The Rocky Mountain Herald Reader
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1966. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 282 pages. Quarter cloth; dust jacket.
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1966. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 282 pages. Quarter cloth; dust jacket.
Colorado Springs: The Out West Company, 1906. 8vo. 61 pp. 42 plates and one map. Errata slip. Original green cloth. A very good copy, the lettering on front cover lightly rubbed. FIRST EDITION.
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1966. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. One of 725 copies of volume VIII of the Ontario Series from the Publications of The Champlain Society.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1863. 8vo (23 x 15 cm). 671 pages. Engraved portrait frontispiece of William Rosencrans, engraved title, and engraved plates. Presentation binding of brown hard-grained morocco, with gilt-lettered presentation on front cover: "Lt. Col. J. W. Taylor, with the Compliments of the Author," all edges gilt. FIRST.....
Cincinnati: E. H. Flint, 1833. 12mo. 240 pages. 20th-century brown half morocco, marbled boards. FIRST EDITION. A possible edition of 1830 has often been cited, however Thomson disputes this claim. Howes F-201; Sabin 24790; Thomson 425.
Denver: Chain, Hardy & Co., 1887. 8vo. 224 pp. Plates. Original brown cloth, decorated in black and gilt on front cover, gilt-lettered on spine. Pale shadow on front cover, slight wear at extremities. FIRST EDITION, pseudonymously written under the name "Bourgeois" and an early proponent of the pleasures of hiking.....
New York: Rimington & Hooper, 1928. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches). Facsimile edition with a foreword by Phillips Russell. Original tan buckram; black buckram slipcase with printed paper label. Provenance: May H.C. Rimington, presumably a relative of the publisher (signature on pastedown within Ex Libris, inscription gifting it.....
London: The London Chronicle, 10 April to 17 May 1760. Comprising: Vol. VIII, nos 514, 517, 520, 525, and 529. Each 8 pages, small folio (11 x 8 inches). Disbound. Includes the ad for the pamphlet, "This day published...," April 17, 1760; review and excerpts from the pamphlet, praising it.....
Boston: Printed and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1770]. 12mo. 24 pages. Original self-wrappers, sewn. Contains the first appearance in print of Franklin's mock epitaph composed when he was 22 years old in 1728. Ames provides the humorless introduction: "Mr. Franklin's Epitaph on himself curious for conveying such solemn.....
Denver: The Old West Publishing Co., 1954. 9.25 x 6 inches. 243 pages. Cloth.
New York: G. P. Putnam's 1894. 12mo. 391 pp. Original pale green decorated cloth. Spine lightly stained, some minor handling wear. FIRST EDITION.
Lincoln: Journal Company, 1887. 8vo. 16pp. Very fine folding map by F. Hirschfeld, with railroad routes in color, printed Chicago: Shober & Carqueville: "Map of Nebraska and Eastern Colorado." Original printed wrappers. Some light soiling, pale marginal stain; map with a few small separations along folds. FIRST EDITION, published by.....
Baltimore: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1900. 8.5 x 6 inches. 262 pages. Cloth. Presentation copy, the inscription making reference to the damage of the book and her efforts to save copies from a fireInscribed by Emma Gage on the front free endpaper.
Cincinnati: H. W. Derby & Co., 1850. 8vo. Original green blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Edward Everett Ayer, bookplates, presented to the Newberry Library in 1911 and with their deaccession label (sold Parke-Bernet, 4-5 May 1966, lot 419). First edition. Garrard left Westport in 1846 in a Santa Fe.....
Philadelphia: J. Crissy, 1834. First edition. 8vo. 156 pages., including 4pp. list of subscribers at end. Original muslin. Provenance: F. L. Beeby (inkstamp on flyleaf). A scarce volume of early American poetry. Among the subscribers listed at end are Henry Clay, Mathew Carey, and James Fenimore Cooper, OCLC 8515494.
Olympia: Frank M. Lamborn, 1916. 8vo. 110, [2] pp. Color plates and black-and-white illustrations, folding map tipped to rear inner wrapper. Original coated printed wrappers. Small stain on cover, inner joint reinforced with linen tape as issued. Contents include: Our Mountains, The Climate, Puget Sound, the Harbor Country, the Columbia.....
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co, 1882. 8vo. 240 pp, 16 pp advertisements at end. Large folding color map mounted on rear pastedown. Original gilt-lettered green cloth. A very good copy with some discreet restoration to joints and hinges, map with a few small reinforcements along folds on verso. FIRST EDITION.....
Boston: J.E. Hickman, [1844]. Near contemporaneous reprint. 8vo. 320pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece of a Chinese encampment, additional title with vignette, illustrations in text. Publisher's blind-decorated cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Goodrich's text opens with an early history of Asia, and is followed by chapters on Babylon, Hindostan, Persia, Zorosaster, the destruction of.....
Boston: Universalist Publishing House, 1891. 8vo. 245 pp. Original blue cloth, decorated in black and gilt. Slightly leaned, light wear at extremities. Fourth edition. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper by the author in 1893, to Ellen H. Davis.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. 8vo. 256 pp, 4 pp advertisements at end. Folding lithographed frontispiece map. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A very good copy, spine slightly sunned, map with pale dampstain. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest – if not the earliest – books.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. 8vo. 256 pp, 4 pp advertisements at end. Folding lithographed frontispiece map. Original red embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest – if not the earliest – books on Kansas, considered the best book on the.....
New York: Samuel Marks, 1827. 8vo. 360 pages. Hand-colored engraved folding map. Contemporary sheep, gilt decorated on spine. Provenance: contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. Church 1336; Howes H-184. Sabin 30319.
Boston: Privately Printed by the De Vinne Press for the Author, 1910. 8vo. xiii, 100 pages. Etched frontispiece with tissue guard preserved. Original quarter parchment, olive boards, untrimmed and unopened; felt-lined chemise; slipcase. One of an unspecified limited edition distributed to the author's friends, mostly members of the Bibliophile Society.....
Cambridge: Hilliard and Metcalf, 1815. Bifolium, 4 pages. The program for the 1815 commencement at Harvard. Among the speakers were Theophilus Parsons, Jared Sparks, William Havard Eliot, and Elisha Fuller.
Boston: Charles T. Branford Company, 1941. 8vo. 340 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of this classic of New York City life, scarcely found with its dust jacket. "The New York that only Gothamites know is here revealed in a different kind of guidebook. An intimate uncovering of the.....