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Subject: americana
Atlas to Marshall's Life of Washington
John Marshall, Joseph Yeager, engraver
/ Philadelphia: J. Crissy 1832
first edition, the hand colored issue with the proper title page; engraved title leaf with vignette, 10 double page maps (slightly larger than 21.5 cm. x 27.5 cm. when opened), all hand colored, the first has only minor coloring in red as issued, the others with water features and borders in aqua, pink, yellow, etc.; original boards & red leather spine and printed cover label; edges worn, spine frayed and rubbed, a few bits of light foxing, otherwise the plates are clean and bright. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana maps
Item #: 1321180
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$275.00
The American Revolution. In seven volumes (concluding with George the Third and Charles Fox and The Early History of Charles James Fox)
George Otto Trevelyan. The Knickerbocker Press Bindery
/ Londong: Longmans, Green 1880
7 vols., a mixed set published between 1880 and 1914 but uniformly bound in early 20th century maroon three quarters crushed French levant and cloth covered boards, t.e.g.; heads of spines slightly chipped, old inked ownership markings to the half-title of the first volume, else very good. Volumes
Included: 7
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana leather bindings office
Item #: 1320003
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$350.00
The Illustrious Dunderheads. With an introduction by Frank Sullivan. Illustrated by William Gropper
Rex Stout, editor
/ NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1942
first edition, first printing; 192 pp., hardcover, fine in an edge-worn dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana humor art
Item #: 1319985
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$375.00
The Columbiad (Plates only). Engraved by A. Smith, A.R.A. Printed by R. Fulton
Joel Barlow, Robert Fulton, Anker Smith
/ Philadelphia: Fry and Kammerer for C. and A. Conrad and Co. 1807
12 plates (the Barlow portrait frontis. and 11 others), measuring 10.75 x 8.5 inches, with the tissue guards; in contemporary boards with leather backstrip and corners, disbound and lacking the leather spine covering, covers very worn, modern armorial book plate inside the front cover, light to moderate foxing to the plates, good only. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: art americana
Item #: 1319978
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$150.00
The Federalist, on the New Constitution; Written in 1788, by Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Jay, and Mr. Madison. A new edition, with the names and portraits of the several writers
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
/ Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner 1818
504 pp., 3 portrait plates; contemporary full leather, binding worn, ex historical society library with a few remnants of an old paper label to the spine, book plate to the front paste down, hand stamp to the top margin of the title page, old inked signature of Stephen Dodd 1823 to the top margin of the verso of the Hamilton plate which caused some bleed through to the image side; light foxing throughout, albeit heavier on the plates and endpapers. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana rare2
Item #: 1319975
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$4,950.00
By the Waters of Manhattan. With an introduction by Louis Untermeyer
Charles Reznikoff
/ NY: Albert & Charles Boni 1930
first thus; 255, [1] pp., original illustrated light gray cloth (hardcover), lacks the jacket, else very good; front cover designed by Rockwell Kent. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana
Item #: 1319783
$85.00
Portraits in Color
Ovington, Mary White
/ The Viking Press 1927
first edition; 241 pp., hardcover, bottom edges and corners rubbed, else very good in an edge-worn, spine-faded dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: african americana black studies
Item #: 1319535
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$297.00
Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution
Breyer, Stephen
/ Knopf 2006
inscribed by Stephen Breyer at the title page; 176 pp., hardcover, fine in a fine dust jacket; fifth printing (2006). Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0307263134
Subject/Keywords: law americana
Item #: 1319317
$46.12
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad, Redwood Empire Route
Fred A Stindt & Guy L. Dunscomb
/ Published by the authors 1964
first edition, first printing, signed by Fred A. Stindt at the title page; 272 pp., hardcover, previous owner's name to the half-title page, else very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: trains railroads western americana rw2
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Item #: 1319199
$44.63
Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California (Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise Series)
Friedricks, William B.
/ Ohio State University 1992
229 pp., Hardcover, fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0814205534
Subject/Keywords: western americana rw2
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Item #: 1319202
$45.14
Rails of the Silver Gate: The Spreckels San Diego Empire
Richard Dodge
/ Golden West Books 1962
third printing (1962); 143 pp., HARDCOVER, very good in an edge-rubbed dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0870950193
Subject/Keywords: interurbans trains railroads americana rw2
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Item #: 1318335
$15.84
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats
Harlan, George H.
/ Howell-North Books 1967
first edition, first printing, 195 pp., Hardcover, near fine in an edge-worn dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: rw2 ferryboats western americana
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Item #: 1318259
$15.00
A Woman Tenderfoot
Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
/ Doubleday Page 1900
first edition, first printing; 361 pp., plates; original illustrated green cloth (hardcover), t.e.g., very slight spine slant, else near fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: western americana
Item #: 1317727
$83.01
My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life
Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, Mrs. Roger A. Pryor
/ The Macmillan Company 1909
first edition, first printing; 454, [4] (ads) pp., original decorated green cloth (hardcover), near fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana
Item #: 1317725
$21.70
Typed Letter Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt, to a Mrs. M. A. Peckham, dated November 5, 1954
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
/ New York 1954
single-sheet typed letter signed on Roosevelt's New York address stationery, with typed mailing envelope; very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana office
Item #: 1317685
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$168.07
MASSES & MAINSTREAM: IF WE DIE BY ETHEL ROSENBERG - JULY, 1953 - VOL. 6, NO. 7
Samuel Sillen, editor. Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
/ MASSES & MAINSTREAM 1953
64 pp., original paper wrappers, edges rubbed, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana
Item #: 1317683
$48.00
Memorial Exercises held in Castleton, Vermont, in the Year 1885
John M. Currier, compiler
/ Albany: Joel Munsell's Sons 1885
66 pp., original printed paper wrappers, spine guillotined, minor library markings, else good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana zni
Item #: 1317307
$36.89
Fifteen Letters of Nathalie Sumter. Introduction and notations by Mary Virginia Saunders White
Nathalie Sumter
/ Gittman's Book Shop, 1942
limited to 500 numbered copies, inscribed by Mary Virginia Saunders White at the limitation page; 124 pp., plates; hardcover, very good in a worn & tattered dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana
Item #: 1317284
$74.69
The Beach Book
Steinem, Gloria
/ NY: The Viking Press 1963
first edition; 277 pp., hardcover, near fine in a slightly edge-worn dust jacket; the shiny silver back of the jacket was suggested for use in suntanning; Gloria Steinem's first book. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0670150231
Subject/Keywords: humor americana
Item #: 1317252
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$142.65
Terms of Peace and the Darker Races. Proposed peace terms and their relation to the darker races
A. Philip Randolph, Chandler Owen
/ NY: The Poole Press Association, Inc. 1917
32 pp., original printed paper wrappers, spine guillotined, minor library markings, spine margin tattered, good only. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: african americana world war I zni
Item #: 1317243
$81.35