Search Results: Americana from Pages Past Used and Rare Books

New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 440 pages, indexed. Hardcover in colour illustrated dust jacket. DJ has moderate wear. Toning to rear cover, edge-wear and scuffs. White price sticker on front jacket flap. All edges of text block are foxed. Endpapers are foxed. Prior owner's signature on front flyleaf. Text is toned.

Cambridge, MA, London England: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 637 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a tan and green pictorial dust jacket. DJ has light wear. Prior owner has signed half title page. Text is clean,

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. 289 pages, indexed. Yellow hardback bound in glossy paper-covered boards. White sticker on rear cover. A smudge on front cover. A nice, clean copy.

Wilmore, KY: Junior Class of Asbury College, 1924. Hardcover. Fair. Quarto. 186, (20) pages. Hardcover bound in brown textured cloth with embossed decoration on front cover. Binding has scuffing of front board, rubbing at hinges os spine. Covers faded from age. Smudges on Front flyleaf and front pastedown. Gutter is cracked between front flyleaf and title page. Occasional smudging of text. Includes fold-out picture of faculty/students of entire school in back of book.

Wilmore, KY: Junior Class of Asbury College, 1925. Hardcover. Fair. Quarto. 206, (26) pages. Hardcover bound in brown textured cloth with embossed school seal on front cover. Binding is quite worn, with some damping on rear cover, scuffing at corners and soiling of the cloth. Gutter is cracked between front flyleaf and the Ex libris page. Occasional foxing of text, as well as smudging of pages.

Haddonfield, N.J.: Borough of Haddonfield, 1950. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 8vo. 93 pages. Soft cover bound in tan and blue wrappers. Light wear to the binding. A sound copy and clean within. An early owner has signed and dated the top edge of the rear cover (1951). Illustrated with some photos.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 387, 373, (4) pages indexed. TWO VOLUME SET. Hardcovers in blue cloth. The bindings are rubbed, have damping, spotting. Spines are sunned, rubbed. Bumping and fraying at headcaps/feet. Top edges of text blocks are gilt. The rear gutter of first volume is cracked. Inner hinges of second volume are secure. There is a pocket in the rear pastedown that contains 22 inch wide by 16 inch tall fold out map of the southeastern states. Text is toned.

Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavos. Variously paginated. COMPLETE 7 VOLUME SET. Hardcovers bound in blue cloth. The bindings show moderate wear and are quite sturdy. Some corners are a little bumped, and there is some foxing to the covers. Outside edges of the text blocks are foxed, but the interior appears clean. One leaf in Volume III is loose, but this appears to be an addition to correct a printing error. A second leaf for pages 283/284 is bound in between 382 and 385, but the correct leaf for 383/385 is laid in loosely to correct the mistake. (There is also a 283-284 bound in where it is supposed to be). So the text is complete and is as issued. Occasionally illustrated with some family crests, coats of arms, and photos, but this is not a heavily illustrated work. A decent set of the complete work. This set weighs about 20 pounds.

Chicago : The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Co., 1950. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 354 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in dark burgundy cloth with gold embossing. There is light wear to the binding. The outer edge of the text block is heavily foxed. Upper edge of text block is gilt. Includes a fold out map of the mid-western United States, date not specified. The pages are slightly warped along the bottom edge, possibly due to damping. The text is otherwise clean and sound.

Westminister, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2001. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. 226 pages. Green soft cover. Looks new. A fresh, clean unmarked copy.

Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R R Donnelley & Sons, 1948. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo. 170 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in burgundy cloth. The binding is worn and soiled and has several scuff marks. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Pencil scribbles on the rear flyleaves. The text itself is a bit toned but is generally clean.

Washington: Printed by A. and G. Way, 1803. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. Variously paginated. Bound volume containing the reports of the first 15 councils, dating from 1803 to 1818. Bound in early full sheep. The leather binding is quite worn and dry and is scuffed and abraded. The hinges are sturdy. Lacks the top leather label on the spine; the bottom label reads, "Vol. I / From the / 1st to 15th Council / Inclusive." Early owner's name at the headcap of the spine is illegible, and no names within. The binding is designs with rules of alternating oval and diamond designs in blind about the edges. There is some pest damage to the outside edges of the text block towards the rear of the book, not affecting the text. Text is toned and foxed with some damping at the front and rear. Two blank flyleaves at the front an numerous blank pages at the rear. Most of the reports have their own title pages. The reports that do not have separate title pages are… Read More

New York: Bantam, 2007. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 564 pages, indexed. Hardcover in a tan pictoiral dust jacket. DJ has light wear. Text is clean.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 172 pages. Hardcover with a black and grey dust jacket. The jacket is worn and has some edge tears and abrasions but is sound. The flyleaves have some browning in the gutters. A sound copy and clean wiithin. Contains several illustrations and a maps.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo. 423 pages, x, [2], indexed. Hardcover bound in blue cloth with lettering in gilt. The binding is a bit rubbed and bumped. The spine is dulled, and there is a rubbed white spot on the front cover. Early signature of "Lucian St...(?)" on the front flyleaf is dated 1927. Lacks the frontis portrait of Woodrow Wilson, and the gutter between the Half Title and the Title Page is cracked. The rest of the text block and the inner hinges are sound. Endpapers toned and foxed. The text is generally clean. Early (original?) bookseller's ticket at the bottom of the rear flyleaf reads, "The Book Shop, Inc. / 110 S. Greene St. / Greensboro, N.C." Carter Glass (1858-1946) was born in Lynchburg, Virginia and was the Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson. He helped establish the U.S. financial regulatory system and was instrumental in setting up the… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 306, (16) pages indexed. Hardcover in blue cloth. The binding is rubbed, has light scuffing. .Spine is sunned, has some damping. Bumping and fraying at headcap/foot. Top edge gilt. Bottom edge of text block has some dark spots. Inner hinges are broken. Cords show. Second front flyleaf has prior owner's name "JHM Seaman(sp?) Sheboygan, Wis 1882" Text is toned.

Peekskill, N.Y.: The Library of Historical Briefs, 1976. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Slim soft cover bound in brown and white stapled wrappers. Light wear to the binding. The book has a prior owner's signature and embossed blind stamp on the first page, which is the Table of Contents (no actual title page to this booklet). A sound copy with clean text.

New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2014. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 263 pages, indexed. Hardcover in colour dust jacket. DJ has light wear. Text is clean.

Hanover and London: Brandeis University Press, 1994. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 275 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in an orange and blue dust jacket. Light wear to the jacket. A sound copy with clean text.

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, in cooperation with Vermont life magazine, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Robert Mac Lean. 12mo. 104 pages. Hardcover in white illustrated dust jacket. The jacket shows light wear, but the spine is a bit toned and is rubbed. All edges of text block are foxed. Endpapers and text are foxed.