New York: Artabras, [1993]. Hardcover. Folio. Cream cloth with teal blue spine lettering and rules, pictorial dust jacket. Unpaginated (ca. 700pp). Color frontispiece, extensive full-page color illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Jacket spine faintly sunned. Tight and most handsome first of this modern edition -- "The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio"..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, [1957]. Hardcover. 4to. Burgundy cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 272pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Just a book club edition, but tight and quite attractive -- and a darn good, exceptionally well illustrated..... 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: 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, [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
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: 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
Matthew Arnold's niece was a bestselling novelist of such works as "Robert Elsmere" (1888), "Lady Rose's Daughter" (1903), "Harvest" (1920) -- but she's more interesting as a social reformer who simply used her fiction to put forth her social gospel; in 1890 she founded a London settlement which became in..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1893]. Hardcover. Biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. 12mo. Beige cloth spine with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt floral pattern and pale green decorated cloth. li, 384pp. All edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece + engraved title page. Very good. Faint binding edgewear, else tight..... More
New York: Barse & Co., [1931]. Hardcover. Illustrations by John M. Foster. Small 8vo. Brown pebble-grain paper over boards with black lettering. 208pp, pp. 7-12. Frontispiece. Near fine. Small non-authorial gift inscription on front pastedown. A tight and handsome first edition of the second title in this 2-title-only juvenile series..... More
Milwaukee: Henry Gugler Company, 1895. Hardcover. 8vo. Bright blue blind-ruled cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. v, 745pp. Frontispiece, 2 two-page engraved diagrams, full-page illustrations, 4 two-page maps at rear. Very good. Mild soiling and minor edgewear to otherwise bright and nice binding with bright gilt; endpapers lightly age toned;..... More
Appleton, WI: C.C. Nelson Publishing Company, [1946]. Hardcover. Introduction by Marvin B. Rosenberry. 8vo. Tan cloth with brown lettering. xvii, 335pp. Illustrations, pictorial map endpapers. Very good. Minor edgewear, with bit of age toning to preliminary leaves; ownership signature on inner flyleaf. A tight and nice first edition of the..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, [1929]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Harry Cimino. 8vo. Black cloth with color paper labels, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 298pp. Color frontispiece and pictorial title page. Very good. Spine faintly sunned; internally tight and fine; jacket complete and attractive, with a few edge chips. A tight..... More