Albany: Joel Munsell, (1902). Limited edition of five hundred copies reprinted for Joseph McDonough Albany, N. Y. 1902. Out of Series copy marked "Review Copy" on the limitation page. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiv, 15-191; Light blue paper covered boards with a cream paper title label paste down on front board..... More
Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1900. Later printing. Hardcover. Two volumes; duodecimo; pp; I; (xii), 345 with index; II; (viii), 327 with index; Illustrated with photogravures; decorated green cloth, gilt, top edges, gilt, in the distinctive Page manor;. A Grand Tour. More
Buffalo NY: Printed by Clement Press & Niagara Lithograph Company for the Shredded Wheat Company, 1914. First Edition. Original wraps. 16mo; pp; (52); illustrated with forty black and white photographs and four colored plates of dishes at rear; original color pictorial wrappers with the Falls on the front and the..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1928). Revised Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (iii), 255; illustrated with a frontispiece and six photographs by Harry A. Chase, map endpapers; decorated green cloth lettered in red;. The very title connotes adventure and danger. Relates the author's trip to Afghanistan in 1924 when little..... More
(Np: No Publisher), 1913. Wraps. Octavo; 9.25” x 6.25”; pp; 16; illustrated with black and white photographs and a map; original string-tied decorated printed paper wrappers lettered in black;. Quite scarce, OCLC locates just two copies; Descriptions and views of surrounding attractions; images of: The Northfield; French King; The Northfield..... More
Detroit: United News Company, National Lithograph Company, c1939. Wraps. Duodecimo; Original printed stiff red wrappers; large folding map, highlighted in color, approx. 29” x 22”, street index on verso; some minor splits at folds; else very good. Shows electric car lines, bus routes and railroads. It would flatten and frame..... More
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, 1898. A New Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, 510, with index; illustrated, frontispiece and twenty-nine additional black and white plates, a large color folding map at rear; gilt decorated and lettered aqua-marine cloth, top edge gilt;. An example of these beautifully produced late 19th, early 20th..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4.75 x 7.5), Brown cloth, blindstamped with gilt title. 375, 16pp. with publisher's ads. Good. Quite solid and internally clean, The back cover and spine title are faded. Former owner's name. An old trace of glue on the front paste-down endpaper. A novelization..... More
London: Nicholas Kaye, (1958). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 142, index; illustrated, thirty-one photographs, twenty-three diagrams; green cloth, gilt in a dust jacket; jacket is lightly toned;. At catalogue date one of only three copies in North America. An interesting look at the sport in Great Britain. More