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    Small, Anne:  Masters of Decorative Bird Carving.  Tulsa, Okla.: Winchester Press, 1981. First Edition, First printing. Fine in blue-green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine and with a gilt decoration on the front board. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 147 pages including an index, bibliography, text and illustrated wtih hundreds of black and white and full color photographs. As stated on the jacket flap this "is the first book ever published on an important new art form...with brief biographical and critical accounts of more than sixty of America's very finest carvers, together with an unprecedented pictorial collection of their sculptures - more than 150 photos and sixteen pages in color."
    TB20433  $16.00



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    Smalley, Peter:  HMS Expedient.  London: Century, 2005. First Edition, First printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine with illustrated end sheets. In a fine unclipped dust jacket with wrap-around art by Geoff Hunt. 402 pages of text. The first volume in the HMS Expedient series and the author's first novel.
    TB21962  $17.50



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    Smith, James L.:  Autobiography Of James L. Smith.  Norwich, Conn.: Press Of The Bulletin Company, 1881. First Edition. Very good+ in its original red-orange cloth covered boards with gilt text on the front board with clay coated end sheets. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with heavy wear and rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and to the tips of the boards and with heavy stains to the rear board none of which invaded the rear paste down or text block. With light foxing to the preliminaries and last few pages of the text. Without a dust jacket. 150 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Smith from an engraving and two plates also from engravings. The sub-title reads: "Reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc." James Lindsay Smith (1816-1883) was an author of this slave narrative, minister and shoemaker. He escaped from the a Virginia plantation in 1838 and worked his way up to Philadelphia where he met the Underground Railroad who got him to Connecticut and finally up to Springfield, Massachusetts where he set up shop as a shoemaker. By 1842 he resettled to Norwich, Connecticut where he moved his shoemaking business and became a minister. Two of his children attended Norwich Free Academy and became teachers and a son became a shoemaker in that city. This narrative speaks of the cruelty and privation he suffered as a slave in Virginia. It is one of only six slave narratives published in Connecticut. (Wikipedia)
    TB33405  $2000.00



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    Smith, W. L. G.:  Life at the South: Or "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as It is. Being Narratives, Scenes, and Incidents in the Real "Life of the Lowly.".  Buffalo, NY: Geo. H. Derby And Co., 1852. First Edition. Good+ in its original, blind stamped cloth covered boards with gilt text on its spine with front and rear end sheets printed on yellow paper with ads by the publisher for other volumes. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 4 3/4 inches with the cloth at the head of the spine worn down to the upper edge of the text block and with the cloth at the heel of the spine worn and dimpled inward. The cloth over the front joint is rubbed through, but remains holding; and, with the cloth over the tips of the boards rubbed through. The contents show only occasional spots of foxing 519 pages of text illustrated with a double frontispiece separated with a tissue guard and seven plates from engravings. According to Joseph Sabin in his bibliography, A Dictionary of Books relating to America, three of the plates in the book came from another author's book and that Smith wrote this title as a response to Harriott Beacher Stowe's book in order to illustrate the more "pleasant aspects of slavery". The book is dedicated to the memory of Henry Clay who was the advocate of the American Colonization Society" (Howes, S-715; Sabin, 84811)
    TB32399  $275.00



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    Smith, Justin H.:  Arnold's March from Cambridge to Quebec.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. First Edition, First printing. Very good in dark green pebbled cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine shows modest fading and there are minor tape stains on the front paste down where a picture post card of the Arnold Memorial Rock at Bigham was taped. The second to last free end page of the text has been torn away the loss of which is of little consequence. An octavo measuring 8 1/8" tall by 5 3/8" deep. Without a dust jacket. 498 pages including an index followed by a one page ad from the publisher. Illustrated with eighteen maps. The author makes a meticulous examination of the details to uncover Arnold's exact route through Maine and lower Canada to attack Quebec. (Gephart, 6014)
    TB21851  $200.00



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    Smith, Zachary F.:  The Battle of New Orleans Including The Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians, and the Spanish which let to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815.  Louisville, Kentucky: John P. Morton & Company, 1904. First Edition. Near fine in heavy printed wraps with a sewn binding and untrimmed fore edge to the text block. A quarto of 12 1/2 by 9 3/4 inches. The heavy gray-green wrap shows minor fading of the spine area and two shallow chips at the corners of the heel of the spine the fore edges are rough matching the uncut fore edge of the text block. Without a dust jacket as issued. A Filson Club Publication numbered 19. 209 pages including a seven page index, appendices listing the Kentuckian participants in the battle and text. Illustrated with maps and photographic reproductions of contemporary works of art. "A narrative account of the campaign including rationale for the Kentuckian participants who left the fight on the West Bank of the MIssissippi. Appended with a roster of participants from Kentucky." (Smith: The War of 1812 An Annotated Bibliography, 946) A very clean and handsome copy.
    TB31325  $175.00



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    Smith, Ralph D.:  The History of Guilford, Connecticut, from its First Settlement in 1639.  Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell', 1877. First Edition. Very good+ in light brown cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 3/4 by 5 3/4 inches which appears to be in a more recent library rebinding with printed end sheets and what may be a library call number written on the front paste down. Without a dust jacket. 219 pages including an index, appendices and text and illustrated with the floor plans for Guilford's Old Stone House erected in 1639. Emphasis is placed on the original settlers of the town and its early history. The contents are very tight and clean copy with no foxing or tanning.
    TB31847  $150.00



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    Smith, Chard P.:  The Housatonic.  New York: Rinehart & Co, (1946). First Edition. Near fine in orange cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine with illustrated end sheets. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/4". In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with 1/4" deep chips from the upper corners of the spine area, very shallow wear and chipping of 1/16" at the lower edge of the spine area and a small, shallow chip at the upper corner of the front panel. A tight and handsome copy, certainly worthy of a collection and with no prior ownership markings of any kind. The 29th volume in the series with illustrations by Armin Landeck. 532 pages containing an index and bibliography.
    TB27818  $65.00



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    Smith, Walter E.:  Charles Dickens In The Original Cloth Part II: The Christmas Book and Selected Secondary Works.  Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop, 1983. First Edition. Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 11 3/4" tall by 8" deep containing 95 pages of text. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with several small scuff marks near the lower fore corner of the front panel. Illustrated with photographs of the bindings and title pages of Dicken's first editions. A bibliographical catalogue of the first appearance of his writings in book form in England with photographs of the bindings, title pages, and other relevant data.
    TB32404  $60.00



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    Smith, DeForest W., Editor:  Only In Milford An Illustrated History (Volume I).  Milford, Conn.: George J. Smith & Son Realtors, (1989). First Edition. Fine in light brown cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An oblong octavo of 8 1/2 by 11 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 189 pages of images from black and white photographs of buildings, landmarks, people and events through the history of this town. A handsome, clean and bright copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB33375  $50.00



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    Smith, Eleanor Houston:  Four Letters On The Death Of Alexander Hamilton 1804 Found in the Papers of William Meredith of Philadelphia.  n.p.: Privately Printed, 1980. First Edition, Limited Edition. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and marbled paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 10 3/4 by 8 3/8 inches with a tiny bit of rubbing to the marbled paper at the lower edge of the front board. Without a dust jacket as issued. One of only 200 copies printed. 16 pages of text and facsimile reproductions. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Alexander Hamilton from a photograph of his portrait in the White House.
    TB32837  $40.00




  • Smith, Duane A.:  Rocky Mountain West.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1992. First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with yellow text on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. Sub-titled: Colorado, Wyoming, & Montana, 1859-1915. The Pike's Peak Gold Rush of 1859 started the migration of people into the Rocky Mountains between Colorado to Montana. This is the story of that migration.
    TB06756  $35.00




  • Smith, Alson Jesse:  Brother Van A Biography of the Rev. Willaim Wesley Van Orsdel.  New York: Abington-Cokesbury Press, 1948. First Edition. Fine in tan cloth covered boards. In a near fine dust jacket with a price clipped front flap and a slightly faded spine area. The biogrpahy of a "sturdy pioneer preacher who won the heart, if not always the soul, of everyone in Montana Territory." 240 pages including an index.
    TB11991  $35.00




  • Smith, Hedrick:  Rethinking America.  New York: Random House, 1995. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket. By the author of The Russians.
    TB03776  $31.50




  • Smith, Dwight L.:  John D. Young and the Colorado Gold Rush.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1969. First thus. Fine with top edge gilt and with the boards covered with dark blue cloth with gilt text stamping on spine. A Lakeside Classic issued in 1969. From an unpublished manuscript titled: "A Trip to the gold regions of the Rocky Mountains in the summer of 1860" by John D. Young. Edited by Dwight L. Smith.
    TB33167  $20.00



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    Smith, Keith A.:  Structure Of The Visual Book.  Rochester, NY: Keith A. Smith Books, c. 1984 1995. Third Edition, Second Printing of 1995. Fine in heavy paper, printed wraps over an adhesive binding. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 238 pages of text. Book 95. Illustrated with line drawings and black and white photographs. A fine, clean copy with no markings of any kind.
    TB29748  $15.00




  • Smith, Gary:  Windsinger.  San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1976. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in light blue cloth covered boards with blind text stamping on the front board and an inked price with cross-outs on the 1st FEP. In a very good+ dust jacket with a price clipped jacket flap, a 1/2" closed tear to the lower edge of the front panel and light wear and rubbing to the edges and folds to the flaps. A memoir of this energetic protector of the wilderness of the American West.
    TB09420  $14.00




