New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Edward Wilson. Hardcover. Octavo (7" x 10") bound in full terra-cotta leather with a blind embossed design of North America without the United States on the front cover and gold-stamped on the spine. Printed on hand-made paper. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Illustrated with.....
Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1794. First Isaiah Thomas Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5" x 8-1/8") bound in recent full calf leather with gilt decoration to the boards and spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers; 302 pages. Complete with the original endpapers. First published in Edinburgh in 1784 and in America in Philadelphia.....
Washington DC/Baltimore: Jacob Gideon/Cushing & Jewett, 1818. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in contemporary marbled sheep leather with a gilt-lettered black morocco spine label and gilt decorations on the spine; 671 pages. The First Edition of this classic in which the authors of each essay were identified by name. Comprises 85.....
26 August 1880. Letter. One-page letter of introduction by Abraham Lincoln's Vice President, dated 26 August 1880. The letter is addressed to the Honorable Horace Davis, and the subject is Major S. W. Knowles who "did good service in the war." SIGNED "H. Hamlin." While Hamlin admired Lincoln, he didn't.....
[Washington, DC]: [Government Printing Office], [1879]. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 12 pages. SIGNED on the top margin of the front cover "With Compliments of/R. B. Hayes" by the President. An outline of Hayes's attempts to reform the custom-house appointment process, stripping away the traditional party-based "spoils system" and implementing.....
n.p. [1880]. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 4 pages, the last blank. SIGNED on the top margin of the front page "With Compliments/R. B. Hayes" by the President. Prints Hayes's speech celebrating the election of James Garfield to succeed him as President. "You all remember how four years ago the.....
New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1877. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 118 pages. SIGNED at the top of the title page "R. B. Hayes/26 May 1877," while Hayes was the governor of Ohio.
Philadelphia: R. G. Berford, 1844. Cheap Edition. Wraps. Green printed wraps with 15 double-column text pages.
n.p. 1902. First Edition. Limited to 300 copies.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-lettered white cloth. We have handled several copies of this title over the years and all have been bound in printed boards. This is the first time we have seen this binding which is fancier and likely produced in a......
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to ----- "With the kind regards of/Herbert Hoover" on the front free endpaper.
New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes eight speeches before the Gridiron Club, the first time the speeches of a U.S. President to the club were printed, as well as four other addresses by Hoover: "A Remedy for Disappearing Game Fishes"; a speech celebrating the.....
New York: American Book Exchange, 1880. Early Edition. Hardcover. Decorated cloth. Illustrated with silhouettes and engravings.
New York: Crown, (1955). Over 500 photos. Reprint. Folio.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857. First Edition. Softcover. Printed wraps lacking the front cover; complete, pages 393-633 [240 pages]. Grolier American 68; Howes S218; Sabin 33240. One of two simultaneous printings, the other in Washington D.C., for which no precedence has been established. The opinion of the court.....
London & New York: MacMillan & Co., 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth. Travels in America and Europe recounted in the form of letters by the author of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS.
Chicago: Kingman Brothers, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Large folio (15" x 17-1/2") bound in publisher's leather-backed cloth; 100 pages. Compiled, drawn, and published from personal examinations and surveys. Illustrated with hand-colored maps of the United States, the state of Indiana, and Cass County as well as its individual townships. Lacking.....
New York: Putnam's, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. The second printing with the frontispiece and vignette title inserted, in the primary cloth binding. Illustrated with an engraved title page and frontispiece. BAL 10188. Chapters on Bermuda, France, various Native American tribes, Malta, the Mississippi Bubble scheme, etc.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (8-3/4" x 11-3/4") in original gilt-decorated cloth, rebacked with the original spine and a new spine label; 131, 154, 30, 32 pages. Illustrated with 12 (of 14) views, 8 color plates, 8 folding panoramas, 3 paleontology plates, 2 large folding.....
Lunenberg: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Small quarto (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in blue vellum cloth and harmonizing hand-marbled paper; 384 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 16 full-page two-color lithographs drawn on the stone and 36 part-page drawings by Lynd Ward, the lithographs printed in.....
Lunenberg: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Small quarto (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in blue vellum cloth and harmonizing hand-marbled paper; 384 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 16 full-page two-color lithographs drawn on the stone and 36 part-page drawings by Lynd Ward, the lithographs printed in.....
Lunenberg: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Small quarto (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in blue vellum cloth and harmonizing hand-marbled paper; 384 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 16 full-page two-color lithographs drawn on the stone and 36 part-page drawings by Lynd Ward, the lithographs printed in.....
Lunenberg: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Small quarto (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in blue vellum cloth and harmonizing hand-marbled paper; 384 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 16 full-page two-color lithographs drawn on the stone and 36 part-page drawings by Lynd Ward, the lithographs printed in.....
Philadelphia: J. Dobson; Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.; Carey & Hart, 1839. Second Edition. Hardcover. Modern cloth with later marbled endpapers; [ii], xix, [i], 5-262 pages. Introduction and notes by Charles Carter Lee, brother of Confederate general Robert Lee. The correspondence contains much material on Washington, Hamilton, Burr, Madison, and John.....
Stanford Bookstore, 1919. Tipped-in photos/color plts. First. Paper-covered boards. Octavo. Uncommon.
