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

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Barber, John W. and Henry Howe: Historical Collections Of The State Of New York; Containing A General Collection Of The Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, anecdotes, &c Relating To Its History And Antiquities With Geographical Descriptions Of Every Township In The State.. New York: S. Tuttle, 1841. First Edition. Very good- in full leather (sheep) covered boards with a gilt stamped, black leather label on the spine with the faint gilt seal of the State of New York and the text New York and gilt tool work elsewhere on the spine. A thick octavo measuring 9 by 5 1/2 inches with heavy wear and rubbing to the leather joints and to the leather at the head and heel of the spine. The pages are spotted with foxing throughout particularly around the outside margins and there are notations in ink by an early prior owner on the front end sheet and preliminaries. 608 pages which are illustrated with 230 engravings, a frontispiece and 12 plates (following pages 44, 116, 140, 148, 220, 268, 372, 424, 432, 472, 508 and 552) all by the author. Howes calls for 10 plates and the map. The hand-colored, fold-out map of New York following the front index (page 12) is in very collectible condition with a 3" long tear at one of the lower folds which has been repaired with common adhesive tape and a 1" long closed tear at a second lower fold which has not been repaired. Considered by Howes to be "mildly scarce". (Howes, B-122; Sabin, 3331) A tight handsome and thoroughly complete copy.
TB27384 $200.00

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Benham, J. H.: Benham's City Directory and Annual Advertiser for 1847-8 To Which Is Added A Directory For Fair Haven. New Haven: J. H. Benham, 1847. First Edition. Very good+ in 1/4 leather and printed, paper covered boards over a sewn binding. A 16mo of 6 1/2 by 4 1/4 inches with the leather at the head and heel of the spine worn down to the edges of the text block and with rubbing and light wear to the paper at the edges of the boards. There is a scrap piece of paper attached to the front paste down The city directory for both New Haven and Fair Haven. 167 pages of text with ads on the first three pages and last eleven pages.
TB31836 $95.00

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Bergman, Ray: Fresh-Water Bass. New York: Wm. Penn Publishing Corp., (1942). First Edition, Limited Edition. Near fine in 3/4 morocco leather and blue cloth covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and gilt tool work between all of the compartments. The top edge of the text block is gilt. The end sheets are printed and the extra suite of 10 color plates is laid-in at the front of the book. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 6 1/4 inches with the leather at the head and heel of the spine lightly rubbed and worn and touches of foxing to the recto of the frotispiece. Without a dust jacket; however, the book is contained within a very good, paper covered slip case with three of the joints beginning to fail. One of only 149 copies signed by the author with this copy being out of series. 436 pages of text and illustrated with a full color frontispiece and 10 color plates all by Fred Hildebrandt. A very clean, neat and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind and with the extra suite of plates in their original envelope laid-in. (Bruns, p.132; Thacher, p. 49)
TB31484 $500.00

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Bewick, Thomas: Memoir Of Thomas Bewick Written By Himself 1822-1828. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, (1924). First Edition. Near fine in full tan calf covered leather boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt tool work and a gilt on black leather title block in the compartments and with gilt double borders on the boards. All edges of the text block are gilt, the leather turn-ins are decorated with gilt floral dentelles and the end sheets are marbled paper. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 6 inches with the front hinge beginning to separate and the front joint showing mild rubbing and wear. With occasional small spots of foxing to the preliminaries and end pages. Overall a beautifully bound volume. The binding was done by Bayntun of Bath, England. 274 pages of text including 26 pages of woodcuts from Bewick's Quadrupeds and Birds. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Bewick and 60 vignettes by Bewick. A spectacular leather binding with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
TB31496 $250.00

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Blanchard, Laman (Editor): George Cruikshank's Omnibus. London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in full polished tan calf covered boards by Riviere with five raised bands on the spine with gilt tool work with a gilt on black leather label in the compartments, gilt borders on the boards, gilt inside dentelles over dark blue paper end sheets. The top edge of the text block is gilt. The leather joints are worn and cracked but the hinges are tight and strong. The leather at the upper tips of the boards is worn through and there is a tiny 1/16" chip to the leather at the foot of the spine; and, there is an early prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. A small quarto measuring 9 1/8" tall by 5 1/2" deep containing 300 pages of text. Illustrated with twenty-two steel engraved plates and 78 wood engravings. Originally issued in wraps in nine individual parts. George Cruikshank (1792-1878), whose career spanned 60 years, was an English illustrator and caricaturist who was best known for his satirical portraits of English society and culture as well as being the illustrator for Charles Dickens' books: Sketches By Boz and Oliver Twist.
TB22867 $250.00

