Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston & Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 711 pages. Embraces "the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year. Showing how from thirteen colonies with a scattered population along the Atlantic Coast, a great republic has been formed, embracing forty-five states with 75,000,000 inhabitants and vast colonial possessions in two hemispheres." Green cloth w/ gilt lettering on front cover and embossed lettering on spine. Large compass design on front cover. Water damage (discolored) on bottom right corner on front and back covers. Floral white/green print end pages. Great color map of the U.S. on frontispiece. Pages 69 and 71 ripped out at edge of text, but pages are still there and text still legible. Plate between pages 346, 347 starting to come out.
Hardcover. Providence RI, Society of Colonial Wars, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 11 pages, red cloth covers with black lettering, spine label. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, England, Triune Books, rep, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Reference guide for American furniture design from the colonial period up until World War I. 144 pages, illustrated with 240 photographs, 40 of which are in full-color. Cloth bound book is in very good condition, old price sticker attached inside the cover. Dust jacket is price-clipped and shows edge wear and has small rip near the top of the spine.
Softcover. Mystic CT, Marine Historical Association, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Softcover, light tan paper wrappers, 92 pages with b&w illustrations. Light soil to wrappers. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR BECK TO FELLOW WRITER JOHN CLAGETT. Also with Clagett's ownership signature on front fly leaf.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of American paintings from the Colonial era. 192 pages with b&w and color illustrations. In very good condition, a clean copy. Evidence of rubbing/scratching on front and back covers.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with chipping, closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
New York, Skira/Rizzoli, Revised, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color tipped-in plates. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Cream cloth with gild decoration to front cover. Gilt lettering to red leatherette spine. Dust jacket edge wear with tiny tear to bottom right edge, otherwise a very nice, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Cincinnati, OH, Jennings and Graham, First Edition, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Hardcover. Blue embossed boards with some soiling, scuffing & wear to edges. Gilt titles to spine. Fraying to crown & heel. of spine Heavy foxing to preliminary pages, spotting throughout. Frontis illustration, James B. Finley, & engravings in b/w. Tight binding.
Hardcover. Lebanon, University Press of New England, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Single black line on each edge - similar to remainder marks. Clean, unmarked text. Light wear.
Hardcover. Chambersburg PA, privately printed, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages, color frontispiece, b&w illustration. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, Reprint, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages. Illustrated with original drawings by Gibbs, Schoonover and others, and reproductions from rare old prints, maps, and diagrams. Tissue guard on frontispiece. Minor cover and spine edge wear and stains. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press , 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 255 pages. Contains 16 plate illustrations. Gilt top edge. Volume 9 of the Chronicles of America Series, Allen Johnson Editor. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Small stain to first few pages. Light browning to top edges of pages. Paper on front hinge starting to crack. Hole to rear endpaper. Corners bumped. Light markings to rear cover. Small bump in edge of front cover.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 534 pages, black & white plates, maps. Dust jacket with light wear, soil.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean.
Hardcover. Worcester MA, American Antquarian Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages, red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. South Royalton, Vt., Steerforth Press, 1st, October 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 535 pages. Dust jacket price clipped with minor sunning to spine, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some fading to spine, slight foxing to covers. Spine very slightly cocked but tight. Clean copy. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 4th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-green cloth stamped with white lettering on spine, 619 pages, many b&w drawings and photographs. Clean, bright copy lacking dust jacket.
Hardcover. Williamsburg, VI, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Revised , 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 289 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt decoration to front cover. Pictorial endpapes. White pictorial dust jacket with tiny tear to upper right corner and minimal wear, otherwise like new.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Cambridge City Council/Charles Sever, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages, 9 b&w plates. Brown cloth with dark brown and gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Bright, clean copy with just a little edgewear to rear cover edge.
Hardcover. Bloomington IL, Indiana University Press, reprint , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 258 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Small stain to top of dust jacket spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.