Paris: Paulin, Libraire-Editeur Rue de Seine, 33, 1843. First edition. 12mo. 17 cm. 318pp. Extra illus. with a portrait of author and illustrations of fables. Tabbed in the back is a poem from a newspaper "Epitre de M. Viennet" by A. M. Villemain. Some pencil notation. Quarter red leather with... More
Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons Publishers to the University, 1912. Limited editon, No. 69 of 200 with frontis. print of etching "Lion and the Unicorn", signed by artist. 27 cm. (viii), ix-xlix, 259 pp. 431 etchings reproduced by photogravure. Quarter vellum spine stamped in gilt with biege cloth boards. Top... More
Washington, DC: 36th Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc., No. 34, [1860]. First Edition. Stitched signatures. 25 cm. 51 pp. Folding lithographed map. "The road was surveyed through new country for the benefit of emigrants and prospective settlers. They departed from The Dalles on June 4, and arrived at Camp Floyd... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. First edition. 24 cm. 496 pp. errata tipped in. Blue dust jacket printed in white, illus. Blue cloth binding stamped in gilt on spine and front board. Some tears and chips to dust jacket, otherwise a pleasing copy. More
San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Company, 1874. First edition. 22 cm. xi, (i), 511 pp. Brown cloth with flecking. Stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, some fading. Bookplate. "Served in Oklahoma, Washington, and Oregon". - HOWES G- 209 GRAFF 1575 RADER 1609. More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1929. First edition. 22 1/2 cm. 371 pp., illus. Tan dust jacket printed in colors with tears along spine ends and corners. Red cloth binding printed in black spine and front board. A nice copy in uncommon dust jacket. More
Topeka, Kansas: "Commonwealth" State Printing House, 1872. Title page is on page 21. 23 cm. 225 pp. Numerous ads, including two chromolithographs (both for printers). Spine rebacked in leather, not affecting front and back board ads. Very good copy with old library markings, marked withdrawn. More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson. Printed by Bruce Brough. 1923. First seperately printed edition. 20 3/4 cm. 211 pp., illus. Red cloth with gilt stamping spine and front cover. Inscribed by author to Alexander McAdie. COWAN Vol.2: pg 417 ROCQ 10385 WHEAT GOLD RUSH 138. More
Chicago: Rhodes & McClure Publishing Company, 1899. First edition. [2], 7-586 pp., 8 ads, illus. Original blue cloth with gilt stamping spine and front cover. Some wear to spine ends and corners. Popular read of questionable history. Uncommon in first often reprinted. HOWES D-482. More
Boulder, Colorado: Johnson Publishing Company, 1964. Fascimile edition of 300 copies. 21 1/2 cm. xvi, 192 pp. Green printed wrappers, with some nicks to spine, housed in a green folding chemise. Reprint of HOWES D-161. More
Manila, (P.I.): Bureau of Public Printing, 1905. First edition. 16 1/2cm. 266 pp., illus. Bound in 3/4 leather with black cloth boards. Spine with decorated raised bands and gilt stamped title. Some rubbing to edges and joints. More
New York: Hunter & Co., Publishers, [1903]. 24 1/2 cm. ii, -xi-xxxvi. 45- 479pp., port., illus. Red cloth pictorial binding with gilt stamping on spine and cover. Bright and tight. Tipped in newspaper articles throughout. HOWES H790. More
New York: The Macmillan Company. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1898. First Edition. 23 cm. Frontis. portrait. xiii, 529pp. (2) ads. 7 plates by F. Colburn Clarke, one folded map. Original pictorial cloth stamped in brown, yellow, and orange with gilt stamped lettering. Top edge gilt. GRAFF 2117 HERD 1131 HOWES I55 SIXGUNS 1114. More
Philadelphia: David McKay, No. 23 South Ninth St. 1885. Later printing (first printed in 1870). 19 1/2cm. 308pp., illus. The battle of the Washita and the campaign against the Southern Plains Indians. Pictorial brown cloth with gilt lettering. Graff 2283 HOWES K31 Luther High Spot18 Rader 2151. More
Chapel Hill, (NC): UNC Press, (c1947). Reprint of the 1941 original. Folio. xxiii, 290 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs, plates, floor plans, maps, endpaper maps. Thornton 7030. Owner's name, scattered foxing, but a very good copy. Original two-tone green, gilt spine title rubbed away, publisher's slipcase (rubbed). (9496). More
Nashville, TN: Tennessee Historical Commission, (c1956). First edition. 8vo. x (4), 186 pp. Illustrated from old paintings, documents, and maps, plates, portraits. Nelson (1812-1873) was a Whig party activist and lawyer who served as a pro-Union member of the House of Representatives from East Tennessee, 1859-1861. Inscribed by the author... More
Lewisburg, WV: Greenbrier Historical Society, 1986. First edition. 8vo. ix, 582 pp. Illustrated from photographs, old paintings and drawings, manuscripts, etc. Endpaper maps. Very good. Gilt-stamped green cloth. (9498). More
New York: Columbia University, 1914. Second edition (much expanded from the 1906 original), Columbia Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, Vol. LVIII, whole no. 141. 8vo. 683 pp. Folding map. One of the Dunning school conservative interpretations of reconstruction in individual former Confederate States by the founding director of... More
Virginia City, M.T. D.W. Tilton, Publisher, 1892. Second edition. 12mo. 241 pp. Printed wrappers, general edge wear and pieces missing from spine. This is the first complete account of the group of criminals known in the 1860's as "Henry Plummer's Road Agent Band." The author lived and recorded the lawlessness... More
London: Printed for J. and J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, [1812-14ca.]. 2 vols in 1. 22 cm. xix, [20] - 568, vi; viii, [9] - 567, [7], with maps and illustrations. Full mottled leather with rules and red leather title label stamped in gilt. A third volume appeared later. More
Louisville, (KY): John P. Morton and Co., printers to the Filson Club, 1903. First edition, Filson Club Publication 18. Large 4to. xii, 274 pp. Illustrated, 29 plates, many of them portraits. Gen. William Henry Harrison's forces, the victors in the Upper Canada battle that witnessed the demise of the Indian... More
(Nashville, TN: Blue & Gray Press, 1972). Photo-facsimile of the first edition. 8vo. xi, 540 pp. Illustrations from old paintings and prints, plates, maps. Includes portions of accounts by De Soto, La Salle, Thomas Walker, De Brahm, John Pope, Michaux, Ellicott, and Benjamin Hawkins, among others. Allen More Tennessee Rarities... More
Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1928. First edition. 8vo. xi, 540 pp. Illustrations from old paintings and prints, plates, maps. Includes portions of accounts by De Soto, La Salle, Thomas Walker, De Brahm, John Pope, Michaux, Ellicott, and Benjamin Hawkins, among others. Allen More Tennessee Rarities 803. Horn Twenty Tennessee... More
Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1937. First edition. 8vo. xi, 495 pp. Illustrated, plates, maps and plans. Howes W-482. Allen More Tennessee Rarities 802. Horn Twenty Tennessee Books 20: "Judge Williams himself has described this as 'my best book' ... a definitive history for the period covered, 1541-1776 ... Williams... More
Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1947. Second, revised, and limited edition (first published in 1937), 1/300 copies (this one unnumbered). 8vo. 109 pp. Frontispiece from an old document. Tatham (1752-1819), a native of England, was sent by his father to Virginia to learn the tobacco trade, served in the American... More
