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
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
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
Albany: Charles van Benthuysen, 1860. Cloth. Albany: Charles van Benthuysen, 1860. Octavo, brown cloth decorated in blind with gilt titles. 15 folding maps and plans of canals, locks, bridges, culverts, etc. Most maps have some closed tears from rough handling, but all material is present. One map has tape repair..... More
Boston: Smithsonian Institution & Little Brown and Co., (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo; pp; 256, index; profusely illustrated with color & black and white photographs; blue cloth and yellow paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. Drawn from the popular exhibit at the Smithsonian's National..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (9), 10-479, index; Photographs; blue cloth and light blue paper covered boards lettered in silver, in a dust jacket;. Bill Clinton gave his opponents plenty to work with beyond politics and policy. Stewart is a Pulitzer Prize winner and..... More
New York: Hastings House Publishers, (1952). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xii, (2), 3-242, sources; line drawn decorations; red cloth lettered in white in a dust jacket; jacket has creases and a small chip bottom left;. Signed by the author on the front free fly leaf. Painter served in the..... More
New York: The Macmillan company, (nd). Illustrated with numerous photographs by Charles Steinhacker and others. A Chanticleer Press Edition. Quarto, yellow cloth in dust jacket. More
Troy NY: William H. Young, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 316, with index; illustrated with a frontispiece of Champlain, and six inserted engraved portraits of Iroquois and other people; original half tan cloth and publisher's green gray paper covered boards with a paper spine label; A very good tight..... More