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1922061546Oaks PA: John U. Francis Sr. 1922. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff brown wraps lettered/illus. in black. Moderate handling wear vertical crease to back cover. Square uncreased binding. Dampstaining to covers extends into margins of several early and late leaves not affecting text. 1645 pp. rear folding map. John U. Francis, Sr. Paperback
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
198183013Commonwealth Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Non-circulating library copy. Library labels removed from spine of DJ name/address stamped on top outside edges crossed out and on the title page. Security label removed from inside rear cover. Scarce in hardcover. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 510 pages . Commonwealth Press hardcover
185717254West Chester Pennsylvania: Wood & James. Very Good-. 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Original 1/4 calf spine over tan paper-covered boards with black lettering. Interior of text is tight clean & intact. Complete history of the Borough from the first settlement to the present time. All the inhabitants' occupations businesses statistics a list of the streets lanes and alleys private schools churches and dwelling houses. Pages 113-160 contain illustrated ads. 1" stain on bottom edge of front cover. Light foxing on front and rear endpapers. Pennsylvania. ; 8vo 8" - 9" ; 160 pages . Wood & James hardcover
2015053371Reading PA: Victor Emmanuel II 2015. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Black cloth-effect boards lettered in gold foil. As issued. 184 pp. illus. w/ b&w photos some color. Victor Emmanuel II Hardcover
1872008766Philadelphia 1872. Fine. 1 card 7.2 x 12 cm. printed on one side: "Assemblies. Foyer of the Academy of Music." Langhorn Wister's name is written in as the person to be admitted. The names of the patronesses are printed: Mrs. Hartman Kuhn Mrs. Harry McCall Mrs. Charles Macalater Jr. Mrs. Francis Peters Mrs. George Blight and Mrs. Edward Merrell. With this is a light pink sheet 16 x 12 cm. folded and printed with the dates Mon. Jan. 15 Tues. Jan. 30 and Thurs. Feb. 8 and times. The music began at 9:00 the German Cotillion was at 12:00 and the balls ended at 3:00. The Dancing Assembly of Philadelphia also known as "The Assemblies" was established in the winter of 1748-49. Remaining an annual tradition into the 21st century the Assembly Ball is the oldest continuously operating subscription dance in the United States. To attend one either had to be a subscriber a person invited who pays a fee to attend or be sponsored by a subscriber. After the Civil War the Assemblies were held at the Academy of Music until 1904 when it moved to the Bellevue Stratford Hotel. Langhorne Wesley Wister 1834-1891 was the son of William Wister and Sarah Logan Fisher Wister and served as a Brev. Brig. Gen. in the Civil War. No year is given; 1872 1877 and 1883 are the years in which the calendar corresponds to the dates given between the end of the Civil War and Wister's death. In Fine Condition: clean and crisp. unknown
200981664Lynchburg: Warwick House Publishers. As New in As New dust jacket. 2009. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 447 pages . Warwick House Publishers hardcover
381320331X.Gperfect. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
1989016419Herford: Verlag E.S.Mittler & Sohn 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. 8x8x0. Very good copy with minor shelfwear. Text in German French and English. Verlag E.S.Mittler & Sohn paperback
189614958New York: Edwin W. Dayton. Good. 1896. Hardcover. Lightly foxed tan cloth. Age darkened spine. Gilt titles on spine & front cover. Text tight clean & intact. A few pages have lightly foxed margins. Tissue protected frontispiece. Illustrated with B/W photographs drawings and maps. Spine head has two mended tears. ; B/W Photo Drawing & Map Illus.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 762 pages . Edwin W. Dayton hardcover
1877799Pennsylvania: Valley Sentinel Office 1877. Hardcover. Fair. Blue hardcover lacking dustjacket no additional printings listed so probably first edition. A fair to good copy with heavy wear to the extremeties most pronounced at the spine ends. Both hinges are split and fragile but boards still attached. Front free endpaper detached otherwise all pages bound in and intact. Previous owners inscriptions to the first blank - one from 1881 and one from 1968 - otherwise an unmarked copy. Pages with age toning and a bit of foxing text clean and legible. 263 pp. indexed ahistory of the church's first 100 years. Laid in at front is a newspaper article from the local paper about a man who brings his chair to the Presbyterian Church to spend the day after the local benches were all removed. <br/><br/> Valley Sentinel Office hardcover
