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By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Chicago, Los Angeles, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.: 1933
Seller ID: 2453
Vol. 3 only; 501 pp., indexed; 4to; brown fabrikoid, spine titles stamped in gilt; full page black & white portrait photographs throughout. Approximately 250 prominent citizens of Southern California represented, along with brief histories of several institutions such as the Santa Monica Writer's Club, Mount Saint Mary's College, Ventura County Free Library, Redondo Union High School, and Riverside Public Library. View more info
By: (Cover Title: Pen Pictures of the Garden World).
Price: $500.00
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Publishing Co.: 1891
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 6888
637 pp. Illustrated with 34 plates (including 30 steel-engraved portraits, 1 wood-engraved, and 3 from a photographs), including frontispiece. 11¼x9, original full decoratively embossed brown morocco, decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt with a gilt-vignette on the front cover, inner gilt dentelles, gilt-patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Front cover lettered "Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World" and the spine is lettered "Northern California, I... View more info
By: (Gosse, Sir Edmund William).
Price: $15.00
Publisher: N.Y., Scribner's: 1908
Seller ID: 276
8vo 355 pgs. Bookplate on front paste-down Dark green cloth, slight wear at corners, otherwise a bright copy. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Printed for John Howell by John Henry Nash: 1922
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 3873
No. 126 of 500 copies printed. 58 pp., photo portrait frontis of little Stevenson; 8vo; decorated paper over boards, blue cloth spine with paper spine label. Reproducing the records kept by Stevenson's mother for the first year of his life. Rubbing & minor bumping to leading corner tips. Introduced with 'A Note to the Reader' by Stevenson's stepdaughter, Katherine D. Osbourne. Two penned inscriptions on front endpaper: "To Frederick H. Randall with kind regards, Kat... View more info
Price: $400.00
Publisher: London & N.Y., London and New York Pub. Co.; News Companies: 1875
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 6547
[iv], [703]-1073 [i.e. 1075], [8] p., 4 plates of heavy card stock with 4 original albumen portrait photographs of Gen. H. A. Cobb, Wm. M. Gwin, A. P. Hotaling, Esq., and Captain R. L. Ogden. Full red calf, lettered & decorated in gilt. Spine and edges well rubbed and chaffed; joints cracked, particularly the front which appears to have undergone some repair, both somewhat tender, but hinges solid so holding well. Portrait photographs appear to be in uniformly good cond... View more info
![Image for The Letters of Henry Adams. (6 vols., complete) Edited by J.C. Levenson [and others] with the assistance of Jayne N. Samuels, Eleanor Pearre Abbot.](/assets/images/product/8217.jpg)
By: ADAMS, HENRY.
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Cambridge & London, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: 1982
Seller ID: 8217
8vo; cloth in dust jackets. Index in volume 6. View more info
By: Andrews, Wayne.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: N.Y., Atheneum: 1963
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 5395
237 pp., portrait frontis; 8vo; green cloth with moderate foxing bottom edge; in price clipped, lightly soiled blue jacket wear at corners & edges; loss up to a half-inch top of spine. View more info
By: Boulard, Garry.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Lafayette, LA, The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3813
182 pp.; 8vo; red cloth stamped in gilt, in pictorial red jacket; black & white photographs. Light soil to front endpaper; jacket heavily creased at bottom and top edges with with chips and some loss including a 1" square piece out near heal of spine. View more info
By: BRANDEIS, ERICH.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: N.Y., American Offset Corp.: (1936)
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 8500
55 pp.; 8vo; orange wrappers; illustrated with portrait drawing, photographs. View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins: 2008
Seller ID: 8577
2 vols.; 4to; green cloth in slipcase; still in original shrinkwrap.In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce current u... View more info
By: Cate, Curtis.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 4271
812 pp.; 8vo; cloth in price clipped dust jacket; illustrated with photographs. View more info
Price: $175.00
Publisher: N.Y., Chambliss & Company: 1895
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3848
xiv, 408 pp., portrait frontis; 8vo; original blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt, front cover lettering stamped in silver with gold & silver illustration. Illustrated with over fifty copper-plate half-tones and photo-engravings, including twenty-five society pictures by Laura E. Foster. Moderate soil to covers; rubbing to spine ends; front endpaper with moderate soil; slight thumbing to title at foredge; rear hinge slightly cracked but firm.William H. Chambliss (b... View more info
![Image for Stephen Watts Kearny, Soldier of the West. [Inscribed by the author].](/assets/images/product/8373.jpg)
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press: 1961
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 8373
448 pp., incl. notes, appendices, index; 8vo; gray cloth, spine lettered in gilt; in pictorial gray & red jacket. 16 plate illustrations; map. Fading to red background of spine.Inscribed and signed by the author on front endpaper: "To Harry W. Abrahams, with friendly greetings." Also, laid in is a one sheet, folded brochure with a portrait of the author on front with his signature; fold open to show b&w photographs of Stokes Ranch House, and the Thomas O.... View more info
By: Coe, George W., as related to Nan Hillary Harrison.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press: 1951
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 5407
220 pp., portrait frontis; 8vo; burgundy cloth lettered in light blue; six plates containing photographs. In dust jacket with chips & a few closed tears at edges, corner; minute loss at rear top corner tip; paper label remnant inside front flap top edge.2nd ed. of Six-Guns, 458. "Though a good friend of Billy the Kid, the author was never considered an outlaw. As a participant in the Lincoln County Wars, he gives, I believe a fairly accurate account of the af... View more info
By: Cohen, Edgar H.; Day, Lillian.
Price: $17.50
Publisher: N.Y. & London, Houghton Mifflin; Jarrolds: 1970 & 1978
Edition: 1st Editions
Seller ID: 5496
Two separately published volumes; cloth with light scattered foxing to edges. In dust jackets with protective mylar wraps.Portraits of the seductive and witty seventeenth-century Frenchwoman who believed in freethinking, free love and who resolutely practiced both. View more info
By: Collins, John.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll: [1992]
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2367
317 pps., index; 8vo; dust jacket; black & white photos, reproductions. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co.: 1943
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 4562
324 pp., portrait frontis, includes index; cloth; 8vo; map endpapers; blotches of foxing to extremities of prelims and title page; in price clipped jacket with creasing, chips, closed tears primarily to top edge. View more info
![Image for Autobiography. Memories and Experiences [two volumes, complete].](/assets/images/product/8504.JPG)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Boston & N.Y., Houghton Mifflin: 1904
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 8504
451 & 482 pp.; 8vo; appears to be matched from two issues of cloth, Volume One bound in burgundy cloth, Volume Two in blue cloth; spines lettered in gilt. Chipping to tops of spines, otherwise light wear.Moncure Conway was an American abolitionist minister. At various times Methodist, Unitarian, and Freethought. A radical writer descended from patriotic and patrician families of Virginia and Maryland, he spent most of the final four decades of his life abroad in... View more info
By: Cramer, C. H.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Indianapolis & N.Y., Bobbs-Merrill: 1952
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 5980
314 pp., portrait frontis; 8vo; lightly faded blue cloth; in pictorial, pric-clipped jacket with light wear at corners, spine ends; foxing inside jacket spine. View more info
