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1962054032Port Royal Sesqui-Centennial Committee 1962. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Stiff green textured wraps lettered in black. Slightly faded along binding fold essentially as issued. Front flyleaf partially tanned from news clipping laid in. Signed by Laentana M. Shelley one of the members of the Sesqui-Centennial Committee. Port Royal Sesqui-Centennial Committee Paperback
1886221698Philadelphia PA: Everts Peck and Richards 1886. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1886 Complete 2 Volume set 1602 pp. Original bindings gilt text block gilt lettering on red covers. Includes Civil War muster rolls maps and b&w photo and woodcut portraits. Book Conditions : Fair; no text marks noted; bindings separating especially Vol. 1; wear to cover corners and spines; scuffing to covers; scattered light spots of foxing and some spotting to text block. No Dust Jackets as issued. PLEASE NOTE : Extra postage may be requested due to weight of set. Everts, Peck, and Richards Hardcover
1973045884Morristown NJ: Morris County Historical Society 1973. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Mauve cloth lettered in gold foil. Facsimile reprint of original 1882 Munsell & Co. edition issued by Morris Co. Historical Society 1973. Former owner's surname inked on upper front flyleaf otherwise as issued. Dust jacket is lightly soiled now in mylar. Morris County Historical Society Hardcover
1976048775St. John's Host United Church of Christ 1976. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red leatherette lettered in gold foil. As issued. xiii241 pp. illus. w/ b&w photographs. St. John's (Host) United Church of Christ Hardcover
026181Allentown PA: Miers Lithographic Service Inc. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket/As Issued. 4to. Good copy with mild soiling and foxing and some residue on front pastedown from label being removed. Blue cloth boards with shelfwear and mild fading. Miers Lithographic Service, Inc hardcover
194231513Atlanta:: National Society United States Daughters of 1812 State of Georgia. 1942. Hardcover. Gray cloth covers moderately soiled. Endpapers heavily browned foxed with previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Pages tight with sporadic foxing; hinges sound uncracked. No DJ. ; . National Society United States Daughters of 1812, State of Georgia, hardcover
198035561North Augusta S. C. :: North Augusta Historical Society. 1980. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Gray cloth covers show light to moderate edgewear and rubbing; spine slant. Textblock edges foxed; large abrasion about 2 square inches on front pastedown as result of name/address label removal. Pages tight clean unmarked. No DJ. 242 pages with photos. ; . North Augusta Historical Society, hardcover
1962003514Hummelstown PA: Hummelstown Bicentennial Committee 1962. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Red cloth. Lightly soiled cloth approx. 1" of paper at top spine extremity lacking. Firm binding clean interior. Town history photographs period ads. Hummelstown Bicentennial Committee Hardcover
026184Philadelphia PA: Avil Printing Co. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Royal blue cloth lettered in silver foil bevelled edges oblong format. Cloth is mildly soiled with a few light surface marks slightly rubbed at corners and spine extremities overall quite decently preserved. Binding cord reinforced with cloth slightly separating at hinges but quite firm clean interior a few leaves showing short closed edge tears. 48 pp. including many local advertisements for Phoenixville Pottstown Philadelphia Reading Royersford Norristown Allentown Valley Forge Spring City Conshohocken etc. some illustrated with a photograph of the New Armory on p. 3 with a full history of the Griffin Battery "the Organization now known as Battery 'C'" commencing on p. 22 with photographs the original roster current officers and NCOs John Denithorne Captain musicians privates and a precis of the National Guard of Pennsylvania also reproduced engravings of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg the Battle of Malvern Hill and Hampton Roads. Exceptionally scarce. Avil Printing Co. Hardcover
198837160The Emrys Foundation and the Greenville County Museum of Art. 1988. Softcover. 95-page softbound catalog to accompany Greenville County Museum of Art exhibit in 1988 titled "Just Like a Woman". Catalog includes poems stories and essays which were placed alongside paintings drawings and sculpture in the exhibit. Amy Clampitt poem "Lines Written the Week Wall Street Went Haywire " is featured along with poems by Maxine Kumin Carole Oles Linda Pastan Pattiann Rogers and Leslie Ullman. Cover creased and somewhat "wavy " with original price label on rear cover. Pages tight unmarked. ; . The Emrys Foundation and the Greenville County Museum of Art. paperback
1946011471Philadelphia: American Relief for Italy 1946. Paperback. Near Fine. 16 pages: illustrations; 28 cm. White card cover; stapled. Cover title and illustration. American Relief for Italy was founded in 1944 to provide food clothing and medicine to Italy. This is a program for "A Gala Night of Grand Opera Highlights" a fundraising concert held at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on May 27 1946. Performers included Enzo Mascherini Winifred Heidt Bruno Landi Hilde Reggiani Nino Martini Ezio Pinza and the Philadelphia La Scala Opera Company Corps de Ballet and Chorus. Includes advertisements by primarily Italian businesses in Philadelphia. With: a loose page for ordering food packages to send "to your friends and family abroad" with three options. Scarce. In Near Fine Condition: cover very lightly soiled; a few pencilled notations about changes in the printed program; otherwise clean and solid. American Relief for Italy paperback
