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Acker, Clinton S. (Clinton Seaman),
Assisted by Nelson Craven.
This and That about Here and There Around Old Peek's Kill.
Memories and Recollections of some of our older citizens in Peekskill: Of
People, Places and Events during the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries recorded for
future generations. Edited and Arranged by Clinton S. Acker.
Peekskill-on-Hudson, New York: Monument Printers and Lithographers, 1963. Large
8vo. 124 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Inscribed, 'Merry Christmas from
The Cravens'.
Very good hardcover in very good pictorial dust jacket; small tape stains on
upper and lower corners of front and rear blank endpapers. #29269. $125
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Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine for North America. Imperial Council.
Proceedings of the Eighty-Third Annual Session, held at
Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 16, 17, 18 A:H:1376--A.D. 1957. Includes:
Directory of the Imperial Council and Subordinate Temples and Other
Information, March, 1957.
No place: Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine for North America, 1957. 411, 148, 16 pages. Indexes. Bound in
(1): Iowa Corporation, Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws and Code,
Jurisdictional Agreements and Arabic Calendar, Revised to July 18, 1957. 148
pages. Bound in (2): Gregorian and Mohammedan Calendars, 1957-1958. Issued by
George M. Saunders, (3) Imperial Recorder, Chicago, Illinois. 113 pages. Index.
Bound in: Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children. A Colorado Corporation.
Articles of Incorporation as Amended and By-Laws as Amended. 16 pages.
On spine: 'Proceedings Eighty-Third Annual Session' / 'Articles of
Incorporation, By-Laws and Code, / A.A.O.N.M.S. / Crary / 1957. Very good
hardcover. 1/4-leather and cloth-covered boards, with gilt spine titles. Small
dent in upper edge of front cover. #25600. $85
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Angle, Paul M. (Paul McClelland).
First in the Hearts of his Countrymen.
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley, 1970. Published in 1970? 4to. 6 unnumbered pages.
Facsimile letter. Includes facsimile of a one-page holograph letter signed,
from George Washington to John Langdon, dated at Mount Vernon April 14, 1789
accepting election to the presidency of the United States.
'A demonstration of fine printing from R. R. Donnelley & Sons company, the
Lakeside Press.' - Front cover. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #28475.
$22.50
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Arizona Department of Water
Resources.
Tucson Active Management Area. Management Plan for First
Management Period, 1980-1990.
Phoenix: Arizona Department of Water Resources, 1984. 4to (medium-large book).
vii, 147 pages. Maps. Illustrations.
Good wrappers (soft cover); some green highlighting and marginal notes. #27717.
$25
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Automobile Blue Book Publishing
Company.
Official Metropolitan Blue Book: An Intimate Guide to New York
City and Vicinity. Containing Complete and Definite Information on Hotels,
Restaurants, Road Houses, Theatres, Shops, Churches, and all other points of
interest, and maps showing location of each. Also running directions
(automobile trips) over all roads within a radius of 50 miles of New York City.
New York: Automobile Blue Book Publishing Company, 1919. Narrow 8vo. 735 pages.
Photographs. Maps. City plans. Folding map. Folding map tipped in center:
General Index Map of Automobile Routes in the Metropolitan Blue Book. Inside
front cover: New England Tours folding map, published by the New England Hotel
Association.
Poor leatherette hardcover. Although covers are complete, text block has come
loose; many loose pages, some pages are torn and chipped; oil stains on edges
of many pages. #27572. $50
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Babson, John J.
Notes and Additions to the History of Gloucester. Second
Series. With an Appendix containing indexes to Parts I and II.
Salem, Massachusetts: Salem Press, 1891. Small 8vo (medium-large book). 187
pages. Index.
Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), partially disbound, small lower right-corner
of front cover and first page torn off. #25047. $40
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Balch, Emily Greene.
Our Slavic Fellow Citizens.
New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969. Facsimile reprint. xx, 536
pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Charts. Tables.
The American Immigration Collection. First published New York: Charities
Publication Committee, 1910.
