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By: N/A
Price: $42.50
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1869
Stock No.: 74482
Six months of the venerable illustrated magazine bound together. With dozens of engraved illustrations scattered throughout. Volume is bound in quarter leather and with pebbled brown cloth-covered boards; covers worn at extremities. With a few loose pages at front of volume, otherwise textblock is firm and intact, though with tears, markings and occasional soiling. --- Harper's Monthly is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States begi... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.50
Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes: 1887
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 82348
First edition of this collection of amusing illustrations with brief captions, mostly skewering the manners and habits of late 19th-century upper-crusters. No credits are provided, but many of the illustrations are legibly signed, e.g. those of Albert E. Sterner or Clinton Peters. --- In green bevel-edge cloth-covered boards with illustration & title to cover in black and gilt; all edges gilt. Printed on heavy leaves. --- With chafing to cover extremities, and tape-repai... View more info
![Image for A Thousand-Year Rain: The Historic Flood of 2013 in Boulder and Larimer Counties [Colorado Floods of 2013]](/assets/images/product/82532.jpg "A Thousand-Year Rain: The Historic Flood of 2013 in Boulder and Larimer Counties [Colorado Floods of 2013]")
By: N/A
Price: $37.00
Publisher: Pediment Publishing: 2013
Stock No.: 82532
The incredible 2013 flood which struck the northern Colorado Front Range areas from Boulder County north through Larimer County is documented in this collection of photos from area newspapers. With contributions from the Boulder Daily Camera, the Longmont Times-Call, the Loveland Reporter-Herald and the Estes Park Trail-Gazette. --- In textured black paper-covered boards with silver-stamped spine titling. Jacket with representative photos on front and back and on flaps.... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Seattle, Washington U. S. A., Scribe Publishing Corporation: 1976
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Stock No.: 73065
The immense task of building the Alaska Pipeline is detailed in words and pictures in this oversize volume. 10-1/2 in. wide x 14 in. tall. In good shape; clean and unmarked in VG dust jacket. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Easton, Pennsylvania, Chas. A. Hilburn: 1881
Stock No.: 82356
A guide to avoiding bad habits such as using alcohol or gambling, presented by a Pennsylvania Lutheran Pastor. These essays were mostly shaped from previously delivered lectures by Rev. Anspach. --- In full dark brown cloth-covered boards with titling in gilt on spine; decorations and titling to cover and spine in black. With dark brown endpapers. --- Volume is in excellent shape, but with a little chafing to cover extremities.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); ix, 220 pages View more info
By: BANCROFT-HUNT, Norman (text); FORMAN, Werner (photos)
Price: $19.50
Publisher: New York, Peter Bedrick Books: 1989
Stock No.: 74445
The way of life, artifacts, and beliefs of the native peoples of the northwest North American coasts are profiled here. With numerous full color photos by Mr. Forman. In excellent condition, published on quality papers and with clean, unmarked interior. Jacket has minor creases. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 128 pages View more info
By: BARCLAY, Donald A.; MAGUIRE, James H.; WILD, Peter (editors)
Price: $10.50
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah U. S. A., University of Utah Press: 2002
Stock No.: 74350
The writings of early European and American explorers and travelers in the American West are offered here. With inked gift inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked and firm. Volume is faintly curled from improper storage. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 397 pages View more info
By: BATHKE, Edwin A. & Nancy E.