1899000373New York: Wayne Kratzer & Co. Publishers 1899. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Red cloth. 1899 City Directory for numerous cities and towns in New York New Jersey Massachusetts Connecticut also Pennsylvania Delaware Vermont Rhode Island. Cities include New York City Philadelphia Boston Pittsburgh--listings for wholesale dry goods wholesale grocers banks hotels. New York City advertisements in front. Soiled cloth. Weak front hinge though binding still firm and square. Interior toned but fully intact. Slight dampstaining and minor paper loss at bottom corner of first page of ads front flyleaf. Scarce. Wayne Kratzer & Co., Publishers Hardcover
1801008979Lancaster Pa: Francis Bailey 1801. Hardcover. Good. v 1 719 24 p.; 32 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Laws of Pennsylvania. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Passed at a Session which was Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia on 5 Dec. 1797 Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers 1798; Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Passed at a Session which was Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia on 6 Dec. 1796 Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers 1797; Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Passed at a Session which was Begun and Held at the Borough of Lancaster on 3 Dec. 1799 Lancaster: Francis & Robert Bailey 1800; and Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Passed at a Session which was Begun and Held at the Borough of Lancaster on 5 Nov. 1800 Lancaster: Francis Bailey 1801 have separate title pages but continuous pagination. Former owner's name "J. B. Smith" on all but one title page. Occasional discrete corrections and additions in ink throughout presumably by Smith. Jonathan Bayard Smith 1742-1812 Philadelphia merchant and member of the Continental Congress in 1777-1778 was prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Philadelphia from 1777 to 1788 and a justice of that court from 1778 to 1788. Beginning with 1792 he served two years as alderman of Philadelphia and in the latter year was auditor general of Pennsylvania under Gov. Thomas Mifflin. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed with loss at ends of spine and corners; joints are cracked; old dampstain in lower part of pages 189-240; occasional foxing heavier on a few pages; occasional ink notations; otherwise clean and solid. Francis Bailey hardcover
1797008977Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers 1797. Hardcover. Good. 4 ix 1 817 iii 34 p.; 32 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Laws of Pennsylvania. Names of two former owners at head of title page: Parker Campbell and Mathew Ritchie the latter crossed out. Bookplate on back fixed endpaper indicating that this was presented to the Washington County Historical Society by Janet M. Clark in 1905. A heavy book; for international shipping it will have to be sent by priority international. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed with loss at ends of spine and corners; front joint is cracked; closed 5-cm. tear from the fore-edge of front free endpaper; occasional foxing generally light; otherwise clean and solid. Hall and Sellers hardcover
1797008976Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers 1797. Hardcover. Good. 4 913 1 64 iv 22 p.; 32 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Laws of Pennsylvania. Printing error: 737 and 738 were skipped in pagination no text is lacking. Bookplate on back fixed endpaper indicating that this was presented to the Washington County Historical Society by Janet M. Clark in 1905. A heavy book; for international shipping it will have to be sent by priority international. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed; joints are cracked; minor loss at ends of spine; blank leaf preceding title page has one horizontal tear from the fore-edge almost to the gutter; occasional foxing generally light; otherwise clean and solid. Hall and Sellers hardcover
1795008978Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers 1795. Hardcover. Good. 2 xliii 1 793 1 v 21 p.; 32 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Laws of Pennsylvania. Includes: "Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania passed at a Session which was begun and held at the city of Philadelphia on Tuesday the Seventh Day of December in the Year One Thousand Seven and Ninety and of the Independence of the United States of America the Fifteenth. To Which are Prefixed the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this Commonwealth" Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers 1791. Former owner's name at head of title page and on front fixed endpaper: "Alex Addison 1796." Alex Addison 1759-1807 a Scottish immigrant was admitted to the washington County Pa. bar in 1787 and appointed the president judge of the Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania in 1791. Bookplate on back fixed endpaper indicating that this was presented to the Washington County Historical Society by Janet M. Clark in 1905. Binder's error: final 4 pages of the Acts are bound in following the Laws of Pennsylvania title page. A heavy book; for international shipping it will have to be sent by priority international. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed with loss at ends of spine and corners; joints are cracked; old dampstaining at edges of some pages; occasional foxing generally light; otherwise clean and solid. Hall and Sellers hardcover
1918025748Albany NY: J. B. Lyon Co. for New York Monuments Commission State of New York 1918. Book. VG. Buckram. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Burgundy cloth lettered and with NY state seal in gilt. Light shelf wear a bit frayed at spine extremities light flecking to a portion of front cover a few slight surface marks to cloth. Lightly soiled front flyleaf. 141 pp. illus. A few instances of very slight internal foxing otherwise clean interior. Former owner's signature and date in pencil on front flyleaf. J. B. Lyon Co. for New York Monuments Commission, State of New York Hardcover
