Set This House On Fire
NY: Random House, 1960. First. Hard Cover. First printing (stated). A fine, fresh copy in bright crisp dust jacket, two small scuffs to the spine, An outstanding example of the author's third book.
NY: Random House, 1960. First. Hard Cover. First printing (stated). A fine, fresh copy in bright crisp dust jacket, two small scuffs to the spine, An outstanding example of the author's third book.
London: Macdonald, 1958. Hardcover.
London: William Tegg & Co., 1877. First. Hardcover. First edition. Brown cloth decorated in gilt; 410 pps. with index, plus publisher's catalogue. All edges gilt. Ornately engraved first title page. Evenly rubbed but with all gilt still bright; worn at the spine edges and along the lower gutters. Somewhat shaken.....
Boston: Stone & Halpine, 1854. First. Hardcover. First edition. 24mo. in dark brown cloth with design in blindstamp and decorative device in gilt, spine lettering and design in gilt. 104 pps.with frontispiece drawing titled "Christmas Tree" depicting a decorated, candlelit tree with toys beneath in the midst of a domestic.....
Samuel French, 1949. Second edition. Paperback. Second edition. Paperback. Very good condition, spine slightly sunned. 125 pages. Set in winter in the Graves home in a small midwestern college town. The play made it to Broadway but closed after five performances.
Woodstown, NJ: Salem County, NJ Cultural and Heritage Commission, 1983. First. Cloth. First printing. Cloth, map endpapers, 310 pps. with index, bibliography and four appendices; illustrated. Very scarce work on the genealogy of Betsy Ross. A fine, fresh copy in bright dust jacket with wrinkling to the lower 1/3 of.....
Glasgow: Privately Printed, 1869. Limited. Hard Cover. Octavo (x) 62 pps. One of 200 copies only (150 octavo and 50 quarto). Very scarce early study on birdlife in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. 20 engravings, tissue guards. Apparently contemporary binding maroon halfleater over dark green paper-covered boards. The binding is.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. One of 600 copie sin royal 8vo. Hardcover in blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Title page printed in red and black. xxii+ 252 pp. with index. Color frontispiece and 72 plates of pottery.....
Ambler, Pa: West Jersey Chapter National Railway Historical Society, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Oversized hardcover. Map endpapers. 176 pp with index, locomotive roster, station list. Illustrated throughout with vintage photographs. A fine, fresh bexample, only flaw being a very small obscured ownership stamp top corner of front free endpaper. In.....
Ambler, Pa: West Jersey Chapter National Railway Historical Society, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Oversized hardcover. Map endpapers. 176 pp with index, locomotive roster, station list. Illustrated throughout with vintage photographs. A fine, fresh example, only flaw being a very small obscured ownership stamp top corner of front free endpaper. In.....
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1980. First. Hard Cover. First edition. A very fine, fresh, essentailly as-new copy in beautiful, bright, crisp dust jacket.
Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook Co. First Edition. Original Wraps. Circa 1900. Original color illustrated wrappers featuring drawing of the title train heist. Pulp, 190 pps. with one page ads at rear. Thrilling pulp adventure of folk hero-bandit Jesse James and a train robbery. Very good, some creasing to the wrappers and.....
Leeds, U.K. McCorquodale & Co, 1901. First. Hard Cover. First printing. 41 pps. in royal blue paper covered boards printed in black; frontis photographic reproduction of a portion of the manuscript, two portraits and a reduced photographic facsimile of an 1805 summons issued by the Provincial Grand Lodge of Yorkshire.....
Elizabeth, NJ: Privately Printed, 1892. Hardcover. Quite scarce. Hardcover in deep blue cloth letterered in gilt. 355 pp.; two folding maps at rear. Illustrated with full page drawings and photographs. scarce historical survey of the inscriptions on the tombstones of the two oldest churches in Elizabeth, New Jersey. First Presbyterian.....
New York: Macmillan, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. First printing (stated). Inscribed and dated September 1936 by White on the half title page. Hardcover. 146 pp. Dampstaining to tyhe bottom half of the cloth all around. No jacket. Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper, editor, author and leader of the Progressive Movement reports.....
Garden City: Garden City Publishing, (1931). reissue. Hardcover. Slim oversized volume in bright orange cloth illustrated and lettered in black. Carries only the original 1931 Farrar & Rinehart imprint on the copyright pahe but with the Garden City imprint on the spine. Unpaginated (aprox. 100 pp.) Very good. No jacket.....
Scottsdale, AZ: Chaos! Comics, 1995. First edition. Softcover. First printing stated, November 1995. Color illustrated softcovers. 40 pp. Illustrated in color. Fine, minimal bump to one corner. Graphic novel format.
Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1860. Hardcover. Hardcover in pebbled brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Later printing (first was 1855). 260 pp. A tight example, spine sunned and with shallow wear to the spine ends. Mid-19th century guide to marriage, courtship and corresponding physical matters. Incudes chapters.....
Transaction Publishers, 1985. Hardcover. Hardcover. xxiv+ 366 pp. with name infdex, subject index. Generally fine, particlly removed ownership stickers front free endpaper. In crisp, very good dust jacket. Critical analysis of the history of the American Civil Liberties Union, the first such by a social scienties that presents a systematic.....
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition in a very good dust jacket, with some edge chipping and a closed tear. 101 pages with index.
Kent State University Press, 1995. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. Hardcover. xvi+ 264 pp. with index, bibliography. Interesting work that establishes the existence of a Confederate Secret Service and clarifies the Confederate decision making process to show the role played by Jefferson Davis in clandestine operations. While the book.....
New York: Pilgrim Press, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in japon vellum spine lettered in gilt, light tan paper covered boards lettered in gilt and with tipped on color illustration. Top edge gilt. 102 pp. Three gravure plates. Fine in very good, color illustrated dust jacket. The impulsive.....
New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1867. First edition. pamphlet. String bound, 29 pp. Corners somewhat rounded, no outer wrappers. Transcription of addresses given at the May, 1867 meeting of the National Temperance Society in New York City. From Andersons introductory paragraph: "...not withstanding the inclemency of the.....
London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, (1820). First edition. Leather_bound. Firts ediiton. N.d. (ca. 1820). Octavo in what appears to be contemporary three quarter dark brown leather over patterned paper covered boards. (2) 537, errata leaf (2). Scattered foxing to the blanks and a bit to the title page otherwise.....
New York: Harper & Bros, 1918. Softcover. Printed wrappers. 106 pp. Pro-Allies booklet on the emergence as a tool of hostility of the German U-boat submarines. Fragile, with some chipping to the covers, pages embrowned.