New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1861-1867. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to (26 cm). 780, 830, 865, 838, 850,795, 799pp. Half-bound brown leather with marbled covers and edges. Wear to head/tail of spines, joints and corners bumped. Marbled endpapers match covers and edges, text blocks tight and unmarked. Excellent Civil War..... More about The American Annual Cyclopedia And Register of Important Events (1861-1867
New York: F.M. Lupton, 1894. Spiral bound wraps. 8vo (8" x 6"). 64pp. Shelf wear to cover, 2" tear to cover repaired with tape, pages yellowing, text block unmarked. OCLC 894542086. More about Popular Plays And Farces; People's Handbook Series No. 26
New York: Union League Club, 1865. First Edition. Original wraps. 8vo (9" x 6"). 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 Thanksgiving Dinner for the Soldiers and Sailors
New York: Daniel Burgess, 1856. Later printing. Hardcover. 12mo (7-1/4" x 5"). 73pp., [11pp. publisher's advertising]. Blue boards, gilt title to upper cover, wear to head/tail of spine, corners bumped. PO signature to free endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. More about Five hundred mistakes of daily occurrence in speaking, pronouncing, and writing the English...
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 (6-1/2" x 4"). 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..... More about Queer Luck; Poker Stories From The New York Sun
Lynchburg, Texas: W. C. day, 1921. First Edition. Staplebound. 8vo (9" x 6"). [1-4] - 24pp. Tan paper wraps with wear, upper right corners folded in (1/8" - 1/16") but present. Light stain from covers to to title page and p. 24, with frontispiece and two maps, rest of text..... More about History Of The San Jacinto Campaign
New York: Johnson, Fry & Company, 1861,1862. Alonzo Chappel. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to (28 cm) viii, 488pp; iv, 470pp. Half-bound brown leather with maroon covers. Five raised bands, two black leather panels with gilt titles to spine. Wear to head/tail of spines, joints and corners bumped. Text blocks tight and..... More about National Portrait Gallery Of Eminent Americans (Two Volumes
Boston: By Author, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (7-1/2" x 5"). 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..... More about Twenty Years Before The Mast
New York: Eros Magazine, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to (13" x 10"). 96pp. Light wear to covers, lower corners bumped, text block tight and unmarked. More about Eros; Volume One, Number Three
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
Garden City, NJ: Doubleday & Company, 1976. Later printing. Hardcover. 4to (9-1/2" x 6-1/2". 587pp. Signed (not inscribed) by author on free endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. $12.50 price on DJ front flap and "autographed copy" sticker to upper cover. More about Roots
Berea, Kentucky: Kentucke Imprints, 1981. Hardcover. 4to (9-1/2" x 6"). 343pp. Inscribed by author on free endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. No DJ. More about Steamboats On The Green; And The Colorful Men Who Operated Them
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 (7-1/2 x 4-1/2"). 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...
New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1953. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo (8" x 6"). 304pp. Magenta cloth covers, grey cloth spine with dark titles to spine. Wear to spine, head/tail of spine and corners. PO information to front free endpaper and partial DJ flaps taped to rear endpapers, rest of..... More about The Legendary Mizners
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
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1875. Appendix PP. Wraps. 8vo (9" x 5-1/2"). 124pp. Brown wraps. 3 large folding maps of the Black Hills (1 in color with 1-1/4" tear to bottom ), b/w plate of fossils. Lower cover loose, stitching showing and intact. Expedition was led by George Armstrong..... More about Report of a Reconnaissance of the Black Hills of Dakota, Made in The Summer of 1874
Jacksboro. Texas: J.N. Rogers & Co., 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 319pp. Printed on salmon pink paper with original publisher's mustard cloth. Scuffing to head/tail of spine and corners, 1/4"x1/4" stain to gutter/spine 2" form head of lower cover. Bookplate (The Suddaths) to front paste-down endpaper and owner's label (Clyde..... More about Five Years A Cavalryman; Sketches of Regular Army Life on the Texas Frontier
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
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (10" x 7"). 709pp, 199pp. Two volumes. 679/1050. Signed by author on limitation page of Volume 1. Maroon cloth, gilt titles to spines, top edges gilt, spines sunned. Text blocks tight and unmarked. Housed in (good-1 head edge separated)..... More about Northwest Passage, Two Volume Set
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9-3/4" x 7"). 1st ed. 2 vols. [ xvi] 480; [vi] 482pp. #121 of 260 numbered sets. Signed by the author on limitation page of volume 1, spare paper labels on verso of final page of each volume. Blue cloth..... More about Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years (1926,1939
New York: Macaulay, 1929. John Held Jr. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (8/1/2" x 7"). [8], 186pp. Green cloth covers with black ink titles, slight wear to head/tail of spine. Stamped number to center of rear free endpaper, rest of near fine text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ with remnants..... More about Drawn From The Wood