Search Results: Titles starting with U from James Arsenault & Company

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company. Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1853. Thick 8vo (9" x 6.25"), original brown cloth, gilt title and ornament at spine, blind stamped covers. [5], 560 pp., numerous b&w illus. A very appealing one volume edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin, published a year after the first edition. In an unusually nice state of preservation. CONDITION: Very good, small losses to cloth at head and foot of spine, sound and clean.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1937. 8vo, publisher's light blue cloth. 314 pp, [6] pp. of ads. Endpapers renewed. First edition of Ambler's second book, inscribed by the author on the title-page as follows: "To Archie Rees with best wishes from Eric Ambler." CONDITION: Good, spine cocked, slight discoloration to edges of covers, edges of text block foxed, first few leaves foxed; in good dj with some rubbing and minor losses at edges.

Buffalo, New York: Printing House of Matthews, Northrup & Co., Office of the Buffalo Morning Express, 1884. 4to (10.5" x 8.25"), chromolithographic wrappers. 61, [3] pp., numerous illus., 3 maps, one printed inside front wrapper, one inside back wrapper (9" x 6.5", plus margins), and inset map at page 41 (5" x 6.5"). Agent's stamp at title page, "M. T. Dennis. New England Agent 290 Washington St., Boston, Mass." CONDITION: Good, .25" loss of paper at head of spine, a few other small losses, 1.5" separation of front wrapper along foot of spine; contents bright and clean. An unusually attractive, extensively illustrated pamphlet describing the various sites and destinations accessible via the Union Pacific Railway in the 1880s. Following an overview of the railroad and its main line, the text offers descriptions of Denver, Clear Creek Canyon, Platte Canyon, Gunnison, Colorado parks, Salt Lake City and vicinity, Yellowstone National Park, California's Golden Coast, etc. Other topic covered include how… Read More

Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1888 [but evidently later]. Hardcover. 12mo (7.5" x 5"), blue-green cloth, with color illustrations at front-cover and spine. 332 pp. [6] pp. of ads., illus. Front endpaper inscribed in pencil, "Christmas 1903. DeForest from Auntie." CONDITION: Good, spine cocked, fading to spine, light wear to covers; contents good with occasional small stains. An American Boy's Series edition. Up the North Branch is the fourth and final volume of Capt. Farrar's four-book series on sport and adventure in the Maine wilderness, the first three titles being Eastward Ho!, Wild Woods Life, and Down the West Branch. These works feature a "party of Boston boys" who are members of the "Lake and Forest Club." The most prolific 19th century writer on the Maine woods, Farrar began his literay career in 1876, with the publication of his Guide to Rangeley, Richardson, Kennebago, Umbagog, and Parmachenee Lakes, written to promote his Richardson Lake properties and commercial transportation… Read More

Yellowstone National Park, [ca. 1885]. Albumen print, 6.5" x 8.25 plus mount. Haynes Inventory #2000. An evocative photo taken in Yellowstone Park's Upper Geyser Basin. Steam rises in a landscape where two people have fallen in the snow, both of whom appear to be skiers. F. Jay Haynes (1853-1921), nicknamed the Professor, was the official Yellowstone photographer from 1884-1921 and took the first known winter photographs of Yellowstone Park in 1887 on a 29-day, 200 mile epic journey to the Lower and Upper Geyser basins and Yellowstone Falls. Prior to this, Haynes had been the official photographer for the Northern Pacific Railroad after purchasing a train car for a photo studio and trading publicity photos for the pulling of his car. Haynes sold his photos at Yellowstone and published in books and journals. In 1897, when the Post Office started mailing "penny postals," Haynes and his son Jack produced postcards for the tourists which further spread the word of Yellowstone's natural wonders throughout… Read More

London: Printed for Richard Chiswell, and to be sold by George Powell over against Lincoln-Inn-Gate in Chancery-Lane, 1685. Hardcover. 16mo (6.75" x 4.5"), later mottled calf by Bayntun, raised bands, gilt morocco spine lettering piece at spine, dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Lacking half-title. [22], 206 pp., 2 pp. manuscript index. CONDITION: Good, spine rubbed with superficial cracks, spine edges rubbed and one inch split at top of front hinge and one inch split at lower front hinge, light pencil and ink marginalia throughout, occasional light spotting, a few small losses occasionally affecting individual letters, sound binding, clean and appealing copy. Second edition of Gilbert Burnet's translation. The first edition appeared in 1684. REFERENCES: Wing M2692; ESTC R232304.

Dublin: Printed by R. Reilly, for G. Ewing, and W. Smith, booksellers, in Dame-street, 1737. Two bookplates of Portland, Maine antiquarian bookseller and Irish books collector Francis O'Brien on front paste-down. Ink ownership inscription dated. 16mo, half recent calf and original marbled paper boards, raised bands, black leather lettering-piece with gilt title at spine. xxviii, 140 pp.