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1991066542Chambersburg PA: Bill Higgins 1991. Book. Near Fine. Spiral Bound. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Typescript plastic comb binding stiff light blue covers. ii87 pp. printed on rectos only. Covers a bit tanned toward edges text block edges slightly foxed. Date and short inscription on front cover likely in the author's hand but unsigned. A vanity "publication" but filled with detailed reminiscences of Chambersburg through the early 20th century. Bill Higgins Paperback
1920215883Harrisburg PA: Department of Labor 1920. Book. Good Minus. Hardcover. Probable First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This directory is divided into four main parts: Part I - Industrial establishments classified by product and alphabetically arranged; Part II - Industrial establishments classified by counties and alphabetically arranged by cities and towns with brief resume of the industrial resources of each county; Part III - Boards of Trade Chambers of commerce Business men's manufacturers; and miscellaneous associations with location and names of officers; Part IV - Labor organizations officers and unions. Complete Index covering each subject or item of interest. Hardback - green cloth with gilt lettering on spine only no dust jacket. 1212 pages. Book Condition : Good-; pages are very lightly aged and clean for the most part with just a few small spots / stains. No markings a bit of light creasing no tears but there are a few small edge nicks. Text block is lightly soiled. Cover has rubbing and chipping. Wear and chipping to edges especially the spine tearing to spine ends dent to top front edge. Hinges are intact and binding is tight. Department of Labor Hardcover
189849548Albany NY: State of New York. Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn hinges cracked corners . bumped. 1898. Hardcover. Annual report covering the year 1897 by the Fisheries Game and Forest Commissioners of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations maps one color folding map of catchment basins of some New York State rivers has hole in center. Green decorated cloth boards. Includes sections about maple sugaring game fish fish hatcheries fishways wood-ducks snipe forestry forest reservoirs and other topics. Some beautiful color plates of fish species. Nine color plates by Sherman F. Denton of Cisco White Bass Silver Chub Female Common Whitefish Rocky Mountain Trout Steelhead Golden Shiner Alewife and Male Common Whitefish. Five color plates by J. H. Ridgway of birds: Kingfisher Great Blue Heron Male Woodduck Female Woodduck and Wilson's Snipe. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 455 pages . State of New York hardcover
0484219235.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
pp. viii, 215. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. First Edition. Coldwar/Economics 5.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
20090101872009. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Subtitled: "Traces of life and times of a two century old settlement on the rocky shore of Chedabucto Bay as told by direct descendants of the few disbanded loyalists who first came here". Originally published in 1989 this edition was published to celebrate the author's 100th birthday and includes revisions corrections and genealogical information of several families. Paperback
011956NY: Atlantic Book & Art Corporation 0. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fair. Presumed first or early edition. Large oblong pictorial cardboard cut outs with 8 pages of zoo animals some pages torn many of the animals cut out but laid back in. An obviously used copy. Number 1 in the Orbis Paint Book with Cut Outs the other 3 identified by pub list on rear cover: @ Wild West 3 The Circus 4. The Farm. Published by Atlantic Book and Art Corporation 47 Murray St NYC. nd c1920s-30s. Atlantic Book & Art Corporation 0 unknown books
011956NY: Atlantic Book & Art Corporation 0. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fair. Presumed first or early edition. Large oblong pictorial cardboard cut outs with 8 pages of zoo animals some pages torn many of the animals cut out but laid back in. An obviously used copy. Number 1 in the Orbis Paint Book with Cut Outs the other 3 identified by pub list on rear cover: @ Wild West 3 The Circus 4. The Farm. Published by Atlantic Book and Art Corporation 47 Murray St NYC. nd c1920s-30s. Atlantic Book & Art Corporation 0 unknown
1528340078.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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
198035481The Reprint Company. 1980. Hardcover. Volume 1 only. Covers clean bright; previous owner's name stamped marked out on front pastedown. Pages tight clean unmarked. . The Reprint Company, hardcover
185461500<p>NY: G. P. Putnam and Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards heavily worn lower half of backstrip missing pages toned page 61-62 removed lower corners of pages 63-64 and . pages 47-48 removed. 1854. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding 504 illustrations including a color plate of Minton tiles. Well-illustrated survey of the art works housewares fabrics machinery and scientific items displayed at the 1853-54 New York City Industry of All Nations world's fair. The fair was America's first patterned after the successful 1851 Crystal Palace exhibition in London. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .</p> G. P. Putnam and Company hardcover
185932929Boston: Fields Osgood & Co. Successors to Ticknor and Fields 1859. Clean contents with darkening to covers with some staining inked name and marks to upper front cover. Scarce. 32929. Octavo single issue printed wrappers. Features the first publication of the classic tale "The Wondersmith." This story is considered an early robot story. A toyshop owner plans to massacre thousands on the Christmas holiday by supernaturally animated small toy soldiers dolls and animals with small poisoned blades. This story influenced other writers and can be seen today in popular film such as Chuckie and others. Jessica Amanda Salmonson writes in her introduction to O'Brien's works ".O'Brien is the most important figure after Poe and before Lovecraft in modern horror literature. Fields, Osgood, & Co., Successors to Ticknor and Fields unknown
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs and diagrams in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Originally published in 1977, this useful summary covers ASDIC, radar, HFDF, Hedgehog, acoustic torpedoes, schnorkel and other crucial developments.
