HISTORY from Houle Rare Books & Autographs

New edition, from the sixth English edition, with additions and corrections. Octavo. Half title page with ads on the verso. Original gilt and black stamped brick red cloth. Yellow coated endpapers, folding chart at page 91. No dust jacket. Good (corners worn; light chipping at head and base of spine). 458 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Freeman 425.

First edition, second printing. 4to. Numerous b/w photographs, color endpaper maps. Original stiff yellow wrappers. No dust jacket. Good (chips tears to spine; rubbing). 245 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed in Occupied Japan.

First edition (April, 1904). Octavo. Illustrations by A. C. McHench and John Westerberg. Original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt, red and white on spine and front cover, t.e.g. Full page map. Afterword by Josiah Strong. No dust jacket. Very good. 320 pages + 4 page of ads. From the library of noted "Gone With The Wind" Hollywood director George Cukor… Read more about this item

First edition. Octavo. Half-title page. 19th Century brown leather over marble boards. Good (rubbed; minor foxing; lacking front free endpaper). 235 pages. Signature of Fredrick Augustus Locke on title page. Bookplate of Father Vincent Lloyd Russell.

First American edition (from English sheets). Octavo. 30 b/w illustrations; endpaper map by A. E. Taylor. 4 page introduction. Dust jacket (unclipped; small chip spine darkened). Very good. 248 pages. Printed by Jarrold & Sons Ltd., Norwich. Zane Grey blind stamp and signature of Wm. Meacham.

First American edition (from British sheets). 4to. Gilt stamped on orange cloth. 40 b/w plates; 2 maps; 58 text illustrations. Dust jacket (price clipped; tears and stains). Very good. 166 pages. No signatures. From the library of noted "Gone With The Wind" Hollywood director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre Bookplate on the front pastedown.

("Katherine A. Tingley") on card with pressed dry seaweed. 6 ¾" x 4 ¼". With return stamped envelope postmarked May 2, 1899, Point Loma with bulls eye sock on nose cancellation slug. Verso envelope with North San Diego and San Diego postal cancellations. With a 1900 newspaper photo of Tingley. Very good. Tingley (1847-1929), American theosophist; founder of the "Universal Brotherhood"… Read more about this item

First edition. Large marginal octavo. Later green leather over marbled boards. Good. 535 pages + 17 pages index. Bookplate of Vincent Lloyd Russell.

First edition. Octavo. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine skillfully rebacked. Very good. 289 pages + 14 page index, no ads. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Early (1793) signature on title page.

No publisher listed. Second edition. Small octavo. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. 18 pages of text, plus 14 pages of advertisements. No dust jacket. Very good (a few old small stains on cover). 32 pages. No signatures or bookplates.

Booklet printed by Naigai Publishing & Printing Co., Kyoto, Japan. 8 ¾" x 7 ¼", no date, but ca. 1930's. 28 pages including wrappers. Numerous b/w photographs and full page map in red, green, blue. Good (few tears). No signatures or bookplates.

New revised and enlarged edition. Small octavo. B/W illustrations by H. D. Eggleston. Original pictorial olive green cloth. No dust jacket. Very good (few stains). 188 pages. No signatures or bookplates. A book that went through several editions and title changes. Before Charles Atlas there was Checkley called "The Strongest Man in America."

First edition. Octavo. Two page introduction by Walter Besant. ¾ gilt stamped maroon morocco, t.e.g. Marble endpapers. No dust jacket. Very good. 336 pages. Printed by Butler & Tanner. Two bookplates include Father Vincent Lloyd Russell. Includes chapter: "The Pope and The Conquest of Ireland."

Early edition. Octavo. Original red pictorial cloth. No dust jacket. Very good. 153 pages + 5 pages of ads. Signature of E. E. Adcock, April 4, 1914 on front free endpaper.

First edition. 12 mo. Half titles. Original gilt stamped brown cloth, yellow endpapers with printed publishers' ads. No dust jackets. Good. 2 volumes. Signature of Eliz. S. Charles, 1852 in both volumes. Howes L-574. Sabin 42763. There is no map and none is noted by Howes. Printed by Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New street-Square.

Philadelphia, Privately Printed, 1937 (but later, Los Angeles, The American Scene, n.d.). Octavo. Frontispiece and four b/w illustrations. Original gilt stamped maroon cloth. No dust jacket. Fine, fresh copy. 16 pages. No signatures or bookplates. #96 of 160 copies issued by The American Scene. Laid in loose is a letter/invoice dated 3/2/89 from the publisher James L. Swanson, on The American Scene… Read more about this item

First edition thus. Octavo. Edited with a two page introduction by John Coulson. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Dust jacket (clipped). Very good. 118 pages. No signatures or bookplates. With Imprimatur. Printed in the United Kingdom.

First edition. Octavo. Original grey cloth stamped in black. Dust jacket (price clipped). Very good. 250 pages. No signatures. Bookplate of Irish prelate Vincent Lloyd Russell on the front pastedown.

First edition thus. Octavo. 7 page preface by Daniel J. O'Hanlon, S.J. Original green cloth stamped in white. Dust jacket (clipped). Fine. 115 pages. Bookplate of Irish prelate Vincent Lloyd Russell on the front pastedown. With imprimatur.

No date. Circa 1950 (?). First edition. Small octavo. Original stiff blue wrappers. No dust jacket. Very good. 16 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Double page photograph of the interior. Printed by The Bookman Press, Los Angeles, California.