Washington (1841-42): Peter Force. Unbound. 12mo, 62 pages, 1 page of contents, 2 diagrams, 1 folding; disbound, stitched. This directory lists the following: names of senators, representatives, and delegates, with their post-offices and distircts; boarding houses and messes; alphabetical congress directory; committees, senate, house and joint; select committees; residences of... More
Boston 1814-1815: T.B. Wait & Sons. Hard Cover. Octavo. In 5 volumes, 1801-1815, vol. 1. 512pp., vol. 2. 511pp., vol. 3. 502pp., vol. 4. 536pp., vol. 5. 674pp., [xlvii] index. first four volumes bound in original blue paper covered boards with paper spine labels, the last volume bound in contemporary... More
Los Angeles County. Original Wraps. Quarto, 352 pages; Southern California Telephone Co.; Stiff paper wrappers, printed in black. Page one has an illustration of the exchanges in Los Angeles County, from Newhall and Lancaster in the North, Claremont and Pomona in the East, Santa Monica and Malibu in the West... More
Philadelphia: W. Spotswood, 1789. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. 721-750, frontis and rear wrapper lacking. Contains The Report of the Committee of American Manufacturers, and the article "At a meeting of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, and the relief of free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage." Also... More
Philadelphia: William Young, 1792. Original Wraps. 12mo, pp. 83-152; original gray printed wrappers, rear wrap lacking. Contains, from Bartram's Travels, "Account of the Muscogulges, or Creeks; the Cherokees, Chactaws, and other Southern tribes of the North-American Indians. Also contains "Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Subject of... More
Philadelphia: William Young, 1792. Unbound. Octavo, unbound; ; pages 147-216. contains proceedings of Congress. String tied, uncut. Contains an article by Dr. Benjamin Rush. Very good. More
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1917. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo, 235 pages; original publisher's orange cloth, printed in gilt. Mr. Abbott and his brother, Alvin, went West at the beginning of the gold rush. Abbott tried gold mining, cattle ranching, hotel ownership and railroading; ever the entreprenure, he... More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government, 1902. Offered are the following Very Good++ to Fine inserts in original printed wrappers: Series I- Volume I-LIII; Series II-Volume I-VIII; Series III-Volume I-V; Series IV-Volumes I-III; Atlas; General Index Volume, Serial No. 130. Original mailing envelope from "Official Records of the Union and Confederate... More
New York: Harper Collins, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MADELEINE ALBRIGHT to the first woman governor of Arizona, Rose Mofford, 339pp., with an introduction by president Bill Clinton; bound in 1/4 black cloth over burgundy paper covered boards, spine lettering copper. A.... More
Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Small Octavo. Bound in quarter leather and marbled boards. Copyright page states "on the eleventh day of November, A. D. 1830." With frontis folding map of the eclipse of Feb 12th, in its passage across the United States. A very good... More
New York: American Institute of Mining Enginers, 1910. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. 946 pages, errata. Contemporary 3/4 leather, spine lettered in gilt, marbled end papers. Owner name on title page and FEP. A very good copy, internally very clean. More
Texas: The Summit Publishing Group, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. xxii, 262 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. SIGNED BY JOE ARPAIO ON HALF TITLE PAGE without personalization. More
California: Prima Publishing, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. xiv, 258 pp. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on FEP BY MARY KAY ASH. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1879. Hard Cover. Six volumes, octavo (8" x 5 1/2"), 3/4 burgundy morocco, over marbled boards, marbled end papers; six panels, generously and tastefully decorated in gilt. "Thoroughly Revised Edition" with illustrations. Top edges gilt. Internally clean and bright; tissue guards. A fine, lovely and impressive set. More
New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1905. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. 231 pages. Bound in original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; double page map frontis. Translated from his own narrative by Fanny Bandelier; together with the report of Father Marcos of Nizza and a letter from the Viceroy Mendoza. More
New York: Rinehart & Co. 1946. First Edition. Full Leather. Octavo. Bound in full red morocco, by Brown & Bigelow of St. Paul. A lovely, near fine copy, with ownership name of New York Municipal Court Judge, William J. Morris printed in gilt on front panel, below the gilt image... More
Boston (1817-18-20): Cummings and Hilliard. First Edition. Full-Leather. Three volumes in six, octavo (25 cm x 16.5cm); the first color plate book printed in America; the plates were printed by aquatint, with the ink applied to the plates "a la poupee." Being a collection of the native medicinal plants of... More
City of Washington: The Globe Office for the Editors, 1836. Hard Cover. Quarto. First Session, Volume III, SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY MILLARD FILMORE/BUFFALO/N.Y. 4to. 486pp., Monday, Dec. 14, 1835-July 4, 1836 together with an Appendix to the Congressional Globe 1-679pp. including an index to the Senate and to... More
New York: Boy Scouts of America, 1912. First Edition. Original Wraps. 12mo. 404 pages, with 24 pages of ads at rear. Bound in original binding of flexible maroon wrappers, depicting a boy waving his hat above his head, on fron wrap. First edition, early printing; internally clean, with no writing... More
New York: Boy Scouts of America, 1913. Proof Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. Bound in original plain brown cloth, 344 pages. "Proof Edition" in center of title page, followed by a note: "A limited number of the proof edition of the Handbook has been made available with a view of securing... More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 294 pages. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, with small loss at spine ends and a short closed tear on front spine fold. More
New York: Gaylord Watson, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. Octavo, 176 pages, 4 pages of ads at rear; frontis; original brown cloth, decorated in gilt and black. A very near fine copy, with light browning to fore-edge of title page. More
Essex, UK (2012): Chipmunkapublishing. First Edition. Original Wraps. 12mo, 288 pages; paperback. Blue Hills Diary captures the author's ascension into the astonishing heights of bipolar mania as it intensifies over a few short months. Written as lyrical prose and comprised of a series of rapidly flashing vignettes, this books sings... More
Essex, UK (2012): Chipmunkapublishing. First Edition. Original Wraps. 12mo, 288 pages; paperback. Blue Hills Diary captures the author's ascention into the astonishing heights of bipolar mania, as it intensifies over a few short months. Written as lyrical prose and comprised of a series of rapidly flashing vignettes, this book sings... More
London: Macmillan and Co. 1889. Full-Leather. Octavo, 2 volumes; first reprinted edition; bound by Reviere, in contemporary tan calf; raised bands on spines, generously decorated in gilt; leather lettering pieces; marbled end papers. The chapter on Boss Tweed is present; it was suppressed in later editions. A beautiful double-decker. Howes B-906. More