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1893054451Charleston S. C.: Walker Evans & Cogswell Co. Publishers 1893. 1st Edition . Leather Bound. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Royal Octavo. xii 579 pages. Hardcover rebound in modern 3/4 brown leather with marbled paper-covered boards. Light wear to the binding. There is a library ink stamp on the fore edge of the text block but there appears to be no other library markings. Text is toned but sound and generally clean although there is foxing around the plates. An attractive copy. <br/> <br/> Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co., Publishers hardcover
186816192Cincinnati: Caxton 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 931 pages. Bound in blue leatherette with wear through to boards at top and bottom of spine and at corners. Gold titles and decoration on spine and blind stamped decoration on front. All engravings are present with some foxing around the edges and on the tissue guards. Couple of small brown stains on foredges. Top & bottom edges tanned. Tears in gutter of front brown endpapers. Endpapers also have rubbed spots. Penciled 1880 inscription on verso of front endpaper. A few page corner creases. Straight and sturdy. <br/><br/> Caxton hardcover
191915960Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1919. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine embossed publisher's medallion on front cover in gilt t.e.g. fore-edge and bottom edge deckle. Illustrated with two portraits of the author. So many pioneer stories were written at the request of a child or grandchild. What makes Christiana Tillson's humorous memoir different was her background. Tillson's story records the reactions produced upon a refined New England woman by an environment at once predominantly southern and wholly frontier. Her youth in 1822 and her parting from all that she had known in the East were common of many later Western migrants. But when she and her husband went out to try their fortunes the "West" was what we today call the Midwest. It was still a wild dangerous and uncertain place to try to make a future. . Head and heel of spine are very very slightly rubbed else pristine unmarked tight square and clean. NEAR FINE. . The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 17. Two Portraits. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxi 169 pp . R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press hardcover
15319Georgia senator and representative who resigned his seat in 1861 to join the Confederacy becoming Confederate secretary of state and then brigadier general; he fled to London for several years after the war to avoid arrest he returned and resumed practicing law -- though he never sought to regain citizenship. ANS 1p 5" X 3" n.p. n.d. Very good. Cryptic legal matter: "Browner has written me to file a bill against Burch -- you kindly offered to do it for me & I will be much obliged if you will do so immediately." Signed simply "Toombs." This item has been handsomely and archivally double matted together with a brass plaque and a large striking closeup photograph of a steel engraving of Toombs and framed in an ornate 1½" gilt frame overall dimensions 20½" X 16½". unknown
180067025Newburgh:: Printed by David Denniston for Self & H Craig 1800. old full sheep; but the front board is missing and the front free endpaper is defective. Binding defective as noted; faded old ink ownership signature at head of title page. A few leaves dog-eared; 2-3 inch paper flaw near the center of the title page. 16mo. Printed by David Denniston, for Self & H Craig, unknown
196911964Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A few fingerprint smudges on the pages. The DJ is very worn with chipping at the top of the spine and tape holding it together across the front along with some rather large creases soiling & edge wear. If it wasn't all there it would grade poor. ; Signed by Lester Snow on the fep NOT inscribed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 180 pages . Dorrance & Co. hardcover
1843012082Boston: David H. Williams 1843 Boston: Williams 1843. First edition. 8vo. Quarter-leather 523. Calf over marble boards leather spine labels. Bookplate of Dr. Joshua Green. Contains several articles on the Treaty of Washington also known as the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. The Webster-Ashburton Treaty signed August 9 1842 settled the dispute over the location of the Maine-New Brunswick border between the United States and Great Britain and the shared use of the Great Lakes. It also reaffirmed the location of the border at the 49th parallel in the westward frontier up to the Rocky Mountains originally defined in the Treaty of 1818. It also called for a final end to the slave trade on the high seas to be enforced by both signatories. The Treaty was signed by United States Secretary of State Daniel Webster and United Kingdom Privy Counsellor Alexander Baring Lord Ashburton. A plaque commemorating the treaty was placed at the site of the old State Department building in Washington D.C. where the signing occurred. The Treaty is responsible for two geographic oddities. First since Fort Montgomery a U.S. fort in northeastern New York had been constructed on Canadian soil the border between Maine and the St. Lawrence was adjusted to 3/4 of a mile north of the 45th parallel this placing the abandoned fort on U.S. soil. Second the incorrect assumption in the Treaty of Paris that the source of the Mississippi River lay north of the Lake of the Woods would result in the enclave of the Northwest Angle being part of the U.S.This treaty marked the end of unofficial fighting known informally as the Aroostook or Lumberjack's War along the Maine-New Brunswick border and resolved issues that had led to the Indian Stream conflict as well as the Caroline Affair. The border was fixed with the disputed territory divided between the two nations. Also as a result of this treaty portions of the western U.S.