Philadelphia: Presbyterian Bd of Publication, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Issue "B" with 168 pages, not 169. Original publisher's decorated blind-stamped 16mo cloth (6 1/8" in height) with gilt spine titles. Three plates are called for, but this copy with only two. There is no sign that the third plate ("Captain.....
NYC: Club Women of New York Co., 1933. First Thus. Hardcover. 1st printing thus. Royal 8vo gilt-stamped & decorated burgundy cloth. 292pp. Illustrated with wonderful ads and several portraits, some full page. Frontispiece: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Eleanor), who wrote the facing address to the club women. Photo of "Reception.....
Watertown: Santway Photo-Craft Co, 1921. Soft cover. 1st printing (circa 1921 according to WorldCat). Oblong pictorial & stapled wraps, 6" x 9/1/2". (60pp). Title page attractively & rustically designed. One page introduction followed by very nice sepia toned photos. Two maps, one of eastern U. S. & the other, "Automobile.....
Evening Wisconsin Company, Milwaukee, 1897, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Gilt-stamped & decorative blind-stamped quarto with gilt-stamped new leather spine. 640pp. Illustrated with approx. 2 3/4" x 3/ 1/2" half-tone portraits. Index of approximately 475 men. Original marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. pp. 9-15 on Wisconsin history, the rest.....
Theodore AL: Bayley's, 1960. Soft cover. Circa 1960 tri-fold menu in tan & brown. Bayley's, near Bellingrath Gardens. Has map. Along with clean, folded Bayley's paper place mat. In printed Bayley's envelope with couple of ink notes on it & #29 in felt ink.
NY: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Book-of-the-Month Club edition although First U. S. Edition is stated, common for BOMC issues. Cloth. 271pp. Pictorial endpapers. Laid in is the printed BOMC folder with portrait of Dillard on the front panel. An absolute classic of natural history and personal.....
Antigo: n.p., 1941. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing. Printed wraps. (16pp). Illus. The official booklet for this high school tournament in northern Wisconsin featuring teams from Antigo, Athens, Eagle River, Manawa, Merrill, Own, Rhinelander, & Tomahawk. Each teams players are listed along with coach & principal. Many ads representing.....
Dayton: Charles McLean, 1944. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Printed brown wraps. 32pp. Illustrated with a few drawings & frontispiece portrait of the poet. Six-line presentation signed by Antrim but to no one in particular. Dedication reads, "To those wives and sweethearts whose insatiable craving for "men only" stories.....
Madison: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 252pp. Illus., including color plates. Appendices. Index. Fine in dj.
Rand - McNally, Chicago, 1884, 1884. First Thus. Hardcover. Narrow quarto (7 1/4" x 10 1/4") gilt-stamped & decorative blind-stamped cloth. 128pp. Colored diagrams. Colored maps. Contents are not world maps, but "States,Territories, & Provinces" (of Canada). Small owner's stamp on title page of "Louis Zahn, Town Rolling, Langlade Co.....
Baltimore: n.p., 1928. First Edition. Soft cover. Nearly folio printed gray-brown wraps. (40pp). Illus. We note condition first. There is a full page ad several page in which appears to possibly serve as a title page. The top one-half is missing. The bottom half says "By THE FLYING CLUB OF.....
n.p. Privately Printed, 1991. q. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to glossy pictorial wraps; white background with large brown bigfoot nearly filling the cover; brown & black printing of text on cover. Year of publication is not given, however, the cover drawing by Miner is 1991. THIS COPY SIGNED.....
Harrisburg, VA: privately published, 1993. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial glossy wraps. 164pp. Illus. Gentle ex-library copy with Berry's presentation inscription on the title page to the Waynesboro Library dated in 1998. The library's address stamp is on the bottom of the copyright page. Library's name and city.....
NY: Assouline Publishing, 2008. Hardcover. 2nd printing. 4to black hardbound. Unpaginated. Sumptuous black and white photos of New York City. Fine in dj. Sold by a real bookseller, not a warehouse minion.
Sugar Hill NH: Sugar Hill Historical Museum, 2008. Soft cover. Stated 1st printing but with #2 so I don't know if this is therefore a 2nd printing. Plastic pictorial comb bound. 85pps plus several unnumbered leaves. Illustrated mainly with historical photos. The museum is near Franconia, New Hampshire. Fine. Scarce.....
Cambridge OH: Gomber House Pr, 2000. First Edition Later Printing. Hardcover. 4th printing. 4to gilt-stamped cloth. 329pp. Illus. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Endpaper maps. Inscribed and signed by Booth. Fine in dj with short bump on front panel.
n.p. Tremont Dispatch and United States Mail Coach, 1840. Soft cover. Original "Way Bill From Brattleborough and Keene to Lowell and Boston." 8 1/2" x 14/ 3/4" WITH RARE TICKET (3/3/4" x 6"). Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western Lines of Stage. Three mild fold lines. The waybill is almost completely.....
n.p. Board of Legislators of Lewis County, 1970. Hardcover. No edition stated, but copyright 1970. Gilt-stamped cloth. 563pp. Illus. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Slightly bumped cover corners. Near fine. No dj, probably as issued.
Fairfield: Ye Galleon, 2000. Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. 1st printing of this nice, but scarce Ye Galleon reprint. Silver-stamped and green decorated green cloth. Unpag. Fine. No dj as issued.
Bayfield: Sunshine Studios, 1988. First Edition. Soft cover. 12 original & unused folded note cards with front color designs by Bresette, "a Lake Superior Chippewa from the Red Cliff Reservation", b.1947- d.1999. The cards, each with a striking original color design, represent the 12 months of the year. The packet.....
Chicago: Knight & Leonard Co., Printers, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. Gilt spine title. 195pp. Illus. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. INSCRIBED by the author in ink on front blank leaf: "Thos. J. Reeve Esq. / Compliments / of Wm. Bross / Chicago / 1888." Decorated endpapers.....
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printings both volumes. 327pp & 352pp. Illus. Index. Vg to near fine set unread with some pages unopened. Small blotch stain front cover of volume 1.
Colonial Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg, 1942. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Lovely leather bound copy, the 1942 fourth edition of this classic colonial cookbook printed in facsimile. Small 8vo leather with raised bands gilt-lettered spine label. 276pp. As the very few copies of this 1942 are in paper over boards or cloth, this.....
Washington DC: Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 1981. Soft cover. Three fine engravings on cream card stock in original envelopes. Abraham Lincoln 9" x 12", White House & Lincoln Memorial 6" x 8". I purchased these in Washington D. C. in 1982 as souvenirs. They are "unused" and have been.....
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 205pp. A sound reading copy. We note that even though this is not a library copy, there is evidence of removal of some sort of pocket on the ffep. Also the dj flaps have been taped down to the front.....