Americana from Walkabout Books

Savannah: John M. Cooper, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 7.25" x 4.74", xv, 16-235 pp, in original black cloth. Rubbed through at corners and spine ends, lacking front free endpaper, light tidemark at upper corners throughout.  A good copy of the only volume of verse by Jackson, a "distinguished lawyer, soldier and diplomat, who for 42 years after… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. Hardcover. Near fine. Number 638 of an edition of 1,000, signed by editor on the flyleaf. 187 pp + notes, with frontispiece, bound in blue and tan cloth, with paper spine label. Light wear to heard of spine, else fine.

Sag-Harbor: Alden Spooner, 1808. Hardcover. Good. 2mo, 144 pp, with engraved frontis portrait of the author. A good copy in original paper-covered wooden boards (with much of the paper worn away) with leather spine. Front joint cracked and board loosened but still secured by stitching. Child's doodles on front free endpaper, early ownership signature on title page, a… Read more about this item

Softcover. Very good. Title continues. "Address of Henry W. Lee. C.E., consulting engineer, Greater Chicago Federation, before U.S. Engineers, January 13, 1913. Offprint from the Calumet Record, Jan. 16, 1913.  14 pp, stapled wrappers. Light creasing, a little soiling to front cover; very good. A contribution to the decades-long battle over the most fitting use of Chicago's lakefront. Lee… Read more about this item

Post-bound album containing 27 linen-backed silver prints showing (with one exception) residential and institutional construction projects completed using granite supplied by the North Carolina Granite Company of Mt. Airy. NC. The exception is a photo of a stack of flagstones at the quarry. Each photo is 7.5 x 9.5 inches, and nearly all have identifying information on the front.… Read more about this item

Hot Springs, AR, 1906. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 6" x 5", 50, [2] pp, with 27 half-tone photographic portraits, in original stapled wrappers. Minor creasing at base of spine; clean and sound. William Pinkerton (1846-1923) was the son of Allan Pinkerton, founder of the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency. After Allan Pinkerton died in 1884, William and his… Read more about this item

Very good. Broadsheet, undated, but ca. 1915 (based on contemporary newspaper ads). 20" x 7", printed in red and black on front and all black on verso. Horizontal folding creases, otherwise very good. An attractive promotional piece issued by the New Home Land Company of Little Rock, Arkansas and promoting excursion fares via the Missouri Pacific and Iron… Read more about this item

Roanoke, VA: Agricultural & Industrial Department, Norfolk & Western Railway, 1916. Softcover. Good. The Southern Homeseeker and Investor's Guide was published quarterly by the Norfolk & Western Railway from 1909 to 1918. Each 11.5" x 8.25" issue has an attractive color-illustrated cover and contains 40 pages of articles and advertisements relating to agricultural prospects and investment opportunities in… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Metropolitan Tract Society, 1844. Softcover. Very good. Sewn pamphlet, 7.5" x 4.5", 36 pp. Edges toned; very good. A scarce account of the nativist, anti-Catholic riots (often referred to as the "Philadelphia Prayer Riots," or the "Bible Riots") that broke out in Philadelphia in the spring of 1844, at a time when Irish Catholic immigration was increasing… Read more about this item

[Dade City, FL]: Dade City Board of Trade, 1914. Softcover. Very good. 8.25" x 3.75" folded brochure, unfolding to an 8" x 26.5" centerfold with two panoramic half-tone photographs, plus 19 two-panel pages (8" x 7.25") of additional text and illustrations. Undated, but internal evidence suggests 1914. Very good condition. Scarce promotional piece for Dade City and Pacso… Read more about this item

[Washington], 1861. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Eight-page pamphlet printed in double columns. Top edge remains unopened, light general handling wear; very good. In this speech delivered ten days after Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, the former Vice-President asserts that the Republicans are being disingenuous in claiming that their main goal is to preserve the Union, when in fact they… Read more about this item

Portland, ME: Chisholm Bros. Hardcover. Very good. Souvenir view book, 5 x 6 inches, with 12 accordion-folded panels of colored views produced by photolithography, in red cloth boards decorated in black and gilt. Undated, ca. 1880-1890. Some rubbing to edges of covers, internally very clean. Includes views of Mt. Washington, Crawford House, Willey Brook Bridge, Profile House, Fabyan… Read more about this item

Danbury, Conn: J.F. Cuff. Hardcover. Good+. Manufactured by Chisholm Bros., Portland, ME. Manufacturers of Chas. Frey's Original Souvenir Albums of all American and Canadian Cities & Sceneries." Uncommon souvenir view book, 5 x 5.75 inches, with 12 panels of views produced by photolithography, accordion-folded into embossed boards. Undated, ca. 1880s. Spine re-covered in cloth tape, archival tape repair… Read more about this item

Springfield, Mass: Star Publishing Co, 1883. Softcover. Near fine. 4.5 x 7.5 inches, sewn wrappers. pp. 27, [7] (publisher's ads). Trimmed off-center, small chip to corner of back wrapper,else fine. Papers Sixteen to Twenty-Two of a series purportedly delivered by deceased newspaper editor Samuel Bowles through the mediumship of Carrie Twing. Among the subjects "Bowles" discusses are the… Read more about this item

[Providence, RI]: Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, 1984. Softcover. Very good. 11" x 8.5", 73 pp, illustrated. Undated, but listed in OCLC as 1984. Small tear at lower front cover, light general handling wear, interior clean and sound. An interesting and well illustrated publication created to accompany an exhibition of the same name. Includes sections on Black Survival… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: John Conrad, 1814. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 9.75" x 6", viii, 473 pp, indexed. Bound in original quarter-leather and paper covered boards. Boards well worn, with much of the outer paper and 3/4 inch of leather at head of spine lost, hinges a bit wobbly, bookplates of Watts de Peyster Library and Franklin & Marshall College on… Read more about this item

London: Hunt and Clarke, 1828. Hardcover. Good. First edition in English. Two octavo volumes, pp. lxxiii, 472; 545 pp, with three plates showing "Indian Ornaments,", engraved frontis portrait of the author "in his Dress among the Indians," two folding plans and a folding map of the course of the Mississippi. Bound in contemporary three-quarter leather and marbled boards.… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1794. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. Two quarto volumes in contemporary full leather bindings. Volume I: 572 pp, with two engraved plates (one folding). Joints cracked, with some old repair work visible, some loss of leather at head of spine, otherwise sound. Volume II: xi, (i), 704, (43) pp, with one folding chart (of 2)… Read more about this item

New York: Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, 1950. Softcover. Good. 14" x 10.25", [40] pp, in stapled illustrated wrappers. Moderate general wear from handling, wrappers detached from text block; good. An interesting, extensively illustrated promotional piece for the tobacco industry as a whole and for Chesterfield cigarettes in particular. "Tobaccoland," is described as an area extending "from the… Read more about this item

[Johnstown, PA]: Blauch & Benshoff. Softcover. Very good. Undated, ca. 1909. Four page printed circular, 7.75" x 5.5". Folding creases, small chips and tears; very good. Claiming to quote an unnamed "prominent Illinois Central Railroad, official," the Johnstown, Pennsylvania real estate firm of Blauch & Benshoff asserts that "Louisiana's swamp lands will support a populations of nearly 5,000,000… Read more about this item