Toronto, Canada: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1958.. 1958.. Good. - Octavo, cloth. The binding is lightly rubbed and the spine with its gilt titling & gilt vignette is faded. viii, 457 & xix pages plus [1] leaf & colophon. Illustrated with 2 black-and-white maps, 1 of them double-page. There is occasional minor soiling or staining. Good.
- A 7-3/8 inch high by 15-1/2 inch wide color lithograph on 12-1/2 inch high by 18-1/4 creamy white paper depicting San Francisco in 1855, as published by Henry Bill for the "History of the World". The view pictures San Francisco from Nob Hill with ships teeming in the harbor and numerous buildings of the growing city which was expanding in the years of the Gold Rush. Titled at center under the image, with a list of 13 significant buildings and sites printed in two columns on either side. Included are "North Bay", "Contra Costa", "Yerba Buena Island", the "C... View More...
- Octavo, 9-3/8 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. Red cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and the spine, in a red dust wrapper titled in white and illustrated in black & white on the front panel. There are a couple of very tiny chips to the edges of the dust jacket. 151 & [9] pages, with several illustrations and textual maps. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. First edition. Laid in at the front are 3 postcards illustrated with photographs of Chateaugay, New York from the 1970's or so. The town and village of Chateaugay are located in Franklin County in Northeastern New York near the ... View More...
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, (1942).. (1942).. Good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The binding is bumped & lightly rubbed. The dust jacket is rubbed, chipped & dampstained with several tears repaired with scotch tape. 284 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white plates, including a frontispiece. There is a gift inscription and an owner's ink name & address & book label on the front pastedown. There is a narrow strip of dark glue staining the bottom edge of the front and rear endpapers, resulting in some sticking of these to the pastedowns. The r... View More...
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918.. 1918.. Very good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt on spine & front cover; t.e.g. The binding is lightly rubbed & the covers are lightly bumped. xvi, [1] leaf & 310 pp., partially unopened. Illustrated with B&W frontispiece & B&W plates.There is a short tear to the front edge of 1 plate where the leaves have been roughly opened. Very good. First edition.From the library of W. B. Cogswell of Syracuse, N.Y. with his name and the date April 27, 1918 stamped on the endpapers and flyleaf, and with his name stamped in gilt on the front cover. First Edition.... View More...
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, (1969).. (1969).. Very good. - Quarto [11-1/4 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], cloth, in a price- clipped dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped with the extremities slightly faded. The top edges of the dust jacket flaps are darkened & there is a piece out of the top edge of the rear panel. [iv] & 84 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white by the author. Very good. Fictional memories of the life of a rwelve-year-old girl in a small Iowa town. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Brooklyn, NY: Historical Printing Club, 1891.. 1891.. Good. - Small octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wraps. The wraps are darkened & chipped with a tear to the bottom edge of the front wrap & with small pieces out. 42 pages, unopened. The front edges of the title & of 4 other leaves are chipped. Good.
Number 139 of a limited edition of 250 copies.
A title in the series Winnowings in American History. Virginia Tracts No. 1. View More...
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1960).. (1960).. Good. - Quarto, cloth, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. There are 2 tiny white stains to the tail of the spine. The dust jacket is soiled & chipped with short tears to the edges & pieces out of the top edge. There is staining to the bottom edge of the rear panel & a sticker has been removed from the front flap. The titling on the dust jacket spine is faded. [vii] & 312 pages. There is a glue stain on the front endpaper where the sticker has been removed from the dust jacket flap. Profuse black-and-white illustrations. Very good in a fair d... View More...
New York: E. P. Dutton , Inc., (1982).. (1982).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth-backed boards, in a dust wrapper. There is some light staining to the front cover & the front panel of the dust jacket is lightly soiled. xiv & 285 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white map. Very good. First edition.For three seasons, the author joined Alaskan Eskimos hunting the great Arctic whale and was caught up in the bitter controversy between the whalers and the scientists and environmentalists who decided the bowhead whale was theatened with extinction, resulting in the imposition of strict limits on the hu... View More...
NY and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1930.. 1930.. Good. - 8vo, maroon cloth (bumped & rubbed; spine slightly faded; small stain & tiny white stains to rear cover) titled in gilt; deckle-edged. ix, [i], 626 & [1] pp. (cracked; light pink stain to title). Monochrome endpaper maps, 14 B&W full-page & textual maps, & B&W title vignette & head-pieces from woodcuts by Lucina Smith Wakefield. Good. First edition. "Frontier history continually repeats itself. Into a primitive region come men to gain a livelihood; and to grapple with this wilderness they become primitive themselves. As they dev... View More...
