Theresa Fish and Game Club, Fourth Annual Ball, Monday Evening, January 2d, 1888 [cover title]
by [NEW YORK]
[Lowville, NY?]: The club, 1887. Printed invitation, folding card stock, 3 3/4 x 5 inches. "Music, Leonard's Silver Band Orchestra of Lowville. Tickets, $2.00!" Gilt-stamped decorated blue and cream self-wrapper. Very good.
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MAP OF FAIR HARBOR: PROPERTY OF FAIR HARBOR DEVELOPMENT CO., INC., Fire Island Beach, Suffolk Co., NY. Sept. 1923.; Eugene R. Smith C.E. Islip, NY
by [New York]
Plat map of 435 lots. 43.5 x 25.5 cm. Old fold lines, some toning to paper. Text advertisement for Brown & MacConnell Sales Managers, Fair Harbor Development Co., Inc. 64 Smith Ave., Telephone 128-M, Bay Shore, N.Y., printed below the border of the map. "Fair Harbor began as a real estate enterprise between George Weeks and Selah Clock (also the founder of Lonleyville) in 1923 with the concept of making beach houses available to the 'working man' and indeed... Read More
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CHARLES M. RUSSELL, THE COWBOY ARTIST: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
by Yost, Karl, with a note by Homer E. Britzman and Frederic G. Renner
Pasadena, CA: Trail's End Publishing Co, 1948. 8vo. 218, (1) pp. Illustrated, plates, title page facsimiles. Burgundy cloth, gilt spine title. Very good copy. First edition, 1/500 copies. Descriptive bibliography of books illustrated by Russell.
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QUIET AS MOSS; with wood-engravings by Joan Hassall. Chosen by Leonard Clark
by Young, Andrew
London: Rupert Hart Davis, Soho Square, 1959. First edition. 4to. 39 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine in light green dust jacket printed in red and black, darkened along spine and edges with some wear to corners and spine ends. Signed by author on title page.
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Gen. Lee's Quick March [caption title]
by YOUNG, Charles
Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1875. Previously published Augusta, Georgia, 1864. 4to. 6, (1) pp. Cover lithograph portrait of Lee (J.H. Bufford's Sons, Lith., Boston). Cover title: Gen. Robert E. Lee. OCLC locates two copies of this edition (Virginia Historical Society, Virginia). Disbound. Some offset to cover, spine covered with paper tape; still a good solid example.
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Gen. Lee's Quick March [caption title]
by YOUNG, Charles
New Orleans, (LA): A.E. Blackmar, 1865. Previously published Augusta, Georgia, 1864. 4to. 6, (1) pp. Cover lithograph portrait of Lee (Lithographed for C.O. Clayton by Endicott & Co., NY). Verso of final leaf blank. Cover title: Gen. Robert E. Lee Quick March. OCLC locates one copy of this edition (Library of Virginia). Disbound. Thoroughly browned, several old tidelines; still a good solid example.
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The Ladye Lillian, and Other Poems
by YOUNG, Edward
Lexington, GA: The author, 1859. First edition. 12mo. 191 pp. Self published volume of poems. Original embossed red cloth, gilt spine title. Very good.
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THE REVENGE: A Tragedy. In five acts. As performed at the theatre Boston
by YOUNG, Edward
Boston: Printed for David West, no. 36, Marlborough-Street, and John West, no. 75, Cornhill, 1794. Disbound. 17 cm. 60pp. Tear across the text of the last leaf, with the loss of one word. Evans 28145.
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On High Hills, Memories of the Alps.; With 24 illustrations
by Young, Geoffrey W.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1928. First American edition, from British sheets, with a new title page. 8vo. xiv, (2), 368 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates. Mountaineer Robert L.M. Underhill's copy, with his ownership signature on the front endpaper, dated in the year of publication, his pencil notes concerning the book on a rear endpaper, and a number of his pencil markings to the text. Underhill (1889-1983) was an "American mountaineer best known for introducing modern Alpine style rope and... Read More
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Alaskan Yukon Trophies Won and Lost
by YOUNG, G.O.
Huntington, WV: Standard Publications, 1947. Second edition (originally published in 1928), with a publisher's epilogue not in the first. 8vo. 275, v pp. Illustrated, endpaper maps. Account of the author's 1919 hunting trip for sheep and other game in Alaska. Original turquoise cloth (rubbed); owner's name, else very good.
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A NEW MAP OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
by YOUNG, J. H.
