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33 pages. Features: Bibles and Booze - Prohibition in Chilliwack in the late 1800s. The Depression in Matsqui, 1930-1937; Willard Ernest Ireland, 1914-1979; Old Trails and Routes in British Columbia: The Boston Bar Trail, 1859-1860 - Fort Hope to Boston Bar; plus 15 book reviews. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: What in the World are Nordhausen Korn Schnapps? - article with photos by Jack Sullivan; Bryan's Top Shelf - Embossed Pepsi-Cola Bottles - article with photos - by Bryan Grapentine; Magic Metamorphic Advertising/Trade Cards of the late Victorian age - article plus reproductions of super vintage ads, by Dave Cheadle; "Seeking Killer Jars", by Jack La Baume; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News - Shows; Auction Directory; British Bottle Bits - Clay Pipe Bowls; The Label Space - Max Ams of Cincinnat and their patented sheet metal can and their patented cover fastening for jars, WAN-ETA Cocao of Boston - by Tom Caniff; Details of a major Western Glass Auction; Up-Dates; Bromo-Seltzer Blue - postscript to article in last issue, by Cecil Munsey. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Celestial bedroom in 1/4" scale; CJ's - miniaturists successful in business; Learn the secrets of soldering fine metal; Make a Boston fern; Dramatic depression-era tenement room; charming '50s vintage roombox; frontier barbershop; The sunbonnet; crochet an old-fashioned shawl; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Moisture exposure to top edge of pages. A worthy copy. Magazine
56 pages. Features: Zaloga on the M-1 Abrams Tank; Paine on the Sophisticated Art of Boxed Dioramas; Stearns on the Washington, Boston & Chicago Shows; Origins and Development of the Field Marshall's Baton; An Historical Look at the Confederate Navy; and more. Address label on front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
395+p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
229p., illus. Signed by the author. Hardcover Very good condition good
224p., illus. Signed and inscribed by the author to Bill Castle. Hardcover Very good condition; typed tribute to Wm. Castle taped to endpr
192p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good Large paper printing with 2 additional pages. Signed by the author.
485p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
196 p. Light insect damage rear cover. Uncut. Text lightly browned but not brittle. On the title page is the autograph ownership of Dab. Johnson. Probably Dabney Johnson (1785-1835) who was married in 1813 to Elizabeth Burnett, in Patrick County, VA. He was a veteran of the War of 1812. XLib bookplate of the Tenney Memorial Library Newbury, VT 1896 given by Mrs. S. F. Wheeler. 12mo. 200 mm. Original scarce printed paper boards. Major paper loss on spine. Extremities worn with some loss. S&S/AI 28450. Second edition. Very good. Hardbound. AI BX 3
pp. 362. 8vo. 200 mm. Original publishers pictorial binding in red and gilt. Print in red ink serves as cover art. Spine gilt aswell. All plates present. Manuscript ownership of Jas. H. Righter on front pastedown. Also old label from the Fon Der Smith's Bookstore in Lancaster. All plates present. Slight rubbing of spine and corners. Cover worn in places, but still attractive. Hardbound. Very good. NW65
180 p. Browned but not brittle. pp. 133 and 134 torn without loss. Early manuscript ownerships of Emily H. Rodgers, Nov. 20, 1822 and Robert S. Morison from his mother's library 1899. 12mo. 165 mm. Original full leather binding, worn. Original leather spine label. Front board fragile. Third edition. S&S/AI 5137. Very good. Hardbound. PA 64
pp. xlvii, 33-576 + 10 engraved portrait plates with original tissue guards. First few signatures loose. XLib. XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. Blind stamp of State Teachers College, Millersburg, PA on title page and elsewhere. Offsetting from plates. First fly leaf torn with loss. 8vo. 230 mm. Original worn cloth binding. Major loss on spine. Discard stamps on all three edges. Hardbound. AI BX 1
245p. Plus 4 plates. 8vo. 200mm. Original publisher's full cloth pictorial binding in green. Cover stamped in black and silver gilt. Spine in black and gold and silver gilt. Clean and tight example. Hardbound. Very Good. NW66
DJ with light marginal wear and light browning to flaps. Former owner's name on front free endpaper; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 244 pages
DJ spine browned. ; A stated first edition with complete number sequence on copyright page. A unusually nice copy of one of the most charming books on Boston. Including stunning color paintings by the author ; Color drawings; 8vo; 275 pages
354 p. 8vo. Original cloth binding. Colorful original dust jacket. Hergesheimer was descended from an old Pennsylvanian German family. His works were once the most avidly sought after of any American author. They fetched fantastic prices seventy-five years ago. Quiet Cities is a historical novel/romance set in: Philadelphia; Pittsburg; Boston; Albany; Washington; Lexington; Charleston; Natchez; and New Orleans. This First Edition in dust jacket is rather scarce. PA 31 x2
89p. + Plus color frontis and eleven lovely full page color plates of dogs. Folio. 9.25 x 12.25" Original full cloth backed color pictorial binding, extremities slightly worn. These plates are often broken out of this book and sold individually - a practice which we deplore. PETS/2
102p., illus. 27cm Hardcover Fine condition
419 p. Wright II-1828 Hardcover Good condition; 1 copy in red blindstamped cloth, 2nd in green
274p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition, spine ends & corners worn
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear to cover. Previous owner's name inside. Front hinge is a bit loose. Large format with many black and white photos and illustrations. A few color plates. Unpaginated. 10 3/4"w x 13 5/8"h.
273 p. 8vo. 240 mm. XLib. Original printed printed boards binding. Hardbound. Good. Important bits of early Boston information from Nathaniel Bowditch's 'Gleaner'. Scarce. New England 5/6 / YORK HS
264 p. + Frontis. Numerous drawings by J. S. Barrows. Double column. Top edges damp stained. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, embossed in blind. Extremities worn. Boards soiled. Hardbound. Unusual and very scarce Civil War narratives from a series written for the Boston Journal. Included are: Coffin's own memoirs; Chats with the Veteran, by Charles F.W. Archer; Stories of War Life by Officer and Private; Dr. Green's Narrative of the Deserter; Hero of Ft. Wagner; Burning of a Railroad Train; Heroic Mother and an Heroic Son; Pathetic War Memories; The Brave 28th Mass; An Army Singer; Charge of the Forlorn Hope; etc. SHELF W28
pp. xii, 324, 16 [Publisher's catalogue] Plus Woodcut Frontis and full page plates by Richard Doyle. Very slight damp staining on last few signatures. 12mo. Original full blue publisher's cloth binding, embossed in blind. Small loss at head and tail of spine and corners. XLib. (Masonic Homes - Elizabethtown, PA). Hardbound. The 'Author's edition'. The illustrator, Richard Doyle (1824-1883) was very popular on both sides of the Atlantic in the Victorian era. He was the brother of Charles Altamont Doyle, and thus the uncle of author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. ENGLAND BOX 2