Tuscumbia, AL: O.G. Simpson, job printer, 1896. First edition (?). 8vo. 30 pp. Folding map; title-page printed in red, ads for local businesses, including one for the printer and another for the compiler, both printed in red, several buildings illustrated from wood engravings and a photograph. Detailed prospectus for this..... More
Baltimore, (MD): John Work Garrett Library, 1949. First edition, 1/300 copies printed by the Anthoensen Press. 4to. xxix, 219 pp. Illustrated with 209 plates, mostly title-page facsimiles. Preface: "Compiled to provide a survey of the early history of Maryland, up to and including the year 1700, as reflected in the..... More
Chapel Hill, (NC): North Carolina Collection, UNC, 1956. First edition of this index, a reproduced typescript. 4to. 36 pp [rectos only]. Thornton 513. OCLC locates three copies (New York Public, North Carolina, State Lib. of MA). Very good. Self-wrappers (a bit foxed). (10286). More
Montreal, Canada: Printed by John Lovell, 1865. First edition. 8vo. (4), 480 pp. The northernmost land action during the Civil war, the St. Albans raid was carried out on October 19, 1864, by a detachment of Confederate forces led by the Kentucky cavalry officer Bennett Young; "meant to rob banks..... More
New York: Privately printed for presentation (Evening Post Job Printing Office, N.Y.), (1919). First edition (a printed list of those to whom the book is to be presented accounts for 313 copies). 4to. (6), 184 pp. Illustrated from photographs and paintings, plates; bookplate of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens on front..... More
(Lynchburg, VA: Warwick House Publishing, 1996). Reprint of the rare 1894 first edition, 1/500 unnumbered copies. 8vo. 2 volumes: (14), 257, (15, index); (4), 238, vii, (13, index) pp. Nevins I, p.60: "Contains, among other rich material, the interchange of letters between an officer of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry and..... More
London: Joseph Lilly, 1861-1863. First edition. 4to. 2 volumes: xv, 298; lix, (1), 310, (1, errata) pp. 57 plates from text, illustrations, etc., one folding, portrait frontispiece to volume one; with half-titles. Bigmore & Wyman "Bibliography of Printing," p. 65: "[Blades], by his painstaking research, has cleared up many doubtful..... More
(Atlanta, GA): The compiler, (c1968). First edition. Thick 8vo. xxv, 731 pp. Illustrated from photographs, newspaper clippings, old advertising, facsimiles, documents, etc., plates, portraits, endpaper maps. Family histories and genealogy, 18th century to publication. Very good. Original gilt-stamped decorated cloth (some soiling). (9887). More
Washington, DC: The compiler, c1879. Thick 8vo. (12), [13]-856, (4) pp. [including printed ads used on boards and as pastedowns and advertising leaves in the text]. Boyd's directories of the District of Columbia were published annually, from 1872 into the 20th century; OCLC does not have a separate entry for..... More
Washington, (DC): GPO, 1896. First edition. 8vo. 374 pp. Illustrated from photographs, scenes of important action in the battles, buildings, monuments and markers, views, etc., maps. Prints addresses from dignitaries on both sides, most giving much history concerning the battles. Owners' bookplate and inscription on front endpapers, else very good..... More
NY: Russell Brothers, printers, 1874. First edition. 8vo. 34 pp. The rear wrapper bears a table of distances in feet between New York avenues. Inscribed on the front wrapper by the compiler. OCLC locates two copies (Cincinnati Public, New York Historical Society). Original printed brown wrappers. Very good. More
Raleigh, NC: Edwards & Broughton, Printers, 1901. First edition. 8vo. 42 pp. William Dickson (1739-1820), a native of Pennsylvania, relocated to Duplin County, North Carolina, becoming involved in public affairs in the 1760s; he was a member of the colonial assemblies, 1769-1771, and a delegate to provincial congresses in New..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: lxxx, [9]-533; 576 pp. Folding map in volume one (professionally repaired). Howes C-178. Sabin 11067. Turnbull II, p. 360. Larned 1128: "This useful work contains a reprint of Hewatt's 'Historical Account of South Carolina' and 16 pamphlets and extracts..... More
