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Price: $249.94
Publisher: Providence, RI, Snow & Franham Company: 1925
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 41516
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket
Autograph; 318 pages; Warmly inscribed by the author, "With best wishes for your/ future happiness/ Sarah M. Algeo. / Somamset. Barrington, R.I./ Oct. 14, 1929" Maroon cloth stamped in gilt with title and facsimile of author's signature on front panel. Illustrated with 91 half-tones after photographs of those women and men active in the suffrage movement in Rhode Island as well as nationally. In this autobiography she described her long struggle for the cause of woman suffrage, which she began at an early age. In this book, are speeches by Anna Howard Shaw, letters to various ne... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $84.94
Publisher: London, Cassell and Company: 1915
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39513
Condition: Very Good
viii, 256 pages; Clean and tight in original navy blue cloth with gilt lettering and gilt image of crescent moon and star. Clean and tight in original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and the image of a crescent moon and star; cloth mildly rubbed at spine ends. Frontispiece photograph of Peter I of Servia, 12 addition photogravure portraits of various leaders in Servia, Eypt; Roumania; Greece, Bulgaria, etc. Chapter headings include: Sultan Abdul Hamid; Life in Constantinople; Sultan Mohammed V; Russian influence in Constantinople; Sheikh-ul-Islam; Khedive Abbas Hilmi; Emperor William... View more info
Price: $29.94
Publisher: Paris, Henri Veyrier: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 41437
ISBN: 2851992465
Condition: Very Good+
Monographie des hôtels particuliers et édifices publics; 307 pages; French text. Clean and tight in original bright red silk binding with extensive gilt lettering and decoration at spine and front cover, former owner's inscription on ffep. Binding has 4 faint marks on front cover, otherwise bright and beautiful. A wonderful architectural and social history of these areas of Paris; beautifully produced and profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings, architectural plans, etc. A very large and heavy book; requires additional charge for Priority or International shipping.; Experience the... View more info
![Image for An Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth [in Four Parts]](/assets/images/product/39594.jpg)
By: Baylies, Francis
Price: $299.94
Publisher: Boston, Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins: 1830
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39594
Condition: Very Good
All four parts bound together in mid-20th century binding of burgundy leather with marbled boards, large thick book. Green and white title labels with gilt lettering at spine, rubbed along hinges, light foxing to a few pages. Early owner's signature at top of first title page - "Wm. B. Groat" otherwise clean and tight. Part the First, From 1620 to 1641; Part II, From 1641 to 1675; Part III- A Narrative of the Indian War in 1675 and 1676; Part IV- 1677 to 1691. OCLC: 1892693 Francis Baylies (1783 – 1852) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and an historian. Born in Taunt... View more info
![Image for CELEBRATED TRIALS AND REMARKABLE CASES OF CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE, From The Earliest Records To The Year 1825 [Six Volume Set]](/assets/images/product/39173.jpg)
Price: $1,249.94
Publisher: London, Knight And Lacey: 1825
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39173
Condition: Very Good+
Clean and tight in lovely 19th century bindings of tan calf over marbled boards with leather title labels at spines in red and green with gilt lettering; raised bands and extensive gilt decoration at spines with armorial bookplate with coat of arms of John Croft Deverell to paste downs. Quite scarce as a complete set, particularly in this condition. George H. Borrow's first published work. Illustrations include portraits, courtroom scenes and a plan of a murder scene. Contents include accounts of many notable trials at Newgate between the years 1806 and 1825; charges include murder, fortune... View more info
Price: $34.94
Publisher: Alliance, OH, Bradshaw Printing Company: 1939
Seller ID: 40324
Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket
268, +120 photos pages; Clean and tight in original black cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and gilt image of a ship at sea in gilt on front cover. Very good pictorial dustjacket presenting a collage of several images from the author's photographs with a cutout revealing the title of the book at the spine. The book has never been read as indicated by the fact that the text pages are unopened and untrimmed. On the copyright page it states "First Printing July 1938 / Second Edition February 1939 / De luxe Edition, five hundred copies" This copy is not numbered. Illustrated wi... View more info
By: Cave, Henry W.
