Salem, MA: Newcomb and Gauss, Printers, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 251 pp, with frontispiece and many sketches by the author (which are rather amateurish, but charming). Mild marginal dampstain to the first few pages, boards a bit scuffed, rubbed at corners and spine ends. The author joined the..... Item #12740
London: Seeley, Service, & Co, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 348 pp + illustrations + publisher's catalogue, with index. Light general wear to boards including a short (less than 1 inch) tear at base of spine, name on front free endpaper, minimal toning to illustrations and surrounding pages; else..... Item #1622
Dayton, OH: United Brethren Publishing House, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. 86 pp, with frontis portrait of the author. Original green cloth boards. Titles rubbed, some wear to extremities, mild spine slant. Binding sound, text clean. Baldwin was a member of the East Ohio Conference and was an itinerant..... Item #14541
Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Company, 1925. Hardcover. Very good. Single volume, 1172 pp, extensively illustrarted, containing all three volumes in this set. 10" x 7.5" x 2.75", bound in three quarter leather and light brown cloth, with marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Leather scuffed at extremities, binding sound, text pristine..... Item #23636
![Item #23636 The Life of Samuel Johnson [Three Volumes in One]. James Boswell, Roger Ingpen](https://walkaboutbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/23636_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745776841)
Boston and New York: Lee and Shepard; Charles T. Dillingham, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 6" x 7.5", [19] leaves printed rectos only. Original brick red cloth decorated in black with gilt title, beveled edges, all edges gilt. Offsetting to first leaf (dedication) from something once laid in; else..... Item #24198
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
St. Louis: Western Publishing Company, Jones & Griffin, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 564 pp, illustrated and indexed, bound in original green cloth with embossed title and decoration on front board, gilt spine. Moderate wear to boards, previous owners' names on front pastedown, evidence of something tipped-in and then..... Item #24079
Brown Printing Co., 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 18 pp, in stapled cardstock wrappers. Fine copy. Personal reminiscences of the author, who was born in Holly Springs in 1883, followed by historical tidbits about the Depot Hotel, Illinois Central Railroad House, Market House, Holly Springs Marble Works, Holly Springs Newspapers..... Item #23362
London: George Rivers, [1879]. Softcover. Near fine. Four-page pamphlet (single sheet, folded), 4.25 x 6.75 inches, printed in blue on cream stock. One tiny nick on first page, else fine. After explanatory remarks, Drury reprints excerpts of (mostly critical) reviews of his book, "Drury's Comical French Grammar; or French, in..... Item #21836
Chicago: Callaghan & Company, 1876. Hardcover. Very good. Complete set of four volumes, 6 x 9.25 inches, uniformly bound in publisher's maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering, black rules on boards and spine. Rubbing/slight fraying to spine ends, some general scuffing to boards, previous owner's signature on front flyleaf of..... Item #23563
![Item #23563 Speeches of Lord Erskine While at the Bar, Volumes I, II, III, IV [Four-Volume Set]....](https://walkaboutbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/23563.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1712885042)
New York: William Morrow, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 322 pp, indexed and extensively illustrated, bound in original brown cloth. Mild wear to head of spine, previous owner's address label on front pastedown, else fine. Dust jacket has some old tape reinforcements but..... Item #24472
San Francisco: Hutchings and Rosenfield, 1861. [3]-4-236 pp, with 93 illustrations, bound in publisher's blue cloth with decoration. Corners rubbed through, cloth partially split along front joint, some pale staining to boards, small repair to title page, but still very good overall. Front free endpaper inscribed "George F. Noyes, San..... Item #24201
Sydney and Brisbane: A. Hutchison & Son, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 10" x 6.25", pp xxiv, 690, with 22 tissue-guarded chromilithograph plates. Original cloth binding, Moderate rubbing to edges and corners of boards; binding tight, a few pages with finger smudges, but generally clean. Inglis (1845 -1908) ran..... Item #23376
Philadelphia: D. Graeber, Printer, 1894. 6 7/8" x 4 5/8", 24 pp. Minor damage to head of spine, wrappers partially split at spine, staining and a closed tear to front wrapper; good. Offers "Roman Gold and Bronzes for Royal Worcester and Doulton decorations on china or glass," enamel powders, enamel..... Item #23718
Pasadena, CA: Radiant Life Press, 1917. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo, pp. 48 + 7 b/w plates, in original stapled pictorial wrappers. Some chipping and tiny tears to wrappers;contents clean. James first saw Captain, a performing horse owned by W.A. Sigsbee of Chicago, at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San..... Item #18962
Pasadena, CA: George Wharton James, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. pp. 504, [2] index, illustrated with line drawings. Good only, with wear and soiling to the boards (flexible cloth), front hinge cracked. Includes a useful general history of the region and interesting detail on place names, topography, natural resources..... Item #21531
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1928. Hardcover. Near fine in a good dust jacket. First printing of the new revised edition, published as part of the See America First series. 351 pp, with illustrations from photographs by James, including a foling panorama. A very near fine copy with just a...... Item #24287
Boston: Mass. Sunday School Society, 1843. First American Edition. Softcover. Very good. Chapbook. 2.75 x 4.55 inches. v, (7)-64 pp, in original blue printed wrappers. 3/4 inch loss of paper at lower spine, some corners dogeared, overall very good. "Illustrates the benefits deriveable from fellow Christians watching over and reproving..... Item #13914
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing (first published 1927), inscribed by James on the front free endpaper in 1932. xii, 242 pp, with illustrations by the author. Bookplate of the inscribee, Helen Hull Monnette (daughter of Bank of America founder Orra Eugene Monnette), on front..... Item #21199
![Item #21199 Cow Country [SIGNED]. Will James](https://walkaboutbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21199_0001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1594942564)
Toronto: Star Printing and Publishing, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Original blue cloth puckered in spots, rubbed through at corners and spine ends. Binding sound, contents clean. 353 pp, with 51 gravure plates, but lacking the folding map. The author traversed the Marotse..... Item #13102
New Castle, PA: W.B. Thomas, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 7.5" x 5", 262 pp, with frontis portrait of Rose, in original blue cloth with decoration in black and gilt. Insect nibbling to cloth, short note in ink on verso of frontispiece, otherwise clean and sound. Rose was a...... Item #22591
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1837. First American edition, complete in two volumes. 8vo, pp xlv (memoir of the author by Dalloway), 397 + ads; [13]-444, including index. Robinson (Wayward Woman) says Lady Montagu (1689-1762) was "the first authoress to travel abroad for mere curiosity's sake and call herself, with..... Item #16558
Oakland, CA: Lloyd Green, 1965. Softcover. Very Good. Second edition. xiii, 107 pp, in original illustrated wrappers. "Complimentary" stamps on inside covers, light shelf wear; contents clean and sound. A collection of poetry organized into eight parts: Home Sweet Home, Childhood, Careless Youth, Picture of Life's Other Side, Philosophy, Political..... Item #1329
New York: Garland Publishing, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Series: Themes in European Expansion: Exploration, Colonization, and the Impact of Empire. 474 pp, indexed. Lists 3089 items. The first attempt to compile a comprehensive bibliography of English and foreign-language pamphlets and books pertaining to British East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika..... Item #13712
Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1955. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 11.75" x 8.75", 67 pp, with 8 plates (including folding facsimile of Queen Elizabeth's 1573 Proclamation enforcing the Order of the Observance of the Book of Common Prayer), in gray boards with title and decoration..... Item #23800
