New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (viii), 308, (iii); decorated black cloth lettered in red in a pictorial dust jacket; Some toning to the fore edges and preliminaries, jacket is unclipped and bright;. Pan-Hemispheric War in the future.... Yellow peril! Asian hordes with terrifying... More about The Earth Tube
Harrisburg: Stackpole Books, (1966). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xv, (i), 368, index; illustrated with black and white figures and eight color plates; blue cloth with an orange title tile lettered in black, top edge stained orange; a bright tight copy. Bruns B-80. An essential book for the serious... More about Streamer Fly Tying & Fishing
(Keene N.H. Monadnock Region Associates, (1938). First Edition. Wraps. Duodecimo; pp; (96); profusely illustrated in black and white; with large folding map at rear, a second copy of the map laid in; stiff green fibroid wrappers lettered in silver; some light soiling to the wrappers internally very good; Uncommon! Quite... More about Inviting You To Visit And To Live In The Monadnock Region, "Land Of New Hampshire Charm"
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1911. First American Edition, English Sheets. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 327, (i); sixteen plates and maps including the frontispiece; gilt decorated and lettered blue cloth; This copy lacks one plate "Map #5, p224";. "A science fiction story intended for the younger reader and trying to give... More about To Mars Via The Moon, An Astronomical Story
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., (1930). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; vii, (i), 357; tan cloth lettered in black; The cloth beneath the jacket is a toned and the spine spotted, the jacket is untrimmed and quite nice, a bright jacket;. More about The Iron Star
London: The Honey Dun Press, 1974. One of 400 copies printed on Abbey Mills Greenfield Laid Paper and bound by A.F. Sismore. Standard Limited Edition, being numbered 330 of an edition of 380 copies for sale. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (xii), 42, [1]; Hand-colored facsimile of the frontispiece used in the... More about The Fly Fisher's Legacy
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1935. Third printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiii, (iii), 341; blue cloth lettered in gilt; This is a "Hayes -Woods lending Library" copy and has the stamps front and back and on the title page and the 2 cent fine stamp on over-due books as... More about After Worlds Collide
(Boulder): University of Colorado Press, (2005). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. xviii, (iv), 256, index; photographs, maps; gray cloth, lettered in silver, in a dust jacket; Very good in very good dust-jacket. Concentrates on three American ski champions who were transformed into alpine troopers in the storied 10th Mountain Division... More about The Boys Of Winter; Life And Death In The U.S. Ski Troops During The Second World War
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1933). Hardcover. Octavo; pp; vii, (i), 216; color illustrated endpapers illustrated by A. C. Valentine and a color frontispiece uncredited; blue cloth lettered in black, top edge stained red; spine faded, edge wear but a solid copy;. Great fantasy from simpler times. More about The Mystery Men Of Mars, Adventures In The Unknown
New York: R. F. Fenno & Co., (1909). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-194; lacks inserted frontispiece; title leaf is a cancel tipped in on a stub; title page is printed in red and black, original gilt lettered red cloth; Spine is a bit faded, the book block is... More about Zarlah The Martian
Avon Books, 1979. First Avon Edition. Paperback. Octavo; pp; xix, (i), 411; original pictorial paper wrappers, paperback; illustrated, maps, photographs, cuts; light edge wear;. For the Sherlockian a font of great fun and trivia. More about The Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana; or, A Universal Dictionary of the State of Knowledge of Sherlock...
New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xxiii, (i), 422, index; illustrated endpapers; tan and terra-cotta cloth boards lettered in gilt and black; light edge wear, a very solid serviceable copy;. This is the true first edition not the Martino Reprint. Locations of original examples... More about A Guide to American Trade Catalogs, 1744-1900
London: T. Woolmer, c1879. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; 152, plus an inserted 16pp. Woolmer Catalogue at rear; illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven additional black and white plates; pictorial blue cloth lettered in gilt and black with a decorated spine; Owner's name on a preliminary with an 1883 acquisition date; some... More about The Englishman's Bible: How He Got It And Why He Keeps It
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, navy cloth in pictorial jacket. 114pp with indices, bibliography, abbreviations and acknowledgments. Catalogue and notes follow 99 illustrations and a selection of images to scale. Illlustrations are black and white photograps. Frontispiece is in color. Very good in like jacket with... More about Engraved Gems: the Ionides Collection
London: Edward Stanford, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; xii, (iv), 316, with index; frontispiece and twenty-eight black and white plates and eight folding color maps and three tables; gilt decorated blue cloth, lettered in gilt; A nice vintage copy of an uncommon travel guide. A lovely guide. More about A Pocket Guide To The West Indies
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926. Third revised edition. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; ix, (i), 533, with index; frontispiece and sixty-two black and white plates and five folding color maps; red cloth, lettered in black; A nice vintage copy. Includes Cuba! Ober wrote the Knock About Club Series of Travel... More about A Guide To The West Indies, Bermuda And Panama; With Maps And Many Illustrations...With...
Chicago: The Book Fellows, 1927. Limited Edition, copy #186 of 285 copies printed at the Torch Press. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 112; original pencil titled and signed etched frontispiece, "Rothenberg..."; There were fifteen different etchings used in the production of these volumes, each signed by the artist, the etching in this... More about Songs From The Step Ladder; Foreword by George Steele Seymour
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Cudahy, (1956). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xii, 3-390, index; gold cloth and black paper covered boards, lettered in black in a pictorial dust jacket;. More about Affairs Of State 1950-1956 The Eisenhower Years
New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (iii), 394, index, terra-cotta cloth, lettered in gilt, in a dust jacket, jacket chipped at extremities. Very good in good + dust-jacket. With the vision of both historian and philosopher, Herbert Muller surveys the golden ages of past... More about The Uses Of The Past, Profiles Of Former Societies
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1946. Illustrated edition. Hardcover. Three volumes complete; Octavo; pp; 545, 481, 645; Illustrated by Reginald Marsh; cream linen with blue title tiles to the upper board and spine lettered in red, color pictorial endpapers;. In the novels that make up the trilogy—The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and... More about U.S.A.: Nineteen Nineteen, The 42nd Parallel, Big Money (Three Volume Set
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, (1946). Revised Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (vi), 503; black cloth lettered in gilt, in a dust jacket; minor edge wear to jacket extremities, jacket is not price clipped, original price $1.98 present; Very good in good plus jacket with minor edge wear;. Part of the... More about The Financier
New York: Viking Press, 1954. Later printing. Hardcover. Ocatvo; pp; (x), 169; brown cloth, spine lettered in black; A. s a leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, Veblen attacked production for profit. His emphasis on conspicuous consumption greatly influenced the socialist thinkers who sought a non-Marxist critique of capitalism and technological determinism. More about The Engineers And The Price System
Duxbury Ma: Art Complex Museum, (1985). First Edition. Paperback. Quarto; pp; 40; illustrated with black and white & color photographs; original printed pictorial wrappers, paperback;. Scarce. More about The Way Of Tea, American Art for The Japanese Tea Ceremony
(New York): Harper & Brothers, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Narrow quarto; pp; (30); beautifully illustrated in color, (9 plates) and black and white by Marc Simont; quarter black cloth and color pictorial paper covered boards; Some edge wear, a small blemish to the lower rear board, yet a solid clean... More about A Tree Is Nice; Pictures by Marc Simont
Woodstock: Overlook Press, (1992). First Edition, A Review Copy. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (vi), 209, (i); black cloth and terra-cotta paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. There is a review slip affixed to the front paste-down; Woodstock NY & environs. More about Catskill Rambles