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Brown, Henry Collins: Glimpses of Old New York. New York: Privately Printed for The Subscribers Anderson Galleries, 1917. First Edition. Very good+ in 1/2 dark blue leather and light blue cloth covered boards with five raised bands on the spin with gilt tool work and gilt text in the compartments and gilt borders on the front and rear boards. A quarto of 12 1/4 by 9 1/2 inches with marbled end sheets. The leather at the head and heel of the spine is rubbed as it is over the joints and tips of the boards. The third free end page has a 3 inch closed tear to its fore edge which has been professionally repaired. 381 pages of text and illustrated with a frontispiece and 96 plates many of which are in color.
TB31621 $250.00

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Crane, Stephen: Maggie A Girl Of The Streets A Story of New York. Avon, Conn.: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. First thus. Fine in 1/2 black leather and stripped buckram cloth covered boards with gilt text and rules on the spine. A small quarto measuring 10 1/2" by 7 1/2" with a prior owner's address label on the rear paste down. Without its issued glassine dust jacket; however, the book is contained within a fine paper covered slipcase showing no rubbing, wear, dents, dings, cracks in the joints or wear. One of only 2,000 copies printed with this copy identified as number 969 and signed by the illustrator, Simon Abeles, on the colophon. 105 pages of text illustrated with copper etchings. A beautiful edition of the author's first novel the first edition of which he published himself under a pseudonym. A very fine, tight and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
TB28101 $75.00

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Cunningham, Peter (Editor): The Works of Oliver Goldsmith (4 volumes). London: John Murray, 1854. First Edition. All four volumes of this four volume set are in very good+ condition in beautiful, full green leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spines with two leather title labels with gilt text and gilt decorations in the compartments. All edges of the text blocks are marbled to match the end sheets within the books. Each volume is an octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/2" with gilt decorations on the edges of the boards and blind dentelle on the turn-ins. The leather is rubbed at the board edges and the heads of the spines. There is a prior owner's book plate on the front paste downs and a Newport Historical Society plate on the front free end pages with that same name embossed on the engraved title pages. These uniform bindings were performed by Bickers & Son of London. Volume contains 468 pages of text. Volume II has 487 pages; volume III has 447 pages; and volume IV has 450 pages including an index to all four volumes.
TB26826 $300.00

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Davis, Geroge: A Historical Sketch Of Sturbridge And Southbridge. West Brookfield, Mass.: Self-Published, 1856. First Edition, First printing. Fine in a recent 1/2 brown leather binding with dark green cloth covered boards with a gilt on green title block on the spine and decorative rules with marbled end sheets. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2" by 5 1/2". The contents are generally clean with the exception of the title page and the last page of text which are both well worn and creased. The first page of the introduction is stamped "Forbes Library | Northampton, Mass." with a small "withdrawn" stamp in red on the first page of the text. 233 pages of text. Laid-in at the rear of the book are two extra spine labels. (Sabin, 18820; Mass: A Bibliography, 2730)
TB24247 $200.00

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Dodd, Stephen: The East-Haven Register In Three Parts. New Haven: A. H. Maltby & Co., 1824. First Edition, First printing. Fair to good in full leather covered boards with the front joint broken but the front joint and text block reasonably strong and in place. The majority of the text block shows dampness staining across the upper 2/3rds of most of the pages yet the printing on each page remains easily read. There are two early prior owner's names in ink on the first free end page. A 12mo measuring 7 1/8" tall by 4 1/8" deep containing 200 pages of text. The information contained in the parts of the book include: Part I. Containing a history of the town of East-Haven, from its first settlement in 1644, the year 1800. Also, an account of its boundaries, iron-works and mills, division of lands, controversies with New-Haven, and Branford, town charters, ecclesiastisal affairs, schools, population and taxes, losses by war, natural history and curiosities, roads and public lands. Part II. Containing an account of the names, marriages, and births, of the families which first settled , or which have resided in East-Haven, form its settlement in 1644, to the year 1800. Part III. Containing an account of the deaths in the families names in the second part, from the year 1647 to the end of the year 1823. Considered by Howes to be "mildly scarce" and Sabin calls it "An extremely rare local history." (Howes D-387; Sabin 20485; Armstrong: Connecticut A Bibliography of its History; 3321)
TB22311 $200.00

