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NO AUTHOR_ARTIST TITLE PUBLISHER PRICE COND DESCRIPTION
8734 Hoyt, James
"The Mountain Society" A History of the First Presbyterian Church Orange, NJ CM Saxton, Barker & Co New York 1860 $30.00 Fair, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Hardcover Book Covers are scuffed. Edges and corners are rubbed to boards.Top and bottom of spine are chipped and fraying. Backstrip is starting to detach. Hinge is split in front of book.
8564 Adjutant Stearns Massachusetts Sabbath School Society Boston 1862 1st Edition $25.00 Poor, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Hardcover Book True civil war story of a young man who died on the battlefield. Written by his father. Brown blindstamped covers are soiled and faded. Cloth is worn on cover edges. Endpapers are missing. Previous owner traced the outline of the fronticepiece on to the tissue guard. Some writing in pen in the margins of the last page. Some pages are loose and starting to detach. Some writing on the inside of the front covers. Good reading copy.
37 Eliot, Charles W. (Editor)
American Historical Documents P.F Collier & Son Corporation New York 1938 $6.00 Fine, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Hardcover Book "... 1000 - 1904" The Harvard Classics, green covers with gilt design and lettering. Lettering slightly faded on spine.
8570 Lombard, Percival Hall
The Aptucxet Trading Post The First Trading Post of the Plymouth Colony with an Account of its Restoration on the Original Foundations Bourne Historical Society 1995 $15.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Paper Covers Book In good clean condition.
8461 Muskie, Stephen O.
Campobello: Roosevelt's "Beloved Island" Down East Books 1982 $15.00 Good, Dustjacket: Good, Hardcover Book Author inscribed half-title page to previous owner. Some small rips on dustjacket. Otherwise good.
66 Gulliver, Lucile
Daniel Boone The MacMillan Company New York $11.00 Very Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Hardcover Book Brown decorative covers, lightly soiled and some edgwear. Hinges are good, no marks.
8451 Snyder, William L.
Great Opinions by Great Judges A Collection of Important Judicial Opinions by Eminent Judges with Introduction, Notes, Analyses, Etc Baker, Voorhis & Co Law Publishers New York 1883 $120.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Three-Quarter Leathe Book Leather spine covering and corners. Raised bands. Marbled boards. Scuffed boards, Cover edges are rubbed to boards.
4639 Davis, Harold A.
An International Community on the St. Croix (1604-1930) University of Maine at Orono Orono, Maine 1974 Second Printing $85.00 Fair, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Soft cover Book Covers have creases as does spine. Covers are discoloured. Page edges are yellowed. Book edges are rubbed. Inside is clean. Fold out map in front of book. Previous owner's name on inside front cover.
1980 Lyford, James
Life of Edward H. Rollins A Political Biography Dana Estes & Company Boston 1906 $20.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Hardcover Book Blue covers are rubbed at edges. First two endpapers are missing. Previous owner's name on half title page. Rear hinge cracked to webbing. Inside clean with minimal foxing.
9304 Von Blücher, Maria Cheeseman, Bruce (editor)
Maria von Blücher's Corpus Christi: Letters from the South Texas Frontier, 1849-1879 (Volume 5) (Canseco-Keck History Series) Texas A&M University Press 2010 $25.00 Very Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Soft cover Book Clean inside.
1639 Goddu, K.A.
Monday's Mourning A Retrospective of the 1915 Strike at the Nashua Manufacturing Company Morris Publishing Company Kearney, NE 1996 Second Edition $29.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Trade Paperback Book Cover scuffed and a bit dented on back cover. Ink stain on back cover. Spine not creased. Inside clean and bright. Scarce copy.
8726 Rasmussen, Gerald; Larsen, Otto N.
Oregon Danish Colony Ethnic Assimilation in Junction City Danish Amer Heritage Society 1998 $20.00 Very Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Soft cover Book Seems unread.
1845 Martin, David G.
The Peninsula Campaign March-July 1862 Combined Books Conshohoken, Pennsyl 1992 $10.00 Very Good, Dustjacket: Good, Hardcover Book Small tape repair on dustjacket. Prevous owner's paste-down on first front end paper, otherwise very clean tight copy.
8735 Pittsburgh and The Pittsburgh Spirit Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh 1927-1927 1928 $25.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Hardcover Book Decorative blindstamped covers are scuffed and soiled. Inside is clean. Describes Pittsburgh industries and businessmen of the time. Portaits of BF Jones, Andrew Carnegie, James H Reed, Thomas M Armstrong, HJ Heinz, George Westinghouse, Andrew Mellon, James J Davis and Samuel B McCormick.
829 Sargent, Nathan
Public Men and Events Volumes I and II J. B. Lippincott & Co. Philadelphia 1875 $45.00 Very Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Hardcover Book " ... from the Commencement of Mr. Monroe's Administration in 1817, to the Close of Mr. Fillmore's Administration, in 1853" Complete in two volumes. Some wear on the covers, particularly at corners and spine ends are frayed, some spotting/mottled look on covers, volume II has considerable mottled look on spine. Some writing on half title page of volume I and first font end paper of volumne two, hinges OK, interior pages very clean and tight.
4638 Murchie, Guy
Saint Croix the Sentinel River Historical Sketches of Its Disovery, Early Conflits and Final Occupation By English and American Settlers with Some Comments on Indian Life Duell, Sloan and Pearce New York 1947 $18.00 Good, Dustjacket: Fair, Hardcover Book Dustjacket has several chips including large piece torn off rear. Back cover is dampstained near spine. Page edges are yellowed. Brown stain on page edges of pgs 61-64. This does not obsure text. May be of interest to genealogists.
1862 Cocke, M. Ritchie Harrison
Tales My Grandmother Told Me The Dietz Press, Incorporated Richmond, Virginia 1953 $11.00 Good, Dustjacket: Good, Hardcover Book Blue dustjacket show some minor soiling and small rips. Book has some writing on the first front end paper, otherwise unmarked. Slight musty odour. Tales of old Washington D.C. remembered by the grandson of Mrs. Robert King Stone, (daughter of Thomas Ritchie of Richmond Virginia), who live in Washington from 1845 to 1904.
2065 Stickney, Joseph L.
War in the Philippines and Life and Glorious Deeds of Admiral Dewey Monarch Book Company Chicago 1899 $20.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Half-Leather Book Sub titled: "A thrilling account of our conflicts with the Spaniards and Filipinos in the Orient including the glorious deeds of the great commander and the complete story of the Philippine Islands, historical and descriptive". Blind-stamped image on leather. Marbled boards. Rip on either side of bottom of backstrip Boards rubbed. Some pen marks on cover. Inside fairly clean and tight.

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