Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1859. Hardcover. Small 4to. Original blind-ruled grown cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii, 280pp. Good plus overall. While hinges and text block are a solid very good, clean and nice, the binding is rough and quite edgeworn, especially along length of spine, which is... More
New York: Dover Publications, [1986]. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with black spine lettering. xxxviii, 383pp, (7pp ads). Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, maps. Fine. A tight and pristine facsimile reprint in one volume of the first two volumes of this famed Alaskan travel narrative, first published in 1901 (New York: Doubleday, Page... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Hardcover. Illustrations by the author. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with yellow lettering and black decoration. xiv, 251pp. Numerous line drawings. Very good. Light binding wear, with spine lettering rather rubbed and endpapers and text block faintly age toned. A tight and handsome second printing... More
Jersey City, NJ: The Davey Company, [1968]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Small 4to. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering and black blind-embossed cloth, slipcase. viii, 85pp. Partly-color line drawings. Fine/near fine. Superb and tight first edition of this binder's boards manufacturer's anniversary keepsake volume, illustrated sketches of 17 mostly-American... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Hardcover. Illustrations by the author. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with yellow lettering and black decoration. xiv, 251pp. Numerous line drawings. Very good. Mild binding wear, with spine lettering well rubbed -- but tight and internally fine. Attractive first edition of this uncommon, folksy short... More
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, [1950]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Beige cloth with black spine lettering and tan decorations, pictorial dust jacket. 438pp. Decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and age toning; single small spot on bottom page edges. Tight and quite handsome first edition of this... More
N.p. N.p. [1927]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. 117pp. Tissue-guarded heavy stock illustrations. Fine. Superb and tight first edition of this privately published tribute to this significant Rockford industrialist, founder of Burson Manufacturing Company -- a "book of remembrances of William E. Hinchliff for you, his grandchildren,"... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943-44. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering. lvi, 773pp; xlv, 760pp; xlvi, 862pp. Illustrations, numerous maps (one large foldout). Very good. Faint edgewear; ownership signature in each volume. A tight and handsome early (not first) printing of Freeman's opus, described... More
Fowler, IN: The Benton Review Shop, [1925]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering. x, 314pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Faint binding edgewear. Tight, attractive first edition of this reminiscence about this northeast Illinois city and county. Lovely copy of a very uncommon title. Tipped neatly to rear endpaper... More
New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1934. Hardcover. Small 4to. Orange cloth with black lettering and decoration. xiii, 111pp. Line drawings, music notations. Very good. Faint binding edgewear; light age toning to pp. 66-67 from long-ago newsprint contact. Tight and attractive first edition of this how-to of a dozen ancient... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Teal blue cloth with black lettering. xvi, 142pp. Frontisipece, illustrations. Very good. Faintest of binding edgewear, else internally tight and fine. A superbly tight and attractive first edition of this youngest-ever Arctic memoir: Commander Donald B. McMillan, on four of whose... More
San Jose, CA: William P. Lyon, Jr. 1907. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. (2pp), 274pp. Frontispiece, line drawing, 2 tissue-guarded plates. Very good. Faint bit of edgewear, mainly at head and foot of spine; front/rear flyleaves age toned. A tight and quite nice first edition... More
Chicago: Willett, Clark & Company, 1936. Hardcover. Small 4to. Lime green cloth with black lettering and brown decoration, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 351pp. Block print frontispiece, 100 block print illustrations (small and full page), block print endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with spine faintly sunned and single archivally... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering and front board color plate, pictorial dust jackets, pictorial paper-over-boards slipcase. 1181pp. Illustrations, map endpapers. Very good/good plus/very good. First volume inner hinges delicate, but expertly and archivally strengthened, thus tight; dust... More
Princeton: Van Nostrand Company, [1968]. Hardcover. 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. xxiv, 39pp, 48 color full-page plates (rectos only), pp. 41-48. All edges gilt. Numerous illustrations, green marbled endpapers. Fine. Superb copy of this facsimile reprint limited to 2,000 copies -- the first volume in the Delaware Museum of... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Mustard cloth with black lettering and decoration. 230pp. Very good. Binding faintly edgeworn, mainly along spine; front endpaper shows several tiny tape stains, though text block remainder bright and near fine. A tight and decent first edition of this "Michael... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1944]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with paper labels. 257pp. Very good. Faint edgewear only. A tight, attractive first edition of the first of this prolific juvenile sports novelist's three basketball-focused fictions. More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Orange cloth with black lettering. 311pp. Very good. Faintest of binding edgewear, mainly at spine, else bright and internally near fine. Tight, very attractive first edition of the 21st out of 31 Western fiction adventures of Hopalong Cassidy, a string... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1966]. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark and light green paper over boards with white and yellow spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 217pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket lightly age toned. A tight and handsome first edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "Story of the... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, [1958]. Hardcover. 8vo. Light green paper over boards with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 221pp. Very good/very good. Text block lightly age toned as usual; faint jacket edgewear only. Tight and attractive first edition of this Western fiction -- to cite front jacket flap... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Orange cloth with black lettering and decoration. vi, 349pp. Very good. Bit of mild edgewear and couple faint spots to page edges. A tight, attractive first edition of this Western novel -- "Hoppy" titles began in 1906 and ran until 1941. Rather uncommon. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1939]. Hardcover. Illustrations by James MacDonald. 8vo. Brown cloth with black lettering. 267pp. Frontispiece, 3 full-page line drawings. Very good. A tight and nice later printing of this juvenile track and field fiction. More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1915]. Hardcover. Illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. Small 8vo. Teal blue blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering. 327pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 7 called-for full-page plates. Near fine. 1915 non-authorial gift inscription (surprisingly, to a woman "Who has had an experience in Wall Street") on front flyleaf... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green blind-embossed leatherette with gilt spine lettering. 314pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 6 called-for full-page plates. Near fine. Quite tight and lovely later printing of this 1907 novel, Train's second and one of the first to spotlight "Dr. Strangelove syndrome" -- alien hand... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1946. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with black and yellow paper labels, pictorial dust jacket. 245pp. Near fine/good plus. Jacket edgeworn, with several archivally closed (on verso) edge tears and a few edge chips and light name/address inkstamp at upper right of front panel --... More