Search Results: History from Crooked House Books & Paper

Springfield, Massachusetts: Samuel Bowles & Company, Hurd & Houghton, 1866. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, full brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, blindstamped ruled borders to boards, brown clay-coated endpapers, large folding map as frontispiece, 7-3/4" tall, 452 pp. + 2 pp. publisher's ads. Map color is nice, a few tape reinforcements, but generally attractive, front hinge probably repaired at some point, owner's name to title page, small burn hole to ads (no text loss). Generally, a nice clean copy. During the Reconstruction era, Schuyler Colfax (then Speaker of the House, but soon to be Vice President under Ulysses S Grant), traveled across the Western United States, and the book includes his views of early Los Angeles, a conversation with Brigham Young, observations of nature, including the Sequoias, etc. Although partly a rousing Republican political book, it is primarily of interest for its narrative and map of the barely-settled West.

Binford & Mort, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 9x6x1. Signed by Author(s). Hardcover in pictorial boards, limited signed edition of 500 copies. Spine a little faded, else fine. Includes many b/w photos of Native American artifacts.

Binfords & Mort, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Red cloth boards under red dust jacket with original price intact, 8vo, 252 pp. Illustrated with photos of Native American artifacts. The first book of Pacific Northwest history & archaeology from this author.

New York: E. Robinson, 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, full cloth binding with blindstamped decorative border and gilt lettering to front cover, blindstamped rear cover, 19-1/4" x 15-1/2", 23 tinted doublepage plates, cloth backed, plus a cloth-backed doublepage index map. Laid in is a paper map "Map of Totowa and The Boght Before the Founding of Paterson in 1791": undated but feels mid-20th century. Binding has been professionally rebacked at some point, retaining cloth boards but with a leather-grained buckram spine; hinges reinforced with cloth tape; rear cover is reddish, front cover is brown, I'm not entirely sure which one is discolored, moderate buckling to cloth on rear cover--possibly binding flaw. Maps themselves are in very good condition with nice bright colors & solid binding; the thumb tabs are worn or torn off; small dampstain to bottom corners which is much more noticeable on the cloth side than the map side. Large calligraphic ownership inscription of U.V. Munson… Read More

University of Massachusetts Press, 1971. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 7x5x1. Blue cloth boards under black & white dust jacket. Price-clipped, else fine.

London: William Collins, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Green and white decorated paper over boards, 8vo, 47 pages, 8 plates in color, 18 illustrations in black and white, #33 in the Britain in Pictures series; very faint foxing to select pages and edges of text block; rear of dust jacket is foxed, now protected in mylar.

London: William Collins, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Brown and white decorated paper over boards, 8vo, 47 pages, 8 plates in color, 8 plates in sepia, and 20 illustrations in black and white, #71 in the Britain in Pictures series; inscription on front free endpaper; dust jacket has a few notes on rear panel, now protected in mylar.

Los Angeles: Quon-Quon Co, 1941. Soft cover. Very Good. Complete 14 volume set of staple-bound paper volumes, each a unique color, kept together in publisher's paper wrap around, 32mo, each volume 16 pages, illustrations throughout text of each; paper wrap around has Cameron's Bookseller stamp adhered to front cover, lightly edge worn, each book is wonderfully preserved and shows little wear. Titles include: Kuan Yin, Chinese Festivals, The Romance of Chinese Metal Art, Chinese Proverbs, Chinese Carvings, Chinese Porcelain and Pottery, The Story of Jade, Chinese Recipes, Chinese Symbolisms, Chinese Astrology, Chinese Dogs, Chinese Music, Chinese Astrology, and The Cavalcade of China. Rare in a complete set protected by publisher's wrap.

Los Angeles: Quon-Quon Co, 1941. Soft cover. Very Good. Complete 14 volume set of staple-bound paper volumes, each a unique color, kept together in publisher's paper wrap around, 32mo, each volume 16 pages, illustrations throughout text of each; paper wrap around is edge worn with closed tears to edges of creases, each book is wonderfully preserved and shows little wear. Titles include: Kuan Yin, Chinese Metal Art, Chinese Proverbs, Chinese Carvings, Chinese Porcelain and Pottery, The Story of Jade, Chinese Recipes, Chinese Symbolism, Chinese Astrology, Chinese Dogs, Chinese Music, Chinese Religious Beliefs, The Romance of Chinese Writing and The Cavalcade of China. Rare in a complete set protected by publisher's wrap.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1934. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author(s). Limited edition, olive green paper backed in tan cloth, 8vo, 389 pages, illustrated throughout, signed by the author on the colophon; toning to edges of boards, interior is unmarked and illustrations are sharp. Limited edition printing of 1,129 numbered copies, of which this is number 115. Within the back cover is included a facsimile of the unpublished novelette, "A Leaf from an Unopened Volume", by Charlotte Bronte.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition, 8vo, 320 pages, illustrated from drawings by the author; mild shelf bump to bottom front board edge near spine, internally clean and sound; dust jacket rubbed and edge worn with chipping and small tears at extremities, one inch triangle out at bottom front edge, still very attractive in mylar cover. Engineer's story of how he surveyed a large area of the Orinoco basin for an American oil company, under peculiarly trying conditions.

Bentley Publishers, 2000. Soft cover. Very Good. 9x7x0. Clean & solid copy.

London: William Collins, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Green and white decorated paper over boards, 8vo, 46 pages, 8 plates in color and 26 illustrations in black and white, #92 in the Britain in Pictures series; dust jacket edge worn with a small chip to the head, now protected in mylar.

Denver: Sage Books, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Third revised edition. Light blue cloth, 10 1/4 x 7 inches, 479 pages, illustrated with maps and photographs, map endpapers. Dust jacket a little ragged along top edge, split and small internal chip to front flap hinge, now in protective mylar cover. Some 700 towns are mentioned in every mining area of the state. 26 maps and 105 photographs.

Oxford University Press, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine, yellow typographic dust jacket, 8-3/4" tall, 285 pp. Fine in near fine jacket.

London: Macmillan & Co. LTD, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Blue cloth with gilt titles on spine, 8vo, 245 pages; fading on spine, sun strips to head and tail, endpapers a bit toned; foxing to dust jacket with a few chips to corners and head and tail of spine, now protected in mylar.

London: William Collins, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Brown and white decorated paper over boards, 8vo, 47 pages, 8 plates in color and 21 illustrations in black and white, #66 in the Britain in Pictures series; closed tear near tail of spine, foxing to end papers and edges of text block; dust jacket edge worn with chipping along edges of spine, now protected in mylar.

London: William Collins, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pink and white decorated paper over boards, 8vo, 47 pages, 18 plates in color and 28 illustrations in black and white, #30 in the Britain in Pictures series; previous owners name on front free endpaper, spine of dust jacket dust soiled, now protected in mylar.

London: William Collins, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Brown and white decorated paper over boards, 8vo, 47 pages, 8 plates in color and 21 illustrations in black and white, #24 in the Britain in Pictures series; boards a bit worn; spine of dust jacket worn with a small chip to the head, now protected in mylar.

London: William Collins, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Brown and white decorated paper over boards, 8vo, 47 pages, 8 plates in color and 31 illustrations in black and white, #48 in the Britain in Pictures series; small chips to head and tail of spine of dust jacket, now protected in mylar.