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    A New England Farmer [Lowell, John] :  Perpetual War, The Policy of Mr. Madison.  Boston: Printed by Chester Stebbins, 1812. First Edition. Very good- in stab sewn wrapper with Bowdoin College and the name of an early prior owner (Ezra Abbot, Jr.) written across the upper edge of the front page. An octavo of 9 by 5 7/8 inches with the fore edge and lower edge rough cut and shallow chipping to the fore edge of the front page. Written in pencil is the author's name surrounded in brackets just above the word "Boston". The contents are spotted with foxing throughout, but primarily in the margins. 117 pages of text. The author, John Lowell (1769-1840) was a Massachusetts lawyer, agriculturist, philanthropist, and a well known Federalist who wrote many pamphlets in support of his point of view. He was often at odds with the Democratic Party and published many unsigned pieces critical of President James Madison's efforts to build a standing army and navy and the War of 1812. (DAB)
    TB29956  $150.00



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    A-No. 1 [Livingston, Leon Ray (1872–1944)]:  From Coast To Coast With Jack London.  Erie, Penn.: The Ano1 Publishing Company, n.d. c1917. Fourth Edition. Very good in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small octavo measuring 7 5/8" by 5 1/8" with light wear to the spine ends and with a very faint dampness stain the lower inside corners of the first 33 pages and to the front panel. Without a dust jacket as issued. 136 pages of text. The eighth volume in the books about tramp life by the author. The rear panel is printed with a facsimile, handwritten copy of a letter to the author from Jack London. Illustrated throughout with small line drawings within the text. A clean and handsome copy with little wear and no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB28387  $100.00




  • Aadland, Dan:  Sketches from the Ranch A Montana Memoir.  New York: Howell Book House, 1998. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Illustrated by Nik Carpenter. Around the framework of one given year the author narrates the "essence of ranching" with the surrounding nature, the seasons and past stories of life on his ranch in south central Montana.
    TB11890  $25.00



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    Abbatt, William:  The Crisis Of The Revolution Being The Story of Arnold and Andre.  Harrison, NY: Harbor Hill Books, 1976. Reprint of 1976. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A prior owner's book plate is pasted to the front paste down. In a near fine, price clipped dust jacket with the spine area very slightly faded. 119 pages of text followed by 72 pages of plates of photographic illustrations and maps. With illustrations from original photographs by Edwin S. Bennett together with numerous maps showing Major Andre's route. The author provides an extremely well detailed account of Major Andre's fateful meeting with Arnold, his efforts to escape back to the British lines, his capture and ultimate execution. The original publication, first printed 1899, is considered "mildly scarce" by Howes. (Howes A-3; Gephart 7792) Reprinted with the added information contained in the 1909 and 1915 supplements to the original edition.
    TB32779  $75.00



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    Abbey, Edward:  Cactus Country.  New York: Time-Life Books, 1973. First Edition. Near fine with the tips of the boards very slightly rubbed, else fine. A nearly square quarto of 10 by 8 3/4 inches. In a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket with rubbing to the fold to the front flap. Part of the Time-Life series of The American Wilderness. 184 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated throughout with images from color photographs. Quite uncommon in its issued dust jacket and this one has muliple price stickers on its front flap a sign of the inflationary economy at that time.
    TB02625  $125.00



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    Abbey, Edward:  Good News.  New York: E. P. Dutton, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black and paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 3/8 inches with the typical tanning to the outer edges of the pages. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 242 pages of text.
    TB29937  $125.00



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    Abbey, Edward:  The Journey Home Some Words in Defense of the American West.  New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., (1977). First Edition, First Printing. Very good+ in 1/4 black cloth and orange cloth covered boards with metallic copper colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 3/8 inches with underlining in ink throughout. Were it not for this unfortunate ink marking this copy would have been rated as in fine condition. Without its issued dust jacket. 242 pages of text. With illustrations by Jim Stiles.
    TB33065  $50.00




  • Abbey, Edward:  The Fool's Progress.  New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1988. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and yellow paper covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9" by 6" with very faint dust staining to the top edge of the text block. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 485 pages of text.
    TB00866  $25.00




  • Abbey, Edward:  Confessions of a Barbarian.  Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1994. First H.B. Edition. Fine, In a fine dust jacket.
    TB02943  $25.00




  • Abbey, Edward:  Resist Much, Obey Little.  Tucson: Harbinger House, 1989. First Revised Edt.. Fine, Without a dust jacket. Written by James Hepworth and Gregory McNamee. The updated and revised version of the original 1985 edition.
    TB02708  $10.00



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    Abbott, Wilbur C.:  New York in the American Revolution.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Very near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with a white paper label on the spine and illustrated end papers. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 5 7/8 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine crimped inward and with mild bumping to the fore corners of the front board. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with 1/4 inch chipping at the ends of the spine area and a 1/4 inch deep chip at the upper edge of the front panel and shallow chipping to the upper edge of the rear panel. The spine area is tanned. 302 pages including an index, bibliography, text and illustrated from reproductions of contemporary works of art. The author traces the history of New York City during the American Revolution.
    TB31548  $75.00



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    Abbott, Jacob:  Makers of History: Madame Roland.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. Reprint. Near fine in full, dark blue leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and tool work in the compartments and with gilt rules around the edges of the boards. All three edges of the text block are gilt, together with gilt dentelles on the leather turn-ins. With a silk placement ribbon sewn in at the head of the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. 304 pages of text and illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates from engravings. The contents of this copy are clean and free of any prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB31021  $40.00



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    Abbott, Jacob:  Makers of History: Xerxes.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. Reprint. Near fine in full, dark blue leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and tool work in the compartments and with gilt rules around the edges of the boards. All three edges of the text block are gilt, together with gilt dentelles on the leather turn-ins. With a silk placement ribbon sewn in at the head of the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. 302 pages of text and illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates from engravings. The contents of this copy are clean and free of any prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB31022  $40.00




  • Abbott, E. C.:  We Pointed Them North.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1991. First thus. Fine in dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations with a gilt top edge to the text block. Still contained within the publisher's original shrink wrap protection. Originally published in 1939 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Written by E. C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott and Helena Huntington Smith. A Lakeside Classic issued in 1991.
    TB33182  $30.00



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    Abbott, W. W., Editor:  The Papers of George Washington Volume 2 Revolutionary War Series.  Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, (1987). First Edition, First Printing. Very good in black cloth covered boards gilt text on the spine and with a gilt facsimile of Washington's signature on the front board. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches with a slight concave shape to the spine, the boards are lightly soiled and the top edge of the text block is dust stained. In a very good-, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with a number of tape repairs to the recto of the jacket and with a 1/4 inch chip from the lower fore corner of the front panel. 671 pages including an index and text covering the letters send and received by Washington from September to December 1775.
    TB32763  $20.00




