‎Biography‎

‎Beadle, J H‎

‎Life In Utah;‎

‎Philadelphia: National Publishing Company 1876 . New edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 540 pages original green embossed cloth slight tidal line at bottom edge. Lacks the folding map not cited in the list of illustrations . <br/><br/> Flake/Draper 344. Beadle left Indiana and lived for years in the West especially as Editor of the "Salt Lake Reporter". Both a lawyer and a journalist Beadle's anti-Mormon columns and books were a vertiable bastinado of hyperbole designed to quash any incipient admiration for Mormon industry sobriety and brotherly love - Leonard Arrington.": Illustrated with 37 woodcuts. National Publishing Company hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4617

‎Norton, Sam‎

‎Rolling Stones Gather No Moss Drought Grasshoppers and Dust Storms in the Dakotas & Reminiscence: a Collection of Short Stories Sequel to "Rolling Stones" 2 Volume Set‎

‎Coeur D. Alene ID: Sam Norton. Fine. 1998 1999. First Edition. Plastic comb binding. Both volumes are inscribed inside the front cover but the name of the recipient has been crossed out. An interesting autobiography of ranching written in a very irritating format all caps. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 98158 pages; Signed by Author . Sam Norton unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 24281

‎Mumey, Nolie (by)‎

‎Alfred Edward Mathews 1831-1874: Union Soldier Illustrated of Civil War Battles Author Traveler Map Maker and Delineator of Western Scenes Esp. Those of the Territories of Colorado and Montant‎

‎Boulder CO: The Johnson Publishing Company 1961. Laid in is 'Interesting Narrative; Being a Journal of the Flight of Alfred A. Mathews' enclosed and in pristine condition in blue wraps; Uncut fore-edges faint moisture spot on top edge of fep else very clean and tight. Rear folded and pasted down map on bep. Blue cloth spine with red and white decorative paper boards light bumping to head and foot of spine. 78pp. including index. Cloth Spine/w Paper Boards. Near Fine. Illus. by Paste Down Frontispiece. 4to - over 9¾" 12" Tall. Hardcover. The Johnson Publishing Company Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : SB10234

‎Hood, J B (Lt-General)‎

‎Advance And Retreat‎

‎New Orleans LA: Hood Orphan Memorial Fund 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo 358 pages cloth front hinge cracking weakened joints tips of spine worn foxing minor tidal <br/><br/>Remarkable important memoir by one of the South's better field commanders. Illustrated from photographs. Howes H622; Eicher 240. Maps folding map. "The controversial and sometimes bitter memoirs of a maimed Confederate general - Nevins II p.65." Hood Orphan Memorial Fund hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 5023

‎Reynolds, John Hamilton‎

‎Reynold's History of Illinois. My Own Times‎

‎Chicago Historical Society 1879. Second edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 395 pages cloth <br/><br/> Howes R236; Buck 57; Boggess 229; Flake: 7122; Howes: R236 . Reynolds knew Black Hawk from 1813 and he was Governor of Illinois during the Black Hawk War. As a U. S. Congressman he introduced Joseph Smith the Prophet to President Van Buren. Reynolds converted his brick law office in Belleville Illinois into a print shop where he published the original of this 600 -page book. The book had poor sales. Reynold took the remaining copies to Chicago and D. B. Cooke in 1855 where sales continued to be poor until 3 years later when most of the edition was consumed in a fire. Additional copies were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 which called for this new posthumous edition by the CHS. Chicago Historical Society hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4981

‎Smith, Elbert H By a Western Tourist‎

‎Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak; Or Black Hawk and Scenes in the West. a National Poem: in Six Cantos‎

‎New York: Edward Kearny 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo 299 pages original embossed cloth tips of spine worn tight. <br/><br/> 'Embracing an account of the life and exploits of this celebrated chieftain; the Black Hawk war; a legend of the Illinois Tribe of Indians showing the manner in which they became extinct; a succinct description of the Wisconsin and Lake Superior Countries and their rich minerals; the Massacre of Chicago and other deeply interesting scenes in The West.' - Sabin 82462. Ex llibris Frank B. Cornell. Edgeworn tips of spine worn Lathrop Harper noted it was the first work of verse by a Wisconsin writer. Brinley 6896 Field 1001. Lithographed frontispiece portrait of Black Hawk and a title-page. Edward Kearny hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4955

