Chicago: The Engberg-Holmberg Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes bound in one; Octavo; pp. I; 933 with index; II; 416 with index; III: 268 with index; iIllustrated; many portraits; decorated pebbled brown cloth lettered in gilt; patterned endpapers; Some edge wear; top right fore-edge of pages a bit..... More
Montgomery Al. State of Alabama, Department of Archives and History; Brown Printing Co. Printers and Binders, 1911. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; (5), 6-131; original printed gray paper wrappers, deckled edges, partially uncut;. A great resource for genealogy or researching old documents. The entries are detailed and informative. More
Brooklyn: P. F. O'Brien, Carpenter Builder, 1866. Only Edition. Printed Bill Head measuring 8.5" x 4.5" O'Brien was located at Skillman St, between Myrtle & Park Avenues and 192-194 Henry St. The bill is dated March 9, 1866, to a Mr. O. Gorman, and states that this is for "Mason..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp. 153; blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt;. Intersting essays on Class, Society and Democracy in the post Reconstruction South. Page, a North Carolinian, was a journalist and publisher. Later he served as President Wilson's American Ambassador to Great..... More
Talahassee: University Presses Of Florida, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (i), 436, index; Maps, diagrams, charts; decorated burgundy pebbled cloth lettered in silver in a black field in a dust jacket;. Deals with Minnesota's modern Chippewa Nation. More
(New York: Privately Printed, 1880). Wraps. Octavo; 9.25” x 5.25”; pp; 32; original printed paper self wrappers;. An economic and societal argument from a Southerner. He discusses labor and capitol and is predicting unrest. . Scarce, OCLC locates just four copies. Endorsement on last page by Peter Cooper. William Henry..... More
Norwich: Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. x, 354; Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Emerson and many wood engravings; pictorial brown cloth, gilt, patterned yellow endpapers;. Everyone from Jenny Lind, Hugo, Emerson, Whittier to Lincoln and beyond. More
New York: Privately printed, 1902. Limited edition. Boards. One of 150 copies on hand made paper, untrimmed. Octavo, beige cloth and tan boards. iv, (ii), 101pp. Frontispiece portrait and a facsimile plate of a letter. Very good. Edge wear. Peter returned to England and became involved in the Civil War..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1942. Special edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; xvi, (ii), 41; illustrated with 192 monochromatic & color plates; beige linen, top edge stained blue with a pictorial paste-on title tile and a black spine tile lettered in gilt;. A fairly common book but a core piece..... More
Middleburgh: The Middleburgh Publishing Co., 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 8.5"), blue cloth in pictorial jacket. 250pp. Five black and white illustrations. Very good in very good jacket. The price on the back panel of the jacket has been blacked out. The spine of the book is unevenly..... More
Boston: Cupples, Upshaw, And Company, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo; pp; xviii, (ii), 439, index; Illustrated with full page views, folding map; green decorated cloth, blue coated endpapers, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Map has seperations at folds, A good or better copy with some edge wear..... More
(Madison): State Historical Society Of Wisconsin, (1953). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xii, (iv), 263, bibliography, index; illustrated with sixteen photographs; navy blue cloth in a dust jacket, map endpapers;. This is the true first edition, it was later reprinted by the University of Nebraska Press. An important scholarly work..... More
Washington DC: Foster & Reynolds, 1899. Later printing, the first edition appeared in 1896. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (9), 10-166; Illustrated, photographs, maps and plans, a folding map; Index at the front of the guide; pictorial blue cloth lettered in gilt, all edges gilt;. A lovely visitor's guide to the American..... More
(Arlington Va.): Thomas W. Richards, Sally Miller Atkinson, (2000). Limited Edition, 1/500 copies privately printed. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; 379, bibliography, index; frontispiece and many photographs, diagrams, maps; black cloth, gilt, in dust jacket;. Genealogy and a history of this Western Maryland Mining town. Inscribed by the Publisher on the front..... More
New York: Minton, Balch and Company, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, red buckram, gilt. 314pp. with index and bibliography. Illustrated, map endpapers. Very good. Eaton "was a United States Army officer and Consul to Tunis (1797-1803). He played important diplomatic and military roles in the war between The US and..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. viii, (ii), 81; red cloth lettered in black in a dust jacket; Very good in a jacket with a faded spine and a little wear at edges. The Townsend Plan was a proposal by Dr. Francis Townsend, a retired..... More
New York: Pantheon, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, (ii), 335, index; black and white photographs; gilt lettered cream linen and cream paper covered boards in a pictorial dust jacket; With an errata slip;. Interesting analysis of motivation and effect of the Scouting movement in the waning of the..... More
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
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; xii, 198, (iv), ads; illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen black and white photographs; red cloth lettered in black, with a pictorial onlay of a train; externally the binding shows moderate wear, internally very good, overall a good..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong ocatvo; pp. viii, (2), 3-279 with index; Richly illustrated with black and white photographs; cream cloth lettered in white in a dust jacket;. A Nice Copy. More
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, (1978). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth. 180pp. with index, notes and bibliography. Illustrated with frontispiece and three maps. More
New York: Random House, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. (1964). Octavo (5.75" x 8.25"), green cloth and red boards, gilt, with footprint pattern parallel to the spine. 244, (1)pp. Illustrated by Peter Parnall. The True Story of the Remarkable adventures of an American family who moved to Alaska and lived like..... More
Hanover: University Press of New England, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (5" x 7.25"), glossy pictorial boards. 149pp. with index, references. Four black and white illustrations. Examines the lives of eighteenth-century Christian Indians through the diary of Joseph Fish, Harvard educated pastor of the Seciond Church of North Stonington from..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1982). First Bison Book printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xxv, 301, index; Frontispiece portrait and a double page map; original pictorial blue paper wrappers;. Stanley was on a New York Herald assignment when he visited the changing West in 1867. He travelled to Kansas, Nebraska, and..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1982). First Bison Book printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xxv, 301, index; Frontispiece portrait and a double page map; original pictorial blue paper wrappers;. Stanley was on a New York Herald assignment when he visited the changing West in 1867. He travelled to Kansas, Nebraska, and..... More