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Elder, William: Biography of Elisha Kent Kane. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1858 c1857. First Edition. Very good in blind stamped, black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 8 5/8 by 5 1/2 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn down to the edges of the text block, the cloth over the tips of the boards is worn through and there is an early prior owner's book plate fixed to the front past down. The binding remains tight and strong with no weakness to the hinges or joints. Without a dust jacket. 416 pages of text illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Kane, an engraved title page and four engravings each protected with a tissue guard. The publisher's ads of two pages appear immediately after the first free end page and two additional pages of ads appear at the end of the the text. (Sabin 22094)
TB30337 $50.00

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Frankel, Max: The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times. Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1999. Signed First Edition. Fine in full dark green 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 in gilt. A small quarto measuring 9 1/8" tall by 5 7/8" deep containing 546 pages of text. Signed by the author on the specially tipped-in second free end page and identified as copy number 966 of only 1,000 copies printed and sold. One of The Easton Press' signed, first edition, leather bound books. A beautiful, tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates.
TB22444 $150.00

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Gifford, S. N. [Stephen N.], and Wm. S. Robinson: Commonwealth of Massachusetts manual For The Use Of The General Court Containing The Rules And Orders Of The Two Branches. Boston: Wright & Potter, State Printers, 1867. First Edition. Very good in 3/4 leather (calf) and marbled paper covered boards with a black title label with gilt text on the spine. A 16mo measuring 6 1/2 by 4 1/4 inches with light wear and rubbing to the leather at the joints and to the tips of the boards. A presentation copy given to Hon. J. E. Field "With regards of" the author 'S. N. Gifford" as written on the first free end page. 277 pages of text and illustrated with two, double page floor plans of the Massachusetts Senate Chamber and House of Representatives. The text contains both the Constitution Of The United States as well as the Constitution of Massachusetts. S. N. Gifford was the clerk for the Massachusetts Senate and Jonathan Edwards Field was an attorney from Stockbridge who was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 1854 and at one point, during his political career he served as President of the Senate.
TB28946 $60.00

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Gottschalk, Louis: Lafayette In America 1777-1783. Arveyres, Franc: L'Esprit de Lafayette, 1976. Limited First Edition. Fine in full, hand-bound buffalo leather with gilt tool work and decorations on the spine and both boards together with a tricolor, silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the top of the spine. The top edge of the text block is gilt. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 6 inches containing three books bound as one containing (184), (364), (458) each book containing its own index and appendices. Without a dust jacket as issued. Signed by the author on the limitation page and numbered BD693 as one of only 294 copies reserved for special presentation by the publishers. Also, with a laid-in page signed by the book binder, Richard Poe, certifying that this is a first edition of this title. With six bound-in, fold-out maps copied from original documents and transferred to lithographic plates. A beautiful, tight, and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
TB32206 $125.00

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Grant, U. S.: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (Vol. I only). New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885, 1886. First Edition, Deluxe Edition. Volume I only of this two volume set is in very good+ condition in 3/4 black, pebbled leather. The spine has faded to a light brown and is decorated with five raised bands with the compartments filled with either gilt text, three gilt emblems and a four star shoulder patch in gilt. The front and rear boards are decorated with a gilt, circular seal (3" in diameter) showing the profile of Grant on the front board and the reverse of this medal on the rear board. All edges of the text blocks are marbled to match the marbled end sheets. It is an octavo measuring 9 by 5 7/8 inches. The leather over the tips of the boards was worn, but has recently been professionally re-stained. The frontispiece of the young Grant shows no foxing or tanning. The hinges and joints for this volume are tight and strong. A very neat and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. This title was only sold by subscription in five different bindings: green cloth, leather in sheep, half-morocco, full morocco and tree calf leather. Not only was this title considered a major publishing success, it has often been considered one of the most important books of American history. This volume I contains 584 pages of text. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, maps, engravings, two fold-out facsimile letters in Grant's hand.
TB32354 $600.00

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Halford, Frederic M.: The Dry-Fly Man's Handbook Including The Fisherman's Entomology And The Making And Management Of A Fishery. London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, (1913). First Edition. Fine in 3/4 dark blue leather and blue denim covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text three of the compartments and gilt images of flies and jumping fish in the remaining compartments. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 5 3/4 with marbled end sheets. The contents are clean, tight and free of foxing, tanning and any markings by prior owners. 416 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece from a photograph and numerous plates. The title page is printed in red and black and the book was printed by William Brendon and Son, Ltd of Plymouth, England. (Thacher, p.234)
TB32150 $350.00

