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150 Glimpses of Boston - Reproduced from the Latest Photographs


N/A

Paperback. Boston, John F. Murphy, 1st wraps, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages including wraps. A photoalbum in excellent condition, paper wraps with string tie.

Record # 61927


Price: $38.00 

 

A Compendious History Of The Rise and Progress Of The Methodist Church Both In Europe and America Consisting Principally Of Selections From Various Approved And Authentic Documents


Meacham, A. G.

Hardcover. New York, Knowlton & Rice, 1st US, 1835, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 500 pages plus 4 page index and errata list. Worn leather binding, light soil and foxing throughout. Still, a solid and presentable copy. Chipped leather label on spine reads Rise & Progress of Methodism. First published in Canada by John Wilson. This appears to be the first American publication of the early denominational history. Meacham was a Vermont-born American Methodist preacher from New York who lived and worked in the Bay of Quinte region in 1832-34. He later moved to Illinois where he also practiced medicine. In 1839 he was expelled from the Conference for immoral conduct.

Record # 415148


Price: $375.00 

 

Abandoned New England - Its Hidden Ruins and Where to Find Them


Robinson, William F.

Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 209 pages. Black & white and color photography. Black & white drawings and maps. Cover lightly sunned on front and lightly worn at spine edge.

Record # 204671


Price: $50.00 

 

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Print Room, The: 1949-1958


The Museum of Modern Art

Softcover. New York, NY, The Museum of Modern Art, Vol. 25, No. 3, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of one print collection; b/w covers, minor creases and some rubbing, especially on back cover. Staple wrappers. 42 b/w plates of prints and drawings, divided into sections by region and style. Introduction on Abby Rockefeller's collection and the history of the print room at the Museum of Modern Art. 19 pages. Tight copy, clean interior.

Record # 808557


Price: $18.00 

 

Across the Everglades - A Canoe Journey of Exploration


Willoughby, Hugh L.

Philadelphia , J. B. Lippincott, 4th Ed., 1904, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages with many b&w photographs, a folding map in front (short tear). Book is worn with loose pages but all there. Scarce.

Record # 401783


Price: $50.00 

 

Afternoons in Mid-America


Caldwell, Erskine, Illust. by: Virginia M. Caldwell

New York , Dodd, Mead, & Co., 2nd, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 276 pages. With black & white sketches by Virginia M. Caldwell. Dust jacket edgeworn, back has closed tear.

Record # 176644


Price: $15.00 

 

Against the Tide - The Fate of the New England Fisherman


Carey, Richard Adams

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 381 pages

Record # 75332


Price: $18.00 

 

Alaska - Our Beautiful Northland of Opportunity


Burr, Agnes Rush

Hardcover. Boston, Page Company, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 428 pages. Features fold-out map and fifty-four plates of which six are in color. Minor foxing to some plate edges. Top edge gilt. Light wear overall. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609491


Price: $80.00 

 

Alaska and Its Wildlife


Sage, Bryan L.

New York , Viking / Studio, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, Color, B&W photographs. End paper map.

Record # 304466


Price: $15.00 

 

Alaskan Bird-Life as Depicted by Many Writers


Ingersoll (Ed.), Ernest

Softcover. NY, National Assoc. of Audubon Societies, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 7 color plates, black & white illustrations. 72 pages. Cardboard cover with cloth spine, cover & spine labels.

Record # 68349


Price: $15.00 

 

Alaskans All


Willoughby, Barrett

Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 234 pages, B&W photos. Further adventures amng the glaciers & volcanoes of Alaska. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Light wear to covers, spine fade.

Record # 304182


Price: $20.00 

 

Along the Maine Coast


Mitchell, Dorothy, pictures by W. N. Wilson

New York, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 97 pages, color, 2-color illustrations by W. N. Wilson. Ex-lib, but fairly clean with light residue to end papers

Record # 304096


Price: $12.00 

 

American Adventures


Street, Julian, Illust. by: Wallace Morgan

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Essays on the contemporary South of the early 1900s. B &w illust by Wallace Morgan.681 pgs. back hinge tender otherwise VG.

Record # 100618


Price: $20.00 

Among Old Portsmouth HousesMay, Ralph
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Among Old Portsmouth Houses


May, Ralph

Softcover. Portsmouth, Ralph May, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages. Softcover. Ex-museum library copy with tape along spine and stamp at top right corner of front endpaper. Pamphlet of Historic Portsmouth stapled to inside of front cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613937


Price: $31.00 

 

Annals of Iowa, The - Volume One 1893


Petersen, William J.

hardcover. Iowa City, State Historical Society, Rep, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A reprint of the 1st 4 quarterly issues. 192 pages + index. Dust jacket edgewear, chips.

Record # 64997


Price: $18.00 

 

Annual Report of the Board of Managers Buffalo Historical Society


NA

Paperback. Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Historical Soc., 1st wraps, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Annual report. Black & white plates. 64 pages. Light soil, wear to covers.

Record # 130171


Price: $30.00 

 

Anpao - An American Indian Odyssey


Highwater, Jamake

NY, Lippincott , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Black & white illustrations by Fritz Scholder.

Record # 202547


Price: $25.00 

 

Anybody's Gold - The Story of California's Mining Towns


Jackson, Joseph Henry, Illust. by: E.H. Suydam

New York, Appleton-Century, 2nd, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY JACKSON on half-title page. Previous owner's signature on same page. Black & white illust. by E.H. Suydam.

Record # 65147


Price: $35.00 

 

ARAN - Islands of Legend


Siochain, P. A. O.

Hardcover. Dublin, FOILSIUCHAIN EIREANN, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs, and fold-out map in rear. Fold-out map with tape repaired tear. Dust jacket worn, darkening to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 612174


Price: $38.00 

 

Art Across America - Two Centuries of Regional Painting


Gerdts, William H.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Three slipcased volumes. Volume One - New England, New York, Mid Atlantic - 422 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, bright copy. Volume Two - The South, Near Midwest - 396 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, bright copy. Volume Three - The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific - 396 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, bright copy. Red Cloth slipcase with 3/4" of light fading to cloth along mouth. Light wear overall. Additional shipping required.

Record # 610393


Price: $375.00 

 

Astonished Traveler, The - William Darby, Frontier Geographer and Man of Letters


Kennedy, J. Gerald

Hardcover. Baton Rough, Louisiana State Univ., 1st, n .d., Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 55526


Price: $20.00 

 

Atlas of Rutland County Vermont


Beers, F. W.

Hardcover. Rutland, Charles E. Tuttle, Co., Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Illustrated with black & white maps. Some small flecks of spotting to back over. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610240


Price: $250.00 

 

Back Home in Oneida - Hermon Clarke and His Letters


Jackson, Harry F./Thomas F. O'Donnell

Hardcover. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613477


Price: $15.00 

 

Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky


Thomas, Jean

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 270 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610963


Price: $38.00