Americana

Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1919. Hardcover. Good+. A Lakeside Press Classics; 12mo, gilt stamped black cloth with top edge gilt; good+ (lightly cocked; shelfworn; spine ends bumped, worn, and crimped; corners worn; front hinge cracked; rear hinge broken; owner's name inked on first blank flyleaf; bookplate on front pastedown; black spot on rfep; pages toning); includes beautiful frontispiece of Christiana Holmes Tillson with protective overleaf; 169pp incl. index.

J. B. Lyon, 1907. G-/None. Wear/rubbing on boards/edges; boards a bit warped/splayed; front hinge cracked; some mildew spots in the center of some of the pages; some water damage pageblock. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1907. Fully illustrated with color plates. 000009669-X003

Richmond, CA: Dietz Press, 1955. First edition. Hard cover. Published Richmond: Dietz Press, 1955, first printing. Thick 8vo., xv+934 pp., illustrated with 32 plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Slight spotting to the cloth, mild foxing to edges and pastedowns, name on pastedown. Very good, clean, tight, unworn.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Boston: From the Press of the Christian Examiner, 1828. Leather_bound. Near Fine. 6 x 8 1/2 inches. 368 pages. Bookplate of Elisabeth Fisher Everett inside front cover. Otherwise pages clean and free of marking, soiling or staining. All page edges gilt. Gilt bright. Bound in contemporary full black calf with gilt rolled borders to both boards and gilt dentelles. The spine has four (false) raised bands with gilt decoration, and additional gilt decoration at the head and tail of the spine. Spine also has gilt title ("Chapel Services"). Owner's name in gilt to front cover. Very light shelf wear to edges and corners. King's Chapel is the oldest church in America with continuous weekly worship services. Its liturgy is a unique hybrid that reflects this history, largely based upon the 1662 English Book of Common Prayer . A truly spectacular example of this scarce liturgical work in an unusually well decorated American binding.

Hammett, Dashiell: The Glass Key. Grosset & Dunlap Movie Tie-In Edition, 1931. Detective Mystery. USED. Good condition hardcover in Good- condition Rare Original Madison Square lime green movie cast Dust Jacket features Brian Donleavy, Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd.

New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1922. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo. 292 pages. Hardcover with a tan, blue, green and brown pictorial dust jacket, now in mylar. The jacket is worn and chipped about the edges. Headcap of the jacket spine is especially chipped. There is tear at the lower right corner of the rear panel, stretching around to the foot of the spine, and there may have been some damping there as well. The binding of the book has a little paper stuck to the cloth in this area. The book itself is sound with secure inner hinges and clean text. Collates complete with 16 photos.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 461 pages, indexed. Hardcover in original green cloth dust jacket with a white paper label on the spine. Moderate wear to the jacket, which is housed in a plastic jacket cover. The book shows light to moderate wear and has secure inner hinges. The binding of the book appears to be quarter vellum, but this is not actually vellum. Lacks the paper label on the spine of the book itself, although the jacket has the paper label. Book is sound and clean within. Top edge gilt; fore edge untrimmed. This is number 160 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Collates complete with four illustrations, including the frontis.

McCloskey, Robert: MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS Publisher: The Viking Press, copyright 1941. Stated Fifth Printing Thus, May, 1944. Used. VG-/ Good- 2nd State$2.00 unclipped Dust Jacket. Jacket has some insect damage to back panel. Please see our photos. Caldecott Award winner for 1942. Unpaginated. 9 ¼ X 12 1/4. This title has been designated as the official children's book for the City of Boston.

