Ballard Books

Charles Larpenteur; Milo Milton Quaife

Item 13662Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 (The Lakeside Classics)

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co/The Lakeside Press, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A VG+ hardcover copy. R.R. Donnelley, 1933. Crimson cloth boards with gilt decoration to cover and lettering at spine. Former owner's name in ink to front pastedown, otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Top edge of text block is.....

Price: $30.00

Estella Wright Szegedin

Item 8759As I remember Piney

Self-Published, 1979. Paperback. 8vo. 106pp with 17pp of photos and descriptions at rear of book. Scarce Ozark pioneer history. Slim yellow paperback with black paper spine. Small piece from tip of spine missing. Small ballpoint pen note on front flyleaf.

Price: $25.00

Francis Parkman

Item 10994Francis Parkman's Works. New Library Edition. Complete in 13 volumes.

Little, Brown, and Company, 1902. 3/4 Calf Binding. 8vo. 13 uniformly bount teal crushed morocco bindings by MacDonald (NY) ca. 1905. Covers and endpapers featuring hand-marbled swirl patterned papers. Top edges gilt, albeit with some, likely insect, damage to gilt top edges. Otherwise condition of entire set is fine. Deckled.....

Price: $1,200.00

John Ledyard Denison

Item 13861A Pictorial History of the Navy of The United States: Embracing A General Hisgtory of the American Navy, with a particular account of All of the most celebrated battles

Henry Bill, 1860. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 341, 4 (adverts)pp. Blue publisher's cloth, richly gilt on spine and front panel. Yellow coated endpapers. Frontispiece of Stephen Decature with (torn) tissue guard. Illustrated throughout with b/w and color woodcut illustrations. In very good original condition. A rare first edition.

Price: $575.00