Souvenir Views Of Hartford Conn.
Portland Me. L. H. Nelson Co., c1904. Oblong octavo; pp; (32); illustrated in black and white; original gilt lettered purple wrappers;. Street scenes, prominent buildings, homes, parks etc. More
Americana
Acton Massachusetts Two Hundreth Anniversary 1735-1935. July 20-21-22, 1935
(Acton): No printer, 1935. Only Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; Unpaginated, (14); illustrated with six black and white photographs; original ribbon tied printed blue paper wrappers;. Program and souvenir of the Bi-Centennial celebration and pageant. More
Building the British Empire. To the End of the First Empire
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo, mulberry cloth in dust jacket. 438pp. with index. Very good in good jacket. Jacket has several chips and short tears. More
Aiken: Senate Diary January 1972 - January 1975
Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene Press, (1976). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x (2), 3-, 370, index; photographs; gray cloth and blue paper covered boards, lettered in gilt, in a dust jacket; Very good, edges toned. Sen. Aiken was referred to as "the conscience and work horse of the United States..... More
The Big Change, America Transforms Itself, 1900-1950
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1952). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (i), 308, index; black cloth and terra-cotta paper covered boards lettered in gilt in a dust jacket. An important survey, America from Theodore Roosevelt through two World Wars to Dwight D. Eisenhower. More
Sketch of the Life of Commodore Vanderbilt
Putnam, CT: Patriot Press. Paperback. circa 1890. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers. (35)pp, including plates. Tipped-on frontispiece and 11 black and white plates. Light soil. This is a curious offprint, the piece originally appeared in Leslie's Monthly Magaxzine in 1872. There are no locations for this format. More
Sawgrass Poems: A View of the Everglades
San Diego: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto (10.25" x 9"),marsh grass patterned boards. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Inscribed and signed by the author and photographer. Beautiful color photos of wildlife accompany poetry about the subject. Notes and photo captions discussing the subject and/or poem follow the main..... More
Thirteen Historical Discourses on the Completion of Two Hundred Years, from the Beginning of the First Church in New Haven, with an Appendix
New Haven; New York: Durrie & Peck; Gould, Newman, 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. viii, 400; engraved frontispiece portrait; three quarter dark brown leather and cloth boards; red leather spine label gilt; very good, a tight copy, ex institutional, with two bookplates and no other stamps or spine markings..... More
Mountain Blood
Athens: University Of Georgia Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. 1xi, (i), 75 with list of illustrations; Thirteen plates; red cloth and tan boards in a dust jacket;. First Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction ~The recollections and yarns, historical meditations and reportage brought together..... More
Year Book of the Holland Society of New York, 1899
(New York: Knickerbocker Press), 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Royal octavo, pp. xv, (i), 299 with appendices; illustrated; three quarter white cloth and orange boards with a gilt medallion at center of the front board, gilt lettered spine;. Inserted is the menu of the fourteenth annual banquet and reports of other..... More
The American West: New Perspectives, New Dimensions; Edited And With An Introduction By Jerome O. Steffen
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1979). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; ix, (i), (2), 3-238, index; Charts; red cloth in a dust jacket. The American West in its frontier context, the study of the West in fiction and symbolism, and the rise of the industrial, urbanized West. More
The Flag Drill
Chicago: A. Flanagan, Publisher, (1889). Wraps. Small octavo; pp; 38, (ii); illustrated with diagrams and cuts; original printed pictorial color paper wrappers. Curiously this manual is designed for “young ladies”, a somewhat detailed and complicated drill manual; Scarce. More
The First Ladies
New York: Cowles Book Company, (1970). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiii, (i), 370, index; illustrated; burgundy cloth, gilt in a dust jacket;. Intimate biographical portraits of the Presidents' wives from Martha Washington to Pat Nixon. More
The Discovery Of America By The Northmen In The Tenth Century With Notices Of The Early Settlements Of The Irish In The Western Hemisphere
