Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Changes afoot
Watch this space (and more, likely http://mchustonbooks.com) for important changes coming soon to the shelves at McHuston Booksellers in Broken Arrow, OK!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
The Camp, The Battlefield, & The Hospital
The Camp, The Battlefield, & The Hospital
by Brockett, L. P. Dr.
Date Published: 1866
Description: National Publishing Co, Philadelphia - Chicago, 1866. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fair. Full leather, spine strip partially missing with front cover detached. Marbled endpapers. Text block tight, clean & intact. A few lightly foxed pages. Two pictorial frontispieces. Illustrated with portraits & engravings. Adventures of spies & scouts, daring exploits, heroic deeds, escapes, hospital & prison scenes. A very good reading copy. Engraved Illus.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 512 pages
$50.00
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by Brockett, L. P. Dr.
Date Published: 1866
Description: National Publishing Co, Philadelphia - Chicago, 1866. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fair. Full leather, spine strip partially missing with front cover detached. Marbled endpapers. Text block tight, clean & intact. A few lightly foxed pages. Two pictorial frontispieces. Illustrated with portraits & engravings. Adventures of spies & scouts, daring exploits, heroic deeds, escapes, hospital & prison scenes. A very good reading copy. Engraved Illus.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 512 pages
$50.00
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
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Bar-Tender’s Guide or How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks; Jerry Thomas
Thomas
Bar-Tender’s Guide
Date Published: 1887
Description: Bar-Tender’s Guide or How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks; Jerry Thomas; Dick and Fitzgerald, New York. A classic bartender’s guide. Thomas, a mixologist extraordinaire, ruled the saloons of New York City and updated and revised his 1862 original guide with new drinks and modifications. Usually found used and abused if found at all - this is a wonderfully kept copy free of staining. Brown cloth over boards. Light faded wear to areas of cloth front edge and back tail. Binding is solid. Tightly bound. Illustrated with woodcut type lithos.
$995.00
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Bar-Tender’s Guide
Date Published: 1887
Description: Bar-Tender’s Guide or How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks; Jerry Thomas; Dick and Fitzgerald, New York. A classic bartender’s guide. Thomas, a mixologist extraordinaire, ruled the saloons of New York City and updated and revised his 1862 original guide with new drinks and modifications. Usually found used and abused if found at all - this is a wonderfully kept copy free of staining. Brown cloth over boards. Light faded wear to areas of cloth front edge and back tail. Binding is solid. Tightly bound. Illustrated with woodcut type lithos.
$995.00
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Jesus of the Emerald, Gene Stratton-Porter
Stratton-Porter
Jesus of the Emerald, Gene Stratton-Porter
Date Published: 1923
Description: Doubleday, Page, and Company; Garden City, NY; 1923. 8vo. Not numbered. 1st Edition. Publisher’s illustrated and embossed boards. Gold title with gold chain and emerald decoration on cream boards. Originally issued with glassine jacket and box.Boards have age darkening to top and lower edge, foxing to covers and a little wear to corner tips. Internally there is a gift inscription to front endpaper. Chipping to tail of spine. Discoloration to front board. Corner bumping. Interior clean. Slight bowing to boards. Missing jacket and box. Scarce title.
$150
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Jesus of the Emerald, Gene Stratton-Porter
Date Published: 1923
Description: Doubleday, Page, and Company; Garden City, NY; 1923. 8vo. Not numbered. 1st Edition. Publisher’s illustrated and embossed boards. Gold title with gold chain and emerald decoration on cream boards. Originally issued with glassine jacket and box.Boards have age darkening to top and lower edge, foxing to covers and a little wear to corner tips. Internally there is a gift inscription to front endpaper. Chipping to tail of spine. Discoloration to front board. Corner bumping. Interior clean. Slight bowing to boards. Missing jacket and box. Scarce title.
$150
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Sears’ Pictorial Family Annual
Sears
Sears’ Pictorial Family Annual
Date Published: 1853
Description: Edited by Robert Sears; Published by Robert Sears, 1853: New York. Hardcover. Red cloth over boards. Elaborate gilt illustrated front and spine. Tightly bound. Foxing throughout. Numerous lithographic illustrations. Spine slightly cocked. Fraying at bottom edge. Chipped tail. Elaborate era penned price inside front cover.
SOLD
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Sears’ Pictorial Family Annual
Date Published: 1853
Description: Edited by Robert Sears; Published by Robert Sears, 1853: New York. Hardcover. Red cloth over boards. Elaborate gilt illustrated front and spine. Tightly bound. Foxing throughout. Numerous lithographic illustrations. Spine slightly cocked. Fraying at bottom edge. Chipped tail. Elaborate era penned price inside front cover.
SOLD
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The Rough Riders, Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
The Rough Riders, Theodore Roosevelt.
Date Published: 1899
Description: Good. First Edition. Spine faded with mildew stains at lower one third. Scuffing at head and tail of spine. Spine is faded to tan from original dark green cloth. Gilt lettering. Internally clean, free of markings. Frontispiece starting but binding is solid.
$600.00 SOLD
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The Rough Riders, Theodore Roosevelt.
Date Published: 1899
Description: Good. First Edition. Spine faded with mildew stains at lower one third. Scuffing at head and tail of spine. Spine is faded to tan from original dark green cloth. Gilt lettering. Internally clean, free of markings. Frontispiece starting but binding is solid.
$600.00 SOLD
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