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Haven, Charles T. and Frank A. Belden: A History of The Colt Revolver and the Other Arms Made by Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company from 1836 to 1940. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1940. First Edition, 1 of 100 bound in full leather. Very good+ full, dark green leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and designs in the compartments. The front board is decorated with gilt text and the image of an early Colt pistol in gilt. The leather turn-ins are decorated with gilt dentelles. There is a light green silk placement ribbon sewn in at the head of the spine. The top edge of the text block is gilt and the end sheets are marbled paper. A small quarto measuring 10 5/8 by 7 7/8 inches with rubbing to the leather at the joints and to the tips of the boards and with the fly title and rear end sheets slightly foxed. There is some scuffing to the front and rear boards. Without a dust jacket as most probably not issued with one. According to Ray Riling in his bibliography: Guns and Shooting: "4,625 copies were published; of this number 1,600 were sold to the Colt Manufacturing Co.; of these 1,500 were furnished in the regular (cloth) binding, and 100 were bound in full leather." 711 pages including an index. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and line drawings. Considered by Howes to be "quite scarce". (Howes, H-308; Riling, 2318)
TB29098 $450.00

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The House of Seven Gables A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. First Edition, 4th or 5th Printing. Very good in its original, brown, ribbed cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine, blind stamped boards and light yellow end sheets. A 12mo measuring 7 1/8 by 4 3/8 inches containing 344 pages of text with the publisher's four page catalog dated March, 1851 inserted inside of the front end sheets. The upper 1/4 inch of the cloth at the head of the spine is missing exposing the top edge of the text block. The lower 1 1/2 inch of the first page of the catalog has been torn out. On the first free end page an early prior owner's name appears in ink in a tiny, delicate hand and again in pencil, more boldly, on the title page and a third time on the rear end sheet. On the verso of the last free end page the prior owner penciled in a two line quotation from the book and started a sketch of a woman's head. The pages of the text are free of tanning, but exhibit spots of foxing throughout. This is either a forth or fifth printing of the first edition, with the letter "t" missing on line 25 of page 50 and the and the letter "r" missing on the 25th line of page 278. One of Hawthorne's most famous novels and considered a classic of early American literature. Hawthorne believed this to be his best work, even better than his more famous The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne considered this title to be his best novel. (BAL 7604; Bruccoli/Clark - p. 172)
TB28496 $275.00

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Holt, John: Knee Deep in Montana's Streams. Boulder: Pruett Publishing Company, 1991. Signed Limited First Edition. Fine in 1/4 calf and marbled paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. On the inside of the front board is a mounted "Wolly Bugger" fly which was tied by the author. Without a dust jacket. Signed by the author and numbered copy 66 out of only 100 signed and numbered copies on the second to last page of text. A hand-sewn binding done exclusively for the publisher by Sandlin's Book & Bindery of Valparaiso, Indiana. 144 pages including an index illustrated with maps and black and white photographs.
TB20153 $200.00

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Hubbard, Elbert: Little Journeys To Homes Of Great Musicians Volume Eight and Nine New Series. East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, 1901. First Edition, First printing. Both volumes of this two volume set are in very good- conditions in 1/4 leather and paper covered boards with a gilt paper label on the spines and a printed brown title on the front board. Both are small octavos measuring 8" by 5 3/4" with gilt top edges to the text block and deckled edges to the fore and lower edges. The leather on volume 1 is chipped and worn at the head and heel of the spine and at the center of the spine is a missing section of the surface leather. Tthe placement ribbons in both have completely deteriorated. Volume 1 contains 147 pages of text illustrated with portraits of the musicians. Volume 2 contains 137 pages of text illustrated with portraits of the musicians.
TB24175 $60.00

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Hunt, Leigh: The Town; Its Memorable Characters And Events. London: Smith, Elder, and Co.,, 1848. First Edition. Both volumes of this two volume set are in very good+ condition in 3/4 red leather and marbled paper covered boards with gilt text and decorations between six compartments on the spine. The front and rear covers are decorated with gilt bands at the edges of the leather. Both volumes are small octavos measuring 7 5/8" by 4 3/4 with marbled paper end sheets. The leather at the forward joints and at the tips of the boards is rubbed and worn and there is a prior owner's book plate on the front paste downs. Volume I contains 300 pages followed by four pages of ads. Volume II has 311 pages followed by 16 pages of ads. Both volumes are illustrated with 45 steel engravings.
TB26065 $100.00

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Hunter, John D.: Memoirs Of A Captivity Among The Indians Of North America From Childhood To The Age of Nineteen With Anecdotes Descriptive Of Their Manners And Customs.. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. First Edition. Very good+ in a contemporary 1/2 brown leather (calf) and marbled paper covered boards with gilt text over a black leather spine label and gilt tooling on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/2 by 5 3/8 inches with the leather rubbed through at the upper and lower tips of the boards and a stamped royal seal on the title page. 447 pages of text. (Howes, H-813; Ayer/Narratives, 142)
TB27578 $200.00

