PYLE, Howard. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Compiled by Merle Johnson. Illustrated with 36 full-page plates by Howard Pyle (of which 12 are in color) on glossy paper, and numerous illustrations in black and white throughout the text. xvii, [1], 247 pp. 4to. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. First.....
PYLE, Howard. Howard Pyle's Book of the American Spirit. The Romance of American History Pictured by Howard Pyle, Compiled by Merle Johnson: With Descriptive Text from Original Sources Edited by Francis J. Dowd. Illustrations in color and black and white by Howard Pyle. Large 4to. New York: Harpers, 1923. First.....
LIVIUS, Titus. The Romane Historie Written by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a Chronologie to the Whole Historie; and the Topographie of Rome in Old Time. Translated out of Latine Into English by Philemon Holland. Woodcut allegorical device on title, woodcut portrait of Elizabeth.....
McMURRAY, John. Recollections of a Colored Troop. [Brookville, PA: n.p.], 1916. 1st ed. 93,[1]pp. Portraits. Orig. printed wrappers. Near fine. $3500.00 Rare. Not in Blockson or Nevins. Dornbusch II: 1727: "Printed in `a very limited edition, probably two hundred' from the type used for publication in the Jeffersonian Democrat." The.....
TOWNSEND, E[dward] D. et al. General Orders. War Department, Adjutant General's Office. Washington, DC: [General Printing Office], 1864. Sammelband. Orig. wrappers, titled in autograph, ribbon-bound. Some chipping to wrappers, else very good. Orders dated from 1 January to 29 March 1864. With ownership name of "Major John C. Henshaw, Judge.....
(NORTH CAROLINA). PALMER, I[nnis] N[ewton] et al. Circulars from Head-Quarters, District of North Carolina. New Berne, NC: [n.p.], 1864. Sammelband of 22 circulars dated 6 May to 15 November 1864. Many signed in autograph by the aide-de-camp. [bound with] Judicial General Orders, Head-Quarters, District of North Carolina, Nos. 1-22. New.....
MERK, Frederick. Fur Trade and Empire. George Simpson's Journal Entitled Remarks Connected with the Fur Trade in the course of a Voyage from York Factory to Fort George and Back to York Factory 1824-25. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1968 lxii, 370pp. Map. Orig. cloth in priceclipped.....
RHODES, Eugene Manlove. The Little World Waddies. Chico, CA: Carl Hertzog, [1946]. 1st ed. xxv, 234pp. Frontis., illus. Orig. cloth in priceclipped d/j. An internally clean copy with a slightly chipped d/j, else very good. One of 1000 copies. A collection of poems and stories by Eugene Manlove Rhodes on.....
LYDON, James G. Struggle for Empire: A Bibliography of the French and Indian War. New York: Garland Publishing, INC., 1986. xxi, 272pp. Original cloth. Fine. $25.00.
SHAARA, Michael. The Killer Angels. Orig. cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. New York: David McKay Co., [1974] 8vo. First edition. A Pulitzer Prize winner. A cheaply produced book, fine copies are few and far between. Many consider this novel the seminal work of modern Civil War fiction. It served.....
MITCHELL, John Kearsley, M.D. Five Essays. Edited by S. Weir Mitchell, M.D. Phila.: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1859. 1st ed. xiv, (13)-371pp. Orig. cloth, spine worn, but sound. A very good copy. This is the first book S. Weir Mitchell had a hand in writing. John K. Mitchell was the.....
SMITH, Gustavus W. Generals J.E. Johnston and G.T. Beauregard at the Battle of Manassas, July, 1861. New York: C.G. Crawford, Printer and Stationer, 1892. 1st ed. 48pp. Folding map. Presentation inscription signed by the author on front free endpaper. Original stiff printed wrappers in a custom cloth clamshell box. Very.....
[STONE, John Augustus]. Histories of Metamora, the Last of the Wampanoags, and Nick of the Woods, the Wandering Demon of the Forest. Phila.: Turner & Fisher, 1844. 1st ed. 36pp. Portrait frontis, titlepage vignette, illus. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Wrappers starting, light scattered foxing, else a very good. First edition. Very.....
MERRY, Robert W. A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent. New York: Simon & Schuster, [2009]. 1st ed. 575pp. Map. Orig. board, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. $20.00...
PHILLIPS, Paul C. The Fur Trade. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1967). 2 vols. Illus. xxvi, 686 & viii,696pp. A fine set in orig. cloth; in publisher's slip-case. Covers the 16th through the 19th centuries.
(FISK, JIM). SWANBERG, W. A. Jim Fisk: The Career of an Improbable Rascal. New York; Charle Scribner's Sons, [1959]. 1st ed. viii. 310 pp. Portraits, plates. Orig. pictorial cloth, non-pricelipped d/j. Spine panel of d/j lightly sunned, else very good or better.
(GETTYSBURG). MONUMENT COMMISSION FOR THE BATTLEFIELDS. Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg. Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1900. 1st ed. 3 Vols. 4to. 454;455-934;935- 1462pp. Plates, portraits, all five folding maps in pockets. Orig. gilt pictorial cloth. Faint scattered foxing, else a very good or better set. Tipped onto.....
RIIS, Jacob A. The Making of an American. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. Xiii,443pp. Portrait frontis., illus. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth, T.e.g. Very good or better.
RICHARDS, T. Addison. Appleton's Illustrated Hand-Book of American Travel. A Full and Reliable Guide by Railway, Steamboat, and Stage, to the Cities, Towns, Waterfalls, Battle-Fields, Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Hunting and Fishing Grounds, Watering Places, Summer Resorts, and All Scenes and Objects of Importance and Interest in the United States and.....
WASHINGTON, Booker T. The Story of My Life and Work. Cincinnati, OH: W.H. Ferguson Company, 1900. 1st ed. 423pp. Portrait frontis, portraits, plates. Orig. pictorial cloth. Spine very slightly sunned, else very good or better. Scarce. A version of Washington's Up From Slavery. With an introduction by J.L.M. curry.
STEGNER, Wallace. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [1982]. Limited edition. xxv,438pp. Folding frontis., plates, maps, map endpapers. Orig. cloth, publisher's pictorial slipcase. Fine. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author.
TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Translated by Henry Reeve. Edited by Francis Bowen. Cambridge, MA: Dever and Francis, 1864. 2 Vols. xxiii,559;xiv,499pp. Orig. cloth, printed paper spine labels. Some wear to spine ends and corners, labels toned and partially abraded, front inner hinge of vol. One starting, else a......
QUINCY, Josiah, JR. Observations on the Act of Parliament Commonly Called the Boston Port-Bill; With Thoughts on Civil Society and Standing Armies. Philadelphia: Printed for John Sparhawk, 1774. 60pp. 20th-century maroon cloth, spine gilt. Spine sunned [TO BE REBOUND]. Occasional paper flaws in margins (not touching text), scattered foxing, moderate.....
PICKERING, Timothy, Jun. An Easy Plan of Discipline for a Militia. Salem, New-England: Printed by Samuel and Ebenezer Hall, 1775. 28,169,2,[1]pp., plus one folded leaf and fourteen single-page plates. Original plain wrappers, stitched as issued. Front wrapper detached (but present), spine perished. Text lightly tanned, final plate torn in lower.....
(AMADOR COUNTY). [Mason, Jesse D.]. History of Amador County, California, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Oakland, CA.: Thompson & Wes, 1881. 344pp. plus scores of lithographic plates and portraits. Quarto. Original half morocco and gilt pebbled cloth. Spine slightly rubbed, else very good. .....