CULINARY AMERICANA: COOKBOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE ... UNITED STATES ... FROM 1860 THROUGH 1960
(Staten Island): (Martino), [1996]. Reprint. Octavo, xiv, 417 pages. Limited to 100 copies.
Americana
SKETCHES OF THE RISE, PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF SECESSION, WITH A NARRATIVE OF PERSONAL ADVENTURES AMONG THE REBELS
Philadelphia: Childs, 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and twelve wood-engravings and facsimiles. The engravings depict rebels whipping a man for expressing Union sentiments, two executions, and other actions. After being banished from Tennessee by the Confederate secretary of war, Brownlow returned in 1863.....
PICTURESQUE AMERICA
New York: D. Appleton and Company, (1872) and (1874). First Edition. Hardcover. Two folio volumes (10" x 12-1/4") bound in original decorated publisher's morocco leather. Illustrated with 49 beautiful steel engravings, all tissue guards present, and numerous wood engravings. Images include diverse scenes from the Catskills to pre-bridge Golden Gate.....
FORMS OF CONVEYANCING; AND OF PRACTICE, IN VARIOUS COURTS, AND PUBLIC OFFICES. Volume II (only) of two volumes
Harrisburgh, PA: John Wyeth, 1811. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5" x 8-1/4") bound in contemporary calf leather recently rebacked retaining the original spine and gilt-stamped burgundy morocco spine label. The second volume of two, but this copy belonged to President James Buchanan and is SIGNED by him, clearly and darkly.....
THE ART OF SPEAKING. containing: I. An Essay; in which are Given Rules for Expressing Properly .the Principal Passions and Humours, which occur in Reading, or Public Speaking; And II. Lessons taken from the Ancients and Moderns ... to which are added, a Table of the Lessons; and an Index of the various Passions and Humours in the Essay and Lessons
Newbury-port and Boston: John Mvcall for William Green, 1782. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto (5" x 7-3/4") in contemporary sheep with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label; 352, [14], [2 - ads] pages. First published in 1762, and in America in 1775, Burgh's work helped shape the theories of speech delivery.....
ON CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES AND OTHER PAPERS ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Lunenberg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Quarto (7" x 10") bound in Schumacher cloth printed with a multi-color Colonial eagle pattern and a gilt-lettered leather spine label; 328 pages. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Introduction and individual prefaces by Peter J. Stanlis.....
ON CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES AND OTHER PAPERS ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Lunenberg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Quarto (7" x 10") bound in Schumacher cloth printed with a multi-color Colonial eagle pattern and a gilt-lettered leather spine label; 328 pages. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Introduction and individual prefaces by Peter J. Stanlis.....
ON CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES AND OTHER PAPERS ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Lunenberg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Quarto (7" x 10") bound in Schumacher cloth printed with a multi-color Colonial eagle pattern and a gilt-lettered leather spine label; 328 pages. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Introduction and individual prefaces by Peter J. Stanlis.....
ON CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES AND OTHER PAPERS ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Lunenberg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Quarto (7" x 10") bound in Schumacher cloth printed with a multi-color Colonial eagle pattern and a gilt-lettered leather spine label; 328 pages. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Introduction and individual prefaces by Peter J. Stanlis.....
LOVERS OF LOUISIANA (TO-DAY)
New York: Scribner, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. BAL 2385. INSCRIBED to "My dear Mrs. Baker: /Here let you and Louise and Lucy/and me and these lovers, all, join/hands. Ever--/Yours truly" & SIGNED by the author in Northampton in 1919. A desirable copy of Cable's last book.....
PICTURESQUE LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. ILLUSTRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE
Chicago: American Photogravure Co., 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (9-3/4" x 12") in broken publisher's gilt-decorated leather-backed cloth; 16 pages of text and 65 full-page photogravure plates with tissue guards. From the unidentified author's preface: "To fully illustrate the many beautiful spots to be found in Los Angeles County .......
TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Reprint. Hardcover. Decorated blue cloth. Carnegie's tribute to his adopted country, SIGNED by him on the front endpaper: "With regards/Andrew Carnegie/May 1st, 1917." We have handled a number of signed books by Carnegie over the years and this is the first one that was.....
TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Early Edition. Hardcover. Decorated red cloth. Carnegie's tribute to his adopted country, INSCRIBED and SIGNED by him on the dedication page: "S C Brastow/For Auld Lang Syne/Andrew Carnegie/NYork April 22/1891."
