New York; (1999): Scribner. First Edition. Octavo. 523 pages. Inscribed: by the author "To Ron Combest--Here's the Vietnam book, Hope you like it. [includes his peace symbol', Stephen King 3/14/00. This is a novel that Kirkus Reviews calls King's masterpiece. Enclosed documents Letter I: February 25, 2000 to Stephen King... More
Frankerae: Leon Strickium, 1702. 12mo in 6s. Latin text. [14] 276, [28] . Lamberus Bos (1670-1717) was a Dutch scholar who was professor of Greek who wrote on the Greek accents and syntax. This work is considered his most important and was only translated in an abridged edition in 1830... More
(Lausanne, Switzerland; 1968): Edita Lausanne. Small Quarto. [. [92] pages, French text. a rich collection of Park's poetry and photography. In his translation of Park's poetry, Jean Vogel has captured "C'est Amour", "To Alain", and "Tarde Azul (bleu crepuscule) along with the flowing photographs that accompany the poems. The preface... More
Cornwallville, New York: Hope Farm Press, 1980. First Edition. Quarto. Signed by the author. 219 pages [9] pages, bibliography, illustrations, maps, portraits. Issued in a small print run this item is becoming scarce. One of the rural towns in the foothills of the Catskills. It includes Strykersivlle, Stone Bridge and... More
Austin; (1991): Nortex Press. First Edition. Octavo. 563 pages. Photographs, maps, documents. Bibliography. Index. Stephen Ambrose: "...the best history of a U.S. Army World War II division I have read..." A saga of a division in Normandy that stood was the lowest of the low and came to be seen... More
(Wesley Tanner, Printer; Berkeley, 1974). Small Octavo. 20 pages. Mabel Dodge Bullis wrote her small book and then three years later at age 94 in 1977 provided a lengthy memoir for the Anne T. Kent California Room History Project in San Rafael. She was the daughter of the County Surveyor... More
nd/np. Small Octavo. 2 pages. none recorded in OCLC. Preface page has a pastedown picture of Peter Reesor and notes: Born, December 25, 1775, Died, November 16, 1854. As Mennonites their family history shows persecution during the Revolutionary War and even afterward. They grew and prospered in Markham township where... More
Brussels: Kierssling and Co, 1895. First Edition. 12mo. 297pp, [4]. 15[1]pp.8th revised and enlarged edition, [8] leaves of plates (two folded), illustrations (some in color), maps. Includes the rare errata slip which corrects where the two troops were in the center (a minor point but important for exact study of... More
Boston; (1900): Houghton Mifflin. First Edition. 12mo. 156pp. frontispiece portrait. The author was one of the most remarkable literary and political historians of the South. His dream in the late 19th Century was for the South to have a two-party system (until the Civil Rights legislation of 1965, the South... More
Marceline, MO. D-Books Publishers, 2002. Limited Edition. Quarto. . Limited edition #19 (no limitation) 96 pages, profusely illustrated, Limited Edition no. 19. Lake County borders Clear Lake (the largest natural lake in California) and has become an important part of the wine region. What makes this such a nice volume... More
Philadelphia; Nd(ca.1852): Porter & Coates. Octavo. . [21]-465 pages, frontispiece. He served as the first congressional delegate from the Northwest Territory and first Governor of Indiana Territory. His key role in the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 led to his being nicknamed "Old Tippecanoe" He was promoted to Major-General after... More
Boston: B.B. Russell, 1876. Small Octavo. 452 pages, portrait frontispiece, illustrations. He overcame a childhood of abject poverty and after becoming economically independent championed the abolition of slavery, workers rights for both blacks and whites, as well as other controversial issues but after being one of the founders of the... More
(Zabava Print, Pleasanton, Texas; 2010). First Edition. Quarto. . xviii, 336 pages, illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits. Index, Bibliography, Appendices. Inscribed by the author to: Kevin, Katie, Liam, Owen and Graham, Much Love, J. Taylor Brite. This is a very extensive family history of the Brite's which begins in 1635 along... More
Las Vegas, Nev. (1982): Cox Print Co. Quarto. 358 pages, plus index. issued in a small print run, with six pages of plates and other illustrations. Inscribed by Nellie I. Cox with a poem about the strip she has written. A large and thorough book on the people with lists... More
Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. Cox Printing, 1982. Quarto. Second Edition. 250 pages, plus 6 page index. They describe the pioneer years of several Mormon families--the Ivrersons and Bundys--in northwestern Arizona, an area known as the strip. They deal with settlemens at Littlefield and Beaver dam in the 1890's, the trek... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1881. First Edition. Thick Octavo. Vol. I, xxi, 707 pages, [10 leaves of plates (1 folded); Vol. II, xvii, 808 pages [23] leaves of plates (13 folded); includes bibliographic references and indexes.. Along with Bledsoe and Alexander Stephens, this massive work forms the most significant defenses... More
Baltimore: Printed for the Author By Innes & Company, 1866. First Edition. Small Octavo. vi, 263 pages. Bledsoe was in the vanguard of the "Lost Cause" theory of southern history. His work is still the most closely argued among the other two important writers Alexander Stephens and Jefferson Davis's massive... More
New York; (1894): D. Aooleton and Co. Limited Edition. Octavo. 332pp., portrait frontispiece, illustrated with 6 maps showing the battlefields of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, Rea's stations and the action of Boydton road. This is a part of the history of the Civil War under the command of General Hancock... More
New York: New York Universty Press, 1984. Quarto. In six volumes. this six-volume set edited by Edward F. Grier comprises all of Whitman's notebooks and unpublished prose manuscripts except those published in William White's Daybooks and Notebooks (1978). Of the 1,300 items included, about half were not previously published, but... More
New York: Kraus Reprint Co, 1970. Octavo. 2 volumes bound in original blue cloth. Vol. I, xxxvii, 445 pages; Vol. II, xii, 569 pages. 5 plates, 14 portraits on 12 plates (including frontispieces). The 13th President of the United States who moved from the Whig Party later to the Know... More
Hannibal, Missouri: H. Haines, 1944. First Edition. Octavo. 70 pages, illustrations, portrait. A scarce book (Library of Congress duplicate]. William Callaghan (1797-1866) had a devoted negro helper on his farm named Isaac Crawford who he had known since Isaac was about 12 years old. They worked together, became friends, and... More
Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1827. 12mo. iv, [1], 6-160 pages. William Fowle was a prominent educator who saw the folly of relying purely on rote memory and the parsing of verbs. Instead he wanted the reader to see whole sentences and paragraphs rather than burying themselves into details to please... More
Inscribed by Robert M. White, Major, USAF to Specialist Class 5 to William Van Buskirk who later became a Mormon bishop of New Orleans in 2014. Photograph measures approximately 8 1/2" x 9". Major Robert White was featured in Tom Wolff's book The Right Stuff. He was also the first... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1864. Thick Octavo. First Lippincott edition. Frontispiece, clvx, 659 pp., vi pp. index. Bibliographic References, Edited with important notes by John C. Hamilton (son of Alexander Hamilton). Max Beloff of Oxford considered this the most important edition both for its text and the introductory essay by John... More
San Leandro: The Conjuring Historical Society, 1981. Octavo. 160 pages. Signed by Clay H. Shevlin who notes only 300 copies were printed of the first edition. What makes this so useful is the title page of the most important books on the subject are produced with notes on why each... More