Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1972. Cloth. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Russian text. Folio, lxi, 100, (318)pp. Gorgeous paintings! Scores of color plates and b&w reproductions in the 318 pages of illustrations. Bound in red cloth boards, with gold and black letters. Illustrated dust jacket... More
New York: Putnams, 1891. First Edition. Octavo. xiv, 187 pages, 2 folded maps. Originally was planned as a magazine article consequent to the raising by General Joseph E. Johnston of certain personal claims. Gustave T. Beauregard was a Creole Louisianan who after leading the attack on Fort Sumpter, oversaw the..... More
(New York, 2006): Viking. First Edition. Octavo. 340pp., Signed by the author. A story about identity theft, featuring the victim of the crime -- a lovely, strong-willed deaf woman named Dana Halter -- and the thief of her good name: a high-living lowlife named Peck Wilson, who's on the run..... More
New York (1984): The Viking Press. First Edition. Octavo. 326 pages signed by the author. A hilarious story about marijuana farming in northern California. Boyle's second novel and one that establishes him as one of America's finest writers. A fine copy bound in1/4 black cloth over tan paper covered boards..... More
New York; (1989): Viking. First Edition. Octavo. 224 pp. signed by the author. A collection of Boyle's finest short stories including "Modern Love", "If the River was Whiskey" and a half dozen more. A fine copy bound in 1/4 black cloth over lavender paper covered boards, spine lettered in copper..... More
New York, (1998): Viking. First Edition. Octavo. 466 pages. Signed by the author. A very finely interwoven account with Stanley McCormick whose persona is dealing with the Madonna/whore idea. Boyle's novels deal with the complex fantisies not just this man but of a very large number in American culture who..... More
Boston; (1981): Little, Brown and Co. First Edition. Octavo. 437 pages. The author pictures characters of the 19th century. What makes this important is that it shows the obsessions of the past are revisited by us today. We cannot escape history since it embodies us today. In an interview twenty-five..... More
(New York, 1987): Viking. First Edition. Octavo. 456 pp. Winner of the Pen/Faulkner award. Set in New Your's Hudson Valley in three time periods: the late 17th century, when the Dutch had begun to give way to the English along the great river's banks; the 1940s, when anti-Communist sentiment was..... More
London: Richard Bently and Son, 1889. Octavo. In two volumes. 274 and 300pp. The story of Arabella Stuart is quite intriguing. She should have become Queen. She as the cousin to James VI of Scotland, niece of Mary Queen of Scots and a distant cousin to Queen Elizabeth I of..... More
Cincinnati: George L. Weed, 1843. Orginal Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 22pp. Foxing. More
Cincinnati: Kendall & Barnard, Printers, 1844. First Edition. Octavo. 18pp. Early Ohio imprint. Plain paper wrapped around text. Text has foxing throughtout. More
New York: The Grafton Press, 1906. First Edition. Octavo. 249pp. Illustrated with six photogravures from original drawings by F.T. Wood. The story of the west in Montana, Nevada, California, etc,. about the railroad and its workers, the saloons, and more. Bound in black cloth decoratively stamped in maroon and gilt..... More
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New York: Author, 1875. Very Good Broadsheet, measuring 9 1/2" x 6" from Office of Dr. T.F. Burt, No. 69, William Street, New York. Dated in his hand January 4, 1875. He follows up on a consumptive patient, D.H. Cooper, of New Frankfort, Maine asking him if he is still..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1853. Small Octavo. 336p. frontispiece Hendrick Hudson. History from the earliest times with Indian troubles, Dutch and Revolutionary War to DeWitt Clinton and Tammany Hall. Verrazzani's voyage, treaty with the five nations, Washington commissioned, negro pot and more.Bound in gray embossed cloth, spine lettered and decroated in..... More
Pittsburgh: J.R. Weldin & Co, 1900. Ictavo. . 237 pages. An important account of Pittsburgh especially in the 19th Century when it stood in the shadow of Philadelphia's literary and architectural advances. The slow development of serviceable roads is why Water, Wood and Market Streets were the main part of..... More
San Francisco: Whitton, Towne & Co, 1857. First Edition. Octavo. From the library of Barry Goldwater with his bookplate. 438 pages illustrated with 5 wood engravings. Wheat (writing under the pseudonym Cincinnatus) accompanied H.S. Washburn, U.S. Deputy Survey from Fort Yuma traveled from Tucson writing not only about a potential..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1961. Dust Jacket. A Very Good Copy Third Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 264 pp. Third & best edition. Lightly chipped at edges. 24 b&w photos, fold-out chart loose in back of volume. Attractive. More
London: George Allen and Co., 1911. Octavo. Portrait frontispieces, xxv, 540 and xiv, 615 pp. Cook's biography comes from many letters Ruskin wrote to his parents, diaries, notebooks and friends, along with much information coming directly from some of his books. Ruskin's range of interests and achievements were quite staggering..... More
London; [1936]: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd. Octavo. ]. 263 pages, index, charts, photographs. The Lonsdale Library was the major guide to outdoor sports for the British Gentleman. Besides this major contribution, they also published books on salmon and trout fishing as well as hunting. The Times Literary Supplement review..... More
Mobile, AL: The Gossip Printing Company, 1892. Octavo. Author's autograph edition with portrait frontispiece signed. In addition, he has written a long note: "It is not the deeds men do, as much as their manner of doing that makes impression on an era." J.C. DeLeon, Mobile, January, 1896. [1-2]3--12, (1)..... More
Seattle, (1927): The Industrial Worker. First Edition. Octavo. 172p. A History of Militant labor in the United States The labor movement from the mid-1880's to the period before World War II, was not only subject to lockouts but more frequently the hired thugs of the Pinkerton Detective Agency alongside the..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). NF/VG, 211pp. A selection of articles on leading writers and historians of the 1st and 2nd centuries of the Roman Empire: Paterculus, Maximus, Pliney, and Quintilian; offering clues as to why they were read in the Middle..... More
Cairo, Egypt: Messrs. E.and R. Schindler, 1933. Limited Edition. Quarto. second edition limited to 750 copies of this standard edition. Several artist and students of the school of fine art in Cairo contributed art, photographic images and a map for this work. Also included is a the history and customs..... More
Georgetown: Georgetown University Press and The Sittering Foundation, 1945. First Edtion. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 244pp., with a foreword by Douglas S. Freeman. Inscribed by Father Joe (Joseph T. Durking, S.J.1903-2003) To Queenie and Tubby Sailor/with very sincere regards/Father Joe, S.J./Georgetown University.. A narrative of a soldier of the First Virginia..... More
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1863. First Edition. Thick Octavo. 2 volumes in one; xxv, 339 folding map of Seven Pines before chapter one of Vol. I and Vol. II folding map frontispiece of Fredericksburg, 359 pages. One of the most consulted of Southern sources for military operations. "The very..... More