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1837005227Washington D.C.: Thomas Allen printer 1837. Paperback. Very Good -. 69 3 p. 10 leaves of maps with color borders most folded: tables; 23 cm. Stitched; disbound from a volume containing pamphlets relating to government land offices. "Doc. No. 23." -- at head of every page. The Secretary of the Treasury Levi Woodbury 1789-1851 is officially sending a report from James Whitcomb the commissioner of the General Land Office to Speaker of the House of Representatives James K. Polk. The report contains 25 pages of tables showing the number of acres sold by each land office and how much money came into the treasury. Also contains data about surveying in various states and territories; maps relate to the surveys. In Very Good- Condition: disbound; scattered foxing; one map is detached and separated along some folds but complete; final map is browned; otherwise clean and tight. Thomas Allen, printer paperback
194836367Norton. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1948. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. A signed stated first edition in tatty jacket showing shelf and edge wear some stainign and foxing with edge/corner wear to boards. RARE. ; Signed by Author . Norton hardcover
1972057145University Of California Press 1972. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Maps. 57 Pp Plates; Maps In Pocket At Rear. Near Fine; Former Owner's Name. <br/> <br/> University Of California Press paperback
2004AM-24BaltimoreMD.: Gateway Press 2004. Comprehensive reference text presents a documentary of the family ancestry of Eleanore and Ann Louise Miles; including ancestral families of Brosius Dillman Ebling Fahl Hassler Jaeger Manley Miles Palm Richert Rick Shaner Scheidi Schneider Shuman Wildermuth; and families Augustine Dillman Dunn Gaughan Hobbs Kramer Manley McDowell Miles Riess Shaner Shuman Tierney Upcavage. The geneology is presented in family format not the traditional generation format. Includes numbering generation superscript numbering reference notation and a detailed historic introduction on the family. 468 pgs. Gilt spine and front cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. . Gateway Press Hardcover
pp. xiv, 288. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slight wear. An American who lived in Russia from 1929 to 1942 in the employment of the Soviet government. Coldwar/Economics 7
195626049Jackson TN: McCowat-Mercer Press Inc 1956. Hardcover. Edited by Bell Irvin Wiley. Small 4to. Tan cloth pictorial dust jacket. xxviii 138pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight and attractive. First edition of this reprint of the rare 1909 edition. Vivid memoir of a second lieutenant who worked his way through the ranks in the 19th Virginia. This is the "Rebel Shavetail Edition" with a special Civil War Book Club sheet signed boldly by Wiley tipped in. NEVINS I 181. DORNBUSCH II 1409. McCowat-Mercer Press, Inc hardcover
195620790Jackson TN: McCowat-Mercer Press Inc 1956. Hardcover. Edited by Bell Irvin Wiley. Small 4to. Tan cloth pictorial dust jacket. xxviii 138pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight and attractive. First edition of this reprint of the rare 1909 edition. Vivid memoir of a second lieutenant who worked his way through the ranks in the 19th Virginia. This is the "Rebel Shavetail Edition" with a special Civil War Book Club sheet signed boldly by Wiley tipped in. NEVINS I 181. DORNBUSCH II 1409. McCowat-Mercer Press, Inc hardcover
184920650Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x 13-386 in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends corners rubbed through slightly shaken but still a better than average copy of this title which is often found in poor condition. Hill 1910: The ships made port in Rio de Janierio Valparaiso Callao Paita the Marquesas Honolulu Monterey Mazatlan Manzanillo Acapulco and Gayamas. Extensive visits were made in Rio Lima California the Gulf of California and Mexico. Woods was traveling in central Mexico when the Mexican War began and he escaped via Vera Cruz. The intelligence gathered by Wood in Mexico was instrumental to the U.S. seizure of California by Commodore Sloat in that war. Carey and Hart hardcover
189522027Chicago: The White City Art Company 1895. Hardcover. Very good. 152 pp index ads with many illustrations from photographs by W.H. Jackson C.R. Savage and others. Pictorial blue cloth boards lightly toned at spine rubbed at extremities some soiling to back cover. Previous owner's name crossed out on front free endpaper and rear pastedown. Otherwise unmarked clean and sound. Hanna & Reese From Train to Plane #51: "A fictitious narrative from the days when railroads actually encouraged passengers written to show that unchaperoned young ladies might travel without danger or impropriety. The White City Art Company hardcover
1995223326Morgantown PA: Masthof Press 1995. Book. New. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Oversize hardcover 75 pp. w/ b& w phptos and illustrations throughouy. Authored by the former Executive Director of the National Watch & Clock Museum this work gives a detailed biography of dozens of Lancaster County clock makers and their products with extensive research provided by the Lancaster County Historical Society. Multiple appendices. New. Masthof Press Hardcover
2007046683Gilbertsville PA: Hanover Township Historical Society 2007. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Tan cloth lettered/illus. in gold foil. Minor creasing to front fixed endpaper essentially as issued. ix156 pp. illus. Historical sketches of northern Montgomery County. Hanover Township Historical Society Hardcover
1968069673Allentown PA: Pennsylvania German Society 1968. Book. Fine. Buckram. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue buckram lettered in gold foil. 407 pp. illus. w/ several color plates reproducing key leaves of the Schumacher frakturschrift manuscript. Schumacher's register is among the key sources for 18th-century Pennsylvania German genealogical information in Northampton Lehigh Berks Schuylkill Montgomery and Lancaster Counties. Slight tanning near hinges on endpapers otherwise as issued. Firm binding clean interior. Pennsylvania German Society Hardcover
1968069672Allentown PA: Pennsylvania German Society 1968. Book. Fine. Buckram. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue buckram lettered in gold foil. 407 pp. illus. w/ several color plates reproducing key leaves of the Schumacher frakturschrift manuscript. Schumacher's register is among the key sources for 18th-century Pennsylvania German genealogical information in Northampton Lehigh Berks Schuylkill Montgomery and Lancaster Counties. Slight tanning near hinges on endpapers otherwise as issued. Firm binding clean interior. Pennsylvania German Society Hardcover