Price: $14.50
Publisher: Palmer Lake, Colorado USA, Filter Press: 1973
Stock No.: 74305
Enlarged images of US postage stamps with western US themes, dating back to the early 1900s are featured here. Wild & Woolly West series. With inked price inside front cover and incidental soiling and crease on rear cover; otherwise a clean, firm copy. ; Wild & Woolly West series; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); 73 pages View more info
Price: $68.50
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah U. S. A., University of Utah Press: 1995
Stock No.: 74353
3rd printing of work which was first published in 1991. With a foreward by Wilford Brimley. With very small inked gift presentation remarks on first page. With dozens of historic b&w and sepia photos of cowboys and their world in the American West, especially in the present-day state of Utah. In very nice shape, with minor rubbing to cover edges. In oversized (8-1/2 in. wide x 11 in. tall) format. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 283 pages View more info
By: BEEBE, Lucius; CLEGG, Charles
Price: $21.00
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif., Howell-North Books: 1970
Stock No.: 82809
Stated 6th printing, February 1970. The high, narrow valleys of the Rocky Mountains necessitated railroads that were narrower than the normal, flatland railroads. This is the story, in words and pictures, of these roads that attained the height of their popularity in the late 1800s. Loaded with 250 b&w photos, color paintings, maps, drawings and with fold-out chart of Pleasant Valley Creek bridge near Ophir, Colorado. Includes map of Colorado and northern New Mexico at e... View more info
By: BINGHAM, Sam
Price: $35.50
Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: 1996
Stock No.: 74443
Inscribed by author on half title page: 'To Bill Zananti with best/wishes/Sam Bingham'. First Edition, First Printing. In full grey paper-covered boards with titling in white on spine. Interior clean, bright and unmarked. Jacket is immaculate and bears original $27.50 flap price. Author's work examines the so-called 'desertification' of Colorado's San Luis Valley. ; 8vo 8" - 10" tall; 363 pages View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Norman, Oklahoma U. S. A., University of Oklahoma Press: 1969
Edition: Fifth Printing
Stock No.: 72718
An English lady's travels through the American West in 1873 (alone, on horseback) were captivating to readers in England in the 19th century. This 5th printing of the US edition in good shape; with many b&w engravings. Clean and bright, with minor soiling lower edge. Dust jacket a bit faded at spine; w/a tear and a crease at lower edge. ; 12mo 7" - 7¾" tall; 254 pages View more info
By: BOK, Edward W. (author); LEWIS, W. David (editor)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Chicago, Lakeside Press/R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company: 2000
Edition: First Edition Thus
Stock No.: 81952
A Lakeside Classic edition, presenting the autobiography of Edward W. Bok (1863-1930). Born in the Netherlands, he immigrated to the United States as a child and went on to be a successful author and editor of Ladies Home Journal. Mr. Bok is credited with inventing the term "living room". --- This deluxe edition edited and introduced by W. David Lewis. Includes a frontis photographic portrait of Bok, several additional illustrations and photos. --- Number 98 in a... View more info
By: Bork, Robert H.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 1996
Stock No.: 71052
In black half cloth w/black paper-covered boards; DJ small tear top of spine and bearing retailer's sticker bottom of spine. Author's work analyzes the increase in immorality in the US. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 400 pages View more info
By: BROOKS, Paul
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Chester, Connecticut U.S.A., Globe Pequot Press: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 50533
Stated first printing of the author's examination of Concord, Massachusetts in the year 1846. The town wasn't all that large, but it a hub of intellectual activity and served as home to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 13-year-old Louisa May Alcott and many other gifted but less well-known individuals. With sketch map of the Concord area, showing locales of various personages' homes at endpapers. The author, in his role as editor-in-chie... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Son: 1978
Stock No.: 72207
First edition. A collection of the late Mr. Buckley's essays on a wide variety of subjects. --- In full black cloth covers with silver-stamped spine titling. Jacket with b&w photo of Mr. Buckley on the Firing Line set. --- With inked gift inscription to front paste-down, and sticker remnants to front free endpaper; otherwise interior is clean and firm. Price-clipped jacket with chips and small tears; in mylar protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 511 pages View more info
By: BUCKLEY Jr., William F.; FRANKE, David (compiler)
Price: $18.00
Publisher: New Rochelle, NY U.S.A., Arlington House: 1970
Stock No.: 60025
A compilation of witticisms from the incomparable Buckley. In dandy condition, in full blue cloth with blindstamped Publisher 'A' on cover, bright gilt lettering spine. DJ bears faint scuffing, else undamaged, in Brodart and bearing orig $6.95 flap price. ; 60025; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: CAMPBELL, Rodney C. (president & editor); GARDNER, Addison L. (chairman & publisher)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, USA 1 Inc.: 1962
Stock No.: 77751
A collection of the first five (and only) issues of USA * 1, a monthly magazine that debuted in April of 1962 and ended with the August, 1962 edition. Includes April 1962 (with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai on cover), May (Robert S. McNamara), June (Sir Winston Churchill), July (an unnamed aspiring stage actress) and August (with unnamed Moslem female voter in Algeria). Each issued featured sections titled 'U.S. World', 'U.S. Times' and 'U.S. Ways of Life' and featured top... View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1890
Stock No.: 74481
