Rare books from The FW Collections

O.H. Oldroyd. . 1901. Cloth, octavo, xviii and 305 pp. Foldout map attached at rear, in good shape. This edition was limited to 250 copies . This is recorded as 175. 305 pages. Illustrated with photos. Cardstock engraved plate of Lincoln and fold-out map are present. . Limited 1st Edition. 1901. Osborn Oldroyd (1842-1930) was one of the great collectors and early researchers on Lincoln and lived in Lincoln's Springfield home for several years in the 1880s. He accumulated thousands of items related to the president, many of which are at the Ford's Theater Lincoln Museum today. As part of this account Oldroyd describes personally retracing the route of John Wilkes Booth's flight, with a folding map of the route laid in. 82 illustrations including photographs from Oldroyd's collections, with an introduction by Thomas Maley Harris, a Union general who was on the commission to try the Lincoln conspirators and also authored books on the assassination. Signed by Author .

666 pages The Book contains a Narrative of the Most Interesting Events in the Career of each President; Thus Constituting a Graphic History of the United States. A Chapter was added showing the Hundred Years' Progress of the Republic. Contains steel cut illustrations of the presidents as well as wood engravings of the interesting scenes in their lives, together with illustrations of the centennial jubilee. Revised Edition. Published after the death of Abbott in 1877 with a small note at end of page 4 by Russell Conwell. The volume is bound in yellow cloth covers with stamped gilt and black letter/ornamentation on the spine and front cover. The frontispiece depicts George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, and Andrew Johnson. It has small water stain in left corner.

Platt & Munk, New York, 1933. Hardback. Condition: Good+.No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Eulalie Illus (illustrator). First Edition. Owner's inscription/blue cloth HB with pastedown color illustration of boy and girl holding hands and walking into the courtyard; Of a large fairy castle with black lettering, spine somewhat loose.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Good clean unmarked copy. 1933 edition,Includes Little Black Sambo. No 100C Printed on lower left of front cover.

Bobbs-Merrill Company 1917 (c) 1913, No place stated, 1917. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 36 pages with black and white and green illustrations.Illustrated by 5 full color plates by Fanny Y Cory (illustrator). original decorated boards. This uncommon book and its delightful illustrations refresh our memory and remind us why Fanny Cory was much in demand as a children's author and illustrator in the early 1900s.; Unpaginated. Spine rubbed and somewhat loose. some color plates may be missing, owner signature in pencil inside front cover. example in abe that purports to have 12 full color plates, is priced as US$ 299.96

Viking, 1945. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket Viking Press, 1945. First Edition. Condition Fine. Canary yellow cloth boards with blue stamp, light grey lines; corners square, front and spine clean and bright; Text block clean, tight, square, unmarked. Top edge stained blue. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Grapes of Wrath. Set on the Monterey waterfront, a fictional portrait of Steinbeck's real life friend and collaborator Ed Ricketts.

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) By Twain, Mark, New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First Thus . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Brehm, Worth. The front cover is loose but binding tight. Chistmas gift note inside front and back covers in pencil 1929. two smears inside front cover. moisture mark on outside cover, but pages not affected.Besides the colorful frontispiece, there are 12 internal duo-tone (black-and-white) glossy plates 421 pages of text. An early printing from 1923, this hardcover book has black matte cloth-covered boards with a colorful front paper paste-down. Corners are bumped.

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1917. Hardcover. Condition: very good- First Edition. 227 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated front board. Pages have no marks or tears, Spine worn no dust jacket

The Viking Press, New York, 1945. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Illustrated Edition. Book of the Month Club with the publisher's slipcase. A beautiful copy. The book is in excellent shape and is bound in the publisher's cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. It has one neat original bookplate of the previous owner. Otherwise the pages and book overall is clean with no writing or marks. An uncommonly nice-looking copy of a justifiably famous collection of four stories, illustrated profusely, including at endpapers, by Wesley Dennis in a four-color offset lithography process. The Panoramic, sweeping illustration at endpapers is breathtaking. Housed in a clean, Good condition cardboard slipcase, illustrated paper label complete and neatly affixed. Edges of pages are dark green. Tan linen cloth covers with green-ruled border to front cover, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. The Red Pony can be traced back to the fact that Steinbeck's father, John… Read More

Platt and Munk, 1930. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket 1st Edition. 8vo, red illus. stamped boards, a near fine copy, later state with Lil Hannibal as the last title and with trade mark under the title, prob. late 1930's. small scratch on front cover, all pages clean and unmarked, gift incription to first owner inside front cover

Harper & Row, 1974. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition in Near Fine first state ($14.95) dust jacket unclipped. This is SHEL SILVERSTEIN'S FIRST COLLECTION OF POEMS. Shel Silverstein was a tour de force, a creative genius who not only wrote phenomenal poetry and sold more than 20 million copies of his books, he also received two GRAMMY AWARDS, a GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATION, and an ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION. But Shel wanted to start out as a cartoonist, tracing the works of Al Capp at age 7. Shel would first come to public attention as a cartoonist for Pacific Stars and Stripes; it was a compilation of these cartoons that led to his first book, Take Ten. His cartoons found wider appeal and Shel found his voice through stories, poetry, and music. This extremely collectible, lovely first printing

Rising from sandbars on the Platte River with clarion calls, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) feels the urgency of spring migration. Elegant, noble, and spiritual, the sandhill crane is one of the most ancient of all birds. More than a half-million strong, flying in squadrons, these majestic creatures point northward to their Arctic and sub-Arctic breeding ranges. Theirs is an epic story of endurance through the ages. With 153 stunning color photographs, On Ancient Wings presents sandhill cranes in their wild but increasingly compromised habitats today. Over the course of five years, Michael Forsberg documented the tall gray birds in habitats ranging from the Alaskan tundra, to the arid High Plains, from Cuban nature preserves to suburban backyards. With an eye for beauty and an uncommon persistence, the author documents the cranes' challenges to adapt and survive in a rapidly changing natural world. Forsberg argues that humankind, for its own sake, should secure the cranes' place in the future.… Read More

Brown leather-like fabric bound cover with gilt embossed lettering, embossed cover detail, and 5 raised bands on spine; gold red and dark brown. This has a lot of shelf wear, front cover edges are rubbed and chipped. The spine has been rubbed and corners bumped. Spine is straight. Binding is tight. Red marbled end sheets and paste downs are clean and bright. Title page and index page have multiple creases and tears but the print is readable. Contents are in very good condition. Thumbed index tabs. Page edges have a lot of dust. All reference pages are clean and not marked

Local Purchase

Never Say Die say Damn. From the writings of Maureen Hathaway. Buzza Motto 1925 .4,5x7.5

Apache Talking Stick (hand made)
Purchased through Lincoln India Center.
Muskrat Skull and Fur. 17 inches
In good condition.The talking stick, is a tool used in many First Nations traditions when a council is called. It allows all council members to present their Point of View. The Talking Stick is passed from person to person as they speak . Only the person holding the stick is allowed to talk during that time period.