  • Abdill, George B.:  A Locomotive Engineer's Album A Saga of Steam Engines in America.  Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1965. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in orange cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and front board. In a near fine dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap with minor rubbing at the ends of the spine area. 190 pages of text and black and white photographs throughout. This is the fifth volume in the Old Railroad series of books.
    TB17501  $30.00



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    Achenbach, Joel:  The Grand Idea George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West.  New York: Simon & Schuster, (2004). First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black and tan paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6 1/2". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 367 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps and a section of black and white reproductions of contemporary works of art. Washington saw the Potomac as the answer to creating less expensive canal transportation to the Ohio River area and also as the means to assure that western states stayed allied with the Union.
    TB25674  $25.00



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    Ackerman, Jennifer:  Notes from The Shore.  New York: Viking, 1995. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 ivory colored cloth and light yellow paper covered boards. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 1/2 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. The author's first book. 190 pages of text with illustrations by Karin Grosz.
    TB02581  $40.00



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    Ackroyd, Peter:  London The Biography.  London: Chatto & Windus, (2000). First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in light gray paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 inches with the first nine pages (i-ix) creased on a long diagonal with no other harm. In a fine,unclipped dust jacket. 822 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with images from photographs, maps and reproductions of earlier works of art. "Two thousand years of London's history and folklore...."
    TB32643  $45.00



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    Adams, John Quincy:  The Jubilee Of The Constitution. A Discourse Delivered A The Request Of The New York Historical Society.  New York: Samuel Colman, 1839. First Edition. Very good in its original paper wraps over a sewn binding with a portion of the original black text on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 7/8 by 5 1/2 inches with the flimsy front cover reinforced on its verso side with thin tissue guard and the inner, printed, heavier paper wrap is reinforced on both of its sides. The binding has been more recently reinforced with sawn-in threads securing all pages and the remaining wraps. Small losses to the outer wrap at the corners and fore edge. Both panels of the rear wraps are missing. The text block is generally well foxed throughout. 136 pages illustrated with the frontispiece titled " Inauguration of Washington at the Old City Hall 1789". The full title reads: "The Jubilee Of The Constitution. A Discourse Delivered A The Request Of The New York Historical Society In the City of New York, On Tuesday, The 30th of April 1839; Being the Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Inauguration Of George Washington as President Of The United States, on Thursday, The 30th of April, 1789." (Sabin, 281)
    TB28871  $190.00



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    Adams, Edward C. L.:  Congaree Sketches Scenes From Negro Life In The Swamps Of The Congaree And Tales By Tad and Scip Of Heaven And Hell With Other Miscellany.  Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1927. First Edition. Very good in 1/4 black cloth and light orange cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 8 by 5 1/2 inches with the black cloth at the heel of the spine worn and rubbed and with soiling to both boards and with a gift inscription on the first end page. The contents are clean, free of foxing and tanning. Without it scarce dust jacket. 116 pages including a word list and text. With an introduction by Paul Green. The University publisher describes this title as follows: "A collection of authentic stories of Negro life in South Carolina....written in excellent dialect, these tales deal with old superstitions the Negro's idea of heaven and hell and those on their way to each, and with the Negro's reaction his relation to the white man." A signed, limited edition preceded the publication of this trade edition.
    TB32822  $50.00




  • Adams:  Charles M. Russell The Cowboy Artist.  Pasadena: Trail's End Pub. Co., 1948. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in dark red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a poor dust jacket as the entire upper 1/3rd of the front panel, the upper 1/4 of the spine area and the upper 1/2 of the rear panel are missing. 350 pages containing text, a list of illustraions and a bibliographic check list. Laid-in are two more recent, color photographs of the Russells' grave markers.
    TB08098  $35.00



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    Adams, Richard:  The Ship's Cat.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in glossy, illustrated paper covered boards. A small quarto measuring 10 3/4" by 8 1/2". In a fine dust jacket which duplicates the illustrated paper cover on the boards with the price intact on the front flap. 36 pages of text and "fantasticl pictures by Mr. Alan Aldridge". A clean, handsome and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB26868  $35.00




  • Adams, Frank Davis:  The Life & Times of Buckshot South.  New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1959. First Edition, First printing. Fine in red paper covered boards. In a very good+ dust jacket with light wear and curling at the ends of ends of the spine area. A humorous novel of the west during the closing of the frontier era.
    TB09858  $17.50




  • Adams, Richard:  The Day Gone By.  London: Hutchinson, 1990. First Edition, First printing. Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket.
    TB07005  $10.00




  • Adams, Richard:  The Unbroken Web.  New York: Crown Publishers, In, 1980. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in brown cloth covered boards. In a near fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. A collection of stories and fables with some wonderful color and black and white illustrations. Illustrated with color plates by Yvonne Gilbert and drawings by Jennifer Campbell.
    TB00113  $5.60



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    Adams, John, and Abigail Adams:  Letters of John and Abigail Adams 1762 to 1826.  n.p.: Westvaco, 2001. Limited Edition. Fine in 1/4 dark red cloth and printed paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and with decorated end sheets. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is within a fine paper covered slip case. The book and its slip case are still contained within the publisher's original shipping carton. 133 pages of text followed by a listing of the Westvaco's American Classics Series. With a forward and introduction by Willaim J. Bennett. Illustrated with eleven colored plates as "a brief pictorial history of the design of our flag from 1775 to the present". The 44th volume in the Westvaco Christmas series.
    TB25339  $40.00



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    Adams, Elbridge L. and John Sheridan Zelie:  Joseph Conrad The Man and A Burial In Kent Together with some Bibliographical Notes.  New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1925. First Edition. Very near fine in 1/4 beige cloth and marbled paper covered boards with a paper title label on the spine which is well tanned. An octavo measuring 8 3/4" by 5 1/2". Without a dust jacket; however, the book is contained within a good paper covered slip case which has suffered splits at most of its joints and has been repaired using clear acetate. One of only 485 copies printed with only 450 made available for sale. (72) pages of text and illustrated with a line art portrait of Conrad as a frontispiece. A very handsome, clean and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB27598  $65.00



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    Ade, George:  Bang! Bang! [A Collection of Stories Intended to Recall Memories of the Nickel Library Days When Boys Were Supermen and Murder a Fine Art].  New York: J. H. Sears & Co. Inc., (1928). First Edition. Good in 1/4 black cloth and decorated paper covered boards with a printed paper label on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo of 8 by 5 3/8 inches with a 1/2 inch deep chip to the cloth at the heel of the spine and with the paper around the edges of the boards worn and rubbed. The blank, first free end page has a nearly 2 inch by 1 1/4 inch chip from its lower edge. Without its issued dust jacket. 147 pages of text. A collection of eleven short stories from the "Nickel Library Series". Illustrated with a frontispiece and chapter leads all from line drawings by John T. McCutcheon.
    TB33197  $50.00



