Rare Americana from Rose's Books, IOBA

Boston, MA: C.M. Clark, 1901. Book. Illus. by Stephens, Charles H.. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Boston, MA, C.M. Clark, 1901. First edition. 8vo. Blue silk with gilt lettering embossed onto spine and front board and a dark blue and white dueling scene embossed onto front board, 12 black and white illustration plates… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Co., 1948. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Farrar, Straus & Co., 1948. First edition. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with teal green geometric shapes and gilt lettering embossed on spine, rough cut pages, 417 pp. Swing into the Jazz Age with a series… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. First Visitors Edition. 12mo. Green cloth binding with Wayside Inn image in black and orange, 266 pp. Frontispiece photograph and 15 additional black and white plates. Stamp from the Inn. Inscribed and signed 1939 by Arthur and Lucile Dow. Very good.. First Visitors Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.… Read more about this item

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869. Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1869. First edition. Green cloth binding, beveled edges, decoration and titles in gilt, blindstamped decoration to rear board. Chocolate endpapers. Hinges are sound. Gift inscription from 1868. Signed 5G on page 97, no errata slip. Three tiny discoloration dots top of spine. Near fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 12… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. First edition. 8vo. Black with gilt lettering embossed on spine, maize colored textured endpapers, text block top edge stained peach, 215 pp. The scene is eastern Pennsylvania in the early… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. First edition. 8vo. Dark green cloth binding, rules in gilt with facsimile signature in gilt, top edge gilt, gilt titles.382 pp. Attractive bookplate of Richard Burrage Carter, ink manufacturer, who was president of the Carter's Ink Company, in Boston and later Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1903-1949. Very… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Saint Louis Art Museum in association with H.N. Abrams, 1990. New York, NY, Saint Louis Art Museum in association with N. H. Abrams, 1990. First edition. 4to. Red cloth with black lettering embossed on spine and front board, 35 black and white illustrations color 46 plates, 192 pp. In this book places the artist George Caleb Bingham… Read more about this item

Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington & Co., 1889. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hartford, CT, A. D. Worthington & Co., 1889. Reprint. 8vo. Rebound in half leather, with beautiful hand-tooled leather on spine and corners, over attractive marbled boards with gilt lettering and decorations embossed on spine, frontispiece features a portrait of the… Read more about this item

Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington & Co., 1889. Hartford, CT, A. D. Worthington & Co., 1889. Reprint. 8vo. Rebound in half leather, with beautiful hand-tooled leather on spine and corners, over attractive marbled boards with gilt lettering and decorations embossed on spine, frontispiece features a portrait of the author and a facsimile of her autograph, lavishly illustrated in color and… Read more about this item

Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1990. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1990. First edition, first printing. 4to. Hard cover binding, 251 pp. Illustrated throughout with plates. Handsome book design. A collection of 20th-century writing evocative of summer by famous authors, including a poem written for this volume by Ray Bradbury. Fine in fine dust jacket, protected with an… Read more about this item

Private Press, 1969. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Private Printing, 90 pp. First edition. 12mo. Paperback. Good..

New York: Vintage, 1992. Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Vintage, 1992. First edition. 8vo. Soft cover binding, 230 pp. New..

New York, NY: Derby & Jackson, 1859. Book. Good. Cloth. First American Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. New York, NY, Derby & Jackson, 1859. First American edition. 12mo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering embossed on spine, bind stamp on front board, light yellow endpapers, 578 pp. The author bases this story on events from her own… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Dial, 1973. Book. Very Good. Quarter Cloth. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Dial, 1973. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Brown leatherette quarter cloth over brown cloth boards, with black lettering embossed on spine and blind stamp of Pueblo art on front board, textured tomato red endpapers, illustrated… Read more about this item

New York, NY: The Century Company, 1908. Book. Illus. by Keller, Arthur. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. New York, NY, The Century Co., 1908. First edition. 12mo. Gold colored silk with dark green lettering and design work embossed on spine and front board, laid-in color colonial harbor scene on front board, illustrated… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Rinehart & Co., 1948. Book. Illus. by Wyeth, Andrew (Dust Jacket). Near Fine. Cloth. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Rinehart & Co., 1948. First thus. 8vo. Light blue cloth with dark blue title field and gilt lettering embossed on spine, top of text block edge stained blue, rough cut… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Book. Fine. Cloth. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, no publication date. Reprint. 12mon. Cloth binding, 424 pp. Intensely thrilling without sensationalism, this book most graphically illustrates the white man's injustice to the Indian and a romance set an excitingly colorful western adventure. Fine in near fine… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1932. Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1932. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth with red lettering embossed on spine and front board, 346 pp. An interesting story about the Torrent family: from "Grand" Torrent who came over the Wilderness Trail with Daniel Boone; Logan Torrent, who was twice governor… Read more about this item

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1929. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Chicago, IL, Reilly & Lee, 1929. First edition. 12mo. Maroon silk cloth with black lettering embossed on spine and black lettering and artwork embossed on front board, endpapers decorated with map of Texas, 369 pp. Former owner name on endpaper, otherwise would… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Macmillan, 1929. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Macmillan, 1929. First edition. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and artwork on spine and front board, endpapers decorated with fanciful map of the American Southwest, illustrated throughout, 370 pp. A very entertaining and informative guide to… Read more about this item