Scotia, NY: Americana Review, n.y. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff tan 2-pocket portfolio with pictorial front wrapper housing six 16mo booklets: Stiff wrappers (ca.8pp each) with pictorial wrappers and numerous illustrations. Very good/fine. Mild edgewear to portfolio (only); booklets all pristine. These undated (circa 1960s) facsimiles consist of six children's tales..... More
San Francisco: Sleuth Publications, [1981]. Hardcover. 4to. Brown vinyl 3-ring 2-pocket binder with white lettering and pictorial stamping housing loose-leaf text (unpaginated; 124pp); "Newspaper Archive," a small 4to pamphlet (unpaginated; 32pp); "Holmes's London," a 24" X 28" color folding map; four 8vo pamphlets (respectively: 18pp, 47pp, 12pp, 7pp) titled "London..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1962]. Hardcover. 8vo.Grey buckram with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 375pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Light jacket edgewear only. Just a tight and nice book club edition-- but yowza! What an exceptional copy, for this gathering of writings from the "Mercury Seven" bears..... More
Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, [1987]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with lavender spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 191pp. Illustrations, map. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of this inspiring tale of the Canadian teenager (born 1957) who became a Paralympic Games track and field athlete and prominent disabilities activist. On the front..... More
Waco, TX: Word Books, Publisher, [1974]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 304pp. Illustrations. Fine/very good. Faint jacket wear only. Wonderfully tight and bright first edition of this "as told to" memoir, with front flyleaf bearing fine heavy stock 5" X 3" card signed large..... More
Carol Stream, IL: Creation House, [1971]. Hardcover. Foreword by Don Shula. 8vo. Orange cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Superbly tight and pristine first edition of this "as told to" account, with fine autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a heavy stock 5" X...... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1964. Hardcover. 8vo. Beige and brown cloth with brown spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 165pp. Illustrations, line drawings. Fine/near fine. Tight, superb first edition of this, as front jacket notes, guide to "How to watch the game the way the pros do," with primo autograph..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall Inc., [1947]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with yellow lettering. xx, 275pp. Illustrations, line drawings. Very good. Faint binding wear, with minor smudging to page edges. Tight and nice first edition of this hand-on how-to -- and with unique autograph twist: Tipped to front flyleaf is a fine..... More
New York: Dover Publications, [1985]. Paperback. 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 142pp, (4pp). Frontispiece, numerous line drawings. Very good. Mild binding edgewear, else tight and internally fine. Tight and nice first of this facsimile edition, "an unabridged, slightly altered republication of the work first published... in 1864...." Chapters include Army..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 529pp. Illustrations, map endpapers. Very good/very good. Faint binding and spine wear. Attractive, tight first edition of this study of the California region and the forces that..... More
Galena, IL: Galena-Jo Daviess County Historical Society, [2011]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 163pp. Illustrations, map. Fine. Tight and handsome first edition of these sketches of actual Galenians of fame or interest, including Union generals John E. Smith and Jasper Maltby. Nicely inscribed and signed by the author in black..... More
Savannah: The Oglethorpe Press, Inc., 1997. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 321pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome, tight facsimile reprint of the 1961 first edition. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1971]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Color pictorial cloth. 216pp. Fine. Superb, tight copy of this reissue of the 1969 "In the Pocket: My Life as a Quarterback," here with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a fine, heavy stock 5" X 3" card signed..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1960. Hardcover. Illustrations by Campbell Grant. . Small 8vo. Black cloth with yellow lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 146pp. Frontispiece, line drawings. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn and scuffed. Second printing, tight and attractive, in which Armour pokes good-natured fun at "Julius Caesar," "Ivanhoe,"..... More
New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Maroon cloth spine with gilt lettering and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. 253pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Superb and tight first edition of this memoir by the famed "First Lady of the American Theatre" (1900-93)..... More
Lexington: Sue Johnpeter, [2014]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. v, 155pp. Fine. Pristine first edition of this account of the 385th Bombardment Group aviator (1924-2020) who was shot down over Germany and became a prisoner of war. On the title page, both King and Johnpeter sign large and bold..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [2010]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xv, 570pp. Illustrations. Near fine/fine. A superbly tight and nice second printing, inscribed and signed huge and bold by Carter in black fineline on front flyleaf: "Best wishes to /..... More
San Francisco: Cameron and Company, [1980]. Hardcover. Wide 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 159pp. Extensive color illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Cooke provides the introductory text to this sumptuous collection of Cameron's plentiful bird's-eye views. First edition, tight and lovely. More
Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, [2016]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. x, 165pp. Map, illustrations. Fine. Pristine first softbound edition, signed boldly by Shrake in black ballpoint on title page. More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, [1963]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 238. Frontispiece, 2 illustrations. Fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear, with small chip at spine center. Tight and lovely later printing of this 1957 well-regarded study. More
New York: iUniverse Star, [2006]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xxiii, 175pp. Map, illustrations. Near fine. Superb first softbound edition of this chronicle of the obscure but fascinating raid by this Confederate cavalry officer -- signed large and bold in blue ink by Mulesky on title page and dated..... More
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, [2004]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. x, 139pp. Fine. Pristine first edition of this historical fiction about you know who, boldly inscribed and signed by Kay in black ballpoint on front flyleaf: "Keep on thinkin' / About Abraham / Lincoln! / Betty Kay / 2014." More
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, [2008]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. (Ca. 100pp). Illustrations. Fine. Pristine first edition of this slim factoid gathering, boldly signed by Kay in black ballpoint on front flyleaf and dated 2014. More
Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1945. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers with brown lettering and front wrapper tipped-in sepia-tone plate. 80pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations. Very good. Outer wrappers (only) age toned, else tight and internally fine. Super tight and nice first edition. Daniel Catton Rich introduces this largely-pictorial..... More
Mankato, MN: Book House, [2017]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Mark Bergin. 4to. Glossy pictorial paper over boards. 48pp. Extensive color illustrations. Fine. Perfect and pristine first edition of this charminig volume in this ancient travel series, splendidly illustrated to show life in a fictional Roman town, with miniscule chapters covering the..... More