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New York: The John Day Company, 1963. Willard Price explores the Mississippi River from source to mouth. Here in word and 48 photographs is the story of America's watery backbone, past and present told in the most interesting way. It provides a wealth of history that we should all understand and appreciate. The photographs are by the author and Mary Virginia Price. An index is also supplied. A sound, clean book in a photo illustrated, price-intact dust jacket.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Caterham, Great Britain: Railway & Canal Historical Society, 1974. 1st edition. 70 pages including several excellent detailed maps. This is an expertly written account of the waterways and railways surrounding Warrington. A scarce first edition. In original pictorial blue card covers. Very Good++. REDUCED POSTAGE ON THIS ITEM. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good++. Small 4to.
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Newton Abbot, Devon, England: David & Charles, 1973. 226 pages price clipped b/w photos - owners stamp under cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
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Washington: Library of Congress, 1908. Card Covers. Fair. 59 p. 26 cm. Card covers. Front detached. Chips and tears. Ink stamp and former owner's label on title page.
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North Devon, United Kingdom: Arthur H. Stockwell Limited, 1990. 1st edition. 79 pages. Illustrated by David Berry. The subtitle of this book is "A Tale of the Cheshire Waterways" and it is based on the adventures of a family on the Pennywise navigating the Cheshire waterways. An attractive book in original pictorial card covers. Very Good++. REDUCED POSTAGE ON THIS ITEM. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good++. Illus. by David Berry. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Newton Abbot, Devon, UK: David & Charles, 1966. 72 Pages with Black/White Photos and Illustrations.. Second Enlarged Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good.
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New York: Gay Brothers, 1890. First edition. Cloth. Head and heel of spine with small chips, top section of front hinge split, minor archival repair to top of inner front hinge, but still quite tight and overall a good solid copy.. Frontispieces (2), xxxi, 698 pp. Illus. with 230 b/w drawings, 1 photo, & 1 steel engraving. Sm. 4to. One of the least common of Lossing many works, this volume contains marvelous drawings in the section Great Wonderlands: from the Catskills, Adirondacs, and White Mountains to the Rockies, Columbia River, and Alaska. Of particular note is the View of Lake Minnewaska and Glen Mountain House. (The full title concludes with: ..."the story of our marvelous progress and growth as a nation; with picturesque sketches of our continent beyond the states comprising views in the dominion of Canada, her provinces and cities; the Republic of Mexico; Cuba, the gem of the Antilles; the Bahama Islands, and all the countries of South and Central America, their capitals and seaports).
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Washington DC: GPO, 1861. 131, 14, 154, 30, 7, 31pp, in 5 parts with appendices A-D, 24 total plates (including 7 plates in color by Heinrich Baldwin Mollhausen depicting Indians), 2 folding maps, and one profile. 29cm. Rebound in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Foxing, last two pages stained at the corners; map slightly foxed, tears professionally repaired. In very good condition. [Wagner-Camp: 375; Sabin: 35308; Howes: I92]
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New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xix, 365 p. Fold-out colour map. B&w plates and illustrations. Very mild shelf wear. First 50 pages crinkled at margin.
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Bury, Great Britain: The Author, 1982. 1st edition. A5. 29 pages including numerous excellent line drawings. A first class detailed account of narrow boat building at Ladyshore. In original blue pictorial textured card covers. Very Good++. REDUCED POSTAGE ON THIS ITEM. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good++. A5.
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Ohio Valley Improvement Association, 1929. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 244 p. 22 cm. Brown card covers. Photographs of steamships and celebrations. Ink stamp to lower front cover. Spine faded. Owner's label on title page.
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Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near fine. 561 p. 23 cm. Map on endpapers. B&w reproductions and photographs. Cloth hardcover in dustjacket. Cardboard slipcase. Owner's label on half title. Includes information on lumbering, papermaking, mining, settlement, railroads, steamboats, telephones and tourism.
