![Mississippi Provincial Archives: French Dominion [complete in 3 volumes]; French-English-Indian...](/pictures/thumb/1784.jpg?v=1600719313)
Jackson, MS: Press of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1927; 1929; 1932. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Full-page and text illustrations and maps. Vol. I covers 1729-1740, 488 pp; Vol. II covers 1701-1729, 694 pp.; Vol. III covers 1704-1743, 812 pp. All 3..... More
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1959. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher’s illustrated cloth. Illustrated dust jacket. Several illustrated plates and a map. 250 pp. Signed by Sandoz on front free endpaper. A fine copy in very good jacket. Jacket has some mild scuffing and a 1/2" closed tear at footer..... More
New York: Hastings House, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's quarter cloth over green boards. No jacket as issued. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Green stained top edge. Folding colored frontispiece, 8 pages of photographic illustrations, map printed on back paste-down. 527 pp. Signed and numbered by the author on colophon. Touch..... More
Belleville, IL: Buechler Publishing, 1929. Boards. Large 8vo. Original printed thin flexible boards. Dramatic frontispiece photographic illustration, numerous additional photographic illustrations. 569 pp. Ex-library with stickers on spine and front cover, stamp on bottom block edge, card pocket inside front cover, and embossment on title and rear pages. Previous owner's name..... More
New York: Redfield, 1852. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind-tooled decoration on covers. With the large folding map of the Mississippi. lxxx, 268 pp. Top strip of spine covering missing, and right edge of spine cover loose. Front board detached. Interior is excellent, and..... More
New York: Sherman & Smith, 1849. Cloth. 12mo. Publisher’s cloth, title within elaborate gilt design on front cover and spine. Engraved frontispiece and 125 text engravings. 234 pp. Lacking the map. Slight cock to spine and some minor edge wear. Mild foxing throughout. Occasional pencil notations. Tight and clean. A very scarce..... More
London: Printed for Thomas Wilcox, 1757. First Edition. Boards. 4to. Nineteenth-century half-calf over marbled boards. xii, 255pp. Front board detached along with first two endpapers. Endpapers not original, added later. Some unobtrusive foxing throughout. Lacks the folding frontispiece. Interior is excellent and otherwise complete. This is a rare first edition of the..... More
New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Frontispiece and several illustrated plates. [3], 493, [5] pp. Shelf wear to edges, and some small tears with loss at header and footer of spine. Sunning to spine. Hinges overopened but binding is sound. Browning to first few..... More
Chicago: Caxton Club / Lakeside Press, 1930. First Thus. Hardcover. 8vo. Original decorated boards. Gilt text on spine. Gilt top edge. Deckle edge. Hand-pressed pages. Frontispiece plus 7 full-page plates, including map. 234 pp. Small scuff at footer of spine. A fine copy. This is one of 350 finely printed copies of..... More
Chicago: self-published, 1903. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with pastedown on spine and gilt lettering on front cover. Gilt top edge. Numerous photographic and text illustrations. 323 pp. Corners bumped. Spine pastedown rather rubbed. Right edge of cloth spine covering torn from footer about halfway up. Ex-library with a stamp..... More
Century Magazine, 1891. Wraps. 8vo. Magazine pages in staple-bound modern wraps. Extract from Century Magazine, Vol. XLII, No. 6, October, 1891. 10 original illustrations by Remington. 837-848. Closed tear top of p. 843, intersecting with corner of illustration. Bright and clean. This is a short narrative by Lt.-Col. Sumner extracted from Century..... More
New York: Pantheon, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. 439 pp. Signed on front free endpaper. Very minor shelf wear. This is a signed stated first edition of Studs' 1988 collection of oral histories. More
John B. Alden, 1888. Thackeray, William Makepeace. Cloth. Corners are crushed and several pages in the middle are loose but attached. Top and bottom of spine are frayed. Some foxing and soiling throughout, but better than average for a book of its age. This is a scarce early edition of..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1902. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Green publisher's cloth with spine rebacked in black tape. Illustrated plates throughout and a folding map. 244 pp. plus advertisements. Spine rebacked and hinges repaired. Not terribly attractive, but very tight. Ex-library with sticker on spine and front cover, stamp..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1914. Reprint. Cloth. 8vo. Green publisher's cloth. Illustrated plates throughout and a folding map. 244 pp. plus advertisements. Cock to spine. Minor edge wear. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Hinges overopened. Occasional pencil notations. Small closed tear on folding map. Plate after p...... More
Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1927. First Thus. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Deckle edge.Hand-pressed rag paper. Frontispiece plus large folding map and bibliography. 197 pp. Very minor wear to corners. Signed twice by Williams, once on front free endpaper and again on colophon..... More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1956. First Thus. Cloth. 4to. Publisher's cloth. Publisher's sheet on the works of Abbe tipped in. Abbe's woodcuts throughout. Finely printed on Arches paper. 37 pp. Small scuff at footer of spine. Signed by Abbe on colophon. Excellent condition. This is a limited edition (numbered 159 of..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005. Paperback. 8vo. Wraps. 258 pp. Signed on title page. Scuffs and wear to edges. Autograph sticker on front cover. This is a signed paperback edition of Vowell's irreverent tour of American Presidential assassination history. More
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1931. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Deckle fore and bottom edge. Hand-pressed paper. 9 full-page illustrations, including frontispiece and a folding map. 301 pp. plus advertisements. Much speckling to spine and covers. Sticker residue on spine..... More
![The Papers of Daniel Webster [complete in 2 volumes]; Diplomatic Papers, Volume 1: 1841-1843;...](/pictures/thumb/2303.jpg?v=1630014843)
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1983; 1987. First Thus. Cloth. 8vo. Cloth. Vol. 1: 960 pp. Vol. 2: 820 pp. No jackets as issued. A fine set. This is a collection of the diplomatic writings of prominent American statesman Webster. More
London: Humphrey Milford, 1914. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on cover and spine. Deckle edge. With 2 maps. 271 pp. Light sunning to spine. Touch of foxing to endpaper and preface page. Previous owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper. A fine copy. This is a finely..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1897. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and illustration on cover. Many maps and text illustrations throughout. 595 pp. Both hinges overopened, and block is weakly attached to boards. Cloth covering spine coming loose. Ex-library with sticker on spine, and turn-of-the-century library card pocket inside front cover..... More
Boulder, CO: self-published, 1949. 3rd printing. Cloth. Large 4to. Publisher's cloth. Many illustrated plates by Wolle throughout. 544 pp. Ex-library, but only indications are an unobtrusive mark on spine, bookplate on front free endpaper, and card pocket on rear free endpaper. Sunning to spine, leaving title quite faded. Hinges overopened. Signed..... More
![Historic Mackinac [complete in 2 volumes]; The historical picturesque and legendary features of...](/pictures/thumb/1789.jpg?v=1600719380)
New York: Macmillan, 1918. First Edition. Cloth. Large 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, author and title within gilt design on both front covers. Gilt top edges. Color frontispiece in each volume, numerous full-page illustrations and maps. Color folding map in rear of Vol. I. Vol. I: 697 pp. Vol. II: 773 pp..... More
Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co., 1922. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on spine and design in gilt on front cover. Bottom edge uncut. Color frontispiece plus 7 full-page illustrations. 147 pp. Ex-library with sticker on spine and cover, stamp on top and bottom block edges, and card..... More