Washington, D.C. Department of State, 1861. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 15pp. Good. Wrappers age toned, else fine. Close-cropped clipped signature of CSA diplomat John Slidell (1793-1871) tipped to front wrapper. Circa 1900 catalogue slip affixed to top of front cover. NEVINS I, 274. More
Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, n.y. Hardcover. 4to. Full browqn leatherette with gilt lettering and medallion. xvi, 580pp. Extensive maps, illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine. Pristine but for inoffensive small stain at bottom of pp. iii-xvi and 1-11; front endpaper a bit toned from long-ago newsprint contact. Superb..... More
Philadelphia: John E. Potter, [1865]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and black decorative stamping. 476pp, 4pp ads. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Very good. ½" chip at head of spine, else just faint edgewear. Tight, attractive and internally fine early (not first) printing of this cradle-to-grave biography rushed to..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1871. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter calf (spine rebacked in matching brown cloth with gilt lettering) and decorative paper over boards. xviii, 173pp. All edges gilt. Numerous line drawings. Very good. Faintest of edgewear only; rebacked spine and new endpapers. Tight and handsome "New Edition" of these..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1941]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Paul Laune. Small 8vo. Tan pebble-grain cloth with dark brown lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 217pp. Frontispiece, orange pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Light jacket edgewear. A tight, handsome first edition of the 20th title in the long-lived "Hardy..... More
N.p. oyez, 1967. Hardcover. 4to. Burgundy cloth. 22pp. Fine. First edition of this handsome production, limited to 200 signed, numbered copies (this #191. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1924]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Richard Holberg. Small 8vo. Red cloth with black spine lettering and black-bordered brown front board lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. viii, 196pp, (4pp ads). Frontispiece, 3 full-page plates. Very good/very good. Small inoffsive faint dampstain at gutter of front endpaper of..... More
Chicago: Privately printed, 1943. Hardcover. 16mo. Black cloth with white paper front board label. 11pp (uncut). Near fine. Edition limited to 496 numbered copies (this #241). Beautifully printed and issued without dust jacket. Fleming has boldly signed the half-title page in black ink. This copy has a fine addition as..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1968]. Hardcover. Folio. Brown cloth with white lettering and black decorations, cloth and pictorial paper-over-boards slipcase. 524pp, (7pp). Extensive illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild edgewear to otherwise tight and nice slipcase. Moore himself provides the text in this handsome first edition of a...... More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1907. Hardcover. 4to. Olive green blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering and front board pictorial stamping. xl, 846pp. Chromolithograph frontispiece, numerous full-page plates and couple chromolithographs, line drawings. Very good. Minor binding edgewear, else internally tight and bright and near fine; light ownership signature on..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. Hardcover. Small 4to. Modern rebind in green cloth with original cloth spine (with ornate gilt lettering and black decorations) laid down. xxiv, 761pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous steel-engraved illustrations. Near fine. Bit of age toning to inner flyleaf, else exceptionally tight and bright throughout..... More
[Washington, DC]: J. & G.S. Gideon, n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 8pp. Very good. Lightly age toned; binding traces at margin; contemporary "39" in brown ink at upper right corner of first page. An attractive and clean-edged first edition of this attack on the Democratic eighth U.S. president, undated but certainly..... More