Chicago, IL: Monarch Book Company, 1898. Hardcover. Quarto. Robin's egg-blue cloth-covered boards with a star spangled and star-surrounded American flag motif flanking a gilt-bordered paste-on photograph of a young woman in a white dress delivering a recitation. Corners lightly bumped. 432 pp. Black and white and color illustrations throughout... More

New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1884. First Edition. Paperback. 125 pages. Illustrated wraps. Octavo. Lightly soiled but bright. 1/3 inch chip to lower spine and small chip to top of spine, along with a few spine nicks and tiny chip to lower front corner. Textblock square and binding tight. Interior..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. 230 pages+12 page publisher catalog. Green pictorial cloth with leaf design on cover and spine. Corners bumped, some edgewear, overall bright. Interior clean, no marks, etc. Nine stories told in Negro dialect of the time: Marse Chan. A Tale of Ole..... More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928. Harcourt, Brace and Company. Hardcover. xii, 262 pages. Frontis, 19 plates. Green cloth, octavo with spine titles stamped in gilt. Cover square and clean with some very light general wear. Interior clean with some minor discoloration to margins due to age. First published..... More

St. Louis: N.D. Thompson, 1898. Hardcover. Unpaginated, over 200 large photos with detailed captions. 3/4 leather over black pebbled boards with beveled edges. Cover title and decorations in gilt. Large oblong quarto. Scotch tape repair to top of spine, corners rubbed and bumped, light soiling to cover. Decorated enpapers, interior..... More

Bellevue, Washington: Timeline Publishing Company, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Inscribed and signed by both authors on the half-title page. 248 pages. Historical photos. Bibliography, index. Photo illustrated wrappers, octavo. Some general wear to wraps, interior clean, binding tight. A thoroughly researched and lively history of the times. More

Arcadia Publishing, 2006. Softcover. Book excellent shape, two mildly dogeared pages near front. Illustrated throughout with numerous images depicting the history of Paradise California, which in 2018 was devastated by wildfires. "The images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs..... More

New York: Harper and Brothers. 1860. Magazine. Vol. XXI. -- No. 122. Encompasses ppl. 145 0 288, plus advertisements at rear. Articles include: "Among The Nailmakers; Ancient Monuments in The United States; A Plea for a Monster; and in the Monthly Record of Current Events, the official report on the..... More

San Francisco, CA: The Adobe Press, 1935. Charles Boden. Hardcover. Foreword by Harry Leon Wilson. Frontis of proof pulled from the original plate engraved by W.L. Ormsby, circa 1870 after the painting by G.W. Casilear. One of 200 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Some toning to endpapers. More