Pennsylvania Military History.
Carlisle Barracks, PA: US Army Military History Research Collection, 1975. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff white wrappers. 91pp. Near fine. Special Bibliographic Series, Number 10. Uncommon reference. More
Carlisle Barracks, PA: US Army Military History Research Collection, 1975. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff white wrappers. 91pp. Near fine. Special Bibliographic Series, Number 10. Uncommon reference. More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 565pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with faintly sunned spine. Tight, attractive second printing of this highly-regarded study. More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1955. Hardcover. 4to. Tan cloth spine and lavender paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 234pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Jacket a bit edgeworn, with loss of upper third of rear flap extending into chip at upper left of rear panel. First edition, tight and..... More
New York: Halcyon House, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. White cloth with black lettering and graphic, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 336pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket slightly soiled and edgeworn. First edition. Story of the National Farm Organization's 1967 milk holding action, in which protesting dairy farmers dumped massive amounts of milk..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1982. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and yellow paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 503pp. Very good/very good. First edition. Hollywood film industry fiction written by the former vice-president of Warner Brothers Pictures. More
N.p. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, September 1963. Paperback. (Volume L, No. 2). Small 4to. Stiff green wrappers (stapled, as issued). Pp. 213-34. Near fine. Scholarly offprint of this political study of North Carolina judge and politician John J. Parker. From the private library of noted social protest poet and..... More
Cincinnati: Young and Klein, 1951. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 128pp. Numerous illustrations (one color), map. Very good. Wonderfully tight and clean first softbound edition of this river packet classic by the famed and youngest-ever Ohio River and Mississippi River steamboat captain (1901-92). More
Milwaukee: Kalmbach Publishing Co., 1947. Paperback. Oblong small 4to. Stiff pictorial wrappers, plastic spiral binding. (Ca. 22pp, rectos only). Very good. Ownership name/city inkstamped inside front wrapper. First edition, tight and clean and with plastic spiral binding intact. Number 1 in the "Ships and Sailing Albums" series. Housed in a...... More
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth, dust jacket. x, 147pp. Fine/near fine. First edition. Literary survey beginning with early impressions of Illinois' settlers and ending with modern accounts from Sandburg and Wright. More
Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, 1991. Hardcover. Foreword by Archer Jones. Small 4to. Red leatherette, dust jacket. vi, 135pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. First edition, tight and attractive. First historical account of the Confederate's infantry, artillery and cavalry soldiers. More
Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, 1991. Hardcover. Foreword by Archer Jones. Small 4to. Red leatherette, dust jacket. vi, 135pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. First edition, tight and attractive. First historical account of the Confederate's infantry, artillery and cavalry soldiers. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1949. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth. 320pp. Very good. Inscribed by Dale L. Morgan. First edition. Ten regional writers write about ten Western cities, notably Walter Van Tilburg Clark on Reno and Dale Morgan on Salt Lake City. Morgan inscribes the front flyleaf and..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1957. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xiii, 328pp. Illustrations, maps. Very good. Mild edgewear, with spine faintly sunned and faint discoloration to upper edge of rear board (only). A tight and nice first edition bearing a fine autograph addition: Tipped..... More
Brookeville, MD: American History Research Associates, [1974]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 80pp. Numerous illustrations. First edition -- "Bicentennial Edition" -- tight and pristine, of this biographical dictionary of United States founding fathers. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, clipped dust jacket. viii, 242pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. First edition. More
New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red buckram. 72pp. Fine. Facsimile of the scarce 1935 first edition. Bibliography of writings by and about our seventh and eighth presidents. More
Chicago: The Chicago Club, 1995. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration. 133pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. Minor spotting to outer page edges. Handsome, tight first edition of this 125th anniversary history of this exclusive club's most-recent 35 years. From the collection of Adlai E. Stevenson III..... More
Lexington: Lexington-Fayette County Historic Commission, [1983]. Hardcover. 4to. Blue paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 232pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations (some color), color map. Near fine/very good. Attractive and tight second printing. Near the center of the half-title page the author inscribes and signs large and bold in his..... More
Lexington: Lexington-Fayette County Historic Commission, [1983]. Hardcover. 4to. Blue paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 232pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations (some color), color map. Near fine/very good. A tight and quite nice second printing. More
Lexington: Transylvania University, 1975. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 444pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Fainrtest bit of jacket wear. Tight, quite handsome first edition of this bicentennial history of this Kentucky university. Handsomely inscribed "With all best wishes" and signed by Wright in..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth. xi, 176pp. Near fine. Abrasion on front pastedown from bookplate removal. First edition, tight and attractive, of the "Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize Essay of the American Society of Church History." More