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    Ade, George:  Fables in Slang.  n.p.: Westvaco, 1972. Limited Edition. Fine in bright red paper covered boards with gray text stamping on the spine and with decorated end sheets and blind embossing to the front board. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 5 3/4". Without a dust jacket as issued and without its issued paper covered slip case. 171 pages of text and illustrated with decorations. The fifteenth volume in Westvaco's annual American Classic series.
    TB28224  $30.00



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    Adirondack Mountain Club and Douglas Welch:  Adirondack Bibliographies (Three Volumes).  Utica, New York: Adirondack Mountain Club, Inc., The Adirondack Museum and North Country Books, 1958, 1973 and 1994. All First Editions, First Printings. A three volume set of books providing a complete bibliography dealing with the Adirondack region of upper New York State. These volumes cover books, pamphlets and periodical articles All three are first editions. None of them have dust jackets. Adirondack Bibliography by the Adirondack Mountain Club is a first edition of 1958. It is fine in medium green cloth covered boards with a faint stain to the cloth at the lower fore edge of the front board. 354 pages including an index to 7,539 listed items. Adirondack Bibliography Supplement 1956-1965 by the Adirondack Mountain Club is near fine in light green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and illustrated end sheets. 198 pages including an index. The cloth at lower fore edges of the boards are faded. Adirondack Books: 1966-1992 by Douglas Welch is fine in illustrated paper covered boards with white text on the spine and front board. A quarto containing 145 pages including an index, a list of additional titles, a list of un-located titles and text.
    TB30011  $100.00



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    Adler, Dennis:  Colt Single Action From Paterson To Peacemakers.  New York: Chartwell Books, Inc., c2007, 2011. Reprint of 2011. Fine in fully illustrated, wrap-around paper covered boards with yellow and white text on the spine. An oblong octavo of 8 3/8 by 10 7/8 inches with printed end sheets of line drawings of hand guns. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 309 pages including an index and text. Each page is illustrated from color photographs of Colt revolvers.
    TB32305  $40.00




  • Adler, Bill:  More Kennedy Wit.  New York: The Citadel Press, 1965. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in light blue cloth covered boards. In a very good+ dust jacket with light wear and flecking to the spine ends and light soiling to the rear panel.
    TB01591  $3.50



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    Aislabie, John:  The Case Of the Right Hon'ble John Aislabie, Esq. combined with The speech of the Right Honourable John Aislabie and Mr. Aislabie's Second Speech.  London: J. Roberts, 1721. . All three speeches are bound within a late 19th century, 1/2 red leather and patterned cloth covered boards with faint gilt text stamped on the spine. An octavo measuring 8" by 6 1/2" with heavy wear and rubbing to the leather fore corners of the boards and with chipping to the leather at the head and heel of the spine. Older library stamps appear on the title page for the first speech and on the last page of the final speech. Of note is an interesting oval, book store stamp on the last free end page with the words "Sold By H. M. Stationery ___(not discernible)___" surrounding the image of a crown. 42 pages of text followed by and bound-into this volume are: The speech of the Right Honourable John Aislabie, Esq; upon his defence made in the House of Lords, against the Bill for raising money upon the estates of the South-Sea Directors, on Wednesday the 19th of July 1721. The second edition consisting of 22 pages; and followed by and bound in is: Mr. Aislabie's Second Speech On his Defence in the House of Lords, On Thursday, July 20, 1721 published by J. Roberts, London consisting of 22 pages. The pages of these three speeches are in remarkably great shape with little evidence of tanning or foxing.
    TB25893  $500.00



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    Albion, Robert Greenhalgh:  Naval & Maritime History An Annotated Bibliography.  Mystic, Conn: Munson Institute of American Maritime History, 1972. Fourth Revised and Expanded Edition. Near fine in heavy paper wraps. Originally published in 1951 this bibliography is considered the primary source for extensive bibliographic information on maritime and naval history. This is the fourth revised and expanded edition containing 370 pages including an index of authors.
    TB17509  $60.00



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    Alcorn, Robert Hayden:  The Biography of a Town Suffield Connecticut.  Suffield, Conn.: Three Hundredth Anniversary Committee, (1970). First Edition. Near fine in 1/4 red cloth and tan cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with a gift inscription in red ink on the fly title page. Without a dust jacket and not sure if it had one when issued. 365 pages including an index, bibliography, appendices and text. Illustrated through-out with images from black and white photographs.
    TB32123  $60.00



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    Alcott, Louisa M.:  Little Men: Life At Plumfield With Jo's Boys.  Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First Edition, First Printing. In good+ condition in the publisher's original green cloth covered boards with a gilt seal on the spine and on the front board and with coated, brown end papers. A 16mo measuring 6 1/2" tall by 4 1/4" deep containing 376 pages without a signature mark on the first page of text. There are several short closed tears to the cloth (1/32 inch) at the head and heel of the spine with light rubbing and wear as is the cloth over the tips of the boards. The text is preceded by four pages of ads from the publisher the last of which states that Pink and White Tyranny is "nearly ready". Illustrated with a frontispiece and three full line drawing plates. A very clean and handsome copy with no ownership markings. (BAL, 167; Ullom, 68)
    TB31273  $300.00




  • Aldiss, Brian:  Hothouse.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1987. Collector's Edition. Fine in full bright red leather covered boards with three raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both covers. The end sheets are printed paper with a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" containing 253 pages of text With the publisher's two page collector's notes laid-in. Illustrated with drawings by Patricia Davis and with an introduction by Marshal B. Tymn. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of The Masterpieces of Science Fiction. A handsome, tight and clean copy with no prior owner's names, dates, notations or book plates.
    TB23751  $60.00



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    Alexander, James Edward, Editor:  Salmon Fishing In Canada By A Resident.  London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860. First Edition. Very good- in gray-green, full leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text on a red leather label in one compartment and gilt binder's devices in the remaining five compartments. The boards are decorated with double gilt borders. The edges of the text block are marbled to match the marbled end sheets. A 12mo of 7 by 4 1/2 inches with what may have been several tobacco burn marks to the leather on the front board, the rear joint has been reinforced with Japanese tissue and there is a prior owner's book plate attached to the front paste down. There is an early 1865 gift inscription on the verso of the first free end page and a second prior owner's name and date of 1890 below the inscription. 350 pages of text illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, a map of the St. Lawrence River, two plates and numerous vignettes throughout. (Thatcher, p11)
    TB32956  $275.00




  • Alexander, Edwin P.:  The Collector's Book of the Locomotive.  New York: Bramhall House, 1966. First Edition by Bramhall Hous. Near fine in 1/4 red cloth and paper covered boards with very faint fading around the edges of the boards. In a very good+ dust jacket with a 2" closed tear on the rear panel at the fold to the spine area and a 1/2" closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel. 197 pages with over 150 illustraions in black and white and 44 in full color, with an appendix.
    TB11707  $10.00




