London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. (1982), 1982. First printing. Hardcover. 302 pp. Price of £12.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Includes several black and white photographs. A very near Fine book with a touch of age toning in a very near Fine dust jacket. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. [1968], 1968. Carl Burger. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-191, [1] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine; orange topstain. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several in-text drawings. The first printing of the..... More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1947. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [2] (with one page of publisher's advertisements), ix-xxx, [2], 3-181, [5] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine, gilt border and publisher's device embossed in gilt on the front board, top edge gilt..... More
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [8], vii-xii, 13-179, [7] pp. Bound in green cloth with black horizontal bars and gold lettering on the front board and the spine, coated brown endpapers and pastedowns. A nice copy of this short biography published during the American..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], 5-336 pp. Tan cloth lettered in blue on the front board and spine with a decoration on the spine and a decoration on the front board depicting a clock owned by Jefferson; top edge gilt. Illustrated by a frontispiece..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1901. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], v-xix, [1], 1, [2], 3-299, [1] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and rules on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of Franklin by Charles Wilson Peale. With an introduction by..... More
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. 194 pp. Price of $4.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Light toning to endpapers and pastedowns, bit of wear to bottom edges of boards; jacket has some light rubbing, traces of edge wear, and a tiny abrasion on the front..... More
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [3], 4, 399, [1] pp. Navy cloth with lettering in gold on the front board and spine, a pictorial inset illustration of Washington on the front board. Illustrated by a color frontispiece with seven additional colored plates. Illustrations by Frank..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-ix, [2], xii-xxii, [1], 2-413, [3], [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements for the American History Series) pp. Navy blindstamped cloth with spine lettered in gold. With three colored maps. A Good+ book with a faint dampstain to the front board..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1972. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2vol. 8vo. [7], viii-lxxxi, [4], 4-366; [5], vi, [5], 4-331, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on each spine. Price of $25.00 on each front flap of each dust jacket. From the First Discovery to..... More
New York: Printed for the Society, 1879; 1880; 1881. First edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [11], xii-xiv, [5], 4-503, [3]; [17], 6-559, [3]; [11], xii-xiii, [9], 6-489, [5] pp. Green pebbled cloth lettered and decorated in gold on each spine. The collection from 1880 is illustrated by a fold-out map..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Book of the Month Club. Hardcover. 845 pp. Includes the book of the month club brochure advertising the book. A Very Good+ book with a few small creases throughout the pageblock in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with traces of edge wear and..... More
Libanon, (Penn.): Gedruckt bey J. Schnee, für M. Carey in Philadelphia, 1810. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [7], 8-240, [2] pp. Original brown calf, spine in six compartments with a red morocco label lettered in gold on the spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece depicting the death of General Montgomery and six..... More