-Canada border were adjusted so as to be consistent. It gave the U.S. negligibly more land to the north; iron ore was later discovered on this land. The Creole case was passed over by both nations. The treaty was an unforeseen bonus for the United States. The British in adjusting the US-Canadian boundary farther west lost a vital area to the US that contained the priceless Mesabi iron ore of Minnesota. "A Message from the President of the United States transmitting to the Senate a Treaty with Great Britain and the Correspondence between Mr. Webster and Lord Ashburton 1842"; "Speech on the Treaty with Great Britain delivered in the United States Senate by William C. Rives 1842"; "Speech in the Senate on the Treaty of Washington by John C. Calhoun 1842"; "Speech on the Ratification of the Treaty with Great Britain delivered in the Senate of the United States by James Buchanan"; "Speech in the Senate in Opposition to the Treaty by Thomas H. Benton"; "Speech in the Senate on Several Points arising in the Discussion of the Treaty with England by Levi Woodbury 1842." Near fine. David H. Williams hardcover
191115960Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1911. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Houghton Mifflin edition. Three volumes in dark blue cloth binding with gold stamped lines at top and bottom of boards & spine gold lettering on spine and top edges gilt. Welles was Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson. Old private library bookplate on front pastedown. Very nice set with slight rubbing on bottom of spine and corners. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover
22894Hardcover. Very good. Bound typescript with no publication information given but identified in OCLC as "a translation made by Antionette Hotovitzky in 1935 of the original Russian ed. St. Petersburg 1847 omitting the Indian vocabularies in the originals." vii 422 pp with text on rectos only bound in green cloth. Numerous ink stamps of the Alaska Indian Service in Juneau on endpapers and edges otherwise clean and sound. "Contains an introductory outline of Russian trade administration and exploratory work in Alaska before Zagoskin's visit and of the latter's mission in 1842-44 to survey the Kvokhpak Yukon and Kuskokwin River regions with a view to developing trade establishing posts and routes.Zagoskin describes in detail the Russian trading posts; his arrangements for travel and food; topography of the Norton Sound region; and Eskimo inhabitants their customs trade with Russians etc." Arctic Bibliography 19779 19781. hardcover
1922028314W. A. Chalfant / Hammond Press / Conkey 1922. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Red Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Folding Map At Front. Xviii 358 Pp. Five Item Errata Slip Pasted Onto Rear Pastedown. Light Wear Spine Gilt Still Brilliant Cloth Just Beginning To Fray At Corners Front Hinge Loose But Not Cracked Entirely Intact. Signed By Chalfant Beneath His Name On The Dedication Page. Bookplate Of Aurelia Mclean Founder Of The Mt Whitney Easter Sunrise Service Long Time Resident Of Lone Pine Inyo County Whose Husband W E Mclean Ran The Town Drug Store; Also Inscribed To Her From Genevieve Naffziger1897 - 1965 Author Of Prose And Poetry About Inyo County And With A Small Note With Names And Some Cryptic Notes About Those Persons Including Naffziger Probably Because Mentioned In The Book And Known To Mclean. <br/> <br/> W. A. Chalfant / Hammond Press / Conkey hardcover
2005121985Simon & Schuster N. Y. As New in As New dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. hardcover with dustjacket. 074325077x . The scarce First Edition Hardcover made even more scarce by the signature of the author Larry McMurtry. The true stories of the West's most terrible massacres -- Sacramento River Mountain Meadows Sand Creek Marias River Camp Grant and Wounded Knee among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians but also Indians killing Americans and in the case of the hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857 Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers including women and children. 178 pages. Signed by McMurtry on the title page. Just his signature - not signed to anyone. No names other than author's signature marks or writing in book. Dust jacket and book are in Fine as new condition. Also comes in a slipcase in fine as new condition. ; Standard Book Size.; Signed by Author . Simon & Schuster, N. Y. hardcover
18672919St. Paul: for gratuitous circulation by Girart Hewitt 1867. 8vo 36pp. a fine copy in orig. blue printed wrappers and scarce thus. Wrappers with different letterpress than the above and now bound without the ads; text identical. Howes H-455 not mentioning the different issues for the year 1867. for gratuitous circulation, by Girart Hewitt unknown
18741240Baltimore: The Patapsco Land Company 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 100 pages. Bound in brick red cloth over boards with upper board titled in gilt. A few light extremity rubs. Slight age-toning inside. Map has a few short clean separations at fold intersections. Fine condition overall. Large fold-out map. This is a detailed prospectus seeking investment in the newly reorganized Patapsco Land Company which intended to turn its holdings at Curtis Bay into a major seaport and railhead. The background information included therefore gives much of interest relating to the evolution of shipping and railroads at Baltimore.<br /> <br /> The large map in a rear pocket shows the planned layout of the city of Pennington named for the PLC's controlling family. A copy of this prospectus was even delivered to the U.S. House of Representatives in hopes of getting buy-ins from major players in the shipping and railroad industries which would be essential for the plan to succeed. Alas despite the seemingly solid plan and convincing sales pitch the PLC could not get sufficient capital together to pull it off. And thus there is no town of Pennington Maryland today. The Patapsco Land Company hardcover
