Tulsa, Oklahoma; Los Angeles; New York: The George Kaiser Family Foundation; Gilcrease Museum; The Grammy Museum; The Woody Guthrie Foundation, 2012. Paperback. 12" X 9". 79pp. Mild cover and edgewear to glossy pictorial wraps with unclipped french folds. Binding is tight and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. A...... More
Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, & Webb, 1839. Hardcover. 6 3/8" X 4". vi, 7-278pp. Green patterned cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Rather heavy wear to binding, with losses to head and tail of spine, edgewear, soiling, scattered rubbing, and tears to cloth. Lean to spine. Hinges tender..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 5/8". xvi, 364pp. Signed by Edith and Frank Shay to front free endpaper. Moderate edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, with chipping to extremities, no losses, dust soiling, and sunning to spine. Tan cloth over boards, with upper board..... More
Boston and New York: Lee and Shepard, Publishers and Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1875. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". 360pp. Red cloth over boards, with front cover stamped in black and gilt and spine stamped in gilt. Heavy edgewear to binding, with corners bumped and rubbed to boards, scattered..... More
West Point, NY: The United States Military Academy, 1948. Hardcover. 12 1/8" X 9 1/8". 429pp. Mild edgewear to hardcover binding, with bumping to corners and head and tail of spine and some rubbing to rear cover. Dust soiling to edges of text block, stain to bottom edge. Mild foxing..... More
Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., [1890]. New and Revised Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5 1/8". 560pp. No date, c. 1890. Red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Moderate edgewear to binding, wirth corners bumped and frayed, heavy soiling and scattered rubbing, and sunning to spine. Lean to..... More
Cincinnati: Privately Printed, printed by C. J. Krehbiel Company, 1975. Staplebound wraps. Signed by Eleanor Jane Smith at title page. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". vi, 29pp, 12pp. Staplebound printed red paper wraps show moderate edgewear, with heavy rubbing to spine, price label toning and rubbing to rear wraps, and..... More
Washington DC: Office of the Chief of Military History United States Army, 1978. Hardcover. 10" X 7". xxi, 756pp. Scattered rubbing and wear to covers and edges of green cloth over boards. Spine and front cover stamped in red and gilt. Light dust spotting to edges of text block. Crease..... More
Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 3/4" X 6 1/2". xvi, 15-376pp. Original pictorial cloth over boards, with upper board stamped in black, green, white, and red. Spine lettered in black with clock device. Heavy wear to binding, with heavy soiling, moderate scattered rubbing..... More
San Francisco: Joseph S. Thompson, (1960s). Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6". 30pp. No date of publication, circa 1960s. Light dust soiling and edgewear to stapled paper wraps. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Joseph S. Thompson was the President of the International Union for Land Value Taxation and..... More
Kearney, NE: Cookbooks by Morris Press, 1989. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 7/8". 230pp, plus 40pp index, ads, guides. Mild rubbing and soiling to comb-bound pictorial paper wraps. Recipes penned to paste-downs. Laid in newspaper clipping of "Crag and Corn Gems" to page 19 and "Fresh asparagus in the microwave"..... More
New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1852. F. O. C. Darley. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/4". xviii, 294pp; x, 298pp, plus 6pp ads. Brown cloth over boards, with front covers stamped in gilt and spines lettered in gilt. Very heavy edgewear to both volumes, with edges and corners..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. Hardcover. 7 7/8" X 5". 348pp. Blue cloth over boards with dragonfly and floral design stamped in gilt, light blue, and green to upper board and spine. Moderate edgewear to binding with spot of rubbing to upper board. Hinges tender. Binding is sound. Beneath..... More
New York: The Mayor's Committee on Job Advancement, City of New York, 1964. Staplebound wraps. 10 7/8" X 8 1/2". Unpaginated, 16pp. Moderate wear to staplebound printed wraps, with small tears to edges and extremities, sunning, and dust soiling. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. An..... More
Moore Haven, Florida: Rainbow Books, 1985. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". ix, 155pp. Signed by Georgia B. Watson to front free endpaper. Moderate wear to dust jacket, with small closed tears to head and tail of spine and top edge of front panel. Blue cloth over boards with upper..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 192pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Mild edgewear to price-clipped dust jacket, with heavy rubbing to head and tail of spine, moderate dust soiling and black mark to rear panel, and light scattered..... More
New York: Printed by T. and J. Swords, Printers to the Faculty of Physic of Columbia College, 1795. First Edition. Wraps. 8 1/4" X 5 1/8". 42pp, plus one leaf of errata. Presentation copy inscribed to Adino Paddock Esquire, Surgeon Civil Branch of Ordnance, signed as "the Author," at front..... More
Detroit, Michigan: Privately Printed, 1884. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 8 7/8" X 5 7/8". Unpaginated. Lacking cover and fold-outs. Paper wraps stapled thrice, with chipping and small tears to spine edge, small tear to rear at margin, and staples rusty. Light smudges to front and rear. Light, very occasional spots..... More
[Enon, East Pike County, Alabama?]: Privately Printed, 1997. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 97pp. Bound in laminated paper wraps with spine backed in black textured tape. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean and bright. A very presentable copy of Lavonia Green Wiggins' reminiscences of country life..... More
Rabun Gap, Georgia: Southern Highlands Literary Fund, Inc., 1972. Staplebound wraps. 10" X 7". 174-252pp. Moderate wear to staplebound pictorial wraps. Occasional light foxing to pages, else unmarked. An attractive copy of this installment of the Foxfire quarterly, with lessons on hide tanning, wagon building, bending bows for an ox..... More
Nashville, Tennessee: Printed for the Author, Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1884. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5 1/8". 500pp. Brown cloth over boards, with cover and spine lettered in gilt with embossed decorations. Heavy edgewear and scattered rubbing to cloth, with head and tail of spine and corners bumped and rubbed..... More
Los Angeles: Baumgardt Publishing Co., 1913. Third Edition. Staplebound wraps. 7 5/8" X 5 3/8". 72pp. Moderate edgewear, soiling, scattered rubbing, and foxing to staplebound wraps. Binding is sound. Occasional spot of foxing to pages, else unmarked. A very well-preserved 1913 edition of Wilson's Naturalization Laws, including the United States..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/2". 279pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Moderate edgewear to price-clipped dust jacket, with mild chipping to head and tail of spine, no losses, sunning to spine, and small tears to edges..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Paterson, 1888. M. Woolf. Hardcover. 8 7/8" X 6". 50pp. Paper over boards, with spine backed in blue cloth. Very heavy wear to binding, with edges and corners rubbed to boards, scattered rubbing, and heavy soiling and staining. Both hinges cracked, but holding. Text complete. Previous..... More
New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Company, 1910. Hardcover. 7 3/8" X 5 1/8". 96pp. Printed blue paper over boards with spine backed in black cloth. Moderate edgwear to binding, with corners rubbed and bumped. Binding is firm and sound. Pages age-toned, else unmarked. A solid copy of this French..... More
