CURRENT BOOKS OF INTEREST TO COLLECTORS AND DEALERS

When writing publishers kindly mention The Collector’s Guide

SAN FRANCISCO THEATRE RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS (mimeographed), Lawrence Estavan, Chief editor. Vol. 9, XIX: The French Theatre in San Francisco, pages 1-107 ... The German Theatre in San Francisco, pages 108-150 plus appendices ... Vol. 10, XXI; The Italian Theatre in San Francisco, pages 151-202. Vol. XIII; Negro Minstrelsy. (These Monographs are not for sale but only furnished to libraries and educational institutions.)

THE SACRAMENTO RIVER OF GOLD. By Julian Dana. 12mo. 7th vol. in the “Rivers of America” series. Farrar & Rinehart, New York. $2.50.

WHISKEY REBELS: The Story of a Frontier Uprising. By Leland D. Baldwin. 326 pages, with notes and bibliography. A study of the Whiskey Insurrection of 1794. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. $3.

MARCY AND THE GOLD SEEKERS: The Journal of Captain R. B. Marcy, with an account of the Gold Rush over the Southern Route. By Grant Foreman. 433 pages, illustrations and bibliography. Presents evidence that a more extensive use was made of the southern route to the California gold fields than has been generally credited. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Okla. $3.

TRAILING THE FORTY-NINERS THROUGH DEATH VALLEY. By Carl I. Wheat. Reprinted as a pamphlet from Sierra Club Bulletin, June, 1939. Wheat’s address is care of California Historical Society, 456 McAllister St., San Francisco.

NEW YORK, PAST AND PRESENT: ITS HISTORY AND LANDMARKS, 1524-1939. Contains 100 views reproduced and described from old prints and modern photographs. By I. N. Phelps-Stokes. Published by the New York Historical Society, New York, 1939. Price to non-members, 75c plus 7c mailing fee.

THE BIOGRAPHY OF A RIVER TOWN (Memphis). Compiled by Gerald M. Capers, Jr., from its evolution as an Indian trading post. 292 pages, with illustrations, maps, charts, and an index. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N. C. $3.50.

BOOK TRADE BIBLIOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By Adolph Growoll. Reissue in facsimile of original limited edition of 1898. Contains biographical sketches of Orville A. Roorbach, Henry Stevens, Joseph Sabin, Frederick Leypoldt, etc. Brick Row Book Shop, New York. $7.50.

TWENTY-THREE BOOKS AND THE STORIES BEHIND THEM. By John T. Winterich. 15 illustrations that were not present in the original limited edition; also contains new index. J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, Pa. $2.50.

PORTRAIT OF A COLONIAL CITY: PHILADELPHIA. 1682-1838. By Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard. Panoramic account of Philadelphia during this period. J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia. $15.

STOCKBRIDGE, 1739-1939: A Chronicle. By Sarah Cabot Sedgwick and Christina Sedgwick Narquand. Illustrated. 306 pages. Bicentennial Book Committee, Stockbridge, Mass. $2.75.

FARE TO MIDLANDS: Forgotten Towns of Central New Jersey. By Henry Charlton Beck. Illustrated. 456 pages. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $5.

ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK STAGE. By C. D. Odell. 11th volume, covering period from 1879 to 1882. Columbia University Press, New York. $8.75.

A CENSUS OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS IN QUARTO, 1594-1709. By Henrietta C. Bartlett. Revised edition. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. $10.

FORGING AHEAD. By Wilfrid Partington. 8vo. A life of Thomas James Wise, collector and “manufacturer”, showing how he pulled not only the wool over astute collectors’ eyes, but also the silk, cotton and rayon. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York. $3.50.

DAVY CROCKETT: AMERICAN COMIC LEGEND. Edited by Richard M. Dorson. 8vo. Tales from the Crockett Almanacs, 1836-56 with contemporary illustrations. Rockland Editions, 350 W. 31st St., New York. $5.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AT VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE. By William Couper. 4 vols., approximately each 400 pages. Illustrated with maps, drawings and photographs. Vols. 1 and 2 now ready. Vols. 3 and 4, ready in March, 1940. Garrett & Massie, Richmond, Va. $12 for 4-vol. set. Remit $6 for the two vols. now ready.

ONCE OVER LIGHTLY. By Charles de Zemler. 8vo. A history of barbering from the earliest times to the present. Published by the author, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York. $3.75.

MUSIC AND EDGAR ALLAN POE. By May Garrettson Evans. 8vo. A bibliographical study. John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Md. $1.75.

THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO IN THE CIVIL WAR. By Festus P. Summers. Portrays dramatic role of great railroad in a crucial period. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York. $3.

DRURY LANE CALENDAR, 1747-1776. Compiled from the playbills and edited with an introduction by Dougald MacMaillan. An account of the life and work of the 18th century actor and playwright. 398 pages. Oxford University Press, New York, in co-operation with the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif. $7.

GHOSTS OF LONDON. By H. V. Morton. Odd nooks and corners of the London of yesterday and today. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. $3.

PIONEER DAYS. By Charles L. Hyde. Early days in South Dakota. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York. $4.

BANK OF CALIFORNIA, San Francisco. A series of historical advertisements commemorating its founding in 1864, with woodcut reproductions of historical scenes. 24 pages.

SACRAMENTO GUIDE. 220 pages, with folding map, and illustrated with reproductions of early woodcuts, lithographs, and photographs. Sacramento BEE, 1939. Paper covers, 50c. Cloth, $1.

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THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, A MEDICO-GEOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT. By Dr. J. Praslow, who practised medicine in San Francisco from 1849 to 1856. (A translation from the German edition issued in Gottingen in 1857). Published by J. J. Newbegin, San Francisco, 1939. $3.

MR. CIBBER OF DRURY LANE. By Richard Hindry Barker. 8vo. Colley Cibber’s life. Columbia University Press, New York. $3.

RECOLLECTIONS OF A TULE SAILOR. By John Leale. 300 pages with 19 pages of illustrations. Authentic details of San Francisco’s river and ferryboat traffic, told by a veteran master and pilot of San Francisco Bay since the early 60’s. George Fields, San Francisco, Calif. $3.

THE THEATRE HANDBOOK AND DIGEST OF PLAYS. By Bernard Sobol. A reference work about the theatre and its people, including concise synopses of nearly 1000 plays, etc. Crown Publishers, New York. $3.

(If otherwise difficult to procure, Current Books can be ordered from THE COLLECTOR’S GUIDE, at publishers’ prices. Free delivery. If unobtainable, money will be promptly refunded.)

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