  • Smith, Annick:  Homestead.  Minneapoli: Milkweed Edition, 1995. Second Printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket.
    TB03147  $11.90




  • Smith, Mary-Ann Tiron:  Masters of Illusion.  New York: Warner Books, 1994. First Edition, First printing. Fine in paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. A novel which centers on the tragic Hartford Circus fire of 1944 which killed 169 people and injured over one thousand.
    TB06751  $10.50




  • Smith, Martin Cruz:  Havana Bay.  New York: Random House, 1999. First Edition, First printing. Fine in paper covered boards with black text stamping on the spine. In a fine unprice clipped dust jacket.
    TB10436  $10.50




  • Smith, Martin Cruz:  Stallion Gate.  New York: Random House, 1986. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and paper covered boards with the upper edges of the paper covered boards sun faded. In a near fine dust jacket. The author's fifth book.
    TB06980  $7.35



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    Snyder, C. H. (Editor):  Seven Year Record Yale - 1914S.  New Haven: Privately Published for the Class, 1922. First Edition. Good in dark gray cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the front board and on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with rubbing and wear to the cloth at the corners of the head and heel of the spine. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. 237 pages of text. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs.
    TB25531  $50.00




  • Snyder, Gary:  A Place in Space.  Washington: Counterpoint, 1995. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket.
    TB03148  $21.00




  • Sobel, Dava:  Galileo's Daughter.  New York: Walker & Company, 1999. 6th Printing. Fine in paper covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. Signed, inscribed and dated in January 2000 by the author on the title page. 420 pages including an index, text and illustrations.
    TB17425  $24.50



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    Sofarelli, Michael:  Letters On The Wall Offerings and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.  Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books and bound by The Easton Press, 2006. Limited Edition. Fine in full, dark blue leather covered boards with three raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations in the compartments and with gilt text and borders on the front board. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2" by 7 3/4" with silk end sheets and a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the top of the spine. All edges of the text block are gilt. [200] pages of text and full color photographs of letters and offerings left at the "Wall". A special, limited edition bound in full leather by The Easton Press.
    TB23973  $125.00



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    Soper, Musia, Editor:  Encyclopedia of European Cooking.  London: Spring Books, (1962). First Edition. Very good in light green cloth covered boards with worn gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 3/8 inches with the front paste down and first free end page covered in notations in pencil and with the boards lightly soiled. Without a dust jacket. 631 pages including an index and text. 21 different countries are represented each section written by different authors. Illustrated with images from black and white photographs.
    TB31416  $20.00



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    Sotheby's :  Property From The Estate Of Katharine Hepburn.  New York: Southeby's , 2004. First Edition. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto of 10 5/8 by 8 1/4 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 243 pages of text and voluminous images in both black and white all from phtotographs. A wonderful tribute to American's leading lady.
    TB33410  $150.00



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    Soule, Gardner:  The Long Trail.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in red and blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine shows very minor rubbing and with two faint coffee stains to the fore edge of the text block. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with shallow "v" shaped, narrow chips from the ends of the spine area and nicks to the fore corners of the panels. The 14th volume in The American Trails Series and the most difficult title in the series to locate. 341 pages with index and bibliography. A very tight, crisp and clean copy with no marks, dates or prior owner's names or book plates.
    TB27246  $175.00




  • Spaulding, George F. (Editor):  On The Western Tour With Washington Irving The Journal and Letters of Count de Pourtales.  Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, (1968). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in olive green cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 5 7/8 inches with a sprinkling of black ink on the top edge of the text block. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with a 1/4" short closed tear with a related crease at the top edge of the front panel. 96 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with 14 images from earlier works of art. A young Swiss nobleman, Count Albert-Alexadre de Pourtales, was one of four men to make a trip down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and then across the plains to what is now Oklahoma and what then was Indian Terriroty in 1832. Washington Irving made this trip famous in his book A Tour Of The Prairies. This title contains the journal written by Pourtales and is here first published. Volume 54 in the University of Oklahoma's collection of titles in the Exploration and Travel series.
    TB30036  $25.00




  • Spavin, Don:  Chippewa Dawn Legends of an Indian People.  Bloomington: Voyageur Press, 1977. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in tan paper covered boards with light brown text on the spine. In a very good dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap two 1" long closed tears at the upper and lower edges of the front panel with light wear at the ends of the spine area which is also tanned. The legends which are the foundation of this book were taken from the many interviews conducted by the Works Projects Administration in the late 1930's.
    TB14844  $30.00



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    Spawn, William, and Thomas E. Kinsella:  Ticketed Bookbindings from Nineteenth-Century Britain.  New Castle, Del.: Bryn Mawr College Library and Oak Knoll Press, 1999. First Edition. Fine in printed, pictorial heavy paper wraps. A small quarto measuring 11" by 8 1/2". Without a dust jacket as issued. 206 pages including a list of references, index and text listing 704 binders. Illustrated with a section of black and white photographs and a section of color photographs as well as facsimiles of binder's tickets. With an essay by Bernard C. Middleton.
    TB27547  $45.00



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    Speechly, William:  A Treatise On The Culture Of The Pine Apple And The Management Of The Hot-House.  Nottinghamshire, England: Self-Published and printed by G. Peacock, 1796. Second Edition, With Additions. Near fine in modern recassing of 1/4 light green cloth and marbled paper covered boards with a dark green leather title block with gilt text and rules. An octavo of 8 1/16 by 5 inches. The contents are largely free of any foxing, staining or age tanning. 197 pages of text followed by six engraved plates four of which fold-out and a 13 page index. The upper 1/2 inch of the first four plates are faintly dampness stained which stains do not extend beyond the upper margins. An extremely handsome and tight copy.
    TB31546  $400.00



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    Spence, Hartzell:  Radio City.  New York: The Dial Press, 1941. First Edition. Very good in tan cloth covered boards with faded text on the spine and a design to the front and rear boards. A small octavo of 8 by 5 1/2 inches with the cloth at the head of the spine worn and with a 1/8 inch closed tear. There is a prior owner's book plate on the first free end page. Missing its issued dust jacket. Signed by the author on the dedication page with a humorous inscription. 351 pages of text.
    TB31943  $35.00




  • Spence, Clark C.:  Territorial Politics and Government in Montana 1864-89.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975. First Edition. Fine in light brown cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket which shows modest rubbing to the ends of the spine area which is also faded. A review copy with materials from the publisher laid-in. 327 pages including an index, a bibliographical essay, text and illustrated with a section of black and white photograph portraits.
    TB20893  $25.00



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    Spencer, Arthur C. and Charles Will Wright:  The Juneau Gold Belt, Alaska and A Reconnaissance Of Admiralty Island, Alaska with maps (original publication).  Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1906. First Edition. Very good in heavy, printed paper wraps over a sewn binding. A small quarto of 9 by 5 3/4 inches with much of the spine covering in tatters and the edges of the rear cover worn and with small chips around the edges. Without a dust jacket as issued. A separate envelope contains two, large fold-out, color maps the first being the Geological Map of the Juneau Gold Belt, Alaska and the second being the Topographic Map of the Juneau Gold Belt, Alaska both dated 1905 and both being in fine condition. 159 pages of text including an index followed by 11 (XI) pages of lists of publications of geological survey publications on Alaska. Illustrated with maps, charts, line drawings and images from black and white photographs. This is an original copy not a print-on-demand photocopy.
    TB32087  $175.00



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    Spencer, J. W., and J.M.D. Burrows:  The Early Day of Rock Island and Davenport.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1942. First thus. Near fine in decorated red cloth covered boards with a gilt top edge to the text block and with gilt text stamping and decorations on the spine and front board with a faint 1 1/2" spot on the front board. The text stamping on the spine remains clean and bright. The collection of two narratives about early life in Illinois and in Iowa. A Lakeside Classic of 1942. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 315 pages including an index. A very nice collectable copy!
    TB23772  $40.00



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    Spiller, Robert E. and Philip C. Blackburn:  A Descriptive Bibliography of the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper.  New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1934. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in burnt orange cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6" with two small closed tears to the cloth at the head of the spine and one short closed tear to the heel of the spine. Without its issued dust jacket. One of only 500 copies printed. 260 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Cooper and a number of photographs of title pages.
    TB26113  $65.00




  • Spock, Benjamin, and Mary Morgan:  Spock On Spock.  Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library, 1989. Signed First Edition. Near fine in full black 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 the front and rear boards. The end papers are marbled with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. Unfortunately, the rough removal of what was probably a book plate on the front pasted end sheet resulted in an unsightly tear across the middle of that marbled paper. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. A small quarto measuring - tall by - deep containing - pages of text Signed by the authors on the specially tipped-in second free end page. One of The Franklin Library's volumes in their collection for the Signed First Edition Society A tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates.
    TB28737  $25.00



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    Spores, Ronald:  The Mixtecs In Ancient And Colonial Times.  Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, (1984). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with bold silver colored text stamping on the spine and an image of MixTecs art on the front board. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down behind the jacket flap. In a very good+, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with a small 1/4" closed tear with related creasing at the upper fore edge of the front panel. 263 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrations from photographs, works of art and maps. Volume number 168 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series.
    TB30116  $40.00



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    Sprague, Rev. Delos E.:  Descriptive Guide of the Battlefield of Saratoga Illustrated.  Ballston Spa, NY: Battlefield Publishing Co., Inc., 1930. First Edition. Very good+ in its original dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the front board. A small octavo of 73/4 by 4 7/8 inches with light ware and rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and to the lower tips of the boards with map end sheets. Without a dust jacket. 93 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with reproductions of earlier works of art, maps and images from black and white photographs.
    TB32890  $50.00




