Search Results: Americana & Canadiana from Lawrence Jones

New York: Parke- Bernet Galleries., 1952. 264pp. Or blue cloth. Slight wear to bottom of spine and tiny nick to bottom edge of rear board. Auction catalogue for the sale of one of the greatest collections of Lincolniana ever assembled. Comprising 842 lots, with numerous bw ills.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo.

Salt Lake City: Big Moon Traders, 1997. 263pp, index, line drawings, maps. Or pictorial card covers. Very light edge wear to covers. The Day-by-Day trek of the Mormon pioneers from Nauvoo, IL to Utah.. First Thus. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Noyce, Robert R.; Carter, Richard F. (maps). Oblong 8vo.

Farmington Hills: Home Planners, Inc, 1982. 96pp, with more than 350 line drawings and plans. The lower corners of the first few pages are creased. Illustrated wrappers with worn corners. The book covers Gambrels, Salt Boxes, Cape Cods & other popular historical adaptations for one, 1.5 and two story, multi-levels homes. Homes for all budgets. Delightful exteriors, practical floor plans.. Soft Cover. Good. 4to.

New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. 650pp, index, notes, appendices, col plates, line drawings,maps. Or card covers. Front cover creased with slight edge wear, light toning to page edges. Evidence that the Chinese voyaged to America in 1421seventy years before Columbus, and also that they circumnavigated the world acentury before Magellan. Originally presented in a series by PBS.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: The Free Press, 1995. xii, 418pp, 16pp b/w plates, bibliography, index, end-paper maps. Upper page edges tinted, fore-edge uncut. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. Small tear in rear panel of jacket. The author presents a virtual reality picture of the 1939 New York World's Fair -- an historical record in which some of the characters are fictional.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

Wasco, CA: Shafer Publishing , 1954. 108pp, folding map, num advertisements. Slight toning along spine, short (1cm) tear at bottom of front cover. An apparently unread/unused copy of this California city directory which includes an alphabetical listing of residents. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: D.S. Ford (printers), 1961. 2 parts-complete. 76, 56pp, notes, bw ills. Yellow textured card. Very slight edge wear to yapped (overhanging) edges Edition limited to 135 copies signed and numbered by Mackaness (both parts #16. Gates was one of the Canadian Patriots (Exiles) who as a result of a series of abortive uprisings against the authorities in Canada were deported in 1839 to Tasmania and New South Wales. . Signed by Editor. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

London: Fisher, Son, & Co., 1842. 2 volumes. 487pp, appendix, 4 bw plates; 588pp, appendix, 4 plates. Or brown cloth titled in gilt, decorated in blind. Ex-library of Legislative Council with expected stamps (most unobtrusive), and foxing to plates otherwise a lovely set. Antebelum travels in the slave states of America in the middle of the 19th century, some 20 years before the civil war. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1987. 3 volume set-complete. Or cloth. Volume I: Migrants from Northern Europe. vii + 278 pp. Bibliographies and Indexes in American History, Number 4. Volume II: Migrants from Eastern and Southeastern Europe. xvii + 725 pp. Bibliographies and Indexes in American History, Number 7. Volume 3: Migrants from Southern and Western Europe. xv + 583 pp. Bibliographies and Indexes in American History, Number 8. Vol 1 grey cloth; Vol 2 slightly faded blue cloth, Vol 3 blue cloth. Each vol has previous owner's name at upper edge ffep with 'complimentary copy from the publisher (with dates)' at centre ffep.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo.

Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1883. HEAVY. 6 volumes 1883-1892 (lacks Part VII Lichens & Hepaticae published almost 10 years after the last of those present). ix, 192pp; iv, pp193-394; pp395-623; ii, 248pp; iv, pp249-428; v, 295; indexes. Rebound in green cloth incorporating original wrappers. Ex-University library with usual stamps etc (inc cancelled stamps). Top corner of pages in Part II bumped/creased, several small chips/short tears mainly confined to wrappers, but generally a nice, clean, complete set to the end of Part VI. Issued over a period of years the publication dates are Part I 1883; Part II 1884; Part III 1886; Part IV 1888; Part V 1890; Part VI 1892. The misisng seventh part was publsihed in 1902.. First Editions. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000. Introduction and Afterword by Peter Maas. xv, 326pp, 8pp b/w photos, glossary, survivors, index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. Sunk in the Pacific by a Japanese torpedo, 300 men were lost with the ship, 900 others spent 4 days and nights in the ocean, with no water but swarms of sharks, 316 crewmen survived. The book tells of their ordeal and of the controversy over the Navy's handling of the case.. New Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Touchstone, 1998. xxiii, 675pp, index. Paperback. This edition includes headnotes, the identification of the various characters and other editorial aids.. First Touchstone Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback.

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi., 1992. xiv, 252pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, tables, few bw ills. Or card covers. Near new. Examines the demographic growth, cultural evolution and political involvement of Louisiana's large Acadian community from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the end of Reconstruction in Louisiana, revealing the cultural transformation of the Acadians of Nova Scotia inot the Cajuns of Louisiana.. First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Not Stated: William F. Northrop, 1978. iv, 20pp + colophon. No covers as issued and bound with string. Facsimile reprint of the original 1797 edition of 500 copies (this copy #562 of an unstated limitation) of this early work by Jupiter Hammon, the first black person to be published in America. . Limited/Numbered. Unbound. Fine. 8vo.

Philadelphia: S. T. Souder & Company, 1876. 348pp + 1pp +2pp ads. 2bw ills + bw frontis. Or green cloth with gilt and black decoration.Some edge wear, wrinkling of cloth on rear and spine, corners bumped, prev owners inscription on ffep. Tight, bright, clean copy. Previously published as Whiskey Drips (1873). True story told by an IRS detective of the operations, investigation and prosecution of a whiskey ring. Also speaks of corrupt agents.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo.

Kansas City, Mo.: Lowell Press, 1977. HEAVY. xvi, 379pp, index, notes, num bw photographs and drawings. Or orange cloth in pictorial jacket. Slight rubbing to jacket and one tiny tear at bottom edge. Dean Krakel tells of his life in the world of Westrern art. Building museum collections, deslings with the wealthy art patrons and colelctors, values, personalities, thefts and more are all covered in this fascinating book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Large 8vo.

Chicago: Donohue Brothers No date [1856]. 426pp + 6pp book catalogue. Pages tanned, brittle and fragile. Front hinge slackening. Date stamp on the ffep. Or dec blue cl boards a little worn with some insect damage to spine affecting the title. The stories, founded on the history of the early settlement of Maine, include The Wrecker's Daughter; The Scout; The Light-keeper; The Settlers; The Liberty Pole; The Storm at Sea; and The Canadian Captive.. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dell Publishing, 1979. xx, 364pp, bibliography, 250+ bw ills. Some rubbing and minor edge wear to covers. Over 250 advertisements collected from the great family magazines present a nostalgic and eye-opening view of one hundred years of everyday life in America, its changing images, its passing fads, and fancies. Chronicles the shifting role of men, women and blacks, and records the changing American attitudes to health, diet, alcohol, and sex. . First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. vii, 292pp, end-paper maps. Prev owner's name at the centre of the front flyleaf (map affected). Fore-edge uncut. Blue cloth boards, silver titles on the front board and on the spine. The author gives an 'airplane-view of the republics and most of the colonies which fringe and dot the Caribbean'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Washington D.C.: Potomac Books, 2006. xiv, 276pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, bw ills. or boards in jacket. Tiny chip at base of jacket spine, otherwise near new. The US Navy Africa Squadron was formed in 1842 to enforce the ban on the importation of slaves. Over 20 years they proved ineffective. Duty in the squadron was unpopular. The climate, departmental neglect and judicial indifference, which alowed intercepted slave vessels to return to the trade, all contributed to the sailors' frustration. The author looks at how this unit earned its poor reputation and whether it is deserved.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.