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192617557Bethlehem PA: Comenius Press. Very Good. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean blue cloth with gilt decorations. Map frontispiece. Illustrated with many b/w photographs. Interior of text is tight clean & intact. Double-page diagram of the historical development of Missions over 175 years at rear of text. Religion Pennsylvania ; B& W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 163 pages . Comenius Press hardcover
1980601536Syracuse New York U.S.A.: Syracuse Univ Pr 1980. Contains black and white photo illustrations. Owner's name written on front end page. Pages are clean. Jacket has some soil and tears. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 7"x8.5". Syracuse Univ Pr
1980601537Syracuse New York U.S.A.: Syracuse Univ Pr 1980. Stated 1st edition. Black and white photo illustrations. Pages are clean no writing. Dust jacket is price-clipped with sticker remnant has a small tear on the bottom front side. Stated 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7"x8". Syracuse Univ Pr
1949008739Fair Lawn New Jersey: Borough of Fair Lawn 1949. Very Good condition. Previous owner's name on front cover i.e. "Property of Borough of Fair Lawn N.J. File Copy. Do Not Remove." Bound in the original wrappers stamped in silver and dark blue. The spine is square and flat. Pages are clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Softcover. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. Illustrated throughout with photographs and portraits of city fathers and prominent citizens. The introduction credits the unpublished manuscript of Erwin Schroers for most of this volume's early historical data. Included are sections on Fair Lawn's early history the Doremus family; the Terhune family; the Zabriskie family; the James-Coppendyke family; the James Joralemon house; the Berdan house; the Peter A. Hopper house; Bogert homestead; Hopper family; the Dutch house; the Thomas Cadmus house; the Henry A. Hopper homesteads; Adam Hopper and the Hopper house; Van Riper-Ellis homestead; the George Morlot house; the Garretsons of Slotterdam; the Jabob Vanderbeck-Ferdon homestead; the Maria Ann Ackerman homestead; the Ackermans of Fair Lawn; the founding of the borough; 25 years of educational history in Fair Lawn; Fire Department; Police Department; Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps; roads; playgrounds; Memorial Park; Fair Lawn Public Library; the Fair Lawn Boys' Club; Boy Scout Troops and Cub Scout Packs; Girl Scouts and Brownies; religious life in Fair Lawn; Fair Lawn Honor Roll a listing of those who died in service of their country. At the end is a 30-page advertising section for local businesses. . First Edition Presumed. Softcover. Very Good condition/No jacket as issued. 106pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Borough of Fair Lawn Paperback
42 pages. Features: Interesting Packard-Diesel photo ad inside front cover explains how their engine gains revs when going over mountain tops; Thompson Valve ad commemorates the "Southern Cross", piloted by Wing Commander Charles Kingford-Smith, which completed the first successful east-west Atlantic crossing in a heavier-than-air craft in 1930; New Features of Engines Exhibited at the National Aircraft Show; Wind Tunnel Tests and Performance Calculations on the Medvedeff Monobiplane; The Month's Best from the Foreign Press - The Development of Deck Flying (to/from aircraft carriers) with photo of Squadron Commander Dunning's first successful landing on the H.M.S. Furious, and three photos of the fatal second attempt; Airplane Motor Radio Shielding; Aircraft Servicing Solutions; Compensating the Compass - Periodic Inspection and Servicing; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1934046775Henry Morris Schofer 1934. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Brown embossed "leatherette" cloth. Some white spotting to portions of back cover otherwise nearly as issued. Registration plate inside front cover shows this copy to have been No. 49 to Katie Diener of Boyertown PA with former owner's notations in pencil beneath otherwise unmarked. Mild toning to corners of both flyleaves. 168xii pp. illus. w/ b&w photos indexed. Scarce. Henry Morris Schofer Hardcover
1902047500Lancaster PA: Pennsylvania German Society 1902. Book. VG-. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SOFTCOVER stiff gray wraps. Binding is square and firm with typical stress creasing. Covers mildly soiled with crease along front cover fore-edge and 1" squarish loss at top corner minor loss to bottom front edge chip to top rear binding corner. Pennsylvania -- The German Influence on its Settlement and Development Part IX. Limited to 475 copies. 50ix355viii357 pp. illus. w/ plates. Pennsylvania German Society Paperback
18771906Frederick: Baughman Brothers 1877. First Edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 222 pages. In fine condition with just a few shallow wrinkles and faint rubs at extremities. Illustrated with 7 tissue-guarded wood-engraved plates by H. W. Crutchfield and Joseph T. Harley. Schley describes the haunts habits and methods of hunting partridge quail pheasant and grouse. He includes directions on gun handling the art of shooting on the wing and working with hunting dogs. <br /> <br /> Beautifully bound in green with gilt decorated and titled spine and upper board. A particularly clean and fresh copy. Published in Frederick Maryland. <br /> <br /> Ref. PHILLIPS p. 332-333; HAND S98. Baughman Brothers unknown
1967014472Lancaster PA: Self-Published Printed by Quality Printing Inc. 1967. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light blue-green cloth lettered in gold foil. Modestly rubbed along joints and at spine extremities; binding leans a bit. Mild foxing to cloth along front cover fore-edge. 188 pp. illus. w/ b&w photographs. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on page preceding title showing him with a 1700-lb. Kodiak bear that he killed in Apr. 1951. Mounted on rear pastedown is a reduced reproduction of a one-page MLS on Kanga N'Thole Safaris Limitada stationery dated 9 Oct. 1961 attesting to the author's marksmanship. Laid in at rear is the author's business card -- he was a bricklayer by trade. Scarce. Self-Published [Printed by Quality Printing, Inc.] Hardcover
