The Thread That Runs So True by Stuart, Jesse - 1949

Andover: Warren F. Draper Printer. Good+. 1859. Hardcover. Bound into this volume: 24 pp. Andover Catalogue, 6 issues of "THE MIRROR OF THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY" + other pamphlets from Andover along with several peroiodicals from Princeton "NASSAU RAKE & MEMORIBILIA SOPHOMORUM" Clean marbled boards with leather spine & corners. Text tight, clean & intact . Approx 500 pp. Prior owners book plate. Front hinge starting on both ends with cover firmly attached. New England, New Jersey ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; approx 500 pages .

Boston, Mass.: Sampson & Murdock Co.. Very Good+. 1926. Hardcover. Clean tan cloth with black lettering. Text tight, clean & intact. Frontispiece, a large fold out map. Pink, blue and white pages. Business, house, street directory and miscellaneous information. Manchester, New Hampshire ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 900 pages .

New York: The Viking Press, 1954. 273 pages. Price clipped. Really a very nice copy of the First Edition. Clean, well bound, no marks in book block or writing. Light -yellow-brown boards with title on front cover in red. The dust jacket is actually very nice save for the price clipping. One very small rip which I very carefully tape-repaired from the inside.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 .

Albany, NY: The Argus Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, light foxing and soiling to . first and last several leaves, two plates have 2 inch tears, one plate has . one inch tear, some light wear to edges of plates.. 1870. Hardcover. Green blindstamped cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Annual report to the New York State Legislature by the Board of Canal Commissioners discussing construction, maintenance, and improvements to the Erie Canal, Champlain Canal, Black River Canal and other waterways throughout New York State. Contains three large engraved folding plates of: Aqueduct Across Wood Creek at Fort Edward on the Champlain Canal, Plan of Bulkhead for North Branch Reservoir, and Otisco Lake Reservoir. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 174 pages .

Amenia, N. Y.: Charles Walsh. Near Fine. 1898. Third Edition. Hardcover. Clean blue cloth decorated with gilt lettering. Decorated endpapers. Pictorial frontispiece. B/W photo illustrations. Text tight, clean & intact. Prior owners bookplate inside front cover. Connecticut, New England; B&W Photos ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 202 pages .

New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1900. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. Very Good condition. SEE PHOTOS. This is the SCARCE original 1900 HARDCOVER first edition -- not a cheaply-made modern reprint. NOT a library discard. Inner hinges are sound. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO margin notes. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece and 12 other plates. Bound in the original gray boards with a cream-color parchment spine, stamped in shiny gold on the spine and front cover.. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. 133pp. + 12 plates.

Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 224pp; frontispiece, tissue guard. Blind-stamped, pictorial brick cloth, gilt-stamped spine; light wear to spine ends. 7.5" x 5" [Wright III, 6123: "Authorship not firmly established."].

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 .

Indianapolis: Union Direct Co, 1902. Octavo. 284 pages. A very scarce Indiana directory covering towns and villages in 19 contiguous counties around Indianapolis with thousands of ads from the items of the era; bicycles and horse-drawn wagons in an age just before the automobile appeared on the scene in Indiana even before 1900. Dr. W.T. McCarthy's full-page ad on how he can cure cancer. This informative directory provides an insight into what Indianans' were interested in at the beginning of the 20th century. The inserts bound into the book include Dr. Bush's Gasaway, Gas Belt. This has the Library of Congress copyright stamp which shows it is one of the two copies, deposited to secure copyright. Bound in 1/4 red cloth over printed tan paper covered boards, spine lettering black, wear to corners, light wear, and soiling to spine. A very good copy.