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1976ref. 056263Womelsdorf PA: Earl W. Ibach 1976. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. SIGNED. Brown cloth lettered in gold foil. A nicely preserved copy with a minor binding lean likely original to issue slight rubbing to back cover otherwise virtually as issued. Former owner's book plate mounted on upper front flyleaf. Firm binding clean interior. Signed by author on portrait page full signature with generic "Best Regards" salutation. One of the essential studies of Berks County history. Earl W. Ibach Hardcover
1882ref. 0008297Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co. 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 362 156 pages modern cloth top cover titling from the original binding in place. Scarce. Part One is historical Part Two is biographical. The 9 portraits include the 3 contributing editors plus six other pioneers. The first county history of Grundy County Buck 827 . Note: Laid in is an Index to the Biographical Sketches in this work in alphabetical order; also this was published without the usual map of the county. O. L. Baskin & Co. hardcover
1997ref. 46767Guill Johnson. G/NONE. 1997. Hardcover. Oversize hardback number 85 of 250 copies; light wear to gilt-lettered brown textured covers; underlining. Hinges sound uncracked; pages tight. No DJ probably as issued. Not library discard. Photos index 381 numbered pages. ; . Guill Johnson, hardcover
1968ref. 049328New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1968. Book. Illus. by James Graves. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. INSCRIBED. Teal green cloth lettered in gold foil. Slightly cocked binding original to issue otherwise without flaws. Color illus. dust jacket shows 1/2" closed tear at heel of spine slight rubbing at head price clipped dust jacket. Stated 1st ptg. x157 pp. illus. Inscribed by McPhee directly on half-title not a book plate "With very best wishes / to Stanley Howard" full signature dated Father's Day 1968; Howard was a college classmate of McPhee's. Scarce inscribed copy of the author's fourth book. Farrar, Straus & Giroux Hardcover
1943ref. 059017New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1943. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pale orange cloth lettered in black. 253 pp. 4th ptg. Mild tanning and foxing to endpapers otherwise essentially as issued. Firm binding clean interior. Color illus. dust jacket is foxed on both flaps and slightly foxed on rear panel with rubbing with minor loss to corners and spine extremities 1" tear with some loss at heel of rear joint a few minor creases and a few small edge chips now in mylar. Duell, Sloan and Pearce Hardcover
1896ref. 46934Self-Published. G/NONE. 1896. Hardcover. Small privately printed hardback commemorating the brief life of a prominent Atlanta banker's son who died at age 14 probably of typhoid fever. White cloth binding moderately soiled/spotted. Inscribed to previous owners who are probably the writers of a brief note contained in the book. The book consists of many letters of condolence from friends and family biographical details of the subject and a bit about the circumstances of his death. Photo portraits of William Lawson Peel Jr and some family members. Contents a bit shaken. No DJ. Scarce. ; . Self-Published, hardcover
1810ref. 056000Richmond: Published by the Author 1810. 1st Edition . Leather Bound. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. vii 446 1 pages. Hardcover bound in original full leather. The binding is quite worn and there is brown cloth tape over the spine and around all edges of the boards. Title written in white one the spine. Front inner hinge is reinforced with book cloth tape. The front pastedown has an early owner's inscription faint and an early Richmond Virginia bookseller's ticket reading "Sold by John R. Jones / Nearly opposite Eagle Tav. / Richmond". The title page and the first few pages have heavy damping. text is browned. There are a couple of inscriptions one early on the rear pastedown. Published by the Author hardcover
1878ref. 056761Baltimore: Innes and Company Printers 1878. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. X 72 pages. Hardcover bound in original blue cloth with front cover lettering in gilt. The binding is rubbed and bumped and the spine ends are fraying. Secure inner hinges. The front flyleaf has a piece torn away at the top corner. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the back of the frontis "With the prayers and the . of the Author". Tissue guard between the frontis and the title page but there is still some offsetting on the title from the frontis. The text is a bit toned but is generally clean. The title page states that this is the "Third Edition" but some sources indicate that this is the second separately printed edition the first but stated Second being the Richmond 1864 Confederate Imprint. Nevins Vol. I Pg 158 states "Amid eulogies and sermons are many revealing letters of a young Confederate gunner who died at Fredericksburg". Innes and Company, Printers hardcover
1890ref. 9928Bellefonte Pa.: James A. Fiedler. Very Good. 1890. Hardcover. Clean paper covered boards with blue cloth spine. Text tight clean & intact. B/W illustrations. Color pages with advertisements. Additional blank numbered pages for townships & boroughs. This item is in nice condition and quite rare. The original population records were destroyed in a fire. Cover edges lightly scuffed. Pennsylvania; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 282 pages . James A. Fiedler hardcover
1919ref. 33960Annapolis MD: The U.S. Naval Institute 1919. First Edition. First Printing. fair to good. 26 cm 127 profusely illus. including 1 color illus. bookplate some wear and soiling to boards board corners and spine edges worn. The U.S. Naval Institute hardcover
1968ref. 34862Self-Published. 1968. Hardcover. Two-volume set with bright clean covers; pages tight with occasional notation. Previous owner's name marked through on front free endpapers of both volumes. Volume I 155 pages with index covers 1763-1820 and Volume II 191 pages with index covers 1820-1830. ; . Self-Published, hardcover
