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1872003074Philadelphia: Kay & Brother 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition. 8 791 p.; 25 cm. Contemporary full calf; black spine labels reading: Smith's Forms of Procedure Pennsylvania." Small stamp on front fixed endpaper and title page verso: "Law Office of Thomas Lack 115 North High St. West Chester Pa." Blank leaf following front free endpaper inscribed: "Thomas Lack April 28th 1891" and "Geo. Guier Cardwell." A few notations; small slip tipped in between p. 162 and p. 163 section on decedents. Includes 65 items under Lunatics and Habitual Drunkards. In Very Good Condition: both boards have been sensatively re-attached by conservator whose report is available on request; lacking original leather spine labels which have been reproduced in period style; small loss of leather at ends of spine; occasional soiling primarily in the table of contents. A solid copy of this mid-19th-century Pennsylvania legal form book. Kay & Brother hardcover
19281125558619New York: Travelguide 1928. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. printed paper 64 pages color maps index with front wrap advertisement for Downyflake Doughnuts. Downyflake's is Nantucket's only classic diner-style eatery which is still in operation. overall light soil . Travelguide Paperback
192421019Los Angeles: Printed by Santos Printing Shop for Ing. Luis R. Goldbaum 1924. Softcover. Very good. 7 x 4.5 inches 213 pp side-stapled wrappers with map of Mexican mining centers on rear wrapper. Dampstain to first three leaves staples rusted otherwise very good. The author Luis also Louis R. Goldbaum was born in Mexico ca. 1871 to a Prussian-Jewish father and a Mexican mother. His older brother David Goldbaum 1858 was a surveyor who explored much of Baja California and from 1927-30 served as the Mayor of Ensenada. Luis worked as a mining engineer in Mexico and in border towns in Texas and Arizona before settling in the Los Angeles area around 1923. In a one-page introduction to this book he explains: "I have endeavored to give in full to the mining men prospector and explorer while in Old-Mexico a complete detailed and general information on the procedures steps to take Offices Government-Departments and Officials to occur and to see and costs and expenses until acquiring the desired object; illustrating to him complete Mexican-Mining Law of the Republic of the United States of Mexico; and in many other valuable and most needed general information." The book includes both an overview and a more extended digest of Mexican mining law; a list of procedures for obtaining a claim with specifics for foreigners; information on taxes assay fees and other expenses; information on minerals assay tests and methods of processing ore; a glossary of mining terms in Spanish and English and more. A page at the beginning notes that the buyer of this book is entitled to free membership in the "Mail-Consulting Department" of the "Mexican General Advisory Co." giving said buyer the right to consultation on changes in Mexican mining law "and any other dependable information on Old Mexico matters" for a period of one year. Printed by Santos Printing Shop for Ing. Luis R,. Goldbaum unknown books
199437528Thomasville Ga. :: The Thomas College Regional Resource Center. 1994. Hardcover. Copper-colored lettering and decoration on green cloth covers; oversized hardback stated first edition with minor cover wear. Long nonauthorial gift inscription in ink on front endpaper. Pages tight clean unmarked. No DJ as issued. Ecological study of the Red Hills region of Georgia in the border area north of the Georgia-Florida line. Covers ecological resources economics and demographics archaeology history geology. Illustrated with photos maps etc. ; . The Thomas College Regional Resource Center. hardcover
19312221715<p>First edition. 11" x 8 1/4". 13 color folding maps; numerous other photos and drawings. Original green cloth stamped in gilt and black. No dust jacket. Very good-fine. 206 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Regional Planning Commission hardcover books
1984046518Centreport PA: Milton K. and Luella E. Blatt/Centreport Centennial 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red cloth lettered in gold foil. Former owners' names/address/date inked on lower main title slight residue from address label removal along top edge of front fixed endpaper otherwise as issued. ii631 pp. illus. Very comprehensive history of this Berks Co. community. Milton K. and Luella E. Blatt/Centreport Centennial Hardcover
1984048819Centreport PA: Milton K. and Luella E. Blatt/Centreport Centennial 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red cloth lettered in gold foil. As issued. ii631 pp. illus. Very comprehensive history of this Berks Co. community. Milton K. and Luella E. Blatt/Centreport Centennial Hardcover
