PRINCE UNO. Uncle Frank's Visit to Fairyland.
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1897. 1st edition. xi, [3], 241, [3] pp. Illustrations by W. D. Stevens. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4". Parchment boards printed in maroon & grey. More
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1897. 1st edition. xi, [3], 241, [3] pp. Illustrations by W. D. Stevens. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4". Parchment boards printed in maroon & grey. More
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1920). 1st edition. INSCRIBED. 171 pp. Frontis of the author. 8vo. Red cloth with black lettering. Dust jacket. Written when the author was 11, and from the dust jacket: "His publishers present this story exactly as the author wrote it. Not a sentence has been "edited."..... More
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma, 1924. 1st edition. 91, [5 (blank) pp. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Printed grey paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. This work acknowledged as "an invaluable resource for any scholar interested in the Plains Indians", and to further cite Larry Blumenfeld's article..... More
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma, 1924. 1st edition. 91, [5 (blank) pp. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Printed grey paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. According to Larry Blumenfeld's article ("Firsts", May 1998), Stanley Vestal's editing of Seger's memoirs was so extensive that the work is usually..... More
London: Edward Moxon / Baldwin and Cradock [for Tales], 1838. Prose - later edition, first published in 1835; Poetical - 3rd Edition; Tales - 6th Edition. 5 volumes. Tales "ornamented with engravings, from designs by Harvey." 12mo. 7" x 4-3/8" Set uniformly bound in grey-green diaper cloth with gilt stamping..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1931. 1st Edition, thus. [vi], 385 pp. Pictorial end papers. 7-3/4" x 5". Burnt red cloth wrapped boards, stamped in gilt and dark brown to upper board and back strip. Light brown and white pictorial end papers. In original dust jacket. More
(n. p.): (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca 1896. 19, [1 (blank)] pp. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Lacking wrappers and appears disbound from larger volume. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
(n. p.): 1860. 8 pp. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4". Disbound. Currently housed in a mylar sleeve. More
(n. p.): [1879]. 1st printing (presumed). 20 pp. 8-3/8" x 5-1/2". Disbound. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1851. 13th edition. Revised and corrected to March 1st, 1851. 44 pp. 8vo. Printed brown wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. While Life Insurance as a business began in the US in 1759, it wasn't until 1843 with the establishment of the..... More
[Los Angeles]: 1899. ~ 1-1/2" x 3" x 1-1/4" A turn-of-the-century polished souvenir shell cut in the shape of a napkin holder, with an ornately-lettered "Los Angeles Cal" carved in relief to top and a small dated label to interior. We speculate that the shell was purchased from one of..... More
[New York]: [Harper & Brothers], [1917]. 1st printing. OCLC records 4 holding institutions. Unpaginated, though 13 pages of text [including inner rear wrapper]. "Kipling Meets Mark Twain", p. 13. Illustrated. 9-1/8" x 6". Printed paper wrappers, stapled. Front wrapper with image of a seated Twain, in his white suit, cigar..... More
Washington City: Beardsley & Snodgrass, Printers, 1876. 1st Edition. 28 pp. 9-3/8" x 6-1/16"". Printed white paper wrappers, sewn. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
London: The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. 1868. 1st edition thus. xv, [1(blank)], 566, 19, [3] pp including appendix. 9" x 5-3/4". Blue paper wrappers [professionally floated on stiff stock], with spine paper restored. Title, "'Lincoln'. 1872", hand-inked to front wrapper. Period leather title label to spine. OCLC - 1..... More
(n. p.). The Tribune Publishing Co., 1938. 1st edition. Unpaginated, though 32 pp. 19 drawings: 9 Cowboy and 10 Indian. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Printed pictorial orange paper wrappers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. One of the first print appearances of Thompson, who spent much of..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1933). 1st edition. vi, 216, [2] pp. Adverts last 2 pp. Frontis, on coated paper, by J. Clemens Gretta. 12mo. Light brown cloth with dark blue stamped lettering. Orange pictorial eps. Orange topstain. Color pictorial dust jacket. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1927). Later edition, ca 1934. vi, 214, [4 (adverts)] pp. Frontispiece by Walter S. Rogers, 12mo. Brown cloth with blue stamped lettering. Blue topstain. Red pictorial eps. Color pictorial dust jacket. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1941). 1st edition. vii, [1 (blank)], 216 pp. Frontispiece on plain paper, drawing by I. B. Hazelton. 12mo. Light brown linen cloth w/ blue lettering. Color pictorial dust jacket. Front flap lists through #18; Rear flap has Steve Knight #1; rear panel lists through ACS..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1934). Later printing, ca 1938. vi, 216, [2 (adverts)] pp. Frontispiece by J. Clemens Greta. 12mo. Brown cloth with blue stamped lettering. Red pictorial eps. Black topstain. Color pictorial dust jacket. Front flap ad lists through the next series title, though the rear panel lists..... More
Washington: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, (1909). 1st edition. 7, [1 (blank)] pp. 9-5/16" x 6". Drop-title to printed wraps. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Only 1 holding located on OCLC. More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1932. 1st printing. Not found in the Arents catalogue. xxxvi, 284 pp inculding index. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographic images 9" x 6" Green paper wrappers with black title lettering printed to front wrapper and spine. More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1940. 1st edition thus. Limited to 650 cc. [4], 13, [3] pp. Printed by the Grabhorn Press. Frontis. Head- tailpieces. 8vo. Yellow paper wrappers, sewn. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
San Francisco: Bradley & Rulofson, (n. d.). Ca 1880. Albumen bust portrait of Sanger, looking to her right. Grey mount, imprint at bottom, under image; elaborate publisher imprint to verso. Image: 5-7/8" x 4"; mount: 6-1/2" x 4-1/8". Housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Rachel Mary Sanger made her professional..... More
Glasgow / London: Thomas D. Morison / Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1893. 1st Edition (NCBEL II, 2006). Large paper copy. 122, [2 (blank)] pp. 16 page publisher catalogue inserted at rear. Frontispiece. Plates. 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine... More
Tulsa: University of Tulsa, (1980). Reprinted. [1], 720 - 732, [2] pp. 10" x 6-3/4". Stapled tan wrappers with printed brown lettering. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Reprinted from "The University of Tulsa Law Journal," Volume 15, Number 4. More