8vo 8" - 9" tall; 472 pages; Issues 1 -12; all that were published. Bound together in a mid/late 19th century 1/2 leather over marbled paper. Includes numbers 1 - 12 of this short lived monthly devoted to the concerns of the early American frontiersman. Much on brewing, cider making, horse and mule keeping, clearing and planting etc. Extensive and regular content devoted to education. Leather rubbed lightly over spine edges and at corner tips. Binding snug. Expected general toning to page stock. Damp line visible to front and bottom edges but with only a mild tide line visible among the firs... View More...
Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; [no date given] Circa 1906. Hardcover in an oblong octavo format. No publisher or place given in this rushed to press photograph accounting of one of America's worst disasters. Illustrated paper covered boards with blue cloth backstrip, unlettered. Text block is side stapled, as issued. Profuse photo illustrated documentary of the conflagration, its effects and some views of buildings and vistas before the fire. Boards are rubbed at edges and moderately surface scarred. Cloth spine is worn but sound, pulled at crown with a short tear. Binding sound but shaken... View More...
Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; [no date given] Circa 1906. Hardcover in an oblong octavo format. No publisher or place given in this rushed to press photograph accounting of one of America's worst disasters. Illustrated paper covered boards with blue cloth backstrip, unlettered. Text block is side stapled, as issued. Profuse photo illustrated documentary of the conflagration, its effects and some views of buildings and vistas before the fire. Boards are well rubbed at edges and a little surface scarred. Cloth spine is worn but sound, frayed a little at spine ends. Text block separated from... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 639 pages; 1975 Stonehill Publishing Company. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and very neat in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $9.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Feels and appears unread; no marks of any kind. Superficial crimping to cloth at crown of spine; trace shelf evidence to jacket edges. Handsome and well preserved copy and uncommon, thus, especially so in 1st printing examples. NF/VG++ View More...
B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 336 pages; 1986 University of Chicago Press. Trade size paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Bright, snug and neat; feels and appears unread. Just mild shelf evidence to covers. Illustrated with b&w photos. VG++ to NF View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 56 pages; 1871, Baltimore; John Murphy & Co. HC 1st edition. Original pebbled maroon cloth with bevelled edges. Titles brightly stamped in gilt to cover; spine unlettered, as issued. Solid and bright with original end pages. No marks. The partial record from manuscript of a 1782 visit by a young lady to her cousins of lower Virginia; Lees, Washingtons et. Al. An attractive copy. VG+ View More...
B&W Reproductions; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 32 pages; 1990 Michigan State University Press. Square format paperback in color pictorial covers and saddle stapled binding. Bright, tight and fresh. Illustrated with b&w reproductions of period caricature art. About as new. NF View More...
Color maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 516 pages; 1971 Da Capo Press. Stout HC/DJ. A solid reprinting of the scarce 1st Baedecker treatment of the United States. Illustrated throughout with color reproductons of the original region and city maps. Jacket a little toned and slightly rubbed at edges; front flap corners clipped. VG++/VG View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 431 pages; 1993 University of Chicago Press. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Bright tight and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright dust jacket. Feels and appears generally unread and about as new. No marks. Illustrated with b&w figures and photos. Handsome copy. F/NF View More...
Woodcuts; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 306 pages; HC 1st edition. Snugly bound and clean in original red cloth with decorative title design stamped ornately in blind to boards; titles brightly in gilt to spine. Mild crimping and reace frawing to cloth at spine ends; cloth rubbed through over the lower front corner. Mild foxing to endpages. Illustrated with in-text woodcuts. VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 432 pages; Snugly bound in original heavy tan linen boards with title lettering in black to spine. Bookplate of a University Philosophical Society to the front pastedown along with mild catalog indications including a painted call number base of spine, and superficial abrasion scars to endpages. Solid decent copy. G++ View More...
B&W Photographs & Reproductions; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 234 pages; 1966 University of Massachusetts Press. HC/DJ 1st edition. Snugly bound and fresh in crisp edged wraparound pictorial dust jacket. Trace toning to jacket at spine and a whisper of shelf rubbing edges; price clipped top corner of front flap. Illustrated with b&w photos and reproductions. NF/VG+ View More...
B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 212 pages; 1979 MIT Press. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound and neat in original pictorial dust jacket. Prior owner's small, circular ownership blind stamp to blank areas of two leaves; his manuscript ownership top corner of the title page. Text fresh and neat with no marks. Just mild shelf evidence to jacket extremities. Illustrated with B&W photographs. VG+/VG+ View More...
B & W photographs, drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 726 pages; 1974 Frost Free Library. Limited edition of 1000 copies, a facsimile of the 1881 original edition. Pictorial paper covered boards and gray cloth backstrip, lettered in silver. Square, solid and neat. Issued without dust jacket. Contents clean and unmarked. Just a touch of superficial shelf/handling evidence to externals. Illustrated with photographs & drawings. VG+ View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 548 pages; 1953 The Twentieth Century Fund. Stout HC/DJ 1st edition. Snugly bound and neat in original pictorial dust jacket with $5.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket lightly tone to spine and panel edges; light shelf rubbing and a pair of short closed tears at edgesd. Contents clean and neat; no marks. VG+/VG ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 408 pages; 1888 Paul Ollendorff, Paris. Soundly bound in qurter red leather backed spine and marbled paper boards. Prior ownership of a private library with their bookplate to the front pastedown. Leather scuffed and rubbed at spine ends and less so to surface of spine. Boards lightly rubbed at corner tips. Usual and expected light toning to page stock. VG- View More...
B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages; Paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Bright, snug and clean; no marks. Used sticker to rear cover but feels and appears unread. Illustrated with B&W photographs. NF View More...
Farm and Fireside Library, No. 175; B&W Photographs and Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages; Paperback in glossy pictorial wraps. 1st edition. Snugly bound and unmarked. First and last several pages have crescent shaped lard/oil stains to the front edge; they intrude on the frontis photo of Dewey but otherwise do not mar the text. Small chips to the cover stock at spine ends have been archivally reinforced with Japanese tissue paper. A few nicks and short tears to the covers at edges. Solid and generally neat. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. VG- View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 367 pages; 2019 University of Chicago Press. HC/DJ. 1st ed. Tightly bound in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. This copy was issued for review to leading Urban Studies scholar, David Schuyler. His sporadic margin brackets in pen. Otherwise tight and fresh. G++/NF thus View More...
