Kristiania [i.e. Oslo]: H. Aschehoug & Co.s forlag, 1897. First book edition (originally published in parts 1896-97), 2 volumes, 8vo, [14], 526; [10], 553, [3]; numerous illustrations throughout, including a frontispiece portrait of Nansen, 42 plates, 3 folding maps, numerous illustrations in the text; extremities lightly rubbed but a nice..... More
Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1960. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 74; 5 plates; spine a little sunned else near fine in original red cloth, gilt title on upper cover and spine. More
Providence: published by M. Robinson, [H. H. Brown, printer], 1833. First American edition, 12mo, pp. 36; removed from binding; title page a bit foxed; all else very good. "While we acknowledge the colony of Liberia ... to be in itself a good thing, we must understand utterly to repudiate the..... More
Providence: B. Cranston & Co., 1836. First edition, 8vo, pp. 72; lightly foxed, removed from binding, wrappers wanting; all else very good. Pirman (1785-1864) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for Rhode Island. American Imprints 39630; Bartlett, p. 205; Parks 3331; Sabin 63049. More
Oneida, N.Y. Office of the American Socialist, 1876. First edition, 12mo, pp. 96; fine in original printed tan wrappers. More
Boston: W. B. Clarke & Co., 1894. First edition, 8vo, pp. 20; 7 figures in the text (1 full-page); original pictorial wrappers a bit chipped at the edges, the text slightly toned; all else very good. Inscribed by Means at the top of the front wrapper"Arlo Bates, Esq. with the..... More
Oneida, N.Y. Office of the Oneida Circular, 1875. First edition, 8vo, pp. 48; fine in original printed tan wrappers. OCLC finds Central Oklahoma, Texas, and Texas A&M only. More
Oneida, N. Y. Office of the American Socialist, n.d., [1877]. Second edition, 8vo, pp. 32; original printed green wrappers with adverts inside and outside back wrappers; fine. More
New York: Baker & Taylor Co., 1887. First edition, 8vo, pp. 70; original brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover; ex-Buffalo Catholic Institute with bookplate and pressure stamp on title page and first page of text, pocket removed from rear endpaper, small accession stick on spine; markings aside, a...... More
New York: Hanscom and Company, 1876. First edition, 12mo, pp. ix, [4], 14-206; original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; near fine. More
[Peterboro, N.Y.? publisher not identified], 1869. Folio bifolium (approx. 14" X 8½"), pp. 3, [1]; text largely in double columns. Fine. Two paragraphs on the editing of the address and its printing, signed in type by Smith and dated Peterboro, September 13, 1869. The text of Smith's address was abridged..... More
Various imprints, but all printed on board: May-August, 1937. Fifteen issues in all, folio (approx. 13" x 8"), printed by spirit process and illustrated throughout; the Arklites are 4 or 6 pages each, the Arky-Press are all broadsheets; chipped at the edges, previous folds (some with short splits); good or..... More
[Maine: 1851]. Manuscript notebook, small 4to, pp. 149; neatly written transcript of a legal abstract on blue lined paper, marbled boards backed in calf; title page separated, text clean and legible. Joseph Whittier (1793-1889), the main defendant, was born in Dover, New Hampshire, of Obadiah Whittier, who was an uncle..... More
New York: 1819. 6 issues, 8vo, each individually removed from binding; continuously paginated at pp. 384; occasional text illustrations; final few leaves nibbled with lost to text of index. A journal of international news and politics, with particular focus on Ireland, but much on the States, England, English territories, and..... More
Philadelphia: James W. Queen & Co., 1889. New edition. 8vo, pp. 39, [1]; 5 full-page engravings and other text illustrations; original gray paper wrappers; old fold, light soiling to wrappers, very good. Sir William Thomson was knighted for his work on the transatlantic telegraph and contributed significantly to the fields..... More
Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 1844. Second edition, with additions, pp. 189, [1]; burgundy cloth, gilt titled spine; upper cover starting, spine partially perished, title leaf almost loose, textblock clean. A scruffy looking copy with a nice presentation to "Ms. M. Russell Thayer [nee Sophia Chew Watmough], daughter of the author, with..... More
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1851-52. 14 issues in all: volume 1 [1851] no. 2 - 4; volume I (?) [1852] no. 1 - volume 2, no. 3; no. 5 and no. 6 (i.e. 3 issues for 1851 and 11 for 1852). Frontispieces and text illustrations in some issues; original..... More
Concord, Mass. Author's Privat Printing Office, 1877. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 116; frontispiece and 8 plates, plus text illustrations; half black morocco over marbled boards, original gray wrappers bound in, wrappers stained, extremities rubbed, small watermark on fore-edge, very good. Wrapper imprints is Boston: Lea and Shepard. More
London: Henry Stevens, Son, and Stiles, 1905. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 41, [3]; inscribed by Stevens to Harold Murdock Esq on front endpaper; original red cloth gilt; touch of fading to top edge, small water stain on lower cover, text clean, very good. According to the preface Stevens..... More
London: J. Owen, 1795. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 80; OCLC notes: "On the national character of Englishmen, the nature of the English government, the corruptions caused in both by the introduction of French principles, the effects produced by the Reformation and the Revolution upon political principles, the conduct of..... More
New York: George H. Doran, 1925. First trade edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [3], 10-182; publisher's green cloth gilt, boards lightly rubbed and toned, spine extremities cracked and spine a bit dull, texblock sound. Inscribed by Wylie to fellow writer Maxwell Bodenheim on free endpaper. By the end of his life..... More
New York: P. O'Shea, 1874. First edition, 8vo, pp. 365, [5]; publisher's green cloth gilt; light rubbing, top edge stained but without moving into textblock, upper joint and textblock split and shaken, pages clean. Wright II, 2190, but with a different publisher's address and no date on the title page..... More
Dayton: published for the author by B. F. & G. W. Ells, 1848. First edition, 8vo, pp. 304; portrait frontispiece, modern brown cloth with gilt titled spine; shallow water stain on lower edge, else very good and sound. A notable record of early Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee. Howes P...... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. New uniform edition, revised and reset, and with a new preface published here for the first time; small 8vo, pp. viii, [4], 367, [3]; frontispiece; black cloth, spine gilt, very good. Wister writes on the World War I nd its consequences. Inscribed by Wister..... More
