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Imperial Tobacco Company (Of Great Britain and Ireland), Ltd., n.d. Price One Penny printed on upper cover, Numeral 11178 stamped to lower cover with “Players Navy Cut.” Oblong duodecimo, paperbound (illustrated blue stapled wrappers), 20 pp. Very Good, with soiling and light wear to covers and former-owner’s information penned onto upper cover. Filled in very carefully, with everything perfectly centered; complete.

London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1945. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, [144] pp. Professionally rebound in cloth; original wrappers preserved as dust wrapper. Near-Fine, with bookplate and preserved & mounted wrappers showing some edgewear.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934 - 3935. First Edition, each. Each volume is a first edition. The set is inscribed and signed by the author: "Inscribed for / Joseph M. Hurt / in high admiration / Douglas Southall Freeman." Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), xviii, 647 pp + xi, 621 pp + xi, 559 pp + viii, 594 pp. Maps, plans, photos. Winner of the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for biography. Hurt, to whom the set is inscribed, had been a Member of the Virginia Assembly, argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, was a president of the Virginia Bankers' Association, and had served as a Trustee for the College of William and Mary. The set is in Very Good condition, with the front hinge of Volume I a bit shaken and the spines a bit dull; yet generally clean and tight.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934-35. Each volume is a First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author, “Inscribed for / Joseph M. Hurt / in high admiration / Douglas Southall Freeman.” Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), xviii, 647 pp + xi, 621 pp + xi, 559 pp + viii, 594 pp. Maps, plans, photos. Winner of the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for biography. Hurt, to whom the set is inscribed, had been a president of the Virginia Bankers’ Association, and had served as a Trustee for the College of William and Mary. The set is in Near-Fine condition, with the front hinge of Volume I a bit shaken and the spines a bit dull; yet generally clean and tight.

London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), [iv], 315 pp. Very Good; bookplate, four or five small speckles on rear cover, light foxing along edges of text block.

Louise Kelley, Frisbie, n.d. Octavo, paperbound (stiff, white wrappers), illus. with b&w photos., 48 pp. Fine.

West Sussex, England: Woodfiled, (2006). Octavo, softbound (stiff, white, b&w photo illus. white wrappers), iii, 154 pp. Fine. From lower cover: In this entertaining memoir Michael Anderson looks back on his 30-year career in the RAF as a ‘plumber” (RAF slang for the trade of Armourer), during which time he packed in a wide variety of experiences, both at home and abroad. After training at RAF Halton, Michael served at various postings in the UK and overseas, including RAF Tengah (Singapore), RAF Maintenance Base Safi (MAlta), No. 5131 Bomb Disposal Squadron at RAF Stafford, RAF Wildenrath (Germany), RAF Coltishal, RAF Akrotiri (Cyprus) and the Missile Servicing Flight at RAF Wattisham. In the course of these postings he had many interesting and unusal experiences, which he shares with his readers in the course of this lively and well-written account.

Big Pine Key, Florida: Litoky Publishing Co., (1969). First Edition. Octavo, illustrated laminated boards, 110 pp + [xiii Notes] pp. Illustrations. Fine.

New York: E. P. Dutton, (1978). First Edition, stated. Oblong quarto, russet cloth (hardcover), black letters, [38] pp. Very Good, with small former-owner signature to upper corner of ffep., and light foxing (age darkened spotting) to endpapers; in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light foxing. From dust jacket: A ship coming safely home to Nantucket Island was a great event. So great that the captain’s wife might giver the person who first brought her the news a silver coin. Rachel Starbuck wanted more than anything to be the one who was sent with the news. But so did her brother Obadiah. And he was older. And bigger. And a faster runner. And Obadiah said a girl would not be chosen. What happened when the Speedwell was sighted makes a fine story. It will be enjoyed by the many, many Obadiah fans and make new ones for his stout-hearted sister Rachel.

Ormond Beach, Fla.: Tomoka Press, (1997). First edition. One of 1,000 copies. This copy is signed by the author. Quarto, softbound, vi, 106 pp. Numerous photographs. Fine.

