Antique Books & Ephemera #55
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Great lots of antiquarian books, collectibles of all sorts, ephemera and some coins. Great collection of items! NO RESERVES - REASONABLE SHIPPING!
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Western Yesterdays by Forest Crossen SIGNED - Oral History of Life in the 1930's - Boulder, Colorado
Western Yesterdays by Forest Crossen, published by Forest Crossen (1967), good condition, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, owner label, 93 pages, good condition. Lightly fictionalized oral history, in which 4 real characters - Pete Shaff, Charley Smith, Al Fleck & Emmett Arnett - meet in the same location to narrate their true tales which Crossen jotted down in the 30's.
A Short History of Austria-Hungary and Poland (1914)
A Short History of Austria-Hungary and Poland / by H. Wickham Steed . Walter Alison Phillips . and David Hannay . Reproduced from the 11th Ed. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, by Permission of the Publishers, the Cambridge University Press. London : The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, Ltd., 1914. 1st Edition. Description: iv, 170 p. : front. , plates, ports. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Austria --History --Hungary --Poland.
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury - Oxford Book of Ballads (1910) Well Illustrated
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury. Quiller-Couch, Arthur, ed. 1910. The Oxford Book of Ballads, good condition, softcover, 30 pages, REALLY WELL ILLUSTRATED, a very nice piece.
Wagons Westward: The Old Trail to Santa Fe by Armstrong Sperry (1936) Cowboys Skulls Adventure!
Wagons Westward: The Old Trail to Santa Fe by Armstrong Sperry, Published by The John C. Winston Company, Chicago (1936). Hardcover. Good condition. No dustjacket. B & W Illustrations By Author (illustrator). This is a beautifully illustrated, vintage children's western. Sperry unfolds a tale of rugged adventure, interspersed with chapter headings and full page illustrations of cattle skulls, cowboys, and everything else a reader could ask for, done in elegant, thrilling detail.
Die Tragödie des Heiligen Reiches - Kommentarband, by Friedrich Heer (1955) German History 1125-1273
Die Tragödie des Heiligen Reiches - Kommentarband, by Friedrich Heer, Published by Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, (1955). Good condition with fair/good dustjacket with tears. German History between 1125-1273. In German.
Impressions of Soviet Russia by Charles Sarolea (1924) Soviet Union Economic Conditions
Impressions of Soviet Russia by Charles Sarolea, Published by Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, London (1924). Good condition. No Jacket. First Edition.
1789 BELL'S Classical Arrangement of FUGITIVE POETRY
BELL'S Classical Arrangement of FUGITIVE POETRY, London, John Bell (1789), good condition, leather binding, small 8vo., Volume IX. as shown.
LARGE Antique Book Lot including DRAMATIC WORKS OF WM. SHAKSPEARE (1823)
Six books including Volume 1 & 2 of CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS by LORD MACAULAY (1858), DRAMATIC WORKS OF WM. SHAKSPEARE (1823) Volume VII, THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF Q.Q TO A PERIODICAL WORK (1827) Vol. II, MEMOIRS OF THE HOUSE OF ORLEANS (1850) Vol. I, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (ca. 1850's) Vol. 1 all in good condition with some wear.
Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, by Johann Gottlieb Facius, after Thomas Kerrich, (1804) 11" x 14"
Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, by Johann Gottlieb Facius, after Thomas Kerrich, (1804), matted, image is 8" x 10", with matting 11" x 14", good condition.
RARE 1920's SEQUOIA and GENERAL GRANT National Parks, California Pamphlet
1920's SEQUOIA and GENERAL GRANT National Parks, California Pamphlet , as shown, fair/good with just some tattering, 14 pages, great cover.
1960's Dutch Wooden Shoes Heineken Holland Beer Advertisement
Heineken Dutch wooden shoe advertising piece. "Imported Heineken Holland Beer, copyright Van Munching and Company, Inc., New York, NY General US Importers." Nice shade of yellow with red accent stripes. Picture of a Dutch man in traditional clothing and of course wood shoes on the front.
The Story of Man in Yellowstone by Naturalist Merrill D Beal - SIGNED (1949)
The Story of Man in Yellowstone by Merrill D Beal. Published by Caxton Printers (1949). Hardcover. Good conditon with dust jacket. Signed by author. First Edition. Signed by author "Greetings from Wonderland Ranger Naturalist Merrill Beal" Some shelf wear to DJ.
1864 CIVIL WAR NEWSPAPER - Union Democrat - April 19th 1864 - Capture of FORT PILLOW Tennessee
CIVIL WAR NEWSPAPER - Union Democrat - April 19th 1864, good condition, tear on back page, many Civil War articles including the possible capture of FORT PILLOW by the Rebels.
