![Item #60748] Letter-Writing, business Forms and Book-keeping, for Public Schools. H. W. ALLWINE](/images/noimage.png)
Winchester, VA: Privately published, 1884. First Edition. Octavo. Original pebbled cloth, titled in gilt on front cover; 62,(2)pp; illus. Front free endpaper adhered to cover, with some darkening from adhesive; crack to hinge at gutter between pp 16-17 (holding strong); general wear and soil -- complete and Good. A scarce..... More
Stephens City: Stone House Foundation, 2007. First Edition. First printing. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author on title page. Octavo; pictorial wrappers; 81pp. Mild creasing at wrapper edges, else Fine. Privately-published history of African Americans in Frederick County, Virginia in the years directly before and after the Civil..... More
Baltimore: Christian & Fleet, Printers, (1884). Octavo. Printed paper wrappers; 22,(4)pp. Cord at upper left corner for hanging. Faint vertical crease, else a Near Fine copy, very well-preserved, free of markings or significant external wear. The Shenandoah Valley Academy operated at various locations in Wincheter from 1865 until its closure..... More
Winchester, VA: Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover, titled in gilt, 70pp. Ex-library, with white ink call number at base of front cover, discard stamp to title page and card pocket at rear. Despite flaws, otherwise sound, the text clean and unmarked. Issued..... More
![Item #60738] Original Cabinet Card of May Lillie. WESTERN AMERICANA, MAY LILLIE, A K. A. Mary...](/pictures/medium/60738.jpg?v=1675127350)
York, PA: Swords Bro's, [late-1880s]. Original cabinet card, measuring 11cm x 16.75cm (4 5/16" x 6 9/16"); captioned "May Lillie" in the negative. Image shows some trivial wear and soil along the upper edge; mount shows light wear to extremities, with some faint foxing on recto and verso; Very Good+..... More
Winchester, VA: By the Author, 1994. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8"); original blue cloth boards; 201pp; illus. Fine copy - free of markings or notable wear. Authoritative study of local decorative interior carpentry styles from 18th mid 19th century. More
Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, [1932]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Orange cloth stamped in black; viii,140pp; black and white illustrations. 1939 inscription on front free endpaper to Mrs. Elsie Guenther by Richard C. Wetzel. A firm copy, gently rubbed, light soiling to upper edge of front board, dampstaining..... More
![Item #60735] Original Cabinet Card of Pawnee Bill. WESTERN AMERICANA, PAWNEE BILL, A K. A. Gordon...](/pictures/medium/60735.jpg?v=1675127350)
York, PA: Swords Bro's. [mid-1880s]. Original cabinet card, measuring 11cm x 16.75cm (4 5/16" x 6 9/16"); captioned "Pawnee Bill" in the negative. Photograph with two slivers of loss along the left margin; mount showing trivial wear, with a few faint foxed spots on recto and verso; Very Good+. An..... More
Baltimore: Fleet-McGinley, Inc., 1928. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 30,[2]pp; illus. Modest wear and handling, a few tiny tears and creases to wrappers, with a small split to lower spine fold; some faint finger-soil to margins, else contents relatively clean; Very Good, complete copy. Biennial report..... More
![Item #60727] The Jungle. RADICAL, PROLETARIAN LITERATURE](/pictures/medium/60727.jpg?v=1675127350)
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. First Edition. Sinclair's landmark book, perhaps the most famous of American muckraking novels. Written in an attempt to bring attention to the depredations of capitalism and the plight of poor immigrants in Chicago, but succeeding instead in awakening Americans to startlingly unhygienic practices..... More
![Item #60726] The Way Some People Live: A Book of Stories. John CHEEVER](/pictures/medium/60726.jpg?v=1675127350)
New York: Random House, 1943. First Edition. First Printing, one of 2,750 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); red cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in dark blue on spine and front cover; dark blue topstain; [vi],256,[2]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, gentle sunning to spine and board edges, with some fading to..... More
![Item #60725] "Jews and Negroes: Unity From Collision" [In] Jewish Currents - Vol.23, No.1...](/pictures/medium/60725.jpg?v=1675127350)
New York: Jewish Currents, Inc., 1969. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 48pp; illus. Trivial external wear, else Fine. Contents include Coretta Scott King's "Jews and Negroes: Unity From Collision," an address she delivered at the Presidential Inaugural Spiritual Service at Brandeis University on October 4, 1968, which..... More
London: John Murray, 1842. "New Edition." 10th or later edition. Octavo (23cm). Two volumes in brown cloth, stamped in gilt on fronts and spines; plain endpapers; I: [i]-iv,[2],[v]-[x],[9]-424pp; II: [x],[7]-474pp; vol. I with frontispiece, map, 21 lithographic plates, and in-text wood engravings; vol. II with bifold frontispiece and 45 plates..... More