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. xviii, 415 p. 24 cm. Map on endpapers. B&w plates. Beige cloth hardcover in mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. Spine faded, small chips and tears in edges, price-clipped front flap. Former owner's label on half title. Includes letter hand-written by the author's wife to a friend on Haskins Laboratories letterhead, 3 Christmas cards from Caryl and Edna Haskins (one signed, other printed), small card signed by Edna, copy of an essay entitled Culture and Power in the Modern World by Caryl Haskins.
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Radcliffe, Great Britain: Neil Richardson, 1985. 1st edition. A5. 82 pages. Well illustrated throughout with maps, plans and black and white photographic plates. A mine of information on the canal. In original attractive pictorial grey card covers. Very Good+. REDUCED POSTAGE ON THIS ITEM. Delph Books Tel: 0161 764 4488. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+. A5.
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San Marcos: Southwest Texas State Teachers College, 1954. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with minor shelfwear and browning to wrappers, contents near fine with slight offsetting from bookplate on title, else clean.. 48 pp. Illus. with 3 b/w folding maps. 8vo. Provenance: Bookplate from the Library of Walter Prescott Webb, historian, and signed by Terrell Webb.
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Little Brown, 1984. 1st. hardcover. A VERY FINE crisp copy in a NEAR FINE bright dj. Photographs by Colin Jones.
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Chicago: Children's Press, n.d.. First edition. Illustrated paper-covered boards. A fine copy.. 31 pp. Illus. with color photos. Sm. 4to.
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The University Press of Kentucky, 1998. Reprint. Soft cover. New. New softcover. Ohio River Valley Series. Originally part of the Rivers of America series. The Ohio traces the river from its headwaters in Pittsburgh to the point it empties into the Mississippi, nearly a thousand miles and five states later. The Ohio gives us a rare portrait of the frontier era of this region, from backwoods entertainment to learning and the arts. From early exploration to land disputes, clashes with Native American inhabitants to the birth of steamboat travel. Professional bookseller for 20 years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds.
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St. Catherines: Port Dalhousie Works, 1979. Second printing. Illustrated paper wrappers (paperback). A near fine copy.. 90 pp. Bibliography. Illus. with b/w photos. Sq. 8vo.
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San Francisco: Pacific Division/American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1979. Paperback. 493p., coated paperstock illustrated with charts, maps and diagrams; softbound in 10x7 inch decorated wraps. Mild external signs of wear, top edge has a couple light bumps, ownership name of [A. Starker] Leopold on cover (he was a Berkeley prof and environmentalist), good clean copy. Fifty-eighth annual meeting of the Pacific Division held at SF State University June 12-16, 1977.
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New York: National Travel Club, 1941. First edition. A very good+ copy. No dust jacket.. 356 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings and maps. 8vo. The Rivers of America. Limited Boston edition # 404, signed by author.
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Newton Abbot, Devon, England: David & Charles, 1970. price clipped 236 pages b/w photos owners stamp under cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
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Washington City: Philp & Solomons, 1869. Soft cover. Fair. 57 p. 24 cm. 2 fold-out maps (1 colour), b&w map, 2 b&w illustrations. Original covers attached to white paper. Ink signature on front cover. Folding maps extensively repaired. Title page attached with repair paper. Former owner's label attached inside front cover. Bottom corner of p. 23 dampstained. Front cover gives date as 1870.
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Oxford, England: The Railway & Canal Historical Society, 1977. 16 pages. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Washington DC, 1867. Ex. Doc. No. 15. Hardcover. Near fine. 43 p. 24 cm. Large fold-out map of Rock River at rear. Half grey cloth with blue paper boards. Former owner's sticker on front endpaper and small bookbinder's label on rear pastedown. House of Representatives. 40th Congress, 1st Session. "March 20, 1867,--Resolved, That there be printed of the report of Brovet Major General J. H. Wilson, upon the survey and examination o fhte Rock River, when presented, seven hundred and fifty for the use of the Bureau of Engineers."
