Journalism from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Four octavo volumes varying in size, pagination & date of publication, all first editions, illustrated throughout, the first three ex-library in library bindings, one in dust jacket. Incudes: Vol I: 1741-1850. New York: Appleton, 1930; Vol II: 1850-1865; Cambridge: Harvard, 1938; Vol III: 1865-1885. Cambridge: Harvard, 1938; Vol IV: 1885-1905. Cambridge: Harvard, 1957. Volumes I, II & III display typical library markings including card pockets in… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First edition, first printing. Octavo (8.5" x 6"), 260 pages. Publisher's buff paper over boards backed in brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & upper cover, in gilt-lettered dust jacket. Upper margin lightly sunned, small stain at the top edge of the text block, previous owner's illustrated bookplate at the front pastedown, otherwise… Read more about this item

London & New York: Phaidon Press, (2004). First edition. Square quarto (11.25" x 11.25"), 511 pages, profusely illustrated throughout from photographs, many in color. Publisher's glossy paper over boards in pictorial dust jacket. Slight wear at edges & spine extremities, front corners bruised, small nick in the front edge of the first blank leaf, otherwise very good or better in like… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: W.D. Wallach. Lot of 9 issues, broken run: Volume xiv, numbers 2058, 2061, 2062, 2073, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, & 2098, September, October, & November, 1859. First editions, original broadsheet newspapers, single sheets measuring 22 inches by 29 inches folding once vertically forming 4 pages each. Old folds, tattered, creased, some losses (text mostly unaffected), small rubber stamp in… Read more about this item

Woodstock, Virginia: Published by the N.F. McCann, Volume III, no. 11, Friday, July 7, 1882. Original broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 26 inches by 39 inches folded once vertically & once horizontally forming 8 pages. Uncut. Old folds, toned & foxed, moderately tattered (including creasing, closed tears & tiny losses), stain in the top & bottom margin, small rubber-stamped mark… Read more about this item

Baltimore, Maryland: Published by John H. Wood, elaborate masthead engraved by Torsch & Rea, Volume III, No. 36, Saturday, September 9, 1871. Original broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 28.5 inches by 42 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages. Old folds, slightly toned & soiled, brief edge wear, some creasing, short pencil annotation at the top margin, small rubber-stamped mark in… Read more about this item

Baltimore, Maryland: Published by Dobbin & Fulton, Volume CXXV, No. 20,483, Thursday, May 1, 1862. Original broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 29.75 inches by 45 inches folded once horizontally forming 4 pages. Old folds, lightly toned & foxed, moderately tattered (including creasing & closed tears), couple of small losses briefly affecting text (now reinforced with archival tissue), small rubber-stamped mark at… Read more about this item

No place, no publisher, no date (circa 1927). Quarto (11.75" x 9"), 16 pages. Publisher's stapled paper wraps, page one featuring a manipulated image from a photograph depicting the happy couple with goose. Text in three columns. Not found in OCLC as of 1/19/2024. Folded once horizontally, browned, brittle, edge wear including short tears without loss, otherwise good or better. Peaches Browning,… Read more about this item

Baltimore, Maryland: "Published every Monday, Wednesday & Friday by Charles Prentiss," Vol. II, No. 107, Friday, March 18, 1803. Original broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 21.75 inches by 27 inches folded once horizontally forming 4 pages. Old folds, tattered & creased, losses in the margins not affecting text, separated about half way at the vertical fold, toned & lightly foxed, a… Read more about this item

Frederick-Town, (Maryland): Printed by John P. Thomson, Vol. II, No. 73, Saturday, November 5th, 1803. First edition. Original newspaper, single sheet measuring 18 inches by 23 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages. Text in four columns, printed on laid paper. Brigham/ Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690-1820 (1962 edition), vol. I, pp. 261 & 262. Moderately tattered & creased, toned, foxed,… Read more about this item

Frederick-Town, (Maryland): Printed by John P. Thomson, Vol. II, No. 77, Saturday, December 3d, 1803. First edition. Original newspaper, single sheet measuring 18 inches by 23 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages. Text in four columns, printed on laid paper. Brigham/ Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690-1820 (1962 edition), vol. I, pp. 261 & 262. Moderately tattered & creased, last two… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First edition, this a presentation copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink by Liebling at the ffep to Alger & Priscilla Hiss. 8vo (8.25" x 5.75"), 251 pages. Publisher's cloth-patterned yellow paper over boards lettered in brown on the spine, lacking the dust jacket. Spine darkened, soiled, upper joint splitting, shallow loss at… Read more about this item

Washington D.C.: Human Events, Inc. Broken run, seven issues: Vol. xxii, no. 11, September 14, 1963; Vol. xxiv, no. 14, April 4, 1964; Vol. xxv, no. 18, May 1, 1965; Vol. xxv, no. 42, October 16, 1965; [Vol. xxv, no. 41 ?], November 6, 1965; Vol. xxv, no. 49, December 4, 1965; Vol. xxviii, no. 26, June 29, 1968. First… Read more about this item

Columbia, South Carolina: State Printing Company, (1970). First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated by the author ("Sam L") in ink at the half-title page to Cartha"Deke" DeLoach, then number 3 at the FBI. Octavo (9.25 x 6.25"), xv & 407 pages including numerous illustrations (some in color, some folding) Publisher's white cloth lettered in blue at the spine… Read more about this item

Lowell, Massachusetts: Marden & Rowell, 1886. Pictorial stapled paper wraps.. Lowell, Massachusetts: Marden & Rowell, 1886. First edition. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 4.75"), [4], [1] - 42, & [4] pages. Publisher's pictorial, staple paper wraps. OCLC locates two copies (accession # 70875262, Los Angeles Public Library; Williams College). Worn: Lacking lower wrap, portion of one leaf excised costing recipes 66 & 71, edge… Read more about this item

Huntsville, Alabama: Strode Publishers, (1977) First edition Octavo (9.25" x 6"), 436 pp., profusely illustrated from photographs. Publisher's orange fabricoid lettered in Black, in pictorial dust jacket Covers with brief wear at corners & edges, previous owner's name in ink at front pastedown, offsetting at pastedown & ffep from news clipping, otherwise very good in moderately soiled & rubbed dust jacket… Read more about this item

Dayton, Virginia: Shenandoah Press, 1927. First edition. 8vo, xiv, [2], & 613 pp, with frontis portrait & occasional illustrations in text. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & upper cover. Binding lightly rubbed, gilt a bit dull, corners bumped, occasional minor foxing, otherwise Very Good. Author Pendleton (1847 - 1941) served in the 8th Virginia Cavalry… Read more about this item

Nicholasville, Kentucky: published by the author, July 15, 1883. First edition. Single sheet measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches folded to form 4 pages (2 pages blank). Old folds, moderate edge wear including short splits, toned & lightly foxed, Good or better. Responding to an anonymously authored editorial published in the Central Courier of June 15, 1883, which is ascribed… Read more about this item

Elbing: Im Verlag der Hartmannsschen Buchhandlung, numbers 1 to 104 (inclusive), January to December, 1822. First edition. 8vo (8.5" x 7.5"), unpaginated [8 pages per issue]. Contemporary paper vellum over boards with a gilt-lettered red spine label Text in German, printed in two columns. Binding rubbed & soiled, with joints just beginning to split & hinges cracked Internally, first printed… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item