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Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Bound in full black cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Map-endpapers (Petersburg). 438pps. The pages are faintly yellowed and there is very mild rubbing to the tips and spine-ends, otherwise clean, square, and soundly bound. No previous ownership markings. The dust… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1963. In Near Fine condition. No dust jacket. Red cloth quarterbound in a black cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in silver. Stated First Edition. xii + 252pps. There is mild rubbing wear to the spine-ends and a small ink stain in the upper corner of the… Read more about this item

West Virginia: West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, 1962. Fine in a Very Good+ slipcase. Quarterbound in black, gilt-stamped calfskin over decorative gray boards. Pictorial endpapers. Gray topstain. 324pps., with a sepia "whaling" frontispiece and a few illustrations. There is a touch of fading to the topstain, otherwise flawless: clean, tight, square, and bright. … Read more about this item

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1984. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Bound in full blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. ix + 242pps. First Printing. The spine-ends are mildly bumped and there are a few vague dust spots atop the textblock, otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. All… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1971. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Bound in full brown cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Red topstain and decorative 'hunting' endpapers. xii + 301 + xi pps., with 16 pages of photos and a number of pen and ink drawings by George Evans. Stated First… Read more about this item

U.S.A.: Candlewick, 2011. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Bound in pictorial hardboards. Decorative purple endpapers. 235pps., plus an author's note. First Printing. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square and bright. All tips are sharp. Absolutely no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dust jacket, glossy in a mylar… Read more about this item

[Lyon]: Derrydale Press, 1993. In Fine condition. Bound in full brown leather, decoratively stamped in black and gilt. All page edges gilt. Marbelled endpapers. 359pps. + a supplement of 86pps. Numerous illustrations throughout. A beautiful, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Absolutely no reading wear and no… Read more about this item

Westport, USA: Meckler Publishing, 1992. As New in an As New dust jacket. Bound in full brown cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. xiii + 91pps., with photos. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate: no apparent reading wear and no previous ownership… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1974. [1974]. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full green cloth. The spine is stamped in bronze and gilt. Octavo. [ix] + 877pps. There is light rounding to the spine-ends, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no apparent… Read more about this item

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Textured beige boards quarterbound in blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Quarto. Map-endpapers. 624pps. There is a faint smudge to the fore-edge and a few slightly crimped lower page-corners. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. [1958]. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Blue cloth over boards with a black cloth backstrip. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in silver. Octavo. 205pps., with a number of plates and diagrams. There is mild bumping to the upper tips, otherwise clean, tight,… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1930. Very Good+ in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full black cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Deckle-edge. Octavo. Top edge gilt. Pps 381 - 749 + [xiii]. There is mild bumping to the spine-ends and a small tear on a preliminary page,… Read more about this item

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994. [1994]. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Blue boards quarterbound in blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Large octavo. xii + 515pps, including numerous maps and illustrations. First Printing. A previous owner's small nameplate is affixed to the front pastedown, otherwise Fine: clean,… Read more about this item

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1973. In Fine condition. Pebbled blue boards. The spine is stamped in white. 269pps., with numerous diagrams and a large pull-out chart. No dustjacket. A flawless copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> … Read more about this item

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Textured beige boards quarterbound in blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Quarto. Map-endpapers. 624pps. First Printing. There is a faint 1/8" pen-mark near the bottom of the fore-edge, otherwise flawless: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. … Read more about this item

New York: Devin-Adair, 1953. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full red cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in blue. Red topstain. 207pps., plus 16 full-page photographs. There is mild rubbing to the spine-ends and a small scratch (1/4") in the cloth, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright.… Read more about this item

New York: The National Temperance Society, 1887. In Good condition. Bound in full black cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt (much dulled) and black; the front panel in black. Decorative endpapers. 481pps. There is modest rubbing wear to the edges of the cloth. The binding is somewhat shaken, with both hinges starting, though all pages are intact. Also, there… Read more about this item

Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1992. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Gold boards quarterbound in green cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Square octavo. xvi + 220pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve,… Read more about this item

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1972. In Near Fine condition. Bound in full gray cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 320pps. No dustjacket. The original owner's blindstamp is impressed at the bottom of the title page. Also the edges of the boards are vaguely faded. Otherwise clean, bright, square and soundly bound. All tips are sharp. A… Read more about this item

Nantucket Island, Massachusetts: Mill Hill Press, 1998. (1998). Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Bound in full black cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Large octavo. xiii + 304pps., with illustrations. Stated First Edition. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no apparent reading wear… Read more about this item