West Concord, MA: Hadley Press, [1929]. 2nd Edition. Cloth. 8vo. 8.5"x6". Purple cloth. Gilt lettering to front cover. Frontispiece. [13], 12-70, [2]. Minor edge wear. Several superficial stains to front cloth. Additional notes pasted on recto and verso of title page, as issued by publisher. This is a scarce case study meant..... More
1934. Hardcover. First page has a nameplate: "Ex Libris Roland H. Bradley" and is stamped twice: "R.H. Bradley" and "APR 9-1934". Light pen marks in pages 111-118 where previous owner bracketed and underlined several passages, mostly dealing with the ACLU. Self-published in 1934, this rare 352-page title details the organizations and..... More
Washington: Cornelius Wendell, 1857. First Edition. Cloth. Large 4to. Brown cloth with embossed decorations. Many steel engravings, woodcuts, and color lithographs throughout, as well as fold-out maps and charts bound in. Part I: [xvi], 258 pp. Part II: [xiii], 174 pp. Cloth covering spine is removed, but binding is not affected..... More
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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1906. First Thus. Cloth. Large 4to. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spines and gilt armorial device of the Virginia Company on covers. "Old Stratford" watermarked paper. Deckle edge. Facsimiles of documents. Vol. I 1619-1622: 636 pp. Vol. II 1622-1624: 611 pp. Edge wear to covers..... More
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Albany, NY: Joel Nunsell, 1867. 2nd edition. Boards. 8vo. Contemporary boards. Hand-pressed paper. Deckle edge. Printer’s device on title. 204 pp. plus errata leaf. Front board detached. Read board split but attached. Interior is excellent. Tight and clean. Pasted inside the front boards is an envelope containing a 4-page manuscript letter..... More
![How the Steel Was Tempered [complete in 2 volumes]. Nikolai OSTROVSKY, R. Prokofieva](/pictures/thumb/64.jpg?v=1576376701)
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1952. Reznichenko, A. Hardcover. Set of 2 hardcovers (parts 1 and 2 of the novel) without dust jackets, handsomely embossed. The cover of volume 1 is rather stained, and both are stamped on flyleaf: "Distributed by 'NEWS-FACTS,' 753, Bathurst St., Toronto." Both are illustrated and..... More
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New York: Macmillan, 1920. "New edition" Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Very minor shelf wear to bottom edges and corners. Each volume bears the signature and attractive bookplate of Frederick R. Whitman, a history teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire from 1917-1945. This is..... More
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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
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
Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1924. First Edition. Cloth. Large 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Deckle edge. Hand-pressed rag paper. Frontispiece portrait of John Sevier. 371 pp. Minor edge wear. White mark on front cover, seems to be paste residue. Inscribed by the author on..... More