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1995006376Ringwood New Jersey: Privately Published. 1995. Fine condition. Bright shiny clean and tight. The spine is square and flat. Pages are crisp and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Not a remainder. Softcover. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. In 1920 at the age of seven the author moved to Ringwood Manor Estates when his father was hired by Miss Sally Hewitt to manage the property. This book begins with his recollections of what Ringwood was like in the 1920s. There are also chapters on Ringwood's superstitions and beliefs the greatest social event mines and forges old country store rocket-plane Gloria Montclair Greenwood Lake Railroad etc. Profusely illustrated with nearly 150 old photographs portraits document facsimiles and hand-drawn maps. Laid-in are 2 promotional advertisements from the publisher. Bound in the original photographic wraps. . INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. Fine condition. vii 203pp. Privately Published. Paperback
190430478Trenton NJ: Albert Brandt. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Horror; Boy Scouts; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxiv 238 7 pages; First publication by Brandt. A tale of Pinkertons terrorizing Pennsylvania mine workers. Author was found of Boy Scouts of America. Edition dated February 1904. Contents with light aging 2" tear to margin of half title page. Signed with lengthy dedication to the Editor on fep. ; Signed by Author . Albert Brandt hardcover
1979020829N.Y.: J.B. Lippincott Company 1979. First U.S. Hardcover Edition paperback original published by Gold Medal 1972 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Cover illustration by Don Brautigan. Travis McGee with help from his friend Meyer outwaits and outwits a deranged killer as he searches for a missing wife on the remote Caribbean island of Granada where he tangles with a baby-faced businessman with a lust for murder. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Brautigan Don. Book. J.B. Lippincott Company
1975018470New York and Philadelphia: Lippincott 1975. 1st hardcover edition so stated. Originally published as a paperback original in May 1964. Blue cloth shows some light fading along extremeties page edges show some minor staining else a near fine copy in unprice clipped $6.95 price intact at lower edge of front flap dust jacket. The jacket has minimal wear along the extremities a couple of small nicks at spine head but does not display any of the typical spine fading associated with most copies. The First Travis McGee Title. An unusually difficult title. Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. Hes also a knight-errant whos wary of credit cards retirement benefits political parties mortgages and television. He only works when his cash runs out and his rule is simple: Hell help you find whatever was taken from you as long as he can keep half. McGee isnt particularly strapped for cash but how can anyone say no to Cathy a sweet backwoods girl whos been tortured repeatedly by her manipulative ex-boyfriend Junior Allen What Travis isnt anticipating is just how many women Junior has torn apart and left in his wake. Enter Juniors latest victim Lois Atkinson. Frail and broken Lois can barely get out of bed when Travis finds her let alone keep herself alive. But Travis turns into Mother McGee giving Lois new life as he looks for the ruthless man who steals womens spirits and livelihoods. But he cant guess how violent his quest is soon to become. Hell learn the hard way that there must be casualties in this game of cat and mouse. First Hardcover. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Lippincott Hardcover
1945020998Garden City New York: Crime Club Doubleday 1945. First edition. September 6 1945. Wartime slim volume. Publishers turquoise cloth with black lettering. A very thin ban tanned along bottom of covers pencil notation at front end paper else a very good tight copy. dust jacket is chipped at spine head and foot spine edge rubbed a few closed tears with some creasing but a good-very good copy of a remakably difficult tile to find in any dust jacket. "Humourous overtones and murderous undertones make an excitiong mystery story" -- jacket blurb. 203 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-Very Good. Book. Crime Club Doubleday
