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
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-383, [1] pp. Bound in tan cloth with brown lettering on the front board and the spine. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. Includes a bibliography and index. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in..... 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], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [3], 2-242 pp. Brown cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. With several black and white photographs. Inscribed and dated by author on free front..... More
Chicago: S.C. Griggs and Company, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], iii-xv, [1], 17-415, [3] pp. Green cloth with black rules on the boards and spine, gold lettering on the spine, a gold decoraiton each on the front board and spine. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and..... 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 black and white photographs. Goldston's history of Black people..... 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
New York: Basic Books, Inc. [1966], 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-viii, [4], 1-340 pp. Light blue cloth, lettering in black on the spine. Price of $5.95 on front jacket flap. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Numerous black and white full-page illustrations. Foreword by Richard B. Morris..... 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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], vii-xiv, [4], 3-314, [4], i-xii, [4] pp. Bound in blue cloth with author's initials in a circle bordered by an eagle and crossed olive branches, all stamped in gilt, on the front board, red horizontal bars and twin rules..... 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
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
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
New York: Redfield, 1853. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], viii-xii, 1-331, [1], [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2]; [3], iv, [1], 6-342, [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Green blindstamped cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Cream endpapers and pastedowns. Howes P647. The London edition..... 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