Six months of the venerable illustrated magazine bound together in a rebound edition, formerly property of the library with lending pocket at front pastedown and rubberstampings. With dozens of engraved illustrations scattered throughout. In full blue cloth-covered boards. Textblock is firm and intact, though with dampstains and warped pages. --- This volume contains installments of the serialized novel by Alphonse Daudet: "Port Tarascon", translated by Henry Jam... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Three Rivers Press / Crown Publishers, Inc.: 1999
Stock No.: 82967
A collection of faux newspaper stories purportedly from the beginning of the 20th century until the end. The Onion lampoons milestone events in their unique style, ". . .misinforming half a million readers a week. . ." with these hilarious revsions of political news, many with accompanying photos or artwork. Includes an introduction that claims to be by T. Herman Zweibel, "Onion Publisher". --- A softcover, in wraps with sample "newspaper" pages ... View more info
By: DOWNS, Hugh (editor and introduction)
Price: $58.00
Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 82228
A deluxe leatherbound limited edition of the author's collection of 150 essays and a cartoon or two from a wide range of Americans, who describe their feelings about their country. The editor was a long-time television broadcaster. Offered in a signed first edition, number 554 of 1160 copies. An entry in publisher's Signed First Edition series. Publisher's certificate and note about this work laid in. --- Bound in rich full dark brown bonded leather covers with four rai... View more info
Price: $42.50
Publisher: New York, The Century Company: 1892
Stock No.: 74890
Six months of the magazine bound together by the publisher, The Century Company, in dark red quarter leather and black cloth-covered boards. Includes the months of May, 1892 through October, 1892. With 6-page table of contents inserted before first month. Volume very firm and tight; with some yellowed interior pages. Previous owner's signature (or rubber stamping) appears randomly through the volume. Cover worn at edges with outer skin of leather abraded in spots. --- Ea... View more info
By: EPSTEIN, Benjamin R. ; FORSTER, Arnold
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy: 1962
Edition: Second Printing
Stock No.: 71193
In good shape; bears inked presentation remarks and bookplate front free endpaper. Minor scuffing at edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: White Bear Lake, Minnesota, BHF Memories Unlimited: 1990
Inscription: Signed by Author
Stock No.: 74329
Signed by author on first page. With illustrations by Nancy Delage Huber. Stated Fifth Printing, 1990. 'A collection of heartwarming stories from individuals who experienced the one-room school...'. A nice copy; with inked gift remarks on half title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 97 pages View more info
By: FOLEY, Louise Pledge Heath (compiler & publisher)
Price: $87.00
Publisher: Richmond, Louise Pledge Heath Foley: 1978
Stock No.: 75990
[Genealogy] 1978 edition. A follow-up volume to author's Volume I of the same title offers names of residents gleaned from Land Patents (abstracts) and Rent Rolls. With Virginia river drainage map at front endpaper and with a rear endpaper pocket containing a 19 in. x 13-1/2 in. folded map of Prince George County. The author has included a foreword offering historical background of the area. --- In maroon cloth-covered hardcovers with titling stamped in gilt on cover & ... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1951
Stock No.: 81730
American founding father Benjamin Franklin's famous autobiography in a handsome reprint hardcover in slipcase. With drawings by William Sharp and an introduction by Carl Van Doren. --- In green/blue/yellow marbled paper-covered hardcovers backed in pale yellow cloth, w/titling and decorations gilt-stamped on navy spine block. All textblock edges stained in maroon. Sandglass flyer laid in (No. XVII: 15, New York). Volume protected in maroon paper-covered slipcase. --- A c... View more info
Price: $42.50
Publisher: New York, Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc.: 1949
Stock No.: 74853
Revised edition (not a first edition) of work first published 1940. The author was interiors and architectural editor at McCall's Magazine. With numerous color and b&w photos along with drawings to present the very latest (for 1949) in design and home decor styles. In full grey cloth-covered boards with navy decorations and lettering on cover and spine. With minor edge discoloration. Endpapers yellowed, interior pages still bright and unmarked. Jacket with light chipping... View more info
Price: $19.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 2000
Stock No.: 75483
Stated 14th printing of author's popular work. In white paper-covered boards with titling in black on spine. Dust jacket bears original $24.95 flap price. Volume is clean, bright and unmarked inside and out. Jacket in nice shape, but with minor creasing at spine ends. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages View more info
By: HASSELSTROM, Linda; COLLIER, Gaydell; CURTIS, Nancy
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1997
Stock No.: 71481
Collection of works by dozens of women writers from the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska features stories and poems. In black paper-covered covers; interior has prev owner's signature and sticker remnant front free endpaper; otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket chafed and chipped at edges; now in removable mylar protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 388 pages View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Birmingham, Alabama, Oxmoor House, Inc.: 1977
Stock No.: 75945
Stated 1977 third printing; first published in 1976. A logical starting point for anyone wishing to trace the genealogical history of a family. With chapters on using libraries, photos, public records, censuses and many other resources. Includes numerous photos. Indexed. --- This hardcover work is in full blue cloth-covered boards w/gilt titling stamped on black spine block. Lacks a dust jacket. Volume spine slightly cocked, with prev. owner's bookplate and signature a... View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1955
