Search Results: Titles starting with U from Glenn Books

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Command and Genl Staff Sch 1944. Light blue wrappers. Minor soiling. Filled with lists, figures, numbers. Several pull-out charts..

Laramie, Wyoming: The Laramie Printing Company, 1924. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Map endpapers. Few small water spots on spine. Quite clean throughout the text. Chapters on first settlers, fur trade, James Bridger, Oregon Trail, mail service, Union Pacific railroad, China town, Evanston, Jackson's Hole, among others. Many full-page illustrations. 276pp. Bookseller tag on rear endpaper of The Arthur H. Clark Company. . First Edition. Green Cloth. Light Edge Wear./No Jacket.. Octavo.

Washington, D.C. Review and Herald Publishing (1930). Color pctorial wrappers. Edges worn. Cover loosened from staple binding. Scissor attack at bottom of rear cover and last leaf resulting in some loss of text. Stories illustrated with full-page photo reproductions and line drawings..

Mount Vernon, New York: The Peter Pauper Press, 1937. Spine sunned to gray, lettered in gilt. Illustratedthroughout by Fritz Eichenberg. Small neat owner's signature on a front preliminary page. Some off-setting from leather turn-in to endpapers. Internally a clean copy. This edition was limited to 1100 copies. 135pp.. Limitede Edition. 3/4 Teal Morocco. Light Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Fritz Eichenberg. Royal Octavo.

Chicago: George Matthew Adams, 1910. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Front cover illustration bright. Arranged and decorated by Will Bradley with his monogram on front cover. 189pp of clever poetry. Two poems of interest to the Sherlockiana collector, on pp. 155 and 185. No Sherlockian library is complete without this little volume!. First Edition. Minor Corner and Edge Wear. /No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Top edge gilt. Front cover and spine decorated with floral designs. Eight full-page illustrations including the frontispiece. Cover designed by MARGARET ARMSTRONG, with her MA monogram. The book contains six short stories and a play "The Hostage". 307pp.. First Edition. Green Cloth. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1926. Half-inch loss at head and tail of dust wrapper and several smaller chips, but still bright and clean. F-A code on copyright page. "Here is as fine a novel as Zane Gray has ever written- a story strong with the adventure of pioneer life, and poignant with the poetry of the wilderness" (From front blurb). 281pp.. First Edition.. Gray-green Cloth. Light Edge Wear. Octavo.

London, New York: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd. . White cloth spine. Internally clean. Contains forty-four illustrations and poems. Name in ink at top of front fly leaf. Pictorial endpapers. 314.243 at foot of title page. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd. (See DPL 96). 56pp.. Later Edition. Glazed Color Pictorial Boards.. Light Edge Wear and Soiling/No Jacket. Small Quarto.

London, New York: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd. Green borders. Green cloth spine. Corners worn. Both hinges split. Contains forty-four illustrations and poems. White endpapers. 314.243 at foot of title page. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd. (See DPL 96). The covers are rather shabby, but internally quite a clean copy. 64pp.. Later Edition. Glazed Color Pictorial Boards.. Moderate General Wear/No Jacket. Small Quarto.

London, New York: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd. The dust jacket is chipped at corners and spine. Beige cloth spine slightly darkened at bottom. Pictorial endpapers. Small, unobtrusive book-plate on front pastedown. Contains forty-four illustrations and poems. All edges stained green. 314.243 at foot of title page. Rear blurb lists 5 Greenaway picture books. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd. 56pp.. Later Edition. Gold Pictorial Boards.. Minor Edge Wear./Price-clipped Dust Jacket. Small Quarto.

(Woodbridge, England) Antique Collectors' Club (1992). Near fine in like dust jacket. A reprint of the 1982 edition. Excellent look at the world of book collecting with lengthy glossary. Illustrated throughout. Chapters on first editions, private press, autographs, Bibles, the language of book-collecting. Reprint edition..

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1837. Spine lettered in lined in gilt. Marbled boards with significant wear at edges and corners. Damp stain top of first few pages. Intermittent foxing, never heavy. Illustrated throughout. The full-page illustrations show more foxing than others within the text. 649pp.. Later Edition. 1/4 Black Leather. Covers Worn/No Jacket. 6" x 3 3/4".

Kansas City: Franklin Hudson Publishing Company, 1922. Spine faded. A popularly-written history of Indian soldiers and military events during the 1861-64 campaigns in Missouri and Arkansas. Illustrated with photographic reproductions and maps. 474pp. See Nevins 1, p.63 and Dornbusch 11, #26.. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Mild Edge Wear and Soiling/No Jacket. Octavo.

Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1975. Front blurb wrinkled near top edge. A very clean copy throughout. Illustrated with photographic reproductions. A good retelling of the events leading up to the fateful day in Kansas City, June 17, 1933, the event itself, and the followup as it revealed itself. 205pp.. First Edition. Persimmon and Lime Cloth. Nearly Fine/Lightly Worn and Soiled.. Octavo.

Washington, D.C.: General Land Office, 1937. Large folding map, 36 3/4" x 25 1/2', cloth-backed, routes in many different colors. Folds into black cloth cover. Engraved by R.F. Bartle and Company, Washington, D.C. First issued in 1907. This edition was issued under the direction of Harold L.Ickes. Inserts along bottom of the map of Hawaiian Islands, Philippines, Alaska, Porto Rico, and the Canal Zone. Just the slightest toning around edges, map and backing are in excellent condition. Gilt lettering on front of map cover is rubbed but easily readable. See photos. . Fourth Edition. Black Cloth. Minor Wear/No Jacket. Thin Octavo.

Philadelphia: Isaac Riley, 1818. Red leather spine label. Old notations on endpapers. Old water-stain front few pages. General browning of pages with foxing. Some pages however are completely devoid of the stains. Sections on cooking, home remedies and medicines, pickling, distilling, confectionary, dyeing and painting, agriculture, and more! 378pp. First edition of 284pp. was published in 1814. "Receipt" was the old term used for "recipe", both taken from the Latin "recipere", to receive or take. Quite an interesting collection of material on a variety of subjects. The author sounds like a nom de plume but we were unable to confirm that. Please see photos.. Second Edition. Full Old Brown Calf. General Moderate Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. 4 1/4" x 6 3/4".

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Spine sunned. Spine extremities lightly frayed. Frontispiece portrait of Emperor Francis Joseph. Eight additional illustrations through the text. Sixty-nine maps and dsiagrams in black and white. Large folding color map at rear. Map hinge repaired with archival tape, no loss of paper. Rare small areas of foxing confined to fore-margins. This is the American first edition of the sixth volume in the "World Crisis" set. The British edition is called "The Eastern Front". 396pp. See Woods A31(aa). . First American Edition. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Medium Crown Octavo.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. Limited to 850 copies. Five full-page color plates with tissue-guards and numerous plates in black and white. Edited by Eugene V. Connett. Spine extremities are frayed with some loss of cloth. Bottom of rear cover shows old water-staining. Please see photos. Frontispiece has small water-stain at bottom free corner. The plate and tissue-guard are foxed. Other plates are clean. Siegel 45. 249pp.. First Edition. Brown Cloth. Moderate Corner and Edge Wear/No Jacket. Large Quarto.