Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, [1879]. Hardcover. 16mo. Green cloth with gilt and black lettering, gilt spine decoration and ornate black decorations. v, 326pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 3 full-page illustrations. Near fine. Very faintest of edgewear only. A wonderfully tight and bright first edition of the final title in the 3-volume "Boy... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887. Hardcover. 16mo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and orange, ivory and gilt pictorial spine and front board stamping. vi, 255pp. Frontispiece, 19 full-page called-for illustrations, floral endpapers. Very good. Just the lightest bit of mild edgewear (mainly at head and tail of faintly sunned... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869. Hardcover. 12mo. Green pebble-grain blind-embossed cloth with ornate gilt spine lettering and decorations. 328pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, engraved title page, 5 full-page engraved plates. Near fine. Faint text block age toning. A tight, truly bright and lovely early (not first) printing of this 1868 fiction, with... More
Rahway, NJ: The Mershon Company, [1904]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering and ornate tan, black and grey pictorial stamping. viii, 306pp, (6pp ads). Frontispiece, 3 full-page plates. Very good. Faint edgewear and bit of rubbing; scribbled-out ownership signature on front pastedown. Quite tight and attractive first edition... More
N.p. Atlantic Publishing Co., 1893. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with black and gilt lettering and ornate black pictorial stamping. 578pp. Frontispiece, numerous full-page plates, floral endpapers. Good plus. Edgeworn and a bit rubbed, with discreet brown cloth tape inner hinge reinforcement; text block lightly age toned as usual, with a.... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867. Hardcover. 12mo. Maroon blind-embossed cloth with ornate gilt spine lettering and decorations. 336pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, engraved title page, 2 full-page engraved plates. Near fine. Endpapers (only) a bit age toned, with 1867 nonauthorial gift inscription on inner flyleaf. Nicely tight and bright early (not first)... More
New York: Hurst & Company, [1913]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Martin Lewis. Small 8vo. Green/gray cloth with blue and orange lettering and blue, orange and white pictorial stamping. 316pp. Halftone frontispiece, 3 full-page called-for plates. Very good/good plus. Book faintly edgeworn only, with endpapers slightly age toned and nonauthorial 1916 gift... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1937]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Thomas Somerfield. Frontispiece by Reginald Mills. 8vo. Light blue cloth with dark blue lettering and dark blue and ivory pictorial front board stamping, pictorial dust jacket. 308pp. Color frontispiece, 6 full-page called-for line drawings. Very good/very good. Faint binding edgewear, with spine... More
West Point, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1898. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter linen spine and green paper over boards with gilt lettering. 237pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 21 full-page called-for plates. Good plus. Binding is edgeworn, rather rubbed and age toned, with spine rough and age toned but complete... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1957]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth with black lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xvii, 459pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Faint discoloration along outer edge of front board and couple inoffensive stains on page edges; mild age toning to front flyleaf from long-ago newsprint contact;... More
New York: Bramhall House, [1950]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Carter Lucas. Small 4to. Green cloth with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 235pp. Maps, numerous illustrations, map and pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Faintest of mild edgewear; mild jacket edgewear, with single small chip at head of spine. A tight, handsome... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1925. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth spine with paper label and tan paper over boards. xvii, 451pp. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Faint edgewear and touch of rubbing, but overall tight, clean, handsome -- and internally fine. An attractive fourth printing of this... More
The "Dean of American stamp designers" was a prolific artist and book and magazine illustrator; between 1947 and 1962 he is considered sole designer of 60 U.S. postage stamps, the best known being his 1962 "Project Mercury" 4-cent stamp, and was closely involved in the creation of 77 stamps. Signed... More
Evanston: Chicago Historical Bookworks, [1993]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 70pp, (1p). Very good. Tight and decent first edition, limited to 100 copies -- a sound working copy, with a handful of inked margin checkmarks and circled items and couple of notes and comments. Though outdated price-wise it's uncommon and... More
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1975. Hardcover. 4to. Pictorial cloth over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 145pp. Extensive illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of this lavishly-illustrated chronicle. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1951. Hardcover. Small 4to. Light brown cloth with dark brown lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 168pp. Numerous two-tone author line drawings. Near fine/good plus. Jacket complete and fairly attractive, though age toned; chips at corners and at spine headtail and old mends on verso... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and gilt and green pictorial stamping. ix, 391pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 7 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Quite mild edgewear only, else internally fine; 1922 ownership signature on front flyleaf. A tight and handsome first edition of... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock. Small 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. 179pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 5 (of 6) full-page called-for plates, pictorial endpapers (front and rear endpapers both form A). Very good. Light edgewear, mainly at spine head... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1936]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Grey tween paper over boards with blue lettering and decorations, pictorial dust jacket. 218pp. Frontispiece, decorated endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; ownership signature on front flyleaf and on jacket's front flap and rear panel. A tight and attractive much... More
Washington, DC: United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of John Marshall, 1956. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xix, 182pp. Very good. A tight and nice first edition of this thorough listing of books by and about the... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock. Small 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. 179pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 6 full-page called-for plates, pictorial endpapers (front endpaper form A, rear endpaper form B). Very good. Mild bit of edgewear and slightest rubbing... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1954]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue tweed paper over boards with dark blue lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 210pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, blue pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Book itself is tight, bright and quite nice but for couple of faint spots on outer page edges;... More
New York: The Newcomen Society in North America, 1979. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan wrappers. 24pp. Illustrations. Near fine. First edition. The Newcomen Society was a distinguished honorary society, formed in England, devoted to the study of "those factors which have contributed or are contributing to the progress of Mankind" --... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue paper over boards with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 281pp. Map endpapers. Very good/very good. Jacket a tad rubbed and edgeworn, with a number of small edge chips; bit of age toning to pp. 142-43 from long-ago newsprint contact. Later..... More
Rockford, IL: Bliss Printing Company, 1940. Hardcover. Foreword by Charles R. Goff. Photographs by the author. Small 4to. Full green pictorially-embossed leatherette. 91pp. Frontispiece, map, numerous illustrations, map endpapers. Fine. Uncannily pristine first edition of this slim chronicle of the author's trips around the country to all corners of this... More