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Palisades Interstate Park Commission.
Second Century Plan.
Foreword by Laurance Rockefeller. Bear Mountain, New York: Palisades Interstate
Park Commission, 1990. 4to. 48 unnumbered pages. Color and black-and-white
photographs. Illustrations. Map.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #28483. $30
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Parker, Arthur C.
Charles Williamson: Builder of the Genesee Country.
Editorial notes and comments by Edward R. Foreman. Rochester, New York:
Rochester Municipal Museum, 1927. 34 pages. Portrait. An Address delivered
before the Rochester Historical Society at the Memorial Art Gallery, March
15th, 1927. Reprinted for the Rochester Municipal Museum from Volume VI,
Publication Series, Rochester Historical Society, 1927.
Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #16949. $17.50
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Pedersen Hueber Hares and Glavin,
Architects.
Erie Canal Park Feasibility Study: A report to the Governor
assessing the outdoor recreational potential and historical value of the Old
Erie Canal in Onondaga, Madison, and Oneida Counties between Dewitt and Rome to
determine the feasibility of developing an historically oriented park.
Syracuse, New York: Old Erie Canal Park Study Committee, 1966. Oblong 4to. 94
pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps.
Very good stiff decorative wrappers (soft cover); former owner's name on front
cover. #28489. $60
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Poles of Chicago.
Poles of Chicago, 1837-1937: A History of One Century of Polish
Contribution to the City of Chicago, Illinois.
Foreword by Leon Zglenicki. Chicago: Polish Pageant, 1937. [7], 256, [1], xi
pages. Index. Photographs. Portraits. Illustrations. Advertising.
Very good hardcover, stamp on blank front flyleaf and title page. #25512.
$75
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Polf, William.
1777: The Political Revolution and New York's First
Constitution.
Foreword by John H. G. Pell. Albany, New York: New York State Bicentennial
Commission, 1977. 63 pages. Illustrations. Centerfold map.
Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #28480. $15
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Porter, Jane.
Thaddeus of Warsaw.
Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas H. Palmer for B. Warner, Cushing and Jewett,
1817. 3d American edition. 4 volumes in 2. Shaw and Shoemaker 41865.
Leather. Volume 1 front cover detached; volume 2: Good. #16423. $60
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Prince William County Historical
Commission.
Prince William: A Past to Preserve.
Prince William County, Virginia: Prince William County Historical Commission,
1982. 1st printing. Oblong 4to (large book). vii, 226 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps.
A survey of historic sites, building and preservation from colonial times to
the early 20th century. Very good pictorial hardcover. #25341. $35
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The Princeton Club of New York.
The Princeton Club of New York: Officers, Members, Constitution
and Rules, October 1, 1940.
New York: The Princeton Club of New York, 1940. Small 8vo. 102 pages.
Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), upper corners of some rear pages bruised.
#24176. $20
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The Princeton Club of New York.
The Princeton Club of New York: Officers, Members, Constitution
and Rules, May 1, 1944.
New York: The Princeton Club of New York, 1944. Small 8vo. 117 pages. On front
cover: The Princeton Club of New York, 1944-1945.
Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), front edge of rear cover slightly frayed.
#24177. $20
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Przybycien, Frank E.
Utica: A City Worth Saving.
Photos by P. A. Romanelli. Utica, New York: Dodge-Graphic Press, 1976. Oblong
8vo. 296 pages. Photographs. Maps.
Many photographs of houses, apartment and industrial buildings, and other Utica
structures, and discussion of local architecture, conservation and restoration.
Very good hardcover, maroon buckram with gilt titles and front cover device.
Unrelated gift inscription on blank front flyleaf. #25597. $45
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Queens Museum, Flushing, New York.
The Tulip & the Rose: Seeds of Queens History.
Foreword by Janet T. Langsam. Flushing Meadow-Corona Park, New York: The Queens
Museum, 1976. Oblong 8vo. 36 unnumbered pages. Illustrations. Catalog of an
exhibition held April 24 - July 11, 1976.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #28010. $20
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Raban, Jonathan.
Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America.
New York: Edward Burlingame Books & HarperCollins, 1990. 1st U.S. edition, 1st
printing. 372 pages. Inscribed, dated and signed by the author on the half-title
page.
The British author 'sets out to capture the transforming immigrant experience.
He ships out across the Atlantic to sublet in New York City, to set up house in
the Deep South, to live among immigrants on the far Pacific Coast.' - Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket.
ISBN 0060182091. #16166. $14
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Sanders, Isabel, and Cindy
Schoenberger.
The Historic Garden District: An Illustrated Guide and Walking
Tour.
