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A little age-browning, all pages intact, small corner missing from second end-paper. A couple of marks, stain on back board. Binding a little loose, but holding.Rinehart's charming and funny story about a sergeant in WWI who keeps getting in trouble with his general, featuring spies, romance, etc.

434 pages. Solid and clean, a little age-darkening, a little foxing and a few light stains on a few early pages; binding slightly cocked, front hinge just starting.This is the second state of the first printing, because the word transposition on pg. 419, line 14 has been corrected, and the copyright date of 1921 is on the copyright page only; no other printing stated. This book was part of a variety-store lending library back when such things existed, and bears the store's bookplate on the flyleaf.Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, once for The Magnificent Ambersons (1919) and once for Alice Adams (1922). Although mostly forgotten today, he was considered America's greatest novelist during his lifetime, on a par with Mark Twain, led best-seller lists and had many of his novels made into movies, such as Alice Adams by George Stevens in 1935 and The Magnificent Ambersons by Orson Welles in 1942,

Volume is tight, solid and complete; no fraying of spine head or heel, no marks of any kind, all pages tight, bright and complete. Boards are semiflexible cardboard. A little age-darkening, 3 corners slightly bumped. Has "BRAZ, M." and "X45" stenciled in white on front board.

Issued to US Navy enlisted personnel since 1902, and a direct successor to manuals produced before literacy was widespread among enlisted personnel, this volume is the complete guide to all aspects of a career in the Navy: Navy life, work, regulations, knots, seamanship, gunnery, landings, arms, squad and platoon schools, and so on.

This edition is of particular interest because it was issued just before the start of World War II and depicts the state of the navy one year before Pearl Harbor.

201 pages on glossy paper. Includes typed note by author, unsigned, to A.M. Blackburn of the Township Press. Binding tight and all pages clean and intact. Some shelf wear, with a little scratching on back board, and a small tear at head of spine. NO dust jacket.Gress's (1872-1934) comprehensive and fascinating survey and examples of American typographic styles over 150 years. He provides examples and illustrations in practically every conceivable field and application, and a great many black and white drawings, prints, posters, mastheads, brochures, advertisements, circulars, letterheads, stock cuts, etc. etc.A classic and unparalleled work by the preeminent American expert on typology of the 20th century.

Front hinge a little weak, some age-darkening, spine fading, a little foxing, some soiling of boards, previous owners' names. All pages intact, clean, bright and unmarked.A first edition of the first of Gene Stratton-Porter's best-selling books set in the (formerly) famous 13,000 acre Limberlost swamp in Adams and Jay counties in Indiana. Once a major wildlife and nature preserve, the swamp was drained and gone by 1910. About 10% has been restored, today, known as the Loblolly Marsh Nature Preserve.An icon of turn-of-the-previous century Indiana, Stratton-Porter was one of the best-selling authors of her day, a naturalist and environmental activist who tried to save the Limberlost and other wetlands, a nature photographer, and a silent film-era producer who founded her own production company, Gene Stratton Porter Productions, in 1924.Freckles is the story of an orphan who earns his way into society through courage and perseverance. In the course of the story, Stratton-Porter describes the… Read More

Octavos, three volumes. No damage, no marks of any kind, not an ex-library copy, no bookplates, etc.. The only deviation from new condition is a few very small spots on page tops (see photograph).Colonel Charles Edward Banks was an American medical doctor with the U.S. Marine Hospital Service, Assistant Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service and a noted historian and genealogist of colonial New England.His thoroughly researched, elegantly written and surprisingly readable history and genealogy of Martha's Vineyard (and the Town of Gosnold, comprising the other Elizabeth Islands) is considered a significant work of New England, American and British colonial history.

Complete, Vols. 1 and 2 in one. Full leather; owner's name gilt-stamped in black label on front board, marbled endpapers. Good +: some abrasions and water/ink stains on front board, some abrasions on rear board, some corner bumping and a fair amount of foxing, but binding is sound, all pages present, intact and untorn; overall in very serviceable condition. Photos show foxed pages, but not all are so foxed.Second US Edition of John Howard Hinton's (1791-1873) famous and comprehensive History, in the production of which he was encouraged by Washington Irving, to whom it is dedicated. A fascinating and detailed look into a United States of 27 states whose vast territory is mostly inhabited by "savages."This is a large and heavy book: domestic shipping $8.00; please enquire about international shipping costs.

332 pages. Binding is solid, all pages intact; some foxing and minor staining, but book is eminently readableGrant Overton (1881-1930) was a literary critic, editor, and novelist. He was an editorial writer and the literary editor for the New York Sun from 1906 to 1919, editor of Colliers Magazine, then worked for George H. Doran, the book publisher, and was author of at least ten books and editor of collections of short stories.This is his then-highly-popular romance of a very sheltered young woman experiencing the racy world of New York City.

Minor fraying on head and heel of spine of volume, some small tears in dust jacket (see photographs). Deckled pages; a little age-soiling of page tops. Name of owner in pencil, copy of poem "Love's Lantern" pasted inside front pastedown. Some age-darkening of pastedowns.The 44th Large Printing of Streeter Aldrich's much-reprinted 1928 classic story of a pioneer woman and her courageous and optimistic struggle to build a home and a life in the wilderness of mid-19-century Nebraska.Still widely read today, this a classic tale of American optimism, courage and success in building a new life.