[Abolition] [Slavery] [Millard Fillmore]. Message of the President of the United States, Communicating The Correspondence in Relation to the Claim of the Owners of the Amistad for Compensation, on Account of the Liberation of the Negroes on Board that Vessel. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1851. First edition. Publisher's original self-wrappers. 23 cm. 31st Congress, 2d session, Senate, no. 29. Some creasing and chipping to edges. Some light age toning. Very good.
OCLC shows eight holdings (Yale; Williams Col.; US Coast Guard Acdy.; Queens Borough Pub. Lib.; Univ. S. Maine; TAMU; Texas Southern Univ.) Contains the correspondence from Calderon de la Barca (in English translation) the Minister of Spain to the US Secretaries of State in 1844 - 1851 and the replies of the US Government. In February of 1839, Portuguese slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans from Sierra Leone and shipped them to Havana, Cuba, a center for the slave trade. Two Spanish plantation… Read More

Afoot and Alone; A Walk from Sea to Sea By the Southern Route. Adventures and Observations in Southern California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, etc. By Stephen Powers. Illustrated by Numerous Engravings. Hartford, Conn: Columbian Book Company, 1872"These were the happiest days of my life..in the large liberty and lawlessness of the prairies..." [from the Preface]
Condition: This original cloth hardcover is shown in the photographs. Binding is secure, toning is minimal, and no stamps, crimps or writing was found within. Please review photos and ask for more if necessary to make your best buying decision!
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n.p.: Myrtle Jones Longacre, 1963. Good. No DJ. Buckram cover is sunned and shows light soiling and shelf wear. Binding is split at title page. Interior is clean and without ownership marks. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. "A true account of the Jones family."

The Temperance Bugle Call, For use in Temperance Meetings, Public Schools, Normal Schools, Colleges and in the Home. By Lyman S Leason. Copyright 1916. First Edition. Published and sold by L.S. Leason and D.B.Gilbert. Lincoln, Nebraska: 1916. From "Beware of the Bottle" to "Our Glasses Upside Down" and "When We Vote Nebraska Dry" and some songs with new words to old melodies, this is straight out of the Prohibition Era. A piece of history that is scarce outside of larger rare book collections! ****************See Photos for full Index to titles.*************** Condition: NOT a library book. Good, complete condition as shown. Please review photos and ask for more if necessary to make your best buying decision! *Please Note: This item will be shipped to your address of record AND will require a verified signature upon receipt. Thank you for tracking your purchase and being available to sign for it upon delivery. We appreciate your business and hope to do business with you again! **Attention… Read More

Great Fortunes, and How they were Made; or the Struggles and Triumphs of our Self-Made Men. by James D McCabe, Jr. Numerous Illustrations, from Original Designs by G F and E B Bensell. Cincinnati and Chicago: E Hannaford & Company. 1871 First Edition. Includes individual sections with brief biographies of individuals within: Inventors, Merchants, Physicians, Authors, Artists, Capitalists, Publishers, Editors, Lawyers, Preachers, Actors. Condition: NOT a library book. Original binding with stunning gilt on covers, Spine a bit faded as shown with a small darker mark toward the bottom third, as shown in the photos. Please review photos and ask for more if necessary to make your best buying decision! *Please Note: This item will be shipped to your address of record AND will require a verified signature upon receipt. Thank you for tracking your purchase and being available to sign for it upon delivery. We appreciate your business and hope to do business with you again! **Attention International Buyers**… Read More

TWO SHEPHERD MEAD VOLUMES are included here: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, A Dastard's Guide To Fame and Fortune (unsigned) USED Good Condition/ Good Condition yellow publisher's dust jacket. 1952 Simon & schuster third Impression thus. 148 pages, 5 3/4 X 8 1/4 PLUS a 1965 Simon & Schuster Stated First Printing copy of "The Carefully Considered Rape of the World, a Novel about the Unspeakable" SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. USED. Good/Good- original $4.95 unclipped green dust jacket with photo of author on back panel. 245 pages 5 3/4 X 8 3/8.

New York, Exposition Press, 1950, hardcover, x-132 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Poor dustjacket, Signed and inscribed by the Author on the front endpaper "Fred; Somehow I managed to get this in print at last. Your encouragement was helpful. Geo." Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine-end and corner wear, foxing to edges. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price although a line has been drawn through it, rubs, scuffs, chips and soiling, stabilized in new Brodart sleeve. The story of the Taylor family farm near the town of Stamford in Schoharie County NY, from its founding by the author's great-grandfather in 1814 to the date in 1949 when it was designated as a Century Farm. Laid-in are photocopies of two newspaper articles from 1974 and 1979 relating the story of the final family owners of the property and their eventual sale of the farm and liquidation of the stock and machinery.