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
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John James Audubon, A Biography
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. 510 with index; Black and white photographs; red cloth, gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. 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
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
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 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
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
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
Amidst Cultivated and Pleasant Fields: a Bicentennial History of North Haven Connecticut
Canaan: Phoenix Publishing, 1986. First edition. Cloth. (1986). Octavo (6" x 9.25"), tan and black cloth with pictorial paste-down on cover, gilt. Pictorial endpapers.304pp. pplus colophon. Epilogue, sources and notes and index. Illustrated with vintage photographs. A quarter-inch tear in the jacket at top and bottom of the spine, back..... 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
Edward Kennedy And The Camelot Legacy
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., (1976). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. (7), 8-383, index; Illustrated, photographs and cartoons; burgundy cloth, gilt and sage boards;. Discussion of Edward Kennedy as a possible future President. More
The New Center Of Gravity; The World-Reapers Of The Grand Army Harvest; Seventy Years of Reminiscence, Memorial Day Address of Gen. Henry B. Carrington, U.S.A. (retired) before E.W. Pierce post, no. 8. Dept. of Mass., at Middleboro, Mass., May 30, 1905.
Middleboro Ma. Privately Printed, 1905. Only Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 12; original printed self-wrappers;. Very scarce; OCLC locates just four copies; Carrington enjoyed some success in the Civil War but later along the Bozeman Trail, he commanded Ft. Kearney & Lt. Fetterman whose command was wiped out in Red Cloud's..... More
The Argus Christmas Number
Seattle: The Argus, December 17, 1917. First Edition. Wraps. Quarto; pp; 80; profusely illustrated with photographs; original printed color pictorial wrappers;. This issue dedicated to the Northwest, & Seattle; wonderful photographs, cityscapes, wilderness, Big Trees etc. Boosterism & More. More
Houdon in America A Collection of Documents in the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress; With An Introduction By Francis Henry Taylor
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1930. First Edition. Quarto; pp; xxiv, 51; Illustrated with ten monochrome plates; beige cloth and blue paper covered boards with a decoration and lettering in black and a paper spine label; Very good, minor edge wear. Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor the greatest..... More
Virginalia; Songs of My Summer Nights
Brooklyn: Eugene L. Schwaab, 1942. Reprint. Hardcover. (Brooklyn: Eugene L. Schwaab), 1942. Reprint edition after the 1853 first edition. Octavo; pp. (viii) viii, (i), 10-132; Frontispiece portrait; blue cloth, gilt; Very good. Facsimile re-issue (reprinted without the end-of-volume ads) of the scarce 1853 original edition of these poems. More
An Address Delivered At the Funeral of the Hon Dennis Kimberly, December 16, 1862
New Haven: Bassett & Barnett, 1862. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 24; original printed yellow paper wrappers;. This copy is signed at the top right of the wrapper by E. T. Foote,an Anti-Slavery activist & the man who amassed the greatest collection of Underground Railroad material. Dennis Kimberly (October 23..... More
J. H. Colton's School Atlas, Designed to Accompany Colton's American School Geography. Comprising Upwards of One Hundred Steel Plate Maps, Profiles and Plans, on Thirty-seven Large Sheets, Drawn on a New system of Scales
New York: IvisonPhnney & Co., 1860. First edition. Pictorial boards. Large quarto, pictorial paper covered boards with black leather spine. Unpaginated. Title page with publisher''s ads and list of maps on verso, followed by 11 page appendix of statistics and vocabulary. There are 37 pages of maps, most of which..... More