  • Alexie, Sherman:  Indian Killer.  New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket.
    TB04244  $24.50



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    Allan, Tony:  Americans in Paris.  Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., (1977). First Edition, Review Copy. Fine in charcoal gray cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. A quarto of 11 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. A review copy with the publisher's materials laid-in to include a reproduced photograph of "American Doughbooys, near the Arc de Triomphe, on a furlough from the front." "An Illustrated Account of the Twenties and Thirties". 208 pages of black and white photographs and including an index.
    TB29420  $30.00



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    Allen, Douglas:  N. C. Wyeth.  New York: Bonanza Books, 1972. Reprint by Bonanza. Fine in red cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. Co-authored with Douglas Allen, Jr. with a forward by Paul Horgan. 335 pages with index.
    TB24817  $40.00



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    Allen, Ralph B. (Translator):  The Saga Of Gisli Son Of Sour.  New York: Harcourt, Brace And Company, (1936). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in off white cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and black images on the front board. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches with the cloth on the spine very slightly tanned. Without a dust jacket. 148 pages of text. Illustrated with engravings by Rockwell Kent.
    TB29133  $35.00




  • Allen, Hervey:  Bedford Village.  New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in decorated tan cloth covered boards with a gift inscription on the first free end paper. In a very good- dust jacket due to a price clipped front flap, a lightly faded spine area and shallow chipping at the ends of the spine area. The jacket art and frontispiece are by Andrew Wyeth. The second volume in The Disienherited series. This is an unusual variant as it lacks the pasted missing last line of text on page 298 which is pasted in on most 1st editions.
    TB11176  $28.00




  • Allen, Hervey:  Action at Aquila.  New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text block on the spine and embossed likeness of author's signature on the front board. In a very good dust jacket with 1/2" x 1" chip at the top of the spine and 1" chip at the base of the front panel. A novel of the Civil War written with the historical accuracy for which Hervey Allen was noted. A nice collectable copy despite the noted flaws.
    TB05216  $25.00



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    Allen, Francis H.:  A Bibliography of Henry David Thoreau.  New York: Johnson Reprint Company, (1908) 1967. Reprint of 1967. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/2" with very slight fading to the cloth at the head of the spine and front board. Without a dust jacket as issued. 201 pages including and index. A facsimile reprint of the original edition published in 1908.
    TB26221  $25.00




  • Allen, Hervey:  Toward the Morning.  New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1948. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in decorated tan cloth covered boards. In a very good- dust jacket due to 1/3" chips across the upper edge of the spine area & wear at the panel edges but with the price intact. The jacket art and frontispiece are by Andrew Wyeth. The third book in the series of historical novels of the early American frontier called The Disinherited.
    TB11175  $24.50



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    Allen, Douglas, and Douglas Allen, Jr:  N. C. Wyeth The Collected paintings, Illustrations, and Murals.  New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Fine in heavy blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A quarto of 11 7/8 by 9 inches. In a very near fine, price clipped dust jacket.with a small nick to the upper fore corner of the rear panel over the tip of the rear board and with what may be a small red paint mark of rougly a 1/4 inch at the top of the front panel. With a forword by Paul Horgan and an introduction by Richard Layton. 335 pages with an index and a bibliographic index, text and over 300 color and black and white illustrations through-out. A go-to reference source for the art work of N. C. Wyeth.
    TB31611  $100.00



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    Allin, Michael:  Zarafa A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris.  New York: Walker and Company, (1998). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in brown paper covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 4 3/4 inches with map end sheets with a minor bump to the upper front corner of the spine. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author at the top of the title page. 215 pages of text including an index. Illustrated with maps and images of earlier works of art and several images from black and white photographs. A very attractive copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB33137  $40.00




  • Alloti, P.:  Map of Rome (circa 1800).  Milan: , n.d. (circa 1800). . Map in Italian measuring 6 1/8 tall by 8 1/8 inch wide (border to border) listing 46 sites of interest in the city of Rome showing major roads, buildings and hills.
    TB21605  $25.00




  • Allyn, Charles:  The Battle of Groton Heights: A collection of Narratives, Official Reports, Records, Etc. of the Storming of Fort Griswold.....  New London, Conn.: Self-published, 1882. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Good in its original green cloth covered boards with black end sheets. The spine is decorated with gilt text and a gilt image of the Groton Heights Memorial. The front board is decorated with a bird's eye view of the ramparts of the fort. Much of the green coating on the boards has been nibbled away by insects. The front and rear hinges and joints are tight and without any weakness. The binding remains strong. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is rubbed and the cloth at the lower tip of the front board is worn through. There are no prior ownership markings of any kind in this volume. Laid-in near the front of the book is a leaf printed on both sides advertising the Centennial Medal commemorating the Battle of Groton Heights. The full title reads: "The Battle of Groton Heights: A collection of Narratives, Official Reports, Records, Etc. of the Storming of Fort Griswold, the Massacre of its garrison, and the burning of New London by British Troops Under the Command of Benedict Arnold, on the Sixth of September, 1781." With an introduction by William W. Harris. Only 100 copies of the original printing of this title were produced in 1870 under the name William Harris. This edition was revised from the first edition by Charles Allyn with additional notes and enlarged. Illustrated with engravings, maps and with a map frontispiece. 399 pages including an index, appendix and text. (Howes, H-240; Gephart 6380; Armstrong 4030)
    TB28556  $350.00



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    Alotta, Robert I.:  Another Part of the Field: Philadelphia's American Revolution 1777-78.  Shippensburg, Penn.: White Mane Publishing Co., Inc., 1991. First Edition, First printing. Fine in bright red, leather like paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 5 7/8" with illustrated end sheets. In a very near fine but price clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to the folds. A review copy with the publisher's material laid-in. 133 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with maps and reproductions of contemporary works of art. The author focuses his research on the events taking place in Philadelphia during its occupation by the British.
    TB23498  $25.00



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    Alotta, Robert I.:  Another Part of the Field: Philadelphia's American Revolution 1777-1778.  Shippensburg, Penn.: White Mane Publishing Co., Inc., (1991). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in leather like, red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 133 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with maps, plans and images of earlier works of art. The author focuses his research on the events taking place in Philadelphia during its occupation by the British.
    TB30281  $25.00




  • Alsberg, Henry G. (Editor):  The American Guide A Source Book and Complete Travel Guide For The United States.  New York: Hsatings House, 1949. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board and with decorated map end papers. The head and heel of the spine are slightly turned in and the hinge areas at the end papers are beginning to tan due to the high acid content of the glue used in binding. This book undetakes what the WPA's American Guide Series was not able to accomplish, that is to create a tour guide for the entire United States in one volume. 1348 pages with an index.
    TB16459  $24.50



