Chicago: Knight, Leonard & Co., 1892.. 1892.. Very good. - Oblong octavo, 6 inches high by 9 inches wide. Light green cloth backed with a darker cloth spine, titled and illustrated in silver on the front cover. The covers are slightly soiled with very minor rubbing. [56] unnumbered pages, profusely illustrated throughout with textual and full- page illustrations of Niagara Falls and its surroundings, and with a double-page color Bird's-Eye View of Niagara Falls and of Niagara River from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, printed on tissue, bound in at the front. There is a tiny tear to the bottom edg... View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in tan & white wraps with a black-and-white portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt on the front cover. The binding is slightly rubbed with some minor soiling & creasing to the rear wrap. ix, [i] & 46 pages. Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Very good. Issued by the General Reading Room Division of the Library of Congress. View More...
(Providence, RI?: J. B. Coleman, 1945).. 1945).. Very good. - sc Oblong small quarto [7-1/2 inches high by 9-3/4 inches wide]. The editorial is printed on one side only & fills 2 pages of a sheet of cream stock folded once to form 4 pages. The sheet is slightly darkened at the edges & along the fold. Together with a letter to Mr. J. B. Coleman of Providence, RI typed on a sheet of New York Times letterhead, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide, signed Charles Merz by the editor. The edges of the letterhead are darkened. It is folded twice for mailing and the top & bottom edges are slightly c... View More...
Stamford, CT: The Overbrook Press, 1937.. 1937.. Very good. - Squarish octavo, tan cloth titled in red on spine with frames stamped in red on both covers. The covers are very lightly soiled & the spine is slightly darkened. 45 pp. plus colophon, beautifully printed with borders in red throughout. Very good. 1/1000 copies.A nice association copy, from the library of Alva B. Gimbel with her distinctive miniature leather book label. Together with her husband Bernard, she formed the important Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation. A publisher's presentation slip is laid in.Reprinted from The Se... View More...
Mexico-Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Economica, (1954).. (1954).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial blue & brown wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed & bumped with creases to the spine. 551 pages plus colophon, unopened. Very good.
First edition. The text is in Spanish. First Edition. View More...
San Juan de Puerto Rico: Biblioteca de Autores Puertorriquenos, n.d. [1943].. n.d. [1943].. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream wraps. The spine & extremities are darkened. The wraps are lightly bumped & soiled. 229 pages plus colophon, unopened. The page edges are darkened & the top edge is foxed. Good.
The book deals with Roosevelt's foreign policy from 1933 to 1945. The text is in Spanish.
Washington, D.C., 1937.. 1937.. Fine. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 5-7/8 inches wide. Softcovers, self-wraps. 4 pages. There is some minor staining to the bottom edge of the last page. Else, near fine.
First edition. [Halter T636].
"The time has arrived for us to take further action to extend the frontiers of social progress." First Edition. View More...
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., (1970).. (1970).. Very good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in dark red, in dw. The covers are very lightly bumped. The dw is rubbed & chipped. xiv & 722 pp. Illustrated in B&W. Very good in a good dw.
This concluding volume of the first complete biography of FDR covers the period from 1940 to his death in 1945. Dust jacket present. View More...
(1943).. (1943).. Very good. - sc A superb 10-1/2 inch high by 8-1/4 inch wide color portrait of FDR on 15-1/2 inch high by 12 inch wide heavy stock. The print, a color collotype by A. Jaffe is entitled Franklin D. Roosevelt / painted by Elizabeth Shoumatoff in April 1943. The superb image depicts a dignified white haired FDR from the chest up, attired in suit & tie over white shirt with a dark cape draped over his shoulders. There is some light foxing and discoloration to the ample borders and tape remnants on the verso. Very good. A rare portrait of the President.Elizabeth Shoumatoff was the... View More...
New York: Privately Printed, Roosevelt Memorial Exhibition Committee, Columbia University, 1919.. 1919.. Good. FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR HERMANN HAGEDORN - Octavo, buff creamy white boards titled and decorated in black on the front cover. The covers are soiled and darkened along the edges and spine. The head and tail of the spine are chipped and there is wear to the corners. 44 & [2] pages, illustrated with 5 full-page illustrations. The binding is very slightly shaken. There is a tiny chip to the top edge of the front blank. The pages are toned with a couple of small minor stains and... View More...
