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New York: Park Lane, (1967), reprint ca. 1975 Quarto (12.25" x 10.25"), 277 & [7] pages, profusely illustrated in color & black & white. Gilt lettered light brown cloth-patterned paper over boards in pictorial dust jacket.Slight foxing at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket with a trace of edge wear "Rodin's career as a sculptor spanned a period of fifty years, and although he has been judged the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo, until now no book has done justice to the scope of his genius." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, (1929). First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 7.25"), xv & 408 pages, profusely illustrated including 4 color plates. Publisher's blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt & red, with a large color illustration applied to the front cover.
Binding slightly soiled, otherwise near fine.
Include profiles of Joan of Arc, George Washington, Daniel Boone, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Clara Barton, David Livingstone, Theodore Roosevelt, & many others.

New York: Random House, (1997). First edition, this copy signed in ink by Salter on a tipped in leaf following the ffep. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), x, [4], [1] - 365, & [4] pages. Publisher's black-lettered white paper over boards, in translucent, pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with slight edge wear & hint of creasing.
James Salter (born James Arnold Horowitz), who passed away in 2015, was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1989 & the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story in 2012. His "Recollection" includes substantial treatment of his "second life" as a writer.
"Burning the Days captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, satisfying his father's wishes, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most evocative pages ever written about flying, Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, scenes that are balanced by… Read More

New Haven, Connecticut, 1933. New Haven, Connecticut: Privately Printed for the Author, printed by Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1933. First edition, one of a thousand copies. Tall 8vo, xxv, [3]-296 pages, illustrated (frontis, plates, portraits, facsimiles). Original dark blue cloth with printed paper labels at the spine & upper cover. Partially unopened. Previous owners embossed stamp & signature at half-title page, otherwise a Fine & apparently unread copyAuthor Seymour, a patent attorney, historian, & city planner, was a member of the American Antiquarian Society & the Walpole Society In addition to extensive research on the life of Nathan Hale, resulting in two books, he purchased the Hale Homestead in coventry, Connecticut which he restored & donated to the American Landmarks Society.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Later edition. 22 volumes bound in 11 (2 volumes per book), complete. Quartos (10.25" x 7.5"), variously paginated. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in gilt within dark blue blocking on the spine. Text in two columns.
Please note, this set is Ex-Library (marked "withdrawn") with the bookplate of the United States Embassy in Paris at the front pastedown of each volume, card sleeves at the rear pastedowns, occasional rubber stamped marks, & paper labels on the spines.
Ex-Library (see above). Bindings a bit shaken, spines lightly browned, modest soiling, otherwise Very Good.
An indispensable reference of enormous value to students, catalogers, teachers, researchers, & American history aficionados.
Kindly inquire for a shipping quote at cost for this 47 pound set.

San Francisco: Robert E. Culbreth, Volume xxxiii, number 39, April 17, 1897. First edition. Folio newspaper, 24 pp., illustrated. Pictorial wraps, stapled.
Lightly soiled, brief pencil annotations in the top margin of the upper cover, trace edge wear, Very Good. Single issue of a weekly newspaper published in San Francisco between (approximately) 1878 & 1900. This example provides biographies of leading men including Robert McMurray, "well-known capitalist", Collis Potter Huntington, President of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, & several others. Quite uncommon, OCLC finds 8 issues at Stanford University & a bound volume for 1893 at the Huntington.

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957). New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957} First edition, first state (with title page printed in blue, and "walking" for "waking" on page 80, line 1) Octavo (85" x 575"), 6 preliminary leaves, 3 - 339, & [1] pp Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver & decorated in pale green, in pictorial dust jacketMargins sunned, dust jacket titling faintly offset to upper cover, bottom corners lightly bumped, previous owner's name in ink at front free endpaper, small booksellers' label at rear pastedown, otherwise very good in very good price-clipped dust jacket with brief edge wear & rubbingPublished posthumously, Agee's autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family, won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize "On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly Dancing back and forth… Read More

New York: Privately Printed, [The De Vinne Press], 1908. Limited edition, number 396 of 425 copies on handmade Italian paper, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink by Ira Hutchinson Brainard to artist Wilford Seymour Conrow at the ffep & additionally signed by Mary Brainard French on a following leaf. Tall octavo (9.75" x 7"), xiii & 95 pages plus 13 plates. Publisher's light gray paper over boards backed in dark gray cloth, with a printed paper spine label. Publisher's prospectus dated 1907 laid-in. Edges uncut.
Binding soiled & moderately rubbed, text block beginning to crack in a couple of places (still secure), previous owner's bookplate at the front pastedown, sporadic minor foxing, otherwise good or better. Prospectus soiled & folded.
An important association copy from author Brainard to artist Wilford Seymour Conrow, whose bookplate is applied to the front pastedown. Noted for portrait painting, Conrow's art can be found at the National Portrait Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, the… Read More

