Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2011. First Edition. 2 volume set. 601pp. Quartos [28.5 cm] Illustrated boards. Both volumes fine. That America's westward expansion was a defining movement in the nation's long history is hardly open to dispute. Along with such important events as the Revolutionary War and independence, the creation..... More
Concord, NH: Republican Press Association, 1897. First Edition. 180pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt on the front board and backstrip. Top edge gilt. Very good. Gentle sunning to backstrip. Name in ink on the front pastedown. Memoir of a soldier in the west. Hamilton was part..... More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1966. Lakeside Classics number 64. 395pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Glassine jacket present. Near fine. Laura Judd was the wife of Gerrit P. Judd, a missionary doctor to the Hawaiian Islands. Dr..... More
Honolulu: Paradise of the Pacific, 1908. [64]pp. Oblong octavo [16 cm x 24 cm] Green string-bound wrappers that are printed in gold ink. Near fine. Leaves printed on rectos only. Exceptionally nice copy of this Honolulu view book. Work opens with a three-page introduction which is followed by 29 black..... More
Ludington, MI: Stearns Hotel Company, 1937. [26]pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Story of Ossawald Crumb, the axe-toting, word-wielding, lumberjack created in 1932 by Robert L. Stearns, son of famed lumber baron Justus Stearns. Ossawald was the first white man to establish a permanent home in the city..... More
Chicago: Vitalogy Association, 1914. 971pp. Octavo [25 cm] Full pebbled leather with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Better than very good. Complete with all plates and fold-out diagrams. Marbled pastedowns, endsheets, and fore edge. Nicer than usually seen copy of this home medicine and health..... More