Schoolcraft John (15 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Usual Youth's size and format about 11 by 14 inches with some 16 pages. Decorated white wraps. Feature fiction by John Schoolcraft ('Carcajou') illustrated by Paul Bransom. Other fiction by Ralph D Paine, Anne McQueen, Frank Lillie Pollock. And much else. All pages torn one inch at the outer mailing fold edge; two leaves at center loose. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.…

Hard cover. 8 vo; light blue boards with darker blue lettering & front board decoration; 295 pgs. good - no dj;EX-LIB WITH USUAL MARKINGS & EXPECTED IMPERFECTIONS; REPAIRED SPINE DAMAGE; MODERATE SOIL TO BOARDS. 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Good in original wrappers with edgewear and dampstains on the top edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 295 pages. First edition, with initials "GHD" to verso of title page. Binding sturdy, light wear to corners, wear to head and foot of spine, black lettering to front board and to spine distinct, a small (5/8") binding imperfection to fore-edge of front panel; a small spot to fore-edge of textblock; bookplate of Aubrey Drury, California historian, to front pastedown, inscribed "For Aubrey Drury / / Knowing that he / will judge the / performance by / the intention / / John" at front free endpaper, contents age-toned but clean. 530 grams. Inscribed by Author(s). …

1st edition. This pulp fiction magazine was publshed under this title beginning in July 1920. This early issue contains five serials (featured is The Fire People by Cummings), one novelette, and four short stories . A very good copy of scarce item. 7 x 10, pp 481-640 + ads, b/w illus. VeryGood+ unmarked, bright wraps, backstrip intact, very light edgewear. Magazine in cover illus wraps, side-stapled.…