18672918St. Paul: for gratuitous circulation by Girart Hewitt 1867. 8vo 36 & 8pp. ads some spotting but generally fine in orig. tan printed wrappers and scarce thus. All the facts for the would-be immigrant. Howes H-455. for gratuitous circulation, by Girart Hewitt unknown
185124214St. Paul: James M. Goodhue 1851. 8vo pp. 241; orig. brown printed wrappers wrappers loosening and slightly chipped. Martin 30; Sabin 49258 citing that for 1850. James M. Goodhue unknown
1868002250Philadelphia PA: Philadelphia PA: Edward Young & Co 1868 1868. 702p/654p with numerous beautiful engravings of business leaders/inventors etc. Covers the origin and growth of industry and manufacturing in the US up to the Civil War. Both volumes in generally very good condition. Covers have been re-taped to binding and some pages have light damp-staining. Very rare set. Third Revised Edition. Quarter Leather/Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Philadelphia, PA: Edward Young & Co, 1868 hardcover
190834256Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co 1908. First edtion. 8vo pp. 12 15-452 3 ads; frontispiece portrait 62 black and white plates James J. Hill library copy with name perforated at base of title page pencil call number on verso of title page: edges of spine a bit rubbed and lettering is faded with accession numbers at base else a nice sound copy in green cloth with ivory lettering gilt stamped vignette portrait on front cover. t.e.g. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to James J. Hill dated 1908. Hill is the famed railroader and financier who more than any other man was responsible for the opening of the great northwest. A.C. McClurg & Co unknown
1984008691Little Rock AR U.S.A.: Arkansas Rose Publishing Company 1984. 450pp/illus. Detailed history of the county. Light rubbing to dj. Text clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Arkansas Rose Publishing Company hardcover
1930005527Cleveland OH: The Arthur H. Clark Company 1930. 337 pages with plates and 6 maps 2 folding top edge gilt. A leader of the Shoshoni he was well acquainted with Bridger and Carson. He often was employed as a scout for the army. Minimal markings title page and spine only. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. The Arthur H. Clark Company hardcover
1894biblio1136<p>This is a complete copy---with a binding repair to be made---of a rare piece of Chicago's North Shore history. It contains the plans and rationale of famed landscape architect Thomas Hawkes as he completed his realization of the scenic route old Highway 42 sometimes known as "Snake Hill"---a park experience literally built around the bends of Sheridan road. Also expands on his vision of natural scenery incorporated into landscaping in preference to the ornate Versailles approach. An exceptional rarity of Chicago history.</p><p>Photos on request.</p> J.C. Winship paperback
190029877Minneapolis: University Press 1900. First edition of the author's first book sq. 12mo pp. 3-71; a very good copy in orig. printed wrappers decorated in red and lettered in black and warmly presented by the author to Richard LeGallienne dated St. Paul February 8 1901. "Born in the state of New York he moved with him family to St. Paul in 1894. At the University of Minnesota lack of means and ill health prolonged his course over a period of years during which he began publishing his poems. In 1906 he joined the faculty of the university" Nute Minnesota Books and Authors. University Press unknown
1890180520-MYB44Boston: Little Brown & Co 1890. Very Good clothbound set of dark green hardcovers 1890 six volume set previous owner's bookplates and signatures on endpapers . Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. Little Brown & Co Hardcover
1855013674Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo & Co. 1855 New edition so stated. First Lippincott combined two volumes in one edition. 8vo. Decorative blindstamped leather boards new leather backstrip. All edges marble. Frontispiece engraving of Washington Volume 1 pp.324 additional engraved plate; Volume 2 frontispiece engraving of Maj. Gen. Wm. Moultrie with facsimile signature 336 pp. additional engraved plate. Occasional foxing wear along board edges very good. Lippincott, Grambo & Co. hardcover
1976058051Womelsdorf PA: Earl W. Ibach 1976. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. INSCRIBED. Brown cloth lettered in gold foil. Minor shelf/handling wear mild soiling to bottom text block edge at corner. Former owner's address label mounted on upper front flyleaf. Firm binding clean interior. 664 pp. illus. Inscribed by author on portrait page verso of Preface full signature with generic "Best Regards" inscription undated. Earl W. Ibach Hardcover
1954058190Washington: United States Government Printing Office Gpo 1954. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 993 Pp. First Printing. Specially Bound In Red Cloth Gilt With Name R. V. Langmuir At Bottom The Personal Copy Of Robert Vose Langmuir -1993 Of Caltech Who Invented The Mass Spectrometer Later Headed The Construction Of The First Synchrotron To Operate In The United States And Discovered The Radioactive Isotope K37. The Original Printed Blue Wrappers Are Lacking. There Is A Printed Alphabetical List Of Witnesses On P. 993 But This Copy Has A Penciled List In Page Order On P 992 And A Few Penciled Notes On Nuclear Physics On The Last Blank Page All Probably By Langmuir. At Least One Advance Copy Was Passed Around Caltech Prior To Publication As We Sold Such A Copy With Pencil Initials Of Those Who Were Intended To Receive It. <br/> <br/> United States Government Printing Office Gpo hardcover
