New York: Thomas Dunne/ St Martin's Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. A fine, fresh copy in equally fine, crisp dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 306 pages. Index and bibliography. Book club issue. Biography of an American Revolution figure who's name most American recognize but whose full story is mostly unknown.....
Berlin, Pa: Record Publishing Co., 1905. First edition. Hardcover. First editionm. Octavo in green cloth lettered and decorated in white. 93 pp. plus publisher's ads at rear. Frontispiece illustration. Some pages toward rear are unopened and a couple are roughly opened. Remarkably uncommon in original edition, a monograph by Pennsylvania.....
NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. First. Hard Cover. First U.S. edition, first printing. The second in this popular series of mysteries featuring Hong Kong Inspector Harry Feiffer and his Monty Python-meets-Kojak group of policemen from the Yellowthread Street precinct. The tough, zany sleuthing continues as Harry and the gang.....
New York: American Common School Union, 1838. Second edition. Leather_bound. 24 mo. in original full calf, spine double ruled in gilt and with leather spine label lettered in gilt "Geology For Schools" . (2) 286 pp. with index (2). Illustrated with small drawings in the text. The Second Edition, so.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1920. Signed, Limited. Hardcover. One of 375 numbered copies SIGNED BY MCFEE ON THE LIMITATION PAGE. An episode of ship board life by one of the acknowledged masters of the genre. Vellum spine and tips, spine lettering gilt, over grey paper covered boards stamped in gilt.....
Egg Harbor, NJ: The Save Lucy Committee, 1988. First edition. Pamphlet. 40 pp. in illustrated stiff wraps. Illustrated with vintage photographs. First edition (stated). Fine. The story of one of America's strangest architectural structures and national landmarks, Lucy The Margate Elephant. The 65-foot high wooden elephant was built as a......
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944. Second printing. Hardcover. A group of four pieces by poet William Meredith, all inscribed to former Princeton University president Robert Goheen and his wife. 1) "Love Letter From an Impossible Land" : hardcover, second impression, 1944: New Haven (Yale). THE AUTHOR'S FIRST VOLUME OF.....
1850. Manuscript. LS single sheet on lined blue paper, one paragraph in secretarial hand, dated from the Treasury Department, February 19th, 1850. The letter is authorization to H. Maxwell, Collector of Customs at New York, to pay to one E.Campbell the sum of $1783.20 "for placing certain machinery of his.....
London: Ernest Benn, 1930. First. Hardcover. First U.K. edition. N.d. (1930). Sky blue cloth wth spine lettering gilt. 314 pps. with index. Illustrated with numerous monochrome plates. A cornerstone work on early 20th century aviation by Gen. "Billy" Mitchell, a key (and controversial) figure in the establishment of the U.S......
Boston: Roberts Brother, 1871. Second edition. Hardcover. Ocyavo in emerald green cloth lettered in gilt. 1 page publisher's ad at front for "Tributes to William Morris on the Publication of The Earthly Paradise" , 367 pp. plus publisher's ads at rear. A tight example, gilt lettering bright, tiny spot of.....
London: J. Murray, 1789. Second edition. Wraps. 12mo in original plain paper wraps. 96 pp. Fore edge uncut. Half title reads: "Essay On Falstaff, &c./ [Priced sewed Two Shillings]". The second edition, the first being the previous year. Wraps with moderate even soiling and a old round small sticker top.....
Heritage Books, 1994. Reissue. Softcover. NEW IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP. 2 volumes. Softcovers. This, the second volume (in two parts) of the "Abstracts of Wills" series, was published long after the first volume due to a 1902 fire that destroyed the offices of the compiler. The project was taken up.....
Paterson, NJ: Paterson History Club, 1909. First edition. Softcover. Printed wrappers. 113 pp. with index. Illustrated. Extended title: "...concerning the probate of wills, the administration of estates, the protection of orphans and minors, and the control of their estates. The Perrogative Court, The Ordinary, and The Surrogates." Some staining to.....
Baltimore: Clearfield, 1995. Reissue. Softcover. Softcover in printed wrappers. 222 pp. with index. Facsimile reprint of Vol. IX of the Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society originally published in 1916. Fine.
NY: Dutton, 1926. First. Hardcover. First ediiton. Large quarto in ribbed blue cloth lettered in gilt. 327 pps., profusely illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Beautifully produced illustrated guide to wildlife and outdoor photography which provides practical as well as technical advice. Includes sections on the various branches and tecniques of.....
London: Angus & Robertson, 1959. Hardcover. First edition. Very good, first edition Hardcover with similar dustwrapper. The book has light shelf rub of spine ends and cover corners. It also has light brown spotting of foredges and endpapers. The dustwrapper has light soiling of panels and front flap is price.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. First edition. cloth. First edition. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. 500 pp. Frontis portrait of Emerson. Collection of annual orations given before various chapters of Phi Beta Kappa from the 1840s to the early 20th century. Among those included are Emerson and Woodrow.....
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869. Hardcover. Octavo hardcover in blindstamped green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. 1869 on title pge and 1868 on copyright page. Engraved frontis and first title page which proclaims this as a book in "Oliver Optic's Starry Flag Series". 327 pp. Full page engravings.....
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1894. Later printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in decorated, gilt lettered olive green cloth. 368 pp. Frontis illustration and engraved first title page. A fine, bright example, foxing to the frontis tissue guard. 1894 printing.
(Boston): (J.G. Cupples_, (1894). Hardcover. 12mo hardcover in whiote cloth lettered and decorated in gilt; top edge gilt; title page printed in red and black and upper and lower page decorations in red. 93 pp. plus publishers ads at rear. A tight example, all gilt bright, moderate even soiling to.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, second issue and only attainable edition (the first state is known only as a set of folded sheets). 8vo in dark brown blindstamped cloth with spine lettered in gilt. 189 pp. The author's first book. Very good, tight example, shallow.....
London: Hatchards, 1872. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Slim 8vo. in dark gree cloth lettered in gilt and with gilt design of an obelisk on front cloth; vii+ 115 pps. A tight, fine example, all gilt bright.
Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Slim 8vo in dark brown cloth kettered in gilt. 42 pp. Illustrated with full page engravings in sepia and with tissue guards, including frontispiece illustration of the Willey House. A tight, intenally clean example, spoine somewhat sunned.....
New York, New York, U.S.A. Taplinger Pub Co, 1970. Cloth. A FINE, FRESH COPY IN BRIGHT, CRISP DUST JACKET. Cloth, 288 pps. with index. reissue of the original 1939 edition. Biographical account of Ali Pasha of Jannina---one of the more interesting dictatorial monsters in history, a thief, sadist, terrorisr, torturer.....
Baltimore: Generalogical Publishing Co., 1980. Reissue. Hardcover. Fine, tight, bright example. Hardcover in navy blue cloth lettered in gilt. Issud without dust jacket. xxvi+ 709 pp. Reissue of Volume two only of the original 1934 edition. The first section provides passenger lists of ships arriving in Philadelphia beginning in 1785.....