Price: $299.99
Publisher: London, Samson Low Marston & Company: 1900
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 41472
Condition: Near Fine
xii, 474 & [1, ad] pages; Publisher's cream cloth, blocked and stamped in gilt in an elaborate all-over pattern of leaves, slate grey endpapers, all edges gilt. A wonderful copy of the first edition of a handsome book -- of interest both for its subject: tea and its plantations, and the setting: Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka. A particularly well-preserved copy, with an inscription in ink on the verso of the front free endpaper: "For Annie G. Mawle / a present from / the Author's Sister." The spine is bright and shows neither toning nor fading, the endpapers are clean and fresh, wit... View more info
Price: $34.94
Publisher: Cincinnati, Press of Jennings and Graham: 1906
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 38854
Condition: Very Good+
Pictorial red cloth binding, lettered in white with silohuettes in black against a white background. White has flaked from lettering at spine. Fabulous photographs of sites and scenes from cotton pickers in Mississippi to the corner market in Havana, with dozens of Mexican and Cuban images in between. Clean, tight attractive book. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
By: Eklin, Salomon
Price: $99.94
Publisher: Upsaliæ [Uppsala, Sweden], apud Joh. Edman: 1779
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39769
Condition: Very Good-
[2], 20 & [1, engraved plate] pages; Instrumenta Graecorum rustica ex Hesiodo illustrata, adprob. ampl. ord. philos. in reg. academ. Upsal. praeside mag. Johanne Flodero ... pro gradu publico examini tradit Salomon Eklin, stip. reg. Wexionia-Smolandus, in audit. Gustav. maj. d. V. Maji MDCCLXXIX. Horis ante meridiem solitis. Small 4to. A rare dissertation, stiched and sewn as issued, never bound. With the engraved plate depicting Greek farm implements, with a printed legend recording names [in Greek letters] for 11 parts of these tools. Faint circular stain to the front cover, minor scrapp... View more info
By: Friendly, Fred W. ; & Martha J.H. Elliott ; [Inscribed to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart ]
Price: $149.94
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39385
ISBN: 0394540743
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Autograph; 339 pages; Inscribed by Friendly and Signed by both authors on the titlepage to Justice Potter Stewart (to whom the book is dedicated) and Mrs. Potter Stewart. The printed dedication reads: "To Potter Stewart, who has taught us / '...what the British Crown had feared -- / and what the American Founders decided to risk.'" Clean and tight in original binding in very good dustjacket, slight lean to binding. From the collection of Justice Potter Stewart who served as a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court for nearly 24 years. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Po... View more info
By: Gordon, Thomas F
Price: $49.94
Publisher: Philadelphia:, T. Belknap: 1832
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38923
Condition: Very Good-
508 pages; Clean and tight in original full sheepskin binding with gilt lettering and decoration at spine; rubbed at extremeties. Lacks the map referred to on the titlepage. An attractive example of this early historical reference for Pennsylvania in a nice period binding. Part I contains a general description of the state, its situation and extent, general geological construction, canals and rail-roads, bridges, revenues, expenditures, public debt, etc. Part II embraces ample descriptions of its counties, towns, cities, villages, mountains, lakes, rivers, creeks, etc., alphabetically ar... View more info
Price: $399.94
Publisher: Leipzig, Bernard Tauchnitz: 1860
Seller ID: 39160
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket
60 mounted albumen photographs; xii, 292; xi, 280 & [1] pages; Two volumes bound in one. Contemporary full vellum, with elaborate gilt-stamped decorations, title stamped in gilt: "THE MARBLE FAUN" (using the American title of Hawthorne's novel, rather than the British title "Transformation" which had also been adopted for this Tauchnitz edition. Pattern printed mounted silk endpapers, edges of the leaves decoratively stained red. The vellum and its gilt-stamping have been marvelously preserved in original freshness by a red fabric dust jacket, lined with paper. This scarce ... View more info
By: Hedin, Sven
Price: $49.94
Publisher: Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus: 1909
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 41203
Condition: Very Good
xviii & 405; x & 406 pages; Publisher's bindings: tan canvas-like cloth, spines and front covers boldly lettered in black, with color pictorial paper decorative onlays mounted to the front covers, medium brown endpapers with a Tibetan text. Each rear paste-down endpaper has a folding map tipped to the gutter edge. Too heavy for overseas shipping. This attractive two volume set represents the first German edition of this classic of modern exploration. Volumes I and II are each first printings. A third volume which was eventually added to the work several years later (1912), but that is not ... View more info
