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1) DOWNEAST DICKSONS: 42 LINES OF EARLY NEW ENGLAND SETTLERS AND ALL THE DESCENDANTS, AS OF 1987, OF CAPTAIN TALBOT DICKSON AND SUSAN HAYLAND OF HARRINGTON MAINE
Dickson, Katharine

Henniker, NH : Katharine Brown (self-published), 1987. 8co. Cloth. 208 pp. With a few black and white illustration. Near fine. (more information)

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$45.00
2) THE STORY OF THE TOYS
Dodge, Mary H

England : Riverside Press, 1909. 8vo, vii, 106 pp. Dark green with bright gilt lettering on front and spine. No dust jacket. Tissue-covered glossy frontispiece of Mary Dodge, plus 5 glossy illustrations from photographs. Untrimmed pages, including some uncut. A biography of the Toy family of Cornwall, originally set down by the author’s mother with no intention of publicaion. The story was of such great interest to family members that she hoped to review it for printing, but sudden illness cut short her plans. In this book her daughter carries out mother’s plans, and the little book is printed nearly as she wrote it but with a greater emphasis on the grandchildren born from 1875 to the date of publication in 1909. Slight white scuff on the rear board, and a 2” white mark or rubbing at the base of the spine. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped. No writing, underlining, highlighting or dogearing. Very good minus. (more information)

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$40.00
3) THE GRAFTON MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND GENEALOGY
Hitchcock, Frederick H., Managing Editor

Boston : The Grafton Press, Genealogical Publishers, 1908. 8vo. Pamphlet binding. December, 1908, Volume 1, No. 3 edition of quarterly magazine. Water stain on botton right corner of front cover and first page. Right side of front cover frayed. Spine has two inch tear at heel. Interior pages intact and readable. Overall good minus, with faults as noted. (more information)

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$10.00
4) THE GRAFTON MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND GENEALOGY
Hitchcock, Frederick H., Managing Editor

Boston : The Grafton Press, Genealogical Publishers, 1909. 8vo. Pamphlet binding. November, 1909, Volume II, No. 2 edition of quarterly magazine. Botton corners of front and rear covers chipped. Two-inch tear at heel of spine. Edges of front and rear covers frayed. Interior pages bright and readable. Overall, good minus, with faults as noted. (more information)

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$10.00
5) THE BOOK OF KINGS: A ROYAL GENEALOGY
McNaughton, Arnold. With a foreword by The Earl mountbatten of Burma

New York : Quadrangle Books, 1973. First American edition. Small folio. Cloth in slipcase. Three volume set. Vol.1, The Royal Houses, pp. xix + 511; vol. 2, The Families, pp. iii + 574; and vol. 3, Illustrations & Indexes, pp. iii + 394 . With 118 black and white illustrations in volume three and folding genalogical tables in volumes one and two. Binding is Blue cloth decorated in gilt and with gilt titles on spine and gilt monogram of George III on front board of each volume, the set is housed in a red leatherette slipcase.Books are in very good plus condition but the slipcase shows some general rubbing and gas a 4 inch tear to the leatherette contact paper at the lower rear of the slipcase. Overall condition is very good plus in a good plus slipcase. (more information)

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$275.00
6) MEMORANDA CONCERNING DESCENDANTS, OF JOHN PERRY, JOHN STRONG, JOHN FYFE, ROBERT GRAY
N/A

Cincinnati : Geo. E. Stevens & Co., 1878. 8vo pamphlet. Wraps. 28 pp. Front cover creased vertically at center, chipped at corners and edges, with multiple dampstains. Rear cover heavily chipped at corners, and separating from backstrip. Contents lightly to moderately foxed, and folded vertically at some point. Overall good only, with cover poor. (more information)

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$20.00
7) O CRIME DE SIMOES COLACO
PinheiroKoren de Lima, Candido, et alia

Fotaleza : Ana Lima, 2007. Small oblong folio. Production leather.182 pp. Illustrated throughout with more than 150 genealogical tables. Corners bumped. Text in Portuguese. (more information)

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$175.00
8) ADVENTURES OF ALEXANDRE DE CHABRIER DE PELOUBET AT THE TIME OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TOGETHER WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS FOREBEARS IN FRANCE & THE FOUNDING OF THE PELOUBET FAMILY IN AMERICA
Small, Harold A., edited

San Francisco : Private Printing, 1953. Large 8vo. Quarter linen cloth with stiff decorated paper boards. 71 pp. Frontispiece silhouette portrait with occasional b&w illustrations. Limited edition of 185 printed at Grabhorn Press. Paper backstrip label. Faux laid paper with deckle edges. Sunned at extremities. Front free endpaper bears former owner’s book label. Leaves foxed throughout. Additional family history neatly penned in on page 71, else very good. (more information)

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$60.00