1846W2672<p>Philadelphia: Frank Desilver 1846. 10 303 pages. Rebound in brown cloth sometime in the 20th century. Samuel Cooper was one of the few Northern West Point graduates who resigned to join the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Immediately appointed Brigadier General later full general he became Adjutant & Inspector General CSA and was the senior ranking officer in the CSA throughout the Civil War. He accompanied Jefferson Davis when he fled Richmond at the end of the war. But he also preserved the official CSA records and turned them over to Federal authorities; they became part of the Official Records published in the early 1890s. The book offered here first published in 1936 was widely used and and revised several times prior to 1860. This "New Edition" published in 1846 included "additions and improvements." The binding is in virtually as new condition. Pages are toned and foxed but all text is quite legible; first 15 leaves have a chip in bottom margin that is a result of an old acidic stain. New Edition. Hardcover. About Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.</p> Frank Desilver hardcover
1876EEF4442Schenevus NY: Monitor Book and Newspaper Printing Establishment 1876. This antique hardcover book is bound in blue paper boards with a tan leather spine and tan cloth corners. Paper has some light soil water spots; spine has cracks and has chipped away for the most part binding is very fragile some other wear. Inner pages are mostly clean though browned and endpapers have foxing with owner's name at front. This book gives a history of the town of Maryland N.Y. 66 pages plus advertisements; approx. 5"x8". First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by None. Monitor Book and Newspaper Printing Establishment Hardcover
1882194111882. First Edition. Privately printed with date of 1881 on title page but actually published in 1882. 6 x 8.75 inches pp. viii 376 in original black cloth stamped in blind with gilt lettering on spine. Moderate edgewear to boards smudging/light soiling on some page margins small hole in front free endpaper; else very good. Zamorano 80 #75. Gary Kurutz writes in the Dorothy Sloan Zamorano 80 Catalogue: Tyler's narrative has long been considered the authoritative work on this heroic battalion of Mormon volunteers. The battalion numbering about 500 men was organized at Council Bluffs Iowa in July 1846.After reaching Santa Fe they headed to California following the Gila River. They experienced as reflected in Tylers vividly written account a journey filled with unbelieveable hardship. Thirst starvation heat and freezing cold were their constant companions." The reached San Diego in January 1847 and though they never saw combat they "established Fort Moore in Los Angeles and strengthened the American hold on California.In addition to telling the story of the trek west Tyler provides and important overview of the bitter rivalry between Stephen Watts Kearny and John C. Fremont for political control of newly conquered California; life in the pueblos of San Diego and Los Angeles; the return journey to Salt Lake City; and the role of several 'Battalion Boys' who were at Sutter's Mill on that fateful January 1848 morning when John Marshall discovered gold." Howes T-447; Cowan p. 648; Flake 9063; Graff 4226; Streeter 2314. hardcover books
224 pages, illustrated, map, suggestions for further reading, index, 2 small closed tears to dust jacket. eng
0656504579.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
065636968X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
194844924University of Georgia Press. G/NONE. 1948. Hardcover. Hardback 1948 first edition in gray cloth covers showing light wear along edges minor. Underlining in pencil. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown and rear free endpaper. No DJ. NOT library discard. ; . University of Georgia Press, hardcover
18704090057Philadelphia: National Publishing Company 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. First Edition. Minimal exlibrary marks. Bindings sound hinge papers broken but hinges holding. Previous owner's name on ffep of each volume. Pages clean tanned with some foxing. Steel engravings in each volume. Cloth over boards has some edge wear light shelf wear faded gilt lettering on spine. Early history of the Civil War by Alexander Hamilton Stephens 1812-1883 vice president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. Ex-Library; 9.75" tall; 1481 pages. National Publishing Company hardcover