1982003727Trenton New Jersey: State of New Jersey Historic Preservation Office 1982. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. Clean square tight unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with maps charts and drawings of Indian projectile points arrow heads pottery tobacco pipes tools and other artifacts. Red printed paper covers. Staple bound staples a little rusty. References. Introduction and 9 chapters including: ABORIGINAL SETTLEMENT IN NEW JERSEY DURING THE PALEO-INDIAN CULTURAL PERIOD; THE ARCHAIC PERIOD IN NEW JERSEY; THE EARLY/MIDDLE WOODLAND PERIOD IN NEW JERSEY; THE LATE WOODLAND PERIOD IN NEW JERSEY; CONTACT BETWEEN EUROPEANS AND THE DELAWARE INDIANS OF NEW JERSEY; NEW JERSEY CULTURAL RESOURCES; etc. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good condition./No Dust Jacket as issued. 277pp. State of New Jersey Historic Preservation Office Paperback
1794003621Philadelphia: Francis Bailey 1794. Hardcover. Good. Printed by Francis Bailey . . . for Edmund Hogan." xii 776 p.: tables; 22 cm. Contemporary full calf; red leather spine label with gilt-tooled title: "Hogan's State Trials." Although this is "Vol. I" no more published. First Edition. Early Am. Imprints ser. 1 Evans no. 27132. The Dedication by Edmund Hogan is dated Jan. 1795. Special title page for each trial: An Account of the Impeachment and Trial of the late Francis Hopkinson Esquire Judge of the Court of Admiralty for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and An Account of the Impeachment Trial and Acquittal of John Nicholson Esquire Comptroller-General of the State of Pennsylvania. The list of subscribers pp. ix-xii contains members of the Pennsylvania legislature and other prominent figures including Thomas Bradford Benjamin Franklin Bache William Bingham Tench Francis Albert Gallatin Jared Ingersoll Thomas Mifflin Robert Morris David Rittenhouse Arthur St. Clair and the Library Company. Includes a table with the votes in the Senate on Nicholson's trial and an alphabetical index of the letters official documents witnesses names of the speakers and other occurrences in the two trials. Inscription on front fixed endpaper covered by bookplate of the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College indicating that this was presented to the Society by Joshua Hoover in 1827. Written in pencil on front free endpaper: "Joshua Brinkle." Oval stamp of Dickinson College Library on both front endpapers. On the title page "J. P. Brinckle" is crossed out and "Kemp Roberts" written below. Francis Hopkinson 1737-1791 a Signer of the Declaration of Independence and composer was tried in 1780 on charges of accepting bribes; he was acquitted. John Nicholson d. 1800 financier Comptroller General of Pennsylvania and land speculator was charged with financial irregularities in 1793; he was acquitted. In Good Condition: loss of leather at ends of spine and in the middle of the spine including from the spine label; tear from fore-edge across pp. 55-56 without loss of text; light foxing; otherwise clean and solid. Francis Bailey hardcover
1813002389Philadelphia: Conrad Zentler und George M. Mentz 1813. Hardcover. Very Good -. Title continued: "Welchem noch ein tägliches Gebetbüchlein für Schwangere Gebärende und Unfruchtbare das den 5ten und 6ten Theil dieses Handbuchs ausmacht beygefügt ist." Zweyte verbesserte Amerikanische Auflage. 8 566 132 2 p.: frontispiece portrait of the author and 4 additional leaves of copperplates; 18 cm. Full leather original boards with modern rebacking; lacking clasps. Woodcut headpieces. "Tägliches Gebet-Büchlein für Schwangere Gebärende und Sechswöchnerinnen" has separate title page and pagination. Shaw & Shoemaker 29857; Bötte & Tannhof German Printing 1990. This work of daily devotions and hymns by the Lutheran theologian Johann Friedrich Starck was very popular among German immigrants to Pennsylvania. In Very Good- Condition: sensitively rebacked; lacking clasps; foxing throughout; otherwise clean and tight. Conrad Zentler und George M. Mentz hardcover
186211659Annapolis: Thomas J. Wilson Printer 1862. Wrappers. Octavo. 15 pages. Near Fine. Bound in printed pink wraps over a sewn binding. Minor cover soil and edge wear with an old vertical crease from the pamphlet being folded lengthwise. Augustus W. Bradford as the Union Party candidate for governor defeated Democrat Benjamin C. Howard by nearly 30000 votes on November 6 1861. Maryland had seemed to teeter on the brink of secession just 6 or 7 months earlier. Bradford's speech here discusses this phenomenon and what he considers false and misleading impressions then circulating in regard to Maryland's true sentiments and sympathies. Thomas J. Wilson, Printer unknown