LEAFLETS OF MEMORY with Ten Beautiful Illustrations (1856)
Leaflets of Memory. With Ten Beautiful Illustrations. Published by Leavitt & Allen, New York (1856). Hardcover. Book Condition: Good, with wear, some foxing. First edition. Hardcover with gilt decorated red cloth boards, large octavo, 264pp., illustrated with b&w engravings and a presentation page in color. Wear to spine ends and corners, rubbing to boards and spine, binding tight, text has some foxing throughout. Great engravings inside.
The POETICAL WORKS of THOMAS MOORE Illustrated (1884)
POETICAL WORKS of THOMAS MOORE Illustrated, with the Life of the Author. By Francis Walker, P.F. Collier NY (1884), good condition, some wear on outside covers, interior pages good, book sized 7" x 10", 552 pages.
FIVE 19th Century Engravings Published in 1805
FIVE 19th Century Engravings Published in 1805, as shown, sized in general 5"x8" some closer cut at the margin. As shown wonderful collection.
European Communism by Franz Borkenau - First Edition (1953)
European Communism by Franz Borkenau, Published by London, Faber And Faber [1953]. First Edition. Physical description: 564 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Communism - Europe - History. Good cloth copy in a good, slightly worn dustjacket.
Wild Nature's Ways by Kearton - 200 Illustrations from Photographs of Birds; Insects; (1903)
Wild Nature's Ways by R. Kearton, Published by London, Cassell, (1903). 1st Edition; Hbk; Good condition; 296pp with 200 Illustrations from Photographs taken direct from nature by Cherry and Richard Kearton; Green covers with gilt motif & lettering. One of the early studies of British birds and wildlife accompanied by 200 b&w photographs by pioneering nature photographers Richard & Cherry Kearton, including an introductory chapter on their methods of deception & concealment used to obtain their pictures (such as hides, decoys etc).
Kings in Exile by Charles G. D. Roberts SIGNED by FATHER OF CANADIAN POETRY (1910)
Kings in Exile by Charles G. D. Roberts, Published by London - Ward, Lock and Co. (1910). Good condition with wear - some binding issues. A very smart copy of these animal tales, by the famed Canadian author Charles G. D. Roberts. Featuring a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Illustrated with plates throughout. Condition: In a decorative cloth binding. SIGNED BY CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS. Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, was a Canadian poet and prose writer who is known as the Father of Canadian Poetry.
The Last Stand : An Interpretation of the Soviet Five-Year Plan by Edmund A. Walsh (1931)
The Last Stand : An Interpretation of the Soviet Five-Year Plan by Edmund A. Walsh, Published by Boston : Little, Brown, and Co. (1931). xi, 348 p. : [9] leaves of plates, frontis. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Soviet Union - Economic policy - Five-year plan (1928-1932) - Politics and government - 1917-1936. Good condition.
The Catholic Church and the Secret Societies in the United States by Fergus Macdonald (1946)
The Catholic Church and the Secret Societies in the United States by Fergus Macdonald. Published by United States Catholic Historical Society, New York (1946). Good condition. xii + 220pp. Hardcover as shown. SIGNED BY FERGUS MACDONALD.
AMAZING 1890's ARTIST SKETCH BOOK OF PARIS ARCHITECTURE - OVER 50 SKETCHES
1890's ARTIST SKETCH BOOK - filled with 50 pages of sketches of architecture, some dated "92" for 1892, sized 10" x 6" a few in color. No names listed however I did not go over this book thoroughly. Most sketches are from Paris. Covers are blank, some loose pages and sketches that were not counted with above.
La Dunciade, Poeme, en Dix Chants (1781) - Collective Edition of Montenoy's Original Satirical Poems
LA DUNCIADE, POEME, EN DIX CHANTS, NOUVELLE EDITION, REVUE, CORRIGÉE & ENRICHIE D'UN COMMENTAIRE PLUS COMPLET. A Londres [i.e. Paris: Valade], 1781., 1781. 299pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt extra, a.e.g., marbled endsheets. Engraved frontis. Upper joint cracked but sound, fore- corners worn, else very good and crisp. Fair/Good condition. A collective edition of Palissot de Montenoy's original satirical poems in the manner of Pope's work, first published in 1764, with Pope's original in translation.
The Shadow of the Gloomy East by Ferdinand A Ossendowski - Soviet Union - Economics (1925)
The Shadow of the Gloomy East by Ferdinand A Ossendowski, Published by George Allen & Unwin, (1925). "An attempt to lay bare before the civilized world the true face of the Russian people." As a Pole the author is not hugely enamored with Russia and its people. If Tolstoy was the case for, this is the case against. Good condition.
Poet's Camera by Bryan Holme - 72 B&W Photographs - ANSEL ADAMS
Poet's Camera by Bryan Holme and Thomas Forman, Published by American Studio Books (1946), Hardcover. Good condition with fair/good dustjacket. First edition. 10" x 7". Illustrated with 72 b/w plates from photographs of famous photographers including Horst, Ansel Adams, Beaton, Sheeler, and Weston.
