Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1976. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half-title page. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Brown cloth-covered boards are Near Fine. Sharp corners. Pictorial dustjacket is Good Plus Jacket is lightly stained, and edges have a few creases with closed tears... More
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 348 pages, index. Frontis of Taylor, eleven maps, 15 pages of illustrations. Red cloth, octavo. Spine tiles in gilt, textblock square and tight. Bookplate, text clean and bright. In a complete dust jacket with some very light soiling. Jacket... More
Secaucus, New Jersey: Lyle Stuart, Inc. 1974. Hardcover. FACSIMILE OF 1874 EDITION. CENTENNIAL REPRINT. Gilt lettering and design to five-paneled spine and front board. In-blind debossed decorative design and rules to front boards. 65 black and white illustrations. 49 steel engravings by various artists. 568 / 576 pp. Clean, tight... More
New York: New-York Historical Society, 1950. Hardcover. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Mild shelfwear to surfaces. Several light worn spots front and back. Board edges and corners just lightly worn. Spine caps gently folded under. Gilt lettering to spine of navy-blue, cloth-covered boards. Numerous plates, figures and illustrations... More
New York: Doubleday, 1963. Hardcover. BOOK CLUB EDITION. Previous owner's name to front pastedown endpapers. Partially blackened out inscription to front free endpaper of vol. III. Very light shelfwear. Hardly noticable, tiny bumps to front corners of vol. III. Red lettering to navy-blue, cloth-covered spines with title of each volume... More
New York: Doubleday, 1956. Hardcover. STATED FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. "Autographed by the author for members of the Civil War Book Club". Small chips or tears down right gutter of inside front cover. Still solidly bound. Dustjacket Good Plus. A 1"closed tear to front top edge of jacket. Jacket lightly soiled... More
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1904. Hardcover. 8vo, 7" x 4.25", maroon cloth with gilt lettering and graphic (compass star surrounded by solar petals) to front board, and lettering to spine, labeled "The Trail Makers". 410 pp. Octavo. Rubbing to extremities. Rear hinge just barely starting, but binding very tight. Lithographed... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. Ward, Lynd. Hardcover. SIGNED INSCRIPTION BY LYND WARD, verso title page. Light edgewear to tan cloth-covered boards. Dustjacket Good. A few small tears under 1" to corners and edges. A 1.5 x .75" tape repaired tear to lower spine. Jacket now Mylar protected. Navy-blue lettering to... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 455 pages, index, appendix. Blue cloth with titles in gilt, octavo. Corners nudged and some light edgewear, textblock square. Dust jacket has small chip to top of spine, some edgewear and light soiling. Jaket is in a mylar protector. Bookplate... More
Indianapolis, Indiana: Bowen-Merrill, 1897. Hardcover. This two volume work is considered the "Introductory Volumes to English's History of Indiana". Volume I: 586 pp.;Volume II: 600 pp. Two brick-red quartos of pebbled cloth, with gilt-design to front boards, and gilt lettering to spines. Light wear to extremities, particularly to spine caps... More
New York: Demeter Press, 1977. Hardcover. FIFTH PRINTING. Very light shelfwear to boards and Very Good Plus dustjacket. Numerous photographs and illustrations. Proposed Correlation of North American and European Culture Sequences on endpapers. Gilt lettering on spine of orange, cloth-covered boards. 312 pp with appendix, bibliography and index. Clean, tight... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. 496 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Frontis, 11 plates. Maroon cloth, octavo. Titles in gilt. Corners sharp, cover bright. In complete dust jacket with some wear at head and tail of spine, light edgewear and some light soiling to rear. Jacket is... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941. Hardcover. First published in 1941, early printing. 345 pages, notes, index. Frontis, four maps, 15 plates. Red cloth, titles in gilt, octavo. Corners nudged, slight fading along the top, textblock square and tight. In complete color illustrated dust jacket with some edgewear. Jacket is in a fresh... More
