THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: Blockades and Coast Defense (translated from the Spanish)
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1899. 1st. Softcover. Octavo; 120 pages. With Tables, Maps, Diagrams. More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1899. 1st. Softcover. Octavo; 120 pages. With Tables, Maps, Diagrams. More
New York: Vantage Press, 1988. 1st. Cloth. Small octavo. (xi) 65pp. Photo-illustrations. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in yellow and blue decorative dustjacket. (SIGNED by the author). A personal sharing of a life fully lived in the natural beauty, wilds and challenges of Alaska. More
Evansville, IN: Unigraphic, 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xx, 913, [[66]pp. Indices. 54 leaves of plates; illustrations. Red board with silver lettering in near fine condition; a few ink notations by an Olmsted family relative provide corrections and additions to entries. Referred to in the Olmsted family as the 'red bible.'..... More
London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. 219 pp. Frontispiece and 7 photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Slight leaning to spine; darkening to upper page edges; minor wear to extremities; small snag rear board edge; still a near fine copy. Personal..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1971. First Edition. 8vo. 380pp. Index. SIGNED & dated by the author. Photo-illustrated wrappers in very good condition (spotting to page edges & rear cover; general wear; owner name). An account of Panetta's tenure as Civil Rights director in the Nixon administration. More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1971. First Edition. 8vo. 380pp. Index. INSCRIBED "To ***/Best wishes and/regards/Sincerely/Leon." Laid in is a TLS with envelope thanking the owner for their support in his 1976 campaign for U.S. Congress. Also laid in is a Vote Democratic slate door hanger for the campaign. Photo-illustrated wrappers in very..... More
Gardner, Mass. The Town of Brookline, [1914]. 1st. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 664pp. Photo-illustrations (including frontispiece portrait of the author). Printed by Meals Printing Co. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. A near fine copy (minor wear to extremities, more so to lower front corners; 2" tear to frontispiece tissue guard..... More
New York: Dial Books, 1992. First Edition, Third Printing. SIGNED "Rosa Parks, 1/18/92." 8vo. 192 pp. Photo-illustrations. Purple cloth spine over maroon paper covered boards in publisher's dustjacket. A fine copy, as new. The autobiography of Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005), an American activist in the civil rights movement best..... More
Boston: N.p., 1924. 1st. Hardcover. 1st edition thus. Octavo; xvi, iv, (2), 134pp, ad, 51 pp notes and index. A facsimile reprint of the first edition, printed in Boston in 1726, with notes of earlier editions and additions from the original manuscript. "Best early summary of New England's Indian troubles"..... More
Berkeley: Peacock Press, 1965. 1st. Softcover. 1st edition thus. Limited 500 copies (for private distribution only). Miniature (2 1/2" x 2 3/4"). (8)pp. Light blue stiff paper wrapper with title stamped in dark grey on front cover; stab-stitched with green string. Text printed in green with green-stamped peacock feather illustration..... More
Salt Lake City: University Of Utah Press, 2009. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo. New in dust jacket (in orinal shrinkwrap). More
Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing, 1989. First Edition. SIGNED by the author and INSCRIBED by several pilots in the U-2 program including Lt. Col. Richard S. Heyser(whose photographs led to the Cuban Missle Crisis), Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Halloran, Colonel Des Portes, Colonel Jack Nole, and Captain Tony Bevacqua. 8vo. 214..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1875. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo in brown cloth gilt-stamped at spine. Very Good to Near Fine (upper corners bumped). 43rd Congress, 2d Session, Ex. Doc. 1, Part 3. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number -..... More
Trappe MD: Trappe Bicentennial Committee, 1976. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. Octavo; viii, 158pp plus ads and map at rear. Photo restorations by Laird Wise. A near fine copy (slightly musty) in original navy blue cloth lettered in gold. INSCRIPTION to ffep "#48 in a limited edition/of 200 copies./To -------/Best..... More
[Chicago]: Chicago Historical Society, 1918. 1st. Original wrappers. First Printing. 8vo. 29, [2] pp. Frontispiec2 portrait. Brown printed wrappers in near fine condition (light foxing to first 3 pages; minor wear to extremities). Born in Massachusetts, Procter left at the age of 19 for Kansas to engage in the struggle..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. 1st. A brief, but particularly emotional inscription from the author to Stanford University President J. Wallace Sterling, appears on the front flyleaf. "For Wally - / who was there, / With warm regard, / Nate/May 1978." Dr. Pusey was the former President of Harvard University..... More
Washington D.C. Kennen Institute, 2008. 1st. Paperback. 4to. 42pp. Staplebound wraps in fine condition. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. More
Holyyoke, Mass. and New York City: Clark W. Bryan & Company, 1885. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 214pp. Index. Introductory Chapter by Judge James M. Barker. Orignal dark green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. INSCRIBED by Mrs. Petitclerc. A near fine copy (minor foxing; minor wear to extremities). Provides Cheshire's history..... More
Pennsylvania: Clarence M. Busch, State Printer, 1896. First Edition. Large 8vo. 627; 636 pp. Index. Illustrated with 63 two-page and single-page maps, sites and plans (60 in color); 8 large folding maps (7 in color); and 30 plates (27 in color), most depicting various forts. Errata tipped in. Index. Three-quarter..... More
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Published by the author, 1992. 1st. Original cloth. INSCRIBED by the author to a family member. First Edition. 4to. 294 pp. Photo-reproductions of various family members. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Small address label for the author inside front board; A fine copy. An uncommon, detailed genealogical..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1938. 1st. Hardcover. From the library of noted historica, Ralph Bieber, with his signature. First edition. 8vo. xviii, 289pp, including index and bibliography. Black & white illustrations; photographs; large fold-out map of the Southern Plains. Beige cloth covered boards; brown titles and illustration to the..... More
Fairlee VT: Philip G. Robinson, 1957. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition octavo; xii, 187pp. A Fine copy in original green cloth stamped in gilt. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Concord NH: The Rumford Press, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; xi, 172pp. A Very Good copy in publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and the front cover. Ffep inscribed by author "To Col. Frank C. Bolles, With sincere regards and appreciation of his kindness and courtesy -..... More
Honolulu? Arthur F. Rogers Publications, 1955. Fred Lum. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo; 56pp. A Near Fine copy (gift inscription to title page, uneven fading to front cover, faint crease at rear) in publisher's yellow illustrated wrappers printed in black and red. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First Edition, Limited to 1000 numbered copies, this being #996. SIGNED by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Large 8vo. x, 387 pp. Index. Frontispiece portrait of the author; photo-illustrated plates. Blue cloth with cream paper title label to spine, in publisher's acetate dustjacket and slipcase..... More