Wilmington: The Historical Society of Delaware, 1941. First Edition. Octavo; xviii, 620pp. Color frontis and 13 black and white maps, all present. Map endpapers. Printed blue dust jacket with $3.75 price intact; book in dark blue buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly edgeworn with a couple closed, shallow..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Limited Edition. Signed by the author without inscription and numbered 769 of 1000 on full title. Octavo; x, 564pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Gilt page edges and printed marbled endpapers. Housed in paper-covered box with illustration from original dust..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. First edition, with "A" on copyright page. Octavo; 158pp. Pictorial two-color dust jacket with $2.00 price inatct. Green cloth with gold lettering on spine and gold stamping (title + vignette) on front panel. Unclipped jacket tanned with scuffed edges; half-inch tear at top of..... More
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. No. 40 of a limited issue of 60 in this format. Facsimile reprint edition, with doubled title-page, of volume first published 1890 by the Quartermaster General of the United States "under Authority of the Secretary of War." Large folio (43x35cm); 51pp + 44 full-page full-color..... More
Hardcover. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1904. Boys of Liberty Library. Later Printing. Octavo (7.5" x 4.75"); 211p +viii ads. Publisher's mustard cloth with black and red illustration. Covers bumped at corners and spine ends with a small inkspot over title on front and some general smudging and soiling to cloth. Spine..... More
Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2011. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; lii, 182pp. Maps and illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket over dark beige cloth with green lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with no significant signs of shelfwear. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam and Company, 1855-1859. All Firsts; all Octavo (24.5x16.5x4cm); see volume specifics below for page count, illustration details, and condition. This is a complete set, married by the previous owner. All in original publisher’s purple-black cloth (with the exception of the spine of Vol I); blind stamped..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 534 pp. + index. Maps. Printed dust jacket. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket worn along edges with some slight chipping. Toning and rubbing to rear. Boards rubbed along edges. Binding is sound. Edges of text..... More