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![Album of Aerial and Cultural Photographs]. Alaska](/pictures/thumb/14430.jpg?v=1561471859)
[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.....
![KENILWORTH, ILLINOIS [Cover Title]. Original Photo Album]. Architecture, Planned Community](/pictures/thumb/14156.jpg?v=1561471839)
KENILWORTH, ILLINOIS [Cover Title]. Original Photo Album]
np [Kenilworth?]: nd [ca. 1910]. Oblong 4to. album with pebbled flexible leather boards and gilt titles, 7.25” x 10.75” approx. Seventeen photographs mounted recto only, all 4.5”x 7.5” approx. Remaining leaves blank. Bookplate of George F. Steele to pastedown. Album good only. Hinges cracked, edges worn. Board bowed. Contents however.....
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.....
THE ELEMENTS OF THE CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF ILLINOIS With A Brief Outline of the Political History of the State to the Adoption of the Constitution
New York: Silver, Burdett & Company, 1899. Later printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth. About very good. Light edgewear, mild rubbing to cloth. Owner's name to FFEP. Interior bright and clean overall. Good and sound. 63pp. The 1899 printing of this work, originally published in 1892.
THE HIDDEN CANYON: A River Journey
(New York): Penguin Books, (1977). First Edition. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. Photographic wraps. A very good copy. Mild surface scratching to wraps. Interior bright, clean overall with minimal touches of foxing. Good and sound.135pp. First paperback edition concurrent with hardcover. Contains essays by Abbey and Litton along with Blaustein's photographs in.....
![CAGE THIS MAD BEAST! [Original Hand-Drawn Poster]. Broadsides, McCarthyism, Protest Art](/pictures/thumb/19887.jpg?v=1574720972)
CAGE THIS MAD BEAST! [Original Hand-Drawn Poster]
np: np, 1959. Light-brown paper hand-drawn in felt-tip marker; 24" by 18" approx. Evidence of having been hung up at corners: small pieces of tape at upper edge; two chips at bottom; plus 2" tear at center of bottom edge. Shallow creases (folded into eighths). Else clean, if mildly toned.....
![Original Photograh Album of the Sinking of the Golden Eagle Steamboat]. Catastrophes, Photography](/pictures/thumb/15590.jpg?v=1561476269)
[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.....
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.....
![NORTHERNMOST LABRADOR: Mapped From the Air [:] American Geographical Society Special Publication...](/pictures/thumb/19842.jpeg?v=1561472537)
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.
A TIME TO HEAL: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GERALD R. FORD
New York: Harper and Row, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good plus in like jacket. Jacket clipped. Light wear, toning to edge of DJ. Minor shelfwear to extremities of book. Bright, clean, and sound overall. SIGNED by author and former President Ford to page before title. First edition/printing of.....
STEAL THIS URINE TEST: Fighting Drug Hysteria in America
(New York): Penguin Books, (1987). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Photographic wraps. Near fine. Trivial edgewear. Pages modestly toned as usual, but clean and unmarked throughout. Binding tight. 262pp. A paperback original. The Yippie founder's treatise against urine tests, arguing against their constitutionality. Publsihed near the end of the War on.....
THE WORLD RUSHED IN: The California Gold Rush Experience
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter brown cloth over boards. In original pictorial dust jacket. About fine in like DJ. INSCRIBED by Holliday to publisher's logo page: "For Mary Hunter - / an old friend of / my brother and mine - / With.....
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.....
![THE MASONIC WORLD: A Magazine for the Men and Women of Masonry [20 Issues]. Gen. Mng John E....](/pictures/thumb/10971.jpg?v=1561471782)
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.....
![PASSIM [Personal Scrapbook of Writer Rossiter Johnson]. Rossiter JOHNSON](/pictures/thumb/24105.jpeg?v=1573075146)
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.....