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, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. xv, 411, with color frontispiece and numerous illustrations from photographs, index, two maps in a rear pocket. Original brick-red cloth stamped in gilt, with vignette of burros on front board. Mild rubbing to extremities, paper partially split at..... Item #15504
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
London: Houlston & Wright, [1856]. Hardcover. Very Good. Fourth edition. 308 pp, with frontispiece, engraved illustrations. Red cloth boards with blind-stamped and gilt decoration. Some wear and light soiling to boards, both hinges starting; text clean. This copy does not have the extra engraved title page mentioned by Flake (5181)..... Item #3091
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
![Fools Crow [Signed Copy, with Original Sketch]. Thomas E. Mails](/pictures/thumb/19442_1.jpg?v=1519174344)
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
New York: Cassell Publishing, 1892. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xvii, 291 pp, with two facsimile letters, many illustrations from photographs, map of the route traversed. Original green cloth with decoration in gilt. Slight rubbing to corners, very faint dampstain to lower inner corner of front board. Inscribed on..... Item #20657
![On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers [SIGNED]. Kate Marsden](/pictures/thumb/20657.jpg?v=1571435890)
Gardner, MA: Art Publishing Company, 1891. Cover titled simply "Souvenir." 5.25 x 7 inches, bound in paper wrappers patterned to simulate leather, tied with a shoelace, and with an illustration of a shoe on the front wrapper. Unpaginated. 23 leaves, including text and 16 leaves of plates. Light general handling..... Item #19965
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
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
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. Hardcover. Good. Third edition, revised and enlarged (with mining content not found in the first edition). 251 pp, with frontis engraving of the Mowry Silver Mines. Original brown cloth boards are edgeworn, with corners rubbed through, chips at spine ends, and cloth partially split..... Item #2696
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917-1924. Hardcover. Near fine. Complete set of 10 volumes, uniformly bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards, with marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, and lovely gilt tree decoration on spines. Some uneven darkening/staining (of unknown origin) to spines, but still quite attractive and otherwise a fine set..... Item #20703
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
Kearny, NE: John A. Stryker. Undated, ca. 1920. 48 pp, 6 x 9 inches, oblong, in original string-tied wrappers, with oval cut-out window on front cover revealing color landscape below. Light soiling and edgewear to wraps, lower corner of last three leaves clipped; very good. Scarce promotional view book, containing..... Item #19881
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
Northern Pacific Railway. Wraps. Near fine. Undated, ca. 1916. 10 x 6-3/4" stapled chromo-litho- and gilt-printed cardstock wraps, unpaginated but 16 leaves printed recto and verso with text and b/w half-tone photographs, plans, and maps (one on a 2-page spread) within wide photographic peach/sepia borders; wraps a bit rubbed and..... Item #20295
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4.75" x 7.25". pp xix, 291 + publisher's ads. Original green cloth with titles in gilt. Some old insect damage to boards, otherwise clean and sound. Ober was an American naturalist, hunter, and explorer who wrote and lectured..... Item #14830
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
