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DE RE METALLICA
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1950. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Blindstamped design to front board. In original illustrated dust jacket. Unclipped. SIGNED BY HERBERT HOOVER to cut sheet tipped onto first endpaper. Jacket toned, chipped from edges. Cloth lighltly shelf worn at edges. Otherwise sound, clean.....
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[Album of Aerial and Cultural Photographs]
(Alaska, various): np, nd [ca. 1947]. Oblong folio commercial hardcover album made by The Burkhardt Company, Detroit, model X 89500, 13.5” x 10.75” x 2.5”. Screw binding, 74 black paper pages with a single black and white gelatin print mounted recto only to each, most measuring approximately 7.5" x 9”.....
GOING TOO FAR ENOUGH: American Culture at Century's End
Washington DC and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter silver cloth over black boards. In pictorial dust jacket. Very good in like DJ. INSCRIBED by Allen to title page in the year of publication. Additional ALS from publisher laid in. Light curl to jacket edges. Mild.....
SIOUX MEMORY GEMS
n.p. n.p., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Publisher's limp faux leather embossed with titles and decoration. Some fraying at edges. Superficial cracks at spine. Rear joint just starting. Front pastedown torn at ower corner. Previous owners' signatures at ffep. Interior clean and bright. Very good. Collection of poems inspired by.....
THE CHINA HUNTERS CLUB
New York: Harper & Bros. 1878. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Gray cloth with red lettering and illustration to front board. Good example. Edgeworn. Cloth rubbed and soiled. Front hinge starting. Else sound and clean throughout. Introduction by W.C. Prime. Early and charming book on China collecting told in a narrative.....
PICTURING HISTORY: American Painting 1770-1930
New York: Rizzoli, (1993). First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Pictorial wraps. A very good plus copy. Mild wrinkling to spine; page edges slightly toned. Else bright, clean, and tight throughout. 256pp. Published on the occasion of the traveling exhibition of the same name, which collected American paintings depicting important events, mostly.....
LIFE OF MRS. SARAH NORTON: An Illustration of Practical Piety
Nashville, TN: J.B. M'Ferrin, Agen for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Decorated cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Cloth moderately worn. Gift inscription to first endpaper. Endpapers foxed. Overall sound, clean. Biography on an early female missionary of the Methodist Episcopal church. With.....
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[Original Photograh Album of the Sinking of the Golden Eagle Steamboat]
[Grand Tower Island, IL]: np, 1947. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong 16mo. Black leather spiral bound album with 15 B&W snapshot photographs, recto-mounted to black paper leaves. Mimeograph typed caption sheets to versos provide an approximately 700 word narrative. Several caption slips loose from original tape mountings, otherwise very good or.....
CO. 1616 C.C.C. CAMP MOLLASSES RIVER STANDISH MICH. [Negative Title - Original Panorama Photograph]
Detroit, MI: Spencer & Wyckoff, [ca. 1933]. First Edition. Sepia toned panorama photograph measuring approximately 10.5" x 3.5". Lettered in negative. Moderate handling wear. Overall good. An original panorama photograph print of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp; Company No. 1616 at Standish, Michigan. The installation appears small, with two permanent.....
JEFFERSON'S WESTERN TRAVELS OVER VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS
n.p. self published, (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original red cloth with titles in gilt. Spine slightly cocked. interior bright and clean. Near fine. 225pp. A chronicle of Thomas Jefferson's travels in western Virginia.
A TREASURY OF AMERICAN SUPERSTITIONS
New York: The Philisophical Library, (1948). First Edition. 8vo. Smooth black cloth, green and gilt title bands to spine, top page edge dyed green. INSCRIBED by the author: "To Mary Chapman Ahrnke- / May the friendly thoughts / which I hold for you keep / you always on the sheltered.....
1965 DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL DINNER
n.p. n.p., 1965. First Edition. Wraps. 4th. Saddle-stapled green and pink wraps. Light creasing to lower edge. Near fine. Commemorative illustrated booklet, with menu and program, from the June 24, 1965 dinner honoring the campaign work of Senator Warren G. Magnuson and Representative Michael J. Kirwan and the restoration of.....
THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF CIVIL POLICY OF AMERICA
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original brown boards. Very good. Front hinge barely starting. Minor rubbing to extremities. Else clean and sound. 325pp. plus ads.