Price: $184.94
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam: 1849
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38319
Condition: Very Good+
Two volume set. Clean and tight in original green cloth bindings with gilt lettering at spines and gilt images of an archeological relic on front boards (similar images in blind on rear boards). Original owner's name on ffep "Mrs. Elizabeth Tweedy / Jan'y 1850", light scattered foxing, otherwise clean and tight; minor rubbing at corners and spine ends; very nice condition. All plates and maps present EXCEPTing the final folding map in Volume 1 -- "Map to Illustrate the Journeys". View more info
By: Lynam, Edward
Price: $19.94
Publisher: London, The Batchworth Press: 1953
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38651
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
140 pages; Inscription on ffep to Hope Patterson "HP / from Marianne Wilson / Woodbury / July 1958" otherwise clean and tight in original blue cloth binding in worn torn dustjacket (now in mylar cover). A wonderful book on the history of mapmakers and engravers. View more info
By: Maguire, Jack ; [SIGNED by Lady Bird Johnson ]
Price: $124.94
Publisher: Austin, Alcalde Press: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39112
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Autograph; 80 pages; Warmly inscribed and Signed by Lady Bird Johnson on the halftitle. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Related; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
By: Morse, Jedidiah
Price: $399.94
Publisher: Charlestown, Samuel Etheridge; Thomas and Andrews: 1804
Seller ID: 41529
Condition: Very Good-
vi, 628 pages; Printed by and for Samuel Etheridge, and for Thomas and Andrews. Original leather boards (rubbed, scraped, esp. at corners) rebacked in 20th century - leather spine, red leather spine label with gilt lettering. Some toning, otherwise clean and tight, lacks front free endpaper (blank). OCLC: 684247 ALL SIX FOLDING MAPS present, including North America, South America, the northern U.S. west to Illinois, the Southwest to the Mississippi, the Caribbean, and the Northwest Coast, scattered foxing. Consistent with the lack of information at the time, the first map does not define the... View more info
By: Multiple Authors
Price: $149.94
Publisher: Baltimore, National Biographical Pub. Co.: 1879
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39367
Condition: Very Good+
Clean and tight in original full leather binding with bevelled edges, gilt lettering at spine and decorative stamping in blind. Some rubbing to binding, an attractive example of this excellent reference for history and genealogy of the Maryland and District of Columbia region. 97 full page engraved portraits. OCLC: 2053381 Extremely large heavy book requires additional charge for Piority or international shipping. View more info
By: NIMROD [pseudonym of Charles James Apperley] ; & Henry Alken (illustrator)
Price: $149.94
Publisher: London, Downey & Co.: 1899
Edition: New Edition
Seller ID: 39518
Condition: Very Good-
238 pages; Beautifully illustrated with engraved titlepage and twenty full page colour plates by Henry Alken with captioned tissue guards. Contents near fine - clean and tight in contemporary binding of three-quarter dark brown morocco over pale green & cream marbled boards with marbled endpapers. Five raised bands at spine with gilt lettering and decorative gilt devices depicting foxhunting horns and whips. Leather chipped at head of spine; hinges secure, but leather cracking along edges of spine. A still attractive volume; requires careful handling. Charles James Apperley (1777–1843), ... View more info
![Image for FISHING MOMENTS OF TRUTH [and] HUNTING MOMENTS OF TRUTH [Kermit Roosevelt Jr.'s copy] [Two Volume set in slipcase]](/assets/images/product/40658.jpg)
By: Peper, Eric ; and Jim Rikhoff ; [Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt Jr.]
Price: $349.94
Publisher: New York, Winchester Press: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 40658
Condition: Fine
Autograph; xii, (2), 207; xii, (2), 208 pages; A limited edition two volume set in original red slipcase. This is No. 16 of an edition limited to only 750; each of these volumes in Signed on the limitation page by Jim Rikhoff and inscribed to Kim Roosevelt "with whom this editor has shared many a vicarious Moment of Truth (not necessarily fishing) thru the years." Like new in original bindings of burgundy leatherette spines with red boards. Colour frontispiece illustrations and black and white illustrations throughout by Milton C. Weiler. A collection of unique experiences from s... View more info
