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199639406NY:: HarperCollins. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0062050788 . Illustrated by the author. First edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . HarperCollins, hardcover books
199928749New Haven: Yale University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0300076029 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Yale University Press hardcover books
1928WRCAM55666Various locations in South Dakota including Pierre and Oahe 1928. 230 photographs mounted on album leaves captioned in white or red ink throughout. Images range from 2 1/2 x 2 inches to 3 1/2 x 5 inches. Oblong octavo. Contemporary black leatherette photograph album string-tied. Minor edge wear. Several leaves detached some photographs wholly or partially removed most in nice condition. Overall good condition. An interesting annotated vernacular photograph album featuring a South Dakota family in the first quarter of the 20th century. Members of the family are variously identified as Anna Beulah and Dwight Huffman aided by a few pages of typed family notes that accompany the album. The album was kept by an unidentified member of the Huffman family who refers to herself in the first person in a few photographs including a group shot of school girls captioned "Domestic Science Class when I was a 'Frosh.'" Comparisons of photographs indicate the author of the captions is probably Anna Huffman. <br> <br> Most of the photographs feature people from multiple generations of the Huffman family in South Dakota including Grandma Benjamin. These men women and children pose in front of houses and on farms on the South Dakota prairie and at various spots in the capital city of Pierre. The family members are captured in a variety of activities common to rural life: feeding livestock killing and cleaning chickens gardening stacking hay camping cutting their own hair extracting a cow from a muddy lake tilling farmland with early motorized tractors and fishing in Lake Oahe. <br> <br> Two photographs feature Robert Benjamin Huffman - one of him while at Illinois State Normal University now Illinois State and one showing him in his World War I uniform. According to the family notes accompanying the album Robert was killed in France on October 1 1918. Several more lighthearted photographs in the album show women laughing and clowning for the camera; one photograph shows a female family member dressed as "the Hawaiian in the school parade." <br> <br> Particularly interesting are the three photographs featuring Native Americans two of them identifying the subjects. The first of these features Mr. and Mrs. Spotted Bear in Oahe S.D. The second shows Mr. and Mrs. Spotted Bear standing with Mr. and Mrs. Tall White Man. The third photograph captures a large group of Native Americans sitting in a wide circle with the caption reading "An Indian Conference Pierre So. Dak." <br> <br> Other landmarks captured here include "The old school house" the "M.E. Church at Pierre So. Dak." the "Old Missouri" River the Red Wing Seminary the "Sorensen Home Oahe So Dak." and the South Dakota State Capitol building. As with other family albums there are also numerous vacation shots with various family members in New York Virginia and Illinois; at some point Beulah and Anna drove from South Dakota to New York for vacation. <br> <br> An interesting collection of annotated vernacular family photographs from the rural American West. hardcover books
200221414NY: HarperCollins. Fine. 2002. Hardcover. 0064410129 . Illustrated by Brett Helquist. First printing. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . HarperCollins hardcover books
199920398NY: HarperCollins Harper Trophy. Near Fine. 1999. Hardcover. 0064407675 . Illustrations by Brett Helquist. First printing. Very slight edge wear to the spine ends else fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . HarperCollins (Harper Trophy) hardcover books
200121413NY: HarperCollins. Fine. 2001. Hardcover. 0064408655 . Illustrated by Brett Helquist. First printing. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . HarperCollins hardcover books
190240715CHICAGO: Other. Very Good. 1902. Hardcover. 6" TALL X 9" WIDE BOUND IN BOARDS #2 FENCING BY HAND AT THE BARN ON THE FARM BY FARMERS. THE BOTTOM BINDING RING OF 3 IS CRACKED AND NEEDS RESTRUNG. . Other hardcover books
