Cross Crown, Signed (8 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 104pp; Blue paper covers with illustration & titling to front, covers slightly age-toned, church stamp to inside covers, title page & one text page, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Signed by Author. Vintage privately printed collection of Christian thoughts and poems.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Signed by author. Maroon hardback covers show slight shelf wear and rubbing to the spine edges and corners.; 9.6 X 6.7 X 1.8 inches; 587 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. First edition. Slim 24mo. in pebbled white cloth stamped in gilt over three quarter red cloth. Signed in ink by Seltzer under his frontispiece photo portrait. 80 pp. Illustrated with photographs. A fine, tight example, 1918 ownership signature and address front pastedown; the bottom corner of p. 35/36 is torn away affecting a bit of the text. Some memoirs of the Red Cross' service in Europe in World War I. The author was the American Consul in Breslau, Germany from 1914 to 1917.

First edition. Large octavo, pp [xii], 587. Well-written and well-illustrated history of New Mexico, with the Pueblo of Pecos as the focal point. Up to the date of its extinction in 1840, the history of Pecos was closely intertwined with the rest of the state and Kessell's history is much more than a narrow history of Pecos. Nicely bound in decorative maroon boards with gilt title and decorative material. SIGNED. Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small 4to hardcover with dark red faux leather binding and gilt tooling decoration on the panels and the spine, that are representative of the story of the Pecos. Frontispiece is a photograph of Wahu Toya, a Pecos Indian. Signed by Kessell on the half title page, with the ink bleeding faintly onto the main title page. The condition of the book is Very Good (little to no shelf wear; binding tight; little to no interior damage; includes an acetate dust jacket that has a signed sticker across the spine). 587pps. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Presumed first edition/first printing. xi, 587p., 24p. of plates: ill., maps; 25 cm. Endpaper map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. A meticulous and engaging history of one of the largest and most powerful Pueblos. Richly illustrated with drawings from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Minor edge soiling. Minor wear to cover.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Signature on piece with large double ring magenta "free post" cancel with a Maltese cross and crown. Addressed from Londonderry? 17th Aug 1835 to Cornwall, name unclear Lawrence Hews? With another cover on the reverse of H.J. Winnington (possibly the MP?) from Truro and both attached to a piece of old album paper. Historical notes*. He was commissioned into the 89th Regiment of Foot on 15 April 1795. He became lieutenant the regiment 2 February 1796, and captain 22 October 1803. He was made a major-unattached 28 February 1805, lieutenant-colonel on half-pay of the 1st garrison battalion 17 March 1808, brevet colonel 4 June 1814, major-general 1825, and lieutenant-general 1838. He served with the 89th in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and afterwards in Minorca, Heasina, and at the blockade of Malta and capture of Valletta in 1799?1800, and throughout the campaign in Egypt in 1801. He was brigade-major to Sir William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart in the home district in 1805, and military secretary when Cathcart was in command of the king's German legion as a separate army, in Swedish Pomerania (Isle of Rugen), in 1806-7 ; and subsequently during the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807. He was also deputy adjutant-general to Sir John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun at Walcheren and held the same post with Lieutenant-general Thomas Graham, (1st Baron Lynedoch) at Codii and at the Battle of Barossa (received a gold medal). He was military secretary to Sir John Hope when commander-in-chief at Ireland in 1812. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. One 34x40 cm vellum document. One vertical fold and two horizontal. Also signed on reverse panel by registrar. Seal of the province attached. Some soiling. This 1848 Crown land document grants a plot of land in Zone Township, Kent County, to Joseph Cross, one of Colonel Talbot's settlers. The plot is described as being 100 acres, the east half of lot 21, con. 6 in Zone Township. Signed by Gov.-Gen. Lord Elgin at top as "Elgin & Kincardine" as he was also Earl of Kincardine.