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1935001537No Place: The Collectors Club Philatelist 1935. Book. Near Fine. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Reprinted from The Collectors Club Philatelist H.L. Lindquist Editor in an edition limited to 100 unnumbered copies. This copy is SIGNED by the author inside the front wrapper. Tracy Expresses operated in the Western U.S. in the 1850-60s and they were comparable to the Pony Express. This article has to do with their history particularly with regard to their postmarks. 16 pages in tan colored stapled wrappers with several photographs. The Collectors Club Philatelist Paperback
44p. Inked ownership of E. Albert, 1917. 16mo. Original full tan cloth binding, soiled. WWI 2
194726390Stamford: The Overbrook Press 1947. Hardcover. Introductory note by Thomas K. Finletter. 8vo. Sage green paper over boards. xii 31pp. Near fine. Lower corner slightly bumped. First separate printing of this essay originally published in a scholarly journal in 1879 with rear colophon noting limitation of 1000 copies. Uncommon. The Overbrook Press hardcover
1897016650Newark: New Jersey Historical Society 1897. A gorgeous copy. Near Fine condition. SEE PHOTOS. Bright shiny clean square and tight. This is the rare 1897 FIRST PRINTING -- NOT the 1900 reprint with which it can easily be confused see BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE below. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Text pages are creamy white fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. With 27 illustrations mostly steel engraved portraits with tissue guards. This 1897 First Edition is bound in the original blue cloth which still has much of its new book gloss. SEE PHOTOS. Shiny gilt lettering on the spine reads: Semi-Centennial Celebration New Jersey Historical Society 1895. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. The largest section of the book pp. 15-152 is FIFTY YEARS OF HISTORICAL WORK IN NEW JERSEY by William Nelson with several tissue-guarded steel-engraved portraits. Also included are a bibliography of the society pp. 153-167; A HIGHWAY OF THE NATION by Austin Scott President of Rutgers College pp. 169-176 with the RESPONSE OF GENERAL HARRISON by former U. S. President Benjamin Harrison pp. 177-180; THE COURSE OF AMERICAN HISTORY by Woodrow Wilson then Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University; later U. S. President pp. 181-206; INDEX TO BIBLIOGRAPHY of the Society pp. 207-214 essentially a topical index to the first 23 volumes of the Proceedings as well as to the Society's other publications; GENERAL INDEX pp. 215-223. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: there was a later printing of this book in 1900 which is very similar to this 1897 first printing. Both printings have a title page dated 1897. However they can be distinguished from one another in two ways. The 1897 first printing is bound in blue cloth while the 1900 printing has a black cloth binding. In addition the later printing has a second title page that is dated 1900 and reads: "Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society Volume VIII.". First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition. 8vo. x 223pp. 27 plates. New Jersey Historical Society Hardcover
1902063150Kensington Press 1902. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. INSCRIBED. Burgundy ribbed cloth covers bordered in blind spine panel lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Firm binding clean interior. Endpapers show partial tanning. Inscribed by author on front flyleaf full signature personalized "To S. B. Brown" at Holmesburg Pa. dated 26 Sept. 1910. The title notwithstanding much of the content of the shorter essays has to do with central Pennsylvania and several long entries are devotes to various aspects of the Pennsylvania Railroad: the transportation panel in Broad Street Station its directors secretary freight agencies and memorial sketches. Kensington Press Hardcover
194715404Nashville Tennessee: Broadman Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean blue cloth. Rear cover slightly color faded. Gilt title on spine & front cover. Pictorial frontispiece . Text tight clean & intact. B/W photograph illustrations. Dust jacket has a few small edge tears & spine end chips. Story of a farm boy who climbed to the top of the latter of success. He organized a gigantic utility company covering three states. Combined several small railroads into a great system. South; B/W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 227 pages . Broadman Press hardcover
18893188213Boston, Heath, 1889. XXXVI, 686 S. OLwd.
