Small broadside and cabinet card photo of El-Joseph Robert Raycroft. Undated, but ca. 1905. Broadside measures 5.75 x 12 inches and has some old creases and short tears. Cabinet card is in fine condition and credited to photographer Geo. F. Reil of Chicago. Both of El-Joseph's parents were preachers, and..... Item #20692
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. Volume XX in the Western Frontiersmen Series. 300 pp. Fine copy with original prospectus laid in. Beale was a sailor, solder (and hero of the Mexican War), explorer, and Indian superintendent who shared friendship and adventures with John C. Fremont, Kit Carson..... Item #21001
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. Blue cloth boards stamped on the spine in gilt; no dust jacket..... Item #18544
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. A fine copy bound in 3/4 red leather and marbled boards; signed by..... Item #17389
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862. First American Edition. Hardcover. good. 8vo, xii, [4], 574+ [2] ads. Illustrated with engravings; 3 maps on one folding sheet. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine darkened, fraying to spine ends, corners rubbed, front hinge partially cracked. Embossed library stamp on a...... Item #13758
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Facsimile reprint of the 1859 edition published by D. Appleton and Company. 130 pp, bound in green cloth. Light shelf wear to boards, bookplate on front pastedown; contents clean and tight. No dust jacket. The author was a British Member of..... Item #2356
Buffalo, NY: Six-Fourteen-Seventy, Inc., 1971. Trade paperback, 72 pp. Fine. A detailed analysis of clashes between police and crowds attending an arts festival in the Allentown neighborhood of Buffalo, NY on June 14, 1970. Sources differ on who started the incident, but it is clear that spectators to the arrest..... Item #21131
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 249 pp + illustrations, maps (one folding), with frontispiece, appendices, bibliography, index. Blue buckram. Boards very slightly bowed, else fine. No dust jacket. Western Frontiersman Series XVI. Chaput writes in the Foreword: "Aubry was no obscure petty trader..... Item #873
Lyndon, VT: 1882. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 233 pp + ads, in original salmon pictorial wrappers, with frontispiece (of a burro) and additional small illustrations in the text. Chips to corners of front wrapper and lower spine, previous owner's signature on front wrapper; internally very good. A series of letters..... Item #20755
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1976. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Facsimile reprint of the edition of 1787. Edited and introduced by Noel Perrin, with 12 drawings by Mark Livingston. Clean and tight, with minimal wear, in a price-clipped dust jacket with one small chip in the..... Item #11647
Charlestown: Printed by C. Rand & Co, 1857. Only edition. 33 pp, in original printed wrappers. Chipping, wrappers partially detached from spine, tape repairs to verso of front wrapper; good. Scarce pamphlet, apparently published by the accused for the purpose of clearing his good name. Thomas M. Crossan (1819-1865) was..... Item #20778
[Minneapolis]: Thompson Yards, Inc, 1916. Broadside, 20.75 x 9.75 inches. Old folding creases, a few short, closed tears at margins; very good. Minneapolis-based company Thompson Yards tells farmers that diversification in agriculture is the road to wealth -- urging them to buy silos on credit on the grounds that they..... Item #20860
Providence and Boston: Elder J.S. Mowry, 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4" x 6", 162 pp, in publisher's blind-stamped cloth. Moderate foxing throughout, front hinge starting. Ownership signature of Lydia W. Dean, Easton, on front free endpaper, with two small diecut scraps pasted below. "Salome Lincoln Mowry was born in..... Item #22159
Syracuse: E.H. Babcock & Co., 1853. First and only edition. 12mo, 148 pp, in publisher’s blind-stamped plum cloth. Wood-engraved vignette of a family scene on title page. Inscribed on the front pastedown “Mrs. Clement Dale, the Author L.D. Davis a Cousin of my Mama.” Some staining to boards, internals clean;..... Item #19918
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. Hardcover. Good. Early reprint (first published 1901). xxvi, 487 pp, indexed, extensively illustrated, with hundreds of photographs of artifacts. Original pictorial cloth boards, bumped and frayed at the corners. Binding sound. Previous owner's notes on front free endpaper, small amount of underlining on about..... Item #14823
New York: Voluntary Parenthood League. Softcover. Very good. Undated, ca. 1920. 4 pp, ca. 6 x 8 inches, self wrappers. Some old creasing, general handling wear; very good. Social reformer Mary Ware Dennett (1872-1947) founded the Voluntary Parenthood League in 1919. The organization's main goal was to change the Comstock..... Item #20639
[College Station, TX]: Friends of the Sterling C. Evans Library, 1989. Friends of the Sterling C. Evans Library Keepsakes, Numbers 18 and 20. Rules and Regulations, 35 pp; Jeff C. Dykes, 48 pp. Both fine copies, in original stapled wrappers. The first booklet is a facsimile reprint (with new introduction)..... Item #20170
New York and Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Company, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 6.5" x 10", 256 pp, illustrated, in original green cloth boards. A fair copy only. Text is complete and clean, but pages are tanned and book was water-damaged at some time. Boards are stained and slightly warped, there..... Item #22080
Salt Lake City: Charles Ellis, 1891. Softcover. Good. "Second edition of five thousand." 32 pp, in original printed wrappers, but with losses at the spine old stab holes from having been bound into boards. Good. A survey and pro-Mormon analysis of various events in the history of the Mormon Church..... Item #20643
Pensacola, FL: Pensacola Historical Society, 1972. Softcover. Very good. Pensacola Historical Society Quarterly, Volume 7, Number 2, October, 1972. 39 pp, with illustrations, in original illustrated stapled wrappers. A few spots of light soiling to wrappers; contents clean and sound. Includes many historic photos of people in costume, as well..... Item #2289
New York: Fisher's, 1846. Softcover. Good+. Approx. 6 x 9-1/4" in sewn printed wraps, pp. [ii], 1, 206-300; age-toned with minor creasing, some loss to the spine, but a good sound copy. This short-lived monthly (it began in June of 1845 and ended in November of 1846) was put forth..... Item #20308
New York: Wm. C. Martin, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 6 x 4 inches, pp viii, [1], 10-71, [1] (errata), in publisher's green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Moderate foxing throughout, frontis portrait of the author lacking, but still a good of a scarce book. The Appendix is titled..... Item #21029
New York: Cramoisy Press, 1863. xiv, [2],43 pp, in original plain wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn along spine and edges. Unopened, rear wrapper chipped, old bookworm or insect damage affecting margin only of last 5 leaves; very good overall. One of the earliest editions of this dictionary, which was reprinted many..... Item #20649
Shannon, Ireland: Irish University Press, 1972. Hardcover. Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1824 edition. iii, 122 pp, xvii (Appendix A), xxviii (Appendix B), x (Appendix C). Correspondence made through the Liverpool Courier and Liverpool Mercury regarding slavery in the West Indies and the United States between John Gladstone, a Scottish..... Item #134
New York: Adolph Wittemann, 1884. Hardcover. Good. 3.25" x 5", oblong, embossed red paper boards stamped in gilt. Internally clean and sound, but lacking paper on the spine, and spine covered in clear tape .Accordion-folded souvenir view book, with 22 lithographed views on 18 panels, as well as a separate..... Item #14245