1968WRCLIT41154London: Macmillan 1968. Polished buckram. Illustrations. First edition. Bit of sunning to edges else very good or better in a bit used dust jacket with light wear to the top edge and faint dampstaining to top edge mainly on the verso. Macmillan hardcover books
37515TRADE CATALOGUE SHAKERS CHURCH FAMILY. PRODUCTS OF INTELLIGENCE AND DILIGENCE. Mount Lebanon New York: circa 1900. Small 8vo. Publisher's wrappers. 16 pag First edition. An illustrated catalogue of handmade products including Dorothy cloaks cloth and straw bonnets cushions work boxes and other practical items of simple utilitarian beauty. Priced and with an introduction. While OCLC does not record copies McKinstry does cite a Winterthur copy dated 1908. The only co we were able to find in commerce was catalogued by an English dealer for over $1000 in 2002. Very good to fine. unknown books
1968140939094San Francisco: Family Dog 1968. Original 13.4" x 19.9" poster. FD #112-1. Very Good with dampstain to left edge visible on verso only but associated wrinkling along entire left side. Tape stain to verso as well. Family Dog unknown books
1968140939100San Francisco: Family Dog 1968. Original poster approx. 14" x 20". #FD111. Fine with slight wrinkling along left side from faint tidemark only visible on verso slight crease in right edge a few tiny stains along left edge. An attractive psychedelic rock poster created by Family Dog. Family Dog unknown books
1820305224Edo 1820. 200 woodblock illustrations of crests some light soiling to margins. 208 pp. small oblong 8vo 110 x 155 mm. blue paper wrappers worn stitched. 200 woodblock illustrations of crests some light soiling to margins. 208 pp. small oblong 8vo 110 x 155 mm. Japanese woodcut book on the crests and symbols of the Samurai families.<br/><br/>WITH: <br/>A series of 99 small manuscript information cards on for ceremonial use for Samurai families denoting their crests and banners pen ink and colors. First half of 19th century each card 70 x 55 mm some affected by worm tracks. unknown books
1838266969New Orleans 1838. unbound. 3 pages front and back each measuring 10 x 8 inches New Orleans February 1 1838. Written by Calvin Keith agent for Almina Partridge mother of United States Generals Samuel Partridge and John Milton Partridge. Almina is attempting to find out what real estate holdings her late husband has in New Orleans and Smith informs her in small part: ".I found myself in a rather awkward predicament. The Judge informed me the agent he had made the appointment Mr. Parker had admitted in Court that he had been in the State Prison for passing counterfeit money and informed me he could not now be removed without showing his present incapacity to manage her property. This information could only be obtained by depositions from the place where he resides.The last agent has not obtained any of the funds & I have much confidence in believing that his bail will not permit him to remove the funds and certainly not without securing him. On the whole I consider it rather a bad business & wish myself fairly out of it." Usual folds with no weaknesses; extensive pencil underlining on the second page; small chip on the right edge of the third page with slight loss of text. Good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
200991580Lyme:: Reynolds Garage & Marine. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2009. Hardcover. Color and black and white photographs throughout. First edition. Gift inscription on front free endpaper else fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Reynolds Garage & Marine, hardcover books
184039541Petersburgh Rensselaer County 1840. 1/4 page and 1 page. 1 vols. 7 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches; 4to. Creases some light spotting and soiling else very good 16. 1/4 page and 1 page. 1 vols. 7 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches; 4to. Bail Bonds. WILLIAM W. REYNOLDS and THOMAS REYNOLDS came from Westerly Rhode Island to Petersburgh in 1780. THOMAS REYNOLDS became a a successful merchant and the father of GIDEON REYNOLDS. GIDEON REYNOLDS 1813-96 was a member of the N.Y. State Assembly in 1839 Sherriff of Rensselaer County 1843-46 Member of Congress 1847-51 was a delegate at the first Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1856 and a member of the Republican State Central Commiittee. He was appointed by Lincoln as Internal Revenue Collector of the 15th District of New York and in 1867 he became a Democrat.¶ Stephen Potter was one of the early settlers of Petersburgh as was Stephen Card probably the father of saidWilliam. Petersburgh formerly "Rensselaer Mills" was created from Stephentown in 1791. Many of the first settlers were Dutch who came over in about 1750 as tenants under Van Rensselaer. unknown books
