Simple Speaks His Mind
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1950). First Edition, "Reader's Edition" Paperback. Octavo; pp; (viii), 231, (i); original printed paper wrappers. Hardcover and paper bound editions were issued simultaneously. More
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Mrs. Rasmussen's Book Of One-Arm Cookery
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, (1946). Early printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; ix, (i), 101, (i); illustrated endpapers and decorations by George Price; yellow cloth lettered in black in a pictorial dust jacket;. An original printing of a favorite classic cook book. Make a drink, open a beer, pour a glass of... More
Pioneers, Narratives of Noah Harris Letts and Thomas Allen Banning, 1825-1865
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1972. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; 290 including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics; illustrated with a Seven additional plates including maps and other line drawings; dark blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt with a gilt... More
Among The Indians Eight Years In The West 1858-1866
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1959. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; xxxv, (iii), 461 pages including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics; illustrated with a frontispiece and six additional plates, including a facsimile title page and a folding map; dark blue cloth covered... More
Colorado Volunteers In New Mexico 1862
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1962. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; xxxii, 309 pages including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics; illustrated with a frontispiece, facsimile title page, map and line drawings; dark blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt with a.... More
Advocates and Adversaries; The Early Life And Times Of Robert R. Rose
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1977. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; 322 pages including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics; illustrated with a frontispiece and ten additional plates including a map; dark blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt with a gilt... More
Dakota War Whoop; Indian Massacres and War in Minnesota
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1965. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; 391 pages including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics; illustrated with a frontispiece and four additional plates, map; dark blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt with a gilt top edge... More
Seven Years in South Africa: Travels, Researches, and Hunting Adventures, Between the Diamond-Fields and the Zambesi, 1872-79 Volume 2 Only
Johannesburg: Africana Book Society, 1975. facsimile of the 1881 edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (i), 479, index; illustrated with black and white plates and vignette illustrations; pictorial green cloth, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket, pictorial endpapers. Great adventure. More
Rose: My Life In Service
New York: Viking Press, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, (ii), 237; illustrated with black and white photographs; blue cloth and yellow paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial unclipped dust jacket; Not exactly Downton Abbey but interesting! In 1928, Rosina Harrison arrived at the illustrious household... More
Waiting for Filippo. The Life of Renaissance Architect Filippo Brunelleschi. Pop-up book
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1995). First Edition. Hardcover. Square small quarto; pp; (23); beautifully illustrated in color pop-ups by Michael Bender; slick pictorial paper covered covers; boards a bit splayed else very good with all pop-ups functional, a clean bright copy. A pop-up book about the Italian Renaissance architect,sculptor and... More
Early Nantucket And Its Whale Houses
New York: Hastings House, (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; x, 291, index; illustrated, ninety black and white photographs and one hundred fifteen line drawings, (maps, town plans, elevations, floor plans, details); green cloth lettered in silver; previous owner's name on the front free fly leaf;. With a brief Acknowledgments... More
The Irish A Treasury of Art and Literature
Np: Beaux Arts Editions, (1993). First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; 368, index; Approx. 200 color and black and white plates; green cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket; A tasteful gift inscription on the front free fly leaf else a very good copy; An encyclopedic treatment and a.... More
The Tale of Brownie Beaver
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1916). Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 112; illustrated in color by Diane Petersen; pictorial red cloth, pictorial endpapers, in a pictorial dust jacket; jacket has some chipping at extremities else very good; a Xmas gift inscription to a child in 1930;. A volume of the "Sleepy-Time Tales" Series. More
A Mountain Township; With An Introduction By Dorothy Canfield Fisher
New York: Stephen Daye Press, (1950). Fourth Printing, enlarged edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xx, (2), 3-234; wood engraved frontispiece by Edward Sanborn, another wood engraved plate by Raymond Bishop and other vignette illustrations; green cloth, lettered in gilt, in an unclipped dust jacket; a lovely copy. Vermontiana in verse. This... More
Love Song to the Plains; A Regions Of America Book
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (i), 303, with index, (i); illustrated with a folding map, line drawings, map endpapers by Bryan Forsyth; brown cloth, top edge stained blue, spine lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket; There is a gift inscription on... More
The Age Of Roosevelt; The Crisis Of The Old Order 1919-1933
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1957. Book of the Month Club Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiv, (ii), 557, index; steel blue cloth with a red title tile lettered in gilt in a dust jacket;. The initial volume of this three volume set chortling the Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. More
The Works of Dean Swift; Gulliver's Travels; The Tale Of The Tub, The Battle With The Books etc.; A Life Of The Author By John Mitford And Copious Notes By W. C. Taylor
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857. Hardcover. Two volumes, complete; duodecimo; pp; I; 431; II; 420; engraved frontispiece portrait; three quarter brown calf and marbled paper covered boards, marbled edges, and endpapers; spines have raised bands and red and black title tiles lettered in gilt; Spines are a bit dry... More
Investigation Into The Affairs In The District Of Columbia Together with; Suggestions of Mr. William E. Chandler, Counsel for the District of Columbia, in the Investigation Into the Affairs of the District Made Before the House District Committee, April 24, 1872
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1872. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xx, 755, with index, 23; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; Internally very good and complete with the addition of the Chandler "Suggestions" bound in at the rear; the binding is chipped and worn, the front joint is broken but holding... More
North Dakota A Human and Economic Geography
Fargo ND: North Dakota Institute For Regional Studies, North Dakota Agricultural College, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, 264, index; illustrated with maps, charts and black and white photographs; green cloth, spine lettered in terra-cotta in a pictorial unclipped dust jacket; jacket has some chipping at extremities. An important study. More
The Nixon Watch; Introduction by Tom Wicker
New York: Liveright, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xv, (i), 201; illustrated with line drawings by Robert Osborn; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt and silver, illustrated endpapers in a pictorial dust jacket; jacket spine lightly toned else a very good unclipped dust jacket;. The Nixon years as they... More
American Radicals: Some Problems and Personalities
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, (ii), 308; black cloth and blue cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt in a dust jacket; Jacket has a chip at top of the spine and a bit of soiling to the rear panel else a nice copy... More
The Convictions of a Grandfather
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo, red cloth, gilt. Light soil and scuffing. Uncut edges; a few leaves roughly opened, one page with a half-inch tear. The author expresses his views on education, culture, movement of the young to suburban surroundings, women's sufferage, divorce, taxes, charity... More
Wild Talents
(New York): Claude Kendall, (1932). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 343; black cloth, gilt title to upper board and spine nearly rubbed off; a worn copy that is internally complete and very good, the binding is soiled, joints started yet the contents are readable and quite good;. The scarce... More
Jefferson The President, Second Term 1805-1809; Volume Five Of Jefferson And His Time
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1974. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xxxi, (i), 704, index; illustrated with twenty-five black and white photographs, maps; decorated blue cloth lettered in gilt in a dust jacket, top edge stained blue; Minor edge wear, else very good in very good dust-jacket. The fifth... More
Autopsy Of Revolution; Translated From the French by Patricia Wolf
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, 300, (vi); decorated tan cloth, top edge stained blue, in a dust jacket; A very nice copy! In this significant and very timely book, the author of The Technological Society, The Political Illusion, and Propaganda asks a.... More
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