Philadelphia, [PA]: Published by Cowperthwait, Desilver & Butler, 1850. Map, 43.5 x 69 cm. Image size 40.5 x 67cm., enclosed in a double border of pink and green. States and territories hand colored. Two insets, one of the District of Columbia, and one of the Gold Region of California. Map also shows the various proposed railroad routes to the Pacific Ocean, and places Native American tribes within territories and western states. Small thumbnail size tear at center top edge,... Read More
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Letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Respecting Certain Surveys in the State of Florida
by (Young, Richard)
Washington, DC: U.S. Senate, 1848. First edition, U.S. Senate, 30th Congress, 1st Session, Executive Doc. No. 37, 38 & 39. 8vo. 2, 2, 39, [19]-29 pp. 12 large folding tables (lists of permits for land grants, giving the names, descriptions of the grants, locations, size, etc.). Servies 39 ("endorsing Westcott's bill on land surveys in the Keys"). Servies 3365 ("relief of bona fide settlers"). Servies 3366 ("permits respecting the sale of public lands"; 25 tables on the 12 sheets).... Read More
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A PERSONAL TOUR OF MONTICELLO
by YOUNG, Robert
Minneapolis, (MN): Lerner Publications Co, 1999. First edition. Small 4to (24 cm). 64 pp. Illustrated from color photographs, portraits, plans, maps. Includes a chapter on slave life at Monticello. Cover title: A Personal Tour of Monticello: How It Was. Aimed at younger readers. Color illustrated glossy boards. Fine.
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The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North Carolina; Comprising Its Topography, History, Resources, People, Narratives, Incidents, and Pictures of Travel, Adventures in Hunting and Fishing, and Legends of its Wilderness. With map and illustrations
by Zeigler, Wilbur G., and Ben S. Grosscup
Cleveland, OH: Brooks and Co. (Alfred Williams & Co., Raleigh, N.C. mentioned only on the front wrapper), 1883. Second edition (issued by a different publisher in the same year as the first, without the ads for western North Carolina businesses), so stated at the head of the front wrapper. 8vo. 374 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings (some of the illustrations by William A. Walker), plates, folding map (short tear repaired on verso). Clark "New South" 506 (for the first... Read More
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HORSE, FOOT, AND DRAGOONS SKETCHES OF ARMY LIFE AT HOME AND ABROAD.; Illustrated by author
by Zogbaum, Rufus Fairchild
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. First edition. 8vo. 176 pp. Illustrated, plates, the frontispiece an India proof. “Zogbaum was willing to get off the beaten track and undergo rigors of life on the trail ... as a result secured material of more than of ordinary interest” (Taft). "Included herein are the accounts of the expedition of the Second Cavalry from Ft Ellis to the Idaho border, in 1884” (Midland Notes). Original gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth, top edge gilt.... Read More
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The Life of Isaac Walton; Including Notices of His Contemporaries
by Zouch, Thomas
London: Septimus Prowett, 1823. Second edition (first published in 1790). Small 8vo in fours. (4), ii, 93 pp. Illustrated with 20 engraved plates, including portraits of Walton and Cotton, title-page and final leaf vignettes, one in-text illustration. Westwood & Satchell, p. 245: "The illustrations are those used in Gosden's edition of the 'Compleat Angler,' 1822." Heckscher 2201. Cf. Coigney, pp. 405-406. Fine copy. Later scarlet straight-grain morocco, gilt, boards framed with a wide ornamental scroll between gilt rules, spine... Read More
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![THE ADVENTURES OF A NEW-YEAR'S NIGHT, from the German of Henry Zschokke, by Dr. Henry Scholl [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/491/730/1600730491.0.l.jpg)
THE ADVENTURES OF A NEW-YEAR'S NIGHT, from the German of Henry Zschokke, by Dr. Henry Scholl [caption title]
by [Zschokke, Heinrich]
Philadelphia, PA, 1840. 22 cm. 63 pp. Full leather, gilt tooled borders, spine richly gilt. Chip to head of spine, front joint tender and starting to split at bottom edge. A hand-written translation transcribed, in an elegant script, done for John Fries Frazier, and presented to him Feb. 26, 1840 by the translator Dr. Henry Scholl. Frazier's bookplate is laid down on the front pastedown. Heinrich Zschokke (1771-1848) was a popular German-Swiss writer whose work was often translated into... Read More
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TALES FROM THE GERMAN OF HEINRICH ZSCHOKKE.; By Parke Godwin
by ZSCHOKKE, Heinrich
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 161 Broadway, 1845. Two volumes bound in one, each with a separate title page and separate pagination. 19 cm. Three-quarter leather and marbled boards. Black morocco spine label stamped in gilt. Joints starting but overall a tight copy.
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