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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Fair Dustjacket. Quarto. Grey boards with red lettering. Red topstain. [xxxiv] pp. 416. Includes index and bibliography. Second collection of folk songs and ballads gathered by the Lomaxes and scored by Ruth Crawford Seeger. Very light rubbing to extremities, and some browning to pastedowns. Dustjacket… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia, PA: P.W. Ziegler Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Sales copy: Very Good; Full Publication: Good Plus. Two publications, 9.5 in. x 7 in., one being the salesman's sample (inaccurately paginated) of the other (pp. 390). Profusely illustrated. The salesman's sample offers the first two pages of most of the forty chapters, of the finished publication, plus a… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, England: Longmans, Green & Co, 1905. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 9.1 in. x 6 in., pp. xi, 369. Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontis of the author and dozens of other photographs. Forest green cloth boards with gilt design of Roosevelt riding a horse to front. Gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities; a couple… Saber más sobre este artículo

San Francisco, CA: Hutchings and Rosenfield, (146 Montgomery Street, second door North of Clay), 1860. Magazine. Good. A monthly magazine featuring interesting sketches and articles, fiction, poetry, history, natural history, fashion, philosophy, social comment, advertising -- even gossip. A bit fragile.

San Francisco, CA: Hutchings and Rosenfield, (146 Montgomery Street, second door North of Clay), 1859. Magazine. Good. A monthly magazine featuring interesting sketches and articles, fiction, poetry, history, natural history, fashion, philosophy, social comment, advertising -- even gossip. A bit fragile.

San Francisco, CA: Hutchings and Rosenfield, (146 Montgomery Street, second door North of Clay), 1860. Newspaper. Good. A monthly magazine featuring interesting sketches and articles, fiction, poetry, history, natural history, fashion, philosophy, social comment, advertising -- even gossip. A bit fragile. Bluepaper covers with Eastman graphic of mountain stream to front.

New York: G.P. Putnam's & Co, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. ALL SEVEN MAPS PRESENT, BUT REMOVED AND LAID FLAT IN ARCHIVAL PLASTIC FOR STUDY AND PROTECTION. Brown embossed cloth, double-ruled in blind; rebacked spine, with original spine laid down; lettered in copper. Seven fold-out maps, and eight plates. Pages supple and bright. [vi], p.1 i, 7-404pp. frontis,… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, England: Geo. B. Whittaker, 1825. Leather-bound. Very Good. Octavo, 8.5 in. x 5.3 in., pp. 1-458 (Volume I), [3], vi, 1-248 (Volume II), 1-146 (appendix), [10] (Vocabulary of Indian Languages). Illustrated with engraved frontis, fold-out map (11.25 in. x 21 in.), and six additional engravings. Full calf wiith decorative gilt frame to front and back. Gilt title… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston, Mass: Order of the COmmon COuncil, 1891. Third edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto, 10.6 in. x 7 in., pp. lvi, 720. Illustrated with frontis and four additional plates and four maps, two of which fold-out. Brown cloth boards with double frame stamped in blind and gilt insignia to center of front, and in blind to back. Rubbing to… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chicago, IL: Rand, McNally & Company, 1893. Leather-bound. Very Good Plus. NOTE: Map of Fair not present. Small quarto .(9 1/16 in. x 6 1/4 in.) Flexible leather covers with gilt lettering to front and spine. All edges gilt. Appears very lightly used, if at all. After a thorough explanation of helpful identifying marks, a preface,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Whittemore, Niles, and Hall, 1856. Later printing. Leather-bound. Very Good. Quarto. 9 in. x 6 1/4 in.). Smooth calf, elaborately ruled, framed and tooled in blind. Beveled boards. Moderate scuffing to boards and rubbing to extremities. Each volume shows two spine labels in contrasting black. One label missing and another partially worn away. Publisher's red stain to… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston, Mass: The Page Company, 1921. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Good Plus. Octavo. Burgundy cloth-covered boards. Light rubbing to extremities, particularly to top and bottom of spine and several slightly-nudged corners. Clean and tight. Full-size paste-on to front board featuering an Uncle Sam character regarding colorful immigrants in a washtub he's holding. Is he about to toss… Saber más sobre este artículo

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1902. Hardcover. Good. Small folio, 12 in. x 8.1 in., pp. 210. Illustrated with seventy-seven black and white photographs, one color photograph, and two color fold-out maps. Green pebble cloth with decorative bands in blind to front and back. Gilt title to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Corners bumped. Fraying to headcap. Surface scar… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. Later Printing. Hardcover. Good Plus. Quarto. Brown cloth over boards, with Indian wigwam in gilt and brown to front cover, and flying eagle, musket and powderhorn to spine. Rubbing to extremities, corners bumped and a few small blanching stains to boards. Ex-Libris sticker to front pastedown with "NTII" Medallion (Tuskegee Normal and… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: J. Williams, No. 38. in Fleet Street, and the Booksellers of Lolndon and Westminster, 1771. Tenth Edition, Corrected. Leather-bound. Fair. Vox Populi; Vox Dei,. Octavo. Contemporary leather, with reinforced with cloth at spine. 8 1/4 in. x 5 5/8 in.10th edition, corrected. vii + 168pp. Contents clean. Front cover and titlepage, and Rear Covers detached but present.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston, Mass: James White & Co. (by Manning & Loring), 1803. Leather-bound. Good. NOTE: Volume II Only: Octavo. Contemporary tree calf. Rubbing to extremities. Probable replacement boards 1/8 inch too long for spine, at both top and bottom. Red contrasting spine label, double ruled in gilt, with circular red & gilt volume label, lettered in gilt to one… Saber más sobre este artículo

Marcola, OR: Polley Publishing, 1985. Second Printing. Paperback. Good. Quarto.Shelfwear. Shelfwear. A 3 inch x 1 inch scrape to bottom of front panel, revealing white beneath. Two maps in pocket on inside rear cover. Loaded with wonderful historic photographs. Black lettering to white spine. Yellow lettering to front of green cover illustrated with trees. 146 pp with credits… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia, PA: R.T. Rawle, 1801. Leather-bound. Poor (Disbound). LACKS titlepage, frontis portrait of Jefferson, folding map of Virginia, folding chart of Indian tribes. Contemporary speckled calf 8 1/4 in. x 5 1/2 in., with sufficient portions of contrasting maroon spine label to discern it's gilt lettering - "Jefferson's Notes.". Gilt ticking to all leather edges, albeit quite faded.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1903. Leather-bound. Near Fine. Quarto. Morocco (goatskin) in dark maroon (10 1/4 in. x 8 1/2 in.) Double ruled in blind, with decorative embossed corner devices to both front and back. Beveled boards. Four raised bands (five compartments). Gilt lettering ("King County Washington" to second compartment down, and "Illustrated" to fourth). All edges… Saber más sobre este artículo

Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Four Volume Matching Set: Octavo, 9.1 in. x 6 in. 1529 total pages. Each illustrated with tissue-guarded frontis, and many black and white engravings, photographs, and maps. Blue cloth boards with gilt title to spines. Light rubbing to extremities. Most corners are lightly nudged. Bookseller's ink stamp… Saber más sobre este artículo