197751631Minneapolis: Nodin Press 1977. 8vo pp. 8 155 1; illustrations by Pat Young throughout blue paper wrappers rubbed and worn textblock clean and sound. With an inscription and illustration by Gunderson to fellow Poet John Rezmerski on half-title page. A Continual Interest was first published in 1971. Inland Missing the Sea is a continuation of the poetry series. <br/><br/> Nodin Press unknown books
1992023672Savannah Georgia: Golden Coast Books 1992. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Photography By Van Jones Martin and James R. Lockhart. F/F/1st ed. In 1985 The Tallokas Foundation of Moultrie Georgia published "The Architecture of Wm. Frank McCall Jr. FAIA: A Complete Designer in the Classical Tradition". Frank McCall died on March 12 1991 and in the little more than five years between the publication of that monograph and his death at age seventy-four much happened to call for the publication of this companion volume. This copy is in pristine condition; no markings of any kind tight square with a dust jacket with perfect even color no wear and now sportin' a mylar sleeve. 135 pp.; lists 41 projects featured in the Desig Portfolio List of Jobs Selected Floor Plans Sources. Slick higher quality paper and all photos in full color. I can have this book in the mail to you tomorrow. BRBC <br/> <br/> Golden Coast Books hardcover
197662839<p>Manchester MA: The Cricket Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edges rubbed jacket chipped and toned. 1976. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Red cloth binding. Endpaper maps acknowledgments black and white photos and illustrations maps and index. A product of exhaustive research A Country in Revolution is a fact-filled history of how 51000 people living in the twenty-one towns of Essex County helped influence the course of the American Revolution. from the front jacket flap ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 307 pages .</p> The Cricket Press hardcover
191025239Minneapolis MN: publisher not identified 1910. First edition 8vo pp. 11 5; 1 plate showing portrait of Longfellow; original leather-grained tan paper saddle-stitched with decorative ribbon the very slightest of soiling otherwise a fine copy. A brief biography of Longfellow apparently one of a series compiled and published by the author from sources "of the first rank and the most authentic source." OCLC locates just four copies: Brown and 3 in Minnesota. [publisher not identified unknown
191025239Minneapolis MN: n.p. 1910. First edition 8vo pp. 11 5; 1 plate showing portrait of Longfellow; original leather-grained tan paper saddle-stitched with decorative ribbon the very slightest of soiling otherwise a fine copy. A brief biography of Longfellow apparently one of a series compiled and published by the author from sources "of the first rank and the most authentic source." OCLC locates just three copies. <br/><br/> [n.p. hardcover books
19203280082Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary marks. Lightly circulated. Binding and hinges sound on each volume. Pages clean tanned. Cloth over boards is lightly shelf worn with heavier edge rubbing most notably on corner tips and extremities of each spine. Gilt lettering on spines is bright. Correspondence of Charles Francis Adams and other family members. Adams was Minister of the United States to Great Britain during the Civil War. Ex-Library; 8.5" tall; 579 pages. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1924SB6996Denver: Emma Shepard Hill 1924. Illustrated end pages; Previous owner's ink signature on rear end paper; Three tiny tears along the gutter of the fep else textblock is very clean and tight; Minimal wear to the original green cloth binding. Lacks dust jacket; 206p. Wilcox p.59.; Wynar/Depp 347; Howes H 481. Graff 1887. Second Edition. Green Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Plates/Engravings. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Emma Shepard Hill
19865194Couverture rigide. Reliure de l'éditeur. 270 pages. Jaquette. 26 x 37 cm.
1932048550Columbia South Carolina: The R. L. Bryan Company 1932. Second Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 220 1 pages indexed. Hardcover bound in navy blue cloth. Light to moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. Small white blemish at the top edge of the front cover. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. The text is a little toned. There is underling to a line on page viii but otherwise the text appears clean. Complete with the portrait frontis and the folding map just before page 5. The Editor's Notes at the beginning states that 300 copies were published. Originally published in 1842 <br/> <br/> The R. L. Bryan Company hardcover
199017165New York: Bantam 1990. First edition 8vo pp. 12 448; fine in jacket. <br/><br/> Bantam unknown books