Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco.
New York: Harper & Row, 1990. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine and black paper over boards, dust jacket. xvi, 528pp. Illustrations. Very good/near fine. A tight, clean decent third printing. More
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Free Enterprise -- Midwest Style.
Milwaukee: Tom Butenhoff's Free Enterprise Communications, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, dust jacket. x, 246pp. Fine/near fine. First edition, tight and nice, of this financial consultant's study, boldly inscribed and signed by him in black fineline on the half-title page: "To Todd & Peter -- / Free Enterprise needs..... More
Blow, Silver Wind: A Story of Norwegian Immigration to America.
Minneapolis: Norwegian-American Culture Institute, [1978]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Karl Erik Harr. Postscript by Eric Sevareid. Small 4to. Tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 119pp. Numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/near fine. First edition, tight and quite handsome, of this gathering of tales and even verse about immigrant's experiences, superbly..... More
A Matter of Life and Death: The Connecticut Mutual Story.
New York: Random House, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 309pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/near fine. First edition. Business history of the then sixth oldest mutual insurance company in the field. More
Our Living History.
Pleasantville: The Reader's Digest Association, 1996. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth spine and glazed pictorial paper over boards. 144pp. Color frontispiece, numerous color illustrations, maps. Fine. First edition of this volume in the "Explore America" series, surveying key historical sites from Maine to California and Texas to North Dakota -- tight..... More
The New England Butt'ry Shelf Almanac: Being a Collection of Observations on New England People, Birds, Flowers, Herbs, Weather, Customs, and Cookery of Yesterday and Today.
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, [1970]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Tasha Tudor. 12mo. Aquamarine blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 302pp. Color frontispiece, 5 full-page color plates, numerous line drawings. Near fine/near fine. Wonderfully tight and handsome first edition. More
A Friendly Mission: John Candler's Letters from America, 1853-1854.
Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1951. Paperback. Small 4to. Tan wrappers. 134pp. Very good. Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume 16, Number 1. Collection of correspondence between British Quaker Candler and his wife while he traveled the U.S. on an anti-slavery mission. More
Sevukakmet: Ways of Life on St. Lawrence Island.
Anchorage: Alaska Pacific University Press, 1979. Paperback. Square 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 46pp. Frontispiece, numerous line drawings. Near fine. First edition, tight and handsome, of Number 36 in this publisher's "Alaska Book Series." Illustrated with the author's charming if rustic line drawings. More
Carp's Washington.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1960]. Hardcover. Edited by Frances Carpenter. Introduction by Cleveland Amory. 8vo. Red cloth spine with silver lettering and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 314pp, (2pp). Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A tight and lovely first edition of this (to cite front..... More
Gleanings from a Country Journal: Life on the Southern Tier of New York State in 1870.
Utica: The Brodock Press, 1975. Hardcover. Edited by Lewis Morris Hall. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 93pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A tight and attractive first edition, limited to 1000 copies, of this diary of a small town New York..... More
Pro Christo et Patria: A History of Geneva College.
[Virginia Beach, CA]: The Donning Company Publishers, 1997. Hardcover. 4to. Grey buckram, dust jacket. xi, 180pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/near fine. First edition, tight and attractive. Account of this western Ohio Christian college. More
Southern Legacy.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [1950]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. v, 186pp. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed and lightly edgeworn, with slightly sunned spine. A tight and attractive first edition of the Pulitzer Prize winner's thoughtful commentary on what makes Southerners tick. More
Foxfire: Winter 1972.
Rabun Gap, GA: Foxfire, December 1972. Paperback. (Volume 6, Number 4). Small 4to. Stiff red pictorial wrappers. Pp. 173-252pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings. Very good. Tight, attractive early issue of the famed folksy quarterly -- articles in this issue on bending bows for an ox yoke, cornmeal made with a...... More
Stickin': The Case for Loyalty.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth spine and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 222pp. Near fine/near fine. Ownership signature/address on front flyleaf. First edition, tight and handsome. Half-title page bears a large "Philip Morris USA" bookplate signed bold and sloppy as ever by..... More
The Watches of the Night.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 275pp. Map endpapers. Good/good minus. Some jacket edgewear and chipping at bottom front. First edition. Both a narrative history and a polemic against greed and waste. More
The Binghams of Louisville: The Dark History Behind One of America's Great Fortunes.
New York: Crown Publishers, [1987]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and blue paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 292pp. Illustrations, map, chart endpapers. Very good/near fine. Several formerly folded-down page corners. A tight and attractive first edition. More
The Romance of Greeting Cards: An Historical Account of the Origin, Evolution and Development of Christmas Cards, Valentines and Other Forms of Greeting Cards from the Earliest Days to the Present Time.
N.p. University Press of Cambridge, [1956]. Hardcover. Edited by James D. Chamberlain. Introduction by Stephen Q. Shannon. Decorations by Kate Greenaway. Small 4to. Gold cloth with black lettering and decorations, pictorial dust jacket. x, 252pp. Frontispiece, line drawings. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight and handsome "Golden Anniversary..... More
Food and Justice: April/May 1985 (Volume 2, Number 3).
La Paz, CA: United Farm Workers of America, 1985. Paperback. 8vo.Color pictorial wrappers. 15pp. Illustrations. Fine. Pristine issue of this six times a year shout-out for the United Farm Workers, edited by the man himself. More
Sectionalism, Politics, and American Diplomacy.
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. xiii, 348pp. Edition not ascertainable with this publisher. Near fine. More
The Picturesque Ohio: A Historical Monograph.
Cincinnati: Cranston & Curts, 1887. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green decorated cloth. 238pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Good plus. Some edgewear and soiling, and head and foot of spine lightly chipped, but hinges tight and sound. First edition. More
Clark County, Kentucky: A History.
Winchester: Clark County-Winchester Heritage Commission, 1995. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 445pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers. Fine/fine. A tight, handsome first edition of this thick history of this eastern central county, penned by Kentucky's "Historian Laureate for Life." More
Pills, Petticoats and Plows: The Southern Country Store.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1944]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. 359pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good. A tight and nice early (not first) printing of this popular social history by the prolific Kentucky historian. A lovely reading copy. More
The Southern Country Editor.
N.p. University of South Carolina Press, [1991]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xvii, 365pp. Illustrations. Fine. Gilbert C. Fite introduces this first softbound edition of this 1948 "study of the country press from the time of the Civil War to the 1930s." Tight and pristine copy. More
In Senate of the United States. January 6, 1835.... The Committee of Foreign Relations... the present state of our relations with France....
Washington, DC: N.p., 1835. Paperback. Small 4to. Self cover. 23pp. Very good. Faint age toning and mild foxing; neat old paper strip along gutter. Tight and nice first edition of the Kentucky congressman's speech as chairman of the Committee of Foreign Relations addressing President Andrew Jackson's message regarding difficulties with..... More
Speech of the Hon. Henry Clay, on the Subject of the Removal of the Deposites; Delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 26, 30, 1833.
Washington, DC: Duff Green, 1834. Paperback. Small 4to. Printed wrappers. 31pp. Very good. Faint age toning, with mild foxing mainly to outer wrappers; neat old paper strip along gutter. Tight and nice first edition of the Kentucky congressman's attack of President Andrew Jackson's attempts to withdraw public funds from the..... More