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    Bird, Isabella:  The Englishwoman In America.  Chicago, Ill.: The Lakeside Press, 2012. First Edition. Fine in blue-green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine, gilt borders on the front and rear boards and a gilt company logo on the front board with green printed end sheets. A 16mo measuring 6 3/4 by 4 1/4 inches with upper and lower headbands and with the top edge of the text block gilt. The book remains protected in the publisher's original shrink wrap. 370 pages including an index followed by a page of image credits. Illustrated with a two page color map and 42 color plates including the frontispiece. An abridged version of the original 1856 British edition, edited by Thomas Philbrick, of a memoir by Bird of her travels through the United States beginning in 1854. This title is the 110th volume in the longest running collection of series Americana.
    TB33027  $25.00



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    Burr, Jean Chandler (Editor):  Lyme Records 1667-1730. A Literal Transcription of the MInutes of the Town Meetings with Marginal Notations, to which hath been Appended Land Grants and Ear Marks. .  Stonington, Conn.: The Pequot Press, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Very near fine in tan paper covered boards with red corners and with a red title block on the spine with gilt lettering. An octavo measuring 9 by 5/7/8 inches with a split in the paper covering over the front gutter, which has been professionally repaired. There a minor nicks to the tips of the boards. The contents are clean and tight and free of any prior ownership markings. Without a dust jacket. 190 pages including an index of persons of interest. Illustrated with two black and white photographs of the original book containing the handwritten records of the Town of Lyme.
    TB33008  $50.00



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    Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez:  Narrative Of The Narvaez Expedition.  Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 2013. First Edition. Fine in blue-green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine, gilt borders on the front and rear boards and a gilt company logo on the front board with green printed end sheets. A 16mo measuring 6 3/4" by 4 1/4" with upper and lower headbands and with the top edge of the text block gilt. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is still contained within the publisher's original shrink wrap protection. 186 pages including an index and followed by a page of image credits. Illustrated with maps (some in color) a color frontispiece and numerous engravings and plates from earlier works of art.
    TB33028  $20.00



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    Carroll, Lewis:  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1977. Easton Press Collector's Edition. Fine in burgundy leather covered boards with gilt decorations on the boards with gilt text and decorations stamped on the spine between four raised bands. With silk end papers and a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. 172 pages of text with illustrations by John Tenniel. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. A very handsome, clean and tight volume.
    TB33011  $70.00



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    Coffin, Robert P. T.:  Kennebec.  New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1937). First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in salmon colored cloth boards with gilt on black title block on the spine and with decorated end sheets. A small octavo of 8 by 5 3/8 inches with light soiling to the upper and lower edges of the boards and spine. In a very good, price clipped dust jacket with a 1/3 inch deep chips at the upper edge of the spine area which expends around the fold to the front panel and tiny chips from the fore corners of the front panel over the tips of the front board. The first volume in The Rivers of America Series withillustrations by Maitland de Gogorza. 292 pages containing an index and text. This title has become rather difficult to find in collectable condition.
    TB33007  $85.00




  • de Castaneda of Nejera, Pedro:  Narrative Of The Coronado Expedition.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 2002. First by the Lakeside Press. Fine in dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations stamped on the spine and on the front board and with a gilt top edge to the text block. Without a dust jacket as issued. This is the "Centennial Edition" of the Lakeside Classics which commemorates the 138th year of the Lakeside Press and the 100th anniversary of the start of the Lakeside Classics. This is the first volume published by the Lakeside Press as a dual-language edition. It is printed in the author's native language, Spanish on the verso of the pages and on the recto of the pages the text is printed in English. The publisher's preface also contains a unique review of the first one hundred years of the Lakeside Classics to include two full color pages showing the different bindings used for each of the four series produced to date. A long anticipated and most welcome note appears in this preface with the statement that the publisher's are looking forward to the start of the fifth series with the publication of the 101st title in 2003. This is a first person narrative of the Corondado expedition of 1540 to 1542 through what are now the Spanish and American States of Sinaloa, Sonora, Jaja, California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. 421 pages including and index and illustrated with a two page color frontispiece, 12 color plates, two color maps and several black and white illustrations.
    TB33020  $20.00



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    Demers, Ronald F.:  Modernization In A New England Town A History Of Willington, Connecticut.  Willington, Conn.: Willington Historical Society, (1983). First Edition. Near fine in white cloth covered boards with gray text stamped on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with spots of foxing on the spine and on the edges of the boards probably caused by the glues used in binding. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 431 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece map of the town from a photograph and images throughout also from black and white photographs.
    TB33012  $40.00



