Search Results: Titles starting with U from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Washington, DC: W.H. Moore, 1863. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 36pp. Very good. Circular purple Rhode Island Historical Society inkstamp at upper left corner and small red accession label at upper right corner of front wrapper. Interesting discussion of the war, Lincoln's policies, slavery, etc. Blank inside front wrapper bears the bookplate of noted Lincoln collector George P. Hambrecht, founder of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, who notes that he purchased it in 1921 for $2.50! First edition, a quite nice copy. Not in Monaghan. SABIN 12200 (in which "U.L.A." -- Union League of America -- is mistakenly transcribed as "U.S.A.").

Carlisle, PA: South Mountain Press, 1987. Hardcover. 8vo. Green buckram with gilt lettering and medallion. xiv, 240pp. Illustrations, numerous maps, pictorial endpapers. Fine. Superb second edition, lacking jacket but tight and pristine.

Carlisle, PA: South Mountain Press, 1986. Hardcover. 8vo. Green buckram. xiv, 232pp. Illustrations, numerous maps, pictorial endpapers. Near fine. First edition, sans jacket but tight and nice.

Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1975. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy buckram with gilt lettering and decoration. xvi, 447pp. Illustrations, 2 foldout maps (one small, one large color). Very good. Light foxing to endpapers. Nice and tight first edition of this volume in the "Army Historical Series.

Carlisle, PA: South Mountain Press, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey buckram, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 360pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, numerous maps, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/fine. First edition, a tight and handsome copy.

Carlisle, PA: South Mountain Press, 1987. Hardcover. 8vo. Red buckram, pictorial jacket. xxi, 310pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, numerous maps. Near fine/fine. Bookplate on front pastedown. First edition.

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1984. Paperback. Preface by John Y. Cole. 8vo. Stiff tan wrappers. vii, 95pp. Fine. Perfectly pristine first edition of this view of the U.S. publishing situation in the early '80s.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth spine with gilt lettering and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 373pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. A superb, tight-as-new first edition.

New York: Random House, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 269pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight and handsome first edition of this "remarkable story behind the most explosive espionage case of the twentieth century," the Gary Francis Powers incident.

New York: Galley Press, 1977. Hardcover. 4to. Blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Extensive illustrations (some color). Fine/near fine. Small inkstamped date on front pastedown. Tight, attractive revised edition of this thick survey.

Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, 1977. Hardcover. 4to. Blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Ownership signature on front pastedown. Tight, attractive later printing of this thick survey.

London: Osprey Publishing, 1991. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 64pp. Numerous illustrations (some color), line drawings. Near fine. Reprint of volume 13 in the "Elite Series."

M.p.: Naval Institute Press, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. ix, 246pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Tight and nice first edition.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1986. Hardcover. Wide 16mo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 200pp). Extensive illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A wonderfully tight and handsome reprint of this 1943 publication, featuring over 900 photographs and line drawings.

Harrisburg: Historical Times, 1986. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. 4to. Glazed pictorial paper over boards. 478pp total. Frontispiece (Vol. I only), numerous illustrations, line drawings. Near fine. A superbly tight and attractive first edition of this outstandingly-illustrated trilogy, the first volume covering P-35 to P-39, the second volume P-40 to XP-58 and the third volume P-59 to XP-83.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine and orange paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 277pp. Very good/near fine. Erased ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight 'n' nice first edition of this author's second book, inscribed and signed large and bold by the author in green fineline on the half-title page: "For Trecii, / Here's to all of / our ways! Here's to / us! / Love & Peace, / Tina McElroy Ansa / 9-24-93."

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. Hardcover. Small 4to. Ivory and pale green paper over boards, paper spine label. 235pp. Illustration. Very good. Slight darkening of spine, as usual. Edition limited to 1250 signed, numbered copies (this #548). A clean, tight, handsome copy.

Hurley, U.K.: Hurley Style Limited, 1986. Hardcover. 4to. Red leatherette, gilt. 45pp. Line drawings, decorations, numerous small scratch-and-sniff color stickers (as issued). Near fine. Probable sole edition of this bizarre tongue-in-cheek manual.

New York: Atheneum, 1972. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 224pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with couple of archivally closed (on verso) edge tears, but overall attractive. Tight and nice first edition of this suspense novel set in Paris and Bavaria by the American film producer (1911-2004).

Highgate, Jamaica: Walker's Printery, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. 63pp. Near fine. First edition of this poetry collection, bearing a lengthy presentation inscription from Grabo in blue ink on the front flyleaf: "To Sydney Weisberg / whose devotion to / Carl Grabo through / the years, and whose / sympathy and innate / understanding were / intensely and remarkably / significant during / the critical hours of / transition, I offer / these little poems in / his memory -- / with gratitude and / affection / Eunice Carter Grabo / Dec. 8, 1958 / Albuquerque / N.M." A lovely copy.