San Francisco: Temple of Religion and Tower of Peace, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. xxx, 96 pp + ground plan, with illustrations. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with mild wear to the top edge. Laid in is "Opening Program, Temple of..... Item #22857
Edinburgh: The University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Good. 205 pp, indexed. Library label on spine and bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a very good copy, clean and tightly bound. No dust jacket. Text of the Gray Lectures, delivered before the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge in 1966. Item #22856
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 7.5" x 5", 203 pp, illustrated and indexed. A good, sound copy with rubbing to covers, reinforced hinges, internal library discard markings. An important work aimed directly at advertisers (rather than store owners), and offering a "scientifc" approach based..... Item #22822
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1812. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 488 pp, in contemporary full calf binding with red spine label. Lacking front free endpaper, otherwise complete. Chip missing from head of spine, bookplate of the Little Rock Circulating Library on front pastedown, moderate toning and foxing, both joints cracked, with..... Item #22813
Washington: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853. Hardcover. Good. 4to, pp vi, 173, complete with 37 folding maps, charts, and tables. Original full-leather binding with red and black spine labels. Volume itself in fair condition -- both boards partially detached; loss of leather at spine ends and along bottom edge; stamps..... Item #22809
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 215 pp, in publisher's black cloth binding. No dust jacket. Foxing to edges of text block and occasionally in the margins, minor wear to boards, front hinge slightly wobbly, but still very good. An influential study of five..... Item #22808
Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 178 pp + index, bound in flexible embossed buckram boards, with map endpapers. Light rubbing along front joint, else fine. "The Hastings Cutoff was an alternative route for westward emigrants to travel to California, as proposed by Lansford..... Item #22806
Santee, Nebraska: Santee Normal Training School Press, 1929. Softcover. Very good. Revised edition. 4.5 x 6 inches, pp 20, [4] (ads for additional publications). Some creasing to wrappers, internals sound and clean. Stephen Return Riggs (1812-1883) was a missionary and linguist who lived among the Dakota people. This is a...... Item #22805
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 304 pp, illustrated. Light foxing throughout, mostly confined to the margins. Original brown cloth binding with image of the Mission House stamped in gilt on the front board. Corners and spine ends rubbed, small losses to spine cloth. Item #22803
Custer, WA: Phoenix Publishing, 1989. Softcover. Near fine. Trade paperback with very minor shelfwear. Item #22801
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 120 pp, in original tan cloth boards with printed titles. Internally sound and clean with the exception of some minor soiling on the front endpapers. Edges and spine show heavy wear, with some loss of the cloth. Item #22800
Hollywood, CA: Cooper Ornithological Club, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 127 pp, with one map, index. Text and original wrappers bound into an attractive later binding of three-quarter red leather and red cloth, with blue marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Henry E. Childs, Jr. on front pastedown, otherwise unmarked, clean..... Item #22799
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis University, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas Volume I. xii, 290 pp, with index, bibliography, 3 plates and 2 folding maps. A fine copy in three-quarter red leather over red cloth..... Item #22790
El Paso, TX: Sundance Press for Yselta Del Sur Pueblo, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 11 x 8.5 inches, 48 pp, hardcover without dust jacket (as issued). One page (3/4) with creasing and short tears, else fine. Scarce book reproducing images of Ysleta del Sur Pueblo from the period..... Item #22788
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume XIII. 109 pp, with index and bibliography. Three-quarter red leather over red buckram, gilt lettering on spine. Pages slightly browned, else fine. "A Jesuit priest and teacher..... Item #22786
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute, 1968-1976. Hardcover. Very good. Vols III, IV, V. XI, and XII of the Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas series. Volume I, Spanish Writings: I, Sermons, Counsels, Letters, and Reports; Volume II: Defense of the Indians, Their Rights I: Latin..... Item #22785
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume X. xi, 793 pp, with Ives' map (18" x 19") laid in; index, bibliography. Three-quarter red leather over red buckram, gilt lettering on..... Item #22784
El Paso, TX: Sundance Press, 2000-2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Four volumes ca. 11 x 8.5 inches, with illustrations, references, maps, index. Minor shelfwear; internals sound and clean. The major source on the history and cultural heritage of the Tigua Indians and other Native Americans of the El Paso..... Item #22783
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, [1836]. Hardcover. Good. “Written for the American Sunday-School Union and Revised by the Committee of Publication.” 5.75” x 3.75”, 36 pp, cloth-backed marbled boards. Good only: hinges cracked, losses to spine cloth, pages a bit rippled. “Sister Mary’s Stories are designed to exhibit the goodness..... Item #22781
Boston: New England Sabbath School Union, 1853. Hardcover. Very good. 6” x 3.75”, 36 pp, with engraved frontispiece. Leather spine with gilt lettering, marbled boards. Spine ends chipped, a few finger smudges on pages, but overall very good. Moral tale relating to a family settling in the West. Item #22780
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union. Hardcover. Very good. [1850], [1848]. 5.75” x 3.75”, pp. 34, 23, each story with an illustrated frontispiece. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards with paper spine label reading “The Little Queen.” Edgewear to boards, label chipped, internals sound and clean. Penciled signatures on front free endpaper (“Susan March..... Item #22779
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Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union. Hardcover. Very good. Undated; OCLC suggests ca. 1827-1838. 5.75” x 3.75”, 101 pp, with engraved frontispiece, in original cloth-backed marbled boards with paper spine label. Very good. “Designed to show the temptations and sins to which boys are often exposed on such occasions,” according to a...... Item #22778
New York: Published for the Methodist Episcopal Church by N. Bangs and J. Emory; Azor Hoyt, Printer, 1827. Hardcover. Very good. Fourth American Edition. 4.25” x 2.75”, in contemporary quarter leather and marbled boards. vi, 160 pp, indexed. Very good. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Presented to Ira Folsome..... Item #22777
New York: D. Appleton, 1859. Hardcover. Good. “By the author of ‘Aunt Fanny’s Christmas Stories.’” 6.5” x 5”, 171 pp + 8 engraved illustrations. A good or better copy in publisher’s blind-stamped cloth with gilt vignette of a young woman on upper board. Chipping to spine cloth along rear joint..... Item #22776
New York: McLoughlin Bros. Softcover. Good. [10] pp printed on linen, with 8 color illustrations. Undated, ca, 1867-1880s. Covers well worn (despite being billed as “indestructible”), internally very good. “Susie Sunshine’s Series.”. Item #22775
