Americana from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

1939. New York: Viking, 1939. 8vo, 619 pp. Original beige cloth with pictorial decoration in brown, unclipped dust-jacket. A fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket, unusually bright with only a few touches of abrasion and a hint of shelfwear to the ends of the folds. § First edition, with the price and 'First Edition' statement… Read more about this item

1912. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912. 8vo, 116 pp. illustrated with black and white photographs plus 4 large folding color-printed maps held in a sleeve bound within the covers. Half pebbled morocco, marbled paper boards, neatly rebacked. Light wear to binding, contents fine. § First edition. The results of a detailed soil survey of the western… Read more about this item

1904. Seattle: Privately printed, 1904. 8vo, 128 pp. Portrait. Original red cloth. Unusual staple binding, hinges worn. § Only edition, inscribed to relatives Mr and Mrs A. M. Prosch. The memoirs of Washington Territory pioneer Charles Prosch who arrived in Steilacoom in 1858. In this book (privately issued in a few copies), he recounts his experiences… Read more about this item

1863. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 8vo, (1), 375, 16 (ads)pp. Publisher's blindstamped cloth, brown coated endpapers; backstrip sunned, a touch of fraying to the backstrip ends, 8mm closed tear in front free endpaper; very good. § First edition. A novelized memoir of travels in the Pacific Northwest by Connecticut-born writer and abolitionist Theodore Winthrop. Winthrop… Read more about this item

1836. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1836. 8vo, 3 vols: [2], viii, xi-xvi (as issued), 317,[1], [2, ads]; ix, [1], 320; vii, [1], 294 pp. Half-title in first volume. Original cloth backed boards, printed labels. Early signature of A. Leapingwell on each front pastedown and shelving numbers in ink on backstrips. Boards toned and worn, labels… Read more about this item

1960. New York: Antiquarian Press Ltd. 1960 Thick 8vo, 4 parts bound in one, 169, 165, 117, 128; 103pp. index at end. Original blue cloth, fine. § Limited to 550 copies, this copy unnumbered. An invaluable catalogue of some 7500 rare books, pamphlets, etc.

1982. San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1982 Thick large 8vo, xx, 745pp. Frontispiece and 32 b/w illustrations. Original red cloth, fine. § Printed at the Arion Press in a large edition. Argonaut: "The best and most useful edition of this classic bibliography. Includes 429 separate items with excellent annotations and full collations. This work is considered… Read more about this item

1902. New York & London: F. Tennyson Neely, 1902. Slim 4to (6.5 x 9.8"), 55 pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Royal blue boards with lettering and the twin revolvers in gilt. Backstrip ends lightly rubbed, a few scuffs, small wrinkle in upper cloth, clean within. Very good copy inscribed by the author on front blank. … Read more about this item

1713. 1713-1735. 8vo, 5 parts bound as one, various paginations. Old calf ruled in gilt, rebacked. Boards rubbed, worn, and darkened but binding sound, contents somewhat age-toned with a few light pencil marks to some parts but generally clean. § An sammelband of 18th century works on poetry with the signature of Thomas Pownall, governor… Read more about this item

1920. San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1920 4to, xii, 120pp. Portrait frontispiece of Daines Barrington. Tipped-in map at p. 74 and a large folding map at the end. Original blue boards, buckram backstrip, printed paper label, dust-jacket. Very fine as issued. § Limited to 230 copies of which this is #175. 'Notes ... more complete and… Read more about this item

1950. San Francisco: American-Japanese Publishing Association, n.d. 2 vols. Illustrated. (4), III, (3), 346, (6); (4), 254, (6), (V), (1)pp. Original red and brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. Bindings lightly rubbed, a little worn at backstrip crowns, internally very good. § Facsimile reprint of the 1893 first edition of this interesting… Read more about this item

1883. [Washington: Government Printing Office] 1883. Roy. 8vo, roy. 8vo, (i) ix, 333 pp. With 16 full-page and folded lithograph maps, 13 sheets with one or more profile views. Original half brown morocco, marbled boards, a very good copy (upper joint tender but not split). § Second edition according to a note at the front (not… Read more about this item

1905. Seattle: Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Co., 1905. 8vo. 90, [6] pp. Original printed wrappers (lower wrapper chipped). A bit worn and soiled but very good. § First edition of "this very scarce history of Western Washington before it became a territory. Included are notes about the dispute between the United States and Great… Read more about this item

1870. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell, 1870. Slim 8vo, 20pp. Original printed wrappers a bit soiled and chipped. § First printing (reprinted 2016) and seemingly quite rare. According to Howell (1967) "The words "30 copies printed" have been written in ink on the front wrapper and title-page. Tipped in opposite title is a one-page autograph letter from… Read more about this item

1869. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1869. Tall 4to, 251 pp. 8 plates of which 2 are folding. Original brown cloth titled in gilt, skillfully rebacked with original backstrip laid down, boards a little spotted, endpapers and index stained, but a sound copy. § First edition of this careful geographic survey of Alaska. "The information herein conveyed… Read more about this item

1891. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891. Roy. 8vo, 243pp. With a large folding map at the end, and 18 plates. Original half brown morocco, marbled boards, upper joint split but holding, internally fine. § Third Edition, seemingly very scarce. This third edition leaves out the list of maps and authorities that appeared in the second edition.… Read more about this item

1940. [San Francisco]: White Knight Press 1940-1941. 2 parts, 8vo, each 5pp. Original printed red wrappers, fine. § Each limited to 125 copies. Compliments slip of David L. Christianson in one part.

1867. Washington: The Congressional Globe Office, 1867. 8vo, text in two columns. 48pp. Without the folding map (not issued in all copies). Printed wrappers, stitched as issued, lower wrapper detached. Ink inscription: "With respects of George Gibb". Inside labeled manila envelope from John Howell-Books. § First edition. Sumner's important speech in support of the ratification of… Read more about this item

1899. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society. 8vo, 52pp., ads. Original printed wrappers, very good. § Vol. I, #1 of this Journal, with numerous articles of local interest.

1887. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887. 4to, pp. 157-253. Large folding map at back. Original printed wrappers, worn and chipped but sound; surprisingly scarce thus. § Issued by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; the folding map shows the coast from Baja California up to Cape Mendocino as charted by Ulloa, Cabrillo, Ferrelo, Drake, and Vizcaino.… Read more about this item