New York: Bonanza Books, n.y. Hardcover. 4to. Mustard cloth spine with brown lettering and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 239pp. Extensive illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with archivally-closed (on verso) edge tear. A handsome and tight reprint edition of this heavily pictorial 1941 survey, undated but..... More
Milwaukee: The Sentinel Company, 1898. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with black lettering. viii, 322pp. Line drawings, maps. Very good. Faint binding edgewear only; homely splattery India ink droplet near lower right front board corner, but what're you gonna do? Nicely tight and attractive first edition of this interesting treatment. Front..... 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
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., Publishers, 1904. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Dark green cloth with black lettering and pictorial stamping. 202pp, (4pp ads). Frontispiece, numerous illustrations and line drawings. Very good. Faint binding edgewear and bit of rubbing; inner hinges bear old but neat, discrete and archival cloth tape, thus..... More
New York: Smithmark, [1995]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Orange textured paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 400pp. 7 maps. Fine/fine. Handsome, pristine reprint of the 1953 classic -- with fine late 19th century addition: Tipped neatly to front flyleaf is a 3 3/4" X 5½" glossy..... More
New York: Warner Books, [1994]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth spine with gilt lettering and purple paper over boards, dust jacket. xvi, 635pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Tight, decent first edition. More
New York: The Free Press, [1994]. Hardcover. New York: The Free Press, 1994. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 286pp. Illustrations, maps. Near fine/near fine. First edition, tight and handsome, of this absorbing study of the successful and unsuccessful..... More
New York: The Free Press, [1999]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 315pp. Fine/fine. Superbly tight and sharp first edition. More
New York: The Library of America, [1993]. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, slipcases. xxiii, 1214pp, (6pp); xxi, 1175pp, (6pp). Patterned endpapers, sewn-in green satin page markers. Near fine/near fine. Tight and lovely later (8th and 6th, respectively) printing of the 62nd and 63rd volumes..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, [1895]. Hardcover. 12mo. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xiii, 295pp, 3pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Very good. Faint bit of binding edgewear; 1909 ownership signature on front pastedown. Tight and nice first edition of these memories from forty-four notables..... More
New York: The Library of America, [1999]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, slipcase. xviii, 966pp, (4pp). Patterned endpapers, sewn-in green satin page marker. Near fine/near fine. Quite tight and handsome second printing of this sizeable assortment of the fourth president's letters, essays, "Federalist Papers" contributions, etc. More
Harrisburg: The National Historical Society, 1985. Hardcover. 5 volumes. 8vo. Black buckram with gilt spine lettering. v, 752pp; vi, 1101pp; vi, 815pp; vi, 792pp; vi, 1204pp. Maps. Fine. Perfectly tight and pristine set of the first five volumes of this facsimile reprint of Serial No. 1 through No. 5, which..... More
Harrisburg: The National Historical Society, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Black buckram with gilt spine lettering. li, 1242pp, 6pp. Fine. Absolutely pristine copy of this facsimile reprint of "Serial No. 130," which is the "General Index and Additions and Corrections" volume. If you've got a set of the "O.R.," as it's popularly..... More
Munich: Verlag Lother Norowsky, n.y. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Small 8vo. Green paper over boards with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jackets. 372pp, 355pp. Very good/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Evidence of erased pencil underlinings throughout; ownership signature on each front flyleaf and nonauthorial gift inscription on each half-title..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraksa Press, [1996]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxxv, 620pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Just a book club edition, but handsome and tight. A thick compilation of writing by and about this Confederate general. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth spine with gilt lettering and pale blue paper over boards, dust jacket. xiv, 258pp. Near fine/near fine. A tight and lovely first edition. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1994]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with orange lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 470pp. Maps, illustrations. Fine/near fine. Attractive, super tight first edition. More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with silver lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. x, 217pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/near fine. Just a book club edition, but tight and quite attractive. A volume in the "Military Campaigns of the..... More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. x, 217pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/fine. Second printing of this volume in the "Military Campaigns of the Civil War" series, tight and handsome. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1938. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii, 548pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings and tables. Very good. Mild binding edgewear; touch of dampstaining to bottom of preliminary leaves. Tight and nice fourth printing of the second edition of this thick 1930 study..... More
Racine, WI: Western Publishing Company, [1971]. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 222pp. Numerous illustrations (many color), front pastedown map. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and touch of rubbing. First edition, tight and handsome. Front jacket panel lists "Master Cabinet Maker, Rosemaler, Maker of Bowls..... More
Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, [1998]. Hardcover. 4to. Full red leatherette with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 320pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations. Fine/near fine. Superb and tight first edition of this exhaustively-illustrated compendium. More
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, [1938]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 268pp. Color frontispiece, full-page plates. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn, scuffed and rubbed -- but complete and fairly attractive. Reprint edition of this 1923 study. More
New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, [1905]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and black, ivory and pale blue pictorial stamping. 302pp, (2pp ads). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous small line drawings. Very good. Mild bit of binding edgewear, else internally tight and nice;..... More
This American novelist and playwright (member of the American water polo team at the 1904 Olympics) often used his experiences in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush as the basis for his adventure tales such as "The Spoilers" (1906); a household name in the early 20th century because of bestsellers..... More