Open dimensions of map 13" x 15 1/2", folded 3" x 5".Map is complete but for a small piece missing between Allentown and Doylestown; a couple of tears along fold lines, a long one along rightmost section, but none detached.One of the famous series of antebellum Tourist Pocket Maps by eminent American geographer Samuel Augustus Mitchell. Sold by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 253 Market St., Philadelphia.These maps are increasingly hard to find.

Upper corner of front cover shows a fold mark; binding and pages solid, tight and unmarked. Includes Robert Montgomery's obituary from the New York Times under pastedown, which left a slight shadow on flyleaf.

From J.H. Heineman's "Open Letter" series, which was, according to the Foreword, "...conceived and developed as the platform for an international assembly of prominent people and established writers to discuss, dissect and delve into contemporary ideas and mores."
And:
"Each letter is a personal polemic in which the author appeals to the mind rather than to the emotions; and chides with the épée rather than bludgeons with the hammer."

The best summary of the work comes from Robert Montgomery's own Foreword: "This is an ill-tempered book, but not, I hope, one the reader will think merely polemic. The anger which inspires it is not an end in itself. It is intended to awaken in the television viewer some conception of the dangers inherent in the free-wheeling oligopoly which dominates the mass… Read More

Vol 128 of the Memoirs. First edition.Moderate tanning of spine and slight tanning mark on front cover, very small imperfection on head of spine; otherwise unmarked, undamaged, and virtually as new, apparently never been opened.Prof. Jones's introduction and notes provide excellent context to this fascinating series of letters from pioneering American physician Jonathan Warren, probably the first to administer anesthetic during pediatric surgery and a leader in reconstructive surgery techniques. He studied in Paris with the leading medical practitioners of the day, and his letters provide valuable information on the state of medicine at the time and on the development of American medicine in the years leading up to the American Civil War.

307 pages. Binding is a little cocked, but solid and tight. Shows some rubbing, fraying at head and heel of spine, flyleaf cut out; hinges solid, all pages tight, unmarked, intact, with very little age-darkeningNorval Richardson (1877-1940), author and former United States diplomat, wrote a number of popular thrillers in the pre-WWll era; Pirate's Face, a well-written romantic adventure, was among the most popular and is hard to find today. He in died in October 1940 in Bermuda of a heart attack at the age of 63 after escaping Nazi-occupied France.

First Edition, 2nd printing. One map. Two corners slightly bumped, very slight fraying of head and heel of spine, no dj. Binding entirely sound, all pages unmarked, undamaged, tight and bright.Part of the Princeton History of New Jersey series. Prof. Pomfret outlines the history of what became a major part of southern New Jersey from Henry Hudson's arrival in the Delaware Bay to the merger of the provinces of East and West New Jersey as a royal colony in 1702.

Title on spine is "Tisbury's Town and Proprietors' Records." One of 500 copies. Spine tanned, a little age darkening, small scratch and a little scuffing on bottom right of rear board but otherwise volume is complete, tight, unmarked and wholly sound.This unique work was meticulously deciphered, arranged and recorded over many years as a labor of love by William S. Swift (1861-1936), civil engineer and surveyor and longtime town clerk of Vineyard Haven, and Jennie Cleveland, assistant town clerk.The Records provides an extraordinary look into the daily lives of Americans (who were not Americans when these records began) from the 17th to the 19th century. It details the real-life problems, concerns, attitudes, and solutions that concerned America from colonial times to the Revolutionary War ("...the unhappy State of the Province in general and of Said County [Dukes] in Particular." p. 206) through to the Civil War, and provides insights into British colonial and American life unobtainable elsewhere.… Read More

A little foxing, age-soiling, a loose hinge, one loose page. The last 16 pages are of Henry Altemus Company catalogue advertising.
The author's name is actually Moore, misprinted in earlier editions. This format was part of the Altemus Series 58 "Boys and Girls Classics" (No. 91), printed between 1899 and 1906. This edition is among the early ones of the series, published in 1901, based on the presence of Sea Kings and the absence of Vic in the publisher's advertising section in the back of the book.
Vic, the life of a fox terrier told in his own "words," quickly became a classic upon publication, and is still read today; early editions are hard to find.

Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 93.This volume is in new condition, with a 1 1/4" tear on top front of the dust jacket, a 1/2" tear and a water spot on the bottom front of the dust jacket (which does not penetrate to the front board of the book). A couple of small soil spots on dust jacket. Volume shows no bumping, tanning, marks of any kind, no bookplates, not an ex-library copy. (Note: what appear to be gray stains on pages on lower right of some photographs are shadows of our inept photographer.)This out-of-print classic work by arguably the greatest Mayanologist of the 20th century is the last volume of Thompson's three works on Mayan hieroglyphic writing. It is a standard text for students of Mayan writing, and while more knowledge has been gained in the 50 years since its publication, it remains a foundational work in the field.