Benvenuto Cellini
New York: Brentanos, 1906. many engravings. full leather - all edges gilt. a beautiful book. More
Biography
Betty Page Queen of Hearts
Dark Horse Books, 1995. First edition. soft cover. More
Graham's Magazine of Literature and Art 1850
1850. Illustrated with forty-two black and white engravings and eight hand-colored fashion engravings. Full twelve months of 1850 bound together in a thick 8vo. volume 6-1/2" x 10-1/4". Glossy marbled endpapers. At the end of June is the Table of Contents of the Thirty-sixth Volume, Jan. 1850 to June, 1850..... More
Jet Magazine
1982. Soft cover. More
Notable Men of Pittsburgh and Vicinity
Pittsburgh Printing Co., 1901. Illustrated with many halftone photo portraits of the prominent men of the times. 8vo. 9-3/16 x 6-1/2". Black pebbled cloth covered boards graved in gold. Attractive spine. Beveled edges. All edges of text block gilt. Glossy marbled endpapers. 415 pp. More
The Education of Henry Adams
Franklin Library, 1980. Full Leather. More
The Log of a Limejuicer, The experiences under sail of James P. Barker, Master Mariner
New York: Huntington Press, (1933). Twelve photo illustrations plus a vivid full color fold out chart of the Approximate track and noon positions of the ship "British Isles" of Liverpool - James P. Barker, Master on a Voyage to Pisagua, Chile from Port Talbot, Wales, A.D. 1905. Stated First Edition..... More
Lejeune: A Marine's Life, 1867-1942
University of South Carolina Press, (1991). Illustrated with photos and maps. 0872497712. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-3/8". 214 pp. including index. White leatherette covered boards stamped in gold. More
White Nights, The Story of a Prisoner in Russia
New York: Harper & Row, (1977). 0060102896. First U.S. Edition. 8vo. 5-3/4" x 8-1/2." Black cloth covered boards. Spine stamped in silver. Orange endpapers. Translated from the Hebrew by Katie Kaplan. The Times of London has called White Nights "nothing less than one of the greatest pieces of prison literature..... More
Richelieu
Phladelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, no date (1929). Illustrated with black and white photos of contemporary images of Richelieu. Eleventh printing. Red cloth stamped in gold. 8vo. 392 pp. including index. This is an astonishing story of an ardently Catholic cardinal, one of the first major exponents of nationalism..... More
Danton, A Study
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1928). First American Edition. Thick large 8vo. 9-9/16" x 6-5/16". 2" thick. 448 pp. including index. More
Folling Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
New York: 1943. Bernhardt Wall. First Edition. Hardback. More
Theodore Roosevelt and His Time
Scribners, 1920. First Edition. Hardback. More
A Gathering of Days A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32
o684163403. Inscribed and signed by the author. Later printing. Hardcover. More
Mad Anthony Wayne
New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. 8vo. Dark blue cloth stamped in gold. 351 pp. including index. More
Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832
New York: Coward-McCann, (1932). Stated First Edition. Royal 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Top of text block stained red. 384 pp. including index. One expects fine things from John Buchan, but in Sir Walter Scott he has surpassed himself. As the London Times in a two-column review said: "The hour occasionally..... More
Pilgrim's Way, An Essay in Recollection
Riverside Press Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First edition. Large 8vo. 9-1/8" x 6-1/4". 336 pp. Beige linen binding stamped in brown. "This book is a journal of certain experiences, not written in the experiencing moment, but rebuilt out of memory." More
When Iron Gates Yield
Chicago: Moody Press, n.d. (ca. 1950s). The dauntless story of the British Missionary in Tibet, captive in Chinese Communist hands for three years. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Blue cloth covered boards stamped in red. 254 pp. "In this well written . . . well-mapped . . . book a young..... More
Pilgrim's Progress
Franklin Library, 1976. A Limited Edition. 8vo. Full leather stamped in gold. Red taffeta endpapers. Red ribbon book mark. Printed in red and black inks. 381 pp. All edges gilt. The text of The Franklin Library edition is taken from the 19th Century text edited by Edmund Venables, Canon of..... More
My Private War, Liberated Body, Captive Mind: A World War II POW's Journey
New York: Pegasus Books, (2008). 9781605980157. First Pegasus Books edition 2008. 8vo. Black paper covered boards. Red paper covered spine stamped in gold. 310 pp. The vivid and emotional story of one soldier's heroic struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder. More
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll
1899. various illustrators and photo illustrated as well. first edition. cloth. More
The Use and Need or Life of Carry A. Nation
P. M. Steves and Sons, 1908. hardcover. More
The World of Carl Larsson
La Jolla: Hans-Curt Köstner, A Star and Elephant Book from the Green Tiger Press, 1982. Charming illustrations grace each and every page, most in color. 0914676938. First Edition. Square 4to. 11-3/16" x 11-2/16. Glossy pictorial boards. 193 pp. The Carl Larsson Exhibitions at the Amos Anderson Museum in Helsinki in..... More
The Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm
Ballantine, 1989. paperback. More