‎Thatcher, Margaret‎

‎Path to Power‎

‎London: HarperCollins . First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo cloth <br/><br/>Signed by the former Prime Minister on the title-page. HarperCollins hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 002565 ISBN : 0060172703 9780060172701

‎DESCHARNES, Robert & Jean-Francois CHABRUN‎

‎AUGUSTE RODIN‎

‎New York: Studio / Viking 1967. First American edition. Hardcover. Good/good. new photographs. Quarto 277pp. cloth; dj tears and chips are repaired with tape <br/><br/>Many of the plates in this monumental work have been tipped-in. " .much more than a representative collection of Rodin's work will be found in the present volume which with its numerous color plates is the fullest visual account yet attempted. Foir With its numerous color plates. For more than two years Robert Descharnes devoted his time to researching all the historic documents available. New photographs he himself took and the old ones dating back to Rodin's own dayt . numbered nearly three thousand pictures from which the presen tselection was made - Preface". Studio / Viking hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : DEMO014237I

‎Hawthorne, Nathaniel Brady, Matthew‎

‎Carte-de-Visite photographic print of Nathaniel Hawthorne.‎

‎New York: E. & H. T. Anthony 1870s. Good. Measures 4 x 2 7/16ths inches / 10 x 6 cm. The photo is mounted upside-down on the card relative to the Anthony Co. engraving on the verso. The two bottom corners of the card not the photograph are clipped with slight dogear to upper right corner. <br/><br/>Edward Anthony had one of the larger photo galleries in New York City. He acquired rights to many of Brady's photographs of Brady's National Portrait Gallery and sold them widely in the 1870s. E. & H. T. Anthony unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 0007909

‎VANS, William‎

‎A SHORT HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM VANS .‎

‎Boston: Printed for William Vans 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo; 12 84 pages original quarter calf paper-covered scabbard boards worn rear cover detached <br/><br/>When Vans left for France in 1799 two French merchants took trust of his property in the amount equal in 1818 to $300000. They conspired to cheat him. This work details how he had to get to the Court of Appeal in Paris for the return of his funds. Quite a cause celebre! Sabin 98562. "The young the old the widow and the parson are invited to buy this book and learn how to get and keep property according to law." Printed for William Vans hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : DEMO000968I

‎Clark, E B‎

‎Twelve Months In Peru‎

‎New York: Macmillan 1891. First American edition. Hardcover. 12mo; xxiii 158 pages grey-green cloth spine darkened smudged cover uncut and unopened. <br/><br/>Englishwoman Ms. Clark spent a year in Peru beginning in 1889 to pursue her interest in the land and particularly its native people. Eight plates. The identity of Mx Clark remains a mystery but her hostess in Lima was Mrs. J. Howard Johnston wife of the co-founder of the Backus & Johnston brewery Lima's largest brewery. Macmillan hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4898

‎BYRNE, Jane‎

‎MY CHICAGO‎

‎New York: W. W. Norton 1992 . First edition. Hardcover. fine/fine. photos. 8vo 384 pages two-tone cloth <br/><br/>Tells of more than just her term as mayor it covers 150 years of the making of her Chicago. An unexpectedly good treatment. Illustrated with photogravures. Inscribed by Mayor Byrne to Thomas Flannagan. W. W. Norton hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 0009197

‎Benson, Stuart (Editor-in-Chief). Bud Fisher Hanson Booth‎

‎The Plattsburger‎

‎New York: The Plattsburger Inc 1917. First edition. Hardcover. fair. 4to soiled khaki cloth 240 pages some corners dog-eared. upper right corner of top cover breaking <br/><br/>This is the record of the Second Camp which trained officers. The Commandant was Col. Paul A. Wolf. This copy inscribed at Washington D.D. by Capt. Edwin DeWitt Ackerman of Company 13 to 1st Lt. A. D. Farwell in December 1917. Extensively illustrated by its trainees who included Hanson Booth a charcoal specialist and Bud Fisher creator of Mutt & Jeff the first commercially successful daily comic strip in the U.S. - in fact those characters appear here along with Fisher's caricatures Includes an interview with Lt. Henri Poire winner of the Croix de Guerre: "You ask me my first impression of Plattsburg" . " I thought Plattsburg was the most miserable spot of the earth! " Includes a long poem "Worlds At War" by Robert Haven Schauffler. Facing it is a full-page illustration by Hanson mis-spelled Hansen Booth younger brother of artist Franklin Booth both of Indiana. Hanson Booth did cartoons for THE ARBUTUS the yearbook of Indiana University in 1903-04. The Plattsburger, Inc hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 0008166

