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194042618Long Island: Montgomery Hare 1940. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff red wrappers. 3pp 13pp. Very good. Faint wear to rear wrapper else near fine. First edition of this self-published poem about Abraham Lincoln whose front wrapper title appears as "For in Me Now I Swear It Lincoln Shall Never Be Forgotten." Hare 1911-98 published several volumes of verse but is better known as a theatrical producer director and playwright. Unusual and uncommon. Montgomery Hare paperback
1999222868West Chester PA: Chester County History Society 1999. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover 767 pp. w/99 b&w illustrations and photos. Presumed 1st Edition. Significant history from Native Americans to Quaker arrivals the Revolutionary War Battle of Brandywine Valley Forge the growth of the city through the Civil War. Book Condition : Very Good; no text marks; light bumping to spine ends; light spotting to part of side text block. Dust Jacket Condition : Very Good; light spotting to rear interior flap; minimal edge wear. c. Chester County History Society Hardcover
1906A36941San Francisco CA: The Argonaut. Very Good. 1906. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This is a newspaper - made from a single sheet. The newspaper is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light rubbing edge wear and creasing to the corners and spine ends. There is a tear to the bottom front text page. "The Argonaut was a political journal based in San Francisco California from 1878 to 1895 founded and published originally by Frank M. Pixley. Pixley sold the journal before his death for $11000.00. The name comes from the local term for gold prospectors argonaut. The magazine was known for containing strong political Americanism combined with art and literature. Many 19th-century writers such as Ambrose Bierce Yda Addis and Gertrude Atherton Frances Dawson appeared regularly in its pages. It was considered one of the most important publications in California and it had a great deal of political influence. As a staunch Republican Pixley used The Argonaut to support Leland Stanford and other owners of the Central Pacific Railroad. Pixley who served as The Argonaut's editor and publisher had been California's 8th attorney general when Stanford was governor." from Wikipedia . The Argonaut unknown
1911064360Philadelphia PA: Percy McGraw Mann 1911. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. SOFTCOVER stiff tan wraps lettered in black. Extended cover edges typically chipped and a bit ragged with loss at top corner of front cover text block unaffected. Firm binding. Text 50 plates. Original copy not a reprint. Very scarce. Percy McGraw Mann Paperback
188217580Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1882. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth with black impressed decoration on front cover and spine. Blind impressions on back cover. Gilt lettering on front and spine. Cover is clean with a hint of rubbing at corners and head of spine. Corners are sharp. Binding is sound straight and square. Green endpapers. The front endpaper has a fine crack in the gutter but not loose and the hinge is tight. Rear endpaper has a partial surface crack at upper end again the hinge is tight. No ownership or other marks in book. Pages are clean and without foxing. All edges tinted orange. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 192 pages . Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
1928049941Palmyra PA: Schneider Printing Co. 1928. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Scarce hand-painted binding variant this copy with blue-gray peacock feathers against a black background on both covers and spine panel paper labels mounted on front cover and spine panel. 240 pp. Rubbed joints corners and edges with hand-lettered call label mounted on lower spine panel small ID label mounted along bottom edge of back cover. Two former owners' address inscriptions inked on front flyleaf. Very scarce in this form. Schneider Printing Co. Hardcover
19954383Tipperary Ireland: Coracle Press 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 4to 12â€x9.5â€. Unpaginated. Maze cloth covered boards with title author and tire illustration to front. Light rubbing. Spine extremes bumped. Pages bright and unmarked. Illustrations throughout by Erica Van Horn. From a limited print run of 100 copies this being hand numbered 30. Inscribed by author to Tom Meyer and Jonathan Williams of Black Mountain College and The Jargon Society. First Edition Thus. Coracle Press hardcover
191602805Frankfort KY: The State Journal Company 1916. Hard Cover. Very Good. Very Good. No DJ Issued Published before 1916 no date inside. Was when Mr. Heizer was director of Health. Between 1912 and 1919. Mrs. V.O. Gilbert was State Supertinent in 1915 1916. <br/><br/> The State Journal Company hardcover
63-6560Napa CA: Ben Blow 1913. Letter-Sized Page Copy of Typed Letter Signed typing copied but signature actual with visible ink bleed-through Very Good with toning.Provenance: Letters and Autographs from a Who's Who in California 1914 - 1917 to the author Ellis A. Davis regarding Davis' Commercial Encyclopedia of the Pacific Southwest California Nevada Utah Arizona. Sold by Cherokee Book Shop to Frederick Ruffner Jr. the founder of Gale Research Detroit. Napa, CA: Ben Blow, 1913. unknown
19765752Miami FL: E. A. Seemann Publishing 1976 . First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 4to 204 pages cloth; owner's embossed stamp at pictorial endpaper. <br/><br/>Presentation Copy for warmly inscribed for Marian in 1984 by both co-authors. Issued in Seeman's Historic Cities Series. Illustrated. " Our aim in these pages is not only to trace the history of our favorite city but to convey its flavor and tone at specific periods in its turbulent lifetime until the mid-1950s - Foreword." E. A. Seemann Publishing hardcover
1943037768NY: Tudor Publishing Co 1943. copyright 1930. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 392pp with index; frontispiece and 32pp of illustrations from photographs on plate stock. Bound in tan hopsacking green lettering in the original dust wrapper with a wrap-around illustration of the Hopi Pine Tree Dance. 9.25" x 6.25 Tudor Publishing Co unknown