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    Alstyne, L. Van:  Burying Grounds of Sharon, Connecicut, Amenia and North East, New York.  Amenia, NY: Walsh, Griffen & Hoysradt, Printers, 1903. First Edition. Very near fine in its original dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and blind embossed borders on the boards. A small quarto of 9 3/4 by 6 1/4 inches with occasional pencil notes in the margins and with the cloth lightly rubbed at the head and heel of the spine. Without a dust jacket. 246 pages of text followed by a one page index cemeteries and a one page errata.
    TB32719  $60.00




  • Alter, J. Cecil:  James Bridger.  Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, (1962). First Edition Thus. Fine in brown cloth covered boards with a gilt on red title block on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches with very faint rubbing to the cloth at the corners of the spine and to the tips of the boards. In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to the folds and to the ends of the spine area. 358 pages including an index, bibliography, text and illustrated with a two-page map, an image from a black and white photograph and eight reproductions of contemporary works of art. A revised edition of the author's original 1925 publication.
    TB30037  $50.00



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    Alvord, Clarence Walworth and Lee Bidgood:  The First Exploration of the Trans-Allegheny Region by the Virginians 1650-1674.  Cleveland, Ohio: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1912. First Edition. Fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a gilt top edge to the text block. A small quarto of 9 3/8 by 6 1/4 inches with no prior ownership markings of any kind. Without a dust jacket. One of only 1,010 copies printed. A collection of first person, exploration accounts providing "A history of early western explorations beyond the Alleghenies, in the Ohio Valley, and extending as far south as Florida." (Clark & Brunet) 275 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with a color frontispiece map and facsimiles of maps and title pages of documents. Considered by Howes to be "quite scarce". (Clark & Brunet, 5; Howes A194)
    TB29686  $250.00




  • Ambrose, Stehpen E.:  Americans at War.  Jackson: University Prss of Miss., 1997. First Edition. Fine in gray cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. A collection of essays of the America goes to war with discussion of battles ranging from Vicksburg to My Lai and personalities as diverse as Custer to Eisenhower.
    TB06734  $45.00




  • Ambrose, Stephen E.:  Lewis & Clark Voyage of Discovery.  Washington, DC: Nat' Geographic Soc., 1998. First Edition, First printing. Fine in black decorated paper covered boards with white text stamping on the front board and spine. In a fine dust jacket. A photographic tribute to the journey undertaken by Lewis and Clark. With photographs by Sam Abell. An oblong book of 255 pages.
    TB08004  $30.00



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    American Bankers Association:  Book of New York.  New York: American Bankers Association, 1922. . Very good in heavy, printed paper wraps over a sewn adhesive binding. A quarto of 12 by 9 1/8 inches with rubbing and wear to the covers and chips to the ends of the fold-over over the spine. The contents are clean and bright. The center fold of "New York From The Sky, October 1922" is present but not bound-in as it was intended. Penciled notation by an early prior owner appear on the last seven pages. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout from earlier works of art and images from black and white photographs. Published as a promotional piece for the American Bankers Association Convention held in New York City on October 2-6, 1922.
    TB31921  $25.00



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    Anderloni, Carlo Felice Bianchi and Angelo Tito Anselmi:  Touring Superleggera Giant Among Classic Italian Coachbuilders.  Rome, Italy: Edizioni di Autocritica, (1983). First Edition. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with white text stamped on the spine. An oblong small quarto of 10 1/4 by 10 1/8 inches with only hints of rubbing at the corners of the head and heel of the spine. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket (no price listed) with two very small nicks to the upper corners of the spine area. 351 pages of text. Illustrated throughout from black and white photographs and with seven, two page color plates. This is the English language version of the same title originally published in Italy. A very handsome and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. A large heavy book weighing 4 1/2 pounds making it necessary to charge more than our standard shipping costs.
    TB31948  $400.00




  • Andersen, Kurt:  Heyday.  New York: Random House, 2007. First Edition, First printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 622 pages of text.
    TB21894  $25.00



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    Anderson, Jeffrey W. and Helen A. Harrison:  En Plein Air The Art Colonies at East Hampton and Old Lyme, 1880-1930.  Old Lyme, Conn. and East Hampton, NY: Florence Griswodl Museum and Guild Hall Museum, (1989). First Edition. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. An oblong octavo of 8 1/2 by 10 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. One of only 1,000 copies printed. 72 pages of text and illustrations in black and whtie and in color.
    TB31860  $20.00



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    Andrews, William Loring:  Fragments of American History Illustrated Solely By The Works of Those of Our Own Engravers Who Flourished In the XvIIIth Century.  New York: Privately Printed for William Loring Andrews, 1898. First Edition. Near fine in a more recent, light brown calf leather 1/2 leather and marble paper covered boards with two gilt on black title labels on the spine with four raised bands and horizontal, gilt bands on either sides of the bands and with gilt rules separating the leather from the marbled paper on the boards. The top edge of the text block is gilt. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with marbled end sheets which match the paper on the boards. One of only 80 copies printed on handmade, laid paper. 69 pages of text illustrated with a hand painted frontispiece and 16 plates 3 of which are hand painted. Considered by Hoes in his bibliography U.S. Iana to be "quite scarce". (Howes, A-264)
    TB32395  $275.00



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    Andrews, William Loring:  New Amsterdam New Orange New York.  New York: Dodd, Mead And Company, 1897. First Edition. Very good- in orange cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt text and gilt borders on the front board and with the top edge of the text block gilt. A small quarto of 9 by 6 3/8 with the cloth on the spine soiled and with soiling to the front and rear board nearest to the spine. The cloth over the front joint is beginning to part and the cloth at the head and heel of the spine is beginning to fray. There is an early prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and a blind embossed prior owner's seal on the rear end page. Without a dust jacket. One of only 170 copies printed. 142 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with a color map frontispiece, a color vignette on the title page, 31 photogravures on copper, 3 photogravures on gelatine.
    TB29888  $150.00




  • Angle, Paul M.:  Pioneers Narratives of Noah Harris Letts and Thomas Banning 1825-1865.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1972. First. Fine with top edge gilt with boards covered with dark blue cloth with gilt text stamping. The unpublished memoirs of Noah Harris Letts and Thomas Banning 1825 - 1865 describing life in Illinois and in the Midwest at that time. The 70th edition in The Lakeside Classics series issued in 1972.
    TB18054  $20.00



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    Anon.:  R. L. Stevenson Memories.  Boston, Edinburgh & London: Le Roy Phillips and T. N. Foulis, 1912. First Edition. A sewn binding of three signatures covered with flexible tan boards with no backstrip in near fine condition. A small octavo measuring 8 by 5 inches with faint soiling to the front board. In a very good dust jacket with wrap around art with minor 1/8" chips from the ends of the spine area. Unpaginated containing 56 pages illustrated with 25 tipped-on, sepia photo reproductions of Stevenson's last portrait, family members, scenes of Swanson, the schooner Equator, Vailima and Stevenson's tomb.
    TB29110  $100.00



