Richmond: John Knox Press, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 213pp. Very good/very good. Jacket slightly creased; ownership signature on front flyleaf. First edition. Charming, true tale of a Nazerene pioneer minister and his family in turn-of-the century Los Angeles. More
New York: Doubleday & Company, [2000]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 471pp. Frontispiece. Fine/fine. Tight, handsome book club edition, the "First [so noted!] Hardcover Edition for the Christian Book Club" of this 1999 study. More
Chicago: The Masonic History Company, [1943]. Hardcover. 8vo. Light blue cloth with gilt lettering. 224pp. Very good. Spine a bit age toned and sunned and boards a tad irregularly sunned. A clean and tight first edition. Uncommon. Ownership signature/Indiana address on front pastedown of George D. Manson (1926-2006), long-time employee..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. viii, 140pp. Very good/good. Jacket trimmed, rubbed and edgeworn, with edge chips. A tight, decent first edition of this timely title. More
New York: Golden Press, 1966. Hardcover. Illustrated by Huntley Brown. 8vo. Color pictorial paper over boards. 254pp. Color illustrations, color endpapers. Very good. Later printing. Juvenile collection of biblical tales. More
Columbus, OH: The Wartburg Press, 1955. Paperback. Folio. Stiff red wrappers with silver gilt emblem. 35pp. Numerous illustrations, maps, charts. Good plus. Wrappers a but sunner along some edges, but basically tight and clean. Probable sole edition. More
Stuttgart: Greiner & Pfeiffer, n.y. Hardcover. Frontispiece illustration by Paul Thumann. 12mo. Tan cloth with gilt, green and black lettering and decorations. xv, 192pp. Frontispiece, decorative endpapers. Very good. Faint edgewear; inoffensive dampstain at upper left of rear board. A tight and attractive third edition of this religious manual, entirely..... More
London: The British Museum, 2002. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 360pp. Illustrations. Near fine/fine. First edition, tight and pristine, of the fourth volume in this 5-volume "Bible as Book" series co-published by Oak Knoll Press of New Castle, Delaware. Press release laid..... More
N.p. N.p., 1930. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff grey wrappers. 16pp. Frontispiece. Near fine. A tight, nice first edition of this bibliographically-cryptic production, likely published by this East Flatbush, New York organization. Hertz (1870-1940) was a New York attorney and noted Lincoln scholar and collector known for tackling Lincoln topics with a...... More
St. Louis: Tisk Bratri Wandasu, 1890. Hardcover. Small 4to. Purple cloth with gilt lettering and extensive black decorative stamping. viii, 551, (1p). Numerous illustrations, patterned endpapers. Good plus. Binding edgeworn, mainly at head and tail of well-sunned spine; internal hinges bear old but discreet expert brown cloth tape gutter reinforcement..... More
Chicago: Willett, Clark & Company, 1941. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. xii, 144pp. Very good/very good. Minor dust jacket wear; two pages bear ink underlining. Second printing, tight and clean. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with brown lettering. xxvii, 458pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Faint edgewear; offsetting to pp. 258-59 from long-ago newsprint contact; a few reader's notes neatly penned on rear flyleaf. Later (5th) printing of the fourth, revised and enlarged edition of this study..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, [2006]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with copper spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 354pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A tight and nice first edition, boldly signed and inscribed by the noted water and soil scientist (born 1931) in black fineline on..... More
Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1977. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff grey wrappers. xii, 160pp. Illustrations. Errata slip tipped in. Near fine. First edition, tight and attractive. No. 7 in the "Charles Redd Monographs in Western History" series. More
N.p. Michigan State University, 1970. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering. (3pp), iv, 253pp -- all rectos only. Near fine. Sole edition of this Ph.D. dissertation, likely produced in a miniscule quantity of fewer than a handful of copies. Hoffman seeks to show “that the fiction of Peter De..... More
Bountiful: Horizon Publishers, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Maroon leatherette, mylar cover. xii, 240pp. Illustrations. Fine. Autographed by Holbrook. First edition. Unusual, idiosyncratic memoir by this noted Mormon, signed and dated 1977 on the front flyleaf. More
Chicago: The Centenary Fund of the Diocese of Chicago, Inc., 1936. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xii, 243pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Tipped to copyright page is a 1945 newspaper obituary for Hopkins. A tight and nice first edition of this chronicle of four decades..... More
New York: The Abingdon Press, [1939]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blind-embossed green ribbed cloth with gilt lettering. 176pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Pictorial price-clipped dust jacket quite edgeworn and with sunned spine, but complete and overall appealing. A tight and quite attractive first edition. Front pastedown bears 1939 ownership signature..... More
Peoria, IL: Lester O. Schriver, 1941. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan wrappers. 36pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Minor soiling to wrappers. Tight, handsome first edition. More
Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, [1990]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 263pp. Fine/fine. Superb, tight and pristine first edition. More
Salt Lake City: The Deseret News Press, 1946. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, mylar cover. xvi, 431pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations, maps, charts. Very good. First edition of this well-rounded centennial history of the state. More
New York: Eaton & Mains, [1909]. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff grey wrappers with burnished gilt raised lettering and bas relief medallion. 35pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Very faintest of edgewear, with slight age toning to preliminary leaves; nonauthorial 1909 gift inscription on inner flyleaf. Quite tight and attractive first edition of this..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872-74. Hardcover. 6-volume set. 8vo. Quarter calf and maroon marbled paper over boards, gilt spines. xx, 394pp; xv, pp. 395-818; xlvii, 461pp; lxxv, 344pp; xvi, 398pp; xv, 462pp. All edges marbled. Sepia-tone frontispieces, numerous line drawings and full-page sepia-tone plates, marbled endpapers. Overall very good..... More
San Diego: Blue Dove Press, 1998. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xiii, 331pp. Near fine. First edition, tight and nice -- and boldly inscribed and signed by the author in black fineline on the half-title page: "Blessings on your / path! / [squiggly smily face] / Sharon Janis." More
New York: The Abingdon Press, [1931]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Purple cloth with gilt lettering and medallion. 116pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Spine lightly sunned. A tight and nice first edition of this focused study. Intriguing nonauthorial boldly pencilled gift inscription on front flyleaf notes "[illegible] / from / Carl and Clara..... More