S.S. Fairmont Victory: S.S. Fairmont Victory, 1946. First Edition. Soft Cover. Eight issues + four doubles of this U.S. Merchant Marine shipboard published news - sheet, issues from February 12 to Feb. 20 1946 inclusive; with humorous black and white line-drawn illustrations & vignettes. A February 12 article reports "Japs.....
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1884. First Edition. Soft Cover. 373 pages; with a useful index. This is Volume II of the Secretary of the Navy's report, being the report of the Surgeon-General of that service. Detailed reportage from named contributors throughout; General Sick-Report of Vessels; Sanitary Condition of the.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Printed By Thomas & William Bradford, Booksellers and Stationers, 1801. First Edition. Hard Cover. (14) + 348 pages. Charles Caldwell (1772 - 1853) American physician, author, and teacher originally from North Carolina, later known for his "...indefatigable efforts to establish strong educational programs at the medical schools of.....
Germany, Europe: Not Published, 1930. Typescript. Hand Painted. 118 pages; printed one side only; German text throughout. With a few small corrections and additions, some typed, some penciled-in. The essays section at back titled "Perugia" and "Der Geigenspieler Von Sebastiano del Piombo." Small previous owner bookplate-ticket of Paul Kempner on.....
London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1876. Henry Holiday. First Edition. Hard Cover. 83 pages + (1) page publisher's announcements at back. Amusingly illustrated by Henry Holiday. Small bookseller's ticket on the back endpaper, W. & E. Pickering New & Second Hand Booksellers, Stationers &c. 3, Bridge Street Bath. Approx. 5.....
Far Hills New Jersey: Meadow Run Press, 1997. John Rice. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. ix + 573 pages; useful index; signed by the author and the illustrator on the title page; one of a limited edition of 1000. Foreword by Gene Hill. Bibliography on the subjects of American.....
Shelter Island Heights, New York: Ralph G. Duvall, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover. xii + 229 pages; frontispiece of Sylvester Manor, Showing Stone Bridge and Steps; with other black and white illustrations in the text. Signed on the front endpaper by the author, Ralph G. Duvall. History of the Manhanset.....
Southold Long Island New York: Author Published, 1881. First Edition. Hard Cover. viii + 354 pages; with a useful index & black and white illustrations. Author signed inscription on front endpaper, "Charles Elmer Bushnell's. Epher Whitaker" and additionally dated Southold L.I. May 28th 1891. From the author's Preface: "...the History.....
Chapel Hill NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. 245 pages, useful bibliography & index; one of a limited edition of 750. With a frontispiece map of Ireland, charts and tables. (From the jacket information): "...An introductory chapter is devoted to historical antecedents of the.....
Garden City Long Island New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1968. Gahan Wilson. First Edition. Hard Cover. 124 pages; signed and with a small golf-related drawing by Gahan Wilson on the front endpaper. Approx. 8" size, square format; illustrated dustjacket over hardcover boards; some edge, tips wear, closed edge-tears to.....
Bridgehampton, L.I. New York: Bridgehampton Historical Society, 1960. First Edition. Not Bound. A small map of this East End Long Island town, from Mecox Bay in the west to Wainscott Pond in the East, from the Atlantic Ocean on the south to Old Noyac Path in the north. With interesting.....
Lynbrook New York: Brooklyn Editions and Brooklynpix (dot) com in Conjunction with Israelowitz Publishing, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Brooklyn Editions and Brooklynpix (dot) com in Conjunction with Israelowitz Publishing, 2005. First Edition. 240 pages; illustrated in black and white throughout by historian of Brooklyn Brian Merlis via his extensive.....
Islip, New York: Author Copyright, 1953. First Edition. Hard Cover. 151 pages + (4) page useful index at back. Map endpapers with Westhampton Beach & part of Westhampton. Several black and white illustrated sections, with imagery of significance to the village's development and history. The author's foreword notes that this.....
Albany New York: Weed, Parsons & Company, 1887. Second Edition. Hard Cover. 473 pages; useful index & errata; with a couple of black and white illustrations. Much material on early settlers, the first attempt to settle at Manhasset in North Hempstead and the subsequent removal to the East End; civil.....
New York, N.Y. E. French, 1839. First Edition. Hard Cover. 536 pages; useful index; lithographic frontispiece plate of Scenery at Hempstead Harbor Residence of Joseph W. Moulton, Esq. by J.H. Bufford; another black and white plate View at Hempstead, L.I. Residence of Joseph Weekes Esq. Containing histories of the counties.....
Hartford, Connecticut: Printed for the Family By Case, Lockwood and Company, 1860. First Edition. Hard Cover. 321 + (1) page. A genealogy of the White family and its connecting families and members, beginning with "...Elder John White...one of the first settlers of Cambridge in Massachusetts, of Hartford in Connecticut, and.....
New York: Privately Printed, 1902. First Edition. Hard Cover. 77 pages; black and white frontispiece portrait of George Rogers Howell; within are various pictures of himself and his son G.S. Howell and Mrs. Howell, family arms and memorials. After the deaths of the father and son, this was published, with.....
Denver, Colorado: University of Denver, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. xii + 147 + 10 page Appendix; pages printed one side only. Illustrated with informational tables & charts and various figures. Also with a folding map of the City of Golden having color street indicators & key; approx. 17" x......
Boston Massachusetts: Ticknor & Fields, 1860. First Edition, Second Issue. Hard Cover. 283 + 288 pages. This is the second issue of the first edition, with the 'Conclusion' at the end of the story added by Hawthorne later to the book; no advertisements Previous owner name in on endpapers of.....
New York, N.Y. David M. Stiger & Co., 1884. Trade Cards. Soft Cover. Lithographed trade cards, slightly tinted, for this patent medicine, printed by Meyer, Merkel & Ottmann N.Y. The reverse of the cards offer testimonials for this cure and also advertise Otis' Brothers never-Failing Corn Cure. Both medications were.....
Washington, DC: U.S. Navy, 1888. First Edition. Soft Cover. 6 pages; the Italian governments' regulations for arrival and stay of ships in ports in time of war and approach to parts of coast defended by forts or batteries and the anchorage regulations in time of peace; with supporting articles of.....
Washington, DC: U.S. Navy, 1890. First Edition. Soft Cover. 4 pages; the remarks of this Order note the Morse code alphabet, numerals, punctuation marks, signals and abbreviations, rules for signaling with flag or torch, heliograph or flash lantern and telegraph, with an example message. Approx. 5" x 8" size; light.....
Roslyn, New York: Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, 1981. First Edition. Soft Cover. 61 pages; a catalog of this exhibition, illustrated in color, black and white throughout. With an extensive textual introduction by Holly Joan Pinto, curator; including notes and bibliography. Approx. 8 1/2" x 11" size; bound in.....
New York, N.Y. Grosset & Dunlap, 1975. First Edition. Faux Leather in Slipcase. 272 pages; illustrated in color, black and white throughout including folding plates; with a useful index; artists' biographies, picture credits, references; endpapers with infantry, airborne and cavalry & division insignia patches. "First Printing" stated on copyright page.....
New York, N.Y. Claude Kendall, Inc., 1936. Zella De Milhau. First Edition. Hard Cover. 253 pages; signed by the author on the front endpaper; with a frontispiece etching by Zella De Milhau, which the artist signed in pencil beneath; De Milhau was also the book's dedicatee. Foreword by Ida M......
