1935. Leather-bound. This is an actual white leather baby shoe, not a book. SIGNATURES Amelia Earhart Roscoe Turner; Frank Hawks (aka “Meteor Man”); (Later-to-become Admiral) R.E. Byrd (VERY faint, above bottom seam, down and to the left of Earhart’s signature) Shoe is nested in a decorative, hinged, wooden box, with..... More
St. Louis, Missouri: The Drygoodsman, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (9.50" x 6.25"). Brick-Red cloth-covered boards with black, embossed border to front board, and black lettering as well. On cover, title reads: "The Drygoodsman's Handy Dictionary for the Dry Goods and Shoe Trade". Corners bumped. Discolorations/stains to boards and in..... More
Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Silver metallic lettering on spine of blue cloth-covered boards. Orange lettering on glossy, illustrated jacket. 9.25 x 6.25". 360 pp with notes, bibliography and index. Clean, bright, tight. Sport in American Life, C. Paul Rogers, series editor. This is the story..... More
London, England: S.W. Partridge & Co., 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. 32mo. (5.75" x 4.0"). Pale blue cloth-covered boards, staplebound beneath cloth, with a four color lilllies to front board (Red, orange, yellow, green), and a simple black floral design to rear board. Speckling, light staining, and several blisters to boards..... More
Chicago, IL: A.T. French / Souvenir Publishing . Company, 1898. Hardcover. Fo. 15.75" x 11.5". Bound in green cloth boards, with illustration of U.S. Navy ship to front board. Contains over 150 original illustrations in black and white, as well as numerous maps in color. Also contains Historical, Military, Naval..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. Hardcover. x,353 pages. Appendices, notes, bibliography, concordance, index. Brown cloth, octavo. Textblock square and tight, tiny ding at top edge. Dust jacket clipped at bottom inside flap, and very slight edgewear. Jacket is in a mylar protector. Interior clean and bright, no marks or..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto, bright red boards, near fine but for a significant bump to bottom of spine. Prevous owner's small bookplate to front pastedown. Dustjacket shows a 1" x .25" chip to bottom, $3.50 price to unclipped jacket. More
New York: Dial Press, 1981. Hardcover. SIGNED INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR to front free end paper. STATED FIRST PRINTING. A bit of sunning to front top edge of boards. Copper metallic lettering to white cloth-covered spine of black boards. Black lettering to black, green and cream jacket. Chipping, less than 1", and..... More
New York: Scribner's, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue lettering to white spine of navy-blue boards. White lettering to glossy pictorial gray jacket. 9.25 x 6.25". 223 pp with acknowledgments and index. Clean, bright, tight. The Brooklyn Dodger great who gave up Bobby Thomson's "shot heard 'round the world"... More
NEW YORK: Simon & Schuster, 1945. 50th Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red boards, with black design encompassing author's initials, and title to front. Nudged corners, light rubbing to extremities, and very slightly cocked. Fabulous, self-referential inscription and signature, in light turquoise ink, to front free endpaper: "_________. You certainly know how..... More
London: Macmillan, 1891. John Tenniel. Hardcover. Stated People's Edition, twenty-fourth thousand. With 42 illustrations by John Tenniel including full page frontis. 174 pages of text, followed by "An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves "Alice.", the poem "Christmas Greetings [From a Fairy to a Child]", three pages of publisher..... More
Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First American edition in first state binding. Orange boards with blue graphic to front board, blue . lettering to spine. Slight rubbing to extremities. One small corner nudge to bottom rear corner. Bright and bold Dustjacket design by Boris..... More
Little Rock, Arkansas: Self-Published, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, light orange boards. Insribed and SIGNED by author, front free endpaper. Muster rolls, narrative, black and white photos, parole list of those who surrendered withJohnston in North Carolina, and roster. The Third Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry were "hard-fighting horse soldiers whose name..... More
Portland, OR: Salmon Trout Steelheader, 1978. Jeff Dayne. Second Printing. Hardcover. 4to. 11" x 8.25". Bound in green boards with silver lettering to spine and front cover. Minor foxing to page edges, and light rubbing to dustjacket. DJ now protected in mylar. Contains numerous black and white photographs of fishermen..... More
St. Paul, Minnesota: Pioneer Press Company, 1890. Leather_bound. Complete two volume set. Volume 1 published 1890 and volume 2 published 1893. xii,844 + 652 pages. Index to each volume. Half-leather over marbled boards, gilt spine titles, thick quartos. Both volumes have chafed corners, edgewear and scuffed boards. Spine to volume..... More
Biloxi, MS: Taylor Publishing Company, 1989. Hardcover. AS NEW. Still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. "Colt collectors Ken Condry and Larry Jones have collaborated on a very informative text on Colt commemorative guns produced to date. The book contains over 200 hardbound pages with a 9x7 inch photo of each commemorative..... More
West Stockbridge, MA: Hard Press, 1993. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. A few minor stains to front. A crease along front edge of cover. This is one of 1250 copies from the first edition, it is however NOT one of the 26 copies lettered A-Z, signed and bound in cloth. 109 pp..... More
London: Collins, 1981. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Faint smudge to tail. Dustjacket near fine. Original British price of £6.95 on front flap. Pictorial jacket mylar protected. Gilt lettering debossed on spine of olive-green, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 250 pp with historical note. This is Bernard Cornwell's second novel recounting..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles. xvii,124 pages. Frontis portrait of Craven, three color plates. Blue cloth wih gilt decoration on front, spine titles in gilt. Quarto. Corners lightly nudged, textblock square. Interior clean..... More
Paris, France: Bachelin - Deflorenne, [1864] 1872. Henri Leon Curmier. Second Edition. Leather_bound. IN FRENCH. Three magnificent quartos, measuring 11 3/8" x 8 3/4". contemporary brown tooled morocco, sectioned and ruled in blind, five raised hubs (six compartments), gilt edge, royal blue watered silk doublures. Elaborate gilt dentelles to insides..... More
NEW YORK: Charles L. Webster & Company, [1887] 1889. Second Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto (9 1/4 x 5 3/4"). Dark Green cloth with red, white and blue flags design to front board as well as a Custer coat of arms. Gilt and blue lettering to spine, which also features Custer's..... More
Norfolk, CT: James Laughlin, 1950. Hardcover. Yellow boards (6.5" x 4.5" x .75") Mild wear to extremities. Small tears, both open and closed, along with some creasing to dustjacket, now Mylar- protected. Brown lettering on spine. Black lettering to yellow and black jacket. 123 pp. With introduction by Herbert Read..... More
Hamden, Connecticut (USA_: Archon Books, 1966. First Thus. Hardcover. Green cloth covered quarto (9.25" x 6.0"). Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1935, this is "reprinted with permission in an unaltered and unabridged edition." Just a hint of rubbing to extremities. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Hardcover. 30 volume complete set of the works of Charles Dickens, bound in blue boards. Top edges gilt. Foredges and bottom edges untrimmed. Some pages uncut. Each volume measures ~ 8.5" by 5.5". Minor wear to extremities. Some minor dings to edges, and some..... More
Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1985. Hardcover. Light wear to extremities. Sharp, crisp gilt letterin on black, cloth-covered spine. Grey boards. Red lettering on spine and front of illustrated black jacket. Numerous illustrations. Maps on endpapers. 540 pp with bibliography and index. Clean, tight, bright. Translated from Russian. One..... More