1968A37125Murphys CA: Old Timers Museum. Near Fine. 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This book is limited to 150 numbered copies - this being number 63. The book is in Near Fine condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book is clean and bright. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright but with a bit of beginning toning. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. "Richard Coke Wood 1905-1979 California historian author teacher was born in Oklahoma and was raised in Owens Valley California. He attended the University of Hawaii College of the Pacific B. A. 1932 M. A. 1934 and the University of Southern California Ph. D. 1950. A high school teacher in the 1930's he developed a lasting interest in Mother Lode history while recovering from tuberculosis at the Bret Harte Sanitarium in Murphys 1938-1941. During his career he held many administrative and teaching positions including that of proprieter of the Old Timers Museum in Murphys ca. 1949-1978 ; Education Director Bret Harte Sanitarium 1941-1950 ; Instructor and Chairman of the Social Sciences Division at Stockton and San Joaquin Delta College 1950-1971 ; holder of the Rockwell D. Hunt Chair in California History at the University of the Pacific 1951-1971 ; and Director of the Pacific Center for Western Historical Studies 1976." ; Signed by Author . Old Timers Museum hardcover
1874002329New York: D. Van Nostrand 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition. 339 2 46-72 p.: engraved frontispiece map of West Point many in-text illustrations; 23 cm. Rebacked using original publisher's green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-stamped illustration on both boards which have been professionally rehinged. Dark brown endpapers. Publisher's catalog of military books on pp. 46-72 following text. The author Lieut. Oliver Ellsworth Wood had served in the Connecticut cavalry during the Civil War prior to attending West Point. He became a first lieutenant in 1870 and was discharged as a Brigadier General in 1906. In Very Good Condition: professional restoration of original binding; scattered light foxing; pages are otherwise clean. D. Van Nostrand hardcover
1966SB16242Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1966. Signed in ink by Nancy and Myron Wood on ffep verso; Gift quality copy very clean and tight photographed end papers; Lightly bumped head and foot of spine; Price-clipped dust jacket taped tear/crease to front top outer corner and top back corner at the head of the spine mylar sleeved for safe-keeping. 49p. Signed by Nancy and Myron Wood. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good in mylar. Illus. by Myron Wood Photographs. 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall. Hardcover. Doubleday & Company, Inc. Hardcover
191618295Chicago: Reilly & Britton 1916. 8vo pp. 240; very good in orig. red cloth gilt lettering. Inscribed by the printer Emerson Wulling: "Major General Leonard Wood U.S. Army was Republican Presidential candidate in 1920. While in Minneapolis during his campaign he was placed by the local committee into my charge. As his host I conducted him through the city including the University he spoke briefly on other than political matters . before beginning his address he said: 'Dean Wulling and I have many things in common the outstanding one being that we both started out in pharmacies . If I could become as good a President as Dr. Wulling has become an educational administrator I would be satisfied.' When Harding won the Presidential election in 1921 the General sent me this book through his publisher with his compliments. Reilly & Britton unknown
193212425San Francisco: The Society of California Pioneers. Fine. 1932. Reprint Edition. Softcover. 4 22 pp. ; 12mo; stapled olive wrappers printed decorated and ruled in black. Originally published in the Humboldt Times beginning on April 26 1856 and subsequently reprinted from the Times by Mr. Wood's sons in a paper covered pamphlet. Only a few copies were issued in this form and very few of them are still extant. The Society of California Pioneers reprinted this pamphlet line for line and page for page employing the same old newspaper type used in the original pamphlet in their Quarterly of March 1932. In addition one hundred copies have been reissued in this pamphlet form. Publisher's information . [The Society of California Pioneers] paperback
2009231282Abingdon U.K.: Routledge 2009. Hardback in very good almost as-new condition: minor shelfwear to boards only. No jacket as issued. Contents clean sound bright throughout. First Edition. hardcover. New/No Dust Jacket. Used. Routledge Hardcover
1846010543Philadelphia: Walker & Gillis 1846. Book. Very Good Minus. Decorative Cloth. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First Edition. Brown blind stamped cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine. 7 pages of publisher's ads to the rear. Frontispiece portrait of John Adams on stone by A. Newsam lithograph by P.S. Duval. " Now republished with notes and an appendix by John Henry Sherburne." Very Good Minus loss of cloth at corners and spine ends with significant foxing at end papers front and back prior owner stamp to top of title page. SCARCE in this edition. Walker & Gillis Hardcover
187600007681Cleveland: Crocker's Publishing House 1876 289 pages backstrip shows some loss to lettering. Crocker's Publishing House hardcover
198714991Hanover NH: Dartmouth College. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book is as new. DJ has light wear at edges a short tear at upper front corner and light tanning over spine and near fore edge. Limited edition of 1000. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 54 pages . Dartmouth College hardcover
1942135126Harrisburg: Military Service Publishing, 1942. 163 S. mit zahlreichen Abbildungen; 8/°; Orig.-Broschur;
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1988021617New York: McGraw-Hill 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 347 pages. Illustrated with a statistical report card for each of the 26 major league ballparks featured. First edition first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. No remainder mark. A clean tight fresh and unmarked copy. No faults extremely scarce in this condition albeit with the mildest of age toning to extremities of text block hence not like new. Near fine in a fine dust-jacket. . McGraw-Hill Hardcover