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
Pasadena: Upton Sinclair, (1920). First edition, presumed later issue or state of the binding with "By Upton Sinclair" on front cover deeply and elaborately stamped over in gilt. INSCRIBED BY DEBS on front endpaper, "For Roland A. Gibson, a college student with vision and courage and with a high purpose..... Item #71536 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
[New York: New York Stock Exchange, 1952]. Brochure for the film. 9 x 12" single white leaf printed on both sides in black and orange and folded twice to make tri-fold brochure advertising the John Sutherland Productions film short that let's you "Take a Technicolor Trip to Market," illustrated with..... Item #56064 More
Pompano Beach, FL: Exposition Press, (1985). First edition. Written by an educator, administrator and past president of the PW YWCA, this history of the independent Young Womens Christian Association of Washington DC founded by and for black women chronicles its struggles with the all-white National Capital YWCA at the height..... Item #56056 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. 8vo green cloth boards lettered and decorated in black and gilt on front and spine; all edges gilt; 4 pages of ads tipped in at back. Freshly recased with original cloth laid down and new endpapers added. Some..... Item #52986 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