New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated blue cloth. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper "To James W. Barrett/in memory of the suit!/from/Theodore Roosevelt/May 3d 1915." Roosevelt originally wrote April and crossed it out. Most signed copies of this.....
London: A. W. Webster, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (10" x 12-1/2") in the original blue cloth, neatly rebacked retaining the original gilt-lettered and decorated spine, endpapers renewed; [viii], xxxiii, [i], 740 pages. Illustrated with a portrait, 9 hand-colored plates, and 21 views, charts, and maps, including the large.....
Pittsburgh: Arthur Scharf Bookseller & Schoyer's Books, [1990]. First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps; xii, 176 pages. Very useful for identifcation and bibliographic data on the WPA guides and related books.
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First Edition. hardcover. Attractive copy of her third book, a novel about the French & Indian War.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, (1965). First Edition. xiii, 139 pages. Fine guide to early American printing and production of type. Illustrated with facsimiles.
New York: Praeger, (1975). Plates. First Edition. Folio. Useful reference.
New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED on the front endpaper "Sincerely,/Amos Alonzo Stagg/December, 1927." A scarce early inscription before his writing became shaky by one of the most important figures in American sports. Stagg, the first to be elected to the.....
New York: 24 September 1867. Letter. One-page letter, 5" x 8", by Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War addressed to Edward Haight, former member of Congress from New York during the Civil War. Stanton mentions that he is in New York for a few days with his wife and child and.....
New York: Alexander V. Blake, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in publisher's green cloth. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages, 5 portraits, 2 plans, 2 folding plates, and 1 facsimile, along with several text engravings. Complete with half-title pages. HOWES S-1040; NEW HOWES S-1047 "b": "Best biography of an.....
Boston: 19 October 1853. Letter. A witty one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Sumner responding to an invitation to appear at the Horse Fair in Springfield. In part: "The age of Chivalry has passed. The age of Humanity has come. The Horse, which gave its name to the first, now yields.....
Boston: 10 January 1858. Letter. A one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Sumner addressed to The Secretary of War (John B. Floyd) asking him for assistance in promoting the brother of one of Sumner's constituents, Ebenezer C. Allen, to the rank of lieutenant. Senator Charles Sumner, perhaps the most influential man.....
Hartford: S. S. Scranton & Company, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated mustard cloth with fancy gilt designs on the front cover and spine; 672 pages. Illustrated with many plates and facsimiles. Sixguns 2174; Adams HERD 2217: "Scarce"; Jenkins BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 201: "the best volume of 19th century Texas humor.".....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Original decorated red cloth, rebacked with most of the original spine and new endpapers; illustrated with photographs. This copy is SIGNED by Taft on the original front endpaper: "Sincerely yours/Wm H Taft/New Haven/Nov. 14th 1914."
Baltimore: Printed by the Editor at the Franklin Press, March 5 to August 27, 1836. First Edition. Softcover. A collection of 23 consecutive individual issues (5-3/4" x 9-1/2"; without the March 12, June 18, and July 9 issues) now housed in individual sleeves with typed descriptions in a hard 3-hole.....
Cincinnati: J. Drake, 1872. First Edition. Softcover. Printed green wraps; 48 pages. Reprint of the 1833 edition with an added memoir of the author.
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Original purple Z cloth. BAL 20113: 1650 copies printed though Borst A4.1.a states that 1450 copies were printed. True first printing with list of Thoreau's books priced. Catalogue dated April 1864 with last leaf advertising "The Thirteenth Volume." About THE MAINE WOODS.....
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Original plum TR cloth. BAL 20113: 1650 copies printed though Borst A4.1.a states that 1450 copies were printed. True first printing with list of Thoreau's books priced. No catalogue bound into this copy. From the library of John Shepard Keyes with his.....
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Original green Z cloth, Binding D, no priority. BAL 20104 notes this binding only in green P cloth. Borst A1.1.a notes only copies in brown or purple cloth. The famous Second Issue of Thoreau's first book and, other than WALDEN, the only.....
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in modern half dark green morocco leather and marbled boards with matching morocco corners with new endpapers. BAL 20117: only 1546 copies printed. Borst A7.1.a notes 1500 copies printed. Edited by Sophia Thoreau. Distinguished for its containing, in addition to the.....
Washington: Library of Congress, 1973. Facsimiles. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto, 87 pages.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's full mottled sheep leather with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels and marbled edges and endpapers. Illustrated with engravings and plates. BAL 3411: Scarce first state with tailpiece of Twain in flames on page 441 and the "St. Louis Hotel" caption.....
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, Inc., (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth; xi1, 492 pages including index. An account of the literature produced on the American frontier from the beginning of settlement of this country to 1800. In addition to the bibliography, this also contains a series of lectures on the subject.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. hardcover. Illustrated with photographs.
Philadelphia: Jacob Maas, 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-decorated red morocco-backed marbled boards with matching morocco corners; 88 pages. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Jackson, an engraved title page, 4 plates (the Golden Wreath printed on white clay-coated stock, The Battle of New Orleans, The Hermitage, and The Capitol).....
n.p. n.d. [1880s]. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated cloth, bound accordion style, 3-1/4" x 4-3/4". Contains 11 images with captions printed on glossy paper. Rather scarce.