1996067213Spencer L. Windle 1996. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Blue cloth lettered/illus. in gold foil. New/as issued. No. 226 of an edition limited to 2000 copies hand-numbered on verso of main title. 123 pp. illus. w/ b&w photographs. Spencer L. Windle Hardcover
1875024532Newark New Jersey 1875. Very Good condition. Only light corner wear. Hinges are perfect. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. 1875. First Edition. Illustrated. The author left Albany in 1848 for Newark where he printed and edited a newspaper THE NEWARK DAILY MERCURY. These lively memoirs contain much on printing as well as local history. Bound in the original cloth stamped in bright and shiny gold on the front cover. Hill's NEWARK IMPRINTS 659. Felcone 2046. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 200pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Hardcover
1897016650Newark: New Jersey Historical Society 1897. A gorgeous copy. Near Fine condition. SEE PHOTOS. Bright shiny clean square and tight. This is the rare 1897 FIRST PRINTING -- NOT the 1900 reprint with which it can easily be confused see BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE below. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Text pages are creamy white fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. With 27 illustrations mostly steel engraved portraits with tissue guards. This 1897 First Edition is bound in the original blue cloth which still has much of its new book gloss. SEE PHOTOS. Shiny gilt lettering on the spine reads: Semi-Centennial Celebration New Jersey Historical Society 1895. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. The largest section of the book pp. 15-152 is FIFTY YEARS OF HISTORICAL WORK IN NEW JERSEY by William Nelson with several tissue-guarded steel-engraved portraits. Also included are a bibliography of the society pp. 153-167; A HIGHWAY OF THE NATION by Austin Scott President of Rutgers College pp. 169-176 with the RESPONSE OF GENERAL HARRISON by former U. S. President Benjamin Harrison pp. 177-180; THE COURSE OF AMERICAN HISTORY by Woodrow Wilson then Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University; later U. S. President pp. 181-206; INDEX TO BIBLIOGRAPHY of the Society pp. 207-214 essentially a topical index to the first 23 volumes of the Proceedings as well as to the Society's other publications; GENERAL INDEX pp. 215-223. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: there was a later printing of this book in 1900 which is very similar to this 1897 first printing. Both printings have a title page dated 1897. However they can be distinguished from one another in two ways. The 1897 first printing is bound in blue cloth while the 1900 printing has a black cloth binding. In addition the later printing has a second title page that is dated 1900 and reads: "Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society Volume VIII.". First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition. 8vo. x 223pp. 27 plates. New Jersey Historical Society Hardcover
1902063150Kensington Press 1902. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. INSCRIBED. Burgundy ribbed cloth covers bordered in blind spine panel lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Firm binding clean interior. Endpapers show partial tanning. Inscribed by author on front flyleaf full signature personalized "To S. B. Brown" at Holmesburg Pa. dated 26 Sept. 1910. The title notwithstanding much of the content of the shorter essays has to do with central Pennsylvania and several long entries are devotes to various aspects of the Pennsylvania Railroad: the transportation panel in Broad Street Station its directors secretary freight agencies and memorial sketches. Kensington Press Hardcover
198841471University of South Carolina Press. VG/NONE. 1988. Hardcover. 0872496066 . Crisp bright hardcover with scant wear; appears unread. No DJ. Not a former library copy. ; . University of South Carolina Press, hardcover