'I spent the greater part of the year 1905 in Austria-Hungary, studying
emigration on the spot, and over a year in visiting Slavic colonies in the
United States, ranging from New York to Colorado, and from the Upper Peninsula
of Michigan to Galveston. One autumn was spent as a boarder in the family of a
Bohemian workingman in New York City.' - Preface. Exlibrary. Spine labels;
stamps and pencil markings on top and bottom edges, front flyleaf, half-title
page; barcode label and pocket on rear free endpaper. Good hardcover. #23928.
$150
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Barry, Colman J.
Geburtswehen einer Nation: Peter Paul Cahensly und die
Einburgerung der katholischen deutschen Auswanderer in Kirche und Nation der
Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika.
Ins Deutsche ubertragen von Dr. Karl und Grete Borgmann. Hamburg: Paulus
Verlag, 1971. 389 pages. Frontispiece portrait. Published in the United States
as The Catholic Church and German Americans.
Text in German. Very good stiff wrappers. Previous owner's name and note on
blank front flyleaf. #21791. $20
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Bedford Historical Society, Bedford,
New York.
A Short Historical Tour of the Town of Bedford.
Drawings by Robert Cummings Wiseman. Bedford, New York: Bedford Historical
Society, 1971. 2d edition. iv, 36 pages. Bibliography. Illustrations. First
published in 1965.
Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #23847. $15
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Bisbee, Charles A., Jr.
The History of the Bisbee Mill Museum and Gristmill.
Chesterfield, Massachusetts: Chesterfield Historical Society, 2002. 89 pages.
Photographs. Illustrations. Diagrams. Dated, inscribed and signed by the
author. Chesterfield is located in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover) with plastic-comb binding.
#27104. $30
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Blythe, T. Roger, designer and
sketches.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.: American Security and Trust Company, 1953. Oblong 8vo. No
pagination (50 pages). Illustrations.
'This penciled portrayal of Washington shows a representative group of
prominent buildings.' - Daniel W. Bell, President. Very good stiff pictorial
wrappers. #22768. $15
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Brown, Margaret Kimball.
The First Kaskaskia: The Zimmerman Site.
Ottawa, Illinois: LaSalle County Historical Society, 1973. Oblong 8vo. 16
pages. Illustrations.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #28482. $15
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Buck, Daniel.
Indian Outbreaks.
Mankato, Minnesota: No publisher, 1904. 284 pages. 9 photographs and
illustrations. Howes B914.
A history of Minnesota's Dakota Indian wars, 1862-1865. Good hardcover.
Exlibrary, spine and corners reinforced with tape; author, title and call
number written in white ink on spine, call number label on lower spine,
bookplate inside front cover, front and rear hinges reinforced with clear tape;
stamps on title page, pocket inside rear cover. #27238. $65
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Callander, Imogene Ann.
Joe O'Malley and Us: A Powerful Biography in Celebration of the
Canadian American Irish Family.
Mullet Lake, Michigan: Straw Hat Publishing, 1996. 1st printing. xviii, 182
pages. Photographs. Dated, inscribed and signed by the author.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0964886707. #25111.
$12.50
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Carroll, John M.
Galveston and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad.
Illustrated by Don Moore and Jose Cisneros. Galveston, Texas: Center for
Transportation and Commerce, 1985. 164 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Illustrations. Facsimile map. Frontispiece.
As new hardcover in as new dust jacket. #23153. $80
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Carroll, John M.
The 7th U.S. Cavalry's Own, Colonel Tommy Tompkins: A Military
Heritage and Tradition.
Mattituck, New York & Bryan, Texas: J. M. Carroll & Company, 1984. 191 pages.
Index. Photographs. Frontispiece portrait.
A biography of Selah Reeve Hobbie Tompkins, 1864-1939 and the United States
Army's 7th Cavalry. As new hardcover in as new dust jacket.
ISBN 0848800133. #23147. $35
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Central Congregational Church,
Providence, R.I.
Historical Manual of the Central Congregational Church,
Providence, R.I., 1852-1902.
Providence, Rhode Island: Press of E. L Freeman, 1902. 172 pages. Photographs.
