New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885. Hardcover. First Edition. vi, [1], 206, [2] pp ads. Green cloth covered boards with gold and dark red embossed tilting and decoration to spine and front cover board. Light scuffing to boards from shelf wear, bumping to corners. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown and second free endpaper, clean within.
Part of the "English Worthies" Series edited by Andrew Lang. Very Good. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiv, 221 pp. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by the author to the previous owner's on the title page. Elizabeth Kauffman Bush is the sister of the subject, and wife of Prescott Bush, brother of President George H. W. Bush and uncle of President George W. Bush. Fine / Fine. More
London: John Stockdale, 1800. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. xxxi, [1], 579, [2] pp. 8vo. Recent brown three quarter leather binding with four raised bands and green patch titles with gold titling; marbled paper insets to front and rear covers. Light toning to pages, 14 plates called for and present.
Early biography of Catharine the Great, translated from the French. Very Good. More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xii, 242 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by Tony Conza on the half-title page. Fine / Fine. More
Santa Fe, NM: One Horse Land & Cattle Company/Nedra Matteucci Galleries, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 146 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. Dust jacket has a 1" closed tear at upper right corner of rear panel, now in mylar cover. Fine / Very Good. More
Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1988. Trade paperback. As. xvii, 284 pp. 8vo. Very light scuffing, clean within.
George B. Hartzog, Jr. (1920-2008) was the seventh Director of the National Park Service and served from 1964-1972 until he was dismissed under pressure from President Richard Nixon over a dispute over Hartzog's cancellation of a special use permit of a friend of Nixon's. Outspoken, Hartzog led the NPS through a great deal of expansion, including many urban parks. Fine. More
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 204 pp. Folio. Dust jacket has minor sunning along base of dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Fine / Very Good. More
Boston, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1968. Hardcover. First Edition. x, [2], 536 pp. 8vo. Deep yellow dust jacket with chips, tears, losses,sunning to spine, and staining, now in mylar cover. Red cloth boards with slight rubbing from use. Light spots of staining on foredges.
Winthrop Williams Aldrich (1885-1974) was Ambassador to the Court of St. James from 1953 to 1957. Aldrich was also the brother of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Very Good / fair. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Hardcover. First Edition. 256 pp. 8vo. Very light scuffing to dust jacket, small chips at head and foot, now in mylar cover. Clean within.
Period pictorial guide to the National Parks. Very good / Very Good. More
New York: Sears Publishing Company, 1932. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. viii, 305 pp. 8vo. Bright orange covers with very light darkening to spine, bumping to corners and light scuffing. Oddly, publisher printed on base of spine, Dodd, Mead & Company, is not the same as Sears Publishing Company printed on title page. Nevertheless, a scarce volume. Very Good. More
Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2000. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. xiii, 179 pp. 23 plates. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed neatly by the author on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2000. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. xiii, 179 pp. 23 plates. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Moab, UT: Friends of Arches and Canyonlands Parks, 2014. Hardcover. Limited Edition. xi, [1], 171, [1] pp. 4to. Green cloth spine with gold embossed tilting, gray cloth boards with blind embossed symbol of the National Park Service, the ranger hat superimposed over the trademark arrowhead. Clean and crisp within, no dust jacket as issued, matching green cloth slipcase with a photograph of Bates Wilson inset on front board. Signed on the title page by the author.
Heavily illustrated biography of Bates Wilson (1912-1983) that also documents the history of Canyonlands Region of Utah. Wilson was an early Superintendent at Arches and Natural Bridges National Monument taking on the role in 1949. He was instrumental in the founding of Canyonlands National Park and was appointed its..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Wraps. First Edition. xi, 406, [viii] pp. 4to. Rust cloth boards with dark blue spine with gold and silver embossed titling. Clean within.
Biography of Frank Jay Haynes (1853-1921) was the official photographer of Yellowstone National Park and also ran a photography concession within the park. Haynes Company published many guides to Yellowstone, as well as running a lucrative photography business. Haynes' son, Jack Ellis Haynes took over the business upon his father's death. Jack Haynes wife, Isabel M. Haynes has inscribed this book on the second free endpaper. Very Good. More
London: Sharpe and Hailes, 1812. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. First English Edition, originally published in Baltimore. viii, 214, [2] ads pp. 12mo. Very light tan leather spine and corners. Rubbing and wear to corners, inset green marble papers on cover boards have almost rubbed off, seven gold lines across spine where raised bands would normally be, black leather patch title with gold embossed titling. Small circular stain below patch title. Previous owner has written their name on title page and penciled in "William Wirt" under title as the work was published anonymously, they also wrote their name in ink across the text of p. 1 and dated 1815. Strange. Age toning to endpapers, small water stain at head of first few pages, light foxing..... More
Wood, Myron (Photographer). Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2012. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 63 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. Fine / Fine. More
