New York: A Wittemann/ The Albertype Co., 1890. Hardcover. Oblong hardcover in bright red cloth titled in gilt and lined in black. String bound, 9 1/4" x 6". (55) pp. with introductory essay and the remained of the portfolio (printed rectos only) are Albertype photographic views of notable Chicago places.....
London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1876. Third edition. Hardcover. Hardcover 12mo in red cloth stamped in gilt with front cover detail "1876 Centennia Edition". 179 pp. with index, 10 pp. section of Ocean Steamer adverts at rear, and 46 pp. of hotel adverst, many illustrated with engravings, at front.....
Stockholm: Gerealstabens Litografiska Anstalt, 1927. Hardcover. Navy blue hardcovers lettered in gilt. 11 fold-out road maps in color of the various sections of Sweden, plus milage listings at rear. Text in Swedish. Generally fine, touch of wear at the spine ends, all gilt bright.
Montpelier, Vermont, U.S.A. Vermont Life Magazine, 1984. Hardcover. Hardcover. A collection of weird stories and strange facts about Vermont, published by Vermont Life Magazine. Near fine, tight copy in crisp dust jacket.
New York: A.T. Goodrich, 1826. Hardcover. Thick 24mo. in original three quarter black leather over marbled paper covered boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt. 382 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher's list "For Strangers and Travellers"; index; with 19 maps including one double age and eight full page landscape engravings.....
Berlin: Neuer Deutscher Verlag, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, so stated on the verso of the half-title with the date of 1928 and the four branches of the publisher-- Berlin, Moscow, Vienna, Zurich. Red cloth covers limp boards stamped in gilt. Advertising endpapers+11 pp. of adverts. LXXXVII+ 841 pp.....
New York: Harper & Bros, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in deep blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. First edition: title page is dated 1896 with copyright page dated 1895 but there is an 1895 Christmas inscription on the finrt front blank. Top edge gilt. 226 pp. plus final.....
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition, translated from the DanishHardcover, 272 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Memoirs of a journey to the South Seas by "..a Danish Sinbad with a merry twinkle in his typewriter..."Tight, near fine example, some handwritten notes on the.....
NY: Houghton Mifflen Company, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Grey cloth lettered in gilt. 209 pp. Illustrated wityh photographic plates. Story of the author's two plus month journey through Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. A tight, very good example, spine lettering dulled. No jacket.
NY: Putnam. H.M. Paget. First Thus. Hard Cover. First edition thus. No date (ca. 1900) Orange-yellow cloth with spine lettered in black. 451 pps. with one leaf of ads. 15 illustrations by H.M. Paget. A tale of mysticism and past lives. The title character begins his existence in ancient Phoenicia.....
Boston: John R. Batchelder, 1875. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in emeral green cloth ornately lettered in gilt. 361 pp. plus 3 pp. of illustrated ads at rear. Large, color tinted folding map "Railroad Routes of United States and Dominions of Canada to accompany Batchelder's Popular Resorts" whcih shows the U.S......
NY: Stringer & Townsend, 1853. First. Hardcover. First edition. Blindstamped green cloth with spine lettering and decoration of a soldier in gilt. Duo-tone frontis and first title page; 288 pps. Autobiographical account of Englishman George Ballantine, who came to the United States in 1845. Upon arrival, he nearly signed on.....
New York: Harper & Bros, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Firts edition. WARMILY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR AND DATED AUGUST 1, 1941 on the front free endpaper. Hardcover. 372 pp. Illustrated with drawings by Rafaelo Busoni. Fine, touch of offsetting to the inner edges of the endpapoers. In very good, price.....
NY: J.C. Derby, 1856. First. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo in blindstamped red cloth with spine lettered and ornately decorated in gilt. Hand colored frontis engraving titled "The Old Inn".; 360 pps. From the introductory chapter: " From an old memorandum book, lying in my drawer, I find that in the.....
New York: Scribner, Armstrong, 187. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in brick colored cloth decorated in gilt and black. 336 pp. plus publisher's catalog at rear. Illustrations and a folding map. A solidly very good example, a touch cocked and trace of wear at the tips. 19th century circulating.....
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, U.S.A. Arcadia Pub, 2000. Softcovers. Photo illustrated softcovers, 128 pps. with bibliography. AS NEW, UNUSED COPY. Photographic history of the New Jersey shore community of Ocean Grove. This unique town was founded in 1869 by a group of Methodist ministers and faithful. Over the years, the.....
Buffalo, NY: Wenborne-Sumner, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Slim 8vo in red cloth hardcovers lettered in black and decorated in gilt; red marker ribbon. 117 pp. plus index, fold map at rear. Illustrated profusely with photographs. A tight, very good example, light even soiling to the covers and a......
Moscow: United Magazines and Newspapers, 1934. Softcover. Quarto sized magazine in color illustrated deco-design wrappers. 60 pp. Illustrated with sepia and olive toned and black and white photographs. An exceedingly scarce promotional/propaganda magazine encouraging Western tourism, published in Moscow and intended for Amercian and British audiences (price on front cover.....
Moscow: United Magazines and Newspapers, 1932. Softcover. Quarto sized magazine in color illustrated wrappers. 48 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings. An exceedingly scarce promotional/propaganda magazine encouraging Western tourism, published in Moscow and intended for Amercian and British audiences (price on front cover is" twenty-five cents or one.....
Moscow: United Magazines and Newspapers, 1933. Softcover. Quarto sized magazine in color illustrated wrappers. 56 pp. Illustrated with sepia and olive toned and black and white photographs, drawings. An exceedingly scarce promotional/propaganda magazine encouraging Western tourism, published in Moscow and intended for Amercian and British audiences (price on front cover.....
NY: Kennikat, 1971. Hardcover. Like new hardcover with Very good dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author on a paper glued inside front cover. Pages are clean. Light gray cloth cover clean. Dustwrapper is price clipped, part of the price remains. Very light rubbing to the dustwrapper. Small sticker on dustwrapper spine.....
NY: Robert Carter, 1853. Second. Hard Cover. 12mo. in dark brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, cover blindstamped "Carter's Fireside Series". 320 pps. plus 4 page publisher's catalogue. Eight plates, 7 are wood engravings by Howland and one map intergral. A tight copy, spine gilt clear, small worn.....
New York: Norton, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Firs edition/printing. Fine, some offseting to the endpapers, in mostly bright dust jacket with a very short closed tear to edge of the spine and some light discoloration bottom left of the rear panel. Chiang Yee, a Chinese author, poet and calligrapher, authored.....
London: Collins, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Slim hardcover in light blue paper covered boards lettered and decorated in white. 48 pp. with three color plates and twenty five illustrations in black and white. Near fine, touch of wear to the extremities, some offsetting to the endpapers. In the.....
NY: Mining Record Printing Establishment, 1878. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Dark tan cloth decorated in black and gilt; 380 pps. Illustrated with numerous full page engravings of scenes and natives by the Continent Stereoscopic Company. A tight, fresh example, very shallow loss at head edge of spine, trace of.....