New Orleans, Louisiana: Voulez-Vous. Inc., 1996. Revised. Oblong 8vo. 70 pages.
Illustrations. First published in 1988.
'The Garden District is an urban Eden in the heart of New Orleans, celebrated
for its gracious homes and gardens for over one hundred and fifty years.' -
Preface. 'Recommended by the Garden District Association.' - Front cover. Very
good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Top right-hand corner of second
page torn off. #23250. $10
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Scarpaci, Jean A., editor.
The Interaction of Italians and Jews in America.
Introduction by Salvatore John LaGumina. Message by Bernard Wax. New York:
Italian Historical Association, 1975. 117 pages. Proceedings of the Seventh
Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association (AIHA).
Co-Sponsor American Jewish Historical Society. Held at Towson State College,
Baltimore, November 14 and 15, 1974.
Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge.
#25676. $15
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Sears Roebuck.
Catalogues of the 1930's (Thirties): Selected Pages from the
Entire Decade.
Franklin Square, New York: Nostalgia, Inc., 1978. 4to (large book). Unpaged.
Illustrations.
Pictorial stiff wrappers. Covers slightly worn and wrinkled. Else good. #18388.
$12.50
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Serven, James E.
Conquering the Frontiers: Stories of American Pioneers and the
Guns which Helped Them Establish a New Life.
La Habra, California: Foundation Press, 1974. 1st edition. 4to (large book).
256 pages. Index. Color and black-and-white illustrations.
Contents include discussion of long rifles, 'Kentuckys,' rifles, muskets,
pistols, long-range Sharps rifles, gunmakers, and many others set in their
historical contexts. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. #25127.
$20
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Sheridan High School Alumni,
Sheridan, Wyoming.
Sheridan High Class of '47, 30th Reunion.
Sheridan, Wyoming: Sheridan High School Alumni, 1977. 47, [1] pages.
Includes poem by Edward Brantz, 'I often sit and wonder why'. Very good stiff
wrappers (soft cover). #24340. $15
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Sloane, Douglas.
Cathedral of the Pines, Rindge, New Hampshire.
Rindge, New Hampshire?: Douglas Sloane, 1962. 56 pages. Photographs.
Illustrations. On front cover: Coincidence? The Why, The Wherefore of Cathedral
of the Pines.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26961. $12.50
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Society of Friendly Sons of Saint
Patrick.
Yearbook of the Society of Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick in
the City of New-York, 1996.
New York: Society of Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick, 1996. 132 pages. Photographs.
Laid in: 'Past, Present, and Future,' An Exhibition Organized by the American
Irish Historical Society, May and June, 1997, 13 pages.
Very good green hardcover. #22842. $10
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Sollid, Roberta Beed.
Calamity Jane: A Study in Historical Criticism.
Correlated and Edited by Vivian A. Paladin. Indexed by John Hakola. Helena: The
Western Press & Historical Society of Montana, 1958. Copy number 286 of 2,000
numbered copies. 147 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations.
Historical Society of Montana, Books on Authentic Western Subjects, II.
A scholarly perspective on Martha Cannary, known as Calamity Jane, 1852-1903.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket, with sunned spine. #23374.
$25
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Stall, Gaspar J. 'Buddy.'
Proud, Peculiar New Orleans: The Inside Story.
Foreword by Pete Fountain. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Claitor's Publishing
Division, 1988. 2d printing. 184 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Signed and
dated on rear dust jacket flap by Al Hirt, below his printed endorsement of the
book.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn and frayed dust jacket.
ISBN 0875116795. #21908. $12.50
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Stallman, David A.
Holmesville, Ohio, Our Home Town.
Sugarcreek, Ohio: Carlisle Printing, 2001. 1st printing. 4to (large book). x,
164 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Endpaper maps. Signed by
the author. Copy #572.
Chronicles the history of Holmesville from events leading up to its formation
in 1837 through the 1980's, with the primary focus on the years the author
knows best, 1933-1950's. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket.
ISBN 0970823916. #25092. $40
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State of New York. Department of
Commerce. Travel Bureau.
New York State Vacationlands 1965. World's Fair Edition.
Message from Nelson A. Rockefeller. Albany, New York: Travel Bureau, Department
of Commerce, 1965. Small 4to (medium-large book). 90 pages. Index. Photographs.
Different regions of the state and their attractions as vacation lands. Very
good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #27745. $25
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Steele, James W.
Rand, McNally & Co's New Guide to the Pacific Coast. Santa Fe
Route. California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas.
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally, 1891. 212 pages. Illustrations. Folding
map bound in, with slight tear in left margin. 7 pages of unnumbered
advertising in front. Bound in 'Rand, McNally & Co. Business Atlas Map of the
United States.' 1891.
