Pettengill, First Edition (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1956, 1st Edition, book, binding and text in very good condition, 1/4 bound blue board and gray cloth binding with blue title , binding tight and square, light rubbing on top spine extreme edges, maps on end papers, text clean an dunmarked no names no stamps.

Hardcover. 8vo. Pale blue paper over boards with dark blue spine lettering. 284pp. Map endpapers. Very good. Faint binding edgewear; lacks jacket. A tight, nice first edition of this nautical fiction set during the Civil War -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped facing the title page is a Typed Letter Signed from Eliot, 7¼" X 10½", New York, NY, 15 April 1957. Addressed to noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates (1914-93). Very good. Original folds. On his imprinted letterhead, Eliot thanks this office of the New York Civil War Round Table and noted book reviewer "for the excellent review given CALEB PETTENGILL, USN in the March 1957 edition of 'The Round Table'. I am most appreciative. Would you be kind enough to send me three additional copies of this number?" Signed large and bold in blue ballpoint. Eliot (1893-1971) was a military officer who penned quite a few books of military history, both fictional nonfictional.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with correct 1919 date on title page, etc. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Very Good.Tight binding; clean pages and covers; last few pages have small tears; light wear; no jacket. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. New York: S. M. Pettengill & Co., 1878. Original 1878 newspaper directory, arranged by region. Worn copy in red cloth over beveled boards, gilt lettering, 9.25" tall. Covers worn and heavily soiled with rubbing to the corners and spine ends, hinges good, title page detached but present, text block otherwise sound, old dampstains that are not visible on the text pages but are very visible on the plates, pages age-yellowed but clean, name of Joseph H. Barnum and later personal bookplate of a small press printer on the front free endpaper, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: NO DJ. 1st Edition. Maroon boards with black border and corner decorations. Gilt title front cover and spine. Light to moderate front cover rubbing. Back cover heavy rubbing. Internally previous owner's name inside front cover, browned. Some water stains through frontis plate. Body of the book clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. New York: S. M. Pettengill & Co., 1877. Original 1877 newspaper directory, arranged by region. Worn copy in brown cloth over beveled boards, gilt lettering, 9.25" tall. Covers worn and spotted with rubbing to the corners and spine ends, hinges internally cracked but secure, text block sound, old dampstains to inner lower margin throughout most of the book, barely affecting printed areas, pages age-yellowed but clean, name of Joseph H. Barnum on the front free endpaper, personal bookplate of a small press printer on the front pastedown, pages otherwise unmarked. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. First Edition. Very good in the original brown cloth. The cloth is worn at corners and spine ends. The interior is tight and clean. Small label "Compliments of S.M. Pettengill & Co." affixed to front endpaper. Lists all newspapers, daily and weekly, in the US in 1877. Many pages of advertising, 3 engraved portraits (one is Wm. Cullen Bryant). 345 pages.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's brick red cloth titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 324pp. Minor bumping to spine ends, some light scuffing to corners and extremities, spotting to page edges, internally clean, two small closed tears to the margin of the dedication leaf and contents page, with the rear inner hinge cosmetically cracked; the dustjacket is clean and strong, a little faded with some light soiling, some marginal creasing, shallow chipping and a pale pink stain to the front panel. A very good, handsome copy. One of Harry Leon Wilson's "Red Gap" collections, replete with down-home wisdom, and folksy fortitude.

First Edition. Dean Cook dustjacket art. Novel of rural western America, the "mistress of Arrowhead Ranch, she lapsed into feminine garb and point of view only after the day's work was done. From Chinamen to movie stars her talk runs- not talk merely, but vivid glimpses into the many sorts of people". Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few scotch tape mends at verso, few tiny chips and modest wear.