Antique Books & Ephemera #90
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RARE 1880 Catalpa Mining Company of Leadville CO Mining Perspectus
RARE 1880 Catalpa Mining Company of Leadville CO Mining Prospectus, 42 pages some wear - wormhole on bottom. With a map, softcover.
Flak Vor! - With Our Tanks From the Bow to the Gates of Moscow (1943) GERMANY WW2
Flak Vor! - With Our Tanks From the Bow to the Gates of Moscow. Friedrich Mildner, Published by Wilhelm Limpert Verlag, Berlin, 1943. 388 pages. Good condition, many photos. This book does have cover wear. With Herman Goering inside.
The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper (1928) Illustrations by E.F. Ward
The Pathfinder. Illustrations by E.F. Ward, James Fenimore Cooper. Published by Minton, Balch & Co., New York (1928), Blue cloth with pictorial color plate tipped on. 430pp. Color frontispiece, color plates, pictorial endpapers. Good with wear, some rubbing on corners. Lovely illustrated.
PUNCH Complete Bound Volume - Summer Number (1953) - 807 PAGES
PUNCH Complete Bound Volume - Summer Number (1953) - 807 PAGES filled with illustrations, and advertisements. Heavy Book.
The PSALMIST A Collection of Hymns (1846) Leather
The PSALMIST A Collection of Hymns, Boston Gould & Kendall (1846) Leather, good condition with some light spotting inside. Book is 7" tall.
Science Fiction Magazine Lot
Science Fiction Magazine Lot, six in total, all from the 1950's and 1960's. In general good condition with some wear. Nice lot.
RARE The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General and Senator from 1837 to 1891
The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General and Senator from 1837 to 1891, Rachel Sherman Thorndyke, Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1894). Hardcover, good with some wear. First few pages with spotting, flyleaf with wear. First Edition.
Der Durchbruch im Westen - Dutch, Belgian and French Collapse - GERMANY WW2
"Der Durchbruch im Westen - Chronik des holländischen, belgischen und französischen Zusammenbruchs." The Breakthrough in the West - Chronicle of the Dutch, Belgian and French collapse. Gerhard Stalling Verlagsbuchhandlung, 343 pages, with 2 total overview maps, 12 sketch maps in text and 30 illustrations on art boards. Good condition.
Collector's Edition of SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS - Easton Press
The Easton Press Collector's Edition of SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS SELECTIONS OF HIS WORKS by GEORGE N. SHUSTER. Wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. The foreword by Lawrence S. Cunningham was commissioned exclusively for this edition. Each book is crafted to perfection with the rich luster, feel, and distinctive aroma that are unique only to genuine leather. Each has a “hubbed” spine, moiré fabric endsheets, a bound-in ribbon page marker, acid-neutral pages gilded on all three sides, and a thread-sewn binding. They are of many colors and grains. Each is deeply inlaid with real 22kt gold on the spine. Each has complementary designs on both covers. Very good condition.
RARE A Garden With House Attached by Sarah Warner Brooks (1904)
A Garden With House Attached by Sarah Warner Brooks, Published by Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, Boston, 1904. Very Good+. 118 pages. "The "Mansion House" our Cambridge home had, for nearly two decades, been the property of one who in the Harvard Botantical Garden had "a friend at court" and had thus found it possible to secure for his grounds many choice shrubs and hardly herbaceous plants."
Jack and Jill by Louisa M. Alcott (1884)
Jack and Jill by Louisa M. Alcott, Boston Roberts Brothers (1884), good condition with general wear, hardcover, 6" tall.
The Psalmody - A Collection of Hymns (1853) Full Leather
The Psalmody - A Collection of Hymns, Freewill Baptist Printing Dover NH (1853), leather, engraved owner cover. Good condition given the age, some spotting on covers. Has the name "Caroline Smith" on the front cover. Very nice.
SCARCE Mount Everest The Reconnaissance, 1921 by C. K. Howard-Bury
Mount Everest The Reconnaissance, 1921 by C. K. Howard-Bury, Published by Longmans, Green & Co., New York (1922). Hard Cover. Good- condition with some minor issues. Some wear on the covers (see pic), some foxing inside. Page ends are soiled a bit. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Includes 33 black and white plates and 3 folding maps which are stil present, 356 pages.
