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New York: Crown Publishers, 2017. Second Printing. Signed by George W. Bush without inscription at half title. Large octavo.192 pp. Color reproductions including fold-out. Illustrated dust jacket. White illustrated boards; red endpapers. Light rubbing to edges of dust jacket with a crease to front flap along top corner..... More
New York: The Humanities Press, 1950. Third Edition, three volumes in one. Thick octavo. 330; 397; 376 pp. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, now dulled. No dust jacket. Boards show light shelfwear and gilt to spine dulled and barely legible. Binding sound. Ownership inscription to..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co. Ltd., 1894. First UK Edition. Octavo. 346 pp. + 56 pp. of publisher's advertisements. Blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt; charcoal endpapers. Boards show light wear to extremities with brief exposure; spine toned; light general smudging. Split to front hinge..... More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1976. First Thus. Octavo. 401 pp. Red cloth boards stamped in black. No dust jacket. Corners slightly bumped and touch of dust soiling to top edge. Binding is sound, ownership inscription to front free endpaper and pages otherwise unmarked. Near Fine. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. 377 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards with spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket rubbed along edges to edges and flaps with brief split to rear fold. Boards show very mild shelfwear. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1950. First Edition. Large octavo. 409 pp. Gray boards with red leather title label and gilt decoration to spine. No dust jacket. Spine lightly toned and top corners bumped. Binding is sound. Ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper and occasional underlining and marginalia..... More
Leipzig: Verlag Von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1928. Third Edition. Octavo. 403 pp. + 4 pp. advertisements. Black cloth over green decorated paper-covered boards; blind-marbled edges. No dust jacket. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure; fading along top edge. Binding is sound. Contemporary and recent ownership inscriptions to..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1969. First Thus. Octavo. 287 pp. Green cloth over gray paper-covered boards with spine lettered in white. No dust jacket. Light shelfwear to bottom edge, fading along top edge. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper and pages otherwise unmarked. More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 331 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Light creasing along edges of dust jacket with some curling at corners and very faint spotting to verso. Slight lean to boards and touch of dust soiling..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. 201 pp. Dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to edges of boards, touch of dust soiling along top edge, and gilt dulled along spine. Binding sound, ownership inscription to front free endpaper..... More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1849. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's plum blind-embossed cloth (binding "B" per BAL), gilt-lettered spine; [6],224pp.; 4-pp. publisher's catalog dated January, 1849, inserted ahead of free endpaper. Extremities a bit scuffed with shallow chips at spine ends, cloth unevenly faded, spine a bit cocked and..... More
Baltimore: Printed and Published by the Author, 1892. Eleventh Edition. Octavo; later card wrappers, manuscript title to upper cover, original wrappers bound in; 64pp. Wrappers and textblock a bit toned, relevant contemporary and later (1980s) newsclippings mounted inside upper wrapper; a Good, sound copy. Though oft-reprinted, an uncommon..... More
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, Old Bailey, E.C., 1899. First Edition. Octavo. 208 pp. + 34 pp. publisher's advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth boards decorated in green, gilt, and white, designed by Talwin Morris. Gray endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities. Boards slightly bowed, but binding..... More
Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, [1990]. Second Printing. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($14.95); vii,[1],119pp. Light edge wear, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Inscribed and signed by the 1950s baseball outfielder Stan Musial (1920-2013), who accompanied Michener on his trip to..... More
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. 225 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed at extremities with some minor smudging to front. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine. More
Hebron, CT? Published for the Subscribers, by the Author, 1824. First Edition. Octavo; recent tan morocco over green cloth, gilt-lettered spine in five compartments, new endpapers; 264pp. Text block unevenly toned and foxed, else a Very Good copy in a fine modern binding. Text concludes with a lengthy list of..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1884. First Gordon Browne-illustrated edition. Octavo. 444 pp. Thirty-two b&w illustrations by Browne including frontispiece with tissue guard, complete. Publisher's cloth binding decorated in black, brown, and gilt; dark topstain; charcoal endpapers. Mild rubbing to edges and joints with a few minor smudges..... More
Boston: Samuel Hall, 1801. Two volumes bound in one; thick 12mo; full contemporary gilt-panelled calf; xii,312; 274pp.; both title pages printed within decorative border. Leather a bit dried and rubbed, gilt significantly flaked away, rear joint cracked but holding, lengthy contemporary ownership notes to front endpapers, else a Very Good..... More
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846. First Edition. Large octavo; later maroon cloth, elements of original cloth mounted to upper cover and spine, new endpapers; viii,571pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece and one folding map. Negligible shelf wear, spine cloth a shade sunned, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown..... More
Boston: J.K. Wiggin & Wm. Parsons Lunt, 1867. First Thus, Limited to 285 copies of which this is no. 7. Quarto; contemporary three-quarter midnight blue morocco over marbled boards expertly rebacked to match, green gilt spine label; xl,211pp. Very minor wear to extremities, faint offsetting to endpapers, contemporary ex libris..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt; xviii,287pp. Moderate shelf wear with some mild scuffing. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "To Mr. John Wheeler in remembrance..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1908. First Thus, Limited to 115 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Octavo; publisher's decorative cloth, top edge gilt, mottled blue dust-jacket; xiv,62pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, full-page map, and title page map vignette. Some inoffensive chipping to jacket extremities, spine panel toned to tan..... More
London: Printed by J.H. for Andrew Crooke, at the signe of the Beare in Pauls Church-yard, 1647. First Edition. Small quarto; 20th century three-quarter midnight blue morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, marbled endpapers; [2],30pp. (A-D4, collated and complete); woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Textblock a shade toned and dust-soiled..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Presumed first edition with no additional printings listed. Signed by Dean Acheson to American diplomat Philip Bonsal and his wife Margaret with brief inscription. Octavo. 309 pp. Printed dust jacket with "$4.00" price present. Gray boards stamped in red and gilt. Publisher's promotional card laid..... More
London: Printed by J. Diggens / Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1814-1817. First Editions. Three volumes; octavos (26cm.); contemporary calf over paper-covered boards, black gilt spine labels (the earlier two volumes bound with marbled paper-covered boards, the latter volume bound with elements of one of the original fascicle..... More