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1996réf. 2310739Virginia Beach Virginia: The Donning Company/Publishers 1996. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x8x0. First edition. Jacket faded. 1996 Large Hardcover. 192 pp. A pictorial history of the Genesee River by the Rochester city historian. Numerous black-and-white photographs and reproductions of historical illustrations throughout. The Donning Company/Publishers hardcover books
2006réf. 2335594Rochester New York: Office of the City Historian 2006. Stapled Binding. Fine. A fine copy. 2006 Stapled Binding. 23 pp. "A century after the establishment of the Industrial School of Rochester which became Rochester Children's Nursery today Rochester Childfirst Network the Democrat & Chronicle recalled "A class of neglected destitute.lawless children existed. They roamed the alleys of the town they pilfered and begged. They were children who were unable to attend public schools and who had no moral or religious training." The city of Rochester was scarcely two decades old when civic-minded women noticed that these children were without direction or support. In the fall of 1856 Mrs. Ebenezer Griffin visited an industrial school in Brooklyn making note of how it might serve as a model for the growing city in western New York. Mrs. Ebenezer Griffin Mrs. David C. Alling Mrs. Henry A. Brewster Mrs. Alfred Ely Mrs. George Ely Mrs. Gilman Perkins Mrs. Edwin Scrantom and Mrs. Seth Terry established the Industrial School of Rochester. Office of the City Historian unknown books
1990réf. 282545Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1990. paperback. very good. Illus. 413pp. 8vo pr. wrs. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1990. Very good Harvard University Press unknown books
1979réf. URUCMEL00NJThe Westminster Press 1979. Very Good. Ruckman Ivy. Melba the Brain. Van Sciver Ruth illustrator. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press 1979. 1st Edition. 132pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Signed by author. Inscribed by author. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name inside the front cover. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. The Westminster Press hardcover books
2003réf. 244510Oakland: Estuary Press 2003. Pamphlet. 43p. 5.5x8.5 inches old price sticker on rear wrap else very good first edition chapbook in stapled white pictorial wraps. Estuary Press unknown books
2003réf. 188357Oakland: Estuary Press 2003. 43p. 5.5x8.5 inches personal inscription signed by the editor very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Estuary Press unknown books
1966réf. 33360NY: Paul S. Eriksson 1966. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 78pp index. Very good hardback in a lightly rubbed jacket that is sunned on the spine and has a small spot of loss at the top of the front panel. Ink gift note on front pastedown else internally fine. Paul S. Eriksson hardcover books
1988réf. 50753Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1988. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 110pp index. Very good in publisher's wraps. University of North Carolina Press paperback books
1983réf. 158873New York: Merchant Ivory Productions 1983. Vintage studio still photograph of actor Shashi Kapoor from the 1983 film. Based on the 1975 novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. An Englishwoman goes to India to learn more about her great-aunt's life. Her aunt had an affair with a Nawab in India in the 1920s. Her life starts to somewhat parallel her aunt's as she also has an affair with an Indian man. Set in India shot on location in India and England. 8 x 10 inches. About Fine. Merchant Ivory Productions unknown books
1983réf. 47656Warwick: Plymouth Colony Research Group 1983. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xxi 167pp. Ink name and date on verso of front free endpaper else a very good hardback bound in publisher's yellow cloth and issued without a jacket. Plymouth Colony Research Group hardcover books
1986réf. URUTTOU00LAWUniversity of Nebraska Press 1986. Very Good. Ruth Kent. Touring the Old West. MacLean Robert. Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press 1986. 218pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Maroon cloth with silver lettering on backstrip. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped corners. University of Nebraska Press hardcover books
1981réf. 303104Berkeley: Judah L. Magnes Museum 1981. Pamphlet. 30p. stapled wraps 10x8 inches landscape format profusely illus. staples rusted wraps lightly worn else very good exhibition catalog. Rynecki's paintings depict Jewish life in Poland. He was forced into the Warsaw ghetto and ultimately put to death along with his family in a concentration camp. Judah L. Magnes Museum unknown books
1970réf. 55348Columbia: R.L. Bryan 1970. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Second Printing. vii 180pp. Very good hardback in a tanned jacket that has a few small chips and some loss at the spine ends. Inscribed and signed by Saffold on the front free endpaper. R.L. Bryan hardcover books
