Past and Present of Calhoun County Iowa Volume 1 - a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement by Stonebraker, Beaumont E - 1915: History of Calhoun County Iowa Volume 1

Boston: G. Alex Emery. Very Good. 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in soft covers, rebound in marbled boards with leather corners & spine including the original covers. Early Boston imprint. Text tight, clean & intact. Eight islands, 10 miles southeast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Illustrated with 12 full page engravings. Outer covers with spine end wear, have protected the original text well. Interior VG+. New England; Engraved Illustrations; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 35 pages .

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, hinges cracked, dampstain at top . and bottom margins, Volume three and four boards dampstained and bowed, . volume three noticeably more sunned at spine.. 1881. Hardcover. Complete in four quarto volumes. Uniformly bound in full dark brown leather with all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Six compartments on spine stamped in blind and in gilt. Gilt-stamped turn-ins. Numerous illustrations, signature facsimiles, heliotypes, maps, index in each volume. A handsome set. Volume I: xxxii, 596pp, later printing; Volume II: lviii, 577pp, first edition; Volume III: xii, 691pp, first edition; Volume IV: x, 713pp, first edition. A sweeping history of the Boston area and sketches of some of its most famous citizens from the colonial era through the late 19th century. Howes W 576. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

A substantial arts and crafts trade catalog for 208 bungalow style homes. Home pictures have been cut from 15 pages presumably for sales. Plans cost from $8 to $15 . estimated construction from $758 to $4000.Near fine, bright copy= good +

New York: Random House, 1999. Signed on the title page by the author and dated 4/30/99. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, gold paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The third book in the Watson Trilogy. Matthiessen won the National Book Award for Shadow Country, which reworked the trilogy into a single volume.

[Mexican-American War] Taylor and his Generals. A biography of Major-General Zachary Taylor; and sketches of the lives of Generals Worth, Wool, and Twiggs; with a full account of the various actions of their divisions in Mexico up to the present time; together with a history of the bombardment of Vera Cruz, and a sketch of the life of Major General Winfield Scott ... Philadelphia, E.H. Butler & Co.; New York, Burgess, Stringer & Co. 1847. Gray printed wraps. 17.75 cm x 11 cm. Illustrated. Map. 326 [8 ads] pp. [3] p. of the publisher's advertisements on endpapers and back cover. Covers separated, chipped; corners bent and bumped; water spots; scattered light foxing. Good.
Dorothy Sloan calls the second edition in wrappers, with 326 pages
"rare." See Catalog 24, No. 435. The first edition with 318 pages was published the same year as the second edition of 325 pages. See Haferkorn, The War With Mexico… Read More

Appleton-Century, 1941, 1st . Hardcover . VG-/VG-. Spine cocked; trace of shelfwear; bottom corner bumped. DJ w/ some rubbing/edgewear/chips; 1/2in chip top rear; couple faint stains on spine; in new Brodart protector. Illustrated with B&W drawings by Edward Caswell.

Philadelphia: Barker Moore & Mein Medicine Co.. Very Good+. ca. 1910. Softcover. No date: Ca: 1910. Clean soft pictorial covers with cloth spine. Text tight, clean & intact. . Pages lightly age toned. B/W drawing illustrations. Humor based on ethnic, racial or sexual stereotypes. Comic book filled with cartoons, stories & jokes - all have one of Barker's products as the punch line. Humor; B&W Drawing; Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Unpaginated pages .

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

Port Sunlight Near Birkenhead- UK: Lever Brothers Ltd., 1870. FUNNY STORIES- Mark Twain and LETTERS TO PUNCH- Artemus Ward- Lever Brosthers, Ltd.- Port Sunlight Near Birkenhead- UK- sn,nd (1870?)- 1st Edition- Hardcover:-12mo- Original publishers maroon cloth with gilt titles on cover and spine- covers have bevelled edges- VG+- no dj as issued-light rubbing but clean and tight- Funny Stories 173pp, & Letters to Punch 195pp + 1-4pp ads for banks, elixirs, pills, transparent cement etc + 18pp of Ward Lock book ads- illustrated with pre-chapter and end of chapter illustrations/decorations- SEE PHOTOS- Contents: Eye-Openers: Funny Stories by Mark Twain- from 'Autobiography to Medieval Romance...Science vs Luck--a bevy of Mark Twain stories- + Artemus Ward- "Letter to Punch"-'Arrival in London' -to Essays and Sketches- writings in the Cleveland Plain Dealer etc- A great book and 1st Edition- World Cat states: Funny stories-Author: Mark Twain; Artemus Ward-Publisher: Port… Read More

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.