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Irving, Washington: Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists. London: John Murray, 1822. First Edition, First printing. Both volumes of this two volume set are in very good+ condition in recently rebacked 3/4 leather and green, pebbled cloth covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with the original gilt on red leather title labels in the compartments. The edges of the text blocks are speckled. Both volumes are small octavos measuring 8" tall by 5" deep. Both volumes have an early prior owner's book plate on the front paste downs and there is offsetting from the overlaid leather onto the end sheets. Minor foxing and tanning exists in the pages of the text blocks. Volume I contains 393 pages of text and volume II contains 403 pages of text. The points existing on leaf 93-94 of volume I and pages 403 and 404 indicate that this is the first state of the first edition of this title. Although the English edition appeared two days after the American edition was released the English edition contains a number of alternations to the text made by Irving which do not appear in the American edition. As a result the British first edition is considerably different from the American first. (Langfeld/Blackburn p. 24; and, BAL 10110) A very attractive and clean set.
TB23066 $175.00

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Kaplan, Eugene H.: Coral Reefs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First American Edition. Fine in full light brown leather covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board with all edges of the text block gilt and a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides. A 12mo measuring 7 1/4" by 4 1/2" containing 289 pages including an index. Illustrated with black and white and color photographs as well as line drawings by Susan L. Kaplan. Subtitled: "A guide to the common invertebrates and fishes of Bermuda, The Bahamas, southern Florida, The West Indies, and The Caribbean Coast of Central and South America."
TB23416 $20.00

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Kricher, John C.: Southeastern And Caribbean Seshores. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. First American Edition. Fine in full dark blue leather covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board with all edges of the text block gilt and a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides. A 12mo measuring 7 1/4" tall by 4 1/2" deep containing 368 pages including an index. Illustrated with color photographs the author and with drawings by Gordon Morrison.
TB23405 $25.00

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Lash, Joseph P.: A World Of Love Eleanor Roosevelt And Her Friends 1943-1962. Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library, 1984. Signed First Edition. Fine in full red leather covered boards with four 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 paper with a red silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. An octavo measuring 9" by 6 1/4" containing 610 pages of text including an index followed by a genealogical table of two pages. Signed by the author 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 beautiful, tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates.
TB28275 $55.00

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Lumpkin, Henry: From Savannah to Yorktown. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981. First Edition. Near fine in 1/2 leather and buckram cloth covered boards with a gilt on brown leather spine label and with yellow-orange end sheets. A quarto of 11 by 8 3/8 inches with the cloth on the front board slightly soiled. Without its issued dust jacket. "The American Revolution in the South." 332 pages including an index, appendices, chronology, text and illustrated throughout with both contemporary and modern works of art and photographs of weapons and implements.
TB31493 $40.00

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Matthiessen, Peter: Lost Man's River. Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1997. Signed First Edition. Fine in full royal blue leather covered boards with four 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 in gilt. A small quarto measuring 9 3/16" tall by 5 3/4" deep containing 539 pages of text. Signed by the author on the specially tipped-in second free end page and accompanied with a laid-in Certificate of Authenticity from the publisher. This is copy number 573 of only 1,150 copies signed and numbered by the author. One of The Easton Press' signed, first edition, leather bound books. A beautiful, tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates to mar its appearance.
TB19530 $125.00

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Matthiessen, Peter: The Snow Leopard. Franklin: The Franklin Library, 1978. First Edition. Fine in full tan leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and tool work in the compartments and with gilt tool work on the boards. The 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. There are minor touches of wear to the tips of the boards and minor fading to the leather on the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" containing 348 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. This printing is the true first edition of this book. It was the winner of the 1979 National Book Award. 348 pages including an index.
TB29410 $100.00

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Milne, A. A.: Now We Are Six. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1927). First Edition, First Printing. Very near fine in full light blue leather covered boards with gilt text on the spine, gilt borders and text with the image of a child with a fishing pole on the front board and with illustrated end sheets. All edges of the text block are gilt. A 12mo measuring 7 1/2 by 5 inches with light rubbing to the leather at the head and heel of the spine and and to the tips of the boards. Without a dust jacket as issued. This is the publisher's deluxe, leather bound, first printing edition. 103 pages illustrated throughout with line drawings by Ernest H. Shepard.
TB31118 $450.00

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Morris, Wright: A Cloak of Light Writing My Life. Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library, 1985. First Edition. Fine in full dark blue leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations in the compartments and with gilt decorations on the boards. The end sheets are marbled paper, the edges of the text block are gilt and there is a blue silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. Carefully signed by the author on the second free end page. 306 pages of text with a section of black and white photographs. One of the volumes from The Franklin Library's collection for The Signed First Edition Society.
TB24489 $40.00