1866050052Philadelphia PA: A. McElroy 1866. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original copy rebound in black buckram spine panel lettered in gilt. Firm binding clean interior slightly toned text block edges showing slight dampstaining minimally evident along fore-edge margins in portions of text block slight spotting to front cover cloth. xii94442 pp. rear ads. Main title shows several tape repairs along gutter/fore-edge; folding house numbering plate partially separated along one fold with dampstained edge; folding map with one triangular piece along top edge detached and laid in overall nicely intact. Ideal reference copy. A. McElroy Hardcover
1844050051Philadelphia PA: Edward C. Biddle 1844. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original copy rebound in brown buckram spine panel lettered in gilt. Firm binding notably clean interior text block edges typically somewhat toned with small ink blot on lower fore-edge. 41232 pp. rear ads. In exceptional overall condition given its age ideal reference copy. Edward C. Biddle Hardcover
1847050050Philadelphia PA: Edward C. and John Biddle 1847. Book. Good. Half-Leather. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original black 1/4 leather blue printed paper covered boards. Worn but complete a decent enough reference copy with rubbing along joints rounded corners rubbed edges. Area of surface paper loss at top front cover corner approx. 5% of cover affecting a few letters with both covers rubbed and soiled. Approx. 1/4" square hole in center of front cover extending through interior to p. 7 title almanac first several pages of text with text affected fairly minimally bottom text block corner clipped through most of text block text unaffected. Vintage signature of A. H. Chambers 13 1/2 South 4th St. as well as a Burnett signature inked on front flyleaf also inscription on rear fixed endsheet. 42820 pp. rear ads. Interior shows typical foxing mostly relatively mild with toned/soiled text block edges firm binding. Edward C. and John Biddle Hardcover
1851005089Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Treasury 1851. Paperback. Good. 10 p.; 24 cm. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "7" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. No date of publication but published in response to the declaration in 1851 by the state treasurer John M. Bickel that the Bank of Pennsylvania was subject to the tax on dividends. Very scarce. In Good Condition: disbound; heavily foxed; otherwise clean and tight. Pennsylvania Treasury paperback
1878220079Cincinnati OH: Elm Street Printing Co. 1878. Book. Good Minus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the Organization of Presbytery September 191781 to December 1831. Limited First Edition of 300 copies. This Presbytery or synod was the first one formed west of the Allegheny Mountains and included much of Western Pennsylvania. Primarily meeting minutes and correspondence of the organization. Book Condition : Good- Ex-College Library; former owner's name in ink inside front cover and on front free end paper; library stamping to title page and text block; pocket inside rear cover; age toning throughout minor foxing; beginnings of spine separation all pages intact; bumping/tearing to spine ends; text unmarked. Elm Street Printing Co. Hardcover
190040842Albany NY: State of New York. Good with no dust jacket; First several pages of volume one loose front . hinge is cracked boards heavily worn. Volumes two and three much tighter . and with only mild wear to spines. 1900. Hardcover. A three volume set comprising a detailed record of New York State's official involvement in the Spanish-American War. Peach-colored cloth bindings with blind-stamping and black-stamped lettering on spines. Frontispiece photograph of New York Governor Frank T. Black in first volume. Volume One contains information about all official State documents issued concerning the conflict long lists of ordnance quartermaster supplies and medical supplies issued and detailed lists of soldiers who died during the War. Volume one also lists short biographical information about soldiers enlisted in Troop A Troop C 4th Battery 5th Battery 7th Battery 1st 2nd 3rd and 8th Regiments. Volume two provides registers of soldiers enlisted in the 9th 12th 13th 14th 22nd 47th and 65th Regiments. Volume three provides registers of soldiers enlisted in the 69th 71st 201st 202nd and 203rd Regiments as well as information about the naval militia. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . State of New York hardcover
1986057842New York: Social Register Association 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Black "leatherette" paper-covered boards lettered in orange. A bit of surface rubbing to covers otherwise about as issued. Firm binding clean interior. Facsimile of 1887 edition. viiixl256 pp. 1st thus: Nov. 1986. Social Register Association Hardcover
1850006192Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson printers 1850. Paperback. Very Good. 32 p.; 23 cm. Green wrappers with black wrapper title. The Union Benevolent Association was established in 1831 to provide assistance to Philadelphia residents by lending stoves to help heat their homes during a harsh winter along with wood and coal. The intention was to help the "worthy poor" without regard for religion or race. The activities of the organization have evolved since 1831; today it provides grants to projects to fight poverty. This report contains a list of people who contributed to the Union Benevolent Association for the previous year with the amount given as well as detailed data about the people with whom the association had worked. The male officers of the Association are listed; none of the members of the Ladies' Board of Managers are named although the majority of the report is theirs. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: wrapper is lightly soiled and creased; 3-cm. closed tear at upper corner of front wrapper; internally clean and tight. Merrihew & Thompson, printers paperback