Good hardcover, backstrip worn and torn, front flyleaf detached, foxing
throughout. #27257. $15
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Stone, Jill.
Times Square: A Pictorial History.
New York: Macmillan, 1982. 1st printing. Small 4to (medium-large book). xvi, 176
pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations.
A fond and frank pictorial History of New York City's Times Square. Very good
hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Red remainder dot on bottom edge.
ISBN 002614770X. #25182. $25
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Sullivan, Gordon.
Saving Homewaters: The Story of Montana's Streams and Rivers.
Woodstock, Vermont: Countryman Press, 2008. 1st printing. 253 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Photographs. Signed by the author.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 9780881506792. #27691.
$35
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Sung, B. L. (Betty Lee).
Mountain of Gold: The Story of the Chinese in America.
New York: Macmillan, 1967. 1st printing. viii, 341 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Signed on front flyleaf by the author.
A history of the Chinese in the United States from the gold rush days to the
present. It is the first book to fully identify, analyze, and trace the
position of the Chinese in America. - Front jacket flap. Very good hardcover in
slightly worn dust jacket. Former owner's name crossed out on front flyleaf.
#25231. $25
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Tichnor Brothers, Inc.
New York World's Fair: The World of Tomorrow.
Boston & New York: Tichnor Brothers, 1939. [64] pages. Photographs.
Illustrations.
Fair stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Lower front cover slightly torn at
spine, color crayon scribbles on a number of pages, including on some of the
photographs. #24659. $15
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Todd, Charles Burr.
In Olde New York: Sketches of Old Times and Places in Both the
State and the City.
Port Washington, New York: Ira J. Friedman, 1968. Reprint. vii, 253 pages.
Index. Illustrations. First published New York: Grafton Press, 1907.
Very good hardcover. #18090. $15
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Town of Dillwyn Historic Committee.
A Pictorial History of Dillwyn, Virginia.
Dillwyn, Virginia: Town of Dillwyn Historic Committee, 1993. 4to (large book).
48 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Inscribed and signed on title page
by Jeanne Stinson. Members of the Dillwyn Historic Committee: John Staton,
Jeanne Stinson, Ivan P. Davis, Jr., Robin D. Smith, Elizabeth Charlton, Timothy
R. Charlton, and Roger N. Morris.
Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover) with plastic comb binding. Front
cover slightly soiled. #24479. $35
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Townsend, Peter S.
Memorandum of a Jaunt: Peter S. Townsend and the New York
Lyceum of Natural History, May-June, 1817.
Edited by Richard C. Harris. Glen Cove, New York: Glen Cove Public Library,
2000. Edition of 1300 copies. 77 pages. Illustrations. Portraits. Laid in an
invitation to the celebration of the publication of this book and a library
announcement. Signed by the editor.
The diary of twenty-two year old Peter Solomon Townsend of Oyster Bay, in which
he tells of his adventures during two scientific expeditions into southeastern
New York State. The expeditions were sanctioned by the New York Lyceum of
Natural History (which later became the Museum of Natural Nistory), and were
attempts to locate fossil bones, including a mastodon skeleton. Very good stiff
pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0970241909. #24075. $22.50
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Tucson Planning Department, in
Cooperation with the Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission.
Celebrating Tucson's Heritage.
Watercolors and pen-and-ink sketches by Harry James Cuming. Tucson, Arizona:
City of Tucson, 1996. Oblong small 4to (medium-large book). 38 pages.
Photographs. Illustrations. Maps.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #24850. $25
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Tung, William L.
The Chinese in America, 1820-1973: A Chronology & Fact Book.
Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana Publications, 1974. vii, 150 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Ethnic Chronology Series, 14.
Exlibrary. Call number on spine. Stamps on title page. Pocket on rear free
endpaper. Good hardcover. ISBN 0379005107. #22611. $15
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United States. House of
Representatives. Committee on Un-American Activities.
The Present Day Ku Klux Klan Movement: Report of the
Committee. 90th Congress, 1st Session. 1 volume. 'Activities of Ku Klux Klan
Organizations in the United Sates,' Hearings before the Committee. 89th
Congress, 1st and 2d Session, Part 1-5. 5 volumes.
New York: Committee on Un-American Activities, 1965-1967. October 1965-December
1967. 5 volumes. Report: 371, xxxvi pages. (Index); Parts 1-5: pages 1523-4029.
Illustrations. Photographs. Facsimiles.
Very good stiff paper wrappers. #17471. $300
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Varacalli, Joseph A., Salvatore
Primeggia, Salvatore J. LaGumina, and Donald J. D'Elia, editors.
The Saints in the Lives of Italian-Americans: An
Interdisciplinary Investigation.
