New York, Buffalo & Chicago: Republic Metalware Co., 1922. 8vo, awkward pagination (somewhere above 300 pages). illustrated throughout, with a dozen or so pieces of Republic ephemera laid in (company letters to the salesman, price corrections, new products, etc.); bread and cake boxes, roasters, sifters, ladles, pots and pans, salt... More
Georgetown, SC: Small-Arms Technical Publishing Co., [1951]. 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 567, [14] ads; illustrated throughout; very good copy in original ochre cloth, torn dust jacket with 2 or 3 small pieces chipped away at the extremities. More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1953. Edition ltd. to 1550 copies designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the Marchbanks Press, 4to, pp. [ii], x, 120-[2]; decorative title page printed in ochre and black, the illustrations by Rogers printed in ochre throughout, 8 plates by Booth at the end; a fine... More
New York: New York American, 1917. Large broadside approx. 24" x 19½", stars-and-stripes borders printed in red and blue, with a portrait of Wilson at the top draped in patriotic bunting, beneath which four columns of text; previous folds; very good. Wilson's request for declaration of war, "Read at the... More
Amherst: 1825-32. 19 documents in all, including rent receipts, a manuscript musical score and lyrics, some poems, and a letter appealing for donations to Amherst on the verso of a printed letter asking for the same; also, a receipt from Amherst Academy, another from Phillips Academy, an 1871 Amherst College... More
New Hope, PA: Robert Halter, The River House, 1954. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 274, [6]; pictorial endpapers; illustrated throughout; publisher's broadsheet laid in; very good, sound copy in a slightly chipped dust jacket. More
Bristol: September 2, 1743. Folio manuscript on vellum. 670 x 800 mm. (25 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches) 4 vellum leaves, ruled in red ink. Collected and laced together at bottom; 3 folds open on three sides. Written in highly legible secretarial hand. Fine. | Manuscript probate document with one... More
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1892. Tall folio, approx. 28" x 10½", printed in brown; 4 short tears and some wrinkling at the very bottom, previous folds, else very good. Not in OCLC. The stated attractions include "music, dancing, boating, photograph galleries, merry-go-rounds, base ball games, and other wholesome and innocent diversions... More
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Co., n.d., [1902]. Small 8vo, pp. 47, [1]; large folding map of Minnesota approx. 28" x 21" printed in colors; map loose from binding, but otherwise very good in original printed brown wrappers. More
[n.p. privately printed and likely not published, 1963.]. 4to, 17 leaves, printed from typescript; spiral-bound blue paper covers showing a printed title within the outline of Africa; some toning and fading at the edges of the covers; all else near fine. Starting December 20, 1962 in Dar Es Salaam in... More
Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., [1972]. First trade edition, 4to, pp. 192; map endpapers; illustrated throughout; fine copy in an unclipped dust jacket. With a long and personal inscription from the author dated November 28, 1972 on the half title. More
Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., [1972]. First edition limited to 250 copies (this, no. 41); 4to, pp. 192; map endpapers; illustrated throughout; fine copy in an unclipped dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Gummed Northwest logo label laid in. More
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1918. 8vo, pp. [8], 202; numerous illustrations throughout (7 folding); rear hinge starting else a very good copy in original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Originally published in 1914, this is the fifth annual in the series. More
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1913. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 318; color frontispiece and 2 color plates by Clarence Underwood; fine copy in original gray cloth with a pictorial pastedown on the upper cover, the uncommon dust jacket complete and not price-clipped, but with several short tears entering... More
New York, Joliet, Boston: P. F. Volland Co., [1930]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 95, [1]; bird's eye view endpapers, color illustrations throughout by the author (some full-page); fine copy in original pictorial boards, blue cloth shelf-back, and preserving the original publisher's pictorial box with a couple of short cracks and... More
Stockholm: Royal Coin Cabinet, [1986]. First edition, small folio, pp. 344; numerous illustrations, maps, charts and graphs; near fine in original pictorial boards. Copper-stamped plates used for coinage in Sweden 1644-1776. A modern and well-illustrated study and a complete catalogue by the foremost expert in the field. More
New York: K. L. M. Royal Dutch Airlines, 1969. Oblong 8vo, spiral-bound; 3 p.l., plus 34 high-quality photographs, each with a captioned tissue guard; pictorial card covers lightly rubbed, else near fine. A K.L.M. promotional in celebration of their 50th year of service. More
[Warminster, Wilts.]: Compton Press, [1980]. First edition, small 4to, pp. [8], 166; printed in double column; illustrated throughout; fine copy in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. More
Largely the Pacific Theatre, the Philippines, and Japan: 1944-46. Fred R. Salisbury was a native Minnesotan, and was the principle of the Salisbury & Satterlee Co., a large furniture and mattress concern. In Word War II he served as Lieutenant-Commander on board the USS Salamaua (CVE-96), a Casablanca-class escort carrier... More
Ogden, UT: J. M. & M. S. Browning Co., [1942]. 8vo, pp. 62; illustrated throughout; fine copy in original tan wrappers printed in brown. More
Paris & London: L. Blériot ingenieur (E.C.P.) constructeur, [1911]. Small 4to, pp. [20]; illustrated throughout; string-bound; original cream paper wrappers embossed in gilt and blind; near fine. An early Blériot catalogue. In 1909 he was the first to fly the English Channel which gave him great publicity and cemented his... More
London: Aeroplane Supply Company (Aviation Department of the Motor Supply Company, Ltd.), November 1st, 1909. Tall 8vo, pp. 60; 2 blank leaves for notes are in the middle of the catalogue; illustrated throughout; staples perished so text block loose in original pictorial wrappers; the staples aside, a very good copy... More
[St. Ignatius Mission]: St. Ignatius Print, Montana, 1879. Second edition (first published in 1876); 8vo, pp. 140, 14 index and errata; bound without the wrappers in later green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover; near fine. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with a Newberry release stamp on front pastedown and... More
Boston: William Carter, 1860. 8vo, pp. xii, 104; portrait frontispiece; original printed wrappers (soiling), lacking back wrapper, edges and spine worn, interior mostly fine. This edition includes material not found in the Appleton edition, including the frontispiece, a Cut of the Crimea award on p. 4, and the preliminary sketch of the author. More
New York: Knopf, 1925. First edition, 1 of 1,050 signed copies, 4to, pp. 211; illustrations from photographs by Philip B. Wallace; original beige cloth, printed paper cover and spine labels; spine a bit darkened, else fine in grey slipcase with printed paper spine label with some edge wear and small chips to spine. More