49562Stillwater MN: Lowell Inn n. d. Ca 1960s. Self-wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest signs of use VG to Nr Fine. Unpaginated though 24 pp including wrappers. Illustrated with drawings throughout. 5-1/2" x 4" <br/><br/>"The Matterhorn Room of the Lowell Inn represents beauty and excellence in both the carving and culinary arts but is primarily dedicated to the 'lost art' of Swiss wood carving. . The Matterhorn Room also honors the swiss ancestry of Nelle Obrecht Palmer who guided the Lowell Inn for forty years and it reflects the heritage of the Palmer family which serves you today." Lowell Inn unknown books
03015613 letters 35 manuscript pp plus various papers 266 manuscript pp. on Abolition and Slavery and History and Genealogy; plus other printed and manuscript paper ephemera and photographs all dated 1819-1909.<br /><br /><p>Esek Pitts 1775-1834 Amos Wood Pitts 1804-1858 and Esek B. Pitts 1837-1888</p><p>Esek Pitts was born about 1775. He learned the trade of hatter but became a pioneering wool manufacturer in the Mendon area of the Blackstone River Valley in Massachusetts. He was chosen as captain of a military company and was for many years a Justice of the Peace. He also served for many years as a selectman in the town of Mendon Massachusetts and for a couple of terms as a state legislator during the period of Andrew Jackson's presidency.</p><p>Esek married Abigail Wood on 5 April 1803 at Uxbridge Massachusetts. Together the couple had at least eight children: Maria Pitts Fairbanks1803-; Amos Wood Pitts born 14 February 1804; Louisa Pitts Buffum 1805-; Esek Brown Pitts d. 1837; Fanny Willard Pitts Munyan 1810-; Abigail Pitts Capron 1813-; Job Pitts 1815-1891; and Emeline Pitts Wallis 1819-1857. Esek died 12 September 1834 his wife died shortly thereafter on 7 October 1834.</p><p>The present collection of papers seems to have descended through the family of Amos Wood Pitts 1804-1858 as several items have his name or his son's name on them. Amos Wood Pitts was born 14 February 1804 at Uxbridge Worcester County Massachusetts and died 16 November 1858. He had a good education in the higher English branches of scholarship and was a school committeeman and town clerk of Mendon at one time. Amos was also a skilled accountant and served in his youth as a sub-manager of a woolen manufacturer presumably his father's company.</p><p>Amos Wood Pitts married Mary Ann Ballou. She was born about 8 June 1806 and died 12 January 1875. Together Amos and Mary Ann Ballou had at least four children: Esek Brown Pitts 1837-1888; Seth Simmons Pitts 1838-; Joseph Pitts 1842-; and Flora Abigail Pitts 1847-1848.</p><p>Amos' son Esek Brown Pitts was born 8 Nov 1837 at Mendon Worcester County Massachusetts. He served as a private in Company H 15th Mass Infantry from at least 25 May 1861 to 28 November 1862. He died on 22 May 1888. He made a living in the manufacture of boots and moved to Chicago. The Bible that he kept with him during the Civil War is present in this collection. Esek B. married Lizzie M. Gleason 1854- on 15 June 1874. Esek and Lizzie had at least one daughter Flora May Pitts who was born in 1875 at Northbridge Massachusetts.</p><p>The archive includes the following letters papers photographs and ephemera:</p><p>Correspondence:</p><p>13 letters 35 manuscript pages dated 4 May 1819 to 10 May 1909. There are 2 letters addressed to Esek Pitts and 2 letters written by him the other letters are by later family members. Four of the letters appear to be retained copies a couple of which are possibly incomplete.</p><p>Manuscript Papers on Abolition:</p><p>60 manuscript pp. address on Abolition "Whether the proceedings of the Abolitionists are or are not justifiable was stated by us in the affirmative to depend very much upon the question whether slavery was or was not an evil which ought to be abolished."