196470381Schuylkill Haven PA: Private Printing. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Previous owner's name; B&W Photographs; 85 pages . Private Printing 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
1986070406Salt Lake City UT: Ancestry Incorporated 1986. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Volumes 1 through 5 of an eventual 7 issued 1986-88 uniformly bound in dark blue cloth lettered in gold foil. Vol. 6 was issued in 1993 and 7 in 1998; neither is included here. All volumes show minor foxing along text block edges otherwise essentially as issued in Near Fine dust jackets showing minor rubbing/chipping at heads of spine panels now in mylar. Approx. 240 pp. per volume. All are 1st ptgs. Ancestry Incorporated Hardcover
1967232385Tradition Press 1967. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Faciimile of 1879 edition. No dust jackets as issued. Wriiting on front free endapers of each volume. A few markings and underlinings in side but not that much. Bindings are secure. Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes not envelopes. Tradition Press Hardcover
188876109Annapolis: James Young State Printer. Poor. 1888. Softcover. Covers worn and torn partially detached at the front joint. Paper missing on spine and front cover. Quarter inch tear at the top edges of pages 35 to 81. Rear cover chipped. Pages browned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 114 pages . James Young, State Printer paperback
2003004341New Brunswick New Jersey: Rutgers University Press 2003. Laid-in is a letter SIGNED by Millicent Fenwick dated November 19 1982 on her Congress of the United States letterhead. Signed by Author on title page - her signature only. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. A clean square tight copy. The Dust Jacket is bright and shiny. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. 2003. First Edition. Illustrated with 8 pages of photos. List of sources. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original tan boards and brown cloth spine lettered in gold. Sharp corners. From the Dust Jacket: "Amy Shapiro has written the first biography of Millicent Fenwick the popular and colorful New Jersey congresswoman. Affectionately remembered as the pipe-smoking grandmother who many believe served as the model for Garry Trudeau's DOONESBURY character Lacey Davenport Fenwick transcended the stereotype to become in the words of Walter Cronkite 'the conscience of Congress.'". Signed by Author on title page - signature only. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xv 283pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Rutgers University Press Hardcover
1995223323University of Pittsburgh Press 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover 216 pp. w/ 168 b& w photos illustrations and maps throughout. Documents the manufacturers of stoneware in Pennsylvania that rivaled New York state during the golden age of 1850-1880.Topics include common motifs cobalt markingsand common forms. Appendices list area potteries significant dates production data sample sales agreements and more. Intevriew with Frank Hamilton. Book Condition : Near Fine; owner's name inside front over no other text marks; binding tight. Dust Jacket Condition : Near Fine; light shelf wear along top edge. University of Pittsburgh Press Hardcover
199036551Louisville Ky. :: Harmony House. VG/NONE. 1990. Hardcover. 0916509559 . Stated first edition in hardbound format with silver-lettered cloth covers very clean bright. Pages tight unmarked crisp. 144 pages with pictorial endpapers many wonderful black-and-white photos. Lacks dust jacket. Not a former library copy. ; . Harmony House, hardcover
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 8 plates, front endpaper plan and rear endpaper map, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; pale blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned at extreme head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail. Vividly written first-hand account by the captain who took his boat to Argentina after the Surrender and created the world-wide rumour that he had carried Hitler with him. THE FIRST EDITION IS NOW SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.430; Law, 1728.
1908030490Philadelphia and Valley Forge PA: James Hogan for Valley Forge Park Commission 1908. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Booklet gray wraps. Moderately soiled covers rubbed along binding fold with separation from lower staple to bottom edge. Clean intact interior excepting minor soiling along margins of main title. 31 pp. b&w photographic plates large color folding topograpichal map bound in at front large color folding general map bound in at rear smaller color folding map of park and vicinity bound in at p. 15 all fully intact. Exterior presents as Good interior and maps Near Fine to Fine. Scarce with notably fine maps. James Hogan for Valley Forge Park Commission Paperback
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
32212University of Georgia Press. VG/G. 1943. Hardcover. 0820301329 . Signed by Saye and inscribed to previous owner. Slight fading along cover edges minor ; pgs tight clean unmarked; hinges sound uncracked. DJ worn w/several short edge tears uneven age-browning smudges. ; . University of Georgia Press, hardcover
1898200438Cherry Valley N.Y.: Gazette Printers 1898. This antique hardcover book is bound in black cloth boards with gilt cover lettering. Cover is worn soiled; rear hinge cracked; pages browned; some writing on endpapers. 155 pages; approx. 6"x8". Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Gazette Printers Hardcover
1973067623Philadelphia PA: Save the Delaware Coalition 1973. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Stiff goldenrod wraps lettered/illus. in brown. Covers a bit tanned and with minor soiling light crease along front joint. Square uncreased binding unmarked interior. xviii172 pp. illus. 1st ed. Scarce. Save the Delaware Coalition Paperback
Roma, Tip. del Senato, 1949, in-8, br. edit., pp. 38. Invio autografo dell'Autore.
M14420Conseil Général de Loire-Atlantique, 1989 , 4 vols in8 br , 1705 pp , abondantes illustrations , 1 catre dépliante hors texte. Exemplaire ex bibliothèque ( en très bon état - n' a pas du être souvent consulté ) pélliculé avec cotation sur le dos