Good hardcover, bound in buckram, backstrip and edges worn, upper right-hand
corner of flyleaf cut off. #10627. $20
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Clarke, T. Wood.
Emigres in the Wilderness.
New York: Macmillan, 1941. 1st printing. xvi, [1], 247 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Dated, inscribed and signed by
the author.
'In this book are collected the stories and legends of those emigres who tried
to found French colonies in the wild lands of New York and Pennsylvania.' -
Preface. Good hardcover, spine slightly darkened, some foxing; former owner's
name on front endpaper. #25599. $30
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Combs, Jinny.
Tales around the Campfire.
Ennis, Montana: Howell Publications, 2000. 1st printing. 96 pages. Color
photographs. Signed by the author on the title page, along with a personal
inscription.
Life on the Diamond J Dude Ranch in Ennis, Montana. Very good stiff pictorial
wrappers. ISBN 0967574536. #22831. $25
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Cooper, John M.
Recollections of Chambersburg, PA, Chiefly between the Years
1830-1850.
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: A. Nevin Pomeroy, Publisher, 1900. 132 pages.
Photographs.
'These Recollections of Chambersburg have been written for the purpose of
giving the present inhabitants of the town some knowledge of the buildings that
existed here from fifty to seventy years ago, with the uses to which they were
put, and some acquaintance with the people who lived here at that time.' -
Prefatory. Very good hardcover, covers slightly soiled and worn. #26472.
$40
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Delaney, Edmund.
The Connecticut River: New England's Historic Waterway.
Chester, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press, 1983. 1st edition. Small 4to (medium-large book). 183 pages.
Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Signed by the author on the
title page.
Very good pictorial softcover. ISBN 0871069806. #22349. $22.50
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Durand, Janice.
Getting the Most out of Madison: A Guide.
Illustrated by John Durand. Madison, Wisconsin: Puzzlebox Press, 1974. 1st
printing. Oblong 8vo. ix, 180 pages. Index. Illustrations. Maps.
Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), corners and edges worn and rubbed, creases in
lower right front and rear covers. #26960. $15
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Falconer, Thomas.
Letters and Notes on the Texan Santa Fe Expeditions, 1841-1842.
Introduction by F. W. Hodge. New York: Dauber & Pine, 1930. 4to (large book).
159 pages. Portrait. Howes F14. Clark, Travels in the Old South, III: 155.
Good hardcover, corners bumped, small tear in top of portrait page, covers
worn. #13833. $75
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Faude, Wilson H., and Mark H. Jones
and Theodore O. Wohlsen, Associate Compilers.
The Great Hartford Picture Book from the Pictorial Archives of
the Connecticut State Library.
Foreword by William A. O'Neill. Introduction by Clarence Walters. Norfolk,
Virginia: Donning Company, 1985. 4to (large book). 207 pages. Photographs. Gift
inscription by one of the contributors to this volume.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0898654505. #25128.
$25
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Ferrigno, Andrew D. V.
Cranberry Meadow.
East Hampton, Connecticut: Young's Printing, 1984. 1st edition. 175 pages.
Photographs. Inscribed, dated and signed by the author on the title page.
Contents include genealogical information about the Ferrigno Family and Erminia
Lanzi Ferrigno, Loffredo Family, East Hampton, Connecticut and its schools, and
the author's teaching career, known as Andy Ferrigno. Very good pictorial
softcover. #24733. $100
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First Congregational Church, Hyde
Park, Massachusetts.
Three separate items. Members, June 1, 1912 (16mo. 16 pages).
54th Anniversary of the Sunday School, 1861-1915 (small 8vo. 12 pages). The
Bethany Class, 1934 (24mo. 4 unnumbered pages).
Hyde Park, Massachusetts: First Congregational Church, 1912, 1934. 3
publications.
Good wrappers (soft cover). #26810. $30
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Fried, Marc B.
Tales from the Shawangunk Mountains: A Naturalist's Musings, A
Bushwacker's Guide.
Glens Falls, New York: Adirondack Mountain Club, 1981. 1st printing. vii, 101,
[1] pages. Photographs. Illustrations.
Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), corners and edges slightly worn.
ISBN 0935272186. #24902. $30
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