History of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898 by Haynes, James B - 1910

Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Leather rubbed and flaking at edges.. 1897. Hardcover. Original brown pebbled and blindstamped leather with decorative gilt titles on front boards and spine. Gilt-stamped turn-ins, all edges gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Index, 28 portrait plates. Surprisingly tight and clean. A compilation of biographies of upstanding male citizens of Hillsboro and Cheshire Counties in New Hampshire, most notably home boy Horace Greeley, newspaperman and politician. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 481 pages .

New York: Clark & Maynard. No. 5 Barclay Street, 1868. 16mo, pp. iv, 16, 3, [7] recommendations, [2] ads; original printed tan wrappers; small NY State Library stamp at the top of the upper wrapper; all else very good. The verso of the title page outlines Thomson's series of arithmetics - four text books of varying degrees of difficulty, together with their keys. Not found in OCLC.

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company. Good with no dust jacket; 2 inch tear to map, library stamps and markings, . pages toned, some stains to pages, wear to spine extremities, rear hinge . cracked. Describes geography, settlement, land availability, and other . attributes of the Territory of Minnesota.. 1857. Hardcover. Handcolored folding frontispiece map by J. H. Colton of Minnesota measuring 13 x 15 inches. Original brown cloth stamped in blind and in gilt. Howes P 84, Sabin 58723.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages .

This early American textbook has a quarter leather binding, with the spine in leather and heavy paper boards. The boards show considerable wear, with the marbled paper cover stripped away in places and heavily worn in others. However, both boards are firmly attached to the spine and the binding is still tight with all pages intact. The pages are heavy textured paper, some staining, but in amazingly good condition, considering the age of this obviously much-used volume. Except for some long-hand division on the inside of the back board, the book is unmarked. The best feature of the text is its content--besides all sorts of mathematic information, problems and measurements, it also has instructions/examples of all sorts of things mathematical--eg. the correct way to design a graph, calculations for different forms of weight, motion. measures of all kinds and an entire section of the appropriate forms of notes, deeds, bonds, receipts and wills--all in the erudite, charming language of the age. This is a… Read More

The Inter-Mountain Educator Co, 1913. Softcover. Very Good. June, 1913 issue of The Inter-Mountain Educator Co., then located in Missoula, Montana. Special Montana Public School Number. Includes individual histories of Montanan grade schools, high schools and colleges. Densely illustrated with historical photos of exterior and interior views of schools, grounds, students, surrounding areas and more. Institutions represented include: The University of Montana (Missoula), Montana State School of Mines (Butte), Montana State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (Bozeman), State Normal College (Dillon), High School of Gallatin County (Bozeman), City Schools of Bozeman, County High School at Missoula, Public Schools of the City of Missoula, Public Schools of Terry, Custer County, High School of Beaverhead County (Dillon), Hardin Schools of Big Horn County, High School of Broadwater County (Townsend), Granite County High School (Philipsburg), Schools of the City of Havre, Schools of Glasgow, Valley… Read More

Berkeley, CA: Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California. Very Good. 1996. Softcover. Cover has very minor scuff at corners and edges. Three small mystery spots on back cover. ; Doreen B. Townsend Center occasional papers; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 39 pages .

New York: Burnett & Smith. Good+. 1832. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean original cloth binding. Text tight with a hint of foxing. Leaf (page 19-20) facsimile of the original page. Front & rear endpaper with very small piece removed from bottom corner. New England ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 140 pages .

Boston: Sampson & Murdock Co.. Very Good+. 1927. Hardcover. Clean tan cloth with advertisements printed on both covers. Text tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with large fold out map. Containing names, occupations and addresses. Business Directory, House directory on blue pages. Street directory and miscellaneous information. Advertisements printed on orange pages. New Hampshire, New England ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 900 pages .

New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1900. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. Very Good condition. SEE PHOTOS. This is the SCARCE original 1900 HARDCOVER first edition -- not a cheaply-made modern reprint. NOT a library discard. Inner hinges are sound. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO margin notes. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece and 12 other plates. Bound in the original gray boards with a cream-color parchment spine, stamped in shiny gold on the spine and front cover.. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. 133pp. + 12 plates.

6 unpaginated pages with facsimile letter tipped in. Explanatory note by Alfred Sutro. Folio (13 1/4" x 10 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers with title tipped to front wrapper. First edition limited to 100 copies of which this is number 1. The letter here reproduced was written by Thomas Jefferson to his daughter Patsy while she was at school in Philadelphia, waiting to leave for Europe with her father. He had been appointed by Congress to assist Benjamin Franklin and John Adams in negotiating treaties of commerce with European states. Patsy was eleven years old at the time. Mary Jefferson, Patsy's younger sister, was "the little lady" mentioned in the letter. Condition: Original sales information from Heritage Bookshop laid in. Blue wrappers, stitched together with chips around edges, separating along stitching tear to front wrapper in good condition but internally very good.