New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1989], 1989. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-314 pp. Quarter maroon cloth over beige paper boards with gold lettering on the spine, cow embossed in gilt on the front board. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. A Near Fine book with a.... More about The Lost Continent; Travels in Small-Town America
New York: The Viking Press (1972), 1972. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xxiv, [2], 3-232 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine, red topstain. Price of $8.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Edited by Irving Drutman. A collection of Flanner's fortnightly letters to The New... More about Paris Was Yesterday; 1925-1939
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 vol bound in one. Large 8vo. ii-viii, [1], 4-7, [2], 10-326; [3], 2-4, [1], vi-viii, [1], 10-373, [1] pp. Each volume illustrated with a lithograph frontispiece, volume one illustrated with three folding plans, 13 woodcut figures, eleven plates (one... More about Nineveh and its Remains; With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and...
Washington D.C. Various, ca. 1925 - 1950. Pamphlet. Six brochures, each a pictorial folded sheet (folded into three sections). Brochures for the rates of the rooms of The Maury Hotel [ca. 1925], Hotel Grafton [ca. 1937-1941], Senate Hotel [ca. 1935], The Martinique Hotel [ca. 1939], The Lafayette Hotel [ca. 1950]... More about Washington D.C. Hotel Brochures
Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden [1877], 1877. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 3-496, [2] pp. Brown cloth with decorations stamped in black and gilt, lettered in gilt on the front board and spine. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with a wood-cut frontispiece, sixteen full page illustrations, and numerous... More about Women of the Orient: An Account of the Religious, Intellectual, and Social Condition of Women in...
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 2 vol. [7], viii-xvii, [2], 2--6, [1], 8-386, [2]; [4], vi, [1], 2-412, [2] pp. Three-quarter contemporary calf over marbled boards, spine in six compartments with a black morocco label lettered in gilt on each spine. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece... More about A Mission to Gelele King of Dahome; With Notices of the so Called "Amazons", the Grand...
New York: Abelard-Schuman Inc. [1956], 1956. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xiv, 241, [1] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs and a map. The story of an anthropologist's exploration... More about Himalayan Barbary