![The Story of Louis McHenry Howe: The Man Behind Roosevelt [Signed by Stiles]. Lela Stiles](/images/noimage.png)
Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1954. First Edition. Signed by Stiles on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Vera Watts with all good wishes!" and dated Jan 15, 1957. Octavo. 311 pages. Black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket. Grey boards stamped in red and gilt. Red topstain... More
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1893. Fourth Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green decorative cloth, upper cover stamped in black, gilt-lettered spine; 142pp. Light shelf wear, corners and spine ends a bit bumped, hinges starting to crack and front free endpaper nearly separated (contemporary ownership signature); still, overall Very Good..... More
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, [1887]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's blue decorative gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt; x,332pp. Extremities a bit scuffed, shallow loss at spine crown, spine cloth rather darkened, text block a bit soiled, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Inscribed on front free..... More
San Francisco, CA: Peoples Press, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 80 pages. Black and white photographs. Photographic wraps. Wrapper subtitle reads, "A photo-essay of Angola." Rubbing to edges of wraps and creased along spine. Starting at hinges but binding holding. Pages unmarked. No copies in retail at time of this writing. More
Dublin: Talbot Press, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; [6],157pp.; illus. throughout. Minor chipping to jacket extremities, most notably at spine crown, boards a bit soiled, gift inscription to half title, else Very Good and sound. Personal and sociological account of itinerant culture..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First Edition. Signed by Kermit Roosevelt on front free endpaper with inscription, "For Stu Nelson From his wandering colleague Kermit Roosevelt." Octavo. 286 pages. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt and green. Red topstain. Kermit studied African..... More
![Protect and Defend [Signed by Nancy Pelosi and 117 Other Washington VIPs]. Jack Valenti](/pictures/thumb/7574.jpg?v=1602689521)
New York: Doubleday, 1992. Stated First Edition. Octavo; [iii] + 299pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Gray boards with blue cloth spine, lettered in gold. Unclipped jacket is pristine, as new. Binding as new; textblock unmarked, seemingly never read. Jack Valenti, special assistant to Lyndon Johnson in the mid-60s, and..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. First U.S. Edition. Signed by Vargas Llosa on half title with inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 373 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown and black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is lightly worn at edges. Boards a touch sunned along edges. Binding..... More
Edinburgh: A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1765. Third Edition. Volume I only of two volume set. 500 pages. Full contemporary calf with five raised bands and red leather label to spine. Ruled and lettered in gilt. Home, a central figure of the Scottish..... More
Pennsylvania? Jane Alden, [2005]. Second Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's comb-bound printed card wrappers; [12],314pp. Some light soil and wear from handling, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Self-published account of the author's thirty years of experience as a crime reporter in the United Kingdom, though at the time..... More
!["The Mountaintop" Thru Newspaper Accounts, "1926-1930" [Volume 4]. Cordes W. Chambers III](/pictures/thumb/7570.jpg?v=1603398386)
Bellefonte, PA: Grove Printing, 1995. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's blue card wrappers printed in dark blue; mixed pagination; photographic illus. throughout. Some general dust soil and light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. The fourth and final genealogical history of Snow Shoe Township in Centre County, PA. Each..... More
Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1975. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's blue library cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xvii,[5],384pp. Minor dust-soil, especially to spine, else a Very Good or better copy. Card catalog of the collection of Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980), bilingual introductory text in French and English. More
Praha [Prague]: Mlada Fronta, 1999. Octavo. 101 pages. Color illustrations by Tolkein. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver. Text in Czech. Translation of Roverandom, a posthumously published Tolkien novella. Dust jacket is rubbed at edges. Light wear to spine ends of boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
Pittsburg [sic], PA: A.R. Crum & Co., [1899]. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.,); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; 92pp. Some light shelf wear, corners a bit bumped, very faint soil, else Very Good and sound. Slightly later fraternal prize inscription to front free endpaper to a Sir Knight (illegible), "for securing..... More
New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. Signed by civil rights activist and academic Julius Lester on half title with inscription to previous owners. Two octavo volumes. 576 p.; 815 p. Black cloth blind stamped at front and stamped in gilt at spine. Red topstains. Black slipcase with photographic paper..... More
New York: S.F. Vanni, 1950. Octavo. 243 pages. Navy cloth stamped in gilt. Text in original Italian with English translation facing. No dust jacket. Originally published in 1877, Odi Barbare is the sixth book of poetry from the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Light..... More
[Maugansville, MD]: Mennonite Historical Association of the Cumberland Valley, [2004]. First Edition. Large, thick quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; v,[1],78pp.; facsimiles, tables in text. Light dust-soil, a few faint surface scratches to rear cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
Oxford: Oxford Publishing Co., [1980]. First Edition. Slim quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in blue photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaginated; chiefly half-tone photographic illus. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, corners very gently bumped, faint clear tape reinforcement to jacket corners, else Very Good or better overall. The second title in..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1888. Third Edition, Revised. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; viii,[2],307,[1],[2](ads)pp. Light shelf wear and a few surface scratches, corners rather bumped, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Treatise on natural theology by the American engineer, best known for his work..... More
New York: Carl Fischer, [1945]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's grey staple bound card wrappers lettered and ruled in blue; [4],35pp.; music throughout. Light edge wear and toning, faint rubber-stamp at bottom margin of upper cover, else Very Good or better. More
Philadelphia: Elijah Thomas, 1857. Two octavo volumes. 608 p.; 633 p. + index. Black and white illustrations. Quarter leather over marbled boards with spine lettered in gilt. Four raised bands to spine. Originally published in 1830, Annals of Philadelphia relied on accounts of the elderly to paint a...... More
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, [1929]. First American Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's green buckram, printed paper elements mounted to upper cover and spine; viii,313pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Corners gently bumped, tiny chip to spine label, rear cover rather spotted, old ink price and ownership signature and rubber-stamp to front free..... More
[Japan]: Kyo Bun Kwan, 1961. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's paper-covered boards in green photo-illustrated dust jacket; [4],149pp.; 11 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, three folding maps bond in rear. Light shelf wear, chiefly to jacket extremities, spine panel a bit sunned, else a Very Good and..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1872]. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's green cloth, upper cover lettered in blind, gilt-lettered spine; [2],291pp.; portrait frontispiece. Boards slightly scuffed with brief exposure at corners, spine a bit cocked and cloth rather toned, covers quite dust-soiled and discolored, front hinge cracked; overall Good, internally..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1974. Third Printing. Octavo. 197 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Red-orange boards stamped in pink and gilt. Unclipped dust jacket is lightly worn at edges with a small closed tear to top of rear flap and a crease to front flap. Spine a touch..... More