Trade Paperback. First Edition. 164 pages, 11 x 8.5 inches, type on recto only. Pages 124 and 131 with corrections, clear-taped to blank page, inserted. First edition (first printing) of corrected proofs. A near fine copy in unlabeled brown folder bound with metal clasps.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Limited Edition of 750 copies. Hard cover, demy octavo, (measuring 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches) in blue paper covered boards, the spine in darker blue cloth with gilt titles, First Edition, 138 pp. Protected by the original glassine wrapper (Very Good)and slipcase (Very Good Minus), the book itself is Very Good Plus overall. This has no copy number indicted on the limitation page. Includes frontispiece portrait,title page, diary entries and much of his poetry. ** Author Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) aka "Max Brand," wrote more than 400 full length pulp novels , excelling at western fiction, poetry, humor and journalism. He was also the creator of the character Dr. Kildare, removing o Italy in his later years to write screenplays for MGM. His life story reads like one of his titles. Orphaned at the age of 13, he attended college at the University of California and embarked on a most prolific writing career, using a variety of pseudonyms. He was killed in action in Italy during WW. II while working as a war correspondent. Some of the many pseudonyms of the author are: Evan Evans, George Challis, Owen Baxter and David Manning. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition; First Printing. New York: George H. Doran Company 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. This copy has been inscribed ["For / Leonard Bacon - / Scholar (underscored) and Critic (underscored) -"] and signed ["John Schoolcraft"] by the author on the front free endpaper. NB: Signed copies of Frederick Faust's books [regardless of which name/s he signed them with] are scarce. Apparently a romantic novel involving tramps/hobos. Green cloth with black lettering/decoration, 295 pages. [With the in-joke that the dedication page reads "DEDICATED TO / FREDERICK FAUST / 'May God love me as I love a / straightforward man.'---Jack Wilton"]. Foxing-like spotting to the edges of the text block [heavily to the top edge], front hinge badly cracked; else would be a lightly spine end bumped VG or better copy. Lacking the jacket. .LR2/4E.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ as Issued. 1st Edition 1st Issue. New York: Mason Brothers, 1856., 1856. 12mo. pp. vi, [7]-338, [10]ads. 8 wood-engraved plates by V.S.Anthony after designs by John McLenan. original blind pictorial blue gilt cloth all original some wear as usual but a rare book, no other copy known for sale all original. First Edition. The editor is best known as one of the founders of the literary group known as Young America in the 1830's. This collection was culled by Mathews from material originally gathered by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, under whose name the work is now usually catalogued. Field 1032 & Sabin 46832 The Indian Fairy Book From The Original Legends. by SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry Rowe [1793-1864] & Cornelius MATHEWS] [1817-1889] (Editor). note this rare copy was signed by J.A. Brown to a Miss Georgiana V. Weaver. the neat ink signature could be the famed John Brown? or a distant cousin. an interesting copy. John Mclenan (illustrator). By the Owner.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SUBTITLED: Comprising a Series of Discourses Delivered Before the Historical Society of Michigan, and Other Interesting Papers Relative to the Territory. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 12mo. 215 pp. Orig. cloth, printed paper label. Complete as published. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Light rubbing to covers, minor wear to edges. Spine label rubbed but complete and readable. Spine lightly age-faded. Interior pages are age-toned with scattered foxing. Overall, near fine for a 190 year-old book; quite remarkable to find a copy in this condition. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Very early Detroit, Michigan imprint. The book is a collection of historical sketches relating to the early settlement of Michigan by leading authorities. This work prints the text of four annual discourses delivered before the Historical Society of Michigan, by Lewis Cass, Henry Whiting, John Biddle, and Henry Schoolcraft. Lewis Cass' remarks consist of general observations on the early condition of North American Indians in the region, the French expedition to the sources of the Mississippi, Pontiac's attack at Detroit, Indian hostilities, events during the Revolution, etc. Henry Schoolcraft's discourse consists of an account of the Iroquois, Algonquin, Chippewa, Ottawa, Foxes, etc., with some discussion of their relations with the French. Also includes extracts from a lecture given before the Detroit Lyceum by Schoolcraft upon the natural history of Michigan. The Whiting and Biddle papers add further material relating to Indian hostilities, the War of 1812, the early political division of Michigan, mining, public lands disposal, etc. A great group of papers on early Michigan history, now quite scarce; a very early Michigan imprint not often offered for sale in such nice, original condition. REFERENCES: SABINE 320623 "Now very scarce"; HOWES M586, "b" MICHIGAN IMPRINTS 203. GREENLY, MICHIGAN 64. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 25738. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Good. Large 4to. 23 x 31cm. Half goatskin and marbled paper boards by the artisan biner Sasha Mosalov.Plates with minor to major foxing in the margins.[iii]-v, [3], [9]-84 pp. With 26 steel-engraved plates from drawings by Seth Eastman including the frontispiece, plus steel-engraved added title; plain protective interleaves for the plates. .A series of detailed engravings after drawings by Seth Eastman, who was stationed, along with his wife Mary, at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, from 1841 through 1848. These depict such revealing aspects of Native American life as transportation of wounded, the medicine dance of the Winnebagoes, spearing fish from a canoe, an Indian woman dressing a buffalo skin, etc. Wagner-Camp cautions that the work "should not be confused with Mrs. Eastman's later work, published in 1854 as Chicora, and again as American Annual. Mrs. Eastman's Portfolio consists of twenty-six engravings from Captain Eastman's paintings of Indian life, each with a guard sheet and a short explanatory essay of two or three pages." Field 477n; Wagner-Camp 222c.; Howes E-17; Sabin 21682; Wagner-Camp-Becker 222a; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1870490: 84 pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 33 cm? Seth Eastman was a painter and soldier best known for his depictions of the everyday life of Dakota and Ojibwe people around Fort Snelling in the 1840s.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1870490: A selection of plates from volumes 1-3 (1851-1853) of: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United StatesAdded engraved title page: The American aboriginal port folio. With vignette "Engraved by Illman & Sons."Cover title: Eastman's aboriginal portfolioCollation: [1]? 2-10? [11] [$1 signed]; 42 leaves, pages [i-iii] iv-v [vi-viii (viii blank)] [9] 10-84 + 25 plates (each preceded by a bound-in guard sheet)Plates engraved by Charles K. Burt, James Smillie, John C. McRae, C.E. Wagstaff & J. Andrews, and Alfred JonesFirst plate, a portrait of Red Jacket, bound as frontispieceIssued in blue cloth, stamped in gold; all edges gilt.…

28pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers. Scattered foxing, about Very Good. The Editors were John J. Schoolcraft, Thomas C. Dudley, and D. W. C. Morris. The rear wrapper prints the Prospectus, assuring the reader that "our object is wholly of a literary character, and neither political nor religious." The contents of this opening issue include "A Chippewa Lament," "Visit to the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky," Aegyptia, "Dialogue Between Teacher and Child," and a couple of others. The next [and final] number of this short-lived, scarce periodical was brought forth in July, 1847. Lomazow 510. OCLC 1162436113 [2- U Lynchburg, Simon Fraser U], 191123198 [3- AAS, Phila. Athen., U Cambridge] as of February 2026.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1772 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 541 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 541 Volume 1 (1772) Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1772 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 466 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 466 Volume 2 (1772) Language: English.…