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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EARLY SECULAR AMERICAN MUSIC (18th Century). Revised and enlarged by William Treat Upton...
New York: Da Capo Press, 1964. Tall octavo, maroon simulated leather and red boards. pp x, xvi, 617. Indexed. Sunning to upper inch of front board, spine lightly darkened, private bookplate inside front cover, else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41491More details Price: USD $25.00 -
A DEFENSE OF THE SOUTH AGAINST THE REPROACHES AND ENCROACHMENTS OF THE NORTH: in which slavery is shown to be an institution of God intended to form the basis of the best social state and the only safeguard to the permanence of a republican government
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 43724More details Price: USD $495.00 -
A DIARY IN AMERICA. With Remarks on Its Institutions. Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, by Sydney Jackman.
Edition: First of this edition
New York: Knopf, 1962. Terra cotta and grey cloth, blue topstain. pp [2], (xxviii), 487, [1, blank], ix [index], [1, colophon) + frontispiece portrait. Fine in very nearly fine price-clipped jacket, no owner names. "The famous novelist's lively and enlightening account of life in our pioneer Republic in the years 1837-38." - jacket. His Canadian travels are recounted in parts of chapters XV and XVI. Based on the London, 1839, six volume original.
Condition: Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Near fine, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 17337More details Price: USD $25.00 -
A history of the American Revolution...To which are added, the most important resolutions of the Continental Congress, and many of the most important letters of General Washinton
Edition: First edition.
Baltimore, Maryland: Printed for John Hopkins, 1819. Two volume set. pp [2, blank], (xii), 592; (xiv), 510, [2]. Sabin 854: "Although the name of Paul Allen is on the title, this work was written by John Neal and Mr. Watkins " - Sabin. Ex Library copy in contemporary (worn) calf; Lacking backstrips, sides firmly and neatly attached internally with cloth tape; only two rubber stamps (to each front free endpaper), ink digits on verso of title leaves; short tear and corner chip to first few leaves of Vol. I (no printing lost); some foxing and browning in text, typical of American books in this period, but not heavy, the text being generally clean and unworn. Howes A155, Sabin 854. An excellent candidate for rebinding. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 26587More details Price: USD $225.00 -
A LITERARY MAP OF BALTIMORE, the Almost Athens of the Upper South., 1729-1969
Cockeysville, MD: Baltimore County Historical Society, no date (1969?). Large sheet folded to make sixteen 4 1/2 x 9 1/8 inch panels. VG, clean copy.
Condition: Binding: Broadside
Book ID: 41870More details Price: USD $20.00 -
A Memoir of Zerah Colburn; Written by Himself. Containing an account of the first discovery of his remarkable powers;...
Edition: First edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46619More details Price: USD $175.00 -
A PICTORIAL BOOKLET. San Francisco in Ruins.The Spirit of '06 [cover title].
San Francisco: Advergraph Press, no date [1906]. 15.5 x 11.3 cm. Grey card covers printed in gilt. 9 leaves printed both sides in a continuous strip folded accordian style, glued into covers. Covers have soft creases, nicks to fore edges, ink annotation to a couple of the images, else VG. Captioned photos of the aftermath of the Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Card covers
Book ID: 9338More details Price: USD $50.00 -
A political creed; embracing some ascertained truths in sociology and politics. An answer to H George's "Progress and poverty."
Edition: First printing
New York: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, Printers, 1884. Brown cloth. pp [2]. 215, [3]. Text paper toned, ink owner name at front (J.W. McCutcheon), just a few pencil notes & underlining in text, else a bright near fine copy. Manigault was of a distinguised South Carolina family.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50583More details Price: USD $50.00 -
A Public Discourse in Commemoration of Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D. Late President of the American Philosophical Society, Delivered Before the Society Pursuant to Appointment, on the 25th of October, 1844
Book ID: 50669More details Price: USD $50.00
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A SYMPOSIUM ON ANDREW FURUSETH.
