Centralia, IL: Brown's Business College, 1898. Softcover. Very good. Four-page printed circular (11.5" x 8.75") with photographic illustrations, accompanied by a mimeographed letter on Brown's letterhead and original mailing envelope. Folding creases and light handling wear; very good. Brown's Business College was a chain of business colleges located in the..... Item #22932
Softcover. Very good. 5" x 3.5", [10] pp, with several half-tone photographic illustrations. Light creasing and general handling wear; very good. Scarce promotional booklet for the Berry Schools, which were founded by Martha McChesney Berry (1865-1942) to serve the children of tenant farmers and poor landowners who did not have..... Item #22474
Very good. Single sheet folded to 4 pages, 9.5" x 6.25", with half-tone photographic illustration on cover. Undated, but 1930s. Old folding creases, minor dust soiling; very good. A scarce promotional circular providing a biography and testimonials for "Chief Ho-To-Pi, our own Indian Caruso, Northern Cheyenne Indian tenor." The text..... Item #22590
Very good. Illinois native Ethelbert Stewart (1857-1936) was a longtime employee of the United States Labor Department and a pioneer in the field of labor statistics. Originally a coffin-maker by trade, he developed an interest in labor issues in the 1880s, secured an appointment as Secretary of the Illinois Board..... Item #22689
Very good. Small archive consisting of: a 7.5" x 9.5" sketchbook titled "F.J. Scholz's Own Design Book," containing 38 hand-drawn designs for gravestones on 12 pages; a single 11" x 13 sheet with 9 hand-drawn monument designs by Charles Scholz dated 1885; two original photographs of monuments; six sales cards..... Item #22730
Bennington: Anthony Haswell, 1809. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 10" x 6.5", pp 167, 8 (General List of the State of Vermont for the Year 1808). Sewn binding (as issued), top edges unopened, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. "Town clerk of Vernon" handwritten on blank front wrapper. Includes reports and..... Item #22740
Cincinnati: Russell & Morgan Printing Company, 1883. Very good. Color lithographed poster, 42" x 14.5". Chipping and soiling at margins, old folding creases, but still presents very nicely. Currently shrinkwrapped on foamcore. Images show horse and foot races and a selection of livestock, including cattle, sheep, geese, pigs and goats..... Item #22920
Detroit: Detroit Library Commission, 1928-1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes, pp 657, 829, with illustrations, maps, fascimiles, in original binding of three-quarter black leather and tan cloth. Scuffing to extremities, frontispiece laid in loose in Volume II, else about fine. John Askin was a pominent fur trader and..... Item #22885
Softcover. Fine. Four-page booklet (6.25" x 3.5") advertising a lecture by a Kansas City-based Armenian-American who published several works on the subject of "Americanization." Baghdigian asks his audience to consider America's "spiritual mission" and "glorious destiny" and to remind themselves and others to appreciate freedom. Excerpts from press notices praise..... Item #22387
Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Philadelphia, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. One of 500 copies printed. 9.25" x 11", xviii, 362 pp, with index and illustrations. Front hinge cracked after title page, corners bumped, light soiling to lower corner of front board. Binding otherwise sound, text clean. "A pioneer in..... Item #22992
Toronto: Hunter, Rose & Co., 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Small 8vo, 149 pp, in original green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Light wear to extremities, tear to final blank leaf torn. Inscribed by Belcher on the half-title page to Rev. Charles Cameron. Belcher (1844-1926) was a soldier..... Item #18138
Very good. 15 x 9 inches, printed on thin white cardboard. Large halftone photo of the Globe's carrier at head, with text in three columns underneath. Some light creasing, one spot of damage about an inch from the bottom, but very good overall. The left and right columns list the..... Item #21615
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1900. Hardcover. Near fine. Limited edition, set #179 of 750. Six volumes in original publisher's red cloth: pp xiv + 286; iv + 284; v + 312; vii + 308; ix + 311; ix + 256, with 18 maps, 15 plates, and four facsimiles; bibliography..... Item #22966
Newport, R.I. James Atkinson, 1840. 8vo, 102 pp, in original sewn wrappers. Very good, with a corner missing from rear wrapper and occasional light foxing. First publication in this form; originally a series of articles published in the Newport newspaper Herald of the Times, written in opposition to Van Buren's..... Item #17810
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 520 pp, with frontis portrait of the author, bibliography, and index, in original navy cloth with gilt titles, top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Slight wear to extremities, else fine. Edited by Dana's son, this posthumous collection includes..... Item #23020
New York: American Temperance Union, 1853. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Disbound pamphlet without wrappers. 24 pp; very good. Maine was the first state in the nation to enact a bill criminalizing all purchases of alcohol other than for medicinal or industrial uses. The so-called "Maine Law" was passed in..... Item #23025
London: Richard Bentley, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes, pp. xiv, 416, with lithographed frontispiece and 2 folding maps (all backed on linen); vii, 350, with linen-backed frontispiece. In a later simple blue loth binding. Both volumes well rubbed at the corners, evidence of removal of an ink..... Item #22807
Paris: Amable Auroy, 1688. Second edition (first published 1683, this edition differs just slightly, with minor adjustments to wording and typography). Two parts in one, pp. 312, 107. No map. A very good copy in an attractive binding of speckled calf and marbled boards, with marbled endpapers, gilt spine in..... Item #22437
New York: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1922. Softcover. Very good. An address delivered before the Fifth Biennial Convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, May 11, 1922. 64 pp, staple-bound. Edgewear to wrappers, internals fine. Hillman, who was President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, visited Russian..... Item #22664
Softcover. Very good. Book and illustrated card promoting the exploits of John Albert Krohn, an American long-distance walker who billed himself as "Sailor Jean" during his first cross-country walk, in 1903, and as "Colonial Jack" during his second, in 1908. The 5" x 7" card, sold by Krohn to support..... Item #22247
![Item #22247 The Walk of Colonial Jack [with] Sailor Jean and His Trolleyette. John Albert Krohn](https://walkaboutbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22247_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1666331406)
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
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1835. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes bound in three-quarter black morcocco and black cloth, with raised bands, gilt spine lettering, marbled edges. A very good set with some scatered foxing, housed in a custom slipcase. Clark III, 62: Latrobe came to America..... Item #22855
Philadelphia: B. Graves, 1806. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp v, [1],648 + index, with one folding table, in original full calf with red spine label. Leather scuffed, corner torn from table, with small loss of text, otherwise sound and clean. Bookplate of Benjamin Lincoln Lear (1792-1832, attorney and..... Item #22543
Philadelphia: Thos. H. Palmer, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 296 pp, with facsimile folding map (retaining a small section of the original) and five original acquatint plates, bound in modern green cloth with red leather spine label. Title page has a repaired tear, plates are trimmed close at the outer..... Item #23000
New York: Mason Brothers, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 522 pp, with portrait and facsimile letter, bound in later three-quarter leather over pebbled cloth boards. Fine copy, tighly bound and clean.Choate was an American lawyer, orator, and Senator who represented Massachusetts as a member of the Whig Party. He is..... Item #23023
