Hardcover. Baltimore MD, J. D. Ehlers & Co's Engraving and Printing, 1st, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt design stamped to front cover, 144 pages. B&w frontispiece of Hotchkiss, 2 folding railroad maps. The first map is of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, the second is another, larger map of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad a radius map covering 600 miles from Jordan Alum Springs in color, and advertisement for the Jordon Alum Springs in Rockbridge County, Virginia on the back. Probably rebound as it appears the original cloth has been pasted to matching pebbled cloth covers. A few nicks to the edges of the front otherwise tight and clean. Maps in very good condition.
Softcover. Hensonville, NY, Black Dome Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Minor wear on edges of cover. Many b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Hachette Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Black and white images throughout.
Hardcover. Boston, Yankee Publishing, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial end papers, 350 pages. Illustrated with color tint and black and white plates. 8vo. There is a faint red stain at very bottom edge of first three pages and last page of the book. Also, there is a dull faded spot at right and lower left corners of the red cloth covers. Some minor pencil marks throughout. Previous owner's inscription. Frontispiece illustration. Gilt titles.
Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Books, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 290 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows heavy wear on top and bottom edges, chipping and cracking to the rear fold. Internally, very good. Black and white illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 1st us, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, but in good shape. Red boards, with black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Deckled edges. Some foxing to edges, however pages clean.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white plates. Dj with light edgewear, price clipped. Remainder stamp bottom edge 383 pages
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Blackwell Pub, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear to dust jacket. Large scratch to dust jacket rear. Previous owner's inscription within. Otherwise a clean copy.
Softcover. Durham, UK, Duke University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white illustrations throughout.
Warsaw, ARS Print Pub., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Thousands of black & white glossy photos. 638 pages. (Extra postage for priority mailing on this very heavy volume.)
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 637 pages, black cloth covers with red and gilt design on spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Bright, price-clipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, The Rutledge Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The relationship between architecture and politics in the life and projects of Nelson A. Rockefeller. 255 pages, illustrated with photographs and drawings (both color and black/white). Very good condition; only wear appears on the dust jacket as light rubbing.
Hardcover. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 143 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription opposite half title page. 16 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket with darkening to edges, chipping. Clean, Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st U.S.A., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustration (map). Gray cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. A small bump to top edge of front cover board. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age, otherwise very good. Previous bookstore's price tag on back cover. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In great shape. A story of a woman's struggle to keep her family together in the teeth of a system that makes life a series of uprootings.
Hardcover. Boston, B. B. Russell, 1st, 1878, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 616 pages, illustrated with 3 steel engraved portraits, one double page map in color and over 100 woodcut engravings in the text. Terra-cotta cloth with black and gilt design, beveled edges, rear hinge cracked. Light wear and rubbing to cloth otherwise very good. Clean, tight binding.
Hardcover. London, The Fleetway House, N/A, n/a, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six hardcovers, beige boards, black leather gilt embossed spines, slightly rubbed. A smaller, 'Popular' collection of Hammerton's epic thirteen volume 'History of the Great War'. It consists of six crown octavo size volumes rewritten and re-edited in the '20s to meet the public thirst for knowledge of the war-in a manageable and affordable form. The volumes are entitled: 'The First Phase 1914'(I), 'Extension of the Struggle 1915' (II), 'The Allies at Bay 1916' (III), 'A Year of Attrition 1917' (IV), 'The Year of Victory 1918' (V) and 'The Armistice and After' (VI). Previous owner's stamp, signature on all volumes, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Hill and Wang, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations. Spine cocked. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. London, UK, Jonathan Cape, First Edition, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 254 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Illustrations in black & white throughout. Light toning throughout. Previous owner's pencil marks have been erased, light marks remain in some spots. Original dust jacket with small chips, tears to edges, now protected in a plastic cover. Tight binding, sharp corners, a nice copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 260 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with some creasing along top edge. Clean, tight copy.