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Parkville, Mo.: Park College, 1936. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. First Edition, an original yearbook; yearbook belonged to Beatrice Lane, SIGNED by many fellow students, one of whom is Lorene Metheny (signs 'Renee'), guitarist Pat Metheny's aunt; 4to, embossed navy cloth, no dj; good+ (shaken, loose; boards rubbed; cream embossments on front board soiled; shelfworn; spine ends and corners bumped and worn; pages toned; owner's name on ffep).

Parkville, Mo.: Park College, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Edition, an original yearbook; Beatrice Lane's copy, SIGNED by many fellow students, one of whom is Lorene Metheny, guitarist Pat Metheny's aunt; 8vo, padded maroon faux-leather, no dj; good (shaken; cocked; shelfworn; spine ends and corners bumped and worn; front corners worn to boards; owner's name twice on half-title page; cracked at pp64-5; eps and pages toned; waterstains, scars, and damage to top edges of pages from p131 to rfep; top corner of rear pastedown creased and unaligned with board); 142pp.

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1968. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1st, grey cloth, vg, no dj; minor soiling on covers. Class members are listed alphabetically, with a brief bio written by the member, and where available a class photo paired with a reunion photo. 217 pp.

NY: Doubleday, Page, 1914. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. Original blue cloth, 648 pp. + 28 pink pp. of ads. Good+ (boards soiled; spine darkened; spine ends bumped, worn and lightly torn; front hinge starting; broken at pp648).

San Lorenzo, NM: Flying Monkey Press, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good-. First edition stated, one of 1500 printed. Tall 4to with purple striped paper boards and stamped silver titles. Very good+ (faint scuff on front board, dents on rear board and near spine) in vg- dj (shelfrubbed, especially rear panel). 277pp.

North Miami: David G. Phillips Publishing Company, 1978. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. Limited Deluxe Edition of the Third Edition, No. 24 of 300, in a nice binding of imitation 3/4 leather with matching slipcase; 4to, no dj; vg+ (spine head lightly bumped; erased pencil on top edge of half-title page) in vg+ slipcase (shelfwear); 280pp.

Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1953. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+/Fair. First Edition, no additional printings and same date; INSCRIBED by Hamilton on ffep; 8vo, brown cloth; good+ (shaken; shelfworn; very edges of boards worn; rear board lightly soiled; spine ends and corners bumped, crimped, and heavily worn; owner's name on ffep; erased pencil notations; dirt to margins of several pages; edges, eps, and pages toned) in fair dj (rear panel completely detached from spine; toned and soiled; spine browned and waterstained; edges heavily chipped, torn, worn, and creased; spine ends very heavily chipped); 498pp incl. index.

NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1933. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 1st, black cloth, good only, no dj. Book is fairly tight with clean pages, but the spine looks terrible, faded, soiled, worn at ends and with a 1" rip in the front side about halfway down. Also corners bumped. INSCRIBED by the author on the ffep: "For Vivian and "Buddy", with many pleasant recollections of a summer in the Les Chenaux with the skipper, Nella Braddy Henney. Pre-publication copy/Sept. 1, 1933". 'Les Chaneaux' refers to France's Channel Islands. 365 pp. incl. index.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1915. Soft cover. Poor. House of Representatives, 63d Congress, 3d Session, Document No. 1697; Volumes 1 and 2; 8vo; Vol1 poor (top half of spine detaching; edges of covers and pages worn, creased, torn, and lightly chipped; spine ends chipped and spine creased; covers soiled; pages toned; shaken); Vol2 poor (front cover chipped and torn in half--tear repaired on inside with Filmoplast; another tear to front cover also repaired; rear cover missing; spine chipped and torn; edges of pages worn, creased, torn, and chipped; cracked throughout; pages toned); pages brittle.

NY: Crown, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. First Edition stated w/complete number line starting at '1'; 8vo, black boards, vg+ (spine ends lightly bumped; light bowing to boards) in nf dj w/ $25.00 price. 375 pp. incl. index.

Boston: Charles G. Greene, 1830. Periodical. Good. In This Paper, the Laws, Resolves, Public Treaties, &c. of the United States, Are Published by Authority". The original newspaper, letterpress printed on what appears to be rag paper. Good only; there are holes at 2 of the creases with loss of a few words, the paper is darkened, has several stains, and some foxing.

