New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. Engraved frontispiece, 245 pages. One of the finest travel guidebooks to the Southwest in the early 20th Century. Ernest Peixotto was known not only as a fine artist especially with superb pen and pencil work but for an astute view of..... More
London; (1928): John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to only 100 copies. The present copy is # 1 and unopened. Portrait frontispiece, engraved pictorial title page and full page illustrations which include a special section of those illustrations suppressed for the Yellow Book. xiv, 109 pp..... More
San Francisco: Press of Bolte and Braden Co., 1911. First Edition. Quarto. 377 pp. (5) publisher's ads, illustrated with photographic images. H.M.M.B.A. The Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, which was an organization formed in Chicago in 1879 for leading hotel professionals in the United States. This book was written about..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1908. First Edition. Octavo. Later printing. xii, 347 pp.(1)pp. publisher's ad, photographic frontispiece and 34 other photographic images.The author's travels through Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and California pointing out the beauty of various sights with images to match. A very nice copy bound in green..... More
Salt Lake City, Utah: 1928. Limited Edition. Octavo. imited to 1000 copies. 198 pp. illustrated with photographic images, nice folding map at rear, together with five early itineraries covered in part by this Company, with supplementary data compiled from historical sources and notes and photographs taken along the line of..... More
Pasadena, California: George Wharton James, 1913. Octavo. 377 pp. (5) publisher's ads, illustrated with photographic images. H.M.M.B.A. The Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, which was an organization formed in Chicago in 1879 for leading hotel professionals in the United States. This book was written about the trip made from those..... More
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley and Sons Co., 1906. Octavo. . 340 pp. Frontispiece, illustrated with photographic images through. A complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the Great Northwest. Revised to 1904 by C.E. Hooper. This is a book that describes a vast territory..... More
Norwich, Conn. The Henry Bill Publishing Co., 1888. Small Quarto. Engraved presentation page, xxxvi, 715 pp., Six books in one volume comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising and marvels of agriculture, with 330 fine engravings and maps. Bound in green..... More
Pasadena, Ca. Socio-Technical Publications, 1970. First Edition. Quarto. 73 pp. Researchers had overlooked the very items upon which the fur trade depended on, the actual trade goods or the denominators of the Indian trade. These items, beads, silver brooches, earrings, bracelets, hatchets, guns and more have a fascinating history. This..... More
New York; (1944): Reynal and Hitchcock. First Edition. Octavo. Inscribed by the author to Paul Schubert, a newsman and author married to cosmopolitan editor Francis Whiting. The author of "The Ramparts We Watch" analyzes the strategy of the final steps to victory and the means of achieving permanent peace and..... More
New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1952. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, 219 pp. translated by Carol Della Chiesa. Inscribed by the author to his dear friends Frank and Josephine Gulotta. This is a story of thousands of children left fatherless and motherless by the war. The author, the Monsignor Carroll..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1953. First Edition. Octavo. Inscribed by the author to Cosmopolitan Editor Frances Whiting and radio journalist and commentator Paul Schubert. 286(1) pp. The romance of an ambitious English girl and an American G.I. Bound in blue cloth ruled in red, spine lettering dark blue, upper corner..... More
Boston, (1974): Little, Brown and Co. First Editions in English. Octavo. In two volumes:286 and 267 pp. illustrated with diagrams. This is the re-examination of the economic foundations of American Negro slavery. It constitutes an entirely new portrayal of slavery's past and a past, and shows which black Americans struggled..... More
Chicago: (1880): W.G. Homes. First Edition. Small Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, and another portrait, 388 pp. with an introduction by Rev. S.C. Bartlett, tipped in on the verso of the dedication page is an original photographic postcard taken in 1903 of Mary and one of her two husbands (most likely Riggs)..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. First Edition. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, 396p., illustrations. Copyright was in late 1871 but not issued until 1872. Even Wright Howes M-275 made this error, however, modern bibliographers have shown there was no earlier issue. Marcy includes many items from his early career to his..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1934. First Edition. Octavo. 33 pages. This is the concluding volume of the great trilogy of sea adventure. The tale of the Bounty's mutineers. An account of the mutineers after they leave Tahiti in 1790 and end up establishing a tiny kingdom on a tiny..... More
New York; (1911): Thomas Y. Crowell Co. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. Mostly unopened save for the first few 29 pages with page one having been opened carelessly leaving the outer margin a bit ragged. Considered the best translator of Tolstoi's work, Dole begins with Tolstoi's ancestry as far back..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903. First Edition. Octavo. . 421 pp. The story of a fictitious narrative of a "deal" in the Chicago wheat pit. This was going to be part of a trilogy; The first was The Octopus, a Story of California and the third The Wolf..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition. Octavo. First American edition, signed by the author on the title page, 273 (3) pp. This story takes you from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of south-central France. A multilayered..... More
Boston; (1914): The Gorham Press. First Edition. Octavo. 168 pp. Author's first book limited to 1000 copies. O'Neal published this work August 17, 1914, at his own expense. After only one printing, the type was distributed. A near fine copy bound in gray paper covered boards back in beige cloth..... More
Indianapolis/New York; (1939): The Bobbs-Merrill Company. First Edition. Octavo. Most likely a second issue binding. After her landmark work, The Joy of Cooking, the author decided to write a quick and easy book she says is more economical and practical for the hurry-up cook, one that will actually lighten her..... More
Akron, Ohio: The Werner Ptg. And Mfg. Co., 1887. First Edition. Octavo. 131 pp. This unique cookbook includes recipes such as Oyster Croquettes, Frizzle Beef, Eggs Au Plat, Royal Diplomatic Pudding, English Currant Bread, White Mountain Cake, Hickory Nut Macaroons, Spanish Pickles, and more. Also included is a discussion of..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First Edition. 12mo. First issue according to Smith. 269(1)pp., four wood block vignette illustrations by Marcus Stone. The story of Dickens’ travels through Italy by carriage. Bound in 3/4 green polished calf over marbled paper covered boards, raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated, red..... More
Harford, Conn. American Publishing Co., 1894. Firat Edition. Octavo. First issue. portrait frontispiece, with tissue guard, 432 pp., illustrated throughout within the margins. The story is set in the antebellum South. It highlights the problems of slavery, and racial discrimination which had become severer, even around 30 years after the..... More
London: The Chiswick Press (printer), 1867. Quarto. xvi, 415 pp. illustrated with four mounted photographs (one used as frontispiece). Gray was educated at Eton, where he forged long-lasting friendships with Horace Walpole and Richard West. He corresponded with both Horace and Richard over the years and some of their letters..... More