1919020760N.Y.: Dodd Mead & Company 1919. First edition. Publishers dark grren cloth with red lettering cover vignette. Very light wear along edges else a fine tight copy with age toning and some mottling. Dust jacket is worn and soiled pieces out at head and foot of spine with small piece out in middle spine jacket but not affecting te $1.50 price in the middle of the spine I have never seen the prce in the middle of the spine. 1 1/2 x 1/2 inch piece out at rear. Very Scarce. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine/Good. Book. Dodd, Mead & Company
280 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Human Fly - Excellent photo-illustrated article on Jack Williams, a man who scales lofty buildings with no equipment other than his fingers and toes - article with great photos ; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part II - Tragedy befalls French troops overwhelmed by the overwhelming force of Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; The Disappearance of Ivan Varlamoff - an epic fight in Uleaborg, Finland; Locked in a Freezing Chamber - a meat inspector's ordeal in South Africa; "UMRI" - the tragic story of a panther, once a police officer's pet, which becomes a terror of the district in India; The "White Man's Grave" - Filming The "Gold Coast" of Africa - article with great photos; The Friend of the Birds - photo-illustrated article on Jack Miner, Ontario's friend of the Canada Goose; My Jiu-Jitsu Combats - Captain S.L. McLaglen is a Jiu-Jitsu expert; A Treasure-Hunt in the Land of Thirst - Part III - an exciting trip to the "Mysterious Richtersveld" of Southern Africa - article with photos; Adrift in the Atlantic - Grenfell of Labrador sets down a remarkable experience related by a former engineer of his; A Man's Luck (conclusion) - the author met the girl of his dreams and tried to build a dream home for them in Alaska, but he keeps being jailed; A Film-Hunter in the Amazon - Part V - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interests of the movies - article with excellent photos; The "King of the Brushwood" - the brigand chief of Corsica; Roping a Bear - foolish youngster ropes a cinnamon bear; A Barbed Wire Frontier - people not allowed to pass between Hungary and Czechoslovakia; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3] 88, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Pages xxiv, 257-320. Features: Cover illustration of Sugar-Loaf, Rio de Janeiro; The Haunted Mine - 1927 tale of a haunted goldmine in the Township of Timmins, Ontario, Canada; The Rest Cure - a sea captain's story of an unusual Atlantic voyage with a party of cowboys; Norfleet's Quest (part 2 of 2) - for three years Texas cattleman Frank Norfleet pursued a gang of confidence tricksters; Death of British Columbia lighthouse keeper Lawrence Dupuis; The Living Death - as strange 1925 a story from Mexico; The Sky-Riders - photo illustrated article about adventures of RCMP airmen maintaining law and order in Canada's vast Northern Territory; The Lawra Lion - a lion visits the Gold Coast; The Forbidden Path - two British officers in the Himalayan foothills; "Grey" - a close-up of manners and customs prevailing in the Northwest Territories of Canada near Yellowknife; First-Trippers; A Matter of Witchcraft - the strange story of a distinguished visitor who contrived to offend one of the wild tribes in the Territory of New Guinea; many nostalgic ads; The Australian Stockman - life of the drovers of Australia's vast Outback - article with photos and map; and more. Bit of pencil writing atop front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Covers beginning to loosen. Binding sound. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Hunting Trouble - Wilmon B. Menard describes how a shooting-trip in the Austrian Alps nearly landed him in a Communist jail; Last Voyage - an old tramp steamer's trip across the Atlantic during World War II, by Patrick O'Connor; The Haunted Engine Room - a curious tale be the chief refrigeration engineer of a big liner; The Long Arm - a remarkable chain of parallel experiences and a startling sequel, by T.W. Dresser; Women's Tears - an ancient custom of Baluchistan; Frontier Valley - fond memories of a Pathan village in India, with photos; The Man from the Coffin - reprint of the 1920 story of Albert Juge, a French convict who escaped the penal settlements of Guiana and then for 12 long years roamed South America; Forgotten Island - The primitive monastic settlement on the "Great Skellig" off the coast of Ireland; The Fish Tamer, by R.S. Richards of Picton, New Zealand; Pylons in the Bush - erecting high-tension transmission lines in the wilderness; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy., Book