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Nutting, William Washburn: The Cinderellas of the Fleet. Jersey City, NJ: The Standard Motor Construction Co., (1920). First Edition. Very good+ in 3/4 dark green leather and marbled paper covered boards with gilt text between five raised bands on the spine with gilt decorations and a gilt surrounded black leather label on the front board. All edges of the text block are gilt and the end sheets are marbled paper matching the boards. Without a dust jacket. 178 pages of text with a color frontispiece painting by John Olaf Todahl and illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, maps and line drawings. The author relates the story of the submarine chaser deployed by the US Navy during World War I. (Coletta: Bibliography of American Naval History, 2139)
TB26560 $60.00

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Roberts, Kenneth: March To Quebec. Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1938. First Edition, First printing. Fine in redish cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine with map fixed end sheets. As is so typical with this title, the front and rear hinge areas show modest tanning due to a reaction with the glue used in binding. A small octavo measuring 7 7/8 by 5 1/2 inches. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with three shallow chips at the upper edge of the spine area and four very small chips at the fore corners of the panels over the tips of the boards. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or date. 657 pages including an index and text. Following the writing of Arundel, Roberts compiled the journals of the members of Arnold's expedition to attack Quebec through the wilds of what is now the Maine woods north into Canada in the dead of winter. An extremely handsome and very collectible copy with no prior owner's markings, dates or book plates.
TB30793 $195.00

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Rowlling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets . New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/2 green cloth and quilted, purple paper covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches with plain red end sheets. In a fine acetate protected dust jacket with the $17.95 price on the front flap of the jacket. The second volume in the extremely popular Harry Potter series. 341 pages of text with illustrations by Mary Grandpre. A first issue copy without the number "2" on the spine of the book or spine area of the jacket.
TB32998 $200.00

Settle, Mary Lee: Charley Bland. Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library, 1989. Signed First Edition. Fine in full dark green 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. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. An octavo measuring 8 5/8" tall by 5 3/4" deep containing 207 pages of text. Signed by the author on the specially tipped-in second free end page. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Leslie W. Bowman. One of The Franklin Library's volumes in their collection for the Signed First Edition Society. A beautiful, tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates. Laid-in is a two page letter on heavy stock from the publisher describing the author and this title.
TB21296 $45.00

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

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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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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Terry, Marian Dickenson (Editor): Old Inns of Connecticut. Hartford: The Prospect Press, 1937. First Edition. Near fine in 1/2 leather and dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and borders stamped on the spine and gilt borders on the boards at the edge of the leather. The end sheets are maps of the state showing the locations of most of the colonial inns mentioned in the book. A small quarto measuring 11" by 8" with some scuffing to the cloth on the front cover. Without a dust jacket as issued and lacking its paper covered slip case. One of only one thousand copies printed with this copy identified as number 545 on the last page of text. 253 pages to include a bibliography, an index, photographic plates of old inn signs and text. Illustrated throughout with many line drawings by J. Frederick Kelly and black and white photographs. (Not listed in Roos. Listed in Colliers' The Literature of Connecticut History, p. 267 "A beautifully illustrated volume, with much interesting material about early highway travel."
TB29787 $75.00

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Thackeray, W. M.: Lovel The Widower. London: Smith, Elder And Co., 1861. First Edition. Near fine in 3/4 red leather and red cloth covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and gilt decorations in the compartments. A small octavo of 7 5/8 by 4 3/4 inches with the leather worn through over the upper rear tip of the board and light rubbing to the leather at the head and heel of the spine and lower tips of the boards. Without a dust jacket. 258 pages of text followed by 16 pages of publisher's ads. Illustrated with a frontispiece, four plates each with a tissue guard and six vignettes within the text. The original cloth from one of the boards and the back strap with its gilt text is bound in at the rear of the book.
TB30375 $150.00

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Trevelyan, George Otto: The Early History Of Charles James Fox. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1880. First Edition. Very good- in 3/4 leather (calf) and marbled paper covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text on a red leather label and gilt decorations in the compartments. The edges of the leather on the boards is decorated with blind embossing and the end sheets match the marbled paper on the boards. The edges of the text block are marbled. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/4" with a 1/4" chip from the leather at the head of the spine and the leather is worn through at the tips of the boards. The previously weak front joint and front hinge have been professionally repaired. 545 pages including an index.
TB27063 $50.00

