General History

New York: Ross History Co. 1914. (4to) 637, xii pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Decoratively stamped brown leather with gilt titles and designs. Marbled endpapers, color frontispiece, photographs, black and white and color illustrations, some musical notation, index. Minor cracks at the top and bottom of the front hinge, light wear to the corners and small tears to the top of the spine, minor damage to the back marbled endpaper. Introduction by John Hull White. Locale: United States. (Fraternal Organizations, Fraternal Organizations, Odd Fellows).

T T & J Tegg, London. Griffin & Co. Glasgow. J Cumming, Dublin., 1833. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Octavo. ; OR, COMPENDIOUS GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE ....KNOWN WORLD.... Quarter leather. Considerable wear to extremities. Spine cracked in centre. Text very good with little foxing. 800pp plus 6 foldout maps..

286+iv pages with five facsimile indigenous maps. Size Royal Octavo (9 1/2" x 7"). Issued in original wrappers. Volume five, Relaciones Geograficas de la Diocesis de Tlaxcala. Manuscripts of the Real Academia de la Historia de Mardrid y del Archivo de Indias en Sevilla. Year 1580-1582. First Edition.Modern scholarship continues to be deeply indebted to the labors of Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, less for any extended completed studies or synthesis than for a lifetime of collecting historical materials of the greatest importance to continuing investigation. His activities in Europe during the 23 years he spent searching out, copying and preparing for publication a vast store of prime documentary materials for the pre-Conquest and colonial history of Mexico have been abundantly documented. Paso y Troncoso saw his prime mission as twofold. First, he proposed to gather and publish as complete a corpus of Sahagun documents as possible. His interest in the great Franciscan had stemmed from the days when… Read More

44 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") issued in wrappers. From the library of Professor George M Foster.Biblioteca Aportacion Historica. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 55.Gerónimo de Aguilar, O.F.M. (1489-1531) was a Franciscan friar born in Écija, Spain. In 1511 Aguilar left Panama on a caravel sailing to Santo Domingo, accompanying the procurator Juan de Valdivia. They were shipwrecked near the Yucatán Peninsula due to bad weather, but Aguilar, along with a sailor from Palos, in Spain, Gonzalo Guerrero, were two of fifteen survivors. Strong currents brought them in their ship's boat to the coast of the modern-day Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Aguilar and the others were captured by the local Maya and scheduled to be sacrificed to Maya gods. He and Gonzalo Guerrero eventually managed to escape later to be taken as a slave by another Mayan chief named Xamanzana.[1] Here he and Guerrero were able to learn the language of their captors. Aguilar lived as a slave during his eight years with… Read More

Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers [0-7910-6659-2] [2002], 1st printing. (Hardcover) pp 1535-2276.. Near fine, no dust jacket. Covers the period 1919-1921. There is a small bruise on the fore-edge of the back cover and the bottom of the spine is rounded. (History, Irish Peace Treaty--1921, Peace Treaties, Treaty of Neuilly--1919, Treaty of Riga--1921, Treaty of Sevres--1920, Treaty of St. Germain--1919, Treaty of Trianon--1920, United States and Austria Treaty of Peace--1921, United States and Germany Treaty of Peace--1921, United States and Hungary Treaty of Peace--1921).

Preston School of Industry. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1994. No Edition Stated. Hardcover. Ex-library w/some markings; some rubbing to edges of spine and corners of covers, little bit of light soiling to page ends, pocket removed from inside rear cover left pull marks to endpaper; b/w photos; 310 pages .

viii+514 pages with frontispiece map. Quarto (10 1/2" x 8 3/4") housed in a custom slipcase. Translated by Maurice Keatinge. First English edition.
Bernal Dïaz del Castillo was a conquistador, who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernan Cortes, himself serving as a rodelero under Cortes. Born in Medina del Campo (Spain), he came from a family of little wealth and he himself had received only a minimal education. He sailed to Cuba in 1514 to make his fortune, but after two years found few opportunities there. Much of the native population of the island had already been killed by epidemics and forced labor, and in 1517 an expedition was sent to the smaller Caribbean islands to find alternative sources of labor. Dïaz joined this group, under the command of Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba. It was a difficult venture, and although they discovered the Yucatan coast, by the time the expedition returned to Cuba they were in disastrous shape. Nevertheless, Dïaz… Read More

New York: Selmar Hess, 1894. GREAT MEN and FAMOUS WOMEN- A Series of Pen And Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages In History- (Cpl. Set of 68 Parts Including Very Scarce Question Book)- by Charles F. Horne (1870-1942)- Illustrated- Selmar Hess, Publisher, New York- 1894- 1st Edition-1st Printing- Illustrated Softcover Wraps-4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall- VG++/ no jacket as issued. Question booklet is very scarce and in FINE+ condition- The 68 parts are conservatively VG++ only part 1 is rated VG- as is part 68. Others are closer to Fine. 2 Glossy engravings + 1 gravure per Part, that's over 200 illustrations, and they are gorgeous. See Our Photos- 24 pages of text on average per part not counting the engravings. Most pages are uncut!- Covers: Soldiers and sailors.--Statesmen and sages.--Workmen and heroes.--Artists and authors. Contributors include: Theodore Roosevelt, H. Rider Haggard, Hans Christian Anderson, Thomas Carlyle, William Lloyd… Read More

