Publications of the Pennsylvania Historical Society; Maps and plans, folding; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 423 pages; 1855 Lippincott, Grambo & Company. HC 1st edition. Original brown cloth textured and bordered in blind. Binding snug and contents complete and generally clean. About 1/3 of the cloth at spine is missing with the raminder split and chipped. Sewn spine sound; no loose pages or plates. Prior ownership indications of an old PA University library; small ink stamp to pastedown, a small pressure stamp in blind to the margin of the title page and the remnant of a card pocket at rear. All... View More...
B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 261 pages; Trade sized paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Bright, tight and fresh; feels and appears unread and about as new. Illustrated with b&w photos. NF View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 642 pages; 1st printing. Stout volume is snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with $29.99 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. "Billy, / In truth & justice / peace / [signed]" Dust jacket with just a whisper of shelf evidence to corner tips and a tiny (almost imperceptible) surface abrasion that blends in to the pictorial design. Handsome copy. NF/VG++; Signed by Author View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; [SIGNED] 1983 University of California Press. Trade size paperback in glossy title lettered covers. Signed by Seaborg on the half-title page. Soundly bound and clean; covers lightly sun faded at spine. Light shelf bump top corner at rear; superficial foxing edges. Prior ownership small ink name stamp in gutter of the dedication page. VG-; Signed by Author View More...
B&W Photographs and Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 560 pages; Tight, bright and neat in original crisp edged, pictorial dust jacket. Light dust spotting to top edge of page block. Binder's flaw with a signature of page miscut at the bottom edge, mid-book. Illustrated with B/W photographs and reproductions. No marks. VG+/F View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 660 pages; Stout paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Bright tight and fresh. Feels and appears unread. About Fine ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
Photographs and maps; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 403 pages; Oversize soft cover in illustrated covers. Square, snug and sound. Prior owner's notation of rank and unit bottom edge and a lengthier ownership notation including Company and Regiment inside front cover. Short informational inscription on title page. Light rub to spine edges and corners. A few lines in the foreword are highlighted. Xiii, 261p. : ill. , maps; 27 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps. Solid copy. About VG ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; Bound volume of the 33rd to 38th reports for the annual reunions of the Society of the Army of the Potomac. Years 1902 - 1908. Original chromolithograph printed cover wraps bound in. In 1/2 leather over marbled paper boards. Boards detached. Marbled endpages intact. All edges marbled. More than half of the leather spine is missing. Contents trimmed a little for the binding but with still decent margins. Front wrap of the 1902 annual has a small closed edge tear. Contents are soundly bound, clean and neat. Should be rebacked and restored. Numerous photo illustrations/... View More...
B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 292 pages; Square, sound and clean in original title lettered dust jacket. No marks. Expected light toning to page stock. Dust jacket lightly shelf-soiled and with light rubbing and several tiny chips and nicks at edges. $3.25 publisher issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Illustrated with B&W drawings and reproductions of period paintings. NF/VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 209 pages; Soundly bound in original color pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket is rubbed and worn at edges with moderate damp staining and rippling to the dust jacket surfaces; mild damp evidence to cloth along spine edges. Pictorial map endpages. Jacket front flap price clipped at corner. G+/G View More...
B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 173 pages; Bright, tight and fresh. Illustrated with B&W photographs and maps. Feels and appears unread. Signed by author. F/F.; Signed by Author View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 133 pages; 1st edition, hardcover in original gray cloth with titles in black to cover and spine. Tipped on to the title page is the author's CDV, at the top edge of which is penned "with the author's compliments: " Small area of mottling to the cloth along the lower board, spine edge; mild toning to cloth at spine and light general shelf soiling to boards. Binding sound and contents clean. G++ to VG-; Signed by Author View More...
Fine. No dust jacket as issued. ; Includes illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 277 pages; Hardcover printed for the author by Forry & Hacker. Limited edition of 200 copies; this example hand numbered and signed by the author; 52/200. Inscribed to Redmond C. Hager. HC in pebbled blue cloth with lettering in silver to spine and cover. Laid in at rear is a rarely seen 6 page addendum saddle stapled and with a typed note from the author paper clipped to the front. Scarce recollections of a prominent Lancaster PA military man who served in conflicts dating from 1916 Mexican border episodes through ... View More...
Fine. No dust jacket as issued. ; Includes illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 277 pages; 1972 Hardcover printed for the author by Forry & Hacker. Limited edition of 200 copies; this example out of sequence and not numbered; signed by the author on the front flyleaf. Inscribed to Lavinia Hanke [? ] and dated 1988 by the author. HC in pebbled blue cloth with lettering in silver to spine and cover. Laid in at front is the uncommon 6 page addendum saddle stapled. Scarce recollections of a prominent Lancaster PA military man who served in conflicts dating from 1916 Mexican border episodes ... View More...
We Were There Series #16; Color endsheets; b&w drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 177 pages; 1957 Grosset & Dunlap. HC 1st edition. Title list at rear ends with this title, #16 in the We Were There Series. Snugly bound in original beige cloth with titles in red and black to spine. Illustrated with bold red and black pictorial endsheets and in text b&w drawings by Frank Vaughn. Shelf bump top front corner with mild bruise to boards at corner tips and superficial stress crease top front corner of page stock. Contents clean and unmarked. G++ View More...
Maps, folding; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1300 pages; 2 volumes HC in original slipcase. 1st edition. Snugly bound in original ribbed red cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spines. Immaculate set lavishly illustrated with color embellished maps, most folding on thin paper. Maroon paper covered slaipcase is rubbed at edges and bumped and chipped at corners. Books are about Fine in Good only slipcase. ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 61 pages; 1919 The Second Division Association. Paperback in pictorial, title lettered card stock covers. Saddle stapled binding. Contents clean and neat. Front cover had detached but is archivally mended with japanese tissue repair over the separation at the spine fold. Several small areas of chipping and loss to the front cover edges. Uncommon contemporary divisional publication recording the successes of the 2nd during WWI. Contents VG but with wear and chipping to the covers. View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 61 pages; May 1919. Cologne. Published by The Second Division Association. Paperback in decoratively titled card stock wraps; saddle stapled binding. A bright clean copy; no marks. Mild shelf/storage evidence to covers at corners. Just very mild toning to the page stock. Terminal leaf of the book is a blank application sheet for membership in the Second Division Association. VG+ copy. Uncommon in general and scarce in condition. View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 367 pages; HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound copy in original cream paper jacket with titles printed in red. Text clean and unmarked; light shelf bumping top front corners. Dust jacket sun toned and fading at spine with shelf rubbing and shallow chips and short tears at edges. Illustrated with one plate of photographs addressing the problem of the Corvus. Solid clean copy in worn jacket. Scarce. VG/G View More...