Abraham Lincoln - 2 volume set
Cambridge Mass. Riverside Press, 1893. Limited edition. Hardcover. Cream/Beige board covers. 2 volumes frontispieces, portraits. Two hundred and fifty copies printed. This is #111. Great reader's copy. More
Cambridge Mass. Riverside Press, 1893. Limited edition. Hardcover. Cream/Beige board covers. 2 volumes frontispieces, portraits. Two hundred and fifty copies printed. This is #111. Great reader's copy. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939, 1940. Hardcover. 4 vols. Blue stamped cloth, 2503 total pp., 426 BW illus. and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters, documents. 4 vols. Sandburg's classic Civil War biography of the 16th President of the United States. Book binding all match, although the first volume..... More
New York: Paragon House, 1988. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; bw dj with color illustration on front, red and white lettering, mylar cover; xii, 224 pp, bw illustrations. "the fascinating story of Steve Jobs and his meteoric rise to great wealth and power as co-founder of Apple..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards; Light yellow djs.; 413 pp., 469 pp.; 10 and 12 bw figures. More
Wilmington, DE: 1851. First and only NOT A REPRINT. Softcover. Blue printed and sewn wraps. 25 pp. Jones commanded the "Wasp" in her encounter with the "Frolic" in Oct. 1812. The address also includes notices of other military and naval heroes from Delaware. Worldcat locates 9 copies. More
New York: CBS Records, 1968. Softcover. Black ill. wraps. 43 pp. Numerous bw plates. Personal look into the life of Stevenson. More
New York: Christie's, 2018. Softcover. Black and white illustrated wraps; 33 pp; illustrated in bw and color. Catalogue of an auction held in New York on December 4, 2018. More
Evanston, IL: Krehbiel Corporation, 2020. Fourth Edition. Paperback. Grey wraps with color illustration and dark grey lettering; 106 pp.; richly illustrated. More
Saint Petersburg: Liki Rossii, 2011. Hardcover. Color illus. paper over boards; 199 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw. Text in Russian; Biography of Alexander III of Russia; Includes many pictures of his family, homes, etc. More
Nova Scotia: Maritime Telegraph & Telephone Company Limited, no date given (1970s or 80s?). Softcover. Beige pictorial stapled wraps; 20 pp.; 17 bw photos. An essay about the life and work of Alexander Graham Bell. More
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2010. Hardbound. Brown boards w/ color pictorial DJ, [xx] 284pp, numerous BW figures. From the publisher--These delightful letters provide an intimate portrait of the complicated, talented Tocqueville, who opened himself without prejudice to the world of Jacksonian America. Moreover, they contain many of the..... More
Valencia, Spain: Museu Valencia de la Illustracio i de la Modernitat, 2008. Softcover. Red-and-black illus. wraps; 159 pp.; 27 figures, 6 color and 21 bw. Text in Catalan; Texts from a conference held discussing the life of Alfons Roig, a priest, teacher, and writer who championed abstract art and poetry..... More
(New York): Macy-Masius : Publishers, 1927. Original Edition. Hardcover. Grey cloth/boards. Gold title labels on front cover/spine; black lettering. Decorative end papers. 402 pp. with bw frontis tipped on. Portrait frontis by Wilfred Jones. Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American statesman who..... More
Zurich: Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 2006. Hardcover. Four volume set housed in an orange cardboard slipcase with white and black lettering and a bw illustration on front. Volumes 1, 2, and 3 are orange boards with bw illustrations on front covers, white and black lettering. Each of the first three volumes..... More
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1980. Softcover. White & BW illus. wraps, 60 pp., many BW illus. Text is in German. Issued in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of German polar researcher and geophysicist Alfred Wegener. Quite an illustrated biography, complete with coverage of his Greenland expedition and..... More
Newark, N.J. Carteret Book Club, 1930. One of 200 copies printed. Hardcover. Quarter-bound brown cloth spine and illustrated paper over boards; spine has gilt lettering; 49 pp. (uncut and untrimmed). Reprinted from Harper's magazine. More
Vincennes, Indiana: Francis Vigo Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, 1985. Second Edition. Softcover. Cream wraps with brown linen spine. ii + approx [100] leaves. 18 BW plates. A type-face volume, second edition of the 1975 original. In four parts with essays by other authors, including French Period; "Grouseland," the..... More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1995. First. Hardcover. Plum paper/boards with plum cloth spine; copper lettering. Color-illus. dj with white embossed lettering. 591 pp.; 10 bw maps; 24 bw illus. on glossy paper. Volume I in a series. Through the wealth of autobiographical material Washington left behind, Clark weaves historical..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1999. Signed First Edition, with authentication certificate. Hardcover. Navy blue leather boards with five compartments and four raised bands; gilt illustration and lettering to boards and spine; cloth bookmark; fully gilted textblock edges; certificate of authenticity; 640 pp.; illustrations. This is a signed and numbered first..... More
Not Identified: Not Identified, 1983. Paperback. Colorfully illustrated wraps with white lettering; 287 pp.; 1 unnumbered leaf of plates; richly illustrated; inscribed message from author Helen Ireland Hays. Book by Paul Bransom, as told to Helen Ireland Hays. More
Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1954. 1st edition, signed. Hardcover. Mylar covered dj; white cloth covers. 381 pages illustrations. "Vogue magazine's famous editor tells her own story -- and that of Vogue and fashion -- over a period of sixty years." More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt letters on spine, white and illus. dust jacket, illus. flyleaves, 191 pp. "This rich collection of essays, poems and letters reflects the many facets of Daniel Berrigan [1921-2016]: priest, war resister, poet, spiritual writer, moralist, affectionate son..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2005. Hardcover. Green and black DJ with green, white and black lettering and b&w photo illustration; black boards with gilt lettering on the spine; xvi, 371 pp.; richly illustrated. "In An American Lens, Jay Bochner looks at a series of milestones in the development of the..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1927. First. Hardbound. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. top-edge gilted textblock. XXII, 390 pp.; richly illustrated. Horace Porter (1837-1921) served as a Civil War soldier and was personal secretary to General and President Ulysses S. Grant and to General William T. Sherman. More