Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1972. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff green wrappers. 119pp. Numerous illustrations (4 color). Very good. Outer wrappers (only) lightly age toned, else tight and internally fine. A handsome first exhibition catalogue of "Fifty Books from The Sterling Morton Library... for the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Morton Arboretum." Nice... More about Hortus Botanicus: The Botanic Garden & The Book
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with ivory spine lettering. vii, 68pp. Near fine. Tight and attractive first edition of this slim essay gathering. Though not so marked, from the library of Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), Illinois governor and twice presidential candidate, and his... More about Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 144pp. Fronrispiece, 2 illustrations. Very good. Mild sunning to spine and edges. A tight, attractive first edition of these three essays. Though not so marked, from the library of Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), Illinois governor... More about Mark Twain at Work
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1958]. Hardcover. Edited by J. Eric S. Thompson. Small 4to. Green cloth with ivory lettering. li, 379pp. Illustrations. Very good. Faint binding edgewear. First of this edition, a reprint of the 1958 edition of the 1648 classic on travel in the West Indies, Mexico and... More about Thomas Gage's Travels in the New World
New York: Harper & Row, [1969]. Hardcover. Translation by John Weightman and Doreen Weightman. Small 4to. Teal blue cloth with dark blue lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 387pp. Illustrations, graphs, charts. Very good/very good. Faint binding edgewear, with outer page edges spotted; jacket spine a bit age toned, with mild... More about The Raw and the Cooked -- Introduction to a Science of Mythology: I
New York: Random House, [[1954]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Marvin Bileck. Small 4to. Teal blue cloth with black lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 144pp, (1p ad). Numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket wear only. Quite tight and handsome thirteenth printing of #7 in the young adult "allabout... More about All About the Stars
London: Hutchinson & Co., [1958]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Eric Hosking. Introduction by Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke. Small 4to. Grey cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 240pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations (some color), map endpapers. Very good/good plus. Faint binding edgeweary; couple spots to outer page edges;... More about Portrait of a Wilderness: The story of the Coto Donana Expeditions
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. liii, 637pp. Foldout map. Very good/very good. Jacket mildly rubbed and edgeworn. A tight, attractive first edition of this thick and detailed account -- No. 9 in the "Joint Publication" series of the... More about A Calendar of the Register of Wolstan de Bransford: Bishop of Worcester 1339-49
N.p. Privately Printed, 1976. Paperback. Wide 8vo. Stiff terra cotta wrappers and brown plastic comb binding. 4pp, (35pp). Numerous floor plans and maps. Fine. Tight and attractive first edition of these descriptions and visuals for well-known Sherlock Holmes crime scenes, limited to 100 numbered copies (this #28). At top of... More about Crime Scene Sketches: Reproduced in Fac-Simile from the Pen and Ink Drawings in the Note Book of...
Cleveland: The Geon Company, [1993]. Hardcover. Wide 8vo. Green cloth with white lettering and gilt pictorial stamping. 59pp. Illustrations. Fine. Tight, attractive first edition of this slim tribute and biography of the B.F. Goodrich scientist some consider the "father of bubble gum." More about A Man of Ideas: The biography of Dr. Waldo Lonsbury Semon -- Inventor of Plasticized Polyvinyl...
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1982. Hardcover. Edited by Richard Maxwell Brown. 16mo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. xlii, 454pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, foldout map, illustrations. Near fine. Tight, perfect volume in the "Lakeside Classics" series, this a reprint of the classic 1928 title. More about Helldorado: Bringing the Law to the Mesquite
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. 297pp. Very good. Spine gilt lightly rubbed. Handsome and tight third printing of this part travelogue, part social commentary essay collection by the famed British writer. Quite sharp copy. More about What I Saw in America
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine with black lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. x, 96pp. Illustrations. Near fine/fine. Couple of tiny spots on outer page edges. A tight and nice first edition of the 1991 volume in the William E. Massey... More about Screening History
Chicago: H.W. Rokker, Publisher, 1889. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering. xv, 458pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations, foldout map. Very good. Spine gilt quite rubbed, with just the faintest binding edgewear -- else especially tight and nice. Handsome later printing of this text first published in 1875... More about Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Public Services, Death and Great Funeral Cortege, with a History and...
New York: The American Past / Book-of-the-Month Club, [1986]. Hardcover. Introduction by Stephen W. Sears. Small 4to. Coarse ivory cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket, brown paper-over-boards slipcase. xxv, 591pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps, pictorial endpapers sewn-in brown satin page marker. Fine/fine/near fine. Outstanding copy of this posh large... More about Abraham Lincoln: A Biography
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1911]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy blind-ruled cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. (8pp), 243pp. Top edge gilt. Very good. Quite faint edgewear, but with giltstamping gleaming and internally tight and fine. Tight, attractive first edition of this Lincoln-theme poetry collection -- a large selection featuring poets famed... More about The Praise of Lincoln: An Anthology
Springfield: The Abraham Lincoln Association, [1934]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Romaine Proctor. Small 8vo. Tan cloth with brown lettering. xv, 128pp, (1p). Frontispiece, line drawings, small foldout map, map endpapers. Very good. Mild binding soiling; small abrasion on rear pastedown (likely from ownership signature removal) and barely discernible evidence of several... More about Lincoln's New Salem
Boston: Chapman & Grimes, [1945]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and rules. 140pp. Frontispiece, 7 illustrations. Fine/very good. Handsome jacket slightly edgeworn along top only. A tight and lovely first edition, with giltstamping gleaming, of this biography of Lincoln's early years. Rather uncommon -- and an uncommonly... More about Lincoln and the Land of the Sangamon
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xiii, 341pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, tissue-guarded illustration. Very good. Quite mild edgewear, but overall tight, clean and quite nice. Attractive first edition of this homage to these pioneering British siblings, early feminists, both highly-regarded for... More about Memorials of Two Sisters: Susanna and Catherine Winkworth
Dubuque: Stromen Publishing Company, n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. vii, 206pp. Illustrations. Near fine. "5th Printing for 50th Anniversary" reprint edition, tight and handsome, of this popular account of Byrd's 1946 fourth Antarctic expedition ("Operation Highjump") by the expedition chaplain. Undated, but likely 1996. Boldly signed and inscribed... More about Strong Men South
New York: E.P. Dutton, [1988]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine with green, red and silver lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 562pp. Very good/near fine. Remainder mark on outer page edges; circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on copyright page. A tight, attractive first edition of this..... More about Koko
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1978]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 660pp. Numerous illustrations and maps. Fine/near fine. First edition of this hefty, scholarly treatment. Tight and quite attractive. More about History of the Westward Movement
Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1997. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 239pp. Frontispiece, map, illustrations. Fine/fine. A perfectly pristine first edition of this chronicle of the railroad line that traversed Montana, Idaho and Washington. Uncommon. More about The Milwaukee Road Revisited
Old Greenwich, CT: The Devin-Adair Company, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 180pp. Fine/near fine. Later printing, tight and sharp. Tale of "a certain young man [who] under regression became no less a personage than John Wilkes Booth...." More about The Reincarnation of John Wilkes Booth: A Study in Hypnotic Regression
Sebastopol, CA: Methodius Press, [1983]. Hardcover. 8vo. Light blue cloth with dark blue lettering and pictorial stamping. viii, 239pp. Illustrations, map. Near fine. Circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on page 28. Tight and superb first edition. History of this tiny (ca. 350 souls) northeast Iowa town made famous by Czech composer... More about They Came to This Place: A History of Spillville, Iowa and Its Czech Settlers