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Lot 700: Scarce A.R. Gurrey book: Surf Riders of Hawaii, c. 1911-15

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THE SURF RIDERS OF HAWAII, Gray Version, photographs and contents copyrighted by Alfred Richard Gurrey, Jr., Ltd., Honolulu, T. H., circa 1910-14. Softcover, 6 leaves of gray and taupe decorative cover stock paper with 8 mounted gelatin-silver photographs of Waikiki surfers, including Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku (1890-1968), who popularized the sport of surfing. […]

Lot 698: 3 Southern Historical Books, incl. Historic Houses of SC, 1st Ed.

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3 books including South Carolina, Mississippi, and Christian County, Kentucky interest. 1st item: HISTORIC HOUSES OF SOUTH CAROLINA, First Edition, by Harriette Kershaw Leiding, published by J. B. Lippencott, Philadelphia and London, 1921. Hardcover octavo, 318 deckled-edged pages with photographic frontispiece with tissue paper guard, additional illustrations, and index, hardbound in pictorial light brown publisher's […]

Lot 696: Los Alamos Nuclear Age & WWII Archive, U.S. Army Lieut. Col. Ralph M. Kopansky, 100 plus items

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Archive related to World War II veteran United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Morris Kopansky (1912-1978), primarily concerning his post-war work with the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, as the Chief of Police, Los Alamos Police Department, and as Chief, Administrative Branch, Pantex Ordnance Plant, […]

Lot 695: President Ronald Reagan Signed, Speaking My Mind, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1989

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Author Signed, SPEAKING MY MIND: SELECTED SPEECHES, First Limited Edition, Numbered 66/5000, by Ronald Reagan, published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1989. Hardcover octavo, 432 gilt-edged pages including index, color and black and white photographic illustrations, hardbound in publisher's full blue morocco with gilt stamped front cover and spine, two raised hubs, marble endpapers […]

Lot 693: Nashville 1960s Civil Rights Photographic Archive of Harold Lowe

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Large Archive of photographic images documenting the Civil Rights protests in Nashville c. 1960-1964, taken by Harold Lowe. 1st item: Box containing 35 photographic black and white prints on Kodak paper, 8 x 10, signed by Lowe recto and stamped "Harold G. Lowe Jr. Photojournalism" en verso. (Note: about a half dozen of the photographs […]

Lot 694: Photo Archive, JFK visit to Nashville & Huntsville

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Photographic archive documenting the visit of President John F. Kennedy to Nashville, Tennessee on May 18, 1963 and the NASA facility at Huntsville, Alabama on September 11, 1962, most taken by Nashville photographer Harold Lowe. The Nashville related group of items includes 27 photographs (20 images, plus some duplicates) of JFK's visit to Nashville, each […]

Lot 692: 4 Books of Western / Native American Interest

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1st item: INDIAN AND WHITE IN THE NORTHWEST; OR THE HISTORY OF CATHOLICITY IN MONTANA, First Edition, by L. B. Palladino, S. J., with an introduction by Right Reverand John B. Brondel, First Bishop of Helena, published by John Murphy and Company, Baltimore, 1894. Hardcover octavo, 411 red edged pages with photographic frontispiece of Brondel […]

Lot 690: 2 Framed & Signed Buffalo Bill Cody Items, incl. Letter, Cabinet Card

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Framed grouping of two (2) William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) signed items, including one (1) letter and one (1) cabinet card. 1st item: ALS. One page handwritten letter from Cody, Knoxville, IA, addressed to his nephew, Roy Mears, who was the foreman of Big Horn Basin, Triple E Ranch, Isherwood, WY, dated August 12, […]

Lot 691: 4 Buffalo Bill Pubs., incl. Children's Book, Programs, Magazine, 11 items

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1st item: A PEEP AT BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST, published by McLoughlin Brothers, New York, 1887. Softcover quarto, 16 pages with 7 full color chromolithographed plates and 8 additional illustrations with English text, bound in pictorial cardstock boards, center stapled. 12 1/4" H x 10" W x 1/8" D. 2nd-3rd items: Two (2) Buffalo Bill […]