Boston: James Osgood, 1879. Hardcover. Very good-. Sixth edition, with maps and revisions. 308 pp, with two colored folding maps, bound in green cloth with beveled edges. Bookplate of the Second Baptist Church, St. Louis, on front endpaper, otherwise clean. Some wear to extremities, spine lean, paper over rear hinge..... Item #20655
London: Hutchinson & Co. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. 192 pp, in publishers red cloth with gilt embellishment. Some light foxing, faint spotting to cloth, otherwise a very nice copy, in the scarce dust jacket, which is lightly sunned at the spine. Item #20654
Boone, IA: Press of W.H. Gallup, [1901]. Softcover. Very good. 16 pp, with many illustrations from photographs. Wrappers printed in red and green, each page with a decorative border in color. Moderate general handling wear. Provides a history of the construction of this railroad bridge, which is "unequalled in the..... Item #20652
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. First Edition. Two volumes, pp. 492; 496; with five folding maps, 20 beautiful colored lithograph plates, and additional wood-engraved illustrations in the text. An attractive set in contemporary 3/4 leather and marbled boards, gilt spines with black and red leather labels. Volume..... Item #20651
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x, [13]-386, in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends, corners rubbed through, slightly shaken, but still a better than average copy of this title, which is often found in poor condition. Hill (1910): The ships made port in..... Item #20650
New York: Cramoisy Press, 1863. xiv, [2],43 pp, in original plain wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn along spine and edges. Unopened, rear wrapper chipped, old bookworm or insect damage affecting margin only of last 5 leaves; very good overall. One of the earliest editions of this dictionary, which was reprinted many..... Item #20649
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1909. Hardcover. Very good. First edition in English. 217 pp. with index, 3 maps, and more than 70 photographic illustrations. Foxing to the first ca. 20 pp, otherwise a very nice copy. "Major Émile Antoine Henry de Bouillane de Lacoste (1867–1937) was a military..... Item #20648
Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press. Hardcover. Near fine. Undated.Number 265 of a limited edition of 1100 copies printed on mould-made paper by the Hurlburt Paper Company, using Waverley and Lydian fonts. Folio. Beautifully illustrated with colored woodcuts by Boyd Hanna. List of Patrons and Sponsors for this edition printed..... Item #20644
Salt Lake City: Charles Ellis, 1891. Softcover. Good. "Second edition of five thousand." 32 pp, in original printed wrappers, but with losses at the spine old stab holes from having been bound into boards. Good. A survey and pro-Mormon analysis of various events in the history of the Mormon Church..... Item #20643
Paris: J. Bry Ainé, Libraire, Editeur, 1854. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8 x 11 3/4 inches, 205 pp, printed on rectos only. Original wrappers printed in red and green, but with spine (and some paper near the spine) replaced with a modern paper. Moderate foxing to the first 30 pages..... Item #20641
Mentor, Ohio: Generator Press, 1991. Softcover. Fine. 39 pp, fine in original stapled wrappers. A volume in the Generator Press Chapbook Series (offering "a wide range of contemporary experimental visual and language poetries") and a scarce Higgins title. Publisher John Byrum writes in his preface "Dick Higgins wrote The Autobiography..... Item #20640
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New York: Voluntary Parenthood League. Softcover. Very good. Undated, ca. 1920. 4 pp, ca. 6 x 8 inches, self wrappers. Some old creasing, general handling wear; very good. Social reformer Mary Ware Dennett (1872-1947) founded the Voluntary Parenthood League in 1919. The organization's main goal was to change the Comstock..... Item #20639
1904. [31] pp, with illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Spine covered with archival tape, line in ink on the margin of one page, otherwise clean and sound. In 1898, the Salvation Army undertook a project intended to relocate urban working poor people to rural areas and enable them to..... Item #20638
Boston: True and Greene, 1825. First Edition. 22 pp, complete with original wrappers, but with the stiching perished, so gatherings are loose. Pink staining to front wrapper, edgewear, otherwise very good. Scarce pamphlet criticizing monopolies in general and, more specifically, the factions who opposed a new (toll-free) bridge in Boston..... Item #20637
Carte de visite photograph of Frances Coryell (here spelled Coryel), "a Hindoo girl buried alive by her heathen parents," sold to raise funds for the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was a Protestant woman's missionary organization founded by Methodists in Boston in 1869. The story of..... Item #20635
Denver: Tribune Book and Job Printing House, 1876. Softcover. Near fine. 65 pp, in original printed wrappers. A few chips, finger smudge on front wrap, internally fine. First edition of the Constitution that brought Colorado into the Union as the hundredth state. Eberstadt notes that "the address to the voters..... Item #20633
Zurich: Wolfsberg. Softcover. Near Fine. Four-panel folding lithograph brochure, 18 x 44 cm when unfolded, undated but c. 1920s. One side entirely a color lithograph view of hikers overlooking Aletsch Glacier (the largest glacier in the Alps) from 11480 feet on Jungfraujoch, with other peaks identified in the background. The..... Item #20632
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New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1861. Softcover. Good. Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 15, New Series. 4.5 x 7.25 inches, 166 of 168 pp -- lacking final leaf of index and rear wrapper.Some chipping to front wrapper; internally very good. A founding member of the New England Anti-Slavery Society and the American..... Item #20631
Faux red crocodile leather album, 10 x 14 in., with embossed gilt lettering and metal clasp closure, 40 black paper leaves interleaved with glassine on which are mounted ca. 125 black and white photographs ranging in size from 2 x 3 to 5 x 7 inches. Titled in Russian on..... Item #20629
Commercial photograph album, 7.5 x 9.25 in., containing 120 original b/w photographs, as well as a hand-drawn, colored Oktoberfest menu. Photos are approximately 2 x 3 in. Some wear on boards, all 32 pages interleaved with glassine, almost all photographs captioned in a clear hand; very good. A commemorative album..... Item #20628
Railway Bureau, Government General of Chosen, 1931. First Edition. 6 x 9 in., 45 pp, in attractive pictorial wrappers, with illustrations from photographs throughout, double-page colored Sketch Map of Chosen at the center. Light edgewear; near fine. As conveniently explained in the Introduction, "This publication has been prepared for the..... Item #20627
Tamatave, Madagascar: 1892-93. Four-page newspaper with the first page containing articles in English under the masthead of The Madagascar Mail, the second page containing ads in both English and French, and the final two pages containing articles in French under the masthead of Le Courrier de Madagascar. 12.5 x 18.5..... Item #20625
Nakatsucho, Japan: ca. 1910. 7.5 x 10.5 in., oblong, in string-tied faux-leather boards. Some edgewear, one tie replaced and one lacking. Very good. Souvenir view book with two pages of text in Japanese, folding map, and 34 half-tone photographic plates captioned in Japanese and English. Located in the upper and..... Item #20624
New York: French Press and Information Service, [1945]. 8.25 x 10.75 in., 16 pp, with six half-tone illustrations showing the Saint-Laurent Penitentiary, political and economic map of French Guiana on back cover. Stapled wrappers. Some general handling wear; very good. Written for an American audience, this booklet seeks to dispel..... Item #20623
Published for the Association of Czechoslovak Spa Visitors and Friends of Karlovy Vary. Undated, ca. 1928. 5 x 9 in., pp 35, [11] (ads), with illustrations from photographs. Wrappers somewhat soiled, faint odor of cigarette smoke; good. Karlovy Vary [called Karlsbad in Germnan and Carlsbad in English] is a spa..... Item #20621
