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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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 .......
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.....
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."
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.
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.....
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.
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.....
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).....
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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
[Stratford, CT]: 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth, 150 pages. Illustrated with photographs and maps.
London: Evans & Bourne, 1817 & 1822. First Edition. Hardcover. Two folio (8-1/2" x 10-1/4") volumes bound in contemporary tree calf leather with contrasting maroon and black morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 2 engraved frontispieces, 52 full-page engraved plates, and 24 folding hand-colored maps, including a fine world map and.....
New York: D. D. Smith, 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. Twentyfourmo (3-3/8" x 5-3/8") bound in original full sheep leather with gilt rules on the spine; 180 pages. The second American cookbook, preceded by Amelia Simmons's much better known AMERICAN COOKERY, printed four times before the publication of this volume, which.....
New York: Thomas Kinnersley, 1829 and [1829]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5" x 8-1/2") bound in original sheep leather with gilt rules and lettering including the name of an owner, Milton M. Perry, on the front cover; 360; 224, xii, iv pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, and engraved.....
London & New York: Peter Nevill Limited, (1950). First Edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Herbert Read, to whom the book is dedicated.
Hartford: Jas. Hamersley, 1853. Early Edition. Hardcover. First published in 1851. Rebound in modern brown buckram; xxvi, 509 pages. Illustrated with a folding map and engravings, some full-page plates.
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. An attempt to see Columbus as a man rather than an "animated monument." Illustrated with ten plates.
Albany: Carroll & Cook, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") bound in publisher's gilt-decorated cloth, lacking the spine. Illustrated with an engraved title page and 141 hand-colored lithographs of birds, mostly two per image, and containing "detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of.....
Albany: Carroll & Cook, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") bound in publisher's gilt-decorated cloth. Illustrated with an engraved title page and 141 hand-colored lithographs of birds, mostly two per image, and containing "detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of New-York, with brief.....
