The Magnificent Adventures of Henry Hudson.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. 217pp. 4 maps. Very good/very good. First edition, a mild ex-library copy with relatively few markings. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. 217pp. 4 maps. Very good/very good. First edition, a mild ex-library copy with relatively few markings. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 299pp. Frontispiece. Near fine/near fine. First edition -- tight, clean, nice. More
Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1876-79. Hardcover. Translation by John J. Lalor and Alfred B. Mason. 8vo. Quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, elaborately gilt spines. xvi, 505pp; iv, 714pp. All edges marbled. Very good. Some scuffing to calf corners, else tight and internally fine. First editions of the first..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co. Inc., [1931]. Hardcover. Illustrations by William Allen Dunn. Introduction by Henry Wells Sellers. 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. 291pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations and line drawings. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with jacket spine a bit age toned. An uncommonly bright..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine and blue paper over boards. xiii, 394pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Very good. Mild shelfwear; ownership signature/date on front flyleaf. Tight, quite decent first edition. More
N.p. Society of Colonial Wars, 1901. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. 31pp. Very good. Faint wear to outer wrappers (only), else internally fine. Probable sole printing, tight and quite nice. Brief history of the workings of various British 17th century charters in New England, especially the Massachusetts Bay Company..... More
N.p. Privately Printed, 1920. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering and blind-embossed profile portrait. xi, 270pp. Frontispiece, single full-page plate. Very good. Mild binding edgewear and homely discoloration along top edge of front board, else internally tight and nice; faint floral mustiness. Attractive first edition of this..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xv, 308pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear, with minor chipping at head of spine. First edition, tight and quite attractive. More
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, n.y. Hardcover. Illustrations by James Daugherty. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with green spine lettering/decoration (some copies have yellow) and large color plate to front board, pictorial dust jacket. 2pp color frontispiece, 2 full-page color plates, 10 full-page illustrations, green pictorial endpapers. Near fine/good plus..... More
New York: Russell F. Whitehead, 1925-1929. Paperback. 13 issues. 4to. Stiff cream wrappers. Various paginations, most ca. 20pp. Numerous full-page illustrations, floor plans. Very good overall. Outer wrappers (only) show mild bit of edgewear and light soiling, else internally tight and largely near fine. Attractive baker's dozen of individual issues..... More
N.p. Arno Press, [1977]. Hardcover. 4to. Red paper over boards with gilt lettering and decorations. 223pp. Extensive illustrations and floor plans. Very good. Faint bit of edgewear. Tight and nice first edition of this volume in the "Architectural Treasures of Early America" series. More
N.p. Arno Press, [1977]. Hardcover. 4to. Red paper over boards with gilt lettering and decorations. 223pp. Extensive illustrations and floor plans. Good plus. Faint edgewear, with spine a tad rough. A tight, decent first edition of this volume in the superbly-illustrated "Architectural Treasures of Early America" series. More
Providence: Published by the Author, 1839. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Rebound in grey cloth. viii, 312pp. Steel engraved frontispiece. Very good. Ownership inscription on inner flyleaf; binding somewhat soiled. First edition, in a handsome tight binding. NEW HOWES W447. Somewhat scarce. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter red cloth with gilt spine lettering and bluwe paper over boards, price-clipped dust jacket. xxvi, 398pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight and lovely later printing of the journalist and political philosopher's musings -- with a nice twist: Front flyleaf bears an interesting..... More
Brookeville, MD: American History Research Associates, [1974]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 80pp. Numerous illustrations. First edition -- "Bicentennial Edition" -- tight and pristine, of this biographical dictionary of United States founding fathers. More
New York: Burt Franklin, n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with copper spine lettering. lii, 180pp. Fine. A perfectly tight and superb facsimile reprint of the first edition (London, 1900) of this useful reference to writings about John Cabot, 16th century Venetian explorer who in 1497 was the first European to..... More
Tampa: The American Patriots Society, [1962]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pictorial paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 46pp. Woodblock illustrations. Fine/near fine. Probable first and sole edition of this curiosity, an amusing retelling of Benjamin Franklin and Woodrow Wilson tales by this father/daughter combo. Printed by and easily identifiable as..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 345pp. Good plus/very good. Tight, presentable first edition of (to quote the jacket's front panel) "The Autobiography of Captain John Smith" -- mild ex-library, with NO jacket spine marking and the..... More
London: The Folio Society, 1983. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red decorated cloth, decorated paper over boards slipcase. 256pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations (some color), maps, color pictorial endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Second edition. Collection of journal entries and correspondence documenting events during the Revolutionary War. More
Coral Gables, FL: Parker Art Printing Association, 1941. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. xi, 144pp, (10pp). Near fine. Bit of faint spotting to top page edges. A tight, attractive first edition of these notable English and early American lines, signed and inscribed large and bold in blue..... More
Williamsburg, VA: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, [1996]. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 198pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations (many color), pictorial pastedowns. Fine/fine. Tight and quite handsome seventh printing of this 1988 intensive study of the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg's many 18th..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth. xi, 176pp. Near fine. Abrasion on front pastedown from bookplate removal. First edition, tight and attractive, of the "Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize Essay of the American Society of Church History." More