Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. First Edition. Octavo. 225 pp. Black and white illustrations. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Boards gently rubbed along edges with a couple minor scuffs. Binding is sound. Small stamp reading "CC" to bottom edge of text block..... More
Orwigsburg: Bacon and Freeman, 1989. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper [additional inscription on copyright page and internal signatures are printed]. Octavo; 132pp. Photo-illustrations and tables throughout Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. No dust jacket as issued. Boards are square with a few..... More
First Edition. Chicago: R. Blanchard, 1903. First Edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6"); 68p. Illustrated, with full-color fold-out map at back. Pebbled black/gray cloth with blindstamped border, beveled edges, and gilt lettering. Covers dusty and faded along edges, with fading to spine and some general scuffing and smudging. Front hinge cracked..... More
W. Hanover, MA: The Christopher Publishing House, 1981. First Edition. Octavo. 281 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Beige boards stamped in gilt. Map endpapers. Publisher's promotional letter laid in at rear. Unclipped dust jacket faded at spine with chipping and wear to edges. Spine ends of..... More
![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
Philadelphia: John E. Potter and Company, [1885]. Reprint. Octavo. 251 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's advertisements. Map. Publisher's brick cloth decorated in black and gilt. Brown endpapers, though front free endpaper lacking. Boards edgeworn, scuffed, and smudged with some minor ripples and runs to cloth on back board..... More
Cincinnati: Wm. Dodge / J. Harper, 1859. "Reprinted from the Boston Edition of 1726, with a Memoir, Notes, and Appendix." Quarto; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 138,36pp.; occasional text illus., title page printed in red and black. Cloth a bit scuffed at extremities, small loss at spine ends, light..... More
Middlebury, VT: Published by the Author, 1845. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); removed; 43pp. Light foxing to text block, faint vertical crease, else Very Good and sound. One of a series of pamphlets issued during the contest between Middlebury Whigs Samuel Phelps and William Slade for the Vermont Senate seat..... More
Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xv,[1],254pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
![Item #25525 The Tomahawk of the U.S.S. Pocahontas [Nine issues]. Shipboard Publication, Chaplain...](/pictures/thumb/25525.jpg?v=1675870180)
At Sea: U.S.S. Pocahontas, 1919. First Editions. Nine issues of the ship's paper for the World War I transport ship, published aboard. Octavo. 4pp. A broken run from Vol 1, No. 1 in March 1919 to Vol I, No. 11 August 1919. Includes Vol I, Nos 1 - 4 (No..... More
![Item #12609 There Was Once a Slave: The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass [Signed]. Shirley...](/pictures/thumb/12609.jpg?v=1646407048)
New York: Julian Messner, 1948. Third Printing. Signed by the author with date and dedication (in different ink and seemingly different hand) on front free endpaper. Octavo; [x], 310pp. Illustrated dust jacket over blue-green cloth with lighter green lettering to spine. Price-clipped jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears..... More
First Edition. Frederick: Professional Surveyors Publishing, 1999. First Edition. Signed by the author with brief inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo; 184pp. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with light bumping to corners and spin ends, but no chips, tears, or..... More
Twenty-two volumes; quartos (30.5cm.); uniformly stitched self-wrappers. Collection comprises the following issues: Nos. 1714 (May 5, 1898), 1716-19, 1721, 1724, 1730-2, 1734, 1736-7, 1746-7, 1751-2, 1754, 1762-3, 1766, & 1770 (June 1, 1899). Condition ranges from Near Fine to Good only, with a few of issues starting to split at..... 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
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 180 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. with "$3.00" price present. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket chipped along edges, rubbed and scuffed, and damp-staining along bottom edge. Boards worn with..... More
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1870. First Edition. Octavo. 421 pages. Frontis portrait and black and white portraits throughout. Rebound in modern functional maroon binding with gilt to spine. Endpapers from Mutual Library Bindery, Inc. Boards are moderately worn and scuffed. Binding is sound. Some toning and staining..... More
Minneapolis: Lessard Printing Co., [1899]. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's maroon gilt-lettered cloth; 170,[27]pp. Some shelf wear to cloth, chiefly at spine ends, light soil, else Very Good, internally sound. More
Milwood: KTO Press, 1977. First Edition. Tall octavo; [vi],414pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $15.00 price intact; book in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rubbed at corners with sunning down spine. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Collection of..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket printed in black and orange; [8],360pp. Jacket extremities quite worn with a number of smallish losses, chiefly to rear panel, often touching text without loss of meaning, coin-sized chip at spine foot (missing piece..... More
Small, slim 12mo (17cm.); publisher's green cloth-backed paper-covered boards, upper cover printed within double rule; 50pp. Light wear to extremities including brief exposure at margins, boards lightly dust-soiled, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Printed compliment card from the author bound in at head of volume. Two short articles..... More
![Item #14584 The Winning of the West [Six volume set]. Theodore Roosevelt](/pictures/thumb/14584.jpg?v=1669063704)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Six volume set. Small octavos. Bound in half calf with leather spine labels; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Frontispiece to each volume. Volumes II and VI recased. Chipping and flaking to extremities and joints; volume V front joint starting. Bindings else sound. Bookplate of..... 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
Philadelphia: Silas Engles, 1805. First Edition. Duodecimo. 358 pages plus errata. Lacks frontispiece. Full contemporary sheep with front cover crudely glued to spine. Gilt ruling and black label to spine. Edges scuffed, with a one inch abrasion tracing diagonally from front top corner of front board. Endpapers moderately foxed and..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932. First Edition. Octavo; ix, 3-220pp. Map frontis. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Boards a bit edgeworn and dulled, with some soiling down spine and rubbing at extremities. Gilt lettering to spine rubbed away and dulled, but text just still legible. Endpapers toned. Some..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in glossy green pictorial dust jacket; xv,[3],228pp. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, else Very Good or better. More