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Twain [Samuel L. Clemens], Mark: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, Conn: The American Publishing Company, 1876. First Edition, First Issue. Very good in its original, very uncommon, light brown, full sheepskin binding with four raised bands on the spine and with a dark brown leather title label stamped in gilt in one of the compartments and with gilt rules on either side of the raised bands. An octavo of 8 by 6 3/8 inches with light wear and rubbing to all edges with the leather barely worn through over the upper front board tip and the lower rear board tip. There is a dampness stain to the upper fore corner of the fly title page. Pages 65/66 and 77/78 have two inch closed tears to their fore edges which have both been professionally repaired. Strangely, the first free end page appears to be a cancel. Both front and rear hinges are cracked, but the binding is holding and remains tight. The contents are tight and show extensive spots of foxing and hand soiling throughout. According to Merle Johnson the first state of this title shows the word "The" on the fly title page as being only 1/8 inch high. For this copy that is the case. The fly title page is on its own leaf and the pages are printed on wove paper. 274 pages of text followed by an unnumbered conclusion page with no ads from the publisher. Illustrated with a frontispiece from an engraving and chapter headings and vignettes throughout. The recto of the forntis is blank. This copy is protected within an elegant clamshell box which is fully covered in leather with beveled edges and a rounded spine with five raised bands with gilt text stamping in three compartments. (BAL, 3369; Johnson, p27)
TB32288 $8500.00

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Tytler, Patrick Fraser: Historical View of the Progress of Discovery of the More Northern Coasts of America, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1832. First Edition, First printing. Good in full burgundy leather covered boards with four gilt decorated raised bands on the spine with gilt designs on the front and rear boards and all edges of the text block in gilt. The front joint is cracked but the front hinge keeps the front board in place . There is a 1/3" deep chip at the head of the spine and the leather is rubbed through at the tips of the boards. The rear hinge and joints are cracked but have not separated. A 16mo measuring 6 3/4" high by 4 1/4" deep overall. 444 pages illustrated with a fold-out map of the northern shores of North America as the frontispiece and with nine steel engravings by Jackson.
TB18304 $75.00

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Verlaine, Paul: Epigrammes. Paris: Bibliotheque Artistique & Liettereaire, 1894. First Edition. Very near fine in 3/4 dark brown leather and marbled paper covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and tool work in the compartments and gilt double rules at the edges of the leather on the boards. The top edge of the text block is gilt and the end sheets are marbled paper. The joints and hinges are tight and strong and the contents are free of foxing, but do show some age toning. A thin 12mo of 7 3/8 by 5 1/2 inches with light rubbing and scuffing to the fore edge of the leather on the lower edge of the front board and with a prior owner's name and address on the second free end page. 76 pages followed by a two page index. Illustrated with a frontispiece from art by F. A. Cazals. Printed entirely in French.
TB31501 $250.00

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[Vizetelly, Henry]: Christmas With The Poets: A Collection Of Songs, Carols, and Descriptive Verses, Relating To The Festival Of Christmas. London: David Bogue, 1851. First Edition. Near fine in its original Victorian full dark brown leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with black stamped rules and gilt text in the compartments and elaborate black stamped embossing on the boards. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches with the edges of the text block gilt and with gilt dentelles on the leather turn-ins.and marbled end sheets. Missing from the book is the engraved title page as it appears to have not been bound-in to begin with. The contents are tightly bound-in and the entire text is extremely neat and clean without any prior owenship markings. 187 pages each decorated with a gold border around the print. This is a major anthology of Christmas songs and poems that begins with Anglo-Norman songs and ends with contemporary poets, with full explanatory notes of each piece, providing their histories and textual source all in context of evolving Christmas customs at different periods. This title includes works by Shakespeare, Jonson, Wither, Thorn, Cowper, Scott, Shelley, Wordsowrth, Thackeray and Tennyson. The engraved plates and vignettes are from illustrations by Birket Foster which were engraved by Vizetelly. Many of the plates and vignettes are tinted. Very scarce title in first edition in a beautiful example of a Victorian full leather binding.
TB31613 $400.00

