Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et cie, 1860. 12mo, pp. [4], 346; lacking the table of contents and imprint leaf; text in French; rebound in modern brown and patterend cloth, paper label on spine, speckled edges; small burn to edge of first two leaves, a touch of worming not affecting..... More
Colchester, [Connecticut]: April 7, 1777. Receipt of payment on a slip of paper approx. 3" x 6". "Received of Amasa Brown a soldier in the late Capt. Rowley's Company one gun and bayonet No. 25 £3.12.0" signed by "Jonth. Deming, Selectman." More
New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, [1970]. First edition, wrapper issue; 4to, pp. [194]; photographs throughout by Marc Riboud; text block loosening from wrappers, bottom of spine with tear (no loss); good copy. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, [1970]. First edition, the uncommon hardbound issue; 4to, pp. [194]; photographs throughout by Marc Riboud; original black cloth, dust jacket dampstained along the bottom edge, back panel with slight offset, lightly worn; otherwise a very good copy. More
Geneve: chez Pellet, 1778. 4to, pp. [4], 2, 35, [1], 87, [1], 31, [1], 14; 136 engraved plates, many double-page, 4 folding; recent full maroon morocco, gilt lettering on spine; the binding is a bit amateurish, but it's sound and the plates are clean. Eye candy. This is the first..... More
New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1918. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [14], 64; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper spine and cover labels, dust-jacket; discoloring to endpapers, a few leaves including title-page foxed, some small chips and creases at jacket edges, else very good. Divine, who was in the..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First edition, American issue; 8vo, pp. [2], 93, [3]; folding color map of the world, 5 charts (1 folding, 2 double-p.), 15 plates; fine, bright copy in a very slightly chipped jacket. Account of the exploits of the British Navy in World War..... More
New York: Jared W. Bell, 1844. Large folding lithograph broadside, 17.5" x 31"; original yellow printed covers present but separated, lacking the 32 pages of text originally bound with; waterstains, covers soiled and chipped, a couple small closed tears at folds, but otherwise sound. 4 copies in OCLC From an..... More
[Washington, D.C.?]: Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group, Agency for International Development, 1963. 8vo, pp. x, 86; maps, charts; original orange and white pictorial wrappers (a bit soiled), light shelf wear; a very good copy. Cover imprint: Washington, D.C.: Department of State. Published under contract ICA c1126. More
Cornwallville, N.Y. Hope Farm Press, 1963. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], vi, 19, [1]; 6 plates; very good in orig. printed blue wrappers. Signed and dated by the compiler. More
New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1968. First edition, 4to, pp. 23 (ads), iv, 597; numerous black & white photgraphic illustrations, maps, diagrams; minor toning at edges, a very good and bright copy in original blue cloth with gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. More
Boston: printed by Manning & Loring, 1799. First American edition, 12mo, pp. [1], viii, 9-260; contemporary mottled calf; rubbed; gold-stamping on spine; red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; edges stained yellow; engraved frontispiece with offsetting on title page; ownership inscription on titlepage; spine darkened; occasional browning; lacks ads; otherwise very..... More
La Haye: Adrian Moetjens, 1710. 2 volumes in 1, 12mo, pp. [16], 254, 320; woodcut printer's devices, initials, and head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary mottled armorial calf stamped in gilt, gilt-tooled spine in 6 compartments, red morocco spine label, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; edges a bit scuffed and rubbed..... More
New York: J. P. Robens, 1866. 12mo, pp. [2], 116; engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, printed slip from the Bureau of Military Record tipped in prior to the half-title page; original maroon cloth stamped in gilt and blind; small snag in the spine at the bottom and spine lightly sunned;..... More
Providence: E. L. Freeman & Sons, printers to the state, 1900. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 417, [1]; 26 plates; near fine in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. More
Houston, TX: 1866. 4to, 3 pages on integral leaves; approx. 9.75" x 7.75", legibly written with full typescript transcription provided, some staining without affecting legibility, minor insect damage on edges, very good. Includes stamped cover with a Houston postmark. An interesting letter from the early Reconstruction period in the Southwest..... More
New York & London: Continuum, [2002]. Thick 8vo, pp. xlv, [1], 751, [1]; 76 photographs; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. More
Portsmouth: Griffin & Co., 1873. 4to, pp. [6], 15, [1]; final leaf with list of subscribers; title page printed in blue and black, 24 chromolithograph plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text, including one of the H.M.S. Sultan; original blue cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover..... More
[n.p: n.p., n.d, ca. 2000]. 8vo, pp. 10, 269, [19]; text in Vietnamese and English; text illustrations; gray printed paper wrappers; little musty, else fine. Part memoir, part history. "EMIAD is the acronym of 'Ecole Militaire Inter-Armes Dalat.' This is the author's first military assignment after he graduated from the..... More
New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1917. Fourteenth impression, 8vo, pp. x, [2], 315, [1], [4] ads; original red cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; spine faded, binding cocked; a good copy, but with a rare presentation from the author, "To W...... More
San Francisco: Maccords-PSG, 1971 [but printed in 1973]. 4to, pp. [4], 122; printed from typescript, in Vietnamese throughout; stapled printed wrappers with a few small rust marks, otherwise very good. Guidebook for native speakers involved with MACCORDS, the principal staff assistant to COMUSMACV and DEPCORDS, which was responsible for U.S...... More
New York et al. Praeger, [1972]. Fifth printing, 2 volumes, oblong folio, numerous maps throughout printed in red and black; spines a little soiled else a near fine set in original gray cloth-backed boards stamped in gilt on upper covers; publisher's slipcase soiled and with one smqall split starting at..... More
Boston: W.B. Clarke Co., 1900. 8vo, pp. 23; original tan staplebound printed wrappers, near fine. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1967. First edition, 8vo, pp. 288; preface by Dorothy Fall, numerous black and white photographs; Honolulu bookseller ticket on rear paste-down, some staining on lower edges, else a very good copy in a worn dust jacket. More
Boston: printed privately, 1916. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 219; portrait and engraved Farnsworth bookplate; green cloth with gilt device on front cover and gilt title on spine; light wear to boards, endpapers stained, else very good. His letters follow him from the American West, to Mexico, to Russia, and..... More