Please note: Front cover missing. Features include: The Haunted Mine - Author's experiences at a Canadian gold-mine; The Rest-Cure - A sea captain's story of a voyage across the Atlantic with a party of cowboys; Norfleet's Quest - Frank Norfleet, a Texas confidence victim, pursued the pertetrators for three years before achieving vengeance; The Living Death - An eccentric chemist marries an Aztec royal descendant to ferret out the secrets of the ancient Aztec dyes; The Sky Riders - Canada's RCMP, the world's first 'flying policemen'; The Lawra Lion - a lion adventure on the Gold Coast; The Forbidden Path - A remarkable experience which befell two British officers in the Himilayan foothills; A Matter of Witchcraft - A strange story from New Guinea; The Australian Stockman - the drover of Australia's outback; Tears to spine with chips missing. Contents in good condition. Magazine
The second issue of this popular and long-lived publication. Pages 114-224. Features: Canadian Curiosities - article with great illustrations; The Marvelous Feats of Juggler Ram Pershad; Earth Pyramids in the Rosengarten Mountains; "For the Company's Credit" - story of an ocean-liner race; The Queerest Monarch in the World - Mwanga, King of Uganda (illustrated article); The Wreck of the "Rising Sun" - fire at sea; Picnics in Perak - article with photo of many Malay sultans aboard elephants crossing a river; The Telegraphist of Neufchateau - true WWI story; The Romance of the Mission Field - part 1; Across the Atlantic in an Open Boat - article with photo of Harvo and Samuelson in their rowboat "Fox"; The Mysterious Tramp; Tree-Blazing - how explorers in Australia's interior mark trees to guide those who may come after them; Bagging a Man-Eater - Major A. St. H. Gibbons kills a lion to protect villagers - article with photo; "The Miracle of Moses" - the Platte High Line Canal in Colorado - article with photos; In Search of an Orchid; The Fiery Ordeal of Fiji - walking on coals (illustrated article; In the Ocean Depths - illustrated recollections of ocean diver John Pearce. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Last page is 224. It is uncertain if any pages were included after that. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
190343950The Savannah Morning News Print. G/NONE. 1903. Hardcover. Hardback first edition with brown cloth covers showing moderate soil along edges. Hinges sound uncracked; pages tight clean. No DJ. Not library discard or print-on-demand imitation. ; . The Savannah Morning News Print, hardcover
1914012958Lancaster PA: Pennsylvania German Society 1914. Book. Very Good. Original Wraps. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Blue paper wraps deckled edges. 32109304 pp. illus. with b&w plates. Proceedings held at Harrisburg Oct. 1911 copyrighted and published in 1914 in an edition limited to 600 copies as Vol. XXII of the publications of The Pennsylvania-German Society. Modest wear to extended edges creased binding a few light cover creases and light soiling. Interior clean and intact. Institutional book plate and circulation card but the copy never actually circulated thus only nominally ex-library. CONTENTS: "Pennsylvania--The German Influence in its Settlement and Development: Part XXIV: The Wayside Inns on the Lancaster Roadside between Philadelphia and Lancaster Sachse; Part XXV: The Pennsylvania-German in the Settlement of Maryland Nead. Pennsylvania German Society Paperback
1975039380Salem NJ: Salem County Cultural and Heritage Commission 1975. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Collected. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The first 12 issues of the New Jersey historical journal collected and bound in a special limited edition in burgundy "leatherette" cloth lettered in gold foil. Each issue ranges 28-48 pp. all illus. most about 36 pp. Binding is mildly rubbed at corners and extremities with minor repair along lower rear hinge. Short gift inscription on front flyleaf. Issues vary a bit in size. Sepia pictorial dust jacket shows several edge chips and a few short tears with associated creasing now in mylar. Very scarce. Salem County Cultural and Heritage Commission Hardcover