Evansville, Ind.: Unigraphic, 1975. Facsimile . Hardcover. Very Good+. Facsimile reprint, blue cloth, vg+ (spine ends bumped; edges toned), no dj. 164 pp. + index. Includes loose folding map.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1879. Disbound. Fair. 45th Congress, 3d Session, House of Representatives, Report No. 113, February 21, 1879; 8vo; disbound, no wraps or boards; FAIR (edges toning; pp9-12 almost detached); 12pp.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1890. Disbound. Fair. 51st Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Report No. 2915, August 5, 1890; 8vo; disbound, no wraps or boards; FAIR (toned; first 10pp detached; tear to side edge of p7-8; two chips to p9-10; pp11-18 attached); 18pp.

Hartford: Self Published, 1895. Periodical. Fair. Original newspaper, disbound from folio; 16pp; FAIR condition (toned; edges worn, torn, and very lightly chipped; holes along side edge from where the newspaper was bound into folio; sticker on first page).

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1900. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. Minnie Gardner. Limited First Edition, No. 393 of 940 copies SIGNED by Hubbard and Minnie Gardner, who hand-illumined colophon page and Roycrofters logo at end of; 4to, three-quarter suede with gray boards and leather title piece on spine; good+ (suede faded and worn; waterstain on top edge of rear board; bodies of six small bugs adhered to suede on top corner of rear board; two stains to spine; letter title piece on spine worn and rubbed; owner's name penciled on first blank page; crinkle at bottom edge of frontis portrait of Hubbard, a tipped-in photogravure on onionskin; soiling to limitation and half-title pages; top corner of pp7-8 torn off; owner's name and date in pencil on bottom margin of p21; pages toning); 22pp.

First Edition . Hardcover. Good. About 60 pieces of music bound into 2 folio volumes by the owner/collector, Hattie Savage. One is still in its original binding; the other we have had rebound in new black textured cloth quite similar to the original, with the original leather piece stamped with the owner's name pasted on the front cover. There are waterstains on the foreedge of many pieces in the rebound volume. The non-rebound volume has a waterstain on the front cover but none inside. It was bound professionally by J.G. Roberts & Co. of Boston, and they provided an engraved Contents page, which has the titles filled in by hand. The other volume has a cruder but still accurate contents page.Includes (those marked with a * have a lithograph on the cover): Dreaming of Home and Mother* (Ordway, 1868), The Swamp Angel (Wilder, 1863), The Moon Is Shining Brightly (Manahan/Turner, 1865), If Your Foot Is Pretty Show It (Bishop, 1857), Our Way across the Sea (?), Down by the River Side I Stray… Read More

New York: Van Vleck and Davenport, 1835. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-. '. . . and the Remedies; Directions for the Management of the Dairy; a Description of the Most Useful Implements of Husbandry; and Every Information Necessary to the Practical Agriculturist. Also, an index, by which any subject can be instantaneously referred to. In three parts: Part III. on live stock, under the immediate supervision of R.H. Budd, Veterinary Surgeon, New-York.' First Edition; 8vo, rebound, new linen cloth with black stamping on spine, new floral-pattern endpapers; vg- (spine tail bumped and crimped; edges toned, spotted, and soiled; pages rippled, stiff, and foxed); interesting piece of Americana by an unknown publisher, address given as 155 Broadway; John Douglas holds the copyright but we are informed that Charles J. Doughty is the compiler; 508pp.

Boston: Nathaniel Willis, 1813. First Edition . Soft cover. Fair. First Edition, one of many such sermons by Appleton. In this case, publisher more interesting: Willis founded 'Youth's Companion' and was one of the most influential publishers in early American history; his son of the same name later founded the American Magazine and the New York Mirror, which was to be the first publisher of Poe's 'The Raven' in 1844; his daughter became popular children's author Fanny Fern who was first published in the 'Youth's Companion'. Disbound chapbook, no original covers; fair (spine taped with two tears; frontis page stained with tears and chips to side edge but this does not affect engraving; last page foxed with chips and tears along taped spine; edgeworn; pages foxed, toned, and stained; pencil erased from verso of title page; signature torn at pp14-7); 24pp.

New York: Harold Vincent Smith for The Home Insurance Company, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good+. Copyright 1939, no additional printings indicated. Thin 4to., red paper boards with a gilt spine and title and an affixed illustration. No jacket as issued. Illustrated throughout in B&W and color. Good+ (board corners bumped, worn, torn; edges rubbed and worn; panels rubbed and scratched; light toning, but pages are quite bright and clean). 63pp. incl. glossary.