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    Anonymous:  East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon Old Tales From The North.  New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [ca 1920]. First Edition. Good+ in its original yellow cloth covered boards with red text on the spine and front board. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 6 inches with the text block shaken within its binding with the front hinge going allowing the first free end page and the frontispiece to be a bit loose, the cloth on the spine is tanned and the boards are soiled. Without a dust jacket We note here that the incredibly detailed, color plates by Kay Nielsen show dates between 1913 and 1914 suggesting that they may have been part of an earlier printing of this title. 204 pages of text and illustrated with a color frontispiece tipped-in and 24 color plates tipped-in from paintings by Kay Nielsen and wood block vignettes also by Kay Nielsen. A collection of Norwegian fairy tales beautifully illustrated by Kay Nielsen.
    TB32296  $500.00



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    Anonymous:  Extracts From the Several Treaties Subsisting Between Great-Britain And Other Kingdoms and States.  London: n.p., 1741. First Edition. Very good in full leather covered boards with a rebacked leather spine with gilt double borders around the edges of the boards. A small quarto of 9 1/2 by 7 3/4 inches with moderate wear and rubbing around the edges of the boards, two early prior owner's names on the first free end page and the ghost of what may have been an owner's book plate on the last paste down. There is evidence of this volume having been an exlibrary copy which evidence is limited to the notation "Case 2 | B972gb" on the verso of the title page. The full title of this printing is: "Extracts From the Several Treaties Subsisting Between Great-Britain And Other Kingdoms and States, Of Such Articles and Clauses as relate to the Duty and Conduct of the Cammanders of the King of Great-Britain's Ships of War. Together With Such Articles of Later Treaties, as Revive or Confirm any Former Treaties, which bear any Relation to the same.180 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and with images from black 264 pages of text summarizing treaties with France, Spain, Holland, Austrian Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Savoy, Turky (sic), Morocco, Algiers, Tripoly, and Tunis. Illustrated with an engraved nautically related frontispiece.
    TB31732  $400.00



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    Anonymous:  Strenna Italiana.  Milano: P. Ripamonti Carpano, 1837. First Edition. Very good in its original, highly decorated paper covered boards in a floral and oriental format, All edges of the text block are gilt. A small octavo of 7 7/8 by 5 inches with the joints to both boards split allowing the back strip to be free yet held in place by an overlay of clear acetate. The front and rear hinges remain tight and strong and the pages suffer from only light spots of foxing. 275 pages of text entirely in Italian followed by a two page index. A collection of 29 poems, sonnets and short stories from various ancient Italian poets. Illustrated with a frontispiece from an engraving. by J. Thomson and a steel engraved title page.and 4 plates from steel engravings each protected by a tissue guard. An extraordinary and colorful binding in a paper covered slipcase with an extraction ribbon.
    TB31486  $300.00




  • Anonymous:  The Arabian Night's Entertainments.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925. Reprint of May, 1925. Very good in black cloth covered boards with the gilt text nearly completely faded on the spine and with a color printed label on the front board which shows only light rubbing at its edges and a few minor light scratches to its surface. An octavo measuring 8 7/8" by 6". There is a gift inscription with the prior owner's name and date of "Jan. 2, 1928" on the first free end page. Without its very scarce issued dust jacket. [430] pages followed by two pages of ads by the publisher. "With over one hundred illustrations and decorations by Louis Rhead". A very worthy copy of an uncommon children's classic. The hinges, joints and binding are all tight and there are no loose pages or errant marks such as scribbling.
    TB23387  $75.00



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    Anonymous:  What Santa Claus Gave Me.  New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1887. . Very good+ in decorated, tan cloth covered boards with an illustrated paper label on the front board. A 16mo measuring 6 1/4" by 4" with the cloth at the heel of the spine worn through and the front joint just beginning to crack. Without a dust jacket. Unpaginated containing approximately 67 pages. Illustrated throughout with black and white engravings.
    TB28127  $60.00



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    Anonymous:  Celebration Of Guilford's Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary 1639-1889 Catalogue Of Relics.  New Haven: The Stafford Printing Co., 1889. First Edition. Very good in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive and stapled binding. An octavo of 9 by 5 13/16 with shallow chipping of the front cover and at the ends of the spine. There are also notes and a prior owner's name written in pencil on the title page. Without a dust jacket as issued. 56 pages followed by the printed page on the recto side of the rear cover. A listing of the relics loaned to the town of Guilford in celebration of its 250th anniversary. A total of 748 items are listed with the names of their owners followed by a list of oldest homes in Guilford and the original settlers to the town.
    TB30469  $60.00



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    Anonymous:  An address, Delivered At The Formation Of The Lycurgan Association, In Yale College.  New Haven, Conn.: Printed by A. H. Maltby & Co., 1820. First Editiion. Very good in printed self wraps with an over-sewn tread binding. An octavo of 8 5/16 by 4 7/8 inches with light tanning and foxing throughout. Without a dust jacket. 16 printed pages. (A Checklist of American Imprints 1820-1829, 2303)
    TB31004  $35.00



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    Anonymous:  Faith And Practice of New England Yearly Meeting of Friends (Book Of Discipline).  Worcester, Mass.: New England Yearly Meeting Of Friends, 1986. First Edition. Fine in bright red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket. 279 pages including an index, appendices and text. An extremely bright and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32761  $20.00



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    Anonymous:  Who Is Santa Clause?.  New York: Appleton, Parson & Company, Inc., 1949. . Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over a stapled binding. A 24 mo measuring 6" by 4". 30 pages of text illustrated with reproductions of earlier works of art.
    TB28130  $10.00




  • Applegate, Jesse A.:  Westward Journeys.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1989. First thus. Fine with top edge gilt w/ boards covered with dark brown cloth with gilt text stamping. The Lakeside Classic release of 1989. Without a dust jacket as issued. The unpublished memoirs of Jesse A. Applegate and Lavinia Honeyman Porter each of whom traveled the Overland Trail. This volume contains a number of reproductions of engravings, drawings and period photographs.
    TB25772  $20.00




  • Appler, A. C.:  The Younger Brothers.  New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., 1955. We believe it to be a first. Fine in tan cloth covered boards with red/brown text on the spine. In a near fine dust jacket. "The life, character, and daring exploits of the Yongers, The Notorious Bandits who rode with Jesse James and William Clarke Quantrell." 245 page of text and several illustrations. Normally Frederick Fell publishing indicates the printing on the copyright page; however, in this instance there is no indication of the printing & with a $3.50 on the DJ.
    TB09861  $28.00