18731376Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co 1873. First printing. Cloth over bevelled boards. Octavo. xii 13-521 pages. Extremity rubs with a bit of fraying to corner tips. Binding sound hinges not cracked. Faint splitting to rear endpaper along inner margin though not significant. Prior owner name and inscription dated 1902 on preliminary blank leaf. Near fine overall. John R. Kenly had just been admitted to the bar in Baltimore when the War with Mexico broke out. He raised a company of volunteers and led them into battle as a captain in the Baltimore-Washington Battalion. This is his excellent first-hand account of these experiences. <br /> <br /> Kenly would later serve in the Union army during the Civil War as a colonel in the 1st Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry. J. B. Lippincott & Co unknown
1927044798Richmond Virginia: The William Byrd Press Inc. Printers 1927. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Octavos. 623; 644 pages. Indexed at the rear of Volume II. Two volumes bound in original blue cloth with spine titles in gilt. Moderate wear to the bindings. The bindings have some chips or abrasions in the cloth which seem to have been touched up with blue paint or coloring. This is more evident at the top edge of front cover on Volume II as well as on the side of its spine. Endpapers foxed. Text is toned but generally clean. INSCRIBED by the author on the front flyleaf of Volume I "To S. A. Ashe / with the author's esteem / Landon C. Bell / May 20 1929." Samuel A'Court Ashe 1840-1938 was a lawyer and a Confederate Captain in the Civil War. After the War he served in the North Carolina legislature and was a noted historian author and defender of the Confederacy. There is also a signed typed letter laid in loosely from Drewry McKee Smith to Captain Sam Ashe dated 1929. This is actually a copy of a letter to someone else that the sender signed and sent to Captain Ashe. Includes the original stamped envelope which is on browned paper. Unfortunately someone has stuck this in a folded and taped mylar sleeve and the envelop is stuck to the tape inside the sleeve. The books are NOT signed by Samuel A. Ashe. <br/> <br/> The William Byrd Press, Inc., Printers hardcover
187217780Syracuse N. Y.: Hamilton Child; Printed At the Journal Office. Good. 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce first edition bound in original blind stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Hinges & text tight clean & intact. 247pp. Fold-out map of Schoharie County intact with small tape reinforcement on verso. Spine ends edges & corners rubbed with small loss to spine ends. Contains historical notes on the states the county & the towns. Ads interspersed throughout. New York Business. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 247 pages . Hamilton Child; Printed At the Journal Office hardcover
187117781Syracuse: Hamilton Child; Printed At the Journal Office. Good. 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce first edition bound in original blind stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Hinges & text tight & intact. 2333pp. Fold-out map of Ulster County is intact & has 1" tear on bottom edge. Spine ends edges & corners rubbed with a few chips & small loss to spine ends. Scattered spotting. Contains historical notes on the states the county & the towns. Ads interspersed throughout. New York Business. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 333 pages . Hamilton Child; Printed At the Journal Office hardcover
1970028586Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1970. Book. VG. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. White pictorial wraps. Light shelf wear a few light surface marks and handling divots lightly toned on both covers toward fore-edges. Upper front cover fore-edge shows slight abrasion with slight crease to bottom front corner. Firm square binding one light stress crease. Fully illus. w/ b&w photographs fully intact interior. Scarce nicely intact copy with minor cosmetic flaws. Harvard University Press Paperback
184110715Philadelphia - New York: Published by H.S. Tanner 1841. Good . Map Only 19"x14" Outside Margins. Some closed tears at outer edges to the folds. One closed tear about 2-3 inches to the map near the outside margin. -- Overall Condition of map. Published by H.S. Tanner unknown
184110714Philadelphia - New York: Published by H.S. Tanner 1841. Very good. Map Only 12"x15-1/2" Outside Margins. includes pages 243-279 from the book. Some closed tears at outer edges to the folds. -- Overall Condition of map. Published by H.S. Tanner unknown