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    Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt:  The Gift of Black Folk The Negroes in the Making of America.  Boston: The Stratford Co., Publishers, 1924. First Edition. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with bright, gilt text on the spine and on the front board with embossed borders in blind on the front board. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 5 inches with only hints of rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and with a prior owner's name written at the upper edge of the first free end page. Without a dust jacket. 349 pages including an index and text which includes a 29 page introduction, titled: "The Racial Contributions To the United States", by Edward F. McSweeney. One of the volumes in the Knights of Columbus Racial Contribution Series.
    TB32310  $3000.00



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    Fanning, Nathaniel:  Fanning's Narrative.  n.p. [Chicago]: LSC Communications, 2018. First Edition Thus. Fine in teal cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt borders both boards and the Lakeside Classic logo on the front board at the top of which is "LSC Communications" the new publisher of the Lakeside Classic titles. The top edge of the text block is gilt. Without a dust jacket as issued. This copy is still contained within the publisher's shrink wrap. 346 pages including an index and text. Edited by Thomas Philbrick. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and plates from earlier works of art. Connecticut native, Thomas Fanning, provides this narrative of his life at sea during the American Revolution beginning in May of 1778 and ending with his return to New York in November of 1783 after the signing of the Treaty of Paris which brought the war to its final end. During his time at sea, Fanning served under John Paul Jones and experienced the battle with the HMS Serapis.
    TB33032  $65.00



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    Federal Writers' Project of the WPA:  Stories Of New Jersey.  New York: M. Barrows And Company, 1938. First Edition, Possible second state binding. Very near fine in light blue cloth covered boards with yellow text on the spine and a partial map of New Jersey with place names on the front board together with the title. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches. Without its issued dust jacket. 422 pages of text illustrated from black and white photographs throughout. "Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of New Jersey". Jeff Dykes in his American Guide Series catalog states that this title is "quite scarce". (Dykes, 201; Powell, 1039; Scharf & Schoyer, 385)
    TB33010  $75.00




  • Fowler, Connie May:  Sugar Cage.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1992. First Edition, First printing. Fine in paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. The author's first novel. With outstanding blurbs on the rear panel of the jacket by Amy Tan and Lee Smith.
    TB05028  $10.00



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    Kesey, Ken:  One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.  New York: The Viking Press and by The First Edition Library, (1962). Facsimile First Edition Library Reprint. Fine in bright green cloth covered boards with yellow text on the spine. A small octavo measuring 7 3/4 by 5 1/4 inches with a prior owner's address label on the first free end page. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket with the "FEL" logo on the rear flap. Both the book and its jacket are contained within a fine, paper covered slip case with a paper label of the front panel of the dust jacket and a black and white photograph of the author from the rear panel of the jacket. Laid in front of the book is the publisher's points of interest card which describe the book and its author. This is the First Edition Library's exact (facsimile) reproduction of the first edition of the book. 311 pages of text.
    TB33015  $75.00



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    Moulton, Mark Kimball Susan Winget: The Visit The Delightful History and Origin of The Night Before Christmas.  Elafield, Wisc.: Lang Books, (2001). Sixth Printing. Fine in brick red paper covered boards with a blind stamped title on the front board. An oblong small quarto of 10 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Both the book and its dust jacket are contained within a near fine, printed, paper covered slipcase with rubbing and wear to the paper at all the corners Unpaginated, but containing 52 pages counting the free end sheets. Illustrated throughout with full color images. From both the slipcase and the front panel of the dust jacket the full title and subtitle read: "The Visit The delightful History and Origin of 'The Night Before Christmas' As Recalled by Dinghy Sharp storyteller and great-great-grandaughter of author, Clement Clarke Moore." Printed in the rear of the text is a facsimile, handwritten copy of Clement C. Moore's poem dated well after the original first appeared.
    TB33014  $50.00



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    Olson, Lynne, and Stanley Cloud:  A Question Of Honor The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten heroes Of World War II.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in 1/4 red and black paper covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches with a mild bump to the heel of the spine and what appears to be a faint dampness stain to the lower edge of the spine. If it was dampness there was no impact on the interior of the book. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with modest curling at the lower edge of the spine area. 495 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated throughout with black and white images from photographs.
    TB30635  $30.00




  • Orwell, George:  Nineteen Eighty-Four.  New York: Harcourt, Brace And Company, (1949). First Edition. Near fine in tan cloth covered boards with with red and black text on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo of 8 by 5 3/8 inches with a prior owner's name at the top edge of the first free end page. The contents are very clean and tight and free of any marginal notes or markings. Without its issued dust jacket. 314 pages of text.
    TB33018  $175.00