Stock No.: 76609
A famed collection of essays, first published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine from 1831 to 1832. Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.] was the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. who was a well-know Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This deluxe edition features R. J. Holden illustrations and an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. --- In full grey cloth-covered hardcovers with Holden illustations affixed to front & back covers; titling in gilt on maroon spine block. Interior leaves... View more info
By: HOROWITZ, David
Price: $10.50
Publisher: Washington, DC, Regnery Publishing Inc: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 60176
A first printing of David Horowitz's analysis of the political beliefs and teachings of 101 radical leftist academics who populate many American universities. Along with help from research associates, the author proceeds one-by-one through the list of 101 educators, explaining why their positions pose a threat to the safety and security of the United States. --- In full black paper-covered boards with spine titling in silver. Simple jacket in white, with author photo to ... View more info
By: HOROWITZ, Joseph
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 80146
First printing. In this work, the author traces the powerful influence of Richard Wagner's music in America, and tells of his principal proponent, conductor Anton Seidl of New York. Includes a section of black and white photos. An entry in the publisher's California Studies in 19th-Century Music series. --- In red paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth, with red spine titling. Jacket bears an image of Brighton Beach on Coney Island on the front cover. --- A clean, stu... View more info
By: HOWE, Elvon L. (editor); HOYT, Palmer (foreword and signed letter)
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1950
Stock No.: 77399
Stated First Edition. A collection of feature stories which first appeared in the long-published Sunday Denver Post newspaper supplement: Rocky Empire Magazine. Includes a TLS presenting this book as a gift to "Mr. McCullough" by the editor and publisher (and writer of the foreword to this volume): Palmer Hoyt. --- In reddish-brown cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations on spine in gilt and black. Endpapers with map of the 'Rocky Mountain Empire' that ... View more info
![Image for The Best in the World: A Selection of News and Feature Stories, Editorials, Humor, Poems and Reviews from 1921 to 1928 [The New York World]](/assets/images/product/78290.jpg "The Best in the World: A Selection of News and Feature Stories, Editorials, Humor, Poems and Reviews from 1921 to 1928 [The New York World]")
By: HUTCHENS, John K.; OPPENHEIMER, George (editors)
Price: $14.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 78290
First Edition. A collection of highlights from these seven years, which occurred near the end of the long run of this once-influential New York broadsheet. With newsclips and editorial cartoons at endpapers. --- In full yellow cloth-covered boards, in mock front page design jacket. --- Book with remainder mark to lower textblock edge, significant top corner bumps; otherwise clean, firm and unmarked. Jacket with tear near center of spine (with corresponding blemish to und... View more info
By: JAMES, Henry; BEWICK, Thomas et al.
Price: $22.50
Publisher: New York, The Century Co.: 1883
Stock No.: 74924
Six months of the magazine bound together by the publisher, The Century Company, in tan quarter leather and marbled paper-covered boards. Includes the months of May, 1883 through October, 1883. With 6-page table of contents inserted before first month. Volume has detached front cover, loose spine backing and missing back cover but with firm textblock. Interior has some yellowed interior pages with minor soiling on some pages and textblock edges. --- Each issue of The Ce... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press: 1997
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Stock No.: 71427
An offbeat work featuring noted writers' takes on therapy. Edited by Kates. With large red remainder mark lower edge, marks on front pastedown, first front free endpaper is torn and is nearly detached from vol, else clean and tight. Dust jacket has price clipped flap, cover scuffing; otherwise clean. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages View more info
Price: $16.50
Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard Publishers: 1894
Stock No.: 81993
Early printing of the author's possibly fictional sketches of a summer spent in a small New England town. With several pleasant black & white drawings by unattributed artist(s). These sketches were first published in the New York Evening Post. --- In brown cloth-covered boards with illustrations and titling in brown and gilt to cover and spine, black endpapers and brown topstain. --- With slight wear to edges of cloth, else a clean, unmarked, firmly-bound copy.; Small O... View more info
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Chicago, Ski-Faring, Inc.: 1964
Stock No.: 72735
Throwback copy of guide features US & Canadian ski areas from coast to coast. The relevant data for each ski area is offered, including, for instance, daily lift ticket prices at Vail for $6. Dotted throughout with advertising. Dampstained lower edge of some of the first few pages; scuffed covers...otherwise a tight, intact copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
By: MARKER, Sherry
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Barnes & Noble Books: 1993
Stock No.: 82971
A view of important American sights from two perspectives: that from the early days of photography and from a 1990s viewpoint. Most of the early photos in black & white, while the recent ones in full color. --- In textured blue paper-covered boards. Dust jacket with comparative images to front and back. --- An about Near Fine copy: bright, tightly bound and sound. Dust jacket also very nice, but with two-inch tear to rear edge.; Oblong Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); 224... View more info