Foreword by Mario B. Mignone. Stony Brook, New York: Forum Italicum, 1999. 1st
printing. xi, 323 pages. Bibliographical references and Bibliography.
Filibrary, 14.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Some ballpoint underling and
marginalia pages 70-72. ISBN 1893127141. #26057. $45
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Vereinigte Deutsche Gesellschaften
der Stadt New York. (United German Societies of the City of New York).
Festschrift zum Deutschen Tage, Sonntag, den 24. Oktober 1926
in Mecca Tempel.
New York: Vereinigte Deutsche Gesellschaften der Stadt New York, 1926. Small
4to (medium-large book). 112 pages. Photographs. Advertising. On front cover:
In Treue Fest. Den Vereinigten Deutschen Gesellschaften von New York,
1902-1912, Gewidmet von den Damen-Verein des Deutsch-Amerik. National Bundes
Zweig N.Y.
Text in German. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #27766.
$45
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Wait, Mary Van Sickle.
The Story of the Cayugas, 1609-1809. Book IV: Frontenac and the
Iroquois.
Ithaca, New York: DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, 1970. 67 pages.
Illustrations. Frontispiece. Facsimile map laid in.
Very good soft cover. #28477. $37.50
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Waite, John G.
The Stabilization of an Eighteenth Century Plaster Ceiling at
Philipse Manor: A Restoration Report.
New York: New York State Department of Parks and Recreation and New York State
Historic Trust, 1972. Oblong 4to. 37 pages. Bibliography. Photographs.
Illustrations. Maps. Drawings. Philipse Manor is located in Yonkers,
Westchester County, New York.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #28486. $22.50
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Weber, Thomas.
The Heritage of the First Presbyterian Church of Metuchen, New
Jersey.
Metuchen: Author, 1967. [ii], 139 pages. Bibliographical references.
Photographs.
Good hardcover in chipped and worn original glassine wrappers. Unrelated gift
inscription on blank front flyleaf. #24785. $20
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Wheeler, Richard.
Voices of 1776.
Foreword by Bruce Catton. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1972. 2d printing. xiv,
[2], 430 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Maps. Dated and signed on
title page by the author. Subtitled on dust jacket: 'The story of the American
Revolution in the words of those who were there'.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Former owner's name in ink on
blank front flyleaf. ISBN 0690864221. #25484. $20
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Whitehead, William A. (William Adee).
East Jersey under the Proprietary Governments: A Narrative of
Events Connected with the Settlement and Progress of the Province, until the
surrender of the Government to the Crown in 1703. Drawn principally from
original sources. With an Appendix, containing 'The Model of the Government on
East New-Jersey, In America,' by George Scot, of Pitlochie. Reprinted from the
original edition of 1685.
Newark, New Jersey: Martin R. Dennis, 1875. 2d edition, revised and enlarged.
vii, [2], 486 pages. Illustrations. Facsimiles. Folding maps.
Good hardcover, lower covers worn and discolored, lower backstrip worn and
frayed, internally sound. #15802. $65
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Wilcoxson, William Howard.
History of Stratford, Connecticut, 1639-1939.
Stratford, Connecticut: Stratford Tercentenary Commission, 1939. xv, 783, [45]
pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Plans. Portraits. Maps. Frontispiece
portrait. Appendices are 'Honorary List of Living Descendants of Stratford's
Early Settlers,' a list of the members of the Tercentenary Commission, and
'History and Organization of the Stratford Tercentenary Commission
Commemorating Stratford's 300th Anniversary'.
Copyright date is 1940. Fair hardcover; front and rear hinges starting; binding
weak; spine ends and edges and corners slightly worn and rubbed. #28498.
$60
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Willett, William W.
A Narrative of the Military Actions of Colonel Marinus Willett.
New York: New York Times & Arno Pres, 1969. Facsimile reprint. 162 pages.
Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution. First published in 1831.
Very good hardcover. #28447. $25
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Williams, William H.
Delmarva's Chicken Industry: 75 Years of Progress.
Georgetown, Delaware: Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc., 1998. 1st printing. 4to
(large book). xii, 128 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations.
Map.
'The book explains how and why the Peninsula became the pioneer in the
production of meat-type chickens and why it continues to be a world leader in
the production of broilers today.' - Front jacket flap. Very good hardcover in
very good dust jacket. ISBN 0966761804. #25090. $75
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Workmaster, Wallace F.
The Forts of Oswego: A Study in the Arts of Defense.
Albany, New York: New York State Office of Parks and Recreation, 1972. 8
unnumbered pages. Illustrations. Reprinted from northeast Historical
Archaeology.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #28476. $20
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