  • Sproule, Anna:  Port Out Starboard Home The Rise and Fall of the Ocean Passage.  Dorset: Blandford Press, 1978. First Edition, First printing. Fine in textured blue paper covered boards with a prior owner's written name and blind embossed seal on the first free end paper. In a fine jacket with the price intact on the lower corner of the front flap. 128 pages with an index, text and photographs through-out all of which trace the history of ocean travel.
    TB15175  $15.00




  • Sprunt, Alexander, Jr.:  Carolina Low Country Impressions.  New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1964. First Edition, First printing. Fine in red-brown buckram cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine, a gilt illustration on the front board and illustrated end sheets. In a near fine price clipped dust jacket with a minor, 1/16" deep chip from the upper edge of the spine area. 192 pages of text illustrated throughout with line drawings by John Henry Dick.
    TB22304  $20.00



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    Stackpole, Edouard A.:  The Sea-Hunters The New England Whalemen During Two Centuries 1635-1835.  Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1953. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in blue cloth covered boards with a gilt on red title block on the spine and red end sheets. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 1/2 inches with a prior owner's name on the first free end page and the cloth on the spine is faded as is the cloth on the upper 1/8" on both the front and rear boards. Without its issued dust jacket. 510 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with a section of black and white reproductions of contemporary works of art. Per Albion, This title is "The most comprehensive and authoritative account of early American whaling, by the former curator of Mystic Seaport and head of the Nantucket Historical Society. Carries the story through 1835 when the primacy was passing from Nantucket to New Bedford." (Albion, p. 203)
    TB31645  $35.00



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    Stackpole, Edourard A.:  Nantucket In The American Revolution.  Falmouth, Mass.: The Nantucket Historical Association, 1976. First Edition. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. An octavo measuring 9 by 5 7/8 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 140 pages of text illustrated with black and white reproductions of earlier works of art. A fine, bright copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB28649  $25.00



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    Stanley, Bill:  The 9-Mile Square.  Norwich, Conn.: The Norwich Historical Society, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in light brown cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and front board and with photographed end sheets. An oblong quarto measuring 11 3/4 by 12 3/4 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 408 pages of text and illustrated throughout from black and white photographs.
    TB30027  $60.00



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    Stanley, William B.:  Historic Site of Norwich From the Beginning.  Norwich, Conn.: Bill Stanley Books & The Forgotten Founders, 2009. First Edition. Fine in a pictorial paper covered boards with black text on a white spine and red text on the front board. A small quarto of 10 7/8 by 8 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 87 pages of text and illustrated throughout with images from black and white photographs.
    TB31698  $30.00



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    Stansfield, Leslie Matthews:  Images of America Windsor Locks.  Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publications, (2003). No edition stated. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quartro of 9 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. One of the volumes in the publisher's collection of Images of America series. 128 pages of text and illustrated throughout from images of black and white photographs. A very fine, clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB31964  $20.00




  • Starbuck, Alexander:  The History of Nantucket County, Island, And Town Including Genealogies Of First Settlers.  Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, (1969). First Tuttle Edition, Second Printing. Fine in full tan cloth covered boards with black on burnt orange title blocks on the spine and red text on the front board. A thick octavo measuring 8 7/8 by 5 7/8 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket Laid-in at the front of the book are a number of newspaper articles relating to archaeological finds on Nantucket. 871 pages including an extensive index. Illustrated with four fold-out maps and numerous black and white photographic reproductions. Originally published in 1924 by C. E. Goodspeed & Company of Boston copies of which are seldom on the open market.
    TB33459  $100.00



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    Stark, Freya:  The Valleys Of The Assassins and Other Persian Travels.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, (1992). Collector's Edition. Fine in full dark brown leather covered boards with five compartments on the spine with gilt text and decorations. All edges of the text block are gilt. The end sheets are of silk and there is a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. Containing 365 pages of text including an index. Illustrated with a frontispiece drawings and maps. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of Library of Travel Classics which is no longer published and sold by The Easton Press. A very handsome, tight, clean copy with no prior owner's names, dates, notations or book plates.
    TB29295  $85.00




  • Starobin, Robert B.:  Industrial Slavery in the Old South.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. First Edition, First printing. Fine in bright red cloth covered boards with white and gilt text stamping on the spine. There is a prior owner's name on the first free end page and with several pages with underlining and marginal notations. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with very light wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area and with a written note of a prior owner on the rear panel. A review copy with the publisher's material laid-in. 320 pages including an index, bibliographical essay, appendix, chapter notes and text.
    TB20895  $25.00



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    State of Montana:  Constitution Of The State of Montana A Adopted By The Constitutional Convention Held At Helena, Montanta, July 4, A. D. 1889 and Ending August 17, A. D. 1889 And Also an Address To The People.  Helena, Montana: Independent Publishing Co., (1899). First Edition. Near fine in original, printed, pink, thin paper wraps over a stab sewn binding. A small octavo of 7 15/16 by 5 1/4 inches with minor traces of soiling to the covers. The contents are very slightly tanned. 76 pages of text. A very clean, handsome and damage free copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB30102  $175.00



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    Sted, Richard:  They All Bleed Red.  New York: Simon And Schuster, 1954. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in bright yellow cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and a black band on the spine and front board. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2" by 4 1/2" with the pages tanning. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. 209 pages of text. The author's first book.
    TB25038  $20.00



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    Steele, Bob, and Phil Steele:  The Word For The Day.  Newington, CT: Connecticut River Press, 2002. First Edition. Fine in tan cloth covered boards with bold, metalic red text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Co-authored by Phil Steele (Bob’s son) and signed by the author and commentator, Bob Steele.. The book is subtitled: “65 years of wit and wisdom on mispronunciation.” For 65 years, between 1942 to 1991, Bob Steele each weekday morning entertained radio listeners from his WTIC broadcast booth in Hartford, Connecticut. His name was well recognized throughout New England and his morning radio show was a focal point for news, weather, traffic reports and his famous “Word of the Day”.
    TB33003  $175.00



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    Steffen, Jerome O.:  William Clark Jeffersonian Man On The Frontier.  Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 1977, 1978. Second Printing. Fine in black cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" by 5 1/2". In a fine, but price clipped dust jacket. 196 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with reproductions of contemporary works of art.
    TB25953  $20.00



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    Stegmaier, Mark J. and David H. Miller:  James F. Milligan His Journal of Fremont's Fifth Expedition, 1853-1854; his adventurous life on land and sea..  Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1988. First Edition. Fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches. In a plain white paper dust jacket which is in fine condition. One of only 750 copies printed. 300 pages including an index, bibliography, appendix and text. Illustrated with maps and reproductions of earlier works of art. Volume XXI in the Western Frontiersmen Series by The Arthur H. Clark Company. Considered by The Arthur H. Clark bibliography by Clark and Brunet to be "one of the best contemporary accounts available of everyday life at a frontier post, as seen by a civilian." referring to Betn's Fort at Big Timbers in 1854. (Clark/Brunet, 269)
    TB29499  $40.00



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    Stegner, Wallace:  The Big Rock Candy Mountain.  Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1978. Signed Limited Edition. Near fine in full light brown leather covered boards with extensive gilt decorations on the front and rear boards, four raised bands on the spine with gilt text stamping, decorations and ruled borders in the compartments. The end papers are silk, there is a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine and the edges of the text block are in gilt. There are two minor scuff marks at the upper edge of the spine one of which mars the gilt border around the upper most title block. Signed by the author on the fourth free end paper. Laid-in at the front of the book is a small brochure describing the book. Stegner states in the forward to the book that it was "The first of my books to acheieve wide recognition, The Big Rock Candy Mountain,was an attempt to capture in the experiences of a single family the social and psychological consequences of the ending of the f rontier and the pinching out of the American Dream. Of all my novels, it is the most deeply rooted in history and sociology." A novel of the pursuit of the American Dream by a family at the turn-of-the-century in the Pacific Northwest. 733 pages of text with illustrations by Charles Reid.
    TB19421  $125.00



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    Stegner, Wallace:  A Shooting Star.  New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition, First printing. Very near fine in 1/4 black and decorated blue paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. The cloth at the upper edge of the spine is faded and there is a prior owner's book plate on the font paste down. In a very good- unclipped dust jacket with flecking of the colors at the ends of the spine area and a 3/4" closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel. 433 pages of text.
    TB19464  $65.00




  • Stegner, Wallace:  Recapitulation.  Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1979. First Edition. Near fine in full, red leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine, gilt text and tool work in the compartments, the edges of the text block are gilt and there are silk end sheets with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the top of the spine. An octavo measuring 8 3/4" by 5 3/4" with a 2" tea stain on page 248 and a faint scratch of 1" long to the spine area. Without a dust jacket as issued. The true first edition. 335 pages of text illustrated by Walter Rane. One of the volumes in the Franklin Library's collection of The First Edition Society. A tight clean and collectible copy with no prior owner's marks or book plates.
    TB01313  $40.00



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    Stegner, Wallace:  The Spectator Bird.  Franklin C: The Franklin Library, 1976. First Edition, Limited Edition. Fine in full, dark blue leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and tool work in the compartments and with gilt designs and borders on the boards. All edges of the text block are gilt. The end sheets are silk and there is a matching placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. This title won the 1976 National Book Award. This version of the title is the true first edition of this book. 267 pages of text with illustrations by John Collier. Stegner won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for his book: Angle of Repose. An extremely handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB30624  $30.00




