Indianapolis: National Map Company, n.y. Hardcover. Folio. Black leather-textured limp cloth. 116pp, (1p). Extensive maps (many colored, others partly-color). Very good overall. Binding mildly edgeworn and text block typically a bit age toned; front board (only) a bit sunned. Nice, tight copy of this atlas crucial for motoring or touring..... More
San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, 1859. Paperback. 8vo. Original printed blue wrappers. iv, 92pp. Very good. Mild wear to outer wrappers (only), with chip at tail of spine. First edition, a tight and attractive copy. The noted minister of the First Presbyterian Church tackles William Anderson Scott's pamphlet "The Bible..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1944]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Evelyn Copelman. Small 4to. Red cloth spine and dark grey paper over boards with gilt lettering and black pictorial stamping. 209pp. Line drawings, 8 full-page color plates. Very good. Mild edgewear; endpapers a bit age toned; front pastedown bears (adult) ownership signature..... More
This lawyer and jurist, son of noted jurist and commissioner of New York's Central Park Richard M. Blatchford, served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1882 to 1893, and was known as a specialist in maritime and patent law. Boldly penned "Yours very truly / Saml Blatchford" in brown ink..... More
Chicago: Privately Printed, 1929. Hardcover. 4to. Tan and blue cloth with calf spine label. (Ca. 200pp). Title page in black and red, tipped-in frontispiece, tipped-in illustrations, map endpapers. Very good. Slight fading to upper and lower 1" or so of cloth binding, else internally fine and bright. A tight and..... More
Mexico, MO: James Bradley, 1894. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Light green blind-ruled cloth with gilt lettering. ii, 275pp. Frontispiece, full-page portraits, floral endpapers. Very good. Faint edgewear, with spine lightly age toned but front board gilt bright and gleaming; front floral endpaper a near-matching late 19th century replacement and frontispiece and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Hardcover. Introduction by Carl Sandburg. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xv, 392pp, xxiii. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket edgeworn and a bit age toned. Tight and most attractive first edition of this first serious scholarly examination of..... More
London: John MacQueen, 1899. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt front cover medallion. viii, 338pp. Frontispiece, 7 illustrations. Very good. Bookplate on front pastedown; both endpapers significantly age toned as usual, else tight and attractive, with just the slightest edgewear. First British edition. Rather uncommon. MONAGHAN 1228 note. More
Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, [1898]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter blind-embossed brown calf with gilt lettering and grey cloth. 416pp. Frontispiece, full-page illustrations, marbled page edges. Very good. Faint binding wear only, else tight and internally near fine; 1898 nonauthorial gift inscription on front pastedown. A lovely first edition of..... More
Prolific dime novelist, often of lurid tales with a Texas setting; titles include "The Snow Trail; or, The Boy Hunters of Fur-Land" and "Dandy Jack; or, The Outlaw of the Oregon Trail." ANS (pencil), 1p, heavy stock 5½" X 3¼" postal card, n.p., n.y. [postal cancellation Casstown, Ohio, 1922 February..... More
Australian-born American pianist and composer; famed as a piano student of Liszt, Hutcheson became the first dean of the Juilliard School. TLS, 1p, 8½" X 5½", New York, NY, 1927 March 18. Addressed to John G. Leiser. Near fine. Advice for this music educator, reading in part: "The Piano Department..... More
One of Dryden's patrons, represented as Hushai in his 1681 poem "Absalom and Achitophel" ("Hushai the friend of David in distress, in publick storms of manly stedfastness; By Foreign Treaties he inform'd his Youth; And join'd Experience to his Native Truth. Frugal for that, but bounteous of his own: 'Tis..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. White cloth spine and gold blind-embossed paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 316pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Quite minor jacket wear. Third printing, tight and attractive, of the flamboyant pianist/showman's memoir, bearing a large and bold inscription and signature in..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1926. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and extensive rules, pictorial dust jacket. 316pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded color frontispiece, numerous full-page plates. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Exceptionally tight 'n' bright first trade edition -- with usually-absent jacket not only..... More
This Venezuelan military and political leader served as president of that country three times (1830-35, 1839-43, 1861-63), spending his last decade in exile in New York City; his dictatorship during what's considered a golden age in Venezuelan history was benevolent and enlightened, not self-serving and egomaniacal. LS, 2pp (lettersheet), 4..... More
Oskaloosa, IA: The Globe Presses, 1897. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pebble-grained blind-ruled black cloth with gilt spine lettering. 196pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Tight, clean, attractive first edition of this slim war memoir by this soldier with the 101st Illinois Volunteers, in later years a pastor with the Methodist Episcopal Church in..... More
Early was a well-rounded journalist became the longest-serving White House press secretary in history, first under Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-45) and again briefly under Harry Truman (1950); Howe was FDR's long-time assistant and secretary, disliked at first by Eleanor for some of his earthier qualities but valued by FDR for..... More
New York: Horizon Press, 1959. Hardcover. Introduction by Harold Rosenberg. Folio. Black cloth with silver stamping, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 150pp). Numerous illustrations. Very good/good plus. Jacket edgeworn and a bit rubbed, with several archivally closed (on verso) edge tears and one wide chip running along the bottom edge of..... More
This notable railroad was founded in 1865 by a group of San Francisco businessmen, and in recent years merged with Union Pacific. Partly-printed DS, 1p, 5' X 7 3/4', Office of South Pacific Railroad Company letterhead, St. Louis, MO, 1869 Sept. 27. Addressed to Joseph S. Wilson. Near fine. Invitation..... More
This memorable Presbyterian clergyman and educator in Chicago who was cited for some of his heretical forward-thinking beliefs in1874, was acquitted and resigned to found his own Central Church, becoming more popular thereafter and publishing several books of his views. Choice content ALS, 1p, 5" X 8", n.p., n.d. Addressed..... More
Wife and "right hand man" of "Mr. Republican" Robert A. Taft (1889-1953). influential Ohio senator and son of President William Howard Taft; Robert Jr. was son of Martha and Robert and also served Ohio as U.S. senator. PS, 8" X 10", n.p., n.y. [1955]. Very good. Handsome glossy print of..... More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1901. Hardcover. Complete 7-volume set (Part VI in two volumes). 4to. Dark brown blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering and front board gilt decoration. 608pp, xi; 522pp, xi; 644pp, xi; 768pp, xi; 711pp, xi; viii, 656pp; viii, 634pp, xi; 666pp, xii. Numerous full-page illustrations, line..... More
Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1876-79. Hardcover. Translation by John J. Lalor and Alfred B. Mason. 8vo. Quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, elaborately gilt spines. xvi, 505pp; iv, 714pp. All edges marbled. Very good. Some scuffing to calf corners, else tight and internally fine. First editions of the first..... More
What Bill Mauldin and "Willie and Joe" were to World War Two G.I.s, "Wally" Wallgren and his "Helpful Hints" cartoons in "Stars and Stripes" were to World War One doughboys, for both poked fun and army life, army chores, army regulations and the drudgery of military life; Wallgren served with..... More