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    Armes, Ethel,compiler and editor:  Nancy Shippen Her Journal Book.  Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1935. First Edition. Very good+ in 1/4 dark blue cloth and ribbed light blue cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with the cloth at the heel of the spine worn and rubbed and a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. Without a dust jacket. 349 pages of text including an index, bibliography, supplementary records including the Shippen coat of arms and the genealogical record of Dr. William Shippen. Illustrated with map end sheets, a color frontispiece image of Nancy Shippen, images of earlier works of art, facsimiles of letters and images from black and white photographs.
    TB32805  $25.00



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    Armstrong, Rev. Robert G.:  Historic Lebanon Highlight of an Historic Town.  Lebanon, Conn.: First Congregational Church, (1950). First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches with light touches of rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. 79 pages of text illustrated with a line drawing of the Connecticut War Office on the title page and with a number of black and white images from photographs of buildings and home landmarks around the town green. A number of these plates have a laid-in black and white original photograph made by a prior owner of some of the more prominent homes illustrated in this book.
    TB32999  $30.00




  • Arnold, Edwin T.:  Conversations with Erskin Caldwell.  Jackson: University Press of Miss., 1988. First Edition, First printing. Fine with the spine area very slightly faded. Without a dust jacket. Part of the Literary Conversations Series. A collection of articles and interviews with Caldwell spanning the years 1929 to 1987.
    TB05145  $15.00



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    Ashe, Thomas:  Travels In America, Performed in 1806, For The Purpose Of Exploring The Rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio And Mississippi And Ascertaining The Produce and Condition Of Their Banks And Vicinity.  Newburyport: William Sawyer & Co., 1808. First Edition. Very good+ in full, contemporary tree calf covered boards with a gilt, red leather title block on the spine. A 16mo of 7 by 4 inches with an early prior owner's name at the top edge of the title page with scattered foxing throughout. The leather covers are worn and rubbed at the edges of the boards, but none are worn through. 366 pages including an appendix and text. The original title was published in England in 1808 in three volumes. This is the first American edition. Howes in his bibliography, U.S.Iana, states that this title is: "Interesting in spite of its snarling asperity and numerous lies." Clark in his bibliography of Travels in The Old South, believed that this title was "one of the least acceptable American Travel Accounts" as the author "realized that a book devoted largely to the condemnation of Americans would be profitable." He goes on to say that despite Ashe's "oblique observations" he "was favorably impressed with the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and his descriptions are generally credible." (Howes, A-352; Clark, II, 134; Sabin, 2180)
    TB29837  $350.00




  • Ashe, Geoffrey:  King Arthur's Avalon.  New York: E. P. Dutton, 1958. First Edition, First printing. Very near fine in burnt orange cloth covered boards with silver colored text on the spine which is very modestly rolled and the top edge of the text block is slightly dust stained. In a very good- unclipped dust jacket with a 1/2" wide by 1/2" deep chip at the upper fore corner of the spine area and with rubbing and wear to the lower edge of the spine area and to the fore corners of the front panel. 384 pages including an index, bibliography, appendices and text. The author pieces together the history of Glastonbury and reveals its importance as the Dark Age meeting-place between Saxon and Celt.
    TB00614  $15.00




  • Ashe, Christopher:  Whaler's Eye.  New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in charcoal gray cloth covered boards with orange and light gray text and decorations stamped on the front board and spine. In a very good dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap with several short closed tears at the ends of the spine area and a 2" long closed tear at the lower edge of the front panel with related creasing. 245 pages including an index, text and illustrated with 200 black and white photographs.
    TB16980  $14.00



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    Associated American Artists:  Rockwell Kent Prints and Drawings 1904-1962.  New York: Associated American Artists, 1987. . Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over a double stapled binding. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches with a prior owner's bookplate on the verso of the front panel. Without a dust jacket. Unpaginated, but containing 16 pages listing 104 paintings and prints with prices and a time-line of Kent's life.
    TB28844  $20.00



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    Athearn, Robert G.:  Forts of the Upper Missouri.  Englewood: Prentice Hall, 1967. First Edition. Fine black and light red cloth covered boards with gilt tooling. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with heavy rubbing and wear to the upper edge of the spine area and with a 1/2" by 1/3" chip from the center of the spine area with no impact on the text. The story of how the military forts and trading post of the Upper Missouri River contributed to the developement of the fur trade and the American West. 339 pages containing text, notes and an index.
    TB25804  $25.00




  • Atherton, Gertrude:  My San Francisco A Wayward Biography.  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Compan, 1946. First Edition, First printing. Very good in light blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and front board. In a very good- dust jacket with 1/8" chips across the ends of the spine area and rubbed at the folds to the flaps. The author's autobiographical view of her favorite city: San Francisco.
    TB06472  $17.50



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    Atwan, Robert, and Joseph F. Pisani:  Greenwich An Illustrated History A Celebration Of 350 Years.  Greenwich, Conn.: The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich and Greenwich Time, (1990). First Edition. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt text on the spine. A quarto of 12 by 9 inches with two small faded areas on the spine and front board. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with a repaired 2 inch closed tear at the base of the rear panel and with a dampness stain on the verso side of the jacket at the lower edge of the spine area and front panel. 193 pages of text and illustrations from black and white and color photographs.
    TB33376  $30.00



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    Atwood, Wallace:  The Rocky Mountains.  New York: The Vanguard Press, 1945. First Edition, First printing. Fine in decorated tan cloth covered boards with blue and red text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6". In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket with minor shallow chipping across the upper edge of the spine area and about the first 3" of the upper edge of the front panel The front panel of the jacket shows a red/brown sky. This title is the third title in the series. with the black and white photograph beneath. According to Carol Fitzgerald's wonderful bibliography: Series Americana, this title is the only one in the nine volumes in the series to have but one author. (Fitzgerald, Series Americana, AM8.)
    TB29775  $45.00



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    Auchincloss, Louis:  The Rector of Justin.  Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1977. Special Signed Limited Edition. Fine in highly gilt decorated dark brown leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine and gilt edges to the text block with a silk placement ribbon bound-in. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" by 5 1/4". Signed by the author on the third free end paper. Laid-in at the front of the book is the publisher's 22 page notes from the editors. 417 pages of text and illustrations by Uldis Klavins. A tight and clean volume with no names, dates or prior owner's book plates.
    TB25468  $50.00




  • Auden, Colin Wilson, Edmund Wilson et al, W. H.:  A Tolkien Treasury.  Philadelphia: Courage Books, (1989). Second Printing. Fine in dark blue paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A quarto of 12 by 9 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 192 pages containing appendices and text. Illustrated with black and white images by Michael Green and with color images by Tim Kirk. Edited by Alida Becker.
    TB31087  $20.00