New York: Hurst and Company, 1890. Hardcover. Lightly shaken. Front hinges starting. Tanning to pages. Gilt lettering and design on spine of burgundy, cloth-covered boards. In-blind design to front board. 346 pp. Vincent Wingfield fights for the Confederate States of America even though he is against slavery, More
New York: Oak Publications, 1965. First Edition. Paperback. 96 pages, bibliography. Text illustrations throughout. Illustrated orange wraps. Wear and some small chips to spine, some edgewear. Cover bright. Interior clean, binding tight. Includes letters, songs and historical notes. All existing known letters of Hill have been compiled here. More
Springfield, Massachusetts: Gurdon Bill, 1866. First Edition. Leather-bound. Small quarto. 8 3/4" x 9 1/4". Dark brown tooled leather, with recent repair and corner restoration. Nonpareil marbling to all edges. Original chocolate-brown endpapers, with small bookseller's ticket to bottom of front pastedown. Engraving of LIncoln frontispiece, by Thomas Chubbock. Three... More
New York: Roycrofters, 1911. Hardcover. Leather-bound, flexible covers. Front hinges started. Spine worn, perhaps sunned? Leather moderately worn around edges with a small bit of partially torn leather. Corners bumped and worn through. Text appropriately tanned for a book of this age. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Frontispiece portrait illustration... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. Hardcover. SECOND EDITION. Folio. Frontispiece 1764 map of Boston by Jacques Nicolas Bellin. 50 plates followed by vignettes. Maps with descriptions. Gilt lettering to green cloth-covered boards. Dustjacket Fine, 1764 map of Boston. Plan of Boston, 1728 to endpapers. 278 pp with appendix, timeline of... More
New York: Macmillian, 1947. Chamberlain, Ken. Hardcover. Front free endpaper missing. Dustjacket (?) synopsis pasted to preliminary page. Sunning to spine. One bumped corner. One nudged corner. Mildly worn edges with folded-under spine caps. Dedication page has a 2" tear and center worn spot. Black and white sketches. Black lettering... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1943. Simon, Eric M. Hardcover. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Light wear to extremities. Lightly age-tanned. Black and white illustrations. Maps to endpapers. Gilt lettering and design to spine and front of-blue, cloth-covered boards. Dustjacket Good. Moderate wear to jacket. Partial closed tears... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1914. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark Blue cloth with spine titles in gilt. Corners bumped, a few dark spots to rear board. Previous owner's name on front endpaper, otherwise nice clean copy in tight binding. Early work by social theorist and back-to-the-land pioneer Scott Nearing whose rural, quasi-utopian... More
New York: Third Press, 1970. Sadock, Verna. Hardcover. STATED FIRST PRINTING. Fine. Dustjacket Very Good. Light scuffing and soil to surfaces, tiny chip, one small 1" closed tear to extremities. Red metallic lettering to spine and front of maroon, cloth-covered boards. Over 200 drawings. SBN 9385-8. 157 pp. Clean, tight... More
Evansville, Indiana: Unigraphic, Inc. 1975. Hardcover. REPRINT [1900]. HEAVY. 9.5 x 6.5 x 3" Sturdy library binding. Gilt lettering to spine of handsome forest green cloth-covered boards. 724 pp. with addenda followed by 60 pp. index. Clean, tight, bright. History of Mahaska County and Oskaloosa, Iowa 1843 -- 1900. Memories... More
Providence, RI: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1890. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Original copy. Scarce. Reprinted from proceedings of the society. A brief glossing of the lectures given at meetings from 1835 to 1889 at the Society and a dated list of the papers read at these meetings. 37 pp. Red-orange boards... More
Boston: Richard G. Badger/Gorham Press, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 7.75 x 5.25" Previous owner's name to FPDEP. Dark green top-stain, age-tanned deckle fore-edge, untrimmed bottom edges. Tide line to upper edge of last 6 pages and rear endpapers. Thin diagonal crease, possibly binding error, runs length of RPDEP... More
