Search Results: Titles starting with O from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

Panama City, Fla.: Panama City Publishing Co., [circa 1936, the copyright date on the rear wrap]. [2], 20 pages, plus frontispiece. Illustrated from photographs and facsimiles printed with the text. Original printed wraps, stapled as issued. 22 x 15 cm. Good. Wraps mostly faded from green to tan; short tear to front wrap with neat internal mend. A few tiny traces of foxing, leaves slightly bumped at spine ends and corners. FIRST OF THIS EXPANDED EDITION. "Old St. Jo," a historical essay about the extinct town of Saint Joseph, Florida, was first published separately in 1922. (Hence the statement on the title page and front wrap: "St. Andrews, Florida, 1922.”) The author's natural history sketch, "A Night on the Florida Beach" (pp. 14-20) is added here for the first time, evidently being its first appearance in a book. The pamphlet also bears a frontispiece portrait of the author and facsimiles from an 1840 issue of the “St. Joseph Times“ that were not… Read More

Columbia, S.C.: The State Company, 1908. [8], 160 pages, plus frontispiece and three full-page plates by Brantley Smith. Original dark green cloth stamped in gold and black. [19.6 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference library with no external markings, but a barely perceptible impression of removed call number at base of spine. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on a few leaves, including title and frontispiece, and small ink stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other leaf. Else very good. Some tiny spots to cloth; faint line of bubbling to cloth on front cover; light foxing to margins of plates and facing pages. FIRST EDITION. The title story is set during the Appomattox campaign and another ("Sons of the Soil") is also a Civil War tale. Elliott Crayton McCants (1865-1953), a native of Ninety-Six, South Carolina and a graduate of the Citadel, was a school teacher in various places before settling in Anderson, S.C., where he served as superintendent of schools. This… Read More

New York: Dix, Edwards, & Co., 1856. 12mo. [viii], 285 pages plus [8] pages publisher's ads at rear dated Sept. 1, 1856. Original embossed dark purple cloth with gilt-stamped spine. [18.5 cm.] Spine sun-faded and with shallow chips to ends, light spotting to cloth, wear to corners with small areas of the boards showing. Light scattered foxing. Good plus. FIRST EDITION. The author's second book. Scarce in the trade. A sometimes humorous account of De Forest's travels in Ottoman Syria in the 1850's. Unlike many contemporary Western accounts of the Holy Land, the book emphasizes realistic descriptions of daily life, rather than observations of ancient relics, and the author is plainly critical of pilgrims and their reverence for sacred monuments. De Forest first visited Syria for health reasons in the 1840's and later returned to spend several years with his brother, a missionary. He includes descriptions of Smyrna, Rhodes, Beirut, Mount Lebanon, and Jerusalem.… Read More

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1919]. [4], 123 pages. Numerous drawings in the text by Fontaine Fox, who also illustrated the covers. Original paper-covered boards printed in red and black. 19.5 x 13 cm. Slight loss to the paper covering the rear joint from insect nibbling, else very good. Light wear to the spine ends with one letter of publisher's name rubbed away, spine a little sunned, slight browning to ends of spine and edges of covers, tiny split to one corner. Early gift inscription on front free endpaper, faint foxing to endpapers. Text leaves are a little toned, as expected, but clean. An attractive copy overall.FIRST EDITION. A collection of stories told as letters by a Chicago policeman, Fred A. Gross, to his brother Charley. Fred's epistles deal little with his professional life and instead "focus on efforts to get along with his middle-class neighbors in a Chicago suburb and his attempts to move up in society" (ANB). The stories were originally printed in “Red… Read More