New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover. Illustrated dust jacket. 198 pp. plus additional unpaginated story. Price clipped. Edge wear to jacket, with some chips to header and footer of jacket spine, a chip at top edge of..... More

Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1928. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Gilt top edge. Deckle edge. Hand=pressed paper. Frontispiece folding map. 299 pp. Minor shelf wear and bumped corners. Ex-library with mark on spine, bookplate inside front cover, and card pocket on front free endpaper. Front hinge overopened but..... More

Walter J. Black Company, 1928. Cloth. Covering at top of spine is ripped. This is a 728-page collection of Haggard's novels: Cleopatra; She; King Solomon's Mines; Allan Quartermain; and Maiwa's Revenge. More

Berkley Medallion, 1962. Paperback. This is a scarce pulp book of "true action stories of the island war in the Pacific." Edgewear and a green mark on the first page, otherwise very good. Pages are a little brittle as well. More

Albany: Joel Munsell’s Sons, 1885. Wraps. Small 4to. Publisher's wraps. Hand-pressed paper. 94 pp. Interior is excellent, clean, and unmarked. Wraps are poor and quite fragile, with numerous chips and detached rear cover. 1891 owner's mark on front free endpaper. This is a limited printing in original wraps of the journals of..... More

HEYERDAHL, Thor. Kon-Tiki for Young People. Chicago: Rand McNally. 1st edition. 4to. 11.25"x8.25". Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt decoration on cover. Illustrated endpapers. Many photos and color illustrations by William Neebe. 165 pp. Missing dust jacket. Signed by Heyerdahl on half title. Very good. HESSELBERG, Erik. Kon-Tiki..... More

Stitt Publishing Company, 1905. Gibson, Charles Dana. Hardcover. Owner's name inscribed on flyleaf. Pasted inside front cover is a 1933 obituary for Mr. Hope, the book's author, and this clipping has left a stain on the facing flyleaf page. This is a handsome 1905 American edition of Hope's classic adventure..... More

Triangle Books, 1946. Cloth. This is the Triangle Books reprint of the classic mystery novel about a blind detective and his seeing eye dog. Missing dust jacket. Previous owner's info inside front cover. A few stains on cover and some paper residue at bottom of front cover, probably from a...... More

Stockholm: B. Wahlstroms Bokforlag, 1937. Leather bound. In Swedish. 8vo. Quarter leather over marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Marbled top edge. Marbled endpapers. 254 pp. Rubbing to edges. Leather covering spine is peeling away from the footer and left edge. Tight and clean. This is a Swedish translation of American writer..... More

London: R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1835. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Contemporary cloth with floral design in blind. Vol. I: xi, 321. Vol II: viii, 336. Binder's copy. Spine coverings removed, so boards detached. Scuffing to edges and corners. Interiors excellent, clean and complete. This is the first edition of a significant..... More

London: T. Cadell, 1802. 2nd edition. Leather bound. 8vo. Contemporary calf. Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of Mackenzie. 290 pp./332 pp. No maps present. Boards are damaged. Several strips of leather missing from spines of both volumes. Front boards of both volumes detached. Mild spotting and toning to pages. Unmarked, with very good..... More

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1893. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt stamped illustration on cover. Numerous full-page illustrations. 325 pp. plus 3 pp. of advertisements. Light scuffing to edges, and corners are a bit bumped. Minor foxing to front matter, and a 1/2" closed tear at top of frontispiece page..... More

New York: Macmillan, 1915. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Text illustrations throughout. 218 pp. Minor shelf wear. Large section cut from center of title page. Tight and clean. This is an early reprint of McMurry's collection of biographical sketches of American pioneers. More