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1862ref. 11659Annapolis: Thomas J. Wilson Printer 1862. Wrappers. Octavo. 15 pages. Near Fine. Bound in printed pink wraps over a sewn binding. Minor cover soil and edge wear with an old vertical crease from the pamphlet being folded lengthwise. Augustus W. Bradford as the Union Party candidate for governor defeated Democrat Benjamin C. Howard by nearly 30000 votes on November 6 1861. Maryland had seemed to teeter on the brink of secession just 6 or 7 months earlier. Bradford's speech here discusses this phenomenon and what he considers false and misleading impressions then circulating in regard to Maryland's true sentiments and sympathies. Thomas J. Wilson, Printer unknown
1873ref. 1376Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co 1873. First printing. Cloth over bevelled boards. Octavo. xii 13-521 pages. Extremity rubs with a bit of fraying to corner tips. Binding sound hinges not cracked. Faint splitting to rear endpaper along inner margin though not significant. Prior owner name and inscription dated 1902 on preliminary blank leaf. Near fine overall. John R. Kenly had just been admitted to the bar in Baltimore when the War with Mexico broke out. He raised a company of volunteers and led them into battle as a captain in the Baltimore-Washington Battalion. This is his excellent first-hand account of these experiences. Kenly would later serve in the Union army during the Civil War as a colonel in the 1st Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry. J. B. Lippincott & Co unknown
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1794ref. 003621Philadelphia: Francis Bailey 1794. Hardcover. Good. Printed by Francis Bailey . . . for Edmund Hogan." xii 776 p.: tables; 22 cm. Contemporary full calf; red leather spine label with gilt-tooled title: "Hogan's State Trials." Although this is "Vol. I" no more published. First Edition. Early Am. Imprints ser. 1 Evans no. 27132. The Dedication by Edmund Hogan is dated Jan. 1795. Special title page for each trial: An Account of the Impeachment and Trial of the late Francis Hopkinson Esquire Judge of the Court of Admiralty for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and An Account of the Impeachment Trial and Acquittal of John Nicholson Esquire Comptroller-General of the State of Pennsylvania. The list of subscribers pp. ix-xii contains members of the Pennsylvania legislature and other prominent figures including Thomas Bradford Benjamin Franklin Bache William Bingham Tench Francis Albert Gallatin Jared Ingersoll Thomas Mifflin Robert Morris David Rittenhouse Arthur St. Clair and the Library Company. Includes a table with the votes in the Senate on Nicholson's trial and an alphabetical index of the letters official documents witnesses names of the speakers and other occurrences in the two trials. Inscription on front fixed endpaper covered by bookplate of the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College indicating that this was presented to the Society by Joshua Hoover in 1827. Written in pencil on front free endpaper: "Joshua Brinkle." Oval stamp of Dickinson College Library on both front endpapers. On the title page "J. P. Brinckle" is crossed out and "Kemp Roberts" written below. Francis Hopkinson 1737-1791 a Signer of the Declaration of Independence and composer was tried in 1780 on charges of accepting bribes; he was acquitted. John Nicholson d. 1800 financier Comptroller General of Pennsylvania and land speculator was charged with financial irregularities in 1793; he was acquitted. In Good Condition: loss of leather at ends of spine and in the middle of the spine including from the spine label; tear from fore-edge across pp. 55-56 without loss of text; light foxing; otherwise clean and solid. Francis Bailey hardcover
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1813ref. 002389Philadelphia: Conrad Zentler und George M. Mentz 1813. Hardcover. Very Good -. Title continued: "Welchem noch ein tägliches Gebetbüchlein für Schwangere Gebärende und Unfruchtbare das den 5ten und 6ten Theil dieses Handbuchs ausmacht beygefügt ist." Zweyte verbesserte Amerikanische Auflage. 8 566 132 2 p.: frontispiece portrait of the author and 4 additional leaves of copperplates; 18 cm. Full leather original boards with modern rebacking; lacking clasps. Woodcut headpieces. "Tägliches Gebet-Büchlein für Schwangere Gebärende und Sechswöchnerinnen" has separate title page and pagination. Shaw & Shoemaker 29857; Bötte & Tannhof German Printing 1990. This work of daily devotions and hymns by the Lutheran theologian Johann Friedrich Starck was very popular among German immigrants to Pennsylvania. In Very Good- Condition: sensitively rebacked; lacking clasps; foxing throughout; otherwise clean and tight. Conrad Zentler und George M. Mentz hardcover
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1982ref. 003727Trenton New Jersey: State of New Jersey Historic Preservation Office 1982. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. Clean square tight unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with maps charts and drawings of Indian projectile points arrow heads pottery tobacco pipes tools and other artifacts. Red printed paper covers. Staple bound staples a little rusty. References. Introduction and 9 chapters including: ABORIGINAL SETTLEMENT IN NEW JERSEY DURING THE PALEO-INDIAN CULTURAL PERIOD; THE ARCHAIC PERIOD IN NEW JERSEY; THE EARLY/MIDDLE WOODLAND PERIOD IN NEW JERSEY; THE LATE WOODLAND PERIOD IN NEW JERSEY; CONTACT BETWEEN EUROPEANS AND THE DELAWARE INDIANS OF NEW JERSEY; NEW JERSEY CULTURAL RESOURCES; etc. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good condition./No Dust Jacket as issued. 277pp. State of New Jersey Historic Preservation Office Paperback
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1979ref. 020829N.Y.: J.B. Lippincott Company 1979. First U.S. Hardcover Edition paperback original published by Gold Medal 1972 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Cover illustration by Don Brautigan. Travis McGee with help from his friend Meyer outwaits and outwits a deranged killer as he searches for a missing wife on the remote Caribbean island of Granada where he tangles with a baby-faced businessman with a lust for murder. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Brautigan Don. Book. J.B. Lippincott Company