  • Stegner, Wallace:  The Letters of Bernard DeVoto.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1975. First Edition, First printing. Very good in 1/4 blue cloth and paper covered boards with a remainder spray on the bottom edge. In a very good+ dust jacket with light wear at the spine ends (but no chips) and light soiling. A revealing collection of letters compliled and edited by Stegner who wrote DeVoto's biography - The Uneasy Chair.
    TB06553  $17.50



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    Stegner, Wallace:  Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs.  New York: Random House, 1992. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in 1/4 maroon cloth and paper covered boards with the dust jacket protector attached to the front and rear paste downs and with the remnants of a label removed from the rear free end page. In a fine price unclipped dust jacket. 227 pages containing essays.
    TB22942  $15.00



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    Steinbeck, John:  The Grapes of Wrath.  New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. Very good in illustrated beige cloth covered boards with brown text on the spine, line drawings in brown on the front and rear boards and with illustrated end sheets. The top edge of the text block is stained a pale yellow, but is dust stained. The lower 1/4 inch of the edges of the spine and boards are soiled and the fore edge of the text block shows a number of small foxing stains. The dust jacket is the original first edition jacket with both the price ($2.75) and "First Edition" slugs in place on the front flap. Overall the jacket is in poor condition with the entire spine area missing and with heavy rubbing to the folds and edges of the panels. Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1940 with this novel of the Depression Era, dust bowl immigrants to California from Oklahoma. 619 pages of text. (Goldstone & Payne, A12) The 1940 movie version of the book was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox, it was directed by John Ford, and starred Henry Fonda. A true high spot of American literature.
    TB31733  $800.00



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    Steinbeck, John:  The Winter of Our Discontent.  New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition, Limited Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth over beveled boards with gilt text on the spine as well as a black title label with gilt text and with the author's facsimile signature on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with light wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area and with several closed tears to the top edge of the front panel. The jacket is also covered with the original, clear acetate wrap-around onlay on which is printed "Limited Edition". One of only 500 limited edition "copies specially printed and bound for friends of the author and the publisher." 311 pages of text. (Goldstone & Payne, A38b)
    TB30864  $375.00



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    Steinbeck, John:  Of Mice And Men.  New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1937. First edition, second state.. Very good+ in its original binding of tan cloth covered boards with a near completely faded text block on the spine and the title and author's name on the front board. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 4 5/8 inches with light soiling to the boards and the cloth on the spine is tanned. The contents are clean and tight with no prior ownership markings. The hinges and joints are tight. Without its issued dust jacket. This is the second state of the first edition with the appropriate points therein. 186 pages of text. One of Steinbeck's most memorable, award winning books.
    TB32165  $250.00



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    Steinbeck, John:  The Red Pony.  New York: The Viking Press, 1945. First Illustrated Edition, First Printing. Fine in tan cloth covered boards with an illustrated paper label on the front board, gilt on blue title block on the spine and end papers illustrated with running horses. The edges of the text block are stained dark blue. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 3/8 inches Issued without a dust jacket, however, the book is contained within a near fine, paper covered slip case with its paper label in place which shows hints of rubbing at the upper and lower edges. There is a very faint dampness stain to the top edge of the slipcase and to the upper side of the rear panel. The contents of the book are fine. 131 pages of text followed by a page of other books by Steinbeck. Illustrated from color paintings by Wesley Dennis. A very handsome, very collectable copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. (Goldstone & Payne, A9c)
    TB33002  $175.00



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    Steinbeck, John:  The Moon is Down.  New York: Viking Press, 1942. First Edition second state. Fine in blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and blind text stamping and decorations on the front board. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 4 3/4 inches with no prior ownership markings of any kind. In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket with only flecking of the color at the fore edges of the front board and with tiny spots of rubbing of the colors at the ends of the spine area. 188 pages of text. This is the second state of the first edition. A novel set in Norway during the occupation of Nazi troops during World War II. A very handsome and clean copy.
    TB33255  $60.00



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    Steinbeck, John:  Working Days The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath 1938-1941.  New York: Viking Penguin Group, 1989. First Edition, first printing. Near fine in 1/4 black cloth and light brown paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine with a prior owner's name blackened out on the front paste down under the jacket flap. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 180 pages. Edited by Robert DeMott.
    TB24721  $25.00



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    Steiner, Bernard Christian:  History of Guilford and Madison, Connecticut.  Guilford, Conn.: The Guilford Free Library, 1975. Reprint of 1975. Very near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with very slight fading of the cloth on the outer edges of the boards and with minor dust staining to the edges of the text block. Without a dust jacket (probably as issued). Originally published in 1897. 538 pages including an index and text. Contains a considerable amount of genealogical data on the early occupants of both Madison and Guilford.
    TB23963  $30.00




  • Steiner, Stan:  The Waning of the West.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First Edition, First printing. Fine in tan paper covered boards with black text stamping on the spine. In a near fine dust jacket with light wrinkling at the top of the spine area and a 1/16" fleck of the color on the front panel. Edited by Emily Skretny Drabanski and with a forward by John Nichols this book is a collection of essays by Steiner who died in 1987 while preparing the manuscript for this book.
    TB06244  $20.00



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    Stephens, James:  The Insurrection In Dublin.  Dublin and London: Maunsel & Company, Ltd., 1916. First Edition. Very good+ in gray-green cloth covered boards with gilt text and rules on the spine and gilt text and blind embossed borders on the front board. A 12mo of 7 1/8 by 4 3/4 inches with the cloth worn through in very small spots at the head and heel of the spine at at the tips of the boards. The free end sheets are extremely fragile and tanned and have four repairs with archival tape on its verso side. There is a more modern prior owner's address label on the second free end page. Without a dust jacket. 111 pages of text followed by 16 pages of ads from the publisher. This is an eyewitness account of the tragic days in Dublin on Monday, April 24 through Sunday, April 30, 1916, which became known as The Easter Rising of April 1916. The author, James Stephens (1882 1950), was an Irish poet and novelist and advocate of Irish independence. He personally witnessed the events which appear in this publication.
    TB31499  $175.00




  • Stephenson, Jessie Bane:  From Old Stencils to Silk Screening.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. First Edition, First printing. Very good in blue-gray cloth covered boards with black text stamping on the spine. In a very good- dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap but with a number of closed tears with related creasing around the edges of the panels and at the ends of the spine area. A "practical guide with full basic instructions, with a historical sketch of the craft from the earliest examples to the present-day" with 200 selected designs.
    TB13805  $10.00



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    Stern, G. B.:  Mosaic.  London: Chapman & Hall, 1930. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a blind embossed figure on the front board. The outer edges of the pages have begun to tan as have the end sheets. In a very good- unclipped dust jacket which shows moderate wear to the ends of the spine area which has also darkened with tanning. 383 pages followed by a fold-out genealogical chart of the Rakonitz family.
    TB20907  $60.00



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    Stern, John, Editor:  Ride Down Memory Lane: The Story of the Branford Trolley Museum.  East Haven, Conn.: Branford Electric Railway, 1957. Fourth Edition. Very good+ in printed, heavy paper wraps over a stapled binding. A small quarto of 10 7/8 by 8 3/8 inches with portions of the spine area and front cover tanned out the outside edges. Without a dust jacket as issued. 32 pages counting the rear cover. Illustrated throughout with black and white images from photographs.
    TB31870  $10.00




  • Sterne, Laurence:  The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1980. Collector's Edition. Fine in full brown leather covered boards with gilt text and decorations stamped between four raised bands on the spine and with gilt decorations on the boards. The end papers are of silk and the edges of the text block are in gilt. A silk placement ribbon is sewn-in at the head of the spine. A small quarto measuring 10 1/2" tall by 7 1/4" deep overall with 444 pages of text and with illustrations by T. M. Cleland. With an introduction by Christopher Morley.
    TB18012  $60.00



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    Stevens, Frank E.:  The Black Hawk War Including A Review Of Black Hawk's Life.  Chicago: Self-published, 1903. First Edition. Very near fine in pebbled, navy blue cloth covered boards with a paper label on the spine and gilt text on the front board. A small quarto measuring 10 1/8 by 6 5/8 inches with light wear to the cloth at the heel of the spine and to the tips of the boards and with the text obscured on the paper label affixed to the spine. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. Signed by the author beneath his frontispiece portrait. 323 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated throughout with maps and reproductions of earlier works of art and photographs. A very clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB29126  $250.00




  • Stevens, Alden G.:  The Way of a Lion.  New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in light brown cloth covered boards with dark brown text stamped on the spine and on the front board. The top edge of the text block is dust stained and the end papers are slightly tanned. In a poor dust jacket with the majority of the spine area missing, the front flap has separated from the front panel which has a number of chips around its edges. Of particular note is the fact that there is a long gift inscription by the author to the illustrator of the book written on the first free end paper and dated in the year of publication. An uncommon book with a unique association. 144 pages of text with illustrations by George F. Mason.
    TB17840  $50.00



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    Stevens, George A.:  New York Typographical Union No. 6 Study Of A Modern Trade Union And Its Predecessors.  Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers, 1913. . Very good+ in its original patterned brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and blind embossing on both boards with an antique printing press embossed within a circle at the center of both boards. An octavo of 9 by 5 3/4 inches with a bump to the upper fore corner of the front board and with the front hinge cracked and the rear hinge is starting. Regardless, the binding remains tight and strong with no loose signatures or prior ownership markings of any kind. 717 pages including an index. Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece and black and white photographs and reproductions of earlier works of art. "Prepared under the direction of John Williams, Commissioner of Labor, State of New York'".
    TB29408  $50.00