NY: Old Colony Press, (1915).. (1915).. Very good. - 12mo [3-1/2x2-1/2], textured maroon limp leather titled in gilt with a device stamped in gilt on front cover, in black paper covered slipcase with color pictorial label on front panel; t.e.g. Only the front & rear panels of the slipcase & fragments of the spine & edges have survived; the paper on the slipcase is chipped around the edges & the pictorial label is rubbed. 287 & [1] pp. Profuse full-page B&W illustrations from prints. Very good with the remnants of the slipcase.
Number One in a series of Tarry-at-Home Travels. View More...
- Octavo, softcover. Self-wraps, removed from a collection of pamphlets at an earlier time with stab holes at left. The title page is foxed. 42 pages. There is light foxing to the top margins of pages 2 & 3. Very good. Samuel Gilman Brown [1813-1885] was an American educator, the son of President Francis Brown of Dartmouth College. Graduating from Dartmouth in 1831, he was professor of oratory and belles lettres at the college from 1840 to 1863 and held the chair of intellectual philosophy and political economy from 1863 to 1867. From 1867 to 1881 he was president of Hamilton College. View More...
- Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine with a pictorial label mounted on the front cover. The binding is rubbed, bumped & dampstained. xxxvi & 323 pages plus a 6-page publisher's ad. The bottom edge is dampstained & the pages, though clean & bright, are slightly bubbled from humidity. There is a chip out of the rear endpaper. Ex-library with remnants of library labels on the front pastedown & endpaper and an ink notation on the first page of the text.Good reading copy. Second edition. A pro-segregation book. At the 1906 session of the Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the... View More...
Lincoln, NB: The Commoner Publishing Company, 1909.. 1909.. Good. - Small octavo, brown cloth with a printed paper label on the front cover. The binding is rubbed & bumped with some small stains to the rear cover. The label is rubbed, soiled & chipped with small pieces out & there is a handwritten title on the spine. viii, [i] & 97 pages. There is some very light foxing to the pastedowns & endpapers with some small stains to the first page of the text. Good. Later printing. The book is a reply to "Letters from a Chinese Official", which criticized America's religion and way of life. B... View More...
Cleveland, OH: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1902.. 1902.. Good. - Octavo, dark green paper covered boards titled in gilt. The binding is rubbed & bumped with some white score marks to the rear cover. There is a small piece out of the head of the spine. 80 deckle-edged pages. There is foxing throughout. Good.
Number 221 of a limited edition of 250 copies.
Reprinted from the original edition of 1685 with an introduction and notes by Frederick J. Shepard. View More...
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1964.. 1964.. Very good. - Octavo, dark blue cloth, in price-clipped dw. 266 pp. A lightly used, very good copy.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
New York: Charles Scribners, 1864.. 1864.. Very good. - Octavo, dark brown pebbled cloth titled in gilt on the spine with a decoration in blind on the covers. The cloth is worn at the corners and the head and tail of the spine are heavily chipped. The cloth is split along the top inch or two of the front and rear joints with some of the cloth chipped away from the top of the front joint. 464 pages. An early owner's name is penned at the top of the front endpaper. Else, an internally very good clean copy. First edition.Horace Bushnell (1802- 1876) is called the father of American religious libe... View More...
Very good. - Daniel Adams Butterfield's signature as treasurer penned on a 2 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide piece of paper clipped from the bottom of a typed letter. The close, signed by Butterfield as treasurer, apparently called for the recipient of the letter to return a document or letter "to the Treasurer in envelope enclosed herewith". The close is additionally initialed in an unknown hand at left. Folded twice, else very good. The New York businessman Daniel Adams Butterfield (1831-1901) served as brigadier general in the Union army during the Civil War. While recuperating from wounds su... View More...
Port Washingon, New York / London: Ira J. Friedman Division, Kennikat Press, (1970).. (1970).. Good. - Quarto, gray cloth titled in green on the spine in a pictorial green dust wrapper. The dust jacket is rubbed and chipped with several tears and small pieces out from the edges. [125] pages, illustrated with 51 plates printed in black & white on green with descriptive text on the facing page. Very good in a fair dw. Dust jacket present. View More...