‎Moscowitz, Raymond‎

‎Small School Giant Dream‎

‎1990. First edition. Hardcover. As New/issued without. 8vo cloth. <br/><br/>An account of Northfield High School a small school with ambitions to dominate in high school basketball in a basketball-crazed state. The team narrowly missed winning the state championship in the 1989-90 season. Moscowitz became President of the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame. Inscribed by the Author. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4809

‎Reynolds, Elon G‎

‎Compendium of History and Biography of Hillsdale County Michigan‎

‎Chicago: A. W. Bowen 1903. First edition. Fine. 4to 460 pages full leather <br/><br/> A. W. Bowen hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 002527

‎Nyle H Miller & Joseph W Snell‎

‎Great Gunfighters of the Kansas Cowtowns 1867-1886‎

‎Lincoln NE: University Of Nebraska Press 1962 . Second edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 12mo 476 pages cloth; ex libris John Jenkins - the other John Jenkins <br/><br/>Signed by the co-authors on the free endpaper. The study concentrates on 7 Kansas towns: Hays Newton Ellsworth Wichita Dodge City Caldwell. Previously published by the Kansas State Historical Society as WHY THE WEST WAS WILD this text was selected from that material by the authors with a new Prologue. Illustrated. see 6-GUNS 1498 . University Of Nebraska Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4705 ISBN : 0803251378 9780803251373

‎Capek, Thomas‎

‎The Slovaks Of Hungary‎

‎New York: The Knickerbocker Press 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo; xvi 214 pages very light dampstain in gutter reddish cloth. Scarce. <br/><br/>New York lawyer Capek assertts that this is the first significant book in English about the Slovaks. With 8 portrait plates and two folding maps the second is roughly folded with a split at one fold. The Knickerbocker Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 0006478

‎CHASE, Philander, Bishop‎

‎BISHOP CHASE'S ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE CONVENTION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS JUNE 16TH 1845‎

‎St.Louis. MO: Daniel Davis 1845. First edition. printed wrappers. Good. Litho:Design for Jubilee Col. 8vo 27 pages printed wrappers dampstained frontispiece nicked at top edge slightly affecting the print. Rare. <br/><br/>This is likely one of the 500 copies cited by Graff 3379 as being done for the Bishop's personal use. Byrd 988 cites this frontispiece "Design for Jubilee College" as appearing in JOURNAL OF THE NINTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 1845. It is signed in the plate "Upjohn Del." and "G. Hayward 1 Platt St. NY" Byrd's note is uncertain. Neither Byrd nor Graff describe a copy with the frontispiece in this copy. Illustrated by Litho: Design for Jubilee College. Sabin 12190. Daniel Davis unknown‎

Bookseller reference : DEMO000588I

‎WAUGH, William F, Illustrated by Photos‎

‎THE HOUSEBOAT BOOK‎

‎Chicago: The Clinic Publishing Company 1904. First edition. Good. Octavo 211 pages clothbacked boards front hinge tender. Scarce. <br/><br/>The Log of a Cruise from Chicago to New Orleans. This is the first book that gives the practical information necessary for planning such a houseboat trip and then follows it with the actual journey. The Clinic Publishing Company hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 000513

