New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1977], 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii, [1], 311, [1] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine and red decorations on the spine. Price of $12.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. The author's..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1966], 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 383, [1] pp. Blue cloth with gold and silver lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by two maps and pictorial free front endpapers. Jacket has some slight toning..... More
New York: Cowles Book Company, Inc., 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 242 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed and dated by author on free front endpaper. Few hints of shelf wear to edges of boards; traces of edge wear, small abrasion on reverse of jacket, few mild..... More
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc. [1940], 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-506 pp. Red cloth with lettering in gold and black on the front board and spine. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a portrait of the author..... More
New York: E.P Dutton & Company, Inc., 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 363 pp. Price of 5.00 on front flap of jacket. Name written on free front end paper, newspaper photo of author laid in, (toning to the two adjacent pages), few traces of foxing to text block; light edge wear..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], viii-xx, 392, [2], [1] (page of publisher's advertisements for other works by Wharton) [3] pp. Original green cloth lettered in gold on the front board and spine, decorations in gilt on the front board, top edge gilt. Illustrated with..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], xv-xx, [2], 3-366, [6] pp. Black cloth with yellow lettering on the front board and spine; red topstain. Price of $9.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by three maps and several black and white photographs of historic..... More
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [8], ix, [3] 113, [3] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the front board and spine. Part of the American Politics Research Series. Here Keech studies the social conditions of Black American life in two southern cities..... More
New York: R. Worthington, 1884. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 4-307, [1], [8] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [5] pp. Green cloth with gilt decorations on the front board and the spine, with other decorations stamped in black and green. A Very Good+ book that has a few spots of discoloration..... More
New York: Gay Brothers & Company, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 2vol. Large 8vo. [3], iv-xxxi, [4], 54-698, [2]; [5], x-xxvii, [4], 36-536 pp. Purple pebbled cloth with black decorations and gold lettering on the front board and spine, textblocks stained red. The first volume illustrated with a steel lithograph frontispiece..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [1], [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [4], vii-xl, [2], 3-519, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, engraved copper inset of sailing ships on the front board; top edge gilt. Illustrated by a...... More
New York: The New American Library, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 288 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Mailer's account of his participation in the October 1967 demonstrations against the Vietnam War in Washington D.C. Significant fading to top edges of boards and spine; jacket shows some..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with black lettering and a decoration on the front board, spine lettered in gold. Illustrated with several photograph portraits, maps, charts, and tables. Part of the Twentieth Century series. A 19th century overview of American history, intended..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xv, [2], 18-380 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece and twenty-six additional plates with black and white photographs on them. A history of the Great Lakes and rivers upon..... More
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press [2003], 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [9], x-lviii, [4], 2-413, [5] pp. Quarter navy cloth over light blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $29.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with three maps. The abridgement of the..... More
Chicago: A.C. Schulz Litho. Co., 1934. Photograph. Panorama Chromolithograph. 9.875" x 51.75". A panorama view of the 1934 World's Fair held in Chicago, with the following exhibits depicted: the Ford Exhibit, the Chrysler Exhibit, Home Planning, Streets of New York, English Village, Irish Village, Fort Dearborn, Belgian, Tunisian, Swiss, Mexican..... More
Seattle: University of Washington Press (1965), 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], x-xii, [3], 4-324 pp. Light green cloth with gold lettering blocked in teal on the spine. Price of $7.50 on front flap of jacket. Includes an index, notes, and a bibliography. A Near Fine book with a few..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press [1974], 1974. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xi, [4], 2-353, [1] pp. Brown cloth with black lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. Part of the Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. A history of the research and..... More
New York: The New Press [2012], 2012. First printing. Hardcover. 130 pp. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the New Press edition. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [3], iv-viii, 928, [2] pp. Three-quarter late nineteenth-century black leather over marbled boards with gold lettering and ruling on the spine, textblock decoratively speckled. Profusely decorated with several full-page illustrations and numerous in-text illustrations. Contents include a travel..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [3], iv-viii, 920, [2] pp. Three-quarter late nineteenth-century black leather over marbled boards with gold lettering and ruling on the spine, textblock decoratively speckled. Profusely decorated with several full-page illustrations and numerous in-text illustrations. Contents include several installations..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [3], iv-viii, 952, [2] pp. Three-quarter late nineteenth-century black leather over marbled boards with gold lettering and ruling on the spine, textblock decoratively speckled. Profusely decorated with several full-page illustrations and numerous in-text illustrations. Contents include several short..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [3], iv-viii, 952, [2] pp. Three-quarter late nineteenth-century black leather over marbled boards with gold lettering and ruling on the spine, textblock decoratively speckled. Profusely decorated with several full-page illustrations and numerous in-text illustrations. Contents include several short..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [3], iv-viii, [3], iv-viii, [1], 802-952, [2] pp. Three-quarter late nineteenth-century over marbled boards with gold lettering and ruling on the spine, textblock decoratively speckled. Spine is labeled as VOL. 45 but the sheets are really Volume 44..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [3], iv-viii, 904, [2] pp. Three-quarter late nineteenth-century black leather over marbled boards with gold lettering and ruling on the spine, textblock decoratively speckled. Profusely decorated with several full-page illustrations and numerous in-text illustrations. Contents include a biography..... More