19555103San Francisco: Privately Printed. Near Fine. 1955. Hardcover. 109 pp. appendix; 4to; red cloth spine stamped in gilt; fading to cloth at spine. Decorations by Mallette Dean. Signed in San Francisco October 1955 above the half title "Deep Roots" by Arthur W. Towne Neill C. Wilson Charles R. Wood lithographer named on colophon Mallette Dean. Signed below "Deep Roots" by some of the 'Key Personnel' listed in the appendix: Herbert M. Chisholm William J. Owen James A. Gruner and R. R. Whiteman.; Signed by Authors . Privately Printed hardcover
1937029783New York: The Macmillan Company 1937. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. Photographs. 319 Pp. Blue Burlap Cloth Over Boards Silver Lettering As Issued. Map Endpapers. First Printing Stated. Inscribed By The Author " Dear Jack In Case You're Looking For A Rowdy Kind Of Book Here Every Lady Is A W---- And Every Gent A Crook! Neill C. Wilson"; A Pencil Note States That This Was Inscribed To Engineer Jack Hall. Book Near Fine Trace Of Rubbing At Corners; Dj Price Clipped Wear At Edges And Wear With Very Light Chipping At Corners Previous Owner's Information At Upper Left Of Front Pastedown. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
193611222<p>First edition. Octavo. 25 b/w illustrations pictorial endpapers by E. A. Burbank pictorial dust jacket illustration by George Carlson. Bibliography. Dust jacket minor nicks. Fine. 322 pages. Signed by Wilson on title page.</p> The Macmillan Company hardcover
193611224<p>First edition. Octavo. 25 b/w illustrations pictorial endpapers by E. A. Burbank pictorial dust jacket illustration by George Carlson. Bibliography. Dust jacket faded front and spine; nicks to top and bottom of spine. Very good. 322 pages.</p> The Macmillan Company hardcover
ria9780367884314_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Moralising Space examines how from the 1850s Comte’s British followers practised this science and religion with the aim to create a global network of 500 utopian city-states. paperback
2003045566Austin TX: University of Texas Press 2003. First Edition stated. 1st Printing. Glazed Boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. AVEDON Richard. First Edition stated First Printing. Hard cover 4to in glazed illustrated boards. Fine and unmarked book in Fine DJ. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND SUBJECT Avedon on front endpaper. 131pp Foreword by Larry McMurtry; illustrated in photos. <br/> <br/> University of Texas Press hardcover
197760418Toronto: A William Alfred Bauer / Keith Wilson Production 1977. Staple-bound chapbook 8.25" x 5.5" pp. 56; stiff printed paper wrappers; a touch of foxing and toning a couple pen annotations very good. A listing of concerts albums singles and peripheral material mostly bootleg. LC only in OCLC. A William Alfred Bauer / Keith Wilson Production unknown
ria9781108479783_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A tour across the globe that tracks eighteenth-century English theatrical and social performance as vital to the establishment of the British Empire and its networks. Kathleen Wilson shows how performances put into circulation embodied hardcover
Cover portrait of The Right Hon. Joseph Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India since June 1915. Feature: The Heroic story of the church on the battlefield. The 'Padre' in the fighting line (conclusion). Interesting photo of tunnel dug beneath a church on the Eastern Front. Multiple photos of the clergy in action. The Campaign in Mesopotamia to the Fall of Kut. Full-page photo. portrait of Major-General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, Defender of Kut-el-Amara. Iinteresting Mesopotamian centerfold photos; and more. Covers detached but present. Above-average wear. Book
1946006719Indianapolis IN: Indiana Historical Society 1946. Book. Near Fine. Printed Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine 1/4" tear fore edge of front wrapper. Indiana Historical Society Paperback
473 pages including bibliography, index and black and white illustrations. Details the parallel lives of a foreign-born aesthete-prince and a down-to-earth country squire. The passions they aroused and the conflict they unleashed would forever change the face of a nation. Book virtually as new. Lightest wear to dust jacket. Gift quality. Book
1993057057Portland OR: Audrey Ellen Wilson/Watermelon Memories 1993. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff light gray-green wraps front cover pastedown photo. "On the Oregon Trail" series. xii21210 pp. illus. No. 29 of the first printing signed by author on main title. Mild surface rubbng to covers stress crease along square firm binding. Communities mentioned include Ajax Arlington Blalock Castle Rock Cecil Condon Coyote Douglas Eightmile Fourmile Heppner Heppner Junction Ione Jordan Locust Grove Morgan Olex Rock Creek Wells Springs Willows. Scarce. Audrey Ellen Wilson/Watermelon Memories Paperback
193611222<p>First edition. Octavo. 25 b/w illustrations pictorial endpapers by E. A. Burbank pictorial dust jacket illustration by George Carlson. Bibliography. Dust jacket minor nicks. Fine. 322 pages. Signed by Wilson on title page.</p> The Macmillan Company hardcover books
193611224<p>First edition. Octavo. 25 b/w illustrations pictorial endpapers by E. A. Burbank pictorial dust jacket illustration by George Carlson. Bibliography. Dust jacket faded front and spine; nicks to top and bottom of spine. Very good. 322 pages.</p> The Macmillan Company hardcover books
196520159Glendale CA: Arthur H. Clark 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Western Frontiersmen Series XII. 268 pp with frontispiece illustrations appendix bibliography index. Fine copy in original plain paper dust jacket inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Bill Mason with best wishes and deep appreciation for your help Sincerely Iris H.W. Engstrand." As described in the publisher's prospectus not present here William Wolfskill was a Missouri fur trapper and Santa Fe trader who explored uncharted areas of the Southwest before settling in Los Angeles where he pioneered in numerous agricultural economic and cultural projects. Arthur H. Clark hardcover books
1946006719Indianapolis IN: Indiana Historical Society 1946. Near Fine 1/4" tear fore edge of front wrapper. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Indiana Historical Society Paperback books
1939SB2716Lusk Wyoming: Mrs. E. B. Willson 1939. owner's neat pencil signature at the top of the ffep else an immaculate and tight gift quality copy; no dust jacket; 64p. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Illus. by Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Mrs. E. B. Willson Hardcover
18402020506London: George Virtue 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small quarto 333 pages extra-gilt publisher's cloth with variant elaborate covers and spine rebacked with original spine laid down new endpapers some foxing. <br/><br/>These letters by Willis were written above the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. The 9 illustrations are by W. H. Battlett plus a portrait of Willis as a frontispiece. George Virtue hardcover
