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Our bookshop specializes in rare and antiquarian books and ephemera with emphasis on American History, and Law. In addition to our specialties, we have a good general stock of literature, poetry, the arts, hunting and fishing, travel, books on books, and other histories from ancient to modern. Visit our store in historic Georgetown or browse and search our online stock.


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1st ed., published as a promotional to help the sale of a larger work of the same title, published in 1890 in Antioch, Illinois. Wraps; 15pp. Portraits on front & rear wraps. Rare. The NUC locates only the Denver Public Library copy. Orig. wraps (lightly foxed). WILD JIM: CAPT. W. J. FRENCH, TEXAS RANGER; THE TEXAS COWBOY & SADDLE KING.
(Mt. Hope, KS?): n.d., n.d. (ca. 1890). 1st ed., published as a promotional to help the sale of a larger work of the same title, published in.. more
Price: $750.00
8vo. 49 pp. Original gray printed wrappers (old staining, leaving some tidelines; front endpaper torn through, foxed. Good copy of a 19th century high spot of American literature in its original binding. FANNY.
Halleck, Fitz-Greene.
NY: C. Wiley, 1819. 8vo. 49 pp. Original gray printed wrappers (old staining, leaving some tidelines; front endpaper torn through, foxed. Good copy of.. more
Price: $750.00
1st Amer. ed. (orig. published in England 1787). 8vo.; xvii, 328pp. Illus. by 10 engraved plans. Now first published with a memoir of the author & other additions. Boards, recently rebacked in cloth. Scattered foxing. Prev. owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Very good. A HISTORY OF THE OPERATIONS OF A PARTISAN CORPS, CALLED THE QUEEN'S RANGERS, COMMANDED BY LIEUT. COL. J.G. SIMCOE, DURING THE WAR OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION...
Simcoe, Lieut. Col. J.G.
NY: Bartlett & Welford, 1844. 1st Amer. ed. (orig. published in England 1787). 8vo.; xvii, 328pp. Illus. by 10 engraved plans. Now first published with.. more
Price: $1,500.00
12mo. 255, (1)pp. Folding map with hand-colored outline. Original gilt-stamped purple ribbon-embossed cloth (faded). Scattered light foxing, but a very good copy. ILLINOIS AND THE WEST, WITH A TOWNSHIP MAP CONTAINING THE LATEST SURVEYS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
Jones, A.D.
Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Co.; Philadelphia: W. Marshall and Co., 1838. 12mo. 255, (1)pp. Folding map with hand-colored outline. Original gilt-stamped purple ribbon-embossed cloth (faded). Scattered light foxing, but a very.. more
Price: $1,000.00


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