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    Stevens, John Austin:  The Expedition of Lafayette Against Arnold.  Baltimore, Md: Peabody Publication Fund, 1878. First Edition. Very good+ in printed, paper wraps over a sewn and glued binding. A small quarto of 9 1/2 by 6 inches with the paper over the spine worn and rubbed yet the binding remains strong. The contents are clean and bright with no prior ownership markings of any kind. "A Paper read before the Maryland Historical Society on January 14th, 1878" by the author. 36 pages of text. The pages remain un-opened. The title page is printed in red and black.
    TB32923  $50.00



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    Stevens, Doris:  Jailed For Freedom The Story of the Militant American Suffragist Movement.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 2008. First thus. Fine in blue-green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt borders on the boards and with decorated end papers and a gilt top edge to the text block. Without a dust jacket as issued. Edited by Marjorie J. Spruill. Still contained within the publisher's shrink wrap. The Lakeside Classic edition for 2008. 404 pages of text including an index and a list of the Lakeside Classics published as of this date which is followed by one page of image credits. Illustrated with 44 reproductions of engravings, lithographs and photographs some of which are in color.
    TB28004  $20.00




  • Stevenson, Robert Louis:  Treasure Island.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First EditionThus. Very good+ in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and an illustrated, color paper label on the A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 7 inches with minor soiling front board and gilt to the top edge of the text block. and with minor rubbing to the edges of the boards. Without its very scarce dust jacket. 273 pages of text and illustrated with end sheets, color title page, map, and 14 color plates by N. C. Wyeth each separated with printed tissue guards. A very clean and highly collectible copy of this beloved classic tale with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB33472  $950.00



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    Stevenson, Robert Louis:  The Black Arrow A Tale Of The Two Roses.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. First EditionThus. Very good in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and an illustrated, color paper label on the front board and gilt to the top edge of the text block. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 7 inches with several light scratches to the color paper label on the front board, fading to the backstrip of the spine, a 1/4 inch closed tear to the fly title page, some soiling to that same page and light soiling to the forward edge of the title page. Without its very scarce dust jacket. 328 pages of text and illustrated with end sheets, color title page, and 13 of the 14 color plates by N. C. Wyeth. It is the last plate facing page 324 which is missing. A clean and collectible copy of this beloved classic story by Robert L Stevenson.
    TB32348  $200.00



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    Stevenson, Robert Louis:  David Balfour Being Memoirs of his Adventures at Home and Abroad.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. First Edition. Very good+ in its original light brown, cloth covered boards with gilt text and brown decorations on the spine and the same with silver colored swords forming a border around the text on the front board. A 12mo measuring 7 1/4 by 5 7/8 inches with a 1/8" chip to the cloth at the heel of the spine and three very short closed tears to the cloth at the head of the spine. Without a dust jacket. 406 pages of text followed by four pages of ads from the publisher. Published in the UK under the title Catriona. It is the sequel to Kidnapped. (Gerstley Stevenson Collection, 54A)
    TB29108  $75.00



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    Stevenson, Robert Louis:  The Master of Ballantrae.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1965. Collector's Edition. Fine in full dark blue leather covered boards with three raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations in the compartments and with gilt decorations on the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk and there is a matching placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. The edges of the text block are gilt. A small quarto measuring 10" by 6" containing 303 pages of text illustrated with color lithographs by Lynd Ward. With an introduction by G. B. Stern. This is one of The Easton Press' volumes in their Famous Editions series. A beautiful, clean, crisp and handsome volume with no names, dates or book plates.
    TB25703  $65.00



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    Stevenson, Robert Louis:  St. Ives The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. First Edition. Very good+ in its original brown cloth covered boards with gilt text and a decoration on the spine and with gilt text above and below a Heraldic ornament with gilt text on a green background on the front board. A 12mo measuring 7 3/8 by 5 inches with light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and at the tips of the boards. 438 pages of text followed by a blank page and four pages of ads from the publisher. This US version of the title was released a year before the British version was published. (Gerstley Stevenson Collection, 68; Rosenbach, 155; Prideaux,49)
    TB29109  $30.00



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    Stevenson, Robert Louis:  Across The Plains With Other Memories And Essays.  London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. First Edition. Good in dark blue cloth covered beveled boards with gilt text on the spine and with the top edge of the text block gilt. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2 by 4 7/8 inches with the cloth worn through at the tips of the boards and beginning to wear and separate at the front joint. The cloth at the head of the spine is worn down to the the upper edge of the text block and there are minor spots of foxing to the rear four pages of text. Without a dust jacket. 317 pages of text. (Gerstley Stevenson Collection, 48)
    TB29111  $30.00




  • Stevenson, Elizabeth:  Figures in a Western Landscape.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1994. First Edition. Fine in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. Sub-titled: Men and Women of the Northern Rockies. The author, a noted biographer, highlights the lives of 16 men and women who each left their respective impacts on the history of the American West. The personages rage from Merewether Lewis to Calamity Jane.
    TB06990  $25.00




  • Stevenson, Robert Louis:  Weir Of Hermiston An Unfinished Romance .  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First US Edition. An ex-library in very good condition in its original olive green cloth covered boards with gilt text and designs on the spine and on the front board created by Margaret Armstrong. The upper edge of the text block is gilt. A 12mo measuring 7 by 4 3/4 inches with library call numbers written in white ink at the base of the spine, a 1/4" closed tear to the cloth at the head of the spine, the cloth on the spine is very slightly faded and there is a university library book plate on the front paste down. The call number is repeated in pencil on the copyright page and there is a stamped accession number on the dedication page. There is a library pocket and date slip attached to the rear end pages. The joints, hinges and binding remain tight and strong. 266 pages followed by four pages of ads from the publisher for other titles by Stevenson. (Gerstley Stevenson Collection, 62B)
    TB29106  $25.00



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    Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Lloyd Osbourne:  The Wrong Box.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in the publisher's original light brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and with a paper label of brown text surrounded by a border on the front board and with a small ad torn from the classified section of a news paper added as a second label to the lower quarter of the front board. A 12mo measuring 7 1/2" by 5" with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn and rubbed and the cloth on the same tanned. There is a prior owner's name in pencil and a second prior owner's stamp on the first free end page. 244 pages of text followed by four pages of ads by the publisher. A mystery-comedy co-authored with Stevenson's step-son. (Widener, 111; Wright, 5199)
    TB24883  $120.00



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    Stewart, W. C.:  The Practical Angler or The Art of Trout-Fishing More Particularly Applied To Clear Water.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1996. Revised and Augmented Edition. Fine in black leather covered boards with gilt text and decorations in four compartments on the spine and gilt borders and tool work on the boards. The edges of the text block are gilt and the end sheets are silk with a placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. One of the volumes in the Easton Press Library of Fly-Fishing Classics. This copy is still contained within the publisher's original shrink wrap. A facsimile reprint of the 1857 edition. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" tall by 5 1/4" deep with 214 pages followed by 8 pages of reviews. This title is no longer published and sold by The Easton Press. A bright, clean and crisp copy with no prior owner's plates, names, dates or notations.
    TB33051  $75.00




  • Stewart, Edgar I.:  Penny-an-Acre Empire in The West.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. First Edition. Fine in dark red cloth covered boards with a gilt on brown title block on the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap but with mild rubbing to the corners of the panels and the corners of the spine area. 268 pages including an index, text and illustrated with maps. A book which examines the debate which took place during the 1870's over the value of the lands west of the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains. This dispute centered principally on the area now comprising the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana and especially the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the valley of the Yellowstone River.
    TB17741  $45.00




  • Stewart, George R.:  The California Trail.  New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co, 1962. Tenth Printing. Very good+ in ivory cloth covered boards with gilt text and red decorations on the spine and on the front board. In a very good+ price clipped dust jacket. 339 pages including an index. Illustrated with maps and line drawings. The fourth volume in The American Trails Series which deal with the various wagon roads to California from Council Bluffs, St. Joseph and Indpendence.
    TB24327  $20.00



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    Stiles, Henry R.:  The History Of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut .  New York: The Grafton Press, 1904. First Edition. Both volumes of this two volume set are in very near fine condition in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spines. Both are very heavy, small quartos of 10 5/8 by 7 inches with the lower fore corner of volume I bumped leaving the cloth in that corner wrinkled and with very light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heels of both spines and to the lower tips of the boards. One of only 500 sets printed with volume I identified as number 493 and volume II identified as number 471. The full title reads: "The History Of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut Comprising The Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, And New ington; And of Glastonbury Prior To Its Incorporation In 1693, From Date Of Earliest Settlement Until The Present Time". Volume I (History)contains 995 pages including an index of names and a general index. It is illustrated with a frontispiece from a black and white photograph as well as 66 maps and images. Volume II (Biographies and Genealogies) contains 946 including an index of family names. Illustrated with a frontispiece from earlier works of art and from photographs and 63 images from photographs plus many facsimile autographs.
    TB31718  $600.00



