Cincinnati, OH: Lyman & Cushing, 1890. First edition. Leather Bound Hardcover. Tall, thick octavo in original brown leather with 4 raised bands, and black label with titles in gilt. Scuffing and scratches to boards. Some wear and chipping at head of spine. A bit of soiling at top of textblock... More about Personal Narratives of Experience in the Prisons at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Andersonville,...

New York, NY: Museum of the American Indian / Heye Foundation, 1966. First edition. Paperback. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers, Musty smell to book. Some scuffing to covers. 336 p. w/ tables, references, appendices, and approx. 124 additional pages of figures and plates... More about The Excavation of Hawikuh by Frederick Wenn Lodge : Report of the Hendrick - Hodge Expedition...

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Small tear at top of dj. 408 p. w/ tables, figures, illus., appendices, references, index. A detailed survey of the AD 1300-1540 artifacts and sites excavated... More about Cat Monsters and Head Pots : Archaeology of Missouri's Pemiscot Bayou

Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1909. Limited large paper edition. Leather Bound Hardcover. 10 volumes complete, octavos. 3 quarter brown morocco leather with 5 raised bands, gilt titles and designs in spine compartments, and lively light green marbled paper on boards and endpapers. Top edges gilt. Slight suning to spines, and... More about Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson 10 vols. 1820-1876

Evansville, IN: Czech Historical Society of Nebraska / Unigraphic, 1977. Reprint. Hardcover. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Bound in black buckram. Corners bumped. Some spots on rear enpapers. 492 p. w/ additional 38 p. index. More about A History of Czechs (Bohemians) in Nebraska

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961. First stand-alone printing. Trade Paperback. Thin octavo ( standard size). Slight wear and some browning to edges and corners of pages. Tape repair at heel of spine, with a light waterstain on most pages at that corner. 92 p. w/ endnotes, index. A study... More about Phylarchus and the Spartan Revolution, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS IN HISTORY vol 68

Lipsiae: B. G. Teubner, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Corners slightly bumped. Spine lightly faded. Name of forner owner, noted scholar of Cicero Prof. Shackleton Bailey, on flyleaf in pencil with the date 1934. 224 p. in Greek and Latin... More about Ars Grammatica Qualem Exemplaria Vetustissima Exhhibent Subscriptis Discrepantiis et Testimoniis...

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 265 p. w/ footnotes, tables, bibliography, index. A look at the struggle in Vienna between different supporters of different genres of music, with Mozart's three Italian comedies -... More about Cabals and Satires : Mozart's Comic Operas in Vienna

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1923. 3rd printing. Hardcover. Thick octavo (standard size). Some wear and scuffing to edges and corners of boards. Top corners bumped. Slight soiling to edges of textblock. 672 p. w/ illus, maps (some fold-out), appendix, index. A detailed study of the 1919 Chicago race riot... More about The Negro in Chicago : a Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. A few botom page corners at the last few pages have a crease. 376 p. w/ appendices, endnotes, bibliography, index. Inncludes discussion of the recruitment ad... More about A Generous and Merciful Enemy : Life for German Prisoners of War During the American Revolution....

Milwaukee, WI: North Point Historical Sociey, 1985. 2nd printing. Oversized Paperback. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 104 p. w/ b&w illus., locations, construction information, bibliography, index. An uncommon survvey of Wright homes in Milwaukee built in the first quarter of the 20th century. More about Frank Lloyd Wright : American System Built Homes in Milwaukee

Savannah, GA: The Beehive Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Thin, square-ish octavo (standard size). Slight wear to boards, a bit more to dust jacket. 62 p. w/ illus., plans, bibliography. The story of the Savannah buildings of Norris, a New York City architect who took a number of projects in... More about John S. Norris : Architect in Savannah 1846-1860

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 324 p. w/ color and b&w illus, endnotes, bibliography, index. a study noting the use of allusion in the illustration of many new English texts of the... More about The Art of Illusion : Iluminators and the Making of English Literature 1403 - 1476