Winchester, KY: Oliver High School, 1921. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. 5 7/8 X 9 3/4 Inches. 34 PP + 16 PP ads. Original guide and history to the Oliver Street Colored School in Winchester, KY. This issue, the first and only as far as we can find, features..... More
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/2 Inches. 348 PP. First printing copy with correct number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Signed and inscribed "To Dorothy" by author on half title-page. More
Knoxville, TN: James Williams, 1842. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 X 7 1/2 Inches. 256 PP. First printing in the original brown cloth binding. Original spine label intact. One of the most important, early books on Tennessee. Sabin #7651. Howes B1164. Endpapers have been replaced (to match). Minor paper..... More
Chicago: Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation, 1933. First Edition. Original wraps. 10 X 13 1/2 Inches. Profusely illustrated with B/W photographs of the Century of Progress on every single page. Light wear and creasing to corners. Hint of wear to spine. A well-preserved example overall. More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924. John T. McCutcheon. Hardcover. 5 X 7 1/2 Inches. 61 PP. Original illustrated boards. First printing with publisher device to copyright page. Original DJ a bit worn at spine ends and folds. More
Bennington, VT: Anthony Haswell, 1793. First American Edition. Leather. 3 7/8 X 6 Inches. IMPERFECT COPY (Missing Pages 1-24). Scarce original Bennington, Vermont First American Edition. Contains all FIVE original copperplate engravings. Original period leather with following engravings: "Americans throwing the Cargoes of the Tea Ships into the River at..... More
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 3/4 X 8 1/2 Inches. 288 Pages. Stated First Edition copy. Review copy with original review slip and 5X7 author photograph laid-in loose. A bit of scuffing to boards. Slight edge wear to dj. Original price of $3.95 intact on..... More
Boston: Samuel Walker & Company, 1876. George T. Andrew; et all. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 X 11 1/4 Inches. First edition complete set issued in 1876/77. Bound in the original deluxe quarter leather binding with tips. Four raised hubs to each spine. Profusely illustrated and very heavy volumes. All plates..... More
Bellows Falls, VT: The Times Book and Job Office, 1866. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. 3 3/4 X 6 Inches. 19 PP. Very scarce original first printing housed in the original brown paper wraps. Stated "Compiled, July 1866" on the copyright page. TEN (10) pages of church members, past..... More
New York: Scribner, 1855. First Edition. Original cloth. 5 X 7 1/2 Inches. 290 PP. Original publisher brown cloth binding. Armorial bookplate of "Edwin Jaquett Sellers" and contemporary bookseller label "Wm. V. Pippen" of Baltimore on the front pastedown. "With a Sketch of the Colonization Upon the Chesapeake and..... More
Philadelphia: Avil Printing Company, 1898. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 5 1/2 X 8 Inches. 119 PP. Signed, "Blaine Donaldson - With the Regards of Thomas Donaldson. March 23 - 1898 - First One Issued" directly on the title-page. A splendid association of the first book issued signed to author's..... More
Boston: Printed by Adams & Larkin, 1794. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. 7 X 12 Inches. 3 PP. Rare military order from Commander in Chief, President George Washington, instructing the United States to assemble a detachment of 80,000 Men to be armed, equipped and prepared "to march at a...... More
New York: E. Steiger, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. 4 7/8 X 7 1/8 Inches. 101 PP. Original printed paper boards with leather spine. Douai was a noted abolitionist newsaper editor and early advocate for the installation of nationwide Kindergarten classrooms. As an early supporter of the "Workingmen's Party of the..... More
Washington: GPO (Printed by Duff Green), 1835. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 771 PP. Original publisher full tan sheep binding, with red and black spine labels. Square and tight overall. Bookplates to endpapers and ink number "726" on title-page (a private library notation we assume). Incredibly important 1835 record of..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1859. First Edition. Cloth. 4 7/8 X 7 1/2 Inches. 122 PP. Important description of AMERICAN BASEBALL, which Elwyn called "Bat and Ball" in his youth. Interestingly, he describes the game as "an imperfect form of cricket," but also clearly states that it was "a..... More
New York: Fowler & Wells Co., 1884. First American Edition. Cloth. 5 X 7 5/8 Inches. 400 PP + 12 PP ads. First American printing of this 19th century equal rights travelogue by Emily Faithfull. Among other topics, Faithfull writes in regards to women printers in the US, Mrs. Stanton..... More
London: Rodwell & Martin, 1822. Early Edition. Leather. 3 1/4 X 5 Inches. 244 PP. NY Senator and Secretary of State under U.S. Grant - Hamilton Fish's PERSONAL COPY of Horace. Copious notes from Fish, the 16 year old Columbia College student in pencil throughout. Signed "Hamilton Fish / New..... More
Nashville, TN: Ladies' Hermitage Association, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. 6 X 9 Inches. 48 PP. Light scuffing and wear to covers and edges. More
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New York: A. Lay, 1820. Early Edition. 11 1/8 X 14 7/8 Inches. Single leaf broadside printed and steel engraved on laid paper. Rare early American printing of this "rebus" originally published in England in 1791. Based on Franklin's "Way to Wealth" originally printed in Poor Richard's Almanac. Published in..... More
New York: John Dogget Jr., 1849. First Thus. Original wraps. 4 5/8 X 7 5/8 Inches. 60 PP. Includes selections from Franklin's 1733-1735 almanac's as well as a bit of his autobiography. The updated Astronomical calculations by Professor Benjamin Peirce of Harvard University. Foxing and toning. Covers worn a bit..... More
New York: Brentano's, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 3/4 X 8 1/4 Inches. 222 PP. Original blue cloth a bit rubbed at edges and spine. Foxing and toning. $2.50 price on spine of DJ. Light wear to DJ edges and folds, but a very well preserved example. Signed, "For dear..... More
Natick, MASS: The Suburban Press (Natick Federal Savings and Loan Association), 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. 7 5/8 X 10 1/2 Inches. 32 PP. Scarce original first printing with fold-out map of Natick intact. Signed by PO on cover and title-page. OCLC locates only two copies. More
Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg (August & Charles Dietz), 1972. Early Edition. 5 1/8 X 8 Inches. 406 PP. Stated "Third Edition" finely bound in leather with black leather spine label and five raised hubs to spine. A nice history of Williamsburg, Virginia, with the additions to bring it up to 1971..... More
Original wraps. 5 1/2 X 8 3/4 Inches. 8 PP. OCLC locates only "2" copies (UT and Duke). Disbound. A somewhat complete list of the first post-war taxation rates in the State of Tennessee. The normal lot is covered including land sales, liquor sales etc... Interestingly, we also have a...... More
London: A. Millar, 1765. First Edition. 346 PP. The man who famously asked Congress for a quarter cask of public wine for his work on the American Flag and currency designs! Signed by Francis Hopkinson on the title-page. Known for his signing the Declaration of Independence as a member of the..... More