British comic actor who played "the put-upon little man" in popular comedies of the 1930s and '40s such as "Rookery Nook." Tremulous old-age signature, dated 1976 August 26, on a heavy stock 5" X 3" card, n.p. Very good. Ink somewhat light, with small skips. Comes with an ALS from..... More
Urbana: Phoenix Publishing, 1995. Hardcover. 4to. Cream cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 156pp. Color frontispiece, extensive color illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome, tight first edition. More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [1970]. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 278pp. Fine/near fine. OK, it's the first volume ONLY of this 2-volume set and it's a second printing at that -- but it's as uncannily fresh as the day it was published..... More
New York: Whitney Library of Design, [1977]. Hardcover. 4to. Orange brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 336pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good/very good. Faint bit of jacket wear; inoffensive abrasion on title page from bookplate removal. Tight, attractive first U.S. edition of this influential survey. More
South Yarra, Australia: Currey O'Neil, [1984]. Hardcover. 4to. Green cloth with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 238pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A superb and tight first edition of this wonderfully illustrated study. More
New York: E. Bliss, 1830. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Rebound in green cloth and marbled paper over boards. viii, 258pp. Very good. Moderate foxing within text. First edition. Author's name is a pseudonym for S.L. Knapp. SABIN 38084. More
Ottawa, IL: Caroline House Publishers, 1978. Hardcover. 4to. Brown leatherette, pictorial dust jacket. 232pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations (some color). Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed, with very slight edgewear and couple of closed edge tears. Tight, nice first edition. More
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, [1985]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xi, 108pp. Illustrations, 6 maps. Near fine. A tight, handsome third printing of this still wonderfully useful1982 guide. More
Washington, D.C. U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, 1963. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 64pp. Numerous illustrations, map. Fine. Nice copy of this excellent handbook, inscribed by Robertson on the title page "For Arnold Gates, / with warmest good wishes from a friend farther / south," dated Washington, February 12, 1964..... More
New York: Random House, [1987]. Hardcover. New York: Random House, 1987. Small 4to. Quarter burgundy cloth with silver spine lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 382pp. Illustrations, 13 maps. Near fine/near fine. First edition, tight and quite handsome. More
Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, [1995]. Hardcover. 4to. Full grey leatherette with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 180pp. Extensive color illustrations, maps, pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. Handsome first trade edition -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to inner flyleaf is a great content Typed Letter Signed from Robertson, 1p, 8" X 10½"..... More
N.p. University of South Carolina Press, 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine with silver lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. x, 278pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. A handsome and tight first edition, boldly inscribed and signed by the author in black fineline on front flyleaf: "To Howard Chandler..... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing, [1997]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxiii, 950pp. Illustrations, maps. Very good/very good. Mildest of wear only. A tight and handsome second printing of this mammoth biography -- one of the greatest Thomas J. Jackson biographies ever..... More
Alexandria: Time-Life Books, [1984]. Hardcover. 4to. Grey blind-embossed paper over boards with oval color plate tipped to front cover. 176pp. Numerous illustrations (many color), color map. Near fine. First edition of this volume in Time-Life's "Civil War" series, with a unique autograph addition: Tipped to an inner flyleaf is a...... More
Alexandria: Time-Life Books, [1984]. Hardcover. 4to. Grey blind-embossed paper over boards with oval color plate tipped to front cover. 176pp. Numerous illustrations (many color), color map. Fine. A tight and immaculate first edition of this volume in Time-Life's "Civil War" series. More
Nashville: Integrity Publishers, 2006. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 179pp. Fine/near fine. First edition, tight and attractive -- and with a large bookplate on front flyleaf bearing an obviously PRINTED, not authentic, generic inscription and signature of Robertson -- which most catalogue descriptions online..... More
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, [1971]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. 470pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. Pristine facsimile reprint of this business history (first published by Oxford University Press in 1950) of the famed London newspaper founded in 1865 and continuing into the 1920s. More