New York: Welch, Fracker Company, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. First edition in English. 12mo, 343 pp, illustrated by Benjamin Constant and Aime Marot. Publisher's green cloth with decoration in gilt, image of a warrior on horseback on front board. Mild rubbing to extremities, a few pages chipped at... Item #14049
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Number 108 of a limited edition of 150 copies, signed by Lyman on the limitation page. 394 pp, illustrated with plates from photographs, paintings and engravings, and with four folding facsimile letters not found in the trade edition. Two-toned... Item #19662
Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. 278 pp. Upper corners lightly bumped, else a fine copy, incribed on the front free endpaper "For Mary Gormly: in warmest friendship, T.E. Mails, 7-27-80." Beneath the inscription is a hand-drawn sketch of a Native... Item #19442
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1859. First Edition. pp xiii, 340, with illustrations, folding map. Original brown cloth with blind-stamped decoration, re-backed with spine laid down. Very good. This practical guide for overland travelers to California and other western destinations was a nineteenth-century bestseller. Marcy provides advice on selection of... Item #19410
London: Heinemann, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo., viii 228 pp., frontispiece with original tissue guard, title-page with publisher’s windmill device, floriated initials. Original quarter parchment and “Madonna” blue paper boards, lettering and author’s symbol in gilt on upper board, lettering in gilt on backstrip. Pages unopened. Internally bright..... Item #19904
Adelaide and Sydney: Government Printers, 1916-1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Near-complete set, lacking only Series A, Volume I (2 parts) and Series C, Volume I, Part III ("Parasitic Infusoria from Maquarie Island," 12 pp). Ex-library, 11 physical volumes uniformly bound in red buckram with gilt titles on spines, "Calif Inst... Item #18331
Portland, ME: David Tucker, 1858. First Edition. 48 pp, 4.5 x 7.5 inches, in original salmon wrappers illustrated with wood engraving of the unfortunate Mr. Trask. "Peru, ME." written in ink on front wrapper, otherwise clean. Very good. Leonard Trask (1806-1861) fell from his horse while in his twenties, seriously... Item #19863
Napa City, CA: Reporter Publishing House, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 356 pp, with frontispiece and 28 additional illustrations, some full-page. Original rust-colored cloth boards and heavily worn, with several tears in the cloth and places where the underlying cardboard is visible. Spine lettering is faded, some foxing to endpapers... Item #2928
New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 268 pp, illustrated with color and b/w photographs.Slight softening to spine ends, else a fine copy. Briefly inscribed and signed by Messner beneath the epigraph. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has just a.... Item #12395
New York: Howe & Bates, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4 x 6.25 inches, in orignal brown cloth with mounted paper label (rubbed) on spine. Boards lightly soiled and edgeworn, foxing throughout text. Odd Fellows library bookplate ("I.O. of O.F. Library Inst.d June 1842") on front pastedown. A sensationalist anti-Catholic... Item #19884
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xvi, 368 pp, with two maps (one folding) and many illustrations from photographs. Original red cloth boards stamped in gilt and black. Spine slant, slight sunning to upper board, previous owner's name on front... Item #13051
Modern three-ring binder containing 27 black and white 8” x 10” photographs showcasing high-end vehicles for rent from the Iowa Garage, owned by former race car mechanic Eugene Lajunie of Pasadena. Each photo is accompanied by a typed caption giving the model number, color, some specifications, and the price per... Item #20563
London: A.W. Bennett, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. pp. viii, 278, [2] (ads), frontis portrait of the author and 15 plates illustrating aspects of Ojibwe life and culture. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title on spine. Edges trimmed, mild spine slant; very good. Jones (1802-1856) was a Mississauga... Item #14866
London: White, Cochrane and Co., 1814. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Two volumes, pp xxxvi, 358; [359]-751, [6] ads. In a simple modern binding of brown cloth with leather spines; endpapers replaced. Although not a married set (at least, not recently), for unknown reasons Vol. I has been trimmed, while Vol... Item #14940
London: Macmillan, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. pp xiii, 356, [1] (ad) in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Corners rubbed through, hinges/joints repaired (likely by an amateur), foxing to first and last few pages only. Best known for his work on evolution, Alfred Russel Wallace did extensive... Item #17397
Buffalo, NY: Dodge Art Publishing Company, 1892. First Edition. Souvenir folder of lovely chromolithograph views of Lake Chautauqua in western New York. Cloth-backed paper boards, 3 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches when folded. Ten views in all, one mounted on the front cover and nine accordion folded inside, with one... Item #18042
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
Portland: Portland Printing House, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 495 pp, extensively illustrated with "splendid halftone engravings and etchings of important incidents" and "the latest photographs of the principal actors in the great land fraud drama." Light wear to extremities; near fine. According to the Oregon Encyclopedia, "Stephen Puter... Item #15562
Philadelphia: 1869. Hardcover. Good. pp. 250 + folding profile (but lacking folding map). Modern red cloth binding with minimal wear, contents clean, profile in very good condition. An important railway survey that that opened vast areas of the west to public knowledge. This report describes efforts to determine the best... Item #16538
London: Edward Arnold, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 331 pp + publisher's catalogue, with 8 plates, additional illustrations in the text, and two folding maps. Original burgundy cloth, with some uneven discoloration to the spine and mild wear to the corners, small stain on front board. Internals clean and... Item #16723
Salem, MA: Salem Press Publishing and Printing, 1891. Hardcover. Good. viii, 341 pp. Boards worn and soiled, name written on verso of last page, binding has some looseness to it, but still sound; text clean. Describes storms, comets, earthquakes, Aurora Borealis, winters, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, gales, meteors, avalanches, and other... Item #2565
New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago: Historical Publishing Company, 1886. 9.25 x 12 inches, pp [iv] 33-292, in original blind-stamped black cloth with gilt lettering reading " Industries of Pennsylvania" on upper board. Light rubbing to corners; rear board is dampstained, but interior is untouched, clean and sound. Very good. A.... Item #20050
Richmond, K[Y]: John A. Grimes, 1812. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8 vo, pp vi, 336. Recent quarter leather and marbled boards; spine with red label, gilt decoration, raised bands. Fine. Buchanan (1785-1829) was an inventor and lecturer on medicine. This work, written as a series of lectures for a yet-to-be-founded... Item #14963
San Francisco: Privately Published, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Number 11 of a limited edition of 250 copies, printed by John Henry Nash. 54 pp, with 12 tipped-in photographic plates and a folding map of the route. Original cloth-backed tan boards with paper spine label. Considerable soiling to boards, some... Item #16947
Washington DC: J. & G.S. Gideon, 1849. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 16 pp, in original self-wrappers. Some handling wear, light foxing. Preston proposed the creation of a single new state from all of the former Mexican territory. It was generally assumed that this would not be a slave state... Item #1533