New Bedford, MA: The Darwin Press, no date [1948]. Green cloth. [2], vi, 7-233, [2] pp + frontispiece portrait and numerous plates. Rubber stamp of American Merchant Marine Library Association to front pastedown; AMMLA presentation label to front free endpaper; rubber stamped to top page edges; foxing to endpapers, page edges, and first three leaves; a good, unworn copy otherwise, tight in the binding. Furuseth was leader of the SUP and the ISU seamen's unions on the west coast of the USA. Contributions by Robert LaFollette, Louis Adamic, John L. Lewis, Fiorella LaGuardia, and many others.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 11891More details Price: USD $25.00 -
ACROSS THE PLAINS IN FORTY-NINE. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife
Edition: First of this edition
Chicago: Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley, 1948. 16mo, maroon cloth. pp lii, 170, [2] + frontispiece portrait and three other plates, all with tissue guards; map in text; indexed, reproduction of the title page of the original Farmland, Indiana, 1896, edition. Top edges gilt. Fine copy. Lakesides Classics no. 46. California Gold Rush narrative.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41974More details Price: USD $25.00 -
ADVENTURES ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER. Illustrated by Cleveland Rockwell and Others
Edition: First of this edition
Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, no date (1957). Octavo, green cloth, endpapers illustrated in green. pp (vi), 105 + plates on text paper. Fine copy, no owner names. Pale green price-clipped dust jacket has some sunning, light soiling, light damp stains along spine; good. Extracts form the two volume, London, 1831, first edition. An important fur trade journal. Cox, a young Irishman, was up and down the Columbia River in 1812-17, working for Astor and then the North West Company.
Condition: Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 36193More details Price: USD $17.95 -
ALASKA. An Empire in the Making.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1925. First UK of the revised, enlarged edition (from US sheets). First edition was NY and London, 1913. Blue cloth. (xxviii), 440, (4) pp + numerous photo plates, folding colour map.. Bit of sunning to spine and front cover; endpapers tanned from binding; VG+ clean & unworn copy otherwise. Underwood was the founder of The Council City News, Dawson, 1902. Some of the material pertains to Canada.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 10330More details Price: USD $34.95 -
ALASKA THE GREAT BEAR'S CUB. Illustrated by Pen and Ink Illustrations by Olaus Johan Murie and Author's Photographs.
Boston: W.A. Wilde, (copyright, 1930). 8vo, hardcover, blue linen grain cloth lettered in white. 314, [4] pp. 8 double-sided photographic plates inserted, vignette drawings in text. Spine has a bit of flaking to the delicate white lettering, and light flecks; light endpaper tanning from binding materials; else a fine, tight and bright unworn copy, no previous owner marks. A later printing ? "Popular sketches of Alaska's wildlife, and of Eskimo and Indian lore." - AB 3712, calling for endpaper maps and 15 plates.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 16652More details Price: USD $20.00 -
ALASKA THE GREAT COUNTRY. New edition with new matter
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 35747More details Price: USD $50.00 -
AMERICA AND HER COMMENTATORS. With a Critical Sketch of Travel in the United States.
New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961. Facsimile reprint of the edition of 1864, limited to 750 copies. Maroon cloth. Name and address rubbed stamped twice to front free endpaper, else fine, without jacket, as issued.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 11329More details Price: USD $15.00 -
AMERICAN POWER AND THE NEW MANDARINS
Edition: First Edition
New York: Pantheon, 1969. [viii], 404 pp. Decorated blue cloth, white spine title and red foil, top edge stained blue. Minor speckling to fore-edge, Slight musty odor but no damp spotting, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket, flap price present.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 27234More details Price: USD $18.95 -
AMERICAN SCENERY; or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature. From Drawings by W. Bartlett, Engraved in the First Style of the Art by R. Wallis, J. Cousen, Willmore, Brandard, Adlard, Richardson, &c. (Two volumes)
Edition: First book edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47760More details Price: USD $595.00 -
AN OPEN LETTER. Los Angeles, November 29, 1887.
Los Angeles: Peggy Christian, 1971. Miniature book. Covers measure 43 x 32 mm. [2], 13, [5] pp. Bound in tan paper covers lettered in black. Title page printed in brown and black, first initial in text printed in brown. Housed in a plain white card slipcase with bound in ribbon. Fine copy. "Ca. 200 copies at the Press in the Gatehouse". Earl addresses his open letter to the Republican City Central Committee who have asked him to submit a fee of 150 dollars in order to stand for an unpaid position on the school board. He explains why he does not believe in the practice of buying one's way into any public office.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 10502More details Price: USD $75.00 -
ANFANGSGRÜNDE DER RECHENKUNST, zum Gerbrauch der deutschen Schulen in den Vereinigten Staaten von America und besonders in Pennsylvanien...
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 13917More details Price: USD $250.00