New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. Hardcover. 167, [1], 6 p.: frontispiece and 17 full-page illustrations included in pagination, and many in-text illustrations; 23 cm. Green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; dark green and gilt-stamped cover illustration. Blind-rolled border on back board with blind-stamped publisher's emblem in center... More about Farm Festivals
Philadelphia, Pa. William W. Woodward, 1797. Paperback. This is the last section of Volume 3, only; text begins with p. 673. (Volume 3 is paginated continuously with volume 2 and begins with page 367.) [4], 673-787, [13] p.; 23 cm. In original plain grey paper wrappers with "Carpenters' Debates" in... More about The American Senator, or A Copious and Impartial Report of the Debates in the Congress of the...
Philadelphia, Pa. Henry T. Coates & Co., 1895. White, Geo. G. Hardcover. Illustrated by Geo. G. White. [4], 456 p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece, 3 leaves of illustrations; 20 cm. Brown cloth gilt, black, and grey spine title and illustration; black and grey cover title and illustration. Black endpapers. Castlemon's War Series--at... More about Rodney, the Overseer
Philadelphia: American Philosphical Society, 1987. Hardcover. xxv, [1], 414 p.: frontispiece; 26 cm. Beige cloth with red spine title. Plain red dust jacket with black spine and cover titles. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 66S. Contents include: Introduction: Assembling the collections, 1743-1985 -- Part I: Manuscript collections, manuscript... More about A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
Washington, D.C. A. & G. Way, printers, 1808. 4 p.; 21 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. "April 2, 1808. Printed by order of the house of representatives." "Translation of a letter from M. Champagny to General Armstrong, dated Paris, January 15, 1808."--p. [3]. Early American Imprints, Second series (Shaw... More about Letter from M. Champagny, the French Minister for Exterior Relations to General Armstrong, the...
New York: Ballantine Books, 1959. Paperback. 191, [1] p.; 18 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. "In this fascinating book, a prominent psychollgist reports eleven carefully-researched cases when rumor and fear clouded men's minds, and thousands of Americans found themselves swept up in the madness of the crowd." In Very Good... More about Rumor, Fear and the Madness of Crowds
New York: World Syndicate Co., 1909. Hardcover. Title continued: "Consisting of Home Helps for Cooking, Baking and Canning, Preserving, Pickling, Cleaning, Sewing, Mending, Darning, Washing, Ironing, Nursing, Family Remedies, Toilet Requisites, Etc., Etc. How to Make the Most Out of What You Have; Money Saving and Time Saving Recipes and... More about Mrs. Joe's Housekeeping Guide: First Aids for Every Known Household Use; compiled by Joe Mitchell...
New York: Charles Boni Paper Books, 1929. Paperback. "First published December, 1929." 188, [2] p.; 19 cm. Paperback with continuous cover design by Rockwell Kent; illustrated endpapers also designed by Kent. The Rockwell Kent-designed emblem of Charles Boni Paper Books on the title page. This title was the fifth in... More about Prosperity: Fact or Myth
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1930. Paperback. "Second printing, September, 1930." 188, [2] p.; 19 cm. Paperback with continuous cover design by Rockwell Kent; illustrated endpapers also designed by Kent. The Rockwell Kent-designed emblem originally of Charles Boni Paper Books on the title page. List of Bonibooks through number... More about Prosperity: Fact or Myth
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Paperback. ix, [3], 256 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Constructing and Challenging Myths -- Media Spectables and the Production of Neoliberal Citizen-Subjects. Includes bibliography and index. In Very Good Condition: small scrape at tail of spine; highlighter on one page; otherwise, clean and tight. More about The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation
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Milwaukee, Wisc. Kalmbach Publishing, 1945. Paperback. Title continued: "together with a Complete Railway Map; Also many principal steamboat and stage lines running in connection with railroads; Charles Cobb, compiler." 160 p., large folded map attached to inside back wrapper: tables, illustrated advertisements; 13 cm. Grey wrappers printed in black. Facsimile... More about Facsimile] American Railway Guide, and Pocket Companion, for the United States; containing...
