Americana from Bygone Books

Palm Desert, CA: Dean Publications, 1974. Soft cover. Very Good. Palm Desert, CA: Dean Publications, 1974. 4to, stapled wraps, 49 pages, 3-color illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with little wear, clean and tight. Includes the Park history, information on hiking, camping, geology, plants, animals, fishing and boating, seasons, facts of life, a road guide and park map, family… Read more about this item

Williamstown, MA: Corner House, 1968. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1968 reprint edition of the original 1922 publication. 8vo, dark green boards, 319 pages, bibliography. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has an owner name on fep; jacket has light edgewear along top edge. An early (1922) attempt at trying to understand the… Read more about this item

Old Sturbridge Village, MA: Old Sturbridge Village / Meriden Gravure Company, 1955. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. No additional printings or editions noted, 8vo, stapled pamphlet wraps, 32 pages, blue and white illustrations. Condition: NEAR FINE: no visible wear. The fascinating story of young America as found in old blue Staffordshire.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to, stapled wraps, 52 pages, color and b/w illustrations, centerfold of girl paper dolls on stiff cardboard. Condition is VERY GOOD+: light edgewear to extrmeities, crease along top edge of front cover, internally clean and tight - appears unread. A visual feast of American ephemera, mostly from… Read more about this item

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, , 1956. Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to, stiff card wraps, unpaginated - lists 65 b/w plates of Revere silver, 1 page of Revere marks. Cover design adapted from Revere's engraving of "Landing of British Troops in Boston", 1700. Condition is NEAR FINE with slightest of edgewear. Book… Read more about this item

Plymouth, Vermont: The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, 1973. Soft cover. Very Good. Jay N. Darling. Calvin Coolidge: cartoons of his presidential years featuring the work of syndicated cartoonist Jay N. "Ding" Darling, August 1923-March 1929. Edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Plymouth, Vermont: The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, 1973. Issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Calvin Coolidge's… Read more about this item

Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press, 1936. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. DESCRIPTION: Special reprint from the Saturday Evening Post, © 1948 Curtis Publishing; this 1986 edition printed letterpress by The Anthoensen Press of Portland, Maine is limited to 1500 copies. However, there is a bookplate on the rear paste-down saying… Read more about this item

California: McClatchy Newspapers, 1950. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Centennial Vignettes. Murray Olderman. California. McClatchy Newspapers, [1950]. Description: Centennial Vignettes, a collection of cartoons by Murray Olderman, a feature staff cartoonist of the McCaltchy newspapers, celebrating the centennials of California: 1948 - 100th anniversary of the discovery of gold in… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott,, 1898. Hardcover. G+. E. S. Holloway.. 9th edition (1898, first published in 1895). 12mo, blue decorative cloth, top edge gilt, 248 pp, b/w illustrations, frontispiece photograph of Gunston Hall, VA. Condition: GOOD+ : a mildly cocked spine, small tear to spine head gutter, brownish stain to front board, some scattered soiling to rear… Read more about this item

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press. Soft cover. VG+. Woodcuts by An Unknown Hand. Cover says "Bound at the Printing Office Williamsburg Virginia; colophon states "The present Volume has been prepar'd, printed and publish'd at the Office of the Peter Pauper Press in the town of Mount Vernon, New York State." With a preface to the "Courteous… Read more about this item

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919. Soft cover. Collectible; VG. As per Senate Resolution No. 447, that this manuscript be printed as a Senate Document, and that an 10,000 additional copies be printed for the Senate Document Room. 65th Congress 3d Session. Small quarto, stapled wraps, 56 pages, in the original mailing envelope. Condition is… Read more about this item

Union City, Tennessee: Pioneer Press., 1974. Soft cover. VG+. Reprint ed. 4to, illustrated stapled wraps, 53 pages, b/w illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD+ : slight wear.

Burlington, VT: Chittenden County Historical Society, 1972 - 1975., 1975. Soft cover. VG+. Complete 9 volume set: 1. Burlington. 2. Jericho, Underhill and Westford. 3. Winooski. 4. Essex and Williston. 5. Hinesburg and Charlotte. 6. Bolton and Huntington. 7. St. George and Shelburne. … Read more about this item

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., 1927. Soft cover. Very Good. On the cover: "The city that every American should know." Illustrated brown paper wraps, oblong 9 1/2 x 12 1/2", 32 pages, sepiachrome photos of Washington, D.C. and 3 pages of B&O advertising w/ maps; map of the Baltimore & Ohio System on last page. Condition is… Read more about this item

Canaan, NH: Phoenix Publishing, 1967. Soft cover. VG+. 8vo, wraps, 148 pages. VERY GOOD+ with sl. edgewear.

Union City, Tennessee: Pioneer Press, 1974. Soft cover. VG+. 4to, stapled illustrated wraps, 61 pages, b/w illus. VERY GOOD+ : minor wear.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1893. Hardcover. VG-. 13th edition, blue decorative cloth, top edge gilt, 237 pp, b/w illustrations, ribbon bookmark. Condition: VERY GOOD- / no jacket: light edgewear; owner bookplate; front hinge slightly loose. Wharton covers such topics as: the Meschianza, New York balls and receptions, the American Philosophical Scoiety, the Wistar… Read more about this item