(New Orleans, LA: Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans [Standard Ptg. Co.]), 1924. Second edition (first published the previous year). 8vo. 55 pp. Illustrated from photographs, maps, tables. Promotional covering commercial aspects of New Orleans, emphasizing its importance as a port. OCLC locates six copies of this..... More
Syracuse, NY: Printed at the Journal office [for] the compiler, 1876. First edition for this year. 8vo. 290 pp. Frontispiece view, folding map (torn, repaired on verso); ads for local businesses. Includes histories for the towns of Alfred, Allen, Alma, Almond, Amity, Andover, Angelica, Belfast, Birdsall, Bolivar, Burns, Caneadea, Centerville..... More
Edinburgh: Banks & Co., 1885. First edition, 1/1000 copies. 8vo. xxiv, 185 pp. Five vivid color plates of uniforms, a sixth of the regimental flags. Includes a brief account of the regiment's service, including Burgoyne's disastrous Saratoga campaign, for the crown in the American Revolution, 1776-1780. Attractive copy in a...... More
New York: Will H. Coleman, 1885. First edition, issue 2 (with Lafcadio Hearn's name at foot of page 299). 12mo. (4), 324 pp. Plates from wood engravings, frontispiece. Lafcadio Hearn supplied Chapter XL "The Scenes of Cable's Romances." Gilt-stamped at base of front cover: "Exposition Edition." Howes C-574: "Map not..... More
New York: Will H. Coleman, 1885. First edition, issue 2 (with Lafcadio Hearn's name at foot of page 299). 12mo. (4), 324 pp. Plates from wood engravings, frontispiece. Lafcadio Hearn supplied Chapter XL "The Scenes of Cable's Romances." Gilt-stamped at base of front cover: "Exposition Edition." Howes C-574: "Map not..... More
Chattanooga, TN: Times Printing Co. for the compiler, 1892. First edition (we have found no record of subsequent editions for this publisher). 8vo. 176, (2) pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, map; many advertisements, some on colored paper, stamp for the First National Bank of Harriman on each edge. The first..... More
Parson, WV: McClain Printing Co., 1967. First edition. 8vo. (8), 246 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates. Lumbering and railroad building in reconstruction Virginia. Very good. Purple cloth, gilt spine title, color illustrated dust jacket. (9394). More
(Lancaster, PA): Printed at the request of the tribe (E.C. Darlington, Printer), 1853. First edition. 8vo. 52 pp. Several ink corrections and many pencil additions to the text, one page of ink additions tipped in. Inscribed at head of the front wrapper "Thos. Darlington to Jos. Brinton" (final three letters..... More
Richmond, (VA): A. Morris, 1861. First edition, second issue, with the added 19 pages of bugler's music. 12mo. 284, 19, (1) pp. Parrish 4797 (Yale, Emory, Boston Athenaeum, Clements Library, Duke, North Carolina, Virginia Historical Society, William & Mary, Southern Mississippi). Very good. Rebound in brown faux-leather, gilt spine title..... More
New York: E. J. Hale & Son, 1872. First edition. Tall 8vo. 564 pp. [printed double-column]. Introduction: "His irony and ridicule was concentrated upon all the classes of institutions which he exposed, directed public attention to the existing evils, and resulted in reform." Contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, gilt decorations..... More
(New Orleans, LA: John J. Weihing Printing Co., 1917). First edition. Oblong folio. 141, (2, index) pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits, maps. Puffery at its best, a detailed illustrated history of the Behrman administration, with biographical sketches of the important public figures; includes a general overview of life in..... More
Charlottesville, VA: Michie Co. for the Mayor and City Council of Ensley, 1905. First edition. 8vo. 368 pp. OCLC locates five copies (Alabama Archives & History, Auburn, Birmingham/Jefferson County Public, Alabama Law, Harvard Law). We were unable to locate other editions of a code for Ensley. Edges of endpapers darkened..... More
