New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. First U.S. edition. Translated from the French "with a supplementary chapter, narrating the most recent events" by John Oxenford. Dark (green?) cloth boards decoratively blind stamped on covers and with gilt lettering on spine. Tissue map--a facsimile of a Chinese map of the course..... Item #52561 More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965. First edition. SIGNED by author on the half-title page. Near fine with contemporaneous gift inscription on the verso of the free endpaper. In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a small amount of wear along the edges, mostly concentrated at the spine and..... Item #50559 More
Syracuse: Watson Gill, 1881. Later printing. The first was in 1876. A history of the heroism, adventures, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic." 527 pages with numerous illustrated engravings. Original cloth with decorted gilt lettering showing minor wear and foxing but still..... Item #41800 More
Washington, D. C. Smithsonian Institution, 2006. First edition. Dibner Library Lecture, December 13, 2006. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in pictorial paperwraps. Item #52992 More
New York: Henry Holt, (2011). First edition. SIGNED by author. John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War. Fine in near fine dust jacket with minor bumps on top front corners. Item #54433 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition. The history of the discovery of a 1619 "lost" British settlement in Virginia. The book is fine with poignant pictorial dust jacket. Item #47156 More
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1967-72. First edition. Three-volume set. Vol. 1, covering 1822 to 1851, is fine in very good dust jacket with several chips, tanning, light soiling, usual shelf wear. Vol. 2, covering 1852 to 1857, is fine in dust jacket with only a bit of rubbing and..... Item #47222 More
Washington: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960. First edition. 3 volumes. Edited by Miers, Baringer, and C. Percy Powell. A chronology of Lincoln's day-to-day whereabouts and activities. Vol. I covering 1809-1848; vol. II, 1849-1860; and vol. III, 1861-1865; plus a comprehensive index. Volume one a little faded, still a near fine set..... Item #52343 More
Hartford, Conn. S. S. Scranton & Company, 1866. First edition. Illustrated with steel engravings. The untold stories of over stories of over 40 Civil War heroines, each with a portrait of the subject. About bery good with slight foxing to a few pages, closed tear to green cloth on top..... Item #53301 More
London: Collins, 1947. First edition. Vertical offsets on endpapers near hinge, otherwise fine with just the barest wear in dust jacket lightly soiled on white portion of back cover and very minor rubbing to corners and spin ends, still very good to near fine. Item #54055 More
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1857. First edition. Howes H-178. Including his services as Chaplain in the French and Indian War, and in the War of the Revolution. 1716 to 1790. Frontispiece of author's home with tissue. About very good in decorative dark brown boards with gilt lettering on spine, rear..... Item #52586 More
Washington, D. C. The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, (1926). First edition. Foreword by Carter G. Woodson, founder of the Association. Taylor's second of three monographs on reconstruction: the first focused on South Carolina, and the third on Tennessee. Spine lettering dulled, page edges lightly foxed..... Item #50454 More
New York: P. J. Kenedy, Excelsior Catholic Publishing House, 1883. Early edition. Green cloth boards lettered and decorated in black and gilt on front and spine; all edges gilt. Four-page list of publisher's offerings tipped in at back. Recased with original cloth laid down and new endpapers added. Previous owner's..... Item #52986 More
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., (2006). First edition. A scarce book that is exceedingly so signed. This copy with BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY TOLL affixed to half-title page. The 2007 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and the William E. Colby Military Writers Award. "Toll..... Item #56037 More
New York: Knopf, 1984. First edition. SIGNED by author on tipped-in page. Her insightful views on historic regimes isolate and reveal the fundamental cause of government folly: the impotence of reason in the face of greed, selfish ambition and moral cowardice. (Sound familiar?) Fine in price-clipped but otherwise fine dust..... Item #54487 More
London: George Newnes, Ltd., (1919-20). First edition in the original 24 magazine-format parts. A massive work running to a million words. These are the original issues, each bound in colorful pictorial paperwraps. Save for the staples rusting, the set is just about fine. Item #54557 More
Chicago: Monarch Book Company, (1898). First edition. Four books include: The Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, Cuba and The Hawaiian Islands. Numerous illustrations. Corners a little worn and spine ends frayed on edges, but still about very good. Item #52468 More
(Athens, Greece: Institute of Mining Credit, no-date) [circa 1945]. Stated fourth edition. With 25 original Greek banknotes of increasing dominations issued from the onset through the end of World War II tipped in to illustrate the crippling inflation wrought by the Axis' occupation of Greece. "For us Greeks and the..... Item #55567 More