2006045245Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press 2006. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Jason Dowdle. Quarto. 274 pages indexed. Hardcover bound in a black and grey dust jacket. Light wear to the jacket. Text is clean INSCRIBED on the title page by both authors and the photographer Jason Dowdle. All three have inscribed to T. and Lindley. Lindley Butler is a noted North Carolina historian and author. <br/> <br/> The University of North Carolina Press hardcover
19117411San Francisco: James H. Barry Company. Near Fine. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. 348 pp. i-lxvii appendix tables ads.; 8vo; green cloth spine lettered in gilt. Tanning to endpapers else crisp & clean. . James H. Barry Company hardcover
2000049764Honolulu: Talei Publishers Inc. 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 759 pp. Well illustrated with B&W photos and maps. Illustrated endpapers Map of the streets of Willcox A.T. on rear endpapers. Introduction and Political Overview by Richard Lapidus. Foreword by Leo W. Banks. There is an unattached bookplate signed by the author. The jacket is lightly worn at the edges and creased. The book has a small bit of soil to the page edges. Binding tight text clean. Because of the weight of this book additional postage will be required to ship by Priority and no shipment out of the U.S. <br/> <br/> Talei Publishers, Inc. hardcover
1991066542Chambersburg PA: Bill Higgins 1991. Book. Near Fine. Spiral Bound. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Typescript plastic comb binding stiff light blue covers. ii87 pp. printed on rectos only. Covers a bit tanned toward edges text block edges slightly foxed. Date and short inscription on front cover likely in the author's hand but unsigned. A vanity "publication" but filled with detailed reminiscences of Chambersburg through the early 20th century. Bill Higgins Paperback
1895033019Hartford: Press of the Case Lockwood & Brainard Company. With the Journal of the Council of Safety from October 1778-1780 Inclusive and an Appendix Published in Accordance with a Resolution of the General Assembly. Non-Circulating EX LIBRARY REFERENCE Copy. DISBOUND Moderate wear to blue cloth boards bumped corners Gilt stamped title on spinestrip deckled edges light marginal dust soil scattered Preface Appendices Index 607 pp. Excellent Personal /reference cpy! . Acceptable. Hardcover. 1895. Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company hardcover
1894033018Hartford: Press of the Case Lockwood & Brainard Company. With the Journal of the Council of Safety from October 11 1776 to May 6 1778 Inclusive and an Appendix Published in Accordance with a Resolution of the General Assembly. Non-Circulating EX LIBRARY REFERENCE Copy. Moderate wear to blue cloth boards bumped corners Gilt stamped title on spinestrip deckled edges cracked hinges some marginal dust soil scattered Preface Appendices Index 658 pp. Excellent Personal /reference cpy! . Acceptable. Hardcover. 1894. Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company hardcover
1922033020Hartford: Press of the Case Lockwood & Brainard Company. With the Journal of the Council of Safety from May 1780 to October 1781 Inclusive and an Appendix Published in Accordance with a Resolution of the General Assembly. Non-Circulating EX LIBRARY REFERENCE Copy. Moderate wear to blue cloth boards bumped corners Gilt stamped title on spinestrip deckled edges cracked hinges light marginal dust soil scattered Preface Appendices Index 625pp. Excellent Personal /reference cpy! . Acceptable. Hardcover. 1922. Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company hardcover
1948060248Norristown PA: Pennsylvania German Society 1948. Book. Very Good. Original Wraps. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. PGS Vol. LIII. Proceedings and addresses at Reading PA 20 Oct. 1944 at Waynesboro PA 19 Oct. 1945 and at Trappe PA 18 Oct. 1946. Blue stiff paper wraps lettered in dark blue. Extended cover edges typically a bit rubbed. Spine panel sunned with one stress crease. xxivvi125vi171 pp. illus. w/ b&w plates. Clean interior. Pennsylvania German Society Paperback
2000045184Westminster MD: Willow Bend Books 2000. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Facsimile Reprint Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff laminated light blue wraps lettered in black. Very slight shelf wear essentially as issued with square uncreased binding clean and unmarked interior. 747 pp. Facsimile reprint of original 1931 edition. Willow Bend Books Paperback
2012067629Womelsdorf PA: 250th Anniversary Comittee 2012. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Glossy color pictorial boards. New/as issued. 200 pp. 250th Anniversary Comittee Hardcover
1991070429New Hanover Township Historical Committtee Printed by Smale's Printery Pottstown 1991. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Red cloth lettered in gold foil. As issued. 1st ed. Sub-titled "Volume I" but apparently all issued. iv99 pp. illus. New Hanover Township Historical Committtee [Printed by Smale's Printery, Pottstown] Hardcover
192916498Salem Oregon: State Printing Department. Near Fine. 1929. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 148 pages . State Printing Department paperback
191722799Hollywood CA: Cooper Ornithological Club 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 127 pp with one map index. Text and original wrappers bound into an attractive later binding of three-quarter red leather and red cloth with blue marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Henry E. Childs Jr. on front pastedown otherwise unmarked clean and sound with some scuffing to the leather. Cooper Ornithological Club hardcover
1941003382Windsor: privately printed. 1941. hardcover. 30 pp Fine/-. A biography of the inventor of the Cone Multiple Spindle Automaticand founder of the Cone Automatic Machine Co in Windsor Vermont. With apamphlet "The First Tool Engineer" laid in. privately printed hardcover