New York: The New York Times Co., 1922. Hardcover. Folio. [2], 3-480 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; edges decoratively marbled. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a pictorial title page and hundreds of photographs. Mid-week pictorial current history magazine. A round-up of interesting..... More
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
London: Rex Collings, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-197 pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece of Admiral George Lydiard Sulivan, a map, and a few black and white photographs. The story of the Sulivan family, in particular, George L. Sulivan, and their..... 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: The Macmillan Company[1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 2-247, [1] pp. Red cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with full-page and in-text duotone photographs. Goldston's history of Black people, beginning with..... More
Milwaukee: The Young Churchman Company [1911], 1911. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], xii-xxi, [2], 2-296, [2] pp. Brown pictorial cloth with white lettering on the front board and a decoration of a shepherd on the front board, spine lettered in gold. Illustrated by seventeen black and white plates: some drawings..... 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
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (1960), 1960. Second printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, 569, [1] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $7.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Includes an index. An analysis of the ethical foundations of a free society in..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xxviii, [3], 4-467, [1] pp. Blue cloth with blue lettering and a gold decoration on the front board and spine. Lacks the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates of black and white photographs. A history of..... More
New York: E.P Dutton & Company, Inc., 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], xi-xiii, [7], 3-363, [3] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine; red topstain. Price of 5.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with maps and a few in-text drawings. Name written on free front end..... 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
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. [1960], 1960. Later printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], vii-xxx, [2], 623, [1] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, a silver decoration on the front board. Price of $7.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket..... 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
Cincinnati, Ohio: The W.F. Hall Company, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 113, [3] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering and a gold decoration on the front board. Illustrated with a frontispiece of a monk and eleven full-page photographs of the New Melleray Abbey, and a photograph of one of..... 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
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
New York: Viking (2006), 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xvii, [4], 4-461, [1] pp. Green paper over boards, author's initials in blind on the front board, gold lettering on the spine, illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $29.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A nice copy of this..... More
Cincinnati: Jones Brothers & Company, 1880. Reprint. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [2], iii-xxxviii, 41-695, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements for other school histories by Ridpath), [2] pp. Three-quarter pebbled leather over brown pebbled cloth, spine in six compartments, gold lettering on the front board and spine; marbled textblock. Illustrated by a...... 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