Corvallis: Oregon State University Press [1965], 1965. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-viii, 240 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $6.00 on the rear flap of the dust jacket. Edited by Herbert B. Nelson and Preston E. Onstad. Part of the series "Studies in History"..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1972. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2vol. 8vo. [7], viii-lxxxi, [4], 4-366; [5], vi, [5], 4-331, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on each spine. Price of $25.00 on each front flap of each dust jacket. From the First Discovery to..... More
Chapel Hill: The University Of North Carolina Press [1982], 1982. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xiv, [1], 2-238, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over tan patterned paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Part of the series, "Studies on Armed Forces and Society". Series editor Sam C. Sarkesian. A..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-310 pp. Gold cloth with grey and silver lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $6.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. An important overview of African-American citizens' contributions to the fight to..... More
Salem, Mass. Marine Research Society, 1922. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], 5-66, [2], [pagination followed by tens of photograph plates of sailing ships], [2] pp. Quarter navy cloth over blue buckram-textured cloth, spine lettered in gold. Lacks the dust jacket. Illustrated by a watercolor frontispiece, several in-text illustrations and..... More
Boston: William L. Lewis, Congress Street, 1826. First printing. Pamphlet. 8vo. [5], 6-36 pp. Lacks the wrappers. ADNB: "Everett, Edward". Sabin 23244. Everett was the first American to ever receive a PhD (he did so in 1817, at Göttingen University in Germany). He was later elected to the House of..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], xi-lxii, [2], 3-370 pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Edited with a new introduction by Frederick Merk. Journal originally entitled..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1851 - 1852. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2vol. Large 8vo. [3], iv-xxxii, [1], 2-576; [3], iv-xvi, [1], 2-880 pp. Contemporary three-quarter smooth green calf over marbled boards, black topstain. Each volume illustrated with a vignette title page and frontispiece. With several hundred engravings on..... More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1959. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [2], v-xxxix, [3], 3-461, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine, publisher's device embossed in gilt on the front board, top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, a...... More
York-town, PA: Printed by John Dunlap, 1778. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], I-520 (page 92 misnumbered 66), [1], ii-xxvii, [3]. Contemporary utilitarian binding consisting of black cloth over boards. This is the second issue with sheets printed by Robert Aitken in Philadelphia combined with new sheets printed by John Dunlap..... More
New York: W.J. Widdleton, Publisher, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 12-245, [5] pp. Brown pebbled cloth with a gilt decoration on the front board, gilt decorations and lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of Kilpatrick and twelve additional full-page wood-engravings, from original designs by Waud. With..... More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1947. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [2] (with one page of publisher's advertisements), ix-xxx, [2], 3-181, [5] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine, gilt border and publisher's device embossed in gilt on the front board, top edge gilt..... More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1942. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5] (with one page of publisher's advertisements), vii-xix, [5], 5-315, [1] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine, gilt border and publisher's device embossed in gilt on the front board, top edge gilt..... More
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Boston: Printed by Thomas G. Bangs, 1819. First edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. [5], 6-58 pp. Sewn pamphlet, lacks the rear wrapper. Sabin 12696. A worn but important piece of American history. A Good or better pamphlet with a small spot of loss to the title page and moderate chipping and wear..... More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1943. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [7] (with one page of publisher's advertisements), ix-xxvii, [3], xxxi-xxxii, [2], 3-364, [4] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine, gilt border and publisher's device embossed in gilt on the front board, top..... More
Oshkosh, Wis. Timm, ca. 1913. Photograph. 16.5 cm x 11 cm. Cabinet card photograph. A photograph of a young woman holding a rolled-up piece of paper and a Christian hymnal. The photgraph depicts middle-class women's fashion in the early 20th century, with a particularly sharp view of the girl's dress..... More
Chicago: Stevens, ca. 1886. Photograph. 16 cm x 10.75 cm. Cabinet card photograph. Portrait of a young woman. Photograph taken at Stevens studios in Chicago. The studio then was located in Mr. Vicker's Theatre Building, Chicago, Illinois. The reverse of the photograph offers "instantaneous portraits of children, a successful specialty"..... More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1948. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [4] (with one page of publisher's advertisements), ix-xlv, [5], li-lii, [2], 3-170, [2] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine, gilt border and publisher's device embossed in gilt on the front board, top..... More
Minneapolis: Miller, [W.R.], ca. 1885. Photograph. 16.5 cm x 10.75 cm. Cabinet card photograph. Taken at Miller studio located at 417 & 419 Nicollet Av., Minneapolis, Minn. According to the Minnesota Historical Society, this was one of the larger photography studios in the city at the time. The studio was..... More
Chicago: [J.B. Wilson], ca. 1895. Photograph. 16.5 cm x 10.75 cm. Cabinet card photograph. The women photographed here are wearing matching shawls, tenderly resting their heads against one another. Photograph taken at J.B. Wilson studios in Chicago. The studio then was located at 389 State St., Chicago, Illinois. Chicago Photographers..... More
New York City: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1896. Later edition. Pamphlet. Large 8vo. Staple-bound tan pictorial covers with decorations in red on the front and rear cover, spine lettered in red. Illustrated with a frontis portrait of George Washington and a portrait of Martha Washington on the proceeding page. Additionally..... More
Chicago, ILL: Published by O.F. Gibbs, 1862. Later edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], x-xv, [2], 18-528, [2] pp. Red cloth with decorations in gilt on the boards, including a bust of Washington embossed in gilt on each board, with faded gilt lettering on the spine, marbled textblock. Illustrated by a...... More
Washington DC: Treasury Department, Register's Office, 1833. First edition thus. Pamphlet. Oblong folio. [3], 66, [5] pp. Quarter brown cloth over marbled wrappers. From the title page: "General Washington's account of expenses during the Revolutionary War, in his own hand writing, is on file in this office: -- the annexed..... More
New York: Worthington & Co., 1889. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 10-493, [3] pp. Brown blindstamped cloth with gilt on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece wood-engraving. A Very Good book with toning to the pageblock, a tiny tear to the first leaf of the text, repaired hinges slightly tender..... More
New York: Random House [1974], 1974. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [8], 4-1106, [6] pp. Bound in textured grey cloth with silver lettering blocked in blue on the spine, detailed maps on endpapers and pastedowns, grey topstain. Price of $20.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Broadfoot 202..... More