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    Audubon, John James and John Bachman:  The Quadrupeds of North America (Three Volumes).  New York: V. G. Audubon, 1856. Second Royal Octavo Edition. All three volumes of this complete set are in very good condition in 1/2 brown, leather and figured, brown cloth covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with two compartments stamped in gilt text. All three volumes are small quartos of 10 1/2 by 7 inches with the edges of the text blocks marbled to match the end sheets. The leather is rubbed and worn on all edges and worn through over the tips of the boards. The front paste downs have an early prior owner's, small book plate affixed. The preliminaries and end sheets for all three volumes are heavily foxed. The contents are generally clean, but occasional spots of foxing appear more randomly than consistently. The hinges and joints for all three are tight and strong. Volume I contains 383 pages including an index and is illustrated with 49 hand-colored plates with title page reading 1856, but with an error in its Roman Numerals. Volume II contains 334 pages including an index and is illustrated with 51 hand-colored plates with the title page showing 1854 in Roman Numerals correctly. Volume III contains 348 pages including an index and is illustrated with 55 hand-colored plates, with plate 137 (Sea Otter) chipped on the fore edge of the plate in the margin. In this case there is no date on the title page.
    TB32411  $5000.00




  • Auel, Jean M.:  The Mammoth Hunters.  New York: Crown Publishers, 1985. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 linen and decorated paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a near fine dust jacket with modest curling at the upper edge of the spine area. The author's third novel and the third book in the Earth's Children series.
    TB08299  $8.82



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    Auslander, Joseph, and Frank Ernest Hill:  The Winged Horse The Story of the Poets and their Poetry.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Reprint. Very good+ in black cloth covered boards with red-orange text on the spine and red-orange text and image of a flying horse on the front cover. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with light wear and rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and a small nick to the cloth at the upper fore corner of the front board. Without a dust jacket. 451 pages including an index, references and text. Illustrated with designs and images by Paul Hornore and a bibliography by Theresa West Elmendorf.
    TB31594  $25.00



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    Author Unknown:  Kriss Kringle And His Brownies.  New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1897. . Good+ in heavy, printed paper wraps over a sewn binding. A small quarto measuring 10 1/2 by 9 1/4 inches with the fold to the wraps worn and partially torn. There is a faint gift inscription at the upper edge of the front panel Unpaginated. Oddly, the front cover and throughout this title "Kris" is spelled with a double "s" Illustrated with color drawings and six color lithographic plates.
    TB28812  $180.00



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    Author Unknown:  Jolly St. Nick.  New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1906. . Very good+ in heavy, printed paper wraps over a stapled binding. A small quarto measuring 10 3/34 by 8 inches with light soiling to the front and rear covers. A collection of five poems about Santa as follows: Jolly St. Nick; How St. Nick Gets His Mail; St. Nick's Toy Factory; St. Nick Taking A Sly Peep; and, Good Children Are St. Nick's Favorites. Illustrated with black and white line drawings and six full color lithographic plates.
    TB28813  $130.00



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    Author Unknown:  Conspiracy Of Arnold, And Sir Henry Clinton Against The United States and Against General Washington.  North Stratford, NH: Ayer Company Publisher, Inc., (2000). Reprint of 2000. Fine in red cloth covered boards with black text on the spine. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 6 inches. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. 63 pages of text followed by 4 pages of other volumes in the Arno Press Collection of Historical Perspectives. This title is a facsimile reprint of 1972 Arno Press, Inc. reprint of the original publication which appeared in The American Register Vol. II of 1917. Although the introduction to this reprint is written in the first person there is unfortunately no name at its conclusion to be able to attribute authorship to anyone for this deeply detailed account of Andre's capture and subsequent trial.
    TB32777  $35.00



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    Author(s) Unknown:  In The Land Of The Patentees Saybrook in Connecticut.  Saybrook, Conn.: The Saybrook Tercentenary Committee and the Acton Library, 1935. Enlarged Second Edition. Near fine in its original light blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the front board. A small quarto of 9 14/ by 6 3/4 inches with the cloth at the outside edges of the boards slightly faded and with a prior owner's name stamped on the first free end page. Without a dust jacket. 85 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece image of the ancestral home of Colonel George Fenwick A collection of stories and essays about the original town of Saybrook which was broken up into the towns of Old Saybrook, Westbrook, Chester, Deep River and Essex.
    TB32778  $25.00



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    Autor Unknown:  The Case Of The Seneca Indians In The State of New York Illustrated By Facts.  Philadelphia: Society of Friends, 1840. First Edition. Very good in its original, patterned, brown cloth covered boards with gilt text and gilt rules on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 5 3/8 inches with a 1/2 inch deep chip to the cloth at the upper edge of the spine with rubbing and wear to the fore corners of the boards and general foxing to the pages throughout the text block. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. 256 pages including an index and text. "Printed for the information of the Society of Friends, by direction of the joint committees on Indian affairs, of the four yearly meetings of friends of Genesee, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore." Thomas W. Field in his An Essay toward An Indian Bibliography states: "The Senecas having, at the suggestion of the Society of Friends, consented to sell their lands, a controversy arose regarding the transaction which became on the part of their opponents somewhat acrimonious." . (Sabin, 79105; Field, 252)
    TB32866  $300.00



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    Avery, Rev. John:  History of the Town of Ledyard 1650-1900.  Ledyard, Conn.: The Ledyard Historical District Commission, (1972). Reprint of the 1901 Edition. Near fine in printed, heavy paper wraps over an adhesive binding with a 1/4 red cloth backstrip.. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 6 inches with a eraser mark at the lower edge of the front cover and a gift note at the upper edge of the first free end page. A facsimile reprint of the original printing of 1901 published by Noyes & Davis of Norwich, Conn. 334 pages including an index, appendix and text. Illustrated with a line drawing of Fort Griswold and multiple images from earlier, black and white photographs.
    TB33293  $20.00



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    Axelrod, Alan, and Charles Phillips:  The Environmentalists A Biographical Dictionary From The 17th Century To The Present.  New York: Facts On File, Inc., (1983). First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in black paper covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine. A quarto of 11 by 8 3/8 inches with an unusuallong, narrow (1/8") light stain down the fore edge of the front board. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 258 including an index and text. Illustrated from black and white photographs. A Whos Who of the ecological world with short biographies of "political leaders, government officials, policymakers, lobbysist, social activists, industrialists, writers, conservaties, radicals, outlaws and law enforcement officials." (from the dust jacket flap)
    TB30010  $20.00




  • Ayars, James:  The Illinois River.  New York: Holt Rinehart Winsto, 1968. First Edition, First printing. Fine a reinforced library edition (but not an x-library copy) in bright orange cloth covered boards. In a near fine dust jacket with the ghost of a price sticker on the upper corner of the front panel. Part of the Rivers of America Series for young adults.
    TB06626  $50.00



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    Ayling, Ronald, and Michael J. Durkan:  Sean O'Casey A Bibliography.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1978). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 1/4 inches. With the errata slip laid-in at the dedication page. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 411 pages including an index and text.
    TB30008  $15.00






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