Philadelphia, Pa. William Cobbett, 1796. Second Edition. viii, [1], 10-56 p.; 20 cm. Signatures: pi4 B-G4 (8vo). Disbound. Evans, 30213. William Cobbett complains about everyone, including Benjamin Franklin and various Philadelphia printers and booksellers, and defends himself against accusations that he was in the pay of the British while living... More about The Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine, with a Full and Fair Account of All his Authoring...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Paperback. xviii526 p.: illustrations, tables; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes index. In Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; clean and tight. More about Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1985. Hardcover. X, 452, [2] p., 9 leaves of photographs: in-text tables, charts; 25 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. White dust jacket with front cover illustration. The proceedings of the conference Le Società in Transizione, held at the Balch Institute for... More about Atti del Convegno Le Società in Transizione: Italiani e Italoamericani negli Anni Ottanta--Balch...
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New York: Charles Wiley, 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 2 volumes: xii, 263 p.; 270 p.; 18 cm. 19th-century tree calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Two red morocco spine labels in middle compartments with gilt-tooled series title, Cooper's Novels, and title, Lionel Lincoln. Vol. 2 dated... More about Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of Boston [2 volumes
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922. Hardcover. Published for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. xiv, [1], 86 p.: color frontispiece, 16 black-and-white plates (several folded); 26 cm. Calf spine with blue paper over boards. Printed paper labels on spine and front board. Upper page edges gilt. Lacking dust jacket... More about Furniture Masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe by Charles Over Cornelius; measured detail drawings by...
New York: Viking, 1985. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 390, [2] p.; 22 cm. Black cloth spine with white spine title; brown paper over boards. Brown endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Robert A. Reed. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: 1-cm. tear... More about The Flower and the Leaf: A Contemporary Record of American Writing Since 1941 by Malcolm Cowley;...
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1895. Hardcover. xviii, 411 p.: 42 leaves of plates (1 in color): plan, illustrations, many in-text drawings; 23 cm. Full calf with five spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled red label in second compartment and black label in fourth. Blind-rolled border on boards. This is... More about Report of the United States Commission to the Columbian Historical Exposition at Madrid 1892-93;...
Norman, Okla. University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. Paperback. xviii, 283 p.: 1 double-page map, 5 full-page maps, 32 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with color illustrated front cover. New preface, third printing. No date of publication; year is based on library records. Volume 28 in The Civilization of... More about The Indians of the Southwest: A Century of Development Under the United States
Williamsburg, Va. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1978. Paperback. Third printing. vii, [1], 16 p.: music; 16 x 22 cm. Paper covers printed with a cover title on a beige rectangle within a decorative border, on a faux green marbled background. Originally for violin; here set for piano or harpsichord by J.S.... More about A Little Keyboard Book: Eight Tunes of Colonial Virginia
Doylestown, Pa. Democrat Book and Job Office Print, 1876. Hardcover. First Edition. 875, [1], 54 p., frontispiece map and 8 leaves of maps, 3 double-leaf maps: in-text illustrations; 25 cm. Modern bonded leather spine with black cloth over boards; gilt-tooled spine title. Includes errata and index. Appendix contains: Flora: An... More about The History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, From the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time
Washington, D.C. Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853. Hardcover. "With an introduction, embracing the aggregate tables for the United States compared with every previous census since 1790 -- schedules and laws of Congress relating to the census in the same period -- ratio tables of increase and decrease of cities and... More about The Seventh Census of the United States: 1850; Embracing a Statistical View of Each of the States...
Philadelphia, Pa. Musical Americana, 1958. Soft Cover. 12 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Stapled. Includes a description of Dichter's facsimile publication One Hundred Greats in Early American Sheet Music; A Great Stephen Foster Year by Fletcher Hodges, Jr.; Tin-Pan Alley's Sherlock Holmes [about Alex M. Kramer] by Robert w. Minton; and... More about The Musical Americana Newsletter Vol. 2, no. 1 (April 1958
New York: Livermore & Rudd, 1856. McLenan, John. Hardcover. 264, [10] p.: frontispiece, many in-text illustrations; 19 cm. Publisher's black cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and illustration; blind-stamped pattern on both boards. Blue endpapers. Publisher's advertisements on 10 unpaginated pages following text. Q.K. Philander Doesticks was the pen name used... More about Plu-ri-bus-tah: A Song That's by No Author; Perpetrated by Q.K. Philander Doesticks
Lancaster, Pa. Lancaster Lithographing Co., 1895. Hardcover. 75 p., frontispiece and 9 leaves of illustrations; 23 cm. Black calf over paper covers with white cover title: St. Anthony's Church, Lancaster, Penna., 1870-1895. The illustrations are portraits and views of the church and school. Very scarce. In Very Good- Condition: leather... More about Historical Sketch of St. Anthony's Church, Lancaster, Penna., 1870-1895; Together with a History...