Santa Fe: The Seton Village Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xiv,(10), 211,(9)pp. Brown cloth spine, white title, natural wooden boards, the upper board embossed in a vignette based on a feather design. Blue endpoapers. Title page printed in black and blue. Frontispiece photograph of the author in lscture costume..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855-1859. First English edition. Hardcover. 12mo Edition. Five volumes in 2. Full contemporary calf, spines in six compartments, gilt; reed and black lettering labels. Upper boards embossed with a gilt quotation on a banner: "Beati mundo corde". Volumes I and II are second state, the title..... More
St. Joseph, Mo. Combe Printing Company, 1894. First edition. Near fine. Thick 8vo. xii,13-545pp. Blue pictorial cloth blocked in black, brown and gilt, with title and vignette on the spine, and the title and an artist rendering of the scout on horseback on the upper board. Illustrated with full page..... More
New York: Henry T. Williams, 1877. Hardcover. 4tp. 309,(16)pp. Bound in victorian sand grain cloth in a purplish-brown color, the boards embossed in blind and the upper board with the title blocked in gilt. Peach-colored endpapers. Illustrated. Edges and corners lightly worn, spine tips worn, some staining most on..... More
Wasington, D. C. n.p., 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. xix, (1), 784pp. Brown cloth, gilt spine title, upper board blocked with a full cover decorative title in silver. Floral endpapers. Light wear, gilt darkened, else a very good copy. Born in Virginia in 1844 with roots to the Revolution..... More
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Thick large 8vo. 703pp followed by the errata page. Publisher' blue cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and in gilt and black on the upper board. Illustrated with four portraits on steel. Brown coated endpapers. The cloth is rubbed at..... More
Washington, D. C. W. F. Roberts Company, (1931). First edition. Hardcover. Thick 4to. xii, (2) 628pp. Red cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Profusely illustrated with full page halftones. A fine, bright copy. The errata sheet is present. The author was Wamdi Kasapa, that is, Honorary..... More
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 185. First edition. Hardcover. 8VO. XII, (13)-432pp. Publisher's drab cloth blocked in blind and on the spine and upper board in gilt. Cloth well faded and gilt dulled, but the binding is strong and only lightly worn. Howes, C-726; Sabin 16339. More
n.p. (Denver and Salt Lake Railway), ca. 1929; 1938. Hardcover. Two volumes, both bound in textured cloth and embossed in blind with the title The 1929 edition is numbered No. 271 and was signed out to "H. N. Ralston, Bman". The 1938 volume is No. 608, and there is no..... More
Kent: Volair Limited, 1978. Limited edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Full calf. Spines in six compartments, gilt boards blocked in gilt; all edges gilt; moiré endpapers, ribbon markers. A fine bright set in publisher's slipcase. Issued in conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History. Contains the biographies and full color..... More
Santa Fe: Pennyroyal Press; The Press at the Palace of Governors, 2020. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Limited edition. Hardcover. Small folio. Finely printed on Zerkall Book paper by Tom Leech and James Bourland at the Palace Press in an edition of 60 copies. This is copy No. 36. 122,(4)pp. The..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. Early Edition. Hardcover. Brown ribbed cloth, blindstamped with double ruled borders on the boards. Title in gilt on the spine with blind stamping. Yellow endpapers. TItle page with illustration of the cabin. Lithographed map of Walden Pond present, opposite page 307. This is the 4th..... More
America (Philadelphia): Printed for the Subscribers (Robert Bell), 1770; i.e., 1770-1771. First American edition. Hardcover. First edition printed in America. Three volumes. 8vo. viii,(ii),360;(xvi),374;(xlii),351,(lvii)pp., but with several errors in pagination as noted by Evans. Contemporary full sheep; spines with simple gilt rules and volume numbers in gilt; red leather lettering..... More
New York, et al: Th A. N. Palmer Co., n.d. Stiff card. A complete set of fifteen cards, 8 by 17 inches, printed in black with letters and numbers in white showing the capital and lower case alphabet, numbers and symbols in the Palmer handwriting method. These cards were..... More
Evanston: The Shori Private Press, 1960. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 49,(3)pp. Hand printed on Ticonderoga Laid Text paper using types after Garamont. Bound in full marbled sheep. spine gilt with a red leather lettering label, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Housed in a slipcase covered in decorated paper. The binding is like..... More