18820008297Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co. 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 362 156 pages modern cloth top cover titling from the original binding in place. Scarce. <br/><br/>Part One is historical Part Two is biographical. The 9 portraits include the 3 contributing editors plus six other pioneers. The first county history of Grundy County Buck 827 . Note: Laid in is an Index to the Biographical Sketches in this work in alphabetical order; also this was published without the usual map of the county. O. L. Baskin & Co. hardcover
199746767Guill Johnson. G/NONE. 1997. Hardcover. Oversize hardback number 85 of 250 copies; light wear to gilt-lettered brown textured covers; underlining. Hinges sound uncracked; pages tight. No DJ probably as issued. Not library discard. Photos index 381 numbered pages. ; . Guill Johnson, hardcover
1968049328New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1968. Book. Illus. by James Graves. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. INSCRIBED. Teal green cloth lettered in gold foil. Slightly cocked binding original to issue otherwise without flaws. Color illus. dust jacket shows 1/2" closed tear at heel of spine slight rubbing at head price clipped dust jacket. Stated 1st ptg. x157 pp. illus. Inscribed by McPhee directly on half-title not a book plate "With very best wishes / to Stanley Howard" full signature dated Father's Day 1968; Howard was a college classmate of McPhee's. Scarce inscribed copy of the author's fourth book. Farrar, Straus & Giroux Hardcover
1943059017New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1943. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pale orange cloth lettered in black. 253 pp. 4th ptg. Mild tanning and foxing to endpapers otherwise essentially as issued. Firm binding clean interior. Color illus. dust jacket is foxed on both flaps and slightly foxed on rear panel with rubbing with minor loss to corners and spine extremities 1" tear with some loss at heel of rear joint a few minor creases and a few small edge chips now in mylar. Duell, Sloan and Pearce Hardcover
189646934Self-Published. G/NONE. 1896. Hardcover. Small privately printed hardback commemorating the brief life of a prominent Atlanta banker's son who died at age 14 probably of typhoid fever. White cloth binding moderately soiled/spotted. Inscribed to previous owners who are probably the writers of a brief note contained in the book. The book consists of many letters of condolence from friends and family biographical details of the subject and a bit about the circumstances of his death. Photo portraits of William Lawson Peel Jr and some family members. Contents a bit shaken. No DJ. Scarce. ; . Self-Published, hardcover
1810056000Richmond: Published by the Author 1810. 1st Edition . Leather Bound. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. vii 446 1 pages. Hardcover bound in original full leather. The binding is quite worn and there is brown cloth tape over the spine and around all edges of the boards. Title written in white one the spine. Front inner hinge is reinforced with book cloth tape. The front pastedown has an early owner's inscription faint and an early Richmond Virginia bookseller's ticket reading "Sold by John R. Jones / Nearly opposite Eagle Tav. / Richmond". The title page and the first few pages have heavy damping. text is browned. There are a couple of inscriptions one early on the rear pastedown. <br/> <br/> Published by the Author hardcover
18909928Bellefonte Pa.: James A. Fiedler. Very Good. 1890. Hardcover. Clean paper covered boards with blue cloth spine. Text tight clean & intact. B/W illustrations. Color pages with advertisements. Additional blank numbered pages for townships & boroughs. This item is in nice condition and quite rare. The original population records were destroyed in a fire. Cover edges lightly scuffed. Pennsylvania; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 282 pages . James A. Fiedler hardcover
191933960Annapolis MD: The U.S. Naval Institute 1919. First Edition. First Printing. fair to good. 26 cm 127 profusely illus. including 1 color illus. bookplate some wear and soiling to boards board corners and spine edges worn. The U.S. Naval Institute hardcover
196834862Self-Published. 1968. Hardcover. Two-volume set with bright clean covers; pages tight with occasional notation. Previous owner's name marked through on front free endpapers of both volumes. Volume I 155 pages with index covers 1763-1820 and Volume II 191 pages with index covers 1820-1830. ; . Self-Published, hardcover