THE REVOLUTIONARY JOURNAL OF BARON LUDWIG VON CLOSEN 1780-1783
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (1958). First edition. 8vo. xxxvi, 392 pp. Illustrated. Maps on endpapers. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Very good. More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (1958). First edition. 8vo. xxxvi, 392 pp. Illustrated. Maps on endpapers. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Very good. More
Pasadena, CA: Trail’s End Publishing Co., (c1948). First edition 8vo. xii, (4), 350. Profusely illustrated from Russell paintings and line drawings, photographs, plates, many in color, color illustrated endpapers. Adams Herd 16. Adams Six-Guns 14. Original burgundy cloth, gilt spine title, color illustrated dust jacket (rubbed, several small chips and..... More
8vo. 2-pages, approximately 150 words, in part: “The day after the death of our dear old friend Mr. Pierce I was taken down with a cold of the lungs, and am only now able to be about … whenever you can manage to run away from your work send me..... More
Baton Rouge, (LA): Ramires-Jones, nd [ca. 1934]. Printed broadside, 16 x 9 ¼ inches, the 2-line head in bold italic type. Diatribe against the “old New Orleans Ring, big money interests, and lying newspapers,” advocating for the poll tax relief bill: “The fact that over half of the grown white..... More
Clyde, Ohio: A.D. Ames, Publisher, 1879. 19cm.; 29, (3) pp. Black lettered tan paperwraps (moderately soiled; short tears to edges of wraps). Previous owner's signature on front cover and title page. Part of the Ames' Series of Standard and Minor Dramas (this is no. 79). A play set "during the..... More
[Boston: 1851]. Trade circular. Single sheet, 26.5 x 20.5 cm., printed on blue paper. "The Copartnership heretofore existing between the Subscribers, is, by mutual consent, dissolved." Signed in type by Alfred A. Andrews and Tobias Oakman Gardner. Alfred Andrews states he has formed a new copartnership with Tobias Oakman Gardner..... More
[St. Louis, MO]: Woodward & Tiernan printing co., 1890. Original printed green paper wraps. 23 cm. 31pp. Folding map tipped in at the front: "Climatic Map of Arkansas, 1889," [St. Louis, MO: Higgins & Co. Engravers], showing the temperatures, rainfall, and spring frosts in yellow, red, and green. Chipping to..... More
(Goldsboro, NC: Nash Bros., Printers and Binders, 1905). Later printing (first published 1904). 8vo. 79 pp. Six maps, four double-page. Examines several state boasts about the war: “First at Bethel,” “Farthest at Gettysburg,” “Last at Appomattox,” among others; Ashe writes about the number of troops the state supplied, killed, wounded..... More
[Washington, DC]: U. S. Coast Survey, A.D. Bache, Supdt. 1865. Broadside lithographed map, 25 ½ x 35 ½ inches, sectioned and laid down on linen. Minutely detailed map of the two states, printing to the north on a line from Wilkesboro to Franklinton, starting between Charleston and Savannah to the..... More
Tuscaloosa, (AL): Woodruff & Olcott, 1843. First edition. 12mo. 245 pp. Publisher's ad leaf. The author published an earlier arithmetic textbook in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1830. American Imprints 43-406. Owen, p. 811 (without location). Ellison 471. Karpinski pp. 447. OCLC locates four copies (Mississippi [lacking title page], Alabama, Yale, American)..... More
NP: NP, nd [1930s?]. Unrecorded edition. 8vo. (8) pp. [the other editions, mentioned below, were issued with four or six pages]. Prints three different versions of this Jefferson County legend concerning the casting out of vengeful witches. OCLC locates single copies of three editions (with attributed dates of “1800s,” 1925..... More
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1940. First British edition (first published in the United States the previous year). 8vo. 319 pp. Plates, line drawings, folding temperature chart, endpaper maps. Account of a 1938 ascent of K2, the second highest mountain in the world, that reached 26,000 feet , about 2200 feet..... More
Georgetown, D.C. Published by Joseph Milligan. (J. C. Dunn, Printer), 1822. 16.5 cm. 12mo. 492, (8, index) pp. PARSONS 729: "Written in Latin by the Rev. Nathaniel Bacon, S.J (alias Southwell; translated from his manuscript, by Rev. Edward Mico, S.J. First appeared London 1669." Baxter was an English Jesuit and..... More
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1962. First edition, 1/1250 copies (this #647), signed by the authors. 4to. 380 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, schematics, ephemera, old art, line drawings, etc., illustrated endpapers. Volume I: Alton – New York Central; Volume II: Northern Pacific – Wabash. Gilt-stamped gray cloth, acetate dust jacket, color..... More
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1965-1966. First edition. 4to. Two volumes: 465; (9), 466-976 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, some in color, schematics, old advertising and art, line drawings, etc., illustrated endpapers, folding map in pocket at rear. Gilt-stamped black cloth, color illustrated dust jackets (two short closed tears). Very good. More
Philadelphia, [PA]: Published by Thomas Desilver Jun. No. 247, Market Street. Clark & Raser, Printers, 60 Dock Street, 1832. Second Edition, Enlarged and Improved. 8vo. 188 pp. Contemporary plain boards with later paper covered cloth spine. A few stains and browning, scattered pencil underlining and margin notes, but very good..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Lutheran Publication Society for the Synod, 1902. First edition. 8vo. 191 pp. Illustrated from photographs and wood engravings, plates, portraits. Thornton 838. Original gilt-stamped brown cloth (rubbed); owner’s name on front endpaper, else very good. More
Old fold lines, Seibold’s name underlined in red, a little foxing, but very good. More
Richmond, VA: John Knox Press, 1949. First edition. 8vo. xi, (1), 416 pp. Tables. Help for a church group "deciding whether to preserve certain older patterns ... [or] to change such of the older patterns as stand in the way of a more Christian democracy, in church, in industry, and..... More
Athens, GA: McGregor Co., July, 1918. First edition, Bulletin of the U. of Georgia, Vol. XVIII, No. 6. 8vo. 133 pp. Very good. Original printed tan wrappers (spine a little worn). (9140). More
Cincinnati, (OH): Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1855. First edition. 12mo. x, 216. Folding map as frontispiece; publisher's illustrated ad on rear wrapper, a list of other publications on its recto. Thomas W. Streeter's copy, with his pencil notes on the front endpaper and his small book label at the..... More
(Edited by Aida Craig Truxall for the U. of Pittsburgh Press), comprising 44 autograph letters, signed by Adam Bright, 27 July 1861 - 14 April 1864, and 34 autograph letters, signed by Michael Bright, 22 October 1861 - 26 July 1863, most of each group to their uncle Emanuel Stotler..... More
Winston-Salem, NC: I. J. Brittain, nd [ca. 1920]. Second edition (first published several years earlier, with only the first two stories). 8vo. 47 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the publisher, an "old disabled Confederate Veteran." North Carolina focused stories built around incidents from the Roanoke colony and the Revolution. "Tragedy of..... More
New YorK: Roving Eye Press, (c1961). First edition. 8vo. xiv, 417 pp. [text printed double-column]. Frontispiece from an old wood engraving. Describes 4447 American cookbooks. Very good. Green cloth, white-stamped spine title, printed dust jacket (some wear around the extremities). (11214). More
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Co., (c1955). First edition, No. 50 of an unspecified limited edition (50 copies?), signed by the authors, with an added note by Buckingham "Judge, 1934-51," this copy with a presentation slip from the association for William A. Parker. Small 4to. xxii, 520 pp. Illustrated from photographs, color..... More