New York: Simon & Schuster [1996], 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 10-511, [1] pp. Quarter dark brown cloth over light brown paper with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated by drawings, maps, and a few photographs. Price of $27.50 on front flap of dust jacket. A nice copy of..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1981], 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-386 pp. Quarter navy cloth over red paper boards with red lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several black and white photographs from Seeger's life. A biography of one of the foundational folk musicians of the United States..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], ix-xi, [3], 3-377, [7] pp. Quarter blue cloth over green paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The first trade edition, published after the..... More
Philadelphia, PA. H.J. Smith & Co., Publishers, ca. 1890. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-x, [4], 17-568, [2] pp. Lacks a preliminary blank. Orange publisher's cloth with gold and black decorations on the front board and spine; all edges decoratively marbled. Green patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Completing the title page..... More
New York: Doubleday [2008], 2008. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [16], 3-333, [5] pp. Quarter brown cloth over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. With several plates of duotone photographs of the Wittgenstein family, including Ludwig Wittgenstein. Price of $28.95 on the front flap of the dust..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], viii-xii, [3], 4-909, [5]. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine, map on endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $17.95 on front jacket flap . Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. A presentable copy of Massie's..... More
Richmond, Va. Bell Book & Stationery Co., 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 10-303, [2], ii-xvi pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Thomas Ritchie and three additional plates. No dust jacket. ANB, Joel H. Silbey. "Ritchie, Thomas (05 November 1778–03 July 1854)"..... More
Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. Royal 8vo. [2], v-xxiii, [2], 3-752, [2]; [4], 5-616, [2]; [4], 5-645, [1] pp. Publisher's green cloth with the spines in five compartments, spines lettered in gold; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Gutters protected by publisher's..... More