London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a poor dust jacket. pp 187 (1), bound in dark red cloth with titles and rules in gilt. Mild rubbing to extremities, internally sound and clean. Front and back panels and flaps of original dust jacket laid in (spine..... Item #20887
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 214 pp, in publisher's green cloth boards with beveled edges, gilt titles. Light rubbing to extremities, else fine. Inscribed on the front flyleaf "A.R. Macdonough, from his old friend Bayard Taylor, Oct. 21, 1875." BAL 19753. Augustus Rodney Macdonough (1820-1907)..... Item #20886
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a very good dust jacket. 429 pp, extensively illustrated with b/w photos. Light sunning to edges of boards, binding tight, text clean. Dust jacket has some very minor staining to the spine and a closed tear to the rear..... Item #20885
Harbor Springs, MI: Good Hart Publishing, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 306 pp, illustrated with line drawings. As new. Kasischke was a member of Rob Hall's ill-fated expedition during the 1996 Everest climbing season. According to the dust jacket, he offers "his perspective and analysis..... Item #20884
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. 234 pp + 14 pages of b/w photographs,map endpapers. Gift inscription dated 1962 on front pastedown, otherwise unmarked, tightly bound. Dust jacket is price-clipped, with minimal edgewear. A very nice copy. Pearson's climbing adventures..... Item #20883
Seoul, Korea: International Publicity League of Korea, 1955. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. 192 pp + ca. 20 pages of ads. Map endpapers. Flexible blue cloth boards show minimal wear; binding tight, contents clean. In original color dust jacket, which is heavily chipped at the edges. Almost..... Item #20882
New York: S.W. Benedict, 1840. First Edition. 4.75 x 3 inches, pp. vi, 265, including index of first lines. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Corners lightly bumped, very slight scattered foxing, nineteenth-century ink stamp of H.J. Jones and penciled signature of Samuel Jones on front free endpaper;..... Item #20881
San Francisco: Henry Grobe, 1917. Sheet music. 10.5 x 13.5 inches, 5 pp. Old dampstaining to back wrapper, abrasion to upper corner front wrapper, partial split at spine; good. An example of the Indianist movement in American classical music, this composition was based on a text and melody transcribed by..... Item #20880
London: Architectural Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 162 pp, extensively illustrated, indexed. Corners are slightly rubbed; else minimal wear. No dust jacket. This book "is meant as a first and preliminary attempt to explain why High Victorian design looks as it does" (foreword). Item #20878
Buenos Aires: Zurbaran Ediciones, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 107 pp, with color illustrations, illustration index. A few very light dents to front cover; else fine. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. Includes work by Raul Alonso, Esther Barugel, Ernesto Bertani, Ary Brizzi, Oscar Campos..... Item #20877
Autograph letter in a beautiful hand, on Ross' pictorial letterhead. Hutto, Texas, 1914. 8.5 x 11 inches, framed with clear glass on verso so entire letter can be read. Very good. Born in Ohio in 1867, Grant P. Ross moved to Texas in 1879, when his father obtained a homestead..... Item #20872
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, [1902]. First Edition. 7.5 x 5 in., 97 pp, with three illustrations from photographs, in original pictorial cloth. Light scuffing to corners and spine ends, pale stain to frontis (not affecting illustration), previous owners' names on front endpapers. Very good. In 1902, the United States depended..... Item #20871
Philadelphia: Barclay & Co. Presumed first edition (title page undated, copyright 1875; a later issue had a copyright date of 1881). 95 pp, with nine wood-engraved plates. Lacking rear wrapper, otherwise complete. Front wrapper is chipped around the edges and has a stain measuring about .75 x 1.25 inches. Good..... Item #20869
Monte Ne, AR: Ozark Trails Association, 1919. 10 x 4.25 inches, 111 pp, with folding map tipped in at front; numerous photographic illustrations and full-page maps. Pictorial wrappers. Moderate cover wear, ink stamp of the Ozarks Realty Company of Thayer, Missouri, on several pages; very good. A wonderful early auto..... Item #20867
Partially printed document completed in manuscript, recording a $100 bond paid (or pledged) for Sanders Franklin, who has been charged with operation of an illegal distillery. Very good condition, with a two-inch split along one fold. The form used dates from the pre-Statehood (1907) era, and in several places the..... Item #20866
Operation Deep Freeze is the general codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica that began with Operation Deep Freeze I, launched in 1955–56 in preparation for scientific work planned as part of the International Geophysical Year (1957-58). Regular missions followed over the following decades, primarily to provide..... Item #20864
War Council of the American Red Cross, 1918. 13.75 x 20.75 inches, printed in black and red. Creasing and general handling wear, edges reinforced with paper tape on the verso. Good. Prior to World War I, the American Red Cross was a small organization, still in the process of developing..... Item #20862
[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
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. Softcover. Very good. "Author's Edition," printed separately, from the Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture for the Year 1888. Original sewn wrappers. Printed slip reading "Compliments of J.M. Rusk, Secretary of Agriculture" tipped in on verso of front wrapper. pp. 3-5-324 + 13 plates..... Item #20856
Sandusky, OH: Published under the supervision of the Fire Lands Historical Society by H.D. Cooke & Co., 1858. First Edition. 48 pp, in original sewn wrappers. Moderate foxing and staining throughout, especially to the last 10 pp. Good. First issue (June 1858) of this periodical dedicated to preserving the history..... Item #20855
London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1912. Hardcover. Very good. First edition in English, translated from the French by D.H.S. Nicholson. xiv, 135 pp (of which 56 are Waite's Introduction), with folding frontispiece. Original dark red cloth with blind-stamped design, gilt lettering. Minor cover wear, some foxing to bottom edge. Binding sound..... Item #20854
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. 478 pp, with index, Introduction by Hugh Trever-Roper. Old price written in pen on front free endpaper, otherwise a fine copy, signed by Mark Lane (without inscription) on the half-title page. In..... Item #20853
New York and Minneapolis: The Drawing Center and University of Minnesota Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Exhibition catalogue, 256 pp, in illustrated paper boards, extensively illustrated with reproductions of Ensor's drawings, some in color. Light rubbing to corners, a few finger smudges on half-title page, otherwise clean, binding..... Item #20852
New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1977. First Edition (Indian). Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. 184 pp, extensively illustrated with both color and b/w photographs. Creasing to upper corner of first five leaves, light bumping to lower corners. Signed "Tenzing" on the half title, with "To William..... Item #20851
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire: The Fleece Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 340 copies issued, printed at The Fleece Press by Simon Lawrence on Hahnemuhle Book Wove mould made paper and bound by Smith Settle of Otley in quarter cloth and paste paper made by Claire Maziarczyk. Tiny stain..... Item #20849
