Published by Published by Author, Oaklands Park, South Australia, 2024
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
First Edition Signed
Softcover. 1st Edition. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Glossy card covers, staple-bound. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations to inside front cover. Signed by the author. 25 pages. The story of aviators and their flying machines before World War One. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
Published by Nolie Mumey, 1961
Seller: Griswold Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. PENCIL SKETCHES - Unpaginated. #95 of 350 copies. SIGNED by Mumey. 27 color sketches with end note descriptors. 19 x 13.5. Originally published in 1866, AEM writes that his work is "a collection of lithographed sketches of Colorado, embracing its cities, and most of its Principal Towns, together with some of its beautiful Mountain Scenery which abounds in this incomparable territory." Interior coloring subtle but still bright. Cloth boards clay red with red lettering in gilt box on front cover. Inside front/back gutters showing spine and loosening same as weight of text block has torn away at the paper which shows stains along the gutter. GOOD condition. BIOGRAPHY by N. Mumey (Johnson Publishing Co.) - 1 of 350 copies. 78 pp. with index. Some uncut pages. Tipped-in pencil portrait opposite title page, tipped-in map at back. Muted red design boards with blue cloth quarter spine with blue title lettering. Front cover has soft yellow paste-on label with red lettering. VERY GOOD condition. INTERESTING NARRATIVE (1861, reprint) - 34 pp. Sewn paperbound journal of AEM's flight from Texas to Chicago just before the outbreak of the Civil War. Blue wraps, top corners of last three pages bent. GOOD condition. Brown paper-covered presentation box sturdy but showing much wear, tear at flap ends. Paste-on label on front, contents label on underside. FAIR condition. Signed by Author(s).
Portfolio. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Copy #122 of 350 signed by author/publisher Nolie Mumey. 3 works issued in publisher's huge two-part box (14 x 19 inches). The hardcover biofghraphy and the paperback 'Flight' are still in original envelopes. There is some wear to the box, but the 3 books are fine. The biography has the imprint of The Johnson Publishing Company, Boulder, CO.