Crawfordsville, IN: The Ben Hur Life Association, n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black pebble-grained cloth with gilt lettering and medallion. 44pp. 8 line drawings. Near fine. A superbly tight and bright copy of this Masonic title. George David Manson(1926-2006) was a long-time employee of the Chicago printer R.R. Donnelley and Sons..... More about The Ben Hur Ritual: Containing the Opening and Closing Forms, The Court Degree Initiation, The...

Crawfordsville, IN: Wabash College, 1958. Hardcover. Illustrations by Harold McDonald. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xiii, 496pp. 8 line drawings. Near fine. A handsome first edition of this west central Indiana county history -- a presentation copy boldly signed and inscribed by the author in blue... More about Sugar Creek Saga: A History and Development of Montgomery County

Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1875. Hardcover. Volume I only (out of three). Small 4to. Dark red cloth with black rules and gilt lettering and decoration. xiv, 454pp. Very good. Though internally tight and bright and fine, binding shows faint edgewear and a "flecking" typical of this title. First edition... More about History of the Army of the Cumberland: Its Organization, Campaigns, and Battles Written at the...

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1903]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth with red lettering, rules and pictorial stamping. 416pp. Frontispiece, 7 full-page plates. Near fine. Ownership signature on front pastedown; endpapers a tad age toned. Handsome and tight first edition of this biography by the popular educator and juvenile writer (1854-1930). More about The Christ Story

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, [1886]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Dark green blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering. 322pp. Very good. Text block moderately age toned as usual. A tight and attractive later printing, exceptionally nice, of this early title by the popular, prolific Presbyterian pastor (1837-1911), which like many... More about "Many Infallible Proofs:" The Evidences of Christianity, or, The Written and Living...

Cincinnati: C.F. Vent, 1871. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark green pebble-grain blind-embossed cloth with elaborate gilt spine lettering and decorations. viii, 528pp. Frontispiece and numerous full-page plates (based on "Photographic Views taken on the Spot"), foldout map. Very good. Faint binding wear, mainly several small inoffensive chips along rear and front hinge... More about Chicago and the Great Conflagration

New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1876. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth over bevel-edged boards with elaborate gilt lettering and pictorial stamping. vii, 712pp. Map frontispiece, numerous full-page maps. Very good. Quite mild binding edgewear, else internally tight and fine. A tight and sharp first edition of this hefty and... More about Battles of the American Revolution. 1775-1781. Historical and Military Criticism, with...

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Orange decorated cloth. x, 161pp. Illustrations. Fine. Tight and pristine first edition of this "high spots" annotated bibliography, with sections on Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, Central Africa, East Africa and the West Indies. Quite useful for reference. More about Folklore from Africa to the United States

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 2004. Hardcover. Edited by Joanna Brooks. 16mo. Teal green cloth with gilt lettering, rules and medallion. liii, 406pp, (2pp). Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations (some color), maps, decorative endpapers. Fine. Wonderfully tight, handsome first of this 102nd volume in the "Lakeside Classics" series. The... More about The Life of Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or...

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 2002. Hardcover. Edited by John Miller Morris. 16mo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration. cxv, 421pp. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece, illustrations (many color). Near fine. A tight and handsome first of this edition, the centennial volume of the noted "Lakeside Classics"... More about Narrative of the Coronado Expedition

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, [1954]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and green paper over boards, plain brown dust jacket with two modern paper labels. 33pp. Near fine/very good. Tight and lovely first of this edition, a facsimile with added materials of this early Southern... More about Catalogue of the Library of the Reverend James Warley Miles: Reprinted from the sole surviving...

New York: The Viking Press, 1975. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale orange cloth spine with black lettering and yellow paper over boards, dust jacket. 487pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with small chip at head of spine; text block lightly age toned as usual. A handsome, tight first edition of... More about Humboldt's Gift

Murray Hill, NE: Rinehart & Company, [1928]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. 336pp. Map endpapers. Very good. Spine a tad sunned with lettering a bit rubbed, else tight and internally near fine. Attractive early reprint edition of this book-length epic poem, winner of the 1929 Pulitzer Prize... More about John Brown's Body