1792. manuscript. Small manuscript receipt 2 1/2" x 7 1/2" dated Feb 8, 1792 and signed "Daniel Bayley" Soiling and folds but all writing is bold. In 1764 Daniel Bayley, a potter by trade, bought a pottery business and shop and on Summer Street in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He engaged in.....
baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. (NOT AVAILABLE FOR EXPEDITED SHIPPING THROUGH AMAZON, ALIBRIS OR B&N) First edition. A fine, fresh unused example in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 743 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrated. Monumental work that tells the sweeping story of New York's Irish.....
New Haven: Beckwith, 1860. First edition. Wraps. String bound in printed wrappers. 80 pp. with adverts, some illustrated. Verry good, light occasional foxing, small section of loss to p. 71. Occasion small pencil marks or notations.
London: Heinemann, 1914. Second edition. Hardcover. Olive green cloth stamped in gilt. vii+50 plus one leaf publisher's ads. Title page printed in red and black. 48 of the caricatures are tipped onto dark gey lined heavy stock paper with the final two printed on the regular stock. Good to very.....
Durham, NC: Dukr University Press, 1952. Second printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in tan buckram; xxx+ 703 pp. with index. With wood engravings by Clare Leighton. The third volume in the monumental series on North Carolina folklore taken from the Frank C. Brown collection at Duke. This volume deals with North Carolina.....
New York: John Day, 1971. Hardcover. Hardcover. ix + 404 pp. iwth souirces, index. Illustrated. Fine in near fine dust jacket, shallow crease to the head of the spine. Extensive hisotry of the Irish Republican Army from its roots in the 18th century republicanism of Walter Tone through the key.....
Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1984. First edition. Unknown. Hardcover. First printing. xii+ 251 pp. with bibliography, index. Fine in dust jacket with sunning to the spine and the inner edge of the rear panel. The author examines the events of three sensational crime cases of late 19th century "Belle Epoch".....
Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1912 edition published by J.W. Graham Spokane; with new introduction. Hardcover. In near fine condition, front cover title and author in gilt that is somewhat dulled. 312 pages with index and numerous images throughout.
Kennikat Press, 1970. Reissue. Hardcover. Hardcover. 357 pp. with index. Facsimile reissue of the original 1890 edition. A fine, fresh apparently unused example. Issued without dust jacket.
Paris: Librairie Fischbacher, 1966. Softcover. Printed stiff wrappers. Text in French. 531 pp. with index, biographical index, folding chart at rear. Generally fine, bit of toning to the spine strip, small presentation inscription top corner of front free endpaper.
Boston and London: Edes and Gill (and) Re-printed for J. Almon, 1769. First UK edition. Hardcover. Octavo in dark brown leather spine over marbled paper-covered boards with pale cream endpapers. (1) 165 (1). Howes B382, the first English edition (printed first in Boston and then in Salem, both also in.....
Pantheon, 1986. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine in equally fine dust jacket. First American edition. Hardcover. 335 pp. Foreword by Studs Terkel. Unprecedented, fascinating inquiry into how Germans experienced the Nazi era. How did it affect their lives--in schools,on the job, at home? How much did they know about the.....
Ligonier, PA: Bethlen Home, 1944. Hardcover. Hardcover in balck cloth with tipped on decorated title front cover. Very good, some soiling to the paper paste on, small previous owner's notation and a handwritten 10-cent price upper front free endpaper. 335 pp. illustarted with black and white photos. Text in Hungarian.....
New York/ St. Augustine: Artotype Publishing/ El Unico, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong hardcoverf in forest green cloth lettered in gilt. Patterned endpapers. Unpaginated (42 pp.). With 40 "Artotype" photographic plates printed rectos only. A tight, internally bright example, bit of very minor wear to the extremities and a quite.....
Northport, AL: American Southern Publishing, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition (no statement). Hardcover in royla blue cloth lettered in gilt. 468 pp. with index. Fine, small stain top edge of text block. In very good dust jacket. Biography of former Alabama Governor and presidential contender George Wallace. The.....
Boston: American Tract Society, (1844). First edition. Hardcover. N.d. (c. 1844). Slim 24mo. in dark brown blindstamped cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. 58 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher's ads at rear. Frontispiece engraving. One of the earliest American books concerning the Hawaiian Islands. In the original deep brown.....
Albany: Weed, Parsons, 1872. Second edition. Leather_bound. Three quarter dark brown leather over brown cloth, lined and with hubbed spine, tooled in gilt, gilt spine lettering, The Second Edition. 552 pp. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FIRST BLANK, "Mrs. Edward Shepard/ Souvenir/ with complements of/ Levi Bishop/ July 8.....
New York: Dodge, 1936. Hardcover. Hardcover in red cloth illustrated in black. Inscribed on the front feee endpaper, "Best Wishes/ Boake Carter". Frontispiece photo of the author. 278 pp. Second printing, same month as the first.Near fine, some offsetting to the pasedowns. In the orignal dust jacket, very good with.....
1890. 1890. One sheet, 4to, printed recto only and partly filled in by hand. A "Memorandum of Agreement" dated Aug. 16, 1890 between the People's Publishing Company of Chicago and one Wm. A. Lightner of Landisburg, Perry County, Pennsylvania. The contract states that Mr. Lightner will "...devote his entire time.....
Philadelphia: William Bromwell, 1853. Second edition. Hardcover. Large octavo in dark brown cloth ornately stamped in gilt, all edges gilt. 297 pp. Illustrated with over 200 engravings, full and partial page, but lacking the tipped in map at rear. About very good, fade and rubbing to the spine strip, moderate.....
Apollo, Pa: Clossen Press, 2004. Reissue. Softcover. Glossy softcovers. Facsimile reissue of the original 1857 edition published in Lancaster by Spregner & Westhaeffer. As new.
Dallas: Spence Publishing Company, 2004. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. Hardcover. 256 pp. with index, bibliography. Erudite, witty and entertaining, a book that revives a thousand-year tradition of chivalry, honor, and heroism and provides a model for 21st century masculinity.
Basic Books, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. 507 pp. with bibliography, index. Fine in very good dust jacket. Definitive account of the nations first intelligence agency--how it operated, what it really accomplished, and how it laid the basis for the present-day Central Intelligence Agency. The O.S.S. (Office of.....
San Francisco: San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, 1924. Second edition. Softcover. 51 pp in illustrated stiff wrappers. Decorated capitals and with full page duo-tone line drawings on most of the facing pages. Very good, small gift inscription front free endpaper. An attractively printed promotional piece used for distribution of the.....
New York: Clarke & Way, 1951. Limited ed. Hardcover. 1/900 copies (of 1000 copies total) in navy blue cloth decorated in gilt with spine lettered in gilt. 56 pp. with glossary. Designed and illustrated in pastel color silhouette drawings of classical Greek figures by Bruce Rogers. Introductory note on the.....