1999réf. 2335612Rochester New York: Rochester Public Library 1999. Stapled Binding. Fine. A fine copy. 1999 Stapled Binding. 17 pp. Henry Durand 6 June 1861 - 8 May 1929 wrote with Carl Wilhelm "Bright College Years" the Yale University alma mater. Durand was born in Cincinnati Ohio the son of John Durand a railroad builder and manager and his wife Martha Boyd Stewart Durand. He prepared for Yale at the Hopkins School. He graduated with the Yale Class of 1881 and was Class Poet. Durand obtained a M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1888 interned at Massachusetts General Hospital and practiced medicine in Rochester New York. He cared for the wounded in the Mexican Revolution marrying his wife Harriet Blanche Robinson Best there in 1916. He contracted an illness in Mexico from which he recovered in Los Angeles California from 1916 to 1923 and then lived abroad in Nice Vienna and lastly Paris where he died in the American Hospital from heart disease. He was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester. "Bright College Years" was arranged for the 1881 Yale Glee Club and after the quelling of sentiment after World War I to find another alma mater Durand's song has been "the unofficial alma mater that with handkerchief accompaniment is a standard element of Commencement football games and almost every alumni get-together." In Rochester Dr. Durand is best remembered for his summer camp in Irondequoit that abutted Lake Ontario. He and his friend George Eastman agreed upon the desirability of a public park in the area and collaborated in purchasing a number of farms around the Durand property. The pair offered their land to the city of Rochester on January 28 1907 to be used as a public park. Durand Eastman Park was formally dedicated on May 22 1909. To the original 484 original acres 493 have been added over the years bringing the current size of Durand Eastman Park to 977-acres including Durand Lake and Eastman Lake. Notable features of the park include the northern boundary with approximately 5000 feet 1500 m along of Lake Ontario. There is also an 18-hole municipal golf course that was built in 1917 and later redesigned in 1933 by Robert Trent Jones. Rochester Public Library unknown books
1972réf. 151468New York: Barlenmir House 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 72 pages. A collection of poems. A tight near fine copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket that has some small chips and minor wear. Barlenmir House unknown books
1981réf. 48951New York: The Dial Press 1981. Hardcover. 170p. first edition very good condition in like dust jacket. Young adult fiction. "The year is 1935--the depth of the Depression. Rebecca lives in Forgetown Pennsylvania where the town's major industry the Iron Works has just closed down forcing many out of work. Her father the town's tailor is an ardent Socialist while here mother tries to make ends meet in a home where there is barely enough. The Dial Press hardcover books
réf. 161356N. pl: n. pub 200-. 34p. poem illus. with color drawings very good in wraps. Based on the online Lizzy the Lezzy comedy series. Signed by the author. n. pub unknown books
1993réf. 45493Irvine CA: Candlelight Press 1993. Hardcover. 23p. color illus. 8x10 inches very good hardcover in like dust jacket. Children's book by the Japanese American author. Candlelight Press hardcover books
1958réf. 135365Culver City CA: National Screen Service / RKO Radio Pictures 1958. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1958 film. Based on a play by Zoe Akins about a girl who comes to New York to become an actress. Henry Fonda stars as a seasoned producer and Christopher Plummer a blossoming playwright both of whom are madly in love with the young woman played by Susan Strasberg. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Screen Service / RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1988réf. 126304San Francisco CA: Chronicle Books 1988. Second printing. Softcover. Revised edition. Charming collection of photographs of dogs and our collective photographic obsession with them. A very near fine copy in price clipped French style wrappers. Chronicle Books unknown books
1996réf. 332325Berkeley: University of California 1996. paperback. near fine. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 526 pages. Thick 8vo pictorial wrappers. Berkeley: University of California Press 1996. Ownership signature on the half title page still a near fine copy. University of California unknown books
réf. 146603Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. Dave McCloud Rod Cameron sees Judge Irving Short Tim McCoy ambushed and killed and takes on the Judge's identity to avenge his murder from the town's bandits led by Red Zimmer Stephen McNally. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good some creasing and small closed tear at the bottom margin. Pitts 3365. unknown books
2020réf. USTOESS00fpCopper Canyon Press 2020. Fine. Stone Ruth. The Essential Ruth Stone. Stone Bianca. Port Townsend Washington: Copper Canyon Press 2020. xxi 179pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. Copper Canyon Press paperback books
1979réf. 9836gcsNashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers 1979. Second Printing. Signed and Inscribed by Jerry Falwell: “To my dear friend with gratitude to God for all that you mean to me / Jerry Falwell / Phil 1:6” Octavo black cloth & gold boards hardcover gilt letters ix 188 pp. Very Good in a Fair mylar protected dust jacket with a hairline tear and rumples. From dust jacket: On June 21 1956 thirty-five adults and children met with Jerry Falwell in the Mountain View Elementary School in Lynchburg Virginia for the first worship service of a new church. Since time the Thomas Road Baptist Church has grown to include a congregation of 16000 members a Christian academy a Bible institute a seminary and a four-year college. Each week six million viewers watch the morning service on television and millions more hear Jerry Falwell by radio. The church sponsors the Elim Home for Alcoholics a children’s camp Strategic Baptist Missions a magazine and a newspaper. Such remarkable growth is the result of faith in God. Thomas Nelson Publishers, (1979). Second Printing. hardcover books
2006réf. 2335593Rochester New York: The Office of the City Historian 2006. Stapled Binding. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Light scuff along spine edge of front wrapper. 2006 Stapled Binding. 22 pp. "In 1847 the citizens of Rochester joined with Americans throughout the state and national in a national cause of voluntary philanthropy to aid the victims of famine in Ireland and Scotland. The Office of the City Historian unknown books
