titled "Serving the Pacific-Southwest." Interior with a "City Limits of Los Angeles" map, copyrighted 1922 by Pacific-Southwest Trust & Savings Bank. Rear wrapper printed with a directory of Pacific-Southwest Trust & Savings Bank branches across California, plus Los Angeles branch locations.

Annual Report of the General of the Army to the Secretary of War. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881. 9.25 inches, octavo. Contemporary half pebble-grain leather over marbled paper-covered boards, flat spine with gilt double rules, gilt-lettered title and date. All edges marbled. 150 pp. Marbled endpapers. Numerous in-text tables, one folding table.

Illustrated Descriptive Price-List of Magical Apparatus & Illusions. New York: Otto Maurer, Magical Bazaar / Columbia Magic Trick Manufacturing Co., n.d., [ca. 1890]. 7.5 inches, duodecimo. Original printed pictorial wrappers, the front with an engraving of the Magical Bazaar storefront, its verso with the "Card to Customers" and testimonials. Two portrait plates printed in blue, rectos only: Otto Maurer and Otto Maurer, Jr., "Prestidigitateur.". Unpaginated, 118 of 120 leaves ([240] pp.). Profusely illustrated with wood engravings.

Constancy Amid Change. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1944. 9.5 inches, octavo. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt titling to front cover and spine. 211 pp.

Catalogue of the Niles Tool Works. Hamilton, Ohio: Niles Tool Works. Illustrated and printed by McDonald & Eick, Cincinnati, 1891. 10.25 inches, quarto. Green cloth hardcover, beveled boards, gilt title to front cover and spine, black-stamped decorative tool emblem to front cover. Text block edges lightly stained red. Floral endpapers. (second free endpaper nearly detached — see condition). x, [4], 13-244; collates complete.

San Francisco: C. P. Heininger, Publisher, 1871. 7.5 inches, duodecimo. Cream cloth boards, elaborately gilt-decorated front panel with floral motifs and a sailing-ship vignette, gilt-lettered "San Francisco, Cal." Rear board embossed with the California state seal. Folding panoramic view bound at the front; a central fold-out section of approximately 15 pages, single-sided, primarily depicting San Francisco architecture and landmarks, extending to nearly 6.5 feet when fully unfolded; and a bound text section of 30 pages at the rear.

Charter and Ordinances of the City of Reno. Reno, Nevada: City of Reno; printed by Reno Printing Company, 124 N. Center Street, 1941. 9.5 inches, octavo. Brown buckram cloth, spine with red and black lettering-piece panels stamped in gilt. 340 pp. Rear pocket present, empty; no plates are called for in the text, so its intended contents are unconfirmed.

Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion. Sacramento: State Office, J. D. Young, Supt. State Printing, 1890. 9.25 inches, octavo. Original black pebbled cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 887 pp.

California Woman's Divorce Archive. Alameda, California: 1891–1910. Four items as described.

Omega Nu Journal. San Francisco: Omega Nu Sorority (Press of Latham & Swallow), 1920. 10.25 inches, quarto. Original pictorial wrappers printed in light green, dark green, and yellow, depicting a stylized woman between trees. String-bound. 52 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographic chapter member rosters and hand-drawn sketches; includes several full-page comics.