![Item #60699] Excerpt from "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" [In] Jewish Currents - Vol.17, No.7...](/pictures/medium/60699.jpg?v=1675127350)
New York: Jewish Currents, 1963. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 48pp; illus. Light wear and handling, tiny stain to lower edge of front wrapper; Near Fine. Contents include UN correspondent David Matis's lengthy article "Birmingham Diary: A Reporter's Observations," which contained on-the-ground coverage of the SCLC's..... More
London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol, and James Asperne, by W. Bulmer and Co., 1807. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm). Rebound in half black morocco with pink marbled paper over boards, gilt tooling to leather edges and to spine, top edge gilt; blue endpapers; [xvi],163,[1]pp; frontispiece, map, and..... More
Norco, CA: Friends of the Mojave Road Publishing Company, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. Textured green cloth hardcover; 232pp; illus, maps. Clean, tight and unmarked - about Fine. Illustrated guide for travellers on the Mojave Road, from the Colorado River to Camp Cady. More
New York: HarperCollins / Smithsonian Books, 2007. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 286pp; illus. Remainder mark to bottom edge of text block, else a tight, Fine copy in unworn dustwrapper. A new-appearing copy. More
![Item #60719] Another Montana Pioneer. B. EVANS, lara](/pictures/medium/60719.jpg?v=1675127350)
N.p. Privately published, 1960. First Edition. Sole printing. Small octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; 139pp. Tight, clean copy, free of markings or notable wear. Fine or nearly so. Account of Charles Evans, a Michigan-born settler to Montana in the 1860s. The "memoir" was written by Evans's daughter Clara, based on stories..... More
![Item #60714] Requiem for a People: the Rogue Indians and the Frontiersmen. Stephen Dow BECKHAM](/pictures/medium/60714.jpg?v=1675127350)
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1971). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xiv,214pp; illus. Inconspicuous bowing to front and rear boards, else a tight, Near Fine and unmarked copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.95 on front flap), lightly rubbed at folds and edges, Very Good+. Published..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; x,403pp; illus. Straight, clean and unmarked, about Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A very nice copy of this unusually scarce work, suppressed by the publisher after discovery that portions of the text had been plagiarized. More
![Item #60708] The Destruction of the California Indians. A collection of documents from the period...](/pictures/medium/60708.jpg?v=1675127350)
Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, 1974. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xiv,321pp; illus. A fine copy, tight, clean and unmarked. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped and with a small repaired diagonal tear at base of spine panel, Very Good. A documentary history of Native American genocide in California..... More
![Item #60706] Riding the Chuck Line: A Forester in Peace and War. Theodore S. WOOLSEY](/pictures/medium/60706.jpg?v=1675127350)
New Haven: Privately published, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on front cover; 116pp. Trace of rubbing on spine ends and board corners, else straight, clean and unmarked; Near Fine. Uncommon memoir by Woolsey (1879-1933), a major figure in the fields of forestry and conservation. With..... More
![Item #60703] The Sacred City of the Ethiopians, Being A Record of Travel and Research in...](/pictures/medium/60703.jpg?v=1675127350)
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. Second Edition. Octavo (23cm). Maroon cloth stamped in gilt; black coated endpapers; [xvi],309,[1],32pp; 32pp publisher's catalogue at rear; folding map printed in color, 4 folding plates, frontispiece and 4 full-page illustrations, numerous in-text illustrations. Ownership stamp of John A. Cockburn to f.f.e.p. verso. A...... More
London: William Pickering, 1852. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Half-bound in green calf and marbled paper, all edges sprinkled red; plain endpapers; [iii]-[viii],332pp. Former owners' names to title page. Tight and straight, lightly rubbed, spine leather dry and cracking, browning to endleaves, else clean: Very Good. Anonymously translated account..... More
Washington DC: 1838. 26x41cm. Vellum printed form completed in manuscript with affixed paper seal, with brief identification notes on verso. Secretarially signed for Martin Van Buren. Two old vertical folds, minor dust to verso, a few small age spots, but generally Very Good. A land grant for forty acres near..... More