AN HOUR BEFORE DAYLIGHT. MEMORIES OF A RURAL BOYHOOD
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED "Best Wishes to" --------- and SIGNED in full as "Jimmy Carter" on the front endpaper. Usually found with his quick "J. Carter" signature.
SOURCES OF STRENGTH. MEDITATIONS ON SCRIPTURE FOR A LIVING FAITH
New York: Times Books, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the former President as "J Carter" on the title page.
WHY NOT THE BEST?
Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, (1977). Hardcover. The Presidential Edition, issued without dustwrapper in a gold box (lacking here) and bound in full gilt-decorated green cloth made to resemble leather. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. A limited edition of Carter's first autobiography, first published in 1975 in a trade edition in.....
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
Plains, GA: 1960. Letter. Definitive one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on an 8" x 10" invoice from the S & W Company of Dawson, Georgia. This early letter from 1960 reveals much about the future President's honesty and talent for negotiation. In full: "Mr. Wheeler, This seems to be charged to.....
HANEY'S BASE BALL PLAYER'S BOOK OF REFERENCE CONTAINING THE REVISED RULES OF THE GAME FOR 1867, WITH AN EXPLANATORY APPENDIX TO EACH RULE, TOGETHER WITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS FOR UMPIRES AND SCORERS, AND ALSO FOR PITCHING, BATTING AND FIELDING. THE WHOLE FORMING A STANDARD AUTHORITY ON ALL POINTS OF THE NATIONAL GAME. [The first official baseball rule book]
New York: Haney & Co., 1867. First Edition. wraps. Small octavo (3-3/4" x 5-7/8") in the original green wraps depicting three ballplayers on the front holding a bat and examining the rule book; [ii], 139, [iii] pages, plus covers. The issue published just nine years earlier in 1858 was the.....
CHECK LIST OF AMERICAN DRAMA PUBLISHED IN THE ENGLISH COLONIES OF NORTH AMERICA AND THE UNITED STATES THROUGH 1865 In the Possession of THE LIBRARY University of Pennyslvania
Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Library, 1951. First Edition. Softcover. Stapled photocopied sheets printed on rectos only in blue wraps; ix, 92 pages including a chronological index. Introduction by Arthur Hobson Quinn who describes how a number of the scarcest items in the library's collection were acquired.
NEW YORK HERALD: Bound volume of 120 issues from 1 January 1862 to 30 April 1862 with much war reportage
1862. Hardcover. Large folio (16" x 21-1/2") bound in half sheep and marbled boards. Includes a number of triple sheets. Extensive reportage of the war with numerous maps throughout. In addition to the war news, the papers have ads and other news. Bound in at the front is a rather.....
THE PUBLIC PAPERS OF GROVER CLEVELAND, TWENTY-SECOND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1889
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in the original brown cloth. This copy is SIGNED by the President on the first blank months before his election to his historic nonconsecutive second term to "John P. Irish/from/Grover Cleveland/May 1, 1892." John Powell Irish (1843-1923).....
THE PUBLIC PAPERS OF GROVER CLEVELAND, TWENTY-SECOND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1889
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in publisher's 3/4 brown morocco leather and marbled boards. This copy is SIGNED by the President on a front blank to his Secretary of State during his first term, months before his election to his historic nonconsecutive.....
BYPATHS IN DIXIE: FOLK TALES OF THE SOUTH
New York: E. P. Dutton, (1911). Duncan Smith. First Edition. Collection of tales in dialect revolving around the Black Mammy. Illustrated with 7 plates by Duncan Smith.
THE DIAMOND ATLAS ... THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
New York: Morse and Gaston, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Small square quarto (6-1/4" x 7-1/4") in original publisher's binding of full red morocco leather with heavy gilt decorations; 239 pages. Illustrated with 55 hand-colored maps and charts, mostly full page and including double-page maps of the world and of the.....
MEMOIR, PREPARED AT THE REQUEST OF A COMMITTEE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, AND PRESENTED TO THE MAYOR OF THE CITY, AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE COMPLETION OF THE NEW YORK CANALS
New York: Corporation of New York, 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-3/4" x 9-3/4"), bound in full gilt-decorated calf leather with the city seal blindstamped on both covers, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down; v, [3], 408, [2] pages. Illustrated with the 47 listed lithographs, many folding, including.....