Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company [1893], 1893. Later printing. Pamphlet. 12mo. [3], 4-87, [1], [8] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Bound in tan wraps. Price of 15 cents on the front wrapper. With a biographical sketch and brief notes. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Daniel Webster. Part of The... More about The Bunker Hill Monument; Adams and Jefferson; Two Orations
Hudson: William E. Norman, 1812. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], 6-47, [4] pp. Quarter bound in smooth calf over original green paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of Washington. Includes a societal membership page, "certifying Mr. John Burghardt has been regularly admitted a.... More about Washington's Farewell Address, to the People, of the United States; Published for the Washington...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company [1967], 1967. First printing. Hardcover. [11], 12-444, [4] pp. Red cloth with silver lettering blocked in black on the spine, red topstain. Includes "The Body in the Library", "The Murder at the Vicarage", "The Moving Finger". Ahearn APG 125a. A Near Fine book in... More about Murder in our Mist
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company [1953], 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-160 pp. Quarter black cloth over yellow paper boards with white, silver, green, and blue lettering on the spine. Price of $2.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Enser 399. The amazing story of Montagu's plot to... More about The Man who Never Was
New York: Beech Tree Books [1987], 1987. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-189, [3] pp. Quarter grey cloth over grey paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $14.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A Near Fine book with a tiny crease to the rear... More about A Case of Lone Star
New York: Random House [1967], 1967. Don Bolognese. Fifth printing. Hardcover. Slim 8vo.[8], 5-81, [7] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine Price of $8.95 on front flap of jacket. A nice copy of Faulkner's only work for children. Ahearn APG 064c. A Near Fine book with some... More about The Wishing Tree
Palmyra, N.Y. J.H. Bortles, 1831. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], 6-199, [1] pp. Quarter bound in later blue cloth over original brown glazed paper boards. Illustrated by a frontispiece and two additional wood-engraved plates. Together with ten years' service in the Navy of the United States. Also service among... More about The Travels and Adventures of David C. Bunnell During Twenty-Three Years of a Sea-Faring Life;...
Washington: Thomas Allen, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 3-506, [1], 2-13, [3] pp. Full original sheep with a red morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine, spine in five compartments. Complete with charts and tables of the financial plans for compensating the veterans of the Revolutionary War. Gephart... More about Resolutions, Laws, and Ordinances, Relating to the Pay, Half Pay, Commutation of Half Pay, Bounty...
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers [1944], 1944. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v, [1], 215, [3] pp. Blue cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine, red topstain. Illustrated by Russell H. Tandy. Lists to Portrait in the Sand on the front flap, lists to The Secret... More about The Secret in the Old Well; The Dana Girls Mystery Stories
New York: The Viking Press (1983), 1983. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], xii-xli, [5], 5-628, [2] pp. Tan paper covered boards bound in brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine, brown endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $20.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A Near Fine book with a.... More about In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
New York: World Publishing (1972), 1972. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xxvii, [3], 386 pp. Quarter red cloth over grey paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine, blue topstain. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Includes a photograph of General Gehlen... More about The Service; The Memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen
Madison, Wis. Wisconsin Publishing House, 1884. Later edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [2], 3-944, [2] pp. Full brown blindstamped leather lettered in gilt on the front board and spine, all edges gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen full-page engravings and seven plates, with numerous other illustrations within the text. Designs... More about Museum of Antiquity; A Description of Ancient Life: The Employments, Amusements, Customs and...
New York: R. Martin, ca. 1855. Later printing. Hardcover. Large 4vo. [3], 6-829 pp. Full brown leather with gilt decorations and lettering on the boards and spine, all edges gilt. Gilt portrait of Byron embossed on the front board, three of the Muses embossed in gilt on the rear board... More about The Poetical Works of Lord Byron; Complete in One Volume
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company [1887], 1887. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv, [3], 8-104, [3], [5] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Buckram cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Price of Twenty-Five cents on the front board. With introduction and notes. Illustrated with a frontispiece of... More about Rules of Conduct; Diary of Adventure, Letters, and Farewell Adresses
London: Blackie and Son Limited, ca. 1915. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [1], [1] (page of publisher's advertisements for other works by Captain Brereton), [6], 9-336 pp. Light brown pictorial cloth, spine lettered in gold and black. Illustrated by a frontispiece and five additional black and white plates. Illustrated by Arch... More about Under French's Command; A Story of the Western Front from Neuve Chapelle to Loos
New York: Random House [1970], 1970. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 4-205, [7] pp. Black cloth with red and copper lettering on the spine, red decoration on the front board. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A Near Fine book with a tiny sticker ghost... More about Nightmare
New York: Oxford University Press [1968], 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xvi, [1], 2-504 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine and a Viking ship embossed in gold on the front board, purple topstain. Price of $9.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with... More about A History of the Vikings
New York: The Modern Library [1967], 1967. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue-green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Toldedano 377.1. A Near Fine book in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear. More about Farewell, My Lovely & The Lady in the Lake
New York: Mystery House [1957], 1957. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-222, [1] pp. Grey cloth with black lettering on the spine. Hubin 805. A Very Good book with a few spots of offsetting to the boards from the jacket protector the publisher released with the book; dust jacket is Price-Clipped. More about The Big Bite
New York: Ballantine Books [2016], 2016. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], xiv-xvii, [4], 4-602, [8] pp. Black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $28.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. More about The City of Mirrors
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company [1959], 1959. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-223, [1] pp. Sea-green cloth with black lettering on the spine and a black skull on the front board. Price of $2.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Hubin 14. Originally published as Lucky Jane in... More about For Old Crime's Sake
Cincinnati: Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. [1874], 1874. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-viii, 9-370, i-xxxviii, [1] pp. Bound in green cloth with gold lettering on the spine, textblock faintly marbled. Contains the Declaration of Independence printed in full at the end of the volume. Intended as an American history... More about Manual of the Constitution of the United States; Designed for the Instruction of American Youth...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company [1898], 1898. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-viii, [3], 2-317 pp. Navy cloth lettered in gilt on the front board and spine, top edge gilt. Gephart 13523. A Very Good book with several small annotations in pencil and a slight strain to the front hinge. More about Alexander Hamilton
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press [1985], 1985. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [8], ix-xiv, [2], 3-656, [2] pp. Orange cloth with orange lettering blocked in black on the spine. Illustrated with several color photographs of Jerusalem. Price of $35.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. In this... More about Jerusalem; The Holy City in the Eyes of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets from the...
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company [1961], 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Quarter black cloth over brown, blue, and black patterned paper boards with gold lettering and blue decoration on the spine, light blue topstain. Price of $12.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black... More about The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas; Aztec Maya Inca