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
Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 7 3/4 X 11 1/4 Inches. 583 PP. . 1 of only 1200 copies. Signed by author on limitation page at rear. Inscription in ink on FFEP circa 1947 by the Westmoreland County Womans Club. Original DJ retains price of..... More
London: Printed by H. Clark for Dolman Newman, 1687. First Edition, First Printing. Full leather. 4 ¾ X 7 ¾ Inches. 262 PP + Appendix. First Edition, First Printing copy of Blome’s description of British possessions in the Americas. “A popular but unreliable guide which did much to attract emigration..... More
Boston: Wright & Potter Printing, 1898. First Thus. Hardcover. 7 X 9 7/8 Inches. 555 PP. First printing of the manuscript of William Bradford, first Governor of Plymouth Plantation. From the collection of Carl Purington Rollins, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Rollins was the official printer at Yale University..... 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: M.A. Donohue & Company, 1890. First Thus. Cloth. 5 7/8 X 8 7/8 Inches. 544 PP. Circa 1890. Stated "New and Enlarged Edition" on the title-page. Original blue cloth binding highly illustrated on front cover and spine. One of the many books of the late 19th Century that romanticised..... More
New York: Denniston & Cheetham, 1803. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 1/4 X 8 1/2 Inches. 139 Pages. Recent marbled boards with fine leather quarter binding. Black leather spine labels with gold trim. Originally issued in wraps, the text of this book is complete with title page and appendix..... 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
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
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
London: Saunders and Otley, 1836. Second Edition. Fine Binding. 5 3/8 X 8 3/4 Inches. [333 PP][462 PP]. Stated "Second Edition" on the title-page. Translated by Henry Reeve. Large hand-colored folding map of American at rear of first volume. Finely bound retaining original half title-pages and original flyleaves. Crushed morocco..... 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
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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901. Early Edition. Hardcover. The Deluxe Red Cloth Illustrated edition. Two volumes complete. Tissue guards intact. A very attractive set. Light toning and hint of rubbing to boards. 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 Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 6 X 8 3/4 Inches. 22 VOLUME RUN. Incredible collection of the first 22 volumes of "The Papers of Benjamin Franklin." The 22 volumes run from 1961 to 1982. While the series did continue, an assemblage of this many consecutive..... 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
New York: Williams and Whiting, 1810. Hardcover. 4 3/4 X 7 7/8 Inches. [VOL 1, 325 PP][VOL 2, 368 PP][VOL 3, 368 PP]. IMPORTANT EARLY EDITION OF THE FEDERALIST PAPERS First Edition of the Collected Works of one of America's founding statesmen. Volumes II & III represent the third edition of..... 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