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Automobile Green Book Road and Reference Guide, Vol. 1

Automobile Legal Association · 1927

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Boston Scarborough Motor Guide Company 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 867pp, folding map. Green cloth, Moderate wear to cover, contents age-toned, owners name on front pastedown, binding is tight, large folding map bound in rear has a 12 inch clean tear. Map is in othrwise sound ...

Pilot Bails Out

Blanding, Don · 1943

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York Dodd Mead & Company First Edition 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Don Blanding Signed by Author(s) 85pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. Book is in clean, unworn condition. Boldly INSCRIBED to Suzie AND SIGNED on the front free endpaper. Laid-in is a typed l...

Message from the President of the United States,Transmitting the Despatch of the United States Minister Resident at the Court of Naples,Relative to the Saving of the Crew of the American Barque Parana from Shipwreck By the Officers of the Neapolitan Navy

Pierce, Franklin (President) · 1856

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Washington House of Representatives 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 3pp. Lightly foxed. An interesting document commending the Neapolitan navy for rescuing the crew of the Parana, shipwrecked in the Gulf of Santa Eufemia near Calabria. Good

Letter from the Secretary of State, Transmitting a Report of the Commissioner of Immigration of the Foreign Immigration and the Expenditures of the Bureau for the First Three Quarters of the Year 1866.

Seward, William H. (Secretary of State) · 1866

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Washington House of Representatives 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 81pp. Disbound. Mildly toned but clean and sound. Contains listings of the number and occupations and vital statistics of passengers arriving in the U.S. Very Good

Letter From the Secretary of the Navy, Transmitting Sundry Statements in Relation to the Privateer Pension Fund, Rendered in Obedience to a Resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 15tth Instant. March 28, 1820.

Secretary of the Navy · 1820

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Washington Gales & Seaton 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 19pp, folding chart. Tanned, foxed and lightly soiled. Includes a list of "Persons disabled on board Private Armed Vessels, to whom Pensions have been granted. Good

Letter from the Register of the Treasury, Transmitting Statements in Relation to the Trade of the United States with the West Indies and the British American Colonies, For the For Years Preceding the 1st October, 1818.

U.S. Treasury Department · 1820

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

Washington Gales & Seaton (Printers) 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 8pp, folding chart of importations. Age-toned, foxed and lightly soiled. Good

Canal - Boston Harbor to Narraganset Bay, May 15, 1826

Committee on Roads and Canals · 1826

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

Washington 19th Congress House of Representatives 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 9pp. Disbound, pages tanned, and otherwise unmarked. Report on the feasability "of making a survey of a canal route from Canton to Weymouth, Massachusetts for the purpose of ascertaining the practic...

The Teddysee

Irwin, Wallace · 1910

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

New York B.W. Huebsch First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall M.L. Blumenthal 83pp. Grey boards, paste-on illustration, illustrated endpapers. Moderate dampstaining and soil to boards, text is age-toned but clean, small bookseller label on rear pastedown. Satirical account ...

The Story of Present-Day Westchester County

Roeder, Mary S. · 1934

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

White Plains, New York Westchester County Publications Committee First Edition 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 60pp. Stapled stiff wraps. Minor soil and spotting to cover, contents are mildly toned but clean. An overview of the county with illustrations. Very Good

Half a King

Schoeffel, Joseph (Manager) · 1897

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Boston Boston Theatrical Publishing Company Musical 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 12pp. Printed wraps. Light wear and light scuffing to covers, interior is clean, slight center crease. Programme for the week of December 27, 1897 for Francis Wilson and Company under the managem...

Print ; A Quarterley Journal of the Graphic Arts (Volume II, Numbers 3 and 4 Oct.-Dec. 1941)

Rudge, William Edwin (Editor) · 1941

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New Haven William Edwin Rudge 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 176pp. Illustrated wraps. Spine sunned, 1 inch clean tear to front foredge, contents are toned but clean. Articles include,Printers' Marks, Etching, Trial Designs for a New Newspaper and more. Very Good

The End of Greatness

Miller, Aaron David · 2014

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York Palgrave Macmillan First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 280pp. Hardcover. Book is in clean and unmarked condition. Near Fine Near Fine

The Story of New England

Skelton, Edward Oliver · 1910

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Boston Edward O. Skelton First Edition 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 140pp. Blue stapled wraps. Backstrip half missing, rear cover taped, moderate soil to covers,owner's name on front and rear covers, contents mildly toned but clean, slight tears around some staples small stamp...

Obstruction - Danger ; Stories of Memorable Railway Disasters

Thomas, John · 1937

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Edinburgh and London William Blsckwood & Sons Ltd. First Edition 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 275pp. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Spine sunned, page edges lightly foxed, contents mildly age-toned, contents are sound and binding is tight. Good No Jacket

Little Brighthope's Stories : Months and Seasons

Anonymous · 1860

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Philadelphia Davis, Porter & Coates 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 8pp. No date circa 1860s. Yellow pictorial wraps, stitched spine. LIght cover soil, contents mostly clean. A 2 line verse describes the hand-colored illustration for each month of the year. A well-preserved li...

Frederick Ashton, A Choreographer and His Ballets

Dominic, Zoë and Gilbert, John Selwyn · 1973

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Chicago Henry Regnery Company First American Edition 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 256pp. Orange cloth. Book is clean and unmarked inside and out. Dust jacket has light edgewear and a 3 inch tear along lower front fold. A biographical overview of Ashton with photography by Zoë...

The Swan Lake as Presented By The Sadler's Wells Ballet

Sedgewick, Russell and Beaumont, Cyril W. · 1947

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

London C.W. Beaumont First Edition 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 8pp text, 30 plates. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Spine sunned but gilt is still bright, corners lightly bumped, owner's name on front free endpaper, contents otherwise clean. A synopsis of the story followed...

Schiller-Gallery. From the Original Drawings

Kaulbach, William · 1870

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

New York Stroefer & Kirchner 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall William Kaulbach 115pp, 22 plates. No date, c1870. Embossed leather cover, gilt lettering to cover and spine, inside dentelles to boards, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Edges worn, chip to head of spine, interior i...

The Spirit of St. Louis

Vale, Charles (Editor) · 1927

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

New York George H. Doran Company First Edition 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 256pp. Marroon cloth, gilt spine lettering. Cover is in clean, unworn condition, text is age-toned, newspaper articles related to poetry contest are pasted to endpapers, owner's name on front free endp...

Captain Cook's Voyages' With an Accounr of His Life,during the Previous and Intervening periods

Kippis, A. · 1924

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York Alfred A. Knopf First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 404pp. Brown cloth, paper labels to cover and spine, 12 illustrations. Faint stains to boards, spine ends lightly chipped, text is age-toned and has very scattered foxing, and binding is tight. Book is overal...