Who was the Mother of Franklin's Son?
New Rochelle: Walpole Printing Office, 1932. Hardcover. 8vo, decorated boards, very good, 33 pp, mounted frontispiece portrait, handsome book.
New Rochelle: Walpole Printing Office, 1932. Hardcover. 8vo, decorated boards, very good, 33 pp, mounted frontispiece portrait, handsome book.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1938. Hardcover. Gilt stamped maroon cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has mild edgewear and rubbing to boards and spine, binding tight, gift inscription to half-title page, otherwise text clean and unmarked but gently toned throughout. DJ has sun to spine.....
London: Harrap, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 1974. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo., 186 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Good in good dust jacket. Foxing to edges of text-block and throughout text. Foxing, fading and soiling to DJ; sunning to spine.
Chicago: S. C. Griggs, 1869. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's green cloth gilt, very good, light wear to binding, chocolate endpapers show some straining and cracking at inner hinges but not severe and very well attached, contents very good, light toning. 443 pp. With three single-page maps, the isothermal one.....
Niwot, Colorado: University Press Of Colorado, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 1991, Hardcover in Fine condition. In a Near Fine dust jacket that shows the lightest shelf wear, and sunning to the jacket at the spine. Signed by the author to the front free end paper.
Nashua: Charles T. Gill, 1846. First printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. First edition, 1846. Cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine and gilt flourish on the front cover, all edges gilt, illustrated, 278 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, small old bookseller blindstamp.....
no place: 1st Books Library, 2003. Paperback. Two volume complete set! Printed paper wraps, quartos, 211pp. and 221pp., illustrated in b&w. Books have flawless wraps and tight bindings, texts clean bright and unmarked. No DJs.
New York: Allied Overseas Veterans Stories, Co., 1918. Hardcover. 1918, edition not stated. Hardcover in Very Good condition, with light edge wear, and light handling soil. Pages: 165.
(Washington, DC): Various, 1933-1960s. Various. Lot of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and political material, 20 items. The highlight is an 8 line TLS from FDR to Congressman Joseph A. Gavagan (D-NY), dated April 25, 1939. Includes 3 other TLSs to Gavagan, from Stephen Early, the Secretary to FDR (April 19, 1938).....
NP: (1852). Disbound, 36 pp, good copy at best, with wear and slight loss to first leaf at bottom inner corner, light damp-stain tide mark to upper corner.
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. Hardcover. 8vo, full leather gilt, near fine copy, faintest surface blemishes to text block gilt. Part of the 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature, "a limited edition collection published under the auspices of The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration."
Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1956. Facsimile reprint. Paperback. 1956. Facsimile reprint of 1741 original plus introduction by Wolf. Paperback, 56 pp. plus 12 page introduction. Very good. Previous owner's signature to first blank. Reading creases to spine. Wear and soiling to paper label on front wrap.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. Second printing. Hardcover. Red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 317pp., not illustrated. Book has mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, previous owner's signature and small ink note to front endpapers, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ has mild toning, shelfwear, front.....
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 306pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has lightest bump to top front corner, otherwise handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ has faint sun to spine, toning...
Watkins Glen, NY: Century House, 1960. First printing. Green cloth boards, 128pp., No DJ.
Watkins Glen, NY: Century House, 1962. Hardcover. Two volumes. 8vo. in tan and green cloth. 128, 149pp. illustrated. Very good. Light rubbing to boards, page corners creased. Internally unmarked. 2vol.
Louisville, KY: 1861. 2 issues, 20 inches tall, 8 pp. each, good with some wear, darkening and soil to first pages of each issue, unopened and uncut at top edge. Very specifically on masonic topics, but the 7th page of each is half given over to advertisements, including several KY.....
Washington DC: Gales and Seaton, 1845. Hardcover. Rebound in black cloth with gilt title to spine, octavo, 693pp., illustrated with 24 b&w illustrations and two fold out maps--MISSING LARGE FOLDED MAP. Book has mild rubbing and wear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, presentation inscription on front endpaper is.....
Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1887. First Printing. Hardcover. Vol. I only ( all published; there was no second volume). Small quarto, 11 x 8 inches, early full tree calf binding, raised bands, gilt spine, good (minus) rubbing and wear to binding especially along spine, outer joints both cracked but.....
Cambridge: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1972. Paperback. 1972, Edition not stated. Softcover in Very Good+ condition, with highlighting to the contents page, else clean and tight.
Durham, NC: Duke University Library, 1945. Paperback. 1945, Edition not stated. Softcover, in Good+ condition, showing rubbing and soil to the covers, and also internally there are numerous marginal check marks, and items circled, in pencil. A full sized facsimile page of the September 9, 1848 Brooklyn Freeman newspaper is.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Paperback. Printed paper wraps, octavo, not illustrated. Book has hint of shelfwear to wraps, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. First printing. Hardcover. Black and gilt stamped blue cloth boards, octavo, 421pp., not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked, but a few pages toward front have faint paperclip marks to top edges of pages. No DJ.
Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999. Hardcover. Beige cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ has hint of shelfwear, previous seller's sticker to rear panel.
Washington DC: Office of Economic Opportunity, 1960s. Paperback. Two volumes. 1960s. Paperback, 4to. in stapled tan wraps. 79, 153pp. with photographs in b&w throughout. Very good. Some chipping to wraps, overall bending, else fine. Compendiums of articles on poverty and the war on poverty published throughout the sixties and seventies.....