New York: Published under the direction of the American Historical Company, 1939. First edition thus. Quarto (11" x 8"), 523 pages, with illustrations from portraits. Publisher's three-quarter crushed black morocco & blue cloth, the spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, lettered or decorated in gilt in four compartments. Text in two columns. Top edge gilt.
Edges & joints moderately rubbed, cloth with a few light scratches, corners a bit bumped, gift inscription at front free endpaper, sporadic minor foxing, otherwise Very Good.
An attractive leather binding housing concise biographies & portrait illustrations of prominent Americans. Beginning in 1931, the American Historical Company published similar volumes of this title over several years, each profiling different persons.

Columbus, Ohio: L.P. Rayl & Co, Publishers, 1855. First edition. 8vo, 64 & [1] pages of printed text followed by 57 decorated & illustrated pages to record births, deaths, marriages, etc, of which 30 contain annotations in manuscript relative to John Grant (1688 - 1776), a British emigrant to Boston, & descendants. Original black cloth lettered & decorated in gilt & blind. Sabin/ Dictionary of Books Relating to America C 23765 (erroneously providing 1851 as year of publication).
Corners bumped & rubbed, shallow losses at spine extremities, cloth split about 2 inches at the upper joint, embossed blind stamp of "MC Lilley, Binder & Blank Book Manufacturer" at front free endpaper, previous owner's name at front pastedown, small silk flower & lock of hair taped to the verso of the ffep, scattered modest foxing, Good or so & still quite serviceable.Interesting content throughout, an excerpt from the manuscript portion is provided below: "Capt John Wise, whose daughter John Grant the 2nd married, was a… Read More

Bound volume (modern gilt-lettered blue cloth & marbled paper) containing 14 octavo pamphlets
Bound without wraps, one pamphlet lacking title page & stained throughout, (Smith/ Oratory), one pamphlet closely trimmed briefly touching some text (Clayton/ Speech Central American Treaty, 1856), scattered foxing & toning, generally very good
Itemized below in order of appearance:
The Nassau Rake: Edited and Published by the Sophomore Class of the College of New Jersey Princeton, June, 1856, 83, [1] pp.
The Nassau Rake: Edited and Published by the Sophomore Class of the College of New Jersey Princeton, June, 1857, 112 pp.
Memorabilia Sophomorum Edited and Published by the Freshman Class of the College of New Jersey, Princeton, New Jersey, June, 1856, 55 pp.
DAVIS, Thomas T. Address and Poem Delivered Before the Associate Chapters of the Sigma Phi Fraternity, At Their General Convention Held in Williamstown, Mass August 16, 1853 Williamstown: Published by the Alpha of Massachusetts, 1854, 37 pp.… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, (1963) First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink by the author, who adds a small sketch of a mouse, at the first blank page. 8vo, 430 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in plum on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Gunn/ Gay American Novels, 1870–1970: p 104 Upper margin & spine extremities sunned, edges lightly rubbed, text slightly toned & occasionally foxed, about Very Good in moderately rubbed dust jacket with short tears & small losses mostly at the top & bottom of the spine, Good or better. Partially autobiographical, the novel centers around young Jeff Ramsey & his "unsentimental education" in "the gay, tawdry, amoral, sometimes brutal world of a seedy summer stock company" Author Burwell was himself an actor & director as well as the founder of The Belfast Maskers in Belfast, Maine.

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, (1982). First edition. Small 4to, xi, [3], [1] - 428 pp., including numerous illustrations. Publisher's gilt lettered blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
Small bruise at the bottom edge of the lower cover, previous owner's name & address in ink at first blank page, Very Good or better in rubbed jacket with brief edge wear, about Very Good."Here are thirty biographical sketches of the men who occupied Virginia's highest elected office." Contributors include Virginius Dabney & others