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    Stiles, Ezra:  A History Of Three Of The Judges of King Charles I.  Hartford: Printed by Elisha Babcock, 1794. First Edition. Good in a full leather contemporary binding over boards with a red leather title block on the spine with gilt text and three gilt rules and vestiges of gilt decorations on the edges of the boards. A 16mo measuring 6 5/8 by 4 inches with the leather worn through on the tips of the boards, and with both boards bowed so that the fore edge of the book is considerably wider than the spine. All of the three fold-out plates are creased and folded improperly, the fore-edge of the title page is ragged with no loss to the printed text, the remnants of a stub between pages 12 and 13 represent a binding error as comparisons of another same date copy reveal there is nothing missing. The full title reads: "A History Of The Three Judges of King Charles I. Major-General Whalley, Major-General Goffe, and Colonel Dixwell: Who, at the Restoration, 1660, Fled to America; And Were secreted and concealed, in Massachusetts and Connecticut, for near Thirty Years. With An Account of Mr. Theophilus Whale, of Narragansett, Supposed to have been also one of the Judges." 357 pages of text including an errata slip which is attached to the last page of text and that is followed by a one page ad noting the size of the book and the size of the type used is in conflict with the proposals which initially described the publication allowing the subscribers to either take the book or not "at their liberty". Illustrated with a frontispiece of the author, Plate I (p.29) is a fold-out map of New Haven and its environs; Plate II (p.77) illustrates two views of "Judges Cave" on top of West Rock in New Haven; Plate III (p.80) is a single page showing street maps of both Guilford and Milford, Connecticut; Plate IV (p.114) is a fold-out map showing both the Connecticut shoreline area; and, the Hadley area of Massachusetts; Plate V (p.126) is a street map of a section of New Haven; Plate VI (p.136) is a fold-out plate showing four head and foot stones; Plate VIII (p.202) is a plan of Hadley, Massachusetts and details of Mr. Russels house; and Plate IX (p.345) shows a map of the western towns of Naraganset Bay in Rhode Island. No copies of this title have been seen containing Plate VII. The prevailing opinion being that no such plate was ever produced for inclusion in the title. (Howes, S-999)
    TB28524  $500.00



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    Stiles, Henry R.:  The History Of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, Including East Windsor, South Windsor and Ellington 1635-1891. Vols. I and II.  Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1891. Third and best edition. Both volumes of this two volume set are in very good+ in their original dark blue, cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spines. Both volumes are small quartos measuring 10 5/8 by 7 inches. Volume I has a 1/4 inch closed tear to the cloth and underlying board at the upper edge of the front board and the lower for corner of the front board is bumped and weak. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is lightly rubbed and there are several very short closed tears to the cloth at the head of the spine. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine of volume II is lightly rubbed as are the tips of the boards. Volume I (History) contains 950 pages including an extensive index of names, a general index, errata page, appendices and 870 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and 36 vignettes and plates of maps and images from engravings and 25 facsimile autographs. Note: page 591 is mislabeled "691". Volume II (Genealogies and Biographies) contains 867 pages including an index of names, appendices and 830 pages of text. Illustrated with 62 images from photographs. Howes states that this, the third edition, is the best edition on the subject. (Howes, S1002)
    TB31717  $450.00



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    Stiles, T. J. (Editor):  The American Revolution First Person Accounts by Men Who Shaped Our Nation.  New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, (1999). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in red paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches with slight curling of the lower edge of the spine. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 359 pages of text. Illustrated with a map frontispiece. From the front panel of the dust jacket: "Includes essays, letters, and diary entries by: George Washington, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Lee, John Adams and many others".
    TB29093  $20.00



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    Stiles, M.D., Henry Reed:  Bundling: Its Origins, Progress and Decline in America.  Albany: Knickerbocker Publishing Company, 1871. First Edition. Fine in brown, pebbled cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A 12mo of 7 1/4 by 4 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket. 138 pages including an index, appendices and text. This is the first appearance of this title not to be confused with the reprint done by the Peter Pauper Press which only. contains 88 pages.
    TB30977  $150.00



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    Stillman, J. D. B.:  Wanderings in the Southwest 1n 1855.  Spokane, Wash.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in light red cloth covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 3/16 by 6 inches. Without a dust jacket. One of only 700 copies printed. 193 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Edited and with an introduction by Ron Tyler. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, a fold-out map near the rear of the text and reproductions of earlier works of art. The XXIII volume in the Western Frontiersmen Series. (Clark & Brunet 272)
    TB29497  $90.00



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    Stobart, John:  The World Of Sail And Steam.  Boston: Kensington Publishing, (2002). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in dark blue, heavy cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. An oblong quarto of 12 by 15 3/8 inches with illustrated end sheets. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. Signed by the author/artist with "All the best wishes" on the title page. 214 pages of text and "nearly 100 full-page color illustrations" of John Stobart's paintings. With an essay about the artist by M. Melissa Wolfe. A beautiful, tight clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. Because of its size, additional postage may be required; and, we will not ship this title overseas.
    TB33399  $300.00



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    Stockwin, Julian:  Artemis.  London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Signed by the author on the title page. The author's second book and the second in the series which was initiated with Kydd.
    TB15857  $25.00



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    Stockwin, Julian:  Command.  London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006. First Edition, First printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. The author's seventh in the series which was initiated with Kydd. 345 pages of text.
    TB28415  $12.50



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    Stokes, Thomas L.:  The Savannah.  New York: Rinehart, (1951). First Edition, First printing. Fine in blue-green cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine. An octavo of 8 by 5 1/4 inches with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and a catalog number written at the upper right corner of the first free end page. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the colors at the ends of the spine area and to the fold to the front flap. The 43rd volume in The Rivers of America series. With illustrations by Lamar Dodd. 401 pages including an index, bibliography and text.
    TB31270  $60.00



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    Stone, William L.:  The Campaign Of Lieut. Gen. John Burgoyne, And The Expedition of Lieut. Col. Barry St. Leger.  Albany, NY: Joel Munsell, 1877. First Edition. Very good- in its original decorated, blue cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine with a gilt image of the surrender of Burgoyne to Gates. The front board is decorated with embossed black borders. A 12mo of 7 1/4 by 4 7/8 inches with wear and rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine, the cloth over the tips of the boards is worn through, the front board is soiled and rubbed at its fore edge, the front hinge was cracked, but has been reinforced professionally; and the rear hinge has been reinforced, and there is an early prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. The second free end page is warmly inscribed and signed by the author to John Henry Sarin whose book plate is on the front paste down. 461 pages of text including an index, an extensive appendix (within which is a bibliography) and text. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Burgoyne from an engraving and a fold-out map of the Saratoga battlefield, a facsimile, seven portraits, three plates of locations and four vignettes. (Howes, S-1036; Gephart, 6222; Klein, 307)
    TB32878  $300.00



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    Stone, Irving:  Lust for Life The Novel of Vincent Van Gogh (advance, uncorrected proof copy).  London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1934. Advance, uncorrected proof. Very good in heavy brown paper, printed wraps over an adhesive binding with foxing to the edges of the text block. An octavo of 8 by 5 3/8 inches with the upper fore corner of the front cover curled. There is a prior owner's name in pencil on the title page. Without a dust jacket as issued. 488 pages of text. The front cover states "This is an advance, uncorrected proof of Lust for Life by Irving Stone To be published in the Fall of 1934".
    TB13768  $150.00



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    Stone, William L.:  The Poetry And History of Wyoming: Containing Campbell's Gertrude and the History of Wyoming From Its Discovery To The Beginning Of The Present Century.  Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1864. Third Edition. Very good in green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small octavo of 8 by 4 3/4 inches with each of the fore corners of the boards bumped, the cloth at the head and heel of the spine rubbed, a 1/2 inch white stain on the front board and a 1/4 inch wide ink stain four inches long down from the upper edge of the front board. The hinges and joints remain tight and strong and the contents are completely free of tanning with only occasional small spots of foxing. 406 pages including an index. Illustrated with a portrait of Joseph Brant who with his party of Mohawks was a participant in this battle on the British side. The bulk of the text are sheets from the second edition while the index and a new, rubricated title page are the only inclusions of this the third edition. This book and its subtexts refers to the Battle (massacre) of Wyoming, Pennsylvania in July 3rd 1788 when British forces combined with Loyalists and several Indian tribes fought and defeated outnumbered American patriots. The American side suffered 340 dead and approximately 20 captured. The British side suffered only 3 killed and 8 wounded. (Sabin, 92151)
    TB32872  $140.00




  • Stone, Robert:  Outerbridge Reach.  New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. Second Printing. Fine, in 1/4 blue cloth and paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and front board. In a fine jacket with a price clipped jacket flap. Signed by the author on the fly title page. A nominee for the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award as well as for the National Book Award.
    TB07297  $10.00




  • Stone, Robert:  Outerbridge Reach.  New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. First Edition, First printing. Fine In a fine dust jacket. A nominee for the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award as well as for the National Book Award.
    TB01193  $5.00



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    Story, Joseph:  Commentaries On The Constitution Of The United States With A Preliminary Review Of The Constitutional History Of The Colonies And States, Before The Adoption Of The Constitution.  Boston and Cambridge: Hilliard, Gray, And Company and Brown, Shattuck, And Co., 1833. First Edition. All three volumes of this complete set are in near fine condition in recent 1/2 calf leather and marbled paper covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with red and black, gilt stamped title blocks in two compartments and with gilt bands and gilt banding at the edges of the leather on the boards. All three are octavos of 8 3/4 by 5 1/2 inches with new end sheets. The blank leaves prior to the title pages and at the end of each text block show spots of mild foxing some of which have migrated to the title page and last printed page; otherwise, the contents are remarkably clean and bright. Volume I contains 494 pages; volume II contains 555 pages; and, volume III contains 776 which includes and index for all three volumes. Story was a noted and accomplished attorney, a member of Congress for one term and was appointed an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1811. His greatest contribution was this title which is still considered "the standard treatise on the subject" of the Constitution. (Wikipedia) (Howes, S-1047; Sabin, 92291; DAB,IX p102-108) A particularly handsome set whose importance to the study of the Constitution is as important as The Federalist.
    TB32375  $13000.00