The Illustrated History of Edgar Allan Poe by Paul J. Macek
The Illustrated History of Edgar Allan Poe by Paul J. Macek, contains 82 illustrations from notable artists such as Gustave Doré, Harry Clarke, Byam Shaw, Édouard Manet, and Aubrey Beardley. The book also contains 204 marginal notes—many of them are Poe’s epigrams, representing the best thoughts from Poe’s literature. Very good condition with little wear, softcover, b/w illustrations and photographs. Self published (2014)
Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin (1916)
Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin, Louis A. Holman, (illus. by Charles B. Mills). Published by Small, Maynard and Company, (1916). 83 pages, good condition. Large reproductions of paintings by Charles Mills. Very nice showcase for Early American art and biography of a Founding Father, one of Holman's first efforts. Good+ condition with very little wear.
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Future of Architecture (1953) First Edition
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Future of Architecture, Published by Bramhall House, New York, NY (1953), 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Good+ condition with good dust jacket that is yellowing a bit. First Edition.
The Seven Champions of Christendom by F J Harvey Darton (1931)
The Seven Champions of Christendom by F J Harvey Darton. Published by Wells Gardner Darton & Co (1931), with colour frontis. and title plus 20 b/w plates and other line drawings, all by Norman Ault. Good condition no dustjacket, some minor wear.
TOUCHED BY FIRE: A National Historical Society Photographic Portrait of the Civil War (1997)
TOUCHED BY FIRE: A National Historical Society Photographic Portrait of the Civil War. William C. Davis, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers New York 1997, 1st Edition Thus 1st Printing Hardcover 10"x10" Very Good+ in a good dust jacket. This two-volumes-in-one collection of 1,200 rare black-and-white photographs, gathered through the joint efforts of the National Historical Society and the Civil War Times, covers the leaders and the common soldiers, the compact of comradeship, the ideologies of the governments at war, the aspirations of the people who supported them and the devastation wreaked on the nation.
RARE The Mary Frances Knitting And Crocheting Book (1918)
The Mary Frances Knitting And Crocheting Book by Jane Eayre Fryer, Published by The John C. Winston Co. (1918). Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Born in Balitmore in 1876, Jane Eayre Fryer taught cooking and domestic science in the days when those things counted. Between the years 1912 and 1921 she wrote her wonderful series of books for young people. Great Book.
Shakespeare of London Easton Press Leather Edition
This is a beautiful copy of Shakespeare of London by Marchette Chute published by the Easton Press in 1988. This book is bound in brown leather and is in superior condition. The gold on the edges as well as the gold stamping on the covers is in excellent condition. Wonderful book for your shelf.
THE CIVIL WAR by Douglas Welch
THE CIVIL WAR by Douglas Welch, hardcover, large format book sized 10" x 12", with dust jacket, published in 1982 by Frederick Fell. 64 pages.
Dancing Call Book and Dancing Master (1902)
Complete Quadrille Call Book and Dancing Master by Prof. A.C. Wirth, Chicago Frederick J. Drake (1902), softcover, good condition, 141 pages.
My Beloved Poilus (1917) WW1 Nurse in France caring for wounded
My Beloved Poilus by Agnes Warner; Preface by H. A. Cody. Published by Barnes & Co., Ltd (1917). Good condition with some wear. "These home letters from an American girl, daughter of a retired general of the U. S. Army, giving her trained services, caring for the wounded in France at an army ambulance and succoring distress wherever she meets it, are published by her friends without her knowledge, simply and soley to raise money to aid her in her work which began on the 4th day of August, 1914.". Also comes with label showing this as a gift from the U.S. Consulate in Canada.
GAMES for the Playground, Home, School & Gymnasium (1909)
GAMES for the Playground, Home, School & Gymnasium by Jesse Bancroft, MacMillan & Company (1910), good with some wear, cover has some loss, wonderful book, hardcover.
WATER BABIES by Charles Kingsley (c.1900)
WATER BABIES by Charles Kingsley, Colored Illustrations by Margaret Tarrant, London J.M. Dent & Sons New York (c.1900), good condition, color illustrations.
