Prestonsburg, KY: Appalachian Volunteers, 1968-69. First edition. 6 numbers bound together in maroon library buckram, various paginations (25 - 30 pages per issue), illustrated. First 6 numbers of this scarce activist/social justice journal. Topics include rural poverty, abuses by the coal mining industry, education, health (especially black lung disease), etc...... More
Hastings-on-Hudson: Valentine's Manual, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. octavo, original blue cloth with gilt title; 422 pp., profusely illustrated from engravings, halftones, line drawings, etc, many are full-page and 8 in color. Fine in fairly worn pictorial jacket - complete but with chips and closed tears. "A vivid picture of life..... More
New York: McSpedon & Baker, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, dark brown ribbed cloth blocked in gilt and blind; 148 pp., 1 folding table, 1 large (19 x 28 inches) folding map at rear. Front cover with name "F. A. Southmayd Esq." embossed at center. Chipping to spine ends and..... More
New York: Torch Press, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 177 pages, frontispiece and 28 full-page illustrations and maps; 8vo, original red cloth. Spine faded and with small white spot at center of spine, else fine. Not in Howes. More
NY: Macmillan, 1928. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Octavo, original dark green cloth; ix, [6], 381 pp., frontispiece and 5 full-page illustrations. Fine in near fine dustjacket with a couple smudges to jacket front panel. Primarily the history of the University of Georgia from its founding early in the nineteenth..... More
New York: American Library Service, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. ix, 316 pp., color frontispiece and several full-page illustrations from photographs. A comprehensive and highly sympathetic history of the racist organization and its frequently violent efforts to maintain white supremacy in the post-civil war South. Please note: while we offer this..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge Tribune, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 308 pp. profusely illustrated including many full-page photogravure portrait plates; quarto, original 3/4 maroon calf and boards, top edge gilt. A well-illustrated general history of Cambridge with about half the volume given over to biographies of eminent citizens. More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 100 pp., illustrated throughout from b/w photographs, quarto, pictorial boards and jacket. Photo essay on the US Coast Guard of 85 years ago. More
Coumbia, S. C. State Co., 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 496 pp., frontispiece portratit of the author, several maps in the text, 1 folding map; octavo, original green cloth with gilt title. Johnson Hagood (1829-1898) rose from private to Brigadier General during the course of the war. He served as governor..... More
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, (1982). First edition. Hardcover. xx, 233, illustrated; octavo, brick-red cloth, dustjacket. The cattle guard joins barbed wire, the windmill, and the sod house as a symbol of range country and the subject of scholarly scrutiny. More
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt title and ornament; vi, 283 pp.; frontispiece and 20 full-page illustrations. Slight darkening to endpapers from dustjacket, else fine in very good jacket. A history of New York City's old Waldorf-Astoria, the luxury..... More
Morgantown: West Virginia University, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. xv, 216 pp., illustrated with reproductions from photographs, octavo, original blue cloth, jacket. More
NY: The War Memorial Association, 1912. First edition. Paperback. Sixteen parts, each bound in pictorial paper wrappers, and the whole in pictorial cloth chemise folder with string ties at edges. 12 x 9 inches, 512 pp. (text is paginated continuously), color frontispiece in each part, profusely illustrated with reproductions from..... More
Philadelphia: James Crissy, 1839. Later printing of the second edition. 2 volumes, original full sheep with morocco lettering pieces, small octavos, iv, 460, 42, vii; 448, 32, v pp., engraved frontispiece portrait of Washington by J. B. Longacre after the painting by G. Stuart in first volume, marbled endpapers. Scuffing..... More
Baltimore: Philip H. Nicklin & Co., 1811. First edition thus. Hardcover. 3 volumes, original full tan calf, morocco lettering pieces, octavos, iv, 615; (1), 569; 497 pp. + unpaginated index of about 300 pp. Errata list to verso of last index page. Covers moderately scuffed and worn, but quite sturdy..... More
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1969). First edition. Hardcover. xii, 285 pp., illustrated; octavo, brown cloth, dustjacket. Full account of the raid on the courthouse at Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico by the Alianza Federal de Mercedes led by Reies Lopez Tijerina. This New Mexico-based militant Chicano movement sought justice..... More
London & New York: Alexander Strahan, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. xv, 428 pp., 2 frontispieces (tinted lithograph views of Chicago in 1831 & San Francisco in 1846), octavo, original blue cloth with gilt spine title. Both covers embossed "Foreign Office" in black ink. A statistical and commercial analysis of the..... More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1940. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 398 pp., color frontispiece, 32 full-page monochrome illustrations, 34 headpieces, pictorial endpapers, all after line drawings by E. H Suydham; octavo, original green cloth with cover title and ornament blocked in silver. One of a series of..... More
Boston: S. Kneeland and T Green, 1732. Second edition. Hardcover. Narrow octavo, contemporary brown calf with old and recent mends and infilling; (2), iv, (2), 220 pp. Scarce Colonial American tradesmen's and travelers' pocket guidebook. First edition was published the previous year with same imprint and pagination. Evans 3958. More
Highlands (Maryland): 1837. Hardcover. Original leather spine and plain boards, about 100 leaves with manuscript exercises, examples, problems in plane trigonometry and surveying. Crude color drawings illustrate several of the surveying problems. Signed "Robert L. Rogers, Highlands School, March 7, 1837." Moderate scuffing and soiling to covers, 1 leaf loose..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Original gray cloth with paper title labels to spine and front cover; xi, [1], 178 pp., color frontispiece and 15 full-page illustrations by the author. Slight fading to covers, else fine in price-clipped pictorial dustjacket with closed tear to rear panel..... More
Philadelphia: James A. Bill, 1848. Early reprint. Hardcover. viii, 320 pp., folding 3-panel frontispiece and 4 full-page illustrations (all are handcolored); octavo, original brown cloth with cover ornaments in gilt and blind. Originally published in 1802 under the title "History of the Discovery of America" and author pseudonym "Rev. James..... More
(New York: Polygraphic Co. of America, 1942). Paperback. [28] pp., color lithographed illustrations throughout; original pictorial wrappers, 7.5 x 5.25 inches. Most of the text contains a history of the evolution of the design of the American flag, as well as flags of the US Marine Corps. Flag etiquette and..... More
[Washington, DC]: n.p., 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 424 pp. Modern green cloth. Partial ink stamp of the United States of America, House of Representatives Library to top edge. Contains the "Report of the Board of Officers Appointed to Select a Suitable Site for the Establishment of a National Armory..... More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Original printed wrappers, octavo, vi, 274 pp. Inscribed on title page by progressive Texas Senator Ralph Webster Yarborough (1903-1996) to Famed California bookseller, editor, publisher, Jack Reynolds (1915-1993): "For Jack Reynolds who likes literature, and can find it in the Addresses..... More