The Encyclopedia of New Jersey
New York: Somerset Publishers, 1983. Hard Cover. 8vo. Book has trace shelfwear and a two tiny spots to foredge. Else fine. Overall bright, clean, handsome. No jacket, as issued. Includes prehistory, early history, archaelogy, history, population, maps, politicians, Gazetteer, Senators, govenors, historical places, principle cities, scenes, the Constitution and more.....
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NORTHERNMOST LABRADOR: Mapped From the Air [:] American Geographical Society Special Publication No. 22
New York: American Geographical Society, 1938. Hardcover. Smal 4to. Gray cloth. Very good. Light soiling to boards near edges. Endpapers a bit browned; text block lightly foxed at points but overall clean and bright throughout. Binding sound. 255pp. Survey of Labrador, featuring many B&W aerial views of the landscape.
UNDER TWO FLAGS: The American Navy in the Civil War
New York: W.W. Norton, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in like jacket. Bright, clean and sharp overall. Inscribed and SIGNED by author Fowler. Review copy with materials laid in. 352pp. with notes and index.
THE FACE OF ARIZONA
Phoenix, AZ: Guaranty Bank / Republican State Committee of Arizona, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Large folio. Beige linen boards. Minor edgewear; corners and spine ends bumped. INSCRIBED on ffep to artist James Cassell: "For a fellow Photographer - Jim Cassell - / Best Always / Barry Goldwater". Plates protected by.....
WOMAN'S CO-OPERATION ESSENTIAL TO PURE POLITICS
Boston: American Woman Suffrage Association, [1885]. First edition thus. Wraps. 4to. Bifold leaf. 4pp. Light toning; minor foxing and a few tiny chips to edges. Very good plus. Women's suffrage tract, reprinting a vehement pro-suffrage speech by Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Massachussetts. Hoar includes letters of support from Wyoming.....
MY HOME IN THE FIELD OF HONOUR
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1916). Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with affixed label to front. A very good copy. Small abrasion to rear board. Mild crack in binding to preliminary leaf. Owner's name to flyleaf. Else internally clean throughout. Good and sound. 302pp. Presumed first edition of this account.....
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THE MASONIC WORLD: A Magazine for the Men and Women of Masonry [20 Issues]
San Francisco: Masonic World Publishing Co., (1932-1937). First edition. Wraps. Small 4tos. Matching stapled wraps. Generally very good. Some cover wear overall. Jan 1934, Dec 1933, and July 1933 have some water damage; May 1937 has partial spine split. Various issues, dates, 20 in all, most 1933. 1932: Mar and.....
THIS AMERICA: A Portrait of a Nation
New York: Random House, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth. Near fine in a very good jacket. Jacket lightly edgworn with some tearing. Scuff to spine. Some shelfwear to book extremities. INSCRIBED by Lady Bird Johnson to ffep: "To Harold Saunders / with our appreciation and best wishes, /.....
TO HEAL AND TO BUILD: The Programs of President Lyndon B. Johnson
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth. Near fine in like jacket. Jacket has touches rubbing, mild wear and toning at edges. SIGNED by Johnson on official Presidential bookplate presented to his lead pollster Fred Panzer. A warm association. Johnson was something of a reluctant signer and books.....
SELECTED PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES 1965
Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1965. First Edition. Wraps. 8vos. Eight staplebound volumes with paper wraps and a foreword printed on cardstock, all housed in a slipcase with the presidential seal in gilt. Signature to one volume, likely autopen and priced accordingly. All about fine with only a hint.....
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PASSIM [Personal Scrapbook of Writer Rossiter Johnson]
[Rochester, NY]: n.p., [circa 1915]. Hardcover. 8vo. Marbled boards bound in 3/4 green morocco. Marbled endpapers. Author's bookplate to front paste-down. Heavy rubbing and scuffing to spine ends and corners. 75pp, hand-paginated, followed by [26]pp. of reviews and advertisements. Handwritten pagination and table of contents, with body of printed text.....
Register of Saint Paul's Parish 1715-1798, Stafford County Virginia 1715-1776, King George County, Virginia, 1777-1798
Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1985. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. Original cloth. Near fine. Clean, sound and bright overall. Reprint of the 1960 edition. 157pp.