Kansas?: s.i., n.d., ca. 1885. Square 32mo; original stitched blue-green wrappers; 9,[1]pp. Light wear from handling, tiny chips at spine foot, else Very Good and sound. Small, possibly hand-made, juvenile chapbook detailing the adventures of young brothers Robert and James Langley who moved from Ohio to Kansas in 1878..... More
Bismarck, ND: Capital Book Co., [1926]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; 324pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, ten leaves of plates. Jacket dust soiled and quite worn at extremities including shallow chips and small losses, spine panel rather faded, corners bumped, else a Very Good or better..... More
Chicago: American Medical Association, 1920. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's navy blue ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; ix,[1],331pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, eight leaves of plates. Light wear to extremities, corners gently tapped, very brief white splatter to upper cover and spine, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy..... More
Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 1815. Six volumes bound in one; octavo; contemporary morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],524,4(ads)pp.; three engraved frontispieces including two portraits, as well as added engraved title page, plus three portrait plates bound at head of separate issues, text illus. throughout. Boards rather scuffed, Ex-New Castle Library..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's green decorative cloth, upper cover stamped in black, black and gilt spine titling, brown glazed endpapers; xii,13-207,[1],[8](ads)pp.; frontispiece, six leaves of plates. Cloth a bit scuffed, splitting along bottom half of front joint neatly repaired, brief soil to rear..... More
Cambridge: Jones & Piggott (Late Rivingtons), 1882. First Edition. Octavo. 214 pp. + 2 pp. advertisements. Publisher's blue beveled boards decorated in gilt; decorative endpapers. Boards sunned along edges with some very mild scuffing. Binding sound. Touch of off-setting to endpapers and interior otherwise unmarked. A...... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1885. First Edition. Inscribed to educator Miss Charlotte E. Hunter at front free endpaper, "Compliments of the Trustees of the Institution for the Education of Colored Youth." Octavo. 129 pp. Frontis portrait with tissue guard. Brown cloth board lettered in gilt..... More
London: Lovell Reeve & Co., 1866. "A Fac-Simile Reprint." Quarto; publisher's brown blind-embossed pictorial cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt, spine recently rebacked, top edge gilt; lxxxviii,[20],440pp.; illus. throughout; forty-four (44) leaves of plates numbered 1-63 (collated complete), text illus. throughout. Boards quite scuffed with shallow losses to corners, spine..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-2. First Edition. Four volumes; octavos; bound in later three-quarter dark brown morocco over green cloth, elaborately gilt-tooled spines in six compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Spines a shade sunned, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good to Near Fine set in a very..... More
Boston: C.C. Little & Co., 1838. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green leaf-textured cloth, gilt-lettered spine; iv,484pp; engraved portrait frontispiece (tissue guard). Some scuffing to cloth extremities, bottom third of front joint split, spine a shade toned, textblock uniformly foxed, else a Good to Very Good, internally sound copy... More
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. First Thus, Limited to 450 copies printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Quarto; publisher's cream over blue paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label; xxxvi,[2],334pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece (tissue guard). Extremities lightly scuffed and rather toned, red spine lettering almost entirely effaced, later ownership rubber-stamp..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1865. Early edition. Octavo. 354 pp. Black and white portraits and illustrations, complete. Publisher's blind-stamped green boards with gilt lettering to spine; pale orange endpapers. Corners bumped and brief exposure along bottom edge. Binding sound and interior unmarked. Field comments on..... More
New York: Orange Judd and Company, [1870]. First Edition. Octavo. 190 pp. + advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's rust-colored pebbled cloth decorated in gilt. Brown endpapers. Wear to edges with brief exposure and general spotting with white discoloration to spine. Binding sound. Scuffing and moderate chipping to..... More
New York: Orange Judd & Company, 1852. Second Edition, as stated in second preface. Octavo. 204 pp. + 8 pp. advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt titling to spine. Touch of wear to extremities and brief exposure to top corners. Binding is sound and..... More
New York: Orange Judd & Company, 1867. New and Enlarged Edition. Octavo. 286 pp. + 2 pp. advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Blue-green cloth decorated in gilt. Boards show light general wear, corners bumped, light general spotting. Binding sound, soiling to front free endpaper, foxing along edges and..... More
London: C. Chappel, 1811. "Considerably Altered and Enlarged." Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's paper over drab boards, contemporary manuscript spine label; viii,[224]pp. (A4 B-P8, collation complete). Boards a bit scuffed and front joint starting to crack, paper flaw at spine crown, faint damp staining to board fore-edges not bleeding into textblock, lacking..... More
N.p.: ca. 1900. Oblong octavo (15x21cm.); hand-made photo album of contemporary ribbon-bound linen boards; [12]ll. of stiff card stock to which are mounted twenty-four (24) cyanotype photographs measuring ca. 9.5x12cm, occasionally captioned in a later hand with ballpoint pen. Boards a bit bowed, minor soil to binding and interior, otherwise..... More
Mobile, AL: S.H. Goetzel, 1865 [c. 1864]. First American Edition. Two volumes bound in one; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt spine in six compartments, brown glazed endpapers, original wrappers printed on two different samples of wall paper bound in with publisher's advertisements present on rear wrapper. Extremities..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue decorative cloth, upper cover embossed in black, gilt-lettered spine, brown glazed endpapers; xii,13-521pp. Cloth extremities a bit scuffed, faint fingersoil to textblock edges, contemporary pencil ownership signature to title page, else Very Good and sound. More
[Bandera, TX: Frontier Times, 1927.] First Edition. Octavo; custom two-toned cloth, manuscript spine label, original printed wrappers bound in; 219pp.; portrait frontispiece, illus. throughout. Cloth a bit rubbed and lightly soiled, some wear and soil to contents from handling, else a Very Good copy in serviceable binding. Oral..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's buckram in grey printed dust jacket; portrait frontispiece, seventeen (17) leaves of illus. Front jacket panel nearly split along spine margin, extremities a bit toned, else a Near Fine copy in a Good jacket overall. Subtitle continues: "while..... More
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1870. First Edition. Octavo. 252 pp. Five plates including frontispiece. Dark blue cloth with gilt decorating to spine; dark topstain; brown endpapers. Slightly ex-library with Library of Congress stamp and deposition note to front pastedown and stamps to preliminaries. Repair to boards along spine..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green pictorial cloth embossed in gilt, blue, and silver foil, brown glazed endpapers; xx,341,[1],[2](ads)pp.; frontispiece, thirteen (13) leaves of plates, additional text illus. and music throughout. Light scuffing to cloth extremities, contemporary ownership signature to front flyleaf, else a Very..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1896. Reprint. Octavo. 214 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Dark blue cloth boards stamped in black and gilt. Light shelfwear to boards and corners slightly bumped. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked. Overall an attractive copy of a...... More
Cumberland, MD: Book and Job Printing Establishment of J.J. Miller, 1881. Third Edition. Octavo. 120 pp. Brown cloth with front lettered in gilt. General wear and scuffing with fraying at extremities and 2" split along front portion of top of spine. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front..... More