Philadelphia, PA: The Rosenbach Company, 1949.. 1949.. Very good. - Large octavo, printed wraps. Heavily stained and chipped. 135 pp. Contents are very good.
462 extraordinary items are fully described and priced. View More...
Jersey City, NJ: Time Inc., 1934., 1934.. Very good. - Quarto, 14 inches high by 11-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, color pictorial wraps illustrated by Ernest Hamlin Baker. The covers are lightly soiled with some minor stains and the corners slightly creased. The joints are rubbed and the tail of the spine is chipped. 134 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white throughout. There is some light foxing to the edges of the first and last few pages and a few page corners are bumped. Very good. Among the contents is an article on "The New York Stock Exchange", illustrated with a full-pa... View More...
New York: Printed for the New-York Historical Society, 1880.. 1880.. Good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt with decorations in gilt on the spine. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed with some small dents to the front cover. There is dampstaining to the front edge of the front cover with chipping to the cloth at the top & bottom corners. A small section of the front edge of the rear cover is also dampstained. The head & tail of the spine are chipped. [ii], [5] leaves & 558 pages, mostly unopened. The page edges are darkened. There is light foxing to the front endpaper, flyleaf & rear bl... View More...
- Quarto, 11-1/2 inches high by 9 inches wide. Softcover, bound in plain white wrappers with the title penned in black on the front cover. The covers are soiled and creased along the edges with some chipping to the front edges and a tiny hole to the front cover. 12 pages consisting of the title and pages [661] through 670. The top and front edges of the pages are darkened and there is dampstaining along the inner edges of the pages. Extracted from "The Documentary History of the State of New York: Arranged Under Direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, Secretary of State" Volume 3, Nu... View More...
- Octavo, orange tan boards titled in gilt on the spine with a device in gilt on the front cover. The covers are quite rubbed and soiled. 300 pages, with 83 full-page illustrations and 11 engraved plates, mostly portraits. The binding is cracked at page 130. Else, good.
First edition. Rare.
This is the first volume of an eventual three. Volumes 2 and 3 were laterpublished in 1912 and 1913. First Edition. View More...
Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1984.. 1984.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wraps. There are some small, minor stains to the rear wrap & its top corner is lightly bumped. The head of the spine is slightly chipped. 39 & [1] pages. Illustrated with facsimiles in black, white & gray. Very good. View More...
- Octavo, brown cloth in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly spotted. The dust wrapper is lightly chipped & the top edge of its rear flap is darkened. [iv] & 259 pages plus colophon. Photographic illustrations in black & white. Very good. First edition Paul Spike's father, the Rev. Robert W. Spike, was perhaps the most important white man among the leadership of the black civil rights movement during the early sixties. In the midst of fighting to save the Child Development Group of Mississippi in 1966 he was found bludgeoned to death in Columbus, Ohio, a murder that was still unsolved as of... View More...
London: Henry Stevens, Son and Stiles, [c. 1926].. [c. 1926].. Very good. - Octavo, original printed wraps. Soiled with some minor creasing. 578 pp. plus ads. 1 folding plate & B&W illustrations. Very good, especially for this very fragile catalogue.
2,156 items rare items, fully catalogued, described and indexed. One of the great rare book catalogues in the field of Americana. View More...
- Octavo, rebound in green library cloth titled in gilt. The covers are warped & the cloth is heavily dampstained. 273 pp. The endpapers are dampstained. The contents are very good. 2,415 items are catalogued. The Books described in this Catalogue were collected, several years since, by Mr. Henry Stevens, as material to be used in the completion of his yet unfinished Work upon American Bibliography. View More...
- Sepia-toned photograph, approximately 5-1/4 inches high by 4 inches wide, inlaid within a larger sheet of cream stock, 10-5/8 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide. The edges of the larger sheet are slightly darkened. Near fine. In the bottom left corner of the photograph, a Bostonian Society caption notes that the date of the photo is 1881 and that it depicts the Stoddard House on Prince Street, where Pitcairn died. The printed signature H. P. Curtis appears below the caption. Major Pitcairn was wounded at Bunker Hill and was carried to this house at 130 Prince street where he died. Thomas Stodd... View More...
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