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Webb, Walter Prescott: The Texas Rangers A Century of Frontier Defense. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935. First Limited Edition. An ex-library copy in near fine condition in 1/4, light brown morocco leather with tan covered boards with a dark blue leather title label stamped with gilt text on the spine. The top edge of the text block is gilt. A small quarto of 9 3/8 by 6 1/4 inches with very light rubbing to the leather at the head of the spine. The book plate of Jean Hersholt is on the front paste down. (Hersholt was an early Hollywood star his most famous role being in the 1937 film version of Heidi.) The title page is stamped with a library name at the lower margin and the dedication page shows a five digit number and there is the ghost of something removed from the rear paste down. Those are the only library marks in this copy. It does not have a dust jacket as issued; however, it is contained within a new replacement, black. cloth covered slipcase with the original, printed paper title label laid down on its spine with the handwritten number "30". This is one of the 205 signed by the author and numbered limited edition copies. This copy is identified as number 30 on the limitation page. 583 numbered pages including an index, text and illustrated from drawings by Lonnie Rees and with images from black and white photographs. First trade editions of this title in collectible condition are considered quite scarce. Signed, limited editions even more so. Ramon F. Adams in his bibliography Six-Guns and Saddle Leather referred to this title as: "The most thorough work to date on the Rangers." (Adams, 6-Guns 2333, Howes, W195) Laid-in at the front of the book is a book review from the New York Herald Tribune written by Henry Steele Commager.
TB32210 $1600.00

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Whymper, Edward: The Ascent Of The Matterhorn. London: John Murray, 1880. First Edition. Very good+ in its original, full, black leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text in one compartment and gilt tool work in the other five compartments and blind embossing around the edges of the front and rear boards and the front board has a gilt emblem in its center. The turn-ins are decorated with gilt dentelles and the end sheets are yellow. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 6 inches with all edges of the text block gilt. The front hinge is cracked. The preliminaries and end pages show spots of foxing. 325 pages followed by two fold-out maps. Illustrated with a frontispiece from an engraving, 15 plates and 91 vignettes throughout from line drawings. The author relates his participation in a team who were the first to climb the Matterhorn in 1865.
TB32291 $280.00

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Wiesel, Elie: The Fifth Son. Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library, 1985. Signed First Edition. Fine in full dark blue leather covered boards with four 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. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. A octavo measuring 8 3/4" by 5 1/2" containing 210 pages of text. Signed by the author on the specially tipped-in second free end page. Translated from the French by Marion Wiesel. One of The Franklin Library's volumes in their collection for the Signed First Edition Society A beautiful, tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations; however, there is a prior owner's blind, embossed seal on the title page.
TB32065 $40.00

Wiley, Frank W.: Montana and the Sky. Minneapolis: Montana Aeronautics, 1966. First Edition. Near fine with the leather covered spine showing rubbing at the ends and small nicks in heavy cloth covered boards & gilt wings on front. Without a dust jacket; however, in a near fine slip case. Signed and numbered 155 out of only 250 copies printed on a laid-in page. 343 page with index and endpapers made of aeronautical maps of the Great Falls and Helena area. Subtitled: "The beginning of Aviation in the Land of the Shining Mountains."
TB05799 $145.00

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Young, Stanley P. and Edward A. Goldman: The Wolves of North America. Washington, DC: The American Wildlife Institute, 1944. First Edition, Limited Edition. Very good+ in the uncommon, 3/4 bison leather and olive green cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spine and with a gilt image of a wolf's head on the front board. The front and rear end sheets have applied to them one page biographies of the two authors. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". The leather at the head and heel of the spine is rubbed and worn. The front joint was separated from the backstrip, but has been professionally reinforced to join the backstrip with the front board. The front hinge remains intact. The rear joint and hinge remains tight and strong. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. A limited, presentation copy, one of only 102 copies so produced. The fly title page which is signed, inscribed and dated 1949 by the author to his good friend Dr. Bill Morgan (who was an author and linguist). In his long inscription the author notes that the binding for this particular volume is "buffalo hide" and he mentions the limitation which is not indicated elsewhere in the book. 636 pages including an index, a section of black and white photographs of skulls of North American Wolves, bibliography and text. Illustrated with maps and black and white photographs. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and 131 plates in total from black and white photographs. An extremely unusual and uncommon copy.
TB24522 $350.00

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Zollikofer, G. J. [George Joachim]: Exercises of Piety: or, Mediations On The Principal Doctrines And Duties Of Religion For The Use Of Enlightened And Virtuous Christians. Worcester, Mass.: Isaiah Thomas, Jun., 1803. First Edition. Very good+ in light brown, full leather covered boards with gilt text on a black leather spine label and with four gilt rules on the spine. A 16mo measuring 6 5/8 by 4 1/16 inches with the leather over the heel of the spine chipped to a depth of 1/3 inch and with wear and rubbing to the leather at the tips of the boards. The joints are starting at the lower 1 1/2" of the spine. There is an early prior owner's name (Abigail Abbot) on the front paste down and the first few pages of the preliminaries have a dampness stain in the lower margins. 192 pages of text followed by an eight page subscription proposal by the publisher for another title by Zollikofer.
TB29052 $100.00

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