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    Story, Dana A.:  The Shipbuilders Of Essex A Chronicle of Yankee Endeavor.  Gloucester, Mass.: Ten Pound Island Book Company, 1995. First Edition, First printing. Fine in blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board with illustrated end sheets. A small quarto measuring 10" by 9" with a prior owner's name and date on the title page. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 369 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of earlier works of art, black and white photographs and line drawings. The history of 300 years of ship building in Essex, Massachusetts.
    TB26111  $30.00



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    Stowe, Harriet Beecher:  Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among The Lowly.  Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. First Edition , second printing. Both small octavo volumes of this two volume set are in very good condition in original light brown cloth covered boards with off-white end sheets, blind embossing around the edges of each board with a gilt embossing in the center of each front board with gilt text and blind embossing on the spines. The fly title pages for both volumes are lacking and both volumes have an obvious lean to the spines. Both volumes are from the Tenth Thousandth (second printing) series. The first printing of this landmark book occurred on March 20, 1852. Per BAL by April 1, 1852 a second printing of ten thousand copies had been produced which was followed by a third printing of fifty thousand copies which sold out in only 8 weeks by mid-May of 1852. A worthy, matched set of one of the most important books of the 19th century. Both volumes are illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates by Hammatt Billings. (BAL 19343; Printing and The Mind of Man, 332)
    TB32315  $1800.00



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    Stowe, Harriet Beecher:  Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among The Lowly (Illustrated Edition).  Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1853. First Illustrated Edition Complete in One Volume. Very near fine in 1/2 black morocco leather and brown pebbled cloth covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt tool work surrounding the raised bands and gilt text in one of the compartments. The end sheets are marbled paper. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 5 1/2 inches with foxing on the recto of the frontispiece and a 1 1/2 inch circular dampness stain on that recto and on the verso side and the facing page which appears faintly on the title page. The first two pages of the text have been reinforced on their fore edges as has the last page of the text. The hinges and joints are tight and strong. There are no prior ownership markings or book plates. 560 pages of text illustrated with a frontispiece of the author and a second frontispiece of Eva with approximately 114 steel engravings as chapter headings, chapter endings and vignettes from Hammatt Billings' original art and engraved by Baker and Smith. (BAL, 19527)
    TB33143  $700.00



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    Stowe, Harriet Beecher:  A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting The Original Facts and Documents Upon Which The Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work..  Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1853. First Edition, First printing. Very good in its original, blind stamped black cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spine and with light yellow end sheets. (BAL binding = C.) A small quarto measuring 9 5/8 by 6 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine rubbed and worn and the cloth over the tips of the boards is worn through, Both front and rear joints have splits to the cloth, but are holding. The hinges are sound and tight. The contents are extremely clean and tight with no foxing or tanning. Without a dust jacket (if ever one was issued with one). 262 pages of text including an index followed by two pages of ads by the publisher. A second issue of the first US edition with the printers' imprint of Hobart & Robbins and Damrell & Moore on the copyright page. (BAL, 19359; Sabin, 92412)
    TB33175  $350.00



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    Stowe, Harriet Beecher:  Dred: A Tale Of The Great Dismal Swamp.  Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856. First Edition, First State. Both volumes of this two volume set are in good+ to very good- condition in the publisher's original decorated, dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spines and blind embossing to the boards (with the 20 embossed dots on each board). The cloth at the heads and heels of the spines is worn down to the edges of the text blocks and there is a chip of 1/8" wide by 1/3" deep at the head of volume I. The top joint to volume II is cracked approximately 1/2 the length of the board but the joint remains tight and strong. There is an early prior owner's name on the first free end pages of both volumes and the cloth at the lower edges of the boards is worn through. Volume I contains 329 pages followed by six pages of ads. Volume II contains 370 pages (including the appendix) followed by one blank leaf. Both volumes are first state copies with the correct point on page 88 of volume I, no batter on page 209 and line 9 from the bottom on page 370 makes no mention of the "Ruskins". Both volumes are in binding "A" per BAL 19389 with light yellow end papers. An attractive first edition set of Stowe's sequel to Uncle Tom's Cabin.
    TB20271  $175.00



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    Stowe, Harriet Beecher:  Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.  Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1979. Easton Press Collector's Edt.. Fine in highly gilt decorated full gray leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text stamping and gilt decorations in the compartments. The end papers are of silk and there is a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. The edges of the text block are in gilt. Without a dust jacket as issued. A small quarto measuring 10" by 6 3/4" containing 295 pages of text and illustrated with lithographs by Miguel Covarrubias. A beautiful, tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates.
    TB30762  $65.00



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    Strachey, William:  The Historie Of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia; Expressing The Cosmographie And Comodities Of The Country, Togither With The Manners And Customs Of The People.  London: Hakluyt Society, 1849. First Edition. Good+ in its original patterned, green cloth covered boards with four simulated raised bands on the spine with gilt text and with a gilt stamped image of 17th century vessel on the front board which is highlighted with blind embossing on both boards. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 5 1/2 inches with the cloth at the head and heel spine worn down to the edges of the text block. The spine strip is considerably darker than the cloth on the boards. The upper fore corner of the rear board is chipped by 1/4". The cloth over the joints is heavily worn, the front hinge has been reinforced and the rear hinge has cracked, but the binding is holding with no loose pages or signatures. The contents are modestly foxed at the beginning and end pages, but otherwise clean and free of foxing or tanning. 203 pages including an index, "A Dictionarie of The Indian Language" and text. Illustrated with a facsimile of important signatures,a fold-out map and five plates. "Edited from the original manuscript,in the British Museum by R. Hl Major, of the British Museum." The content of the manuscript and this volume cover a period ranging over 1610, 1611 and 1612. Considered by Howes to be "quite scarce". As Thomas D. Clark states in his bibliography, Travels in the Old South: "Strachey was the first secretary of the colony of Virginia, Charles M. Andrews calls him 'the first historian of Virgiina.' The book is well written and interesting." (Howes, S-1053; Clark, I,157))
    TB29919  $500.00



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    Streeter, Floyd B.:  The Kaw.  New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1941). First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in gray cloth covered boards with a gilt on green title block on the spine with illustrated end sheets with tanning to the upper 1/2" of the cloth of the spine and with a prior owner's address label on the front paste down and with slight foxing to the front and rear hinges due to a reaction with the glue used in binding. In a very good- unclipped dust jacket with 1/2" deep chips across the upper edge of the spine area which is also tanned. The 12th volume in The Rivers of America Series with illustrations by Isabel Bate and Harold Black. 371 pages including an index and bibliography.
    TB25325  $45.00



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    Strickland, Edwin, and Gene Wortsman:  Phenix City.  Birmingham: Vulcan Press, (1955). First Edition, First Printing. Very good+ in textured yellow cloth covered boards with black text on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches with minor crimping of the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. In a very good-, unclipped dust jacket with heavy wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area, a shallow one inch long chip at the upper edge of the rear panel and rubbing to the fold to the front flap. Co-authored by Gene Wortsman. An investigation and white paper report on the crime and corruption that existed in the small town of Phenix City just outside of Fort Benning, GA. in the 50's. 284 pages. A clean and attractive copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB31378  $275.00



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    Striker, Fran:  The Lone Ranger at the Haunted Gulch.  New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, (1941). First Edition, Later Issue. Near fine in light gray cloth covered boards with red text on the spine and red text and a sillouhette on the front board with printed end sheets. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 5 inches. In a very good+ unclipped (no price) dust jacket with very light wear to the ends of the spine area and to the upper edge of the front panel. 216 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece from an engraving. The front flap of the dust jacket shows a list of 13 Lone Ranger volumes ending with The Lone Ranger And The Bitter Spring Feud. The rear flap advertises The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories. Code number os 110-150 appear on both flaps.
    TB32676  $45.00




  • Strong, Phil:  Buckskin Breeches.  New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. First Edition, First printing. Very good in light brown buckram cloth covered boards with brown text stamping on the spine and on the front board. The end papers are foxed near the hinges due to a reaction with the glue employed in binding. Without a dust jacket. A novel about the early settlers of Iowa.
    TB17017  $7.00



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    Strorms, Robbi, and Don Malcarne:  Around Essex Elephants and River Gods.  Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, (2001). First Edition. Fine in heavy, illustrated paper wraps over an adhesive binding with a gilt on black title on the spine and the image of several men on the front cover with white text on a black background on the front cover. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 128 pages of text. Illustrated throughout with maps and from images from black and white photographs. Recording the photographic history of the boroughs of Essex, Centerbrook and Ivoryton, Connecticut. One of the many volumes in the Images of America series.
    TB31947  $20.00



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    Strother, Horatio T.:  The Underground Railroad in Connecticut.  Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, (1962). First Edition, First Printing. Very good+ in light orange cloth covered boards with brown text on the spine and an illustration in brown on the front board. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 1/2 inches with a light stain at the bottom of the spine, a second stain at the upper edge of the first free end page, foxing to the end sheets a result of a reaction to the glue used in binding and the top edge of the text block is heavily foxed with the two other sides of the text block showing light foxing, In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with numerous short closed tears at the edges of the panels and rubbing to the ends of the spine area. 262 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes, appendices and text. Illustrated with portraits from earlier works of art and from photographs.
    TB33125  $35.00