Volume 1. The Hillbilly and Western Scrap Book, Over 100 Stars, Personal Autographs [in facsimile], Caricatures, Cartoons, Over 125 Pictures, 45 Biographies.
With:
Volume 2. The Hillbilly and Western Scrapbook, Photographs, Biographies, Autographs. Over 200 Stars of Radio, Television, Stage and Screen. (cover titles).
Cincinnati, Ohio: Scrapbook Publishers/ Jordan O. Zimmerman (copyright), 1949 & 1950. First editions Oblong quartos (8.5" x 11"), each with 48 unnumbered pages, profusely illustrated throughout from photographs & art work. Publisher's pictorial, stapled light card covers.
Slight edge wear & rubbing, brief soiling, previous owner's name in ink at the title page of volume 1, easily Very Good or better.
An uncommon tribute & showcase for 1940's & 50's American Country, Western, Folk, & Bluegrass music.
Performers profiled include: Rosalie Allen, Jimmy Wakely, Ernie Lee, Moon Mulligan, Sons of the Pioneers, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Bob Atcher, Bill Boyd, Patsy Montana, Al Dexter, Homer and Jethro,… Read More

Paris: Didot, Nion Fils, Damonneville, Savoye, 1749. "Nouvelle edition." Sextodecimo (6.5" x 4.25"), [8], 543, & [1] pages. Contemporary full mottled calf, the spine in six compartments with a gilt-lettered maroon leather spine label in one compartment, the others elaborately decorated in gilt. All edges red, marbled endpapers, text in French.
Binding rubbed & scuffed, corners worn, previous owner's notes, underlining, & bracketing in pencil throughout, small bookseller label at front pastedown, otherwise Good or better.
A nice example of French mid 18th century binding & printing, particularly interesting are the lovely endpapers & headpieces at each chapter.

Shepherdstown, West Virginia: published by the author, printed by Winchester Printers & Stationers, 1930. First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), 16 pages, with illustrations from photographs. Stapled paper wraps.
Moderate soiling and foxing, otherwise Very Good.
An engaging biography by a neglected author.

Chicago, Illinois: Gillette Publishing Company; London: E. & F.N. Spon, Limited, 1929. First edition, "Third Thousand." Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"}, [10], 295 & [7] pages, illustrated. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered & decorated in gilt on the upper cover. Top edge gilt.
Lightly rubbed, spine gilt dull, text block cracking in a couple of places (still secure), brief gift inscription at the first blank page, sporadic foxing, otherwise a very good or better copy.
An exhaustive & profusely illustrated treatise covering bridge design & construction, steel towers, ornament, aesthetics, biographies of engineers, etc.

Geneva: Pierre Cailler, Editeur, 1964. First edition, this copy signed, inscribed, & dated in ink by the Georges Beaute on the half-title page. 4to, 179 & [1, colophon] pp., illustrated throughout in black & white. Publisher's coarse tan linen lettered in black on the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket. Text in French. Brief wear at spine extremities & corners, previous owner's bookplate at ffep, otherwise Very Good in lightly soiled Very Good dust jacket with modest edge wear including a couple of short tears. Chronicles the life of Toulouse-Lautrec from childhood with family, with friends, in the studio, etc, until his untimely passing just short of his 37th birthday.

Birmingham, Alabama: Oxmoor House/ Southern Classics Library, (1982). Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"), xvii & 601 pages plus 30 unnumbered pages of plates including a two page color illustration after a painting by Charles Hoffbauer. Publisher's full brown leather, the spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt. All edges gilt, satin ribbon marker sewn in, moire fabric endpapers. Publisher's notes laid in.
Unobtrusive soft crease affecting recto & verso of the illustrated leaf preceding the title page, otherwise a fine & apparently unread copy.
"The Southern Classics Library could choose no subject more worthy than Robert E. Lee. As commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee became synonymous with the defense of the Confederate States of America; however, it was in the long years following defeat that he became the enduring symbol of what is best in our Southern heritage."~Excerpted from the publisher's notes.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. 24mo (5.5" x 3.5"), xii & 382 pages. Publisher's bright blue cloth elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt on the spine & in blind on the covers All edges gilt
Binding lightly rubbed, slight fraying at spine extremities, hinge started at title page, otherwise Very Good. Originally published in London in 1862, this copy is one of seven titles in Ticknor & Field's "Books in Blue and Gold" series. The publisher utilized imported sheets from the original printer & provided decorative bindings which "were an instant success and made it clear that buyers do judge books by their covers" (American Antiquarian Society). As described in the preface, "The present volume is rather a condensation than an abridgment of the later volumes of Captain Hall's 'Fragments of voyages and travels,' inasmuch as it comprises all the chapters of the second and third series, only slightly abbreviated, in which the author describes the various duties of the naval lieutenant and commander."