Boston: Perry Mason Company, 1926. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Folio (35 x 27cm). [1-cover], 210-228pp. Upper cover, corners and edges wear. 5cm tear through all pages at right side of fold. In plastic protective sleeve. More about Youth's Companion; March 18 , 1926
New York: Charles Scribner's, 1935. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo (24cm x 17cm). 941pp. Red cloth covers with tan spine and dark brown leather label, subscriber's name in gilt to upper cover. Signed by author on free endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. More about The Record Of America
New York: Columbia Records, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to (31 x 35cm). Vol. I 60pp; Vol. II 32pp. Two volume set each with vinyl record in sleeve at rear. Vol. I: signed by Richard Bales on title page, rest of text block tight and unmarked, spine faded with tape residue..... More about The Union; The Confederacy (two volumes set with two 33 1/3 vinyl records
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. 4to (25 x 17cm). xi, 325, xiii pp. 51/250 Signed by author on colophon. Brown paper covers with vertical stripes, T.e.g., deckled edges.Text block near fine.Tan DJ with title to spine edge wear, chips,1.5cm hole to center of spine, in Mylar... More about Hanna
New York: Union League Club, 1865. First Edition. Original wraps. 8vo (23 x 15cm). 84pp. Original sewn wraps, expert repair to upper cover. PO name to title page. Pages 1-16 chipped (1-1/4" descending to 1/4"), pages 17-25 folded in (1/16") at tail corner but none affecting text. Text block tight..... More about Report of the Committee on Providing a Thanksgiving Dinner for the Soldiers and Sailors :...
New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1906. Howard Christy. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9-1/2" x 7-1/2"). [8], 9-157. Green cloth covers with illustrated paste-down to upper. Gilt titles to spine. Light wear to head/tail of spine and corners. Light foxing to endpapers, rest of text block Near Fine. 16 full..... More about The American Girl
New York: Brentano's, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (17 x10cm). 235pp. Red cloth covers with gilt decorations and black lettering. Gilt bookseller's sticker to paste-down endpaper with shadow to free endpaper. 1/16" grease (?) stain to bottom left of first four leaves primarily verso of half-title and title-page, rest of..... More about Queer Luck; Poker Stories from the New York Sun
Boston: By Author, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (19cm). x, [1] 311pp. Green cloth covers with gilt titles and illustrations (including a ("Boatswain's Colt") to rear of upper cover. Inscribed by author on a preliminary blank with and in a different hand " Died December 24, 1900 He giveth them..... More about Twenty Years Before The Mast
New York: Primely printed, 1893. 12mo (18 x 12 x 2cm). 76pp. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles and illustration to upper. Wear to head/tail of spine, corners bumped. T.e.g. PO (H.O. Havemeyer, Jr.) book plate to paste-down endpaper, previous book seller inventory stub ($.70) to free endpaper. Text block..... More about Another Summer The Yellowstone Park and Alaska
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (8" x 6"). [4,blank], [1-8 (9-12 unopened)13], 357pp. UNIQUE C.C. COFFIN DOCUMENTS. From the library of The Reverend William E. Barton (family friend and pastor to the Coffin family). Gift inscription of Sallie R. Coffin to Barton's on free endpaper (1898)..... More about Charles Carleton Coffin; A Biography and family archive
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1886. George W. Edwards & F.H. Smith. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to (12-1/2" x 9-1/2"). 50 [3] pp. Large paper edition. Creme/tan covers, wear to head/tail of spine, 2" x 3" water stain lower left of upper cover, upper hinge starting. Light foxing and wear to text block..... More about The Last Leaf
Salem: Thomas C. Cushing, 1800. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8vo (19 x 12cm). 28pp. In recent soft cover binding for protection. Easily removable with no damage to original text block. 1/4" of head of title page removed, 1/4" x 1/4" chip to head of page 1, rest of text block unmarked..... More about A sermon, preached December 29, 1799, in the South Meeting House, Salem, the Lord's Day after the...
