New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., Printers; Anson D.F. Randolph, 1863. 16 pp.; 16 pp. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. Later printing & first edition. This issue of Loyal Publication Society, No. 17 is one of three variants. Good copies, 17 with detached and chipped front wrapper; 13 lacking its..... More
n.p. n.p., 1883. 16 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w drawing. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. Author's Edition. On Cover: "Paper Read Before the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia. Signed Compliments of the author. Very good minus, folded, wrappers soiled, starting to separate, inked in notation along top margin of front wrapper, marginal..... More
[Chicago]: Chicago Committee on the French Revolution and The Newberry Library, 1989. [Unpaged]. Printed rectos only. Illus. with b/w reproductions. Sm. 4to. Spiral bound. First edition. Leon M. Depres, foreword. Bound xeroxed program. A very good copy. More
Springfield: G.W. Wilson, Printer, 1849. 53 pp. 8vo. Stitched printed green paper wrappers. First edition. Uncommon. OCLC shows 5 copies. Front wrapper soiled, chipped, nearly detached, with a few neat repairs on verso, rear wrapper lacking, mail folds, overall a good copy. Sabin 89877. More
New York: The City College, 1968. 118 pp. Illus. with 13 photos in three sections with Japanese lace paper. 8vo. Blue paper wrappers with embossed title. First edition. Poetry by Gilbert Sorrentino, Joel Oppenheimer, Joe Early, Sam Abrams; stories by Fielding Dawson, George Di Caprio; translations by medevalist Frederick Goldin..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1976). 276 pp. Illus. with 350 color and b/w illustrations including 14 folding maps. Folio. Cloth with gilt titles and decoration. First American edition. R.V. Tooley, illus. ed., Gerald Roe Crone, preface. A good solid introduction produced by Elsevier in Brussels. Top edge foxed else..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1963. xi, 300 pp. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. The first volume in what would eventually become a three volume work. A very good crisp, clean exlib copy with the usual markings in a like dust jacket. More
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1874-1877. 332 pp.; viii, 350 pp.; xiv, 294 pp.; xi, 351 pp., plates (6). Illustrated with 32 copper-plate and 1212 wood engravings, some colored. Folio (36 cm). Quarterbound red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, raised bans with gilt rules, gilt titles,top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. First..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: Printed at the Office of Blair & Rives, 1847. 7 pp. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. Signed by the author on slip clipped from original "franked" mailing envelope. Argues for the constitutionality of the Rivers and Harbors Act which Polk vetoed. Provenance: Fisher M. Rice, Walpole N.H., Principal of..... More
Sewanee: Univ. Press of Sewanee Tennessee, 1917. vi, 187 pp. Sm. 8vo. Cloth. Second edition. Inscribed by the author. Includes Beginning of Pan-American relations; Citizens of the United States of America who took part in the Latin-American War of Independence, 1810-26; The Wilkes exploring expedition in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1937. xvii, Illus. with 3 color maps and 6 b/w photos and drawings. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author to Enrique Naranjo [Martinez], who was the Colombian consul in Boston. A very good copy with light scuffing on the spine and a slight spine roll..... More
Boston: R. and S. Draper, Edes and Gill, and T. and J. Fleet, 1766. 40 pp. Sm. 8vo. Removed from a larger volume. First edition. Jonathan Mayhew (1720 -1766) was an early American reformist minister at Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts, known for his sermon "A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission..... More
San Diego: San Diego Historical Society, 1977. xiv, 136 pp. Illus. with 15 b/w plates, photos, and reproductions. 8vo. Decorated cloth, gilt title. First edition. Duane A. Smith and David J. Weber, eds. Includes L.A. Times Book Review, and personal note from author's great niece to Dorothy and Ken Hill..... More
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Chapin's Farm [Chaffin's Farm], VA: 1865. [2] pp. Bifolium. 8 x 12.5 inches. Even before the secession of the southern states, the people of Connecticut were divided regarding their views of the war effort. Throughout the military conflict, the social and political tensions were consistently exacerbated by incongruous perspectives on..... More
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n.d. 32 leaves [rectos only]. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Partially typed and partially in holograph, a draft of the account of the United States Presidents, by Charles Clark. There are two sections, numbered 3 and 4, both signed by Clark, which cover the nominations of Franklin Pierce, through William H...... More
New York: Baker & Godwin, Printers, 1873. 24 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Peter Cooper, intro. Proposes a new election system to reduced corruption. Would replace direct elections. A very good copy, small chips on the wrappers, period owner's signature. More
Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., [1936]. 32 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. Sq. 4to (26 x 25 cm). Illustrated paper wrappers. First edition. From the novel and the play by Eleanor Gates and the story of the film version abridged by Charles T. Clinton. A near fine copy with just..... More
Le Mans, France: Imprimerie de Monnoyer, (1911). 6 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. Offprint. Extrait du "Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française", 23 février 1911. A very good clean copy, stitching loose and small chip to wrapper. More
Austin: Univ. Texas Press, 1952. ix, 298 pp. Illus. with 13 b/w photos and 1 map. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. A fine copy in a very good rubbed dust jacket. Ramos, Bibliografia de la revolucion mexicana III: 3605. More
Boston: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1873, 9 pp. Illus. with one b/w engraving. Sm. 4to. Stitched paper wrappers. Reprint. Fifty copies reprinted from the proceedings. Untrimmed wrapper edges ragged else a very good copy with institutional stamp in black and blind on front wrapper and faintly in blind..... More
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1842. viii, 320 pp. 8vo. Quarterbound green morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, raised bands, five compartments decorated or titled in gilt. First edition thus. "Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors, Vol. CCCLXXXIII." Very good, extremities lightly rubbed, scattered foxing, a nice copy. More
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1839. [i-v], vi-viii, [13]- 404 pp. Illus. with 39 plates. 8vo. Half brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards, dark morocco spine label with gilt titles. First American edition. Double-column format. Illustrated by Phiz, re-engraved by J. Yeager. This copy does not appear bound with sheets from..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1867. 48 pp. Double columns. 8vo. Stitched blue printed paper wrappers. First edition. A collaboration of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Dickens wrote the Overture, portions of the First and Fourth Acts, and the entire Act III. Wilkie Collins wrote the remainder. A very good copy..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1987. xiii, 199 pp. Illus. with 13 full page color drawings. Folio. Quarterbound cloth over tan paper covered boards; map end papers. First edition. One of 450 copies printed by the Wind River Press. Publisher's original Prospectus and delay notice laid in loose..... More
Paris: L'Illustration, 1932. xxiv, 574 pp. Illus. with 126 color (4 tipped in) and 1656 b/w plates, photos, plans, diagrams, and maps (many full or double page). Folio (39x29 cm.). Cloth. First edition. An illustrated history of French aviation. An excellent production from L'Illustration, this one under the direction of..... More