‎Lucas, Daniel Robertson ( Rev)‎

‎New History Of The 99th Indiana Infantry‎

‎Rockford IL: Horner Printing Co. 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo blue cloth lacks front free endpaper insect damage to covers. Rare. <br/><br/>The first history by Lucas appeared in 1865 with 179 pages. This extended history has 256 pages with photogravure portraits primarity of officers. Dornbusch Indiana 193 citing only 1 copy; Nevins I p. 123. . Includes an interview with regimental Colonel Fowler. The 99th saw a lot of action between October 1862 and June 1865 including Vicksburg to Sherman's march to the sea and much more. The regiment was raised in South Bend Indiana. Lucas spent 18 months as chaplain. Post-war he became pastor to the Central Christian Church of Indianapolis. Lucas also served as Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. Horner Printing Co. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 3615

‎South Dakota‎

‎Memorial and Biographical Record; of . Prominent Old Settlers and Representative Citizens of South Dakota with a review of their life work .‎

‎Chicago: George A. Ogle & Co. 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. Quarto 680 pages contemporary full morocco gilt tips of spine chipped loose hinges cellophane tape on lower joint. Pencilled notes re L. A. Hosmer Postmaster of Milltown made presumably by his daughter for great-grandson Durward Carpenter . Scarce. <br/><br/>Extensive biographical compilation with 26 full-page portraits of South Dakotans and other illustrations of national celebrities. George A. Ogle & Co. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 3675

‎VS Naipaul V S‎

‎Beyond Belief‎

‎New Delhi India: Viking Penguin India 1998. First Indian edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. 8vo 439 pages brown cloth; small green sticker on rear panel. Surprisingly Scarce in this edition which was <br/><br/>Dust jacket price is 500 rupees. DJ blurbs by V. S. Pritchett Elizabeth Hardwick Michael Ratcliffe. "Printed by PUSP Print Services" on last page. A companion volume to his AMONG THE BELIEVERS: this is his observations on his travels in Indonesia Iran Pakistan and Malaysia. "Beyond Belief is interesting and often perceptive and offers real insights into the lives and experiences of these people. As narrative it is an impressive achievement--but it is not only narrative. Despite Naipaul's surprising disclaimer that this is not "a book of opinion" or of "conclusions" it is very much both. Opinion and conclusion are reflected in the selection of stories and in their structure and tone; they are also evident in the editorial commentary scattered throughout. Naipaul repeatedly characterizes Islam as a fanatic missionary religion dedicated to erasing the histories and native cultures of convert peoples. Although all missionary religions are to some extent guilty of this Islam in his view is more single-minded and systematic in its effacement of the past - Choice Review". Viking Penguin India hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4586 ISBN : 0670883344 9780670883349

‎McGuane, Thoms‎

‎Sons‎

‎Northridge CA: Lord John Press 1993. First Limited edition. Hardcover. As New/issued without. 12mo blue cloth in matching publisher's slipcase. Still in shrinkwrap <br/><br/>One of the 300 signed copies of the edition of only 326. The first separate book publication of this essay which previously appeared in LIVE WATER. in it he ruminates on his childhood summers spent in a cabin in Michigan. "I also remember that one of these trips must have been made during hard times because my mother emphasized that there was enough money for us children to eat but not enough for her to eat." Lord John Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4550

‎Anonymous‎

‎Life Of John Metcalf Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough.‎

‎York UK: E. and R. Peck 1795. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo vi 153 pages full tree calf tender joints red morocco spine label. Ex libris with the motto "Gaudet Tentamine Virtus Strength Rejoices in the Challenge ". This was engraved by John Thomson d. 1847 the principal engraver at Belfast. Note: this aristocratic bookplate in a break with tradition states "Drawn & Engraved by J. Thomson Belfast adding the first four words ". Discreetly signed on the title-page by William Legg likely the master of Malone House in Belfast and High Sheriff of County Antrim . <br/><br/>Blind Jack blind since the age of 6 was in the public notice as "a most EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER." Remarkably hew was the first professional road builder in the industrial Revolution. Undaunted he also drove stagecoaches twice a week although I do not know how. This was the only 18th century edition of this biography. E. and R. Peck hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 0009005

‎Brosnan, Jim‎

‎The Long Season‎

‎New York: Harper & Brothers 1960 . First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/price-clipped. 8vo 273 pages two-toned cloth light fingerpints on cover inked inscription on free endpaper <br/><br/>Publisher's code is "F-K". This is no. 19 on Sports Illustrated's list of the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time. Harper & Brothers hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 0009002