El Paso, TX: Mangan Books, 1984. Silver Peso Edition. 8vo (23 x 17cm). [9], 10-287[1]. 76/200. Signed by author on limitation page. Brown leather covers with gold gilt titles to upper and spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Brown/tan buckram clamshell slipcase with gold gilt titles and real SILVER PESO..... More about Let The Tail Go With The Hide; The Story of Ben F. Williams
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Will James. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (21 x 15cm). [6], 314pp. Two signatures. Signed by author on laid-in title page AND signed by author on additional non-bound and untrimmed (21 x 14.5 cm) title page which is still attached to four uncut pages 9/10..... More about Big-Enough (two signatures
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Will James. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo (24 x 18cm). xvii, 217pp. Grey cloth covers with black titles to upper cover and spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped ($3.50) DJ in Mylar. Frazier pp. 1-8. More about Cowboys North And South
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Will James. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (25 x 15cm). ix, 431, [3]. Green cloth covers with gilt titles to upper cover and spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped Orange DJ with "N. Y. Herald Tribune" quote, edge wear, light fading and 2 1cm..... More about Lone Cowboy; My Life Story
New York: American Sunday-School Union, 1860-1868 ? Hardcover. 24mo (5-3/4" x 4"). 164pp. Green leather spine in gilt, marbled paper covers. Shelf-wear to head/tail of spine, corners bumped. PO name to paste-down endpaper, pages foxed. The American Sunday-School Union was at this New York address from 1860 to 1868. This..... More about Anna Ross; Story For Children
Geneva, New York: James Bogert, 1826. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. 24mo (5-3/4" x 3-1/2"). 372pp. PO (Clarisa Starr, probable founder of Sunday school in Pavilion NY-History of Wyoming County, New York) name to front free endpaper (1/4") and (1/8") to title page, name and Pavilion to rear free endpaper. Rest..... More about The Juvenile Philosopher; or Youth's Manual of Philosophy
Jacksboro. Texas: J.N. Rogers & Co., 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (18cm x 6cm). 319pp. Printed on salmon pink paper with original publisher's mustard cloth. Scuffing to head/tail of spine and corners, 1 x 1cm stain to gutter/spine 5cm from head of lower cover. Bookplate (The Suddaths) to front paste-down..... More about Five Years A Cavalryman; Sketches of Regular Army Life on the Texas Frontier
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1921. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (19 x 13cm). 366, [2] pp. Signed by Edison and inscribed by author on front free endpaper. Bookplate of Earle Bernheimer (book collector) to front paste-down endpaper. Edison "Electric Light Golden Jubilee" 2 cent postage stamp mounted below author's inscription..... More about The Boy's Life Of Edison
Colonel Anna Friedman, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to (12" x 9"). 221pp. Blue leatherette covers with gilt image of a Kentucky Colonel to upper cover. Wear to covers, head/tail of spine and corners. Inscribed from Colonel (and magazine illustrator who was most noted for his "Christy Girls" and the poster..... More about Howdy Colonel; Pages From The Scrapbook Of The Honorable Order Of Kentucky Colonels
2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 6"). 380pp. Self published autobiography of a very interesting woman's life. DJ cover by daughter (age ten). More about Love Has An Unlimited Value
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. N.C. Wyeth. Pulitzer Prize. Hardcover. 8vo (23 x 16cm). viii, 400pp. Covers in oatmeal buckram cloth with brown titles to spine and upper cover, darkening to spine and joints. Text block tight and unmarked with Scribner's A and seal to copyright page, line 5..... More about The Yearling (Pulitzer Prize Edition with 14 color Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth) AND; Signed Lee...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (26 x 18cm). 709pp, 199pp. Two volumes. 679/1050. Signed by author on limitation page of Volume 1. Maroon cloth, gilt titles to spines, T.e.g., spines lightly faded. Text blocks tight and unmarked. Housed in (good-1 head edge separated) publisher’s..... More about Northwest Passage, Two Volume Set
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1958. Irene Robinson. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to (26 x 18cm). [6], [4, map], 86, [2] pp. 288/300 from Plantin Press. Covers decorative paper, tan cloth spine with paper label. 2 x 1cm stain to tail of spine, tail corners bumped. Signed by Lillian and Saul..... More about The Malibu; Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit: A Historical Approach by W.W. Robinson II. Personal...