</p><p>The piece compares the North and South and it mentions Calhoun and the fact that the South is waking up to the fact that the North was winning this argument in their state legislatures. It appears the talk may have been given to a society or organization as the writer addresses "Mr. President." Not dated but John Calhoun is cited and he died in 1850 thus circa 1830s-1850s. The authorship is unclear but is likely one of the Pitts men either Esek or his son Amos.</p><p>41 manuscript pp. address on Abolition "There is a proposition while I believe may be safely predicated; and that is that the system of American slavery is either right or wrong. And if so it follows of course that it ought to be either sustained or abolished. If the latter then of course the object which the abolitionists have in view is a good one."</p><p>Not dated circa 1830s-1850s. The author is likely one of the Pitts men either Esek or his son Amos.</p><p>6 miscellaneous manuscripts on the subject of Abolition and Slavery 20 manuscript pp. includes 3 items: "Letters to the Editor" pieces meant for publication in the local newspaper Woonsocket Patriot plus 2 other pieces titled "Beauties of South Slavery" numbered 1 & 2 with the subtitle "By their fruits ye shall know them." The sixth piece dated 1838 and is perhaps notes for an address written for the Lyceum about Abolition. Five of the six pieces are not dated circa 1830s-1850s. The author is likely either Esek or Amos Pitts.</p><p>1 volume 14 manuscript pp. plus blanks bound in marbled paper wrappers not dated c.1835-1836.Includes several pieces of verse and prose by E.B. Pitts dated 1835 on first page then 6 pages on Abolition appears to have been written for the newspaper Woonsocket Patriot plus a letter to the editor and miscellaneous notes about Abolition also presumably by Esek B. Pitts.</p><p>Other Manuscript Papers on History Genealogy and Restorationist Society:</p><p>1 volume 10 manuscript pp. plus blanks measures 7 ½" x 12" bound in marbled paper wrappers includes: "Records of the First Restorationist Society Millville Book No.1" dated 23 April 1837 - 17 May 1841. Manuscript meeting minutes for this society of which Amos Wood Pitts and Esek B. Pitts were members. Amos W. Pitts was the clerk for the society.</p><p>28 manuscript pp. various topics some political some appear to be pieces written and/or rewritten for submission to newspaper Woonsocket Patriot etc not dated circa 1830s-1850s. Author is likely either Esek or Amos Pitts.</p><p>26 manuscript pp. a historical paper on early American exploration Cabot to the Puritans not dated circa 1830s-1840s authorship is unclear but likely either Esek or Amos Pitts.</p><p>13 page manuscript on the importance of history worn at edges some tears at folds likely by one of the Pitts men not dated circa 1830s-1840s</p><p>54 manuscript pages of genealogical and historical notes on the Pitts family not dated circa late 19th Century.</p><p>Printed and Manuscript Ephemeral Material:</p><p>1 oversize certificate torn and in pieces for Esek Pitts 1775-1834 his appointment as a Justice of the Peace dated 20 January 1826 partially printed and completed in manuscript.</p><p>1 U.S. Treasury Department form for $100.00 payable to Esek B. Pitts for his discharge bounty from military service with Company H 15th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War dated 22 April 1872 partially printed and completed in manuscript.</p><p>Photographs:</p><p>3 photographs one tintype 5 ½" x 7 ½" of a woman one cabinet card 4 ¼" X 6 ½" of two small children one cabinet card of young man none are dated or signed two taken by Albee photographer of Athol Mass.</p><p>Books Pamphlets and Printed Ephemera:</p><p>1 pocket Bible with signature of Esek B. Pitts 15th Regt. Massachusetts Volunteers presented to Pitts by a member of the 20th Mass Regiment dated 9 March 1862. Esek B. Pitts was the son of Amos Wood Pitts and the grandson of Esek Pitts 1775-1834.</p><p>"Northbridge in the Rebellion. An Address Delivered by George L. Gibbs before Jesse L. Reno Post 167 G.A.R. Memorial Day May 30 1889 at Whitinsville Mass. with an Appendix Containing Statistics Concerning the Town of Northbridge in the Rebellion" Published by Request. Uxbridge Mass L.H. Balcome Steam Printer 1889. Wrappers 40 pages lacks rear wrapper.</p><p>"Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 9. New Series. The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act: An Appeal to the Legislators of Massachusetts" By L. Maria Child. Boston: Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society 1860. 