London: T. And W. Boone, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (xvi), xliii, 44-239, ix genealogical tables, (ii), index; illustrated with three folding black and white plates including two maps; green cloth decorated in blind, yellow coated endpapers, spine lettered in gilt;. First Edition, translating a portion of Charles Christian..... More
William Henry Belk, Merchant of the South.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1958. First Thus. Hardcover. (1958). Octavo, green cloth, gilt, in dust jacket. 271pp. with index nd appendices. A list of the Belk stores in=s included. Illustrated with frontis and black and white photographs. Good in fair jacket. Sporadic foxing. Light wearing of..... More
Papers Read Before The Lancaster County Historical Society, October 5, 1906; Germans In Pennsylvania
Lancaster: Reprinted From The New Era, 1906. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 325-352; one black and white plate; Original printed salmon wrappers; wrappers lightly toned, else very good. Discusses the Saur Printing House and other German printing. More
James Madison; Father Of The Constitution 1787-1800
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Company Publishers, (1950). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (10), 11-520, notes, index; Frontispiece portrait of James and Dolley Madison and nineteen additional black and white plates and maps. burgundy cloth, gilt, in dust jacket, top edge stained red.The book is very bright in a nice jacket. Previous..... More
James Madison; Three Volumes of Six; James Madison; Secretary Of State 1800-1809; James Madison; Father Of The Constitution 1787-1800; James Madison Commander In Chief 1812-1836
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Company Publishers, (1950-1961). First editions with the exception of Father Of The Constitution. Hardcover. Secretary Of State; Octavo; pp; (10), 11-533, notes, index; Frontispiece portrait of Madison and eighteen additional black and white plates and maps. burgundy cloth, gilt, in dust jacket, top edge stained red.The book..... More
Overland With Kit Carson; A Narrative Of The Old Spanish Trail in '48
Lincoln: University Of Nebraska Press, (1993). First Bison Book Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; xxviii, 301, index; line drawings by the author; Introduction and original map by Stallo Vinton; original printed paper wrappers. Howes R-537. Russell’s first hand account of events in the golden age of the fur trade. More
The Boy Who Went to the East and other Indian Fairy Tales
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1917. First edition. Hardcover. (1917). Octavo; pp. ix, (i), 296; Frontispiece plus five black and white plates and decorations by Hugh Spencer; original publishers red cloth lettered in gilt; Very good with a faint stain at the fore-edge of the cover. Very..... More
Rosa Parks
New York: Lipper/Viking, 2000. Third printing. Hardcover. (NewYork: 2000). Duodecimo (5.25"x 8.75"), black pictorial boards with portrait exposed by circular opening in the jacket. 246pp. with bibliographical notes. Very good in like jacket. Jacket is unclipped but with no price. Possible book club copy. One of the "Penguin Lives" series..... More
Liberalism And Its Discontents
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xii, 372, index; white cloth and green paper covered boards in an unclipped dust jacket;. How did liberalism, the great political tradition that from the New Deal to the 1960s seemed to dominate American politics, fall from favor so far..... More
Richard Nixon; The Shaping Of His Character
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., (1981). Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (7), 8-574, index; decorated red cloth and brown boards lettered in gilt in a dust jacket;. Brodie, best known for her work on Thomas Jefferson & Joseph Smith, grapples with the question, "Why did Nixon behave the..... More
J. Ross Browne His Letters, Journals, & Writings; Edited, with an Introduction and Commentary By Lina Fergusson Browne
(Albuquerque): University Of New Mexico Press, (1969). . First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xxi, (iii), 419, (i), index; fifteen black and white photographs; terra-cotta cloth iettered in black in dust jacket;. John Ross Browne 1821-1875) was an Irish-born American traveler, artist, writer and government agent. Collection of letters, journals and..... More
Lincoln in Marble and Bronze
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1952. Hardcover. (1952). Octavo, green cloth. Profusely illustrated with photographs of the various statues of Lincoln. Good or better with light wear and soil. 353pp. with index. More