Los Angeles: Printed at the Press in the Gatehouse, 1964. iv, 7, portrait of Churchill with the "V" sign. This the speech which when given stirred the hearts of the English people to which Halifax recognizing his personal defeat says: Lord Halifax in "The Final Hour" says Churchill ‘mobilized the..... More
Bucyrus, Ohio: Forum Steam Printing House, 1882. First Edition. Octavo. Signed by the author. From the library of Barry Goldwater with his bookplate. 454 pages, [16]pp. advertising for travelers and illustrated with, 14 plates. . Like Mark Twain and U.S. Grant, Converse and his wife decided to travel around the..... More
Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967. First Edition. Quarto. xxv, 206 pages, maps, illustrations, portraits. Bibliographic references, p. 197-201. One of the half dozen best of the travel diaries of the California gold rush, rising above the merely routine and often momentous accounts. Here he was able to capture the..... More
Mexico: Imprenta Universitaria, 1940. Quarto. lxxii, 310 pages, illustrations (some in color), bibliography, notes, maps and plans. Essays on the Tarascan Indians of Michoacan. The issue of handcrafts with some color plates are important. A very good note on the rise of the radicals (agaristas) versus the conservatives. The reason..... More
Morengo Valley, California: Sagebrush Press, 1981. First Edition. Quarto. Limited edition of 475 copies. The present copy is number 94. 59(1)pp. This was Purcell's work in honor of Merle Armitage whose book designs using southwestern motifs which were incorporated whether he was writing on Stravinsky, George Gershwin, Martha Graham or..... More
Boston; 1850 and 1856: Little, Brown and Co. / Boston, Charles C. Little and James Brown. Octavo. In 10 volumes. One of the important sources on the daily life of the young John Adams as well as his early desire to master many subjects ranging from Latin and Greek, which..... More
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1910. Thick Quarto. Half-title, portrait frontispiece, xvi, 413 pages. After beginning with the Colonial Service, this work deals with the Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1818. It was at the start of that era that the resumption of the Highland Dress took place. It also deals with the..... More
New York: Bibliotheca Sacra, 1917. Octavo. Reprintedf from the Bibliotheca Sacra, 45 pages, an offprint combining the articles of Dr. Buchanan from the January and April 1917 issues. It is an important issue in determining the original western text of the Gospels. The original manuscript was sold by Bernard Quaritch..... More
San Francisco: A. Roman & Co., 1869. Octavo. Volume 3, August, 1869-, no. 2. - Volume 4, January, 1870. No. 1. This was a monthly periodical with articles written by various authors: Noah Brooks, Bret Hart, A.W. Chase, Prentice Mulford, Alice Cary, just to name a few written on various..... More
(Christensen Studios, Jackson, Wyoming, 2005). Quarto. 156p. Besides photography of his art, his essay "My place in the West" helps illuminate both his painting and the imageries that inspired him. A very fine book of a wonderful contemporary Western Artist. A fine copy still in original shrinkwrap... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First Edition. Small Octavo. 175pp. (2)pp. ads at rear, illustrated, half-title, frontispiece, engraved title page in the 4th state and regular title page, bound in publisher's red pictorial gilt cloth, pictorial spine gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers all edges gilt. A very nice clean copy..... More
London; 1840, 1841 and 1841: Chapman and Hall. First Edition in Book Form. Large Octavo. In three volumes. iv, 306pp, vi, 306pp. and vi, 426pp. Frontispieces and other illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne, These volumes contain "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Barnaby Rudge" and was originally published as..... More
London; (May 1864-Nov. 1865): Chapman and Hall. First Edition. Octavo. 20 original parts in 19. Part 1: (first state) which lacks of the printer's imprint at the bottom of Part I front wrapper, with slip that follows the plates present. Part 2. lacks slip "on the 31st of May". Part..... More
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1942. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies signed by Author, the present copy is number 155. 213pp., illustrated. Facsimile reproduction of the First Directory in envelope in front, large folding map at rear and examples of the news papers bound in. A near..... More
New York: The Chautauqua Century Press, 1896. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, 340pp., illustrated. The author himself is an astronomer from the Chamberlin observatory, University Park in Colorado. He writes in a plain and simple form to help the new astronomer to become more aquainted with astronomy, and the important instruments..... More
Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Co., 1856. Octavo. Third edition dated the same year as the first edition. Frontispiece, 366pp., 6pp. publisher's ads. An interesting account of life in the early settlement of Kansas. The author wrote this book during a three months' residence in the United States Camp, at Lecompton..... More
New York: The Neal Publishing Co., 1908. First Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece. 317pp., illustrated, Though not intended as a history, this work is historical in the respect that the author narrated actual occurrences in camp, on the march, and in the battle serving with several gallant men. The author was..... More
New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1865. First Edition. Thick Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 473pp.(verso blank), 2pp. publisher's ads, illustrated with 17 (as called for) engraved portraits with tissue guards. The author has presented what he believed were the most prominent Generals because including all of them would fill an encyclopedia.... More
Austen: (1983): University of Texas Press. First Edition. Octavo. 203pp., inscribed by the author to his historian friend Neil Fitzgerald. This is the first comprehensive literary, biographical, and cultural study of the novelist whom critics dubbed "the inventor of the American novel". This is a literary history as well as..... More
Philadelphia: M. Polock, 1857. Octavo. 237pp. This is the story of Jane Talbot, a love story written through letters. Bound in brown embossed cloth, spine lettering gilt but fading, spine ruled in blind, wear to corners, spine ends and edges with some loss of cloth, pale yellow endpapers. A very..... More
New York: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1943. Octavo. 156pp.The editor shows the importance of Brown's works by making available certain uncollected writings and he shows how they relate to the more important novels. Here, he presents essays now reprinted for the first time. Bound in dark blue cloth centrally stamped..... More
Athens, GA; (1993): The University of Georgia Press. First Edition. Octavo. 208pp., The author explores each of Brown's four Gothic romances. Brown, insisted he was writing American Tales, portraying the condition of our country. The author explores the ways in wihich his novels reflected America. Brown was the first American..... More
Philadelphia: M. Polock, 1857. Octavo. 263ppp., A compelling tale of sleepwalking, murder and violence set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1780s. Huntly’s growing obsession with Clithero, an Irish immigrant whose unpredictable and catastrophic consequences plunges both men into physical and mental danger, unsettling the colonial territories of the Delaware basin..... More
New York; (1937): American Book Company. Octavo. From the library of Professor Ernest Bernbaum (February 12, 1879- March 8, 1958) with his name and dated 1937. Portrait frontispiece, li, 242pp., Edited, with introduction, chronology, and bibliography by Ernest Marchand. A scholarly work with the complete story of Ormond. Bernbaum was..... More
Philadelphia:, (2004): University of Pennsylvania Press. First Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 249pp., Brown was considered the father of the American Gothic Novel. His first novel "Wieland, is the story of a religious fanatic haunted by demonic voices instructing him to murder his wife and children. This is the beginning of..... More