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
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
London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1774. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], vi-vii, [2], 2-36, [4] pp. Half-bound in yellow cloth over marbled boards (binding ca. 1950), spine lettered in black. With the half-title. Howes 420. Sabin 80511. Shipley's speech in support of American colonial people's right to..... 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: 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