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    Quaife, Milo Milton:  Pictures of Gold Rush California.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1949. First thus. Fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and gilt decorations on the front board and with gilt to the top edge of the text block. The gilt text stamping on the spine is bright and untarnished. A Lakeside Classic issued in 1949. Laid-in at the front of the book is a Compliments of the Season card from Thomas E. Donnelley. A collection of contemporary accounts which highlight the perils of overland travel to the gold fields of California. 383 pages including and index. A clean, handsome and tight copy.
    TB33005  $50.00



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    Roosevelt, Theodore:  Through The Brazilian Wilderness.  Chicago, Ill.: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 2016. First Edition. Fine in blue-green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine, gilt borders on the front and rear boards and a gilt company logo on the front board with green printed end sheets. A 16mo measuring 6 3/4" by 4 1/4" with upper and lower headbands and with the top edge of the text block gilt. 342 pages including an index followed by a page of image credits. Illustrated with a colored frontispiece, two maps and numerous photographic reproductions throughout the text. This title is the 114th volume in the longest running collection of series Americana.
    TB33029  $30.00



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    Schaeffer, Mead:  Cruise of the Cachalot (Frontispiece).  n. p. : , n. d. (circa 1926). . A fine artist's proof of a print of a whale capsizing a boat which appears as the frontispiece in Frank T. Bullen's book: Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales published by Dodd, Mead and Company. The image measures 9 1/4" by 14" plus margins and is matted and framed in a glass fronted, gilt decorated wooden frame. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower right margin together with the penciled notation "A/P" (artist's proof) in the lower left hand corner of the margin. The caption which appears beneath the frontispiece in the above mentioned book reads: "Up flew the broad tail in air and a blow which might have sufficed to stave in the side of the ship strikes the second mate's boat."
    TB26525  $200.00



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    Selesky, Harold E.:  War and Society in Colonial Connecticut.  New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, (1990). First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/8 inches with faint spotting on the boards and spine. In a near fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with nicks to the coloring at the upper edge of the spine area and to the upper fore corner of the front panel. 278 pages including an index, bibliography and text. A treatis on the development of Connecticut's military buildup from the point of its initial settlement in 1635 dealing with the Indian threat, followed by the constant wars with the French in Canada from 1689. The examination ends with the start of the American Revolution in 1775.
    TB33013  $30.00



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    Slocum, Joshua:  Sailing Alone Around The World.  Chicago: Lakeside Press, 2017. First Edition Thus. Fine in teal cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt borders both boards and the Lakeside Classic logo on the front board at the top of which is "LSC Communications" the new publisher of the Lakeside Classic titles. The top edge of the text block is gilt. Without a dust jacket as issued. Still contained within the publisher's original shrink wrap. 324 pages including an index, glossary of nautical terms, appendices and text. Edited by Thomas Philbrick. Illustrated with line drawings of the deck plans of the Spray, a frontispiece photograph of the author on board the Spray, maps and several color images and line art vignettes.
    TB33031  $50.00




  • Steinbeck, John:  The Red Pony.  Shelton, Conn.: The First Edition Library Collection and by The First Edition Library, 1965. Facsimile First Edition Library Reprint. Near fine in light tan cloth covered boards with a gilt on blue title block on the spine and a printed, color illustration of colt on the front board with all edges of the text block stained blue. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches with illustrated end sheets. Much of the blue background of the title block on the spine has been worn away, the book is otherwise in perfect condition as are the contents. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is contained within a near fine paper covered slip case with a printed, color label duplicating the original illustrated first edition of the title. There is a faint dampness stain across the face of the slipcase which is seen on the printed, paper title slip. Laid-in is the First Edition Library slip providing details of the first edition of the book. 131 pages of text. A handsome, clean and crisp copy with no prior owner's names, dates or book plates.
    TB33016  $80.00



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    WPA:  Livingston The Story of a Community.  n.p. (Livingston, NJ): Progress Publishing Company and sponsored by the Township of Livingston, 1939. First Edition. Very good+ in brick red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and front board together with a blind embossed town seal on the front board and with illustrated end papers. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with printed end sheets. There is a prior owner's name and address written at the lower corner of the first free end page. Without its issued dust jacket. 166 pages including an index, text and illustrated with a section of black and white photographs and a map of the township. As stated on the title page this is one of the volumes from the WPA's American Guide Series and one which is extremely uncommon.
    TB33009  $80.00






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