RARE/SCARCE.USED. GOOD CONDITION. HARPER & BROTHERS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1870. MAN AND WIFE, a novel by WILKIE COLLINS, author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White. Brown boards with ornate gold gilt titles on spine. TITLING REMAINS BRIGHT. Large octavo, original cloth, 239 pages [text printed in two columns] (followed by 4 pages of adverts). ILLUSTRATED with a frontispiece portrait and text vignettes. An important, early novel dealing with domestic violence, and marriage laws in Ireland and Scotland. A bright, clean copy. Signed and dated by former owners Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Wiswall of Newton Lake Falls, Mass. Sept. 1869.

THE FROZEN DEEP BY WILKIE COLLINS, AUTHOR OF "THE WOMAN IN WHITE" AND "THE MOONSTONE". PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM F. GILL AND COMPANY, BOSTON, 1874, 1ST AMERICAN EDITION. ILLUSTRATED BY ALFRED FREDERICKS. Green cloth boards with Black and gold gilt titling and ornamentation that remains fairly bright. Tight binding, bright pages. There is a liquid spill on a couple of pages as shown in our photos. USED. GOOD- CONDITION. Fabric at top of spine has split. ANTIQUARIAN. Will ship from United States. SUMMARY: "The Frozen Deep' was adapted for reading from the 1857 stage play of the same name during the Boston part of Collins's 1874 tour of America. It was further extended for book publication in The Frozen Deep and Other Stories (1874) and serialized in Temple Bar, August--September 1874."

London: London: printed by M. Flesher, for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1684. 1st Edition . Full leather. Near Fine. First edition, quarto; [12], 288, [52], 305-472, [12]pp., complete with imprimatur leaf preceding title-page and separate dated title-page to "An historical account of the College's proceedings against empiricks" on leaf 2P1 recto. In period style 20th century full leather by J.May of London (with only the lightest of wear), blind double fillets to board margins, five raised spine bands with gilt lettered spine label to second compartment, all page edges gilt, small single marginal wormhole to a few rear leaves not affecting text, first and last leaves marginally stained by leather turn-ins, occasional very feint spots and unobtrusive light paper browning, overall a clean copy of these important early accounts of the Royal College of Physicians undertaken, probably at the request of the College, by Charle Goodall, later to become its President. A… Read More

The Woman In White (1860 Harper & Brothers 1st Edition) BY WILKIE COLLINS. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860.[2], 260, [4, ads] pp. Publisher's brown stamped heavy cardboard boards with elaborate blind stamped Harper and Brothers cartouche on front and back boards. Ads state B. Miss Mulock spelled correctly. Used. Good- Condition. Our copy lacks it's spine. Some water-spotting noted. Please see our photos. States 1860 on the title page. In-text illustrations by John McLenan. Both pairs of chocolate brown endpapers are in good shape. Please see our photos. First American edition, second state, with first page of rear ads headed "By Miss Mulock," listing eleven titles, and verso advertising The Mill on the Floss [Gasson p. 160.] A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone, a smash success upon publication. Has become rare, like the author's gift for spellbinding tales. This book is acknowledged as creating and popularizing the detective/mystery genre in Victorian Great Britain. Will ship from Oregon.

Hammett, Dashiell: The Glass Key. Grosset & Dunlap Movie Tie-In Edition, 1931. Detective Mystery. USED. GOOD - / GOOD RARE ALAN LADD FILM NOIR. Original Madison Square lime green movie cast Dust Jacket is included. Jacket shows some loss and wear. COVER ART: Photo still from the movie features Brian Donleavy, Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd. Green boards with key motif at center front. Shoppers please note: pages are tanned as is typical of this edition. Not brittle. 282 pages.

WILLIAM FAULKNER! Stated Second Issue, 2nd Printing Thus. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. Faulkner, William: PYLON. Stated 2nd Issue, 2nd Printing 1935, Smith & Haas, NY. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL BLUE DUST JACKET. RARE SASCHA MAURER COVER ART. ART DECO. Used. Very Good-/ Very Good- Blue cloth, \ The second printing (stated). In second issue dust jacket (blank rear panel and flap. Faulkner's tale of the exciting, dangerous, and short-lived, sport of airplane "barnstorming". Set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Original source material for the 1958 film "Tarnished Angels" Starring Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, and Jack Carson and directed by Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987)."

702Christie10LittleIndian Ten Little Indians Dodd, Mead Greenway Edition, Copyright 1967 by Agatha Christie Mallowan. States: First published in the Greenway Edition in the United States 1978. Number line starts with 2. Used. As New Condition/VG Unclipped original bright orange fish motif dust jacket. Originally price on front flap $8.95 A nice, crisp copy in a mylar wrap. DJ spine states 24. Our DJ spine is slightly sunned. "Ten Little Indians, aka And Then There Were None and (offensive language alert) Ten Little N*ggers, is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November, 1939 as Ten Little N-ggers, after the children's counting and minstrel song, which serves as a major plot element."