![Item #25740 Southern Wagon Train 1976: So Your Children Can Show Their Children [wrapper title]....](/pictures/thumb/25740.jpg?v=1677778748)
[N.p.]: [s.i.], 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 32 pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated wraps. Light wear and spotting to wraps with some creasing and curling to extremities. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Unrecorded photographic record of the Bicentennial Wagon Train Pilgrimage, a "year-long celebration, reversing the..... More
![Item #11214 A Stronger Climate [Signed]. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala](/pictures/thumb/11214.jpg?v=1633629590)
[London]: John Murray, 1976. Reprint. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo;214pp. Printed dust jacket with £3.95 price intact; book in orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with some fading along edges and sunning to spine. Boards are square with light bumping at..... More
Matthews, NC / Charlotte, NC: Heritage Publishing Company, 1985-1987. First Edition. Two volumes; quarto; publisher's cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jackets; 224, 272pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Vol. 1 dust jacket trimmed half an inch too short at time of publication (as usual with this volume), light wear to extremities of..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's purple cloth, gilt-lettered spine; vii,[1],200pp.; photo-montaged frontispiece and twelve leaves of plates. Minor scuffing to cloth extremities, spine a shade sunned and gilt rather significantly dulled, textblock edges and preliminaries quite spotted, later (1955) ownership signature to half title, else a...... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Philadelphia: William Heinemann, 1895. First Edition. Octavo (9" x 6"); xxxi, 248p. Illustrations and maps (two fold-outs) throughout. Publisher's red cloth with black lettering and gilt illustration. Covers rubbed along edges and spine ends with moderate soiling to cloth and heavier to spine. Spine a bit rolled..... More
New York: Praeger, 1987. First Edition. Octavo. 193 pages. Black and white photographs. Green cloth boards stamped in black. Very slight bumping to corners and spine ends. Endpapers and pages clean and unmarked. Top edge foxed. Tight in binding. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. Later printing. Signed by Stephen Ambrose "Happy Trails" at front free endpaper. Octavo. 511 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown on brown boards with spine lettered in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket creased along edges with some spotting to rear..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. First Edition. Octavo; xii, 128pp. Photo-illustrations, all present. Illustrated yellow dust jacket with $2.75 price intact; bound in beige cloth and brick buckram spine with gilt lettering. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, with dark toning down spine and folds and..... More
Lynchburg: TLC Publishing, Inc., 1990. Octavo; 64pp. 150+ documentary and photographic illustrations in B&W and color. Full color glossy photographic card covers. Textblock unmarred and unmarked. Virtually no signs of wear other than faint age-tanning to textblock edges. Essentially a copious photo album, compiled from dozens of photographers..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Hillerman loosely laid in at title page. Quarto. 240 pages. Color photographs throughout. Photographic dust jacket. Red boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket has some general smudging, light shelfwear, and moderate creasing at top of spine. Amateur tape..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880. First Edition. Five volumes; octavo; uniformly bound in publisher's green gilt-embossed cloth; numerous plates throughout, including myriad folding, double-paged and color, text illus. throughout (collated and complete). Light shelf wear to cloth extremities, chiefly at spine ends, brief paper remnants to front cover of Vol..... More
Paris: Félix Alcan, 1911. Sixième Édition. 12mo (18cm.); recent calf over the original cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine; xvii,[1],352pp.; map in text. Stock a bit brittle and toned, else a Very Good or better copy in sturdy and handsome new binding. Treatise on the "Macedonian question" of the late..... More
![Item #10987 Horning Into Africa [Signed]. W S. Van Dyke](/pictures/thumb/10987.jpg?v=1632859088)
[N.p.]: California Graphic Press, 1931. First Edition. Signed by Van Dyke on front free endpaper with inscription, "Bill, there was plenty of trouble in this system! W.S. Van Dyke July 11, '34." Tall octavo. 219 pp. 26 Black and white photographs with Van Dyke's commentary below, complete. Blue cloth stamped..... More
Mankato, MN, et al: ca. 1890s. Small oblong octavo (14x18cm.); publisher's grey card wrappers lettered in white; [16]ll. of pale grey stock to which are mounted sixteen (16) silver gelatin snapshots (all ca. 8x8cm.) on rectos only, usually with manuscript captions on facing page. Some photographs a bit overexposed at..... More
New York / London: George P. Putnam / Richard Bentley, 1850. First Edition. Signed, handwritten letter from Bryant tipped in at front free endpaper. Octavo; 442pp. Publisher's blue cloth with blindstamped border enclosing publisher logo to front and back and lettering in gilt to spine. Yellow endpapers. No..... More
London: John Rodwell, 1827. First Edition. Large quarto; later half brown morocco over cloth, gilt-lettered spine, new endpapers; vi,[2],213pp. Moderate scuffing along leather spine margins, textblock a bit brittle and toned, fairly extensive and erudite marginalia to first half of text in a 20th-century hand, lacking all six plates. A...... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1981. First Edition with no additional printings listed. SIGNED by the author with brief inscription on front free endpaper. Photographic jacket over blue boards with silver lettering to spine and blindstamped seal to front. Jacket lightly bumped at spine ends with a...... More
London: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1965. First Edition Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 69. Slim quarto; publisher's pictorial two-toned (blue over black) cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt, retaining original acetate dust jacket and publisher's paper-covered slipcase; 59pp.; facsimile marginalia throughout. Moderate wear to slipcase..... More
![Item #14361 The French Broad [Signed by Dykeman]. Wilma Dykeman, Carl Carmer, Douglas Gorslin, ed](/pictures/thumb/14361.jpg?v=1665853689)
New York: Rinehart & Company Inc., 1955. Third Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining $5.00 price; x,371pp.; double-paged map, illus. throughout. Jacket chipped at spine ends and worn at extremities including a few rather ragged and longer closed tears at top of front panel and brief splits..... More
Boston: International Jubilee Convention, 1901. First Edition. 12mo (7.25" x 5"); 184p. Numerous ads and illustrations throughout. Rebound in three quarter leather over pebbled black cloth. Index and terminal ads (pages 167-178) brought to front with pages 179-184 remaining at end. Boards are sturdy with light shelfwear and a few..... More