193740282Berlin: Freiheitsverlag G.m.b.H. 1937. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Quarto. 64pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over blind stiff wrappers. <br /> <br /> A collection of 45 photogravures documenting Mussolini's 5-day official visit to his friend and ally Adolf Hitler in Germany in late September 1937. Many of the photographs featured in this work were taken by Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. Striding side by side the two dictators and partners of the Berlin-Rome Axis are seen touring Munich where they laid wreaths on various Nazi monuments. Among these was the Feldherrnhalle in Königsplatz which held the bodies of 16 Nazi heroes killed in the 1923 Munich Putsch. The next series of photographs were taken in the little village of Lalendorf where Hitler and Mussolini witnessed the most impressive military manoeuvres of post-WWI Germany. The following images show the two leaders visiting the mighty Krupp munitions works at Essen. <br /> <br /> Two photographs of Benito Mussolini attending a luncheon given by Göring and his wife at their famous hunting lodge Karinhall are placed between the largest series of pictures showing the two men during the grandiose Berlin celebrations in their honor. Indeed an estimated crowd of 650000 people attended the demonstration organized on the Maifeld the polo ground adjoining the Olympic Stadium. At the official tribune Mussolini delivered a speech where he spoke of the awakening of Germany through the Nazi revolution Bolshevism the common enemy and Germany’s friendly stand during the Ethiopian War. The speech ended with a stress on the 115 million Germans and Italians and the need for them to unite “in one single unshakable determination.â€<br /> <br /> Closed tear and soiling at back cover of dust-jacket. Moderate abrasion along fore-edge of DJ. Clear and minor water-staining along fore-edge of the first 32 pages not affecting lettering. Text in German gothic script. DJ in overall good- wrappers and interior in good to very good photographs in very good condition. Freiheitsverlag G.m.b.H. unknown
17760087821776. Near Fine -. 1 handwritten document of 4 pages 39 x 25 cm. folded. On 12 Dec. 1776 William Rowan of Fawn Township York Co. Pa. yeoman mortgaged 245 acres in Fawn Township to Beulah Paschall of the city of Philadelphia spinster for 300 pounds of Pennsylvania due by 12 Dec. 1783 with interest paid yearly. Signed by William Rowan; witnesses Peter Miller and Abraham Shoemaker; Philadelphia Supreme Court Justice Thomas Willing; and York County Recorder Samuel Johnston. Embossed paper stamp of Pennsylvania. The mortgagee was Beulah Paschall 1732-1793 a Philadelphia Quaker and owner of Cedar Grove. Thomas Willing 1731-1821 was a highly successful merchant and real estate developer as well as a Philadelphia Supreme Court Justice from 1767 to 1776. He served as the first president of both the Bank of North America and the Bank of the United States and supported the American Revolution. York County Recorder Samuel Johnston on the other hand had come to York County from England as an official representative of the Penn family. He held a variety of county offices at various times in addition to that of recorder of deeds: clerk of courts prothonotary and register of wills. When he refused to take the oaths of allegiance to Pennsylvania during the Revolution he had to relinquish all public offices. However he did not opposed the Revolution. Two of his sons-in-law served as colonels in the American militia and two of his sons were privates. By 1786 Johnston lived in Maryland and was admitted as an attorny in Baltimore County. In Near Fine- Condition: just starting to separate along folds; minor soiling; otherwise bright and solid. unknown
197544158Cherokee Publishing Company. VG-/G. 1975. Hardcover. 0877970319 . Hardback first edition in blue cloth covers that remain clean bright; hinges sound uncracked; pages tight clean. Textblock edges lightly foxed. DJ moderately worn with foxing to white portions and to underside with light chipping small edge tears soil. Not library discard. ; . Cherokee Publishing Company, hardcover
196134704Atlanta:: Privately Issued. 1961. Hardcover. Covers and contents clean bright; DJ worn with small tears chipping light soil. ; . Privately Issued, hardcover
1982600356NY: Helen m Cardamone 1982. Green cloth cover with gold lettering on the spine. "Canal Country follows the route of the Chenango Canal through a delightful and historic swathe of nearly 100 miles from Utica to Binghamton." Illustrated throughout with beautiful black & white photos by Helen Cardamone. Autographed by both Williams and Cardamone on front endpaper. Very clean crisp copy. Signed by Author and Photographer. First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Very Good/Good. Illus. by Photos By Helen Cardamone. 9"x12". Helen m Cardamone
193535879Charleston:: Walker Evans & Cogswell Company. 1935. Hardcover. Second edition in red cloth covers showing small white spots on front cover; spine slant; darkening of spine making spine lettering difficult to read. Internal foxing; pages tight unmarked. No DJ. Not a former libary copy ; . Walker, Evans & Cogswell Company, hardcover