History from Tannery Books

Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum-Stichting, 1995. First Printing. Paperback. Very good. Walter Kloek, Reinier Baarsen, et al. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - Highlights from the Collection. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum-Stichting, 1995, First Printing. Glossy paper covers, 4to (28 cm), 176 pp with index. Highlights of paintings, sculptures, and historical items from the Dutch national museum of art and history (English). Very Good: covers lightly bumped… Read more

New York: Random House, 1985. Second Printing. Hardcover. Good/good. Vincent Loomis, Jeffrey Ethell, Amelia Earhart: The Final Story, New York, Random House, 1985, Second Printing. Brown cloth spine over rust-red paper boards, gold titling with tiny airplane design, 8vo (24 cm), xvi, 160 pp, 16 pp bw photos; glossy red DJ with sepia photos. Good/Good: boards slightly bowed,… Read more

New York: The Columbia University Press, 1906. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library. Robert Julius Lau, Old Babylonian Temple Records, New York, The Columbia University Press (The Macmillan Company), December, 1906, First Printing. Brick-red cloth hc with gold publisher logo on front, 8vo (24 cm), xii, 90 pp text, 42 pp glossary, 35 single-sided plates. Records of temple donations, supplies… Read more

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. William S. Powell, The First State University, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, copyright 1972, no other printings mentioned. Gray cloth hc with silver lettering on spine, 4to (28 cm), blue pictorial endpapers, x, 310 pp, many bw illustrations throughout. Very Good/no DJ: covers… Read more

Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1945. First Printing. Paperback. Ex-library. Bernhard Knollenberg, Pioneer Sketches of the Upper Whitewater Vallery - Quaker Stronghold of the West, Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Society, 1945, First Printing. Indiana Historical Society Publications Volume 15, no. 1. Gray paper covers, 8vo, [x] pp 7-172 with index, map and 4 bw plates. History, including pioneer names and… Read more

Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1926. First edition. Paperback. Good. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, Marking the Historic Sites of Early Pennsylvania - Fourth Report of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, Harrisburg, Penn., 1926, First Edition. Glossy cream paper covers, 8vo, 88 pp, fold-out map, illustrated with bw photos. Good: covers bumped with half-inch tear at spine, light foxing/soiling on covers and… Read more

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1943. Paperback. Good. Frank H. H. Roberts Jr., Egypt and the Suez Canal, Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies, Number Eleven, Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, March 31, 1943. Stapled mottled gray paper covers, 8vo (23 cm), iv, 66 pp with bibliography, 25 plates including frontispiece with bw photos. People and life in "modern" Egypt, history,… Read more

Chalford, 1995. First edition. Matthew Young, The Archive Photographs series: Selby - from the William Rawling Collection, The Chalford Publishing Co., 1995, First Edition. Sepia-illustrated paper covers, 8vo (24 cm), 128 pp, many bw photographs and reproductions. Photographic collection "of a Yorkshire town at the height of the Victorian and Edwardian era." Good: covers bumped and creased, po inscription… Read more

Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1995. Later printing. Paperback. Very Good. William S. Croker, The Oak Island Quest, Hantsport, Nova Scotia, Lancelot Press, 1995, ninth printing. From the cover: "What is the real truth behind the Oak Island Mystery? Were pirates really ever involved? An Engineer/Surveyor investigates Oak Island and speculative theories link the mystery with an ancient… Read more

Toronto: The Canadian Centennial Library, 1965. Hardcover. Good. ed. Pierre Berton, Remember Yesterday - A Century of Photographs, Toronto, The Canadian Centennial Library, 1965. Pictorial cloth covers with red spine, 4to (28 cm), 128pp. Photographs, mostly bw, from daguerrotypes and wagon trains to the "nuclear age." Good: corners bumped, smudge on ffep, no po markings.

New York: American Tract Society. Revised. Hardcover. Ex-Library. J. H. Merle D'