CHESTER COUNTY CLOCKS AND THEIR MAKERS by James, Arthur E - 1947

Berkeley, CA: Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California. Very Good. 1996. Softcover. Cover has very minor scuff at corners and edges. Three small mystery spots on back cover. ; Doreen B. Townsend Center occasional papers; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 39 pages .

Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart. Good+. 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt title on spine. Table illustrations. Laid in color folded map. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. "Compliments of Anton F. Engelbert, House of Representative." Marbled page edges. Canal & Navigation Companies; Railroad Companies; Passenger Railways; Telegraph Companies. Small paper tear on internal hinge with cover fully attached. Rear cover has a damp stain. Canal, Navigation, Railroad, Telegraph ; Table Illustrations; Thin 48mo 3½" - 4" tall; 990 pages .

Tower in the West by Frank NORRIS. First Edition, Signed by Frank Norris. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1957. Hardcover. Book Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Quarter bound black bead-grain cloth with blue paper sides and gold lettering.

Rand McNally & Company, 1916. Later printing. Map. Very Good. [Neat line 18.875x25.75in, Sheet 20.5x27.75in]; 335-338 pp., Map of Alaska and British Columbia (44 to 66 N, 120 to 172 W), insets of Mt. McKinley District, Steward Peninsula Mining District and Aleutian Islands, red ink legend of Alaskan Railroads (United Stated government, Copper River & Northwestern, North Pole Route, Solomon River R. R. Co., Tanana Valley and White Pass & Yukon; Map of Hawaii (19 to 22 N 154 to 160 W); listing of Districts, features and communities for both; Age toning along edges, repaired closed tear and other minor closed tears to edges, horizontal fold.

Bad Seed, Dodd, Mead Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. A play by Maxwell Anderson. Adapted from the original novel "The Bad Seed" by William March. 1955. Used. Good Condition/ Fair Child Actress Patty McCormack scene from the play on the front cover. "Summary: "Can a child be born evil? This disturbing question underlies the startling events of a new play, based on the best-selling novel by William March."Green boards. 96 pages.

NY: Andrews' Printer, (38 Chatham St. ). Very Good; Some light creasing and toning. Faint penciled name (A. M. . Catton? ) on top border.. N.D.. Ephemera. Circa 1858 handbill. Printed song lyrics with decorative border. Printed on 9.5 x 6 inch sheet on verso only. New lyrics to the old nursery rhyme with references to Queen Victoria, Battle of Sebastopol, Napoleon, and the prohibition law passed in the State of Maine. Last verse reads: “Mayor Wood has put the rumsellers through, The Maine Law’s a sad evil, We cannot get our toddy now; Pop goes the weazle. ”A nearly identical version of this ditty, with the “z” in weazel replaced with an “s”, can be found in Beadle’s Dime Song Book, A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs (1857). According to Grosvenor Library Bulletin: An Indexed Catalogue of Books in the Department of Local History and Genealogy (Mar. 1900) : Volume 1, Mayor Wood refers to New York City Mayor Fernando Wood,… Read More

Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Leather rubbed and flaking at edges.. 1897. Hardcover. Original brown pebbled and blindstamped leather with decorative gilt titles on front boards and spine. Gilt-stamped turn-ins, all edges gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Index, 28 portrait plates. Surprisingly tight and clean. A compilation of biographies of upstanding male citizens of Hillsboro and Cheshire Counties in New Hampshire, most notably home boy Horace Greeley, newspaperman and politician. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 481 pages .

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company. Good with no dust jacket; 2 inch tear to map, library stamps and markings, . pages toned, some stains to pages, wear to spine extremities, rear hinge . cracked. Describes geography, settlement, land availability, and other . attributes of the Territory of Minnesota.. 1857. Hardcover. Handcolored folding frontispiece map by J. H. Colton of Minnesota measuring 13 x 15 inches. Original brown cloth stamped in blind and in gilt. Howes P 84, Sabin 58723.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages .

This early American textbook has a quarter leather binding, with the spine in leather and heavy paper boards. The boards show considerable wear, with the marbled paper cover stripped away in places and heavily worn in others. However, both boards are firmly attached to the spine and the binding is still tight with all pages intact. The pages are heavy textured paper, some staining, but in amazingly good condition, considering the age of this obviously much-used volume. Except for some long-hand division on the inside of the back board, the book is unmarked. The best feature of the text is its content--besides all sorts of mathematic information, problems and measurements, it also has instructions/examples of all sorts of things mathematical--eg. the correct way to design a graph, calculations for different forms of weight, motion. measures of all kinds and an entire section of the appropriate forms of notes, deeds, bonds, receipts and wills--all in the erudite, charming language of the age. This is a… Read More

The Inter-Mountain Educator Co, 1913. Softcover. Very Good. June, 1913 issue of The Inter-Mountain Educator Co., then located in Missoula, Montana. Special Montana Public School Number. Includes individual histories of Montanan grade schools, high schools and colleges. Densely illustrated with historical photos of exterior and interior views of schools, grounds, students, surrounding areas and more. Institutions represented include: The University of Montana (Missoula), Montana State School of Mines (Butte), Montana State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (Bozeman), State Normal College (Dillon), High School of Gallatin County (Bozeman), City Schools of Bozeman, County High School at Missoula, Public Schools of the City of Missoula, Public Schools of Terry, Custer County, High School of Beaverhead County (Dillon), Hardin Schools of Big Horn County, High School of Broadwater County (Townsend), Granite County High School (Philipsburg), Schools of the City of Havre, Schools of Glasgow, Valley… Read More