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    Struther, Jan:  Mrs. Miniver.  New York: Harcourt, Brace And Company, (1940). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in brick red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small octavo of 8 by 5 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Both the book and its jacket are contained within the original box in which the book was sold. The top of the box has a printed paper label which replicates the front panel of the dust jacket. Warmly signed and inscribed by the author on the first free end page. 288 pages of text. Laid-in at the rear of the box are two pages of an article titled: Mr. Miniver's Three Yearas of War from an known British magazine. Also laid-in is a page from the New York Herald Tribune book section providing a pictorial of Jan Struther. An extremely handsome copy!
    TB30944  $300.00



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    Stuart, I. W.:  Life of Jonathan Trumbull, Sen., Governor Of Connecticut.  Boston: Crocker And Brewster, c1849, 1859. First Edition. Very good+ in its original decorated, brown cloth covered boards with gilt text and designs on the spine and a gilt sketch of a home on the front board together with elaborate blind embossing. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 5 3/4 inches with mild rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and with the cloth over the tips of the boards worn through. Light foxing exists on the preliminaries up to the title page and to the final two leaves in the book. There is an early book plate of J. G. Belden attached to the front pastedown. 700 pages of text. Illustrated with a color frontispiece from an original painting and three color plates. Governor Trumbull (1710-1785) was an important contributor to the American Revolution providing Washington and his troops with badly needed food, clothing and munitions. A very tight and handsome copy.(Sabin, 93164)
    TB31497  $150.00



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    Sub-Committe A1 of the International Commission on Glass:  Dictionary of Glass-Making.  Charleroi, Belgium: Institut National Du Verre, 1965. . Very good+ in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and with a gilt on red title block on the front board. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" by 6 1/4" with slight soiling to the cloth on the front board. Without a dust jacket. 233 pages of text written in English, French and German defining 3537 terms with indexes in all three languages.
    TB25797  $75.00



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    Sullivan, M. W.:  A Programmed Introduction to The Game of Chess.  New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1963. . Very good+ in 1/2 gray and red paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 10 1/4" by by 7 3/4" with the paper on the spine slightly faded. Without its issued dust jacket. 206 pages of text with recto pages printed normally while verso pages are inverted. This is not a binding error, this was intentional so that the reader could learn the game of chess in by answering the questions without seeing the answers which are to be covered with a slip of paper on the right edge of the book. Illustrated with chess board diagrams throughout.
    TB23546  $30.00




  • Suthren, Victor:  Admiral of Fear.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First Edition, First printing. Fine in blue paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. The sequel to Royal Yankeee and The Golden Galleon. This volume takes place in 1742 with Edward Mainwaring again facing his old nemesis in the Mediterranean at Toulon Harbor.
    TB14007  $20.00




  • Suthren, Victor:  The Black Cockade.  Toronto: Collins, 1977. First Edition, First printing. Fine in light brown cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping. In a very near fine dust jacket with slight wear and flecking at the base of the spine area. This is the first book to introduce Paul Gallant who is in command of the corvette, Echo.
    TB04462  $12.50




  • Suthren, Victor:  In Perilous Seas.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. First Edition, First printing. Fine in navy cloth covered boards with a nick at the lower edge of the rear board and with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a near fine dust jacket with modest wear and flecking at the base of the spine area and corners to the panels. The author's third book of nautical fiction in the series with Paul Gallant.
    TB04822  $12.50




  • Suthren, Victor:  Royal Yankee.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket.
    TB05614  $7.50



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    Sutton, Scott E.:  More Altitude, Quick!.  Irvine, Calif.: Sutton Publications, Inc., (1988). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in illustrated paper covered boards with black text on the spine and with a color illustration on the front board. A small quarto measuring 10 3/4" by 8" with illustrated end sheets. Without a dust jacket. Inscribed to "Adam", dated in "Nov. 1990" and signed by the author with an illustration on the fly title page. Unpaginated. Written and illustrated throughout by the author. Series Book #4 in "The Wizard Tells A Story" collection.
    TB27243  $35.00




  • Sutton, Ann and Myron:  The Appalachian Trail.  Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1967. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in 1/4 gray cloth and light blue paper covered boards with modest fading at the head of the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap but with light wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area and slight rubbing at the folds. 180 pages including an index, bibliography, text and numerous photographs and maps through-out.
    TB14947  $10.00



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    Swanberg, W. A.:  Citizen Hearst A Biography of William Randolph Hearst.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1988. Collector's Edition. Fine in full black leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and tool work stamped in the compartments with gilt borders stamped on the boards. The edges of the text block are gilt and there is a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6" containing 555 pages including an index, appendix and text. Laid-in is the publisher's brochure outlining the contents of this volume. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of Library of American History series. A bright, clean and crisp copy with no prior owner's marks, names, dates or book plates.
    TB25945  $75.00



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    Swanson, Claude A.:  Naval Documents related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France.  Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1935 to 1938. First Edition. All seven volumes are in near fine condition in black paper covered boards textured to appear as leather with gilt text stampings on the spines. All are small quartos measuring 9 1/8 by 5 3/4 inches with each containing 600 to 700 pages of exacting detail of men, ships, provisioning, extracts from journals and ship's logs, maps and illustrations. A number of the volumes have minor bumps to the tips of the boards and one shows foxing to the fore edge of the text block. Laid in at the front of Volume III is a one page "circular" ad for the anticipated publication of Vol. IV. Vol. I (Feb. 1797-Oct. 1798) contains 654 pages including an index, text and illustrated with two fold-out maps and all plates as specified. Vol. II contains 624 pages including an index and is illustrated with all plates and two fold-out maps. Vol. III contains 657 pages with an index and is illustrated with one facsimile, all plates and two fold-out maps. Vol. IV (which shows foxing to the fore edge of the text block) contains 676 pages with an index and is illustrated with all plates and two fold-out maps. Vol. V (Jan 1800-May 1800) contains 675 pages including an index and is illustrated with all 7 plates and three fold-out maps. Vol. VI contains 671 pages including an index and is illustrated with a fold-out accounting of vessels taken and re-taken, one fold-out map and all 10 plates. And, vol. VII contains 596 pages including an index and is illustrated with one fold-out map and all 9 plates. An outstanding set of little known US Naval history which started from a diplomatic misunderstanding between the United States and France of 1798-1800. France, without a declaration of war, authorized its navy to seize American merchant vessels. In response in early 1798 the US allowed its merchant marine to repel any such French seizures and authorized its then small navy to take all armed French vessels caught on our coasts. The matter was not settled until September, 1800 with the Convention of Peace, Commerce and Navigation".
    TB33243  $750.00



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    Swanson, Leslie C.:  Canals of Mid-America.  Moline, Ill.: Self-published, 1964. . Very good+ in heavy, red, printed paper wraps with a double stapled binding. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/4". Without a dust jacket as issued. 42 pages of text. Illustrated with maps and black and white photographs of the canals of Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
    TB23937  $15.00



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    Swanson, Leslie C.:  Old Mills In The Mid-West (Illinois and Iowa).  Moline, Illinois: Self-published, 1963. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the front board. Without a dust jacket. Signed by the author on the first page of text. 42 pages of text illustrated with maps and numerous black and white photographs.
    TB24148  $15.00




  • Swarthout, Glendon:  The Shotist.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1975. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. This title was made into a movie starring John Wayne. The author's eleventh book. He has seen four of them made into movies.
    TB06651  $125.00



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    Sweet, John Wood:  The Sewing Girl's Tale A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America.  New York: Henry Holt and Company, (2022). First Edition, First printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with copper colored text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 365 pages including an index, extensive chapter notes, appendix and text. Illustrated with a double page map of lower Manhattan as its frontispiece, small black and white images of earlier works of art and an eight pages section of earlier works of art from color photographs.
    TB32645  $35.00




  • Sweet, Frederick A.:  Andrew Wyeth.  Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1970. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark tan cloth covered boards with white text on the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with a 1/2" closed tear on the upper edge of the front panel and light soiling. 224 pages with index, text and plates by the artist. With an introduction by David McCord.
    TB07995  $20.00




  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson:  Book of Inidan Braves.  New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1913. 1925 Reprint. Very good in black cloth covered boards with faded gilt text stamping on the spine with rubbing at the heel of the spine with an illustrated paper label fixed to the front board which is is not rubbed or scratched. There are no superfluous marks within the book. 184 pages of text with a full color frontispiece and 6 halftone plates by George Alfred Williams.
    TB15592  $17.50




  • Swift, Jonathan:  Gulliver's Travels.  Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Press, 1974. A Limited Edition. Near fine in full light brown leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are gilt. An octavo measuring 8 3/4" tall by 5 5/8" deep. The leather at the corners of the spine is slightly scuffed; but, has been professionally restored. 343 pages of text and illustrated Charles Edmund Brock. One of the volumes in The Franklin Press' collection of The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. A tight, clean and crisp copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates.
    TB23519  $65.00




  • Swindle, Renee:  Please Please Please.  New York: The Dial Press, (1999). First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and black paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine with the first free end page stamped in the lower corner "Berryville Graphics | Not For Resale". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 305 pages of text. A clean, tight and unread copy.
    TB25087  $15.00



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    Sykes, Ella, and Sir Percy Sykes:  Through Deserts And Oases Of Central Asia.  Mansfield Centre, Conn.: Martino Publishing, 2006. Facsimile Reprint. Fine in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text and borders on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with only hints of dampness staining at the upper and lower inside corners of the end sheets. Without a dust jacket as issued. 340 pages including an index followed by a fold-out hand colored map. A facsimile reprint of the author's 1920 printing by MacMillan And Co., Limited of London.
    TB27404  $65.00



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