Ormond Beach, Florida: Tomoka Press, 1997. First Edition. Edition Limited to 1,000. Signed by the Author. Quarto, paperbound (photo. illus. tan wrappers), 106 pp. Very Good, with lightly bumped corners. From Introduction: Once upon a time, on an annual basis from 1903 to 1910, the state of Florida was projected into naitonal and even international prominence by a single winter event -- the automobile racing tournaments held on the Ormond-Daytona beach. And as benefits any story that begins with “Once upon a time,” fairy tales about these events begin to unfold, evolving from fact into fancy as the years rolled by. It didn’t happen right away. For years historians were content, when recalling the annual tournaments, merely to recite the many world speed records that were set on the beach. Then, as the racing men who participated in these races began to die off, the fables began.

London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1948. Octavo, paperbound (stapled blue wrappers), 24 pp. Very Good+, with pilot’s bookplate and wear to covers.

Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, MCMXXXV [1935]. Quarto, cloth-backed full-color illustrated boards, [34] pp. Good+, with wear to lower cover and edges. Illustrated with full-color plates. Bright and attractive, appears unread.

London: Oxford University Press, 1937. Square octavo, blue cloth with illustration of horse’s head on upper cover, illustrated endpapers, 86 pp. Illustrations throughout. Good, with rubbing to edges and spine; interior clean & tight. Photographs gladly provided upon request. “Ragman was going home with his funny old cart full of rags. It had been a busy day for Ragman because spring was coming and people wanted to get rid of their old winter clothes. Ragman was very happy. He sang a little tune. It was one that Mimi knew very well. Mimi was Ragman’s horse. She pulled his funny old cart. She wore a little red stocking cap on each of her ears to keep out the flies. And she wore bells on her heels, so that people could hear when Ragman was near and come with their rags to sell. Yes, Mimi had heard RAgman sing that tune before. But it had been a long time ago. She was so happy to have spring here again and Ragman singing that she stopped in the middle of the street and began to… Read More

Key West, FL: Langley Press, Inc., (2001). Octavo, softbound (slick, green wrappers), 44 pp + ads. Very Good+, with lightly rubbed edges. From lower cover: A masterpiece of railroad engineering, the Overseas Railroad was often called, “The Railroad that Went to Sea.” Begun in 1905, the Extension crossed the waters of the Florida Keys with magnificent concrete spans and opened in 1912. For years, thousands of passengers enjoyed the breathtaking trip across brilliant seas and tropical islands. Then came the devastating Labor Day hurricane of September 2, 1935 -- and the end of “The Eighth Wonder of the World.”

New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Octavo, orange cloth & brown boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv, 428 pp. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: In 1789, when the First Congress met in New York City, the members traveled to the capital just as Roman senators two thousand years earlier had journeyed to Rome, by horse, at a pace of some five miles an hour. Indeed, if sea travel had improved dramatically since Caesar’s time, overland travel was still so slow, painful, and expensive that most Americans lived all but rooted to the spot, with few people settling more than a hundred miles from the ocean (a mere two percent lived west of the Appalachians). America in effect was just a thin ribbon of land by the sea, and it wasn’t until the coming of the steam railroad that our nation would unfurl across the vast inland territory. In Railroads Triumphant, Albro Martin provides a fascinating history of rail transportation in America, moving well beyond… Read More

Charleston, SC: Arcadia, n.d. [ca. 2000]. First Edition. Octavo, softbound, 128 pp. Photographs throughout. Fine.

Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., 1926. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, full-color illus. paper label pastedown, illus. endpapers, frontis., illus. throughout, 255 pp.

New York: The Seabury Press, 1965. First Edition. Octavo, coral cloth (hardcover), illus. of mouse standing on a stool to lower corner of the upper cover, unpaginated, [32] pp. Near-Fine, with light rubbing along upper edge, in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: There was a family of mice who lived in a tower, safe from the claws of a terrible cat who was always very hungry and whose name was... Raminagrobis! This is the story of what happened when one day, by a clever trick, Raminagrobis managed to get into the tower. Harold Berson has chosen the eighteenth century for his delightful version, freely retold in pictures and text, of a French nursery tale based on a La Fontaine character.

New York: William Morrow, 1977. Second Printing. Signed by the Author. Octavo, red boards (hardcover), 186 pp. The fourth book in the Ramona series and a Newbery Honor book. Near-Fine, but lacking dust jacket.