36 pages.</p><p>"An Address to the People of Massachusetts by the Friends of Temperance and of the Statute of 1838 'For Regulation of the Sale of Spirituous Liquors'" Boston: Printed by Perkins & Marvin 1838. 24 pages.</p><p>1 volume containing: "Literary Port Folio" No. 1-5 Jan 7-Feb 4 1830 pages 1-34; No. 9-26 March 4 - July 1 1830 pages 65-202 207-208 published in Philadelphia includes 2 plates lacks pages 35-64 203-206 possibly others after 208 dis-bound very worn.</p><p>"Historical Facts and Stray Thoughts from The Old Elder Ballou Meeting House in the town of Cumberland R.I." by Anna M. Whipple 1897. 15 pages 3 plates good.</p><p>"Fourteenth Annual Commencement of the Women's Medical College Chicago Hershey Music Hall April 22 1884" Maria Louis Pitts was a member of the Class of 1884.</p><p>1 card announcing death of "James G. Herd" of Clark Herd Manufacturing Co. who died on 2 Nov 1913 sons to take over business.</p><p>1 copy Worcester Daily Spy newspaper dated April 11 1863 worn at edges and folds some tears 4 oversize pages has account of the "Battle of Ball's Bluff."</p><p>Miscellaneous Ephemera Items:</p><p>1 folding leather wallet worn name of "Amos Wood Pitts Mendon" inside flap.</p> books
19781992North Hollywood CA: Embryo Music Co 1978. 33 1/3 Long-playing records 30 cm in original printed cover and sleeve. Better than very good. On this record the King Family Children sing songs from Carol Lynn Pearson's 'My Turn on Earth' and two songs from 'Saturday's Warrior' 'Saturday's Warrior' and 'Pullin' Together'. Embryo Music Co unknown books
199934727Amherst: Prometheus Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 1573922668 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Prometheus Books hardcover books
001280Simon& Schuster 1994 Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New/As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN:0-671-72751-6. Simon& Schuster, 1994 Paperback books
1971126706London England: Oxford University Press 1971. First. Hardbound. Ex-library book with labels and envelope on free endpapers VG cover and pages crisp bump to lower spine. Black cloth boards with gold lettering lxxxvii 671 pp plus 13 BW plates. From the publisher: The Paston family papers provide an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England and richly illustrate the resources of the language at an important period. They have long been consulted by historians and other students of the fifteenth century for their information about social history and politics both within East Anglia and also nationally. The authoritative edition of Parts 1 and 2 by Professor Norman Davis was published by the Clarendon Press in 1971 Part 1 and 1976 Part 2. Part 3 published in 2006 and edited by Dr Richard Beadle and Professor Colin Richmond completed the series planned by Professor Davis before his death. It contains the remaining texts with indexes to all three parts. Oxford University Press hardcover books
188232045Boston 1882. Advertising flyer. 4to pp. 4. Printed in black on newsprint. Picture of the performers on the front 8 adults and children stamped in purple "Woodbury's Hall Saturday Jul 28." Inside a description of the performers each of whom play a variety of brass stringed instruments and drums; plus some reviews of performances. On the back a large portrait of Annie A. Park "Acknowledged the finest Lady cornetist by the best Musical Critics." The piece is cut cleanly across the center perhaps where it had been folded. Some yellowing and small tears on edges but otherwise quite well preserved. unknown books
306644Garden City New York Doubleday & Company 1976. First edition later printing . 8vo. 1 page foreword by Ronald J. Clark. Illustrated with 130 b/w halftone photographs. Dust jacket designed by Bill Kuhre unclipped; light soiling. Very good-fine. 246 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, 1976. hardcover books
1926m2304N.l.: Olmsted Family Association 1926. Octavo stiff printed wrappers stapled 27 pp. Frontis. photo. Very Good; some pencilled notes. Olmsted Family Association, 1926. unknown books
1932m2306N.l.: Olmsted Family 1932. Octavo stiff printed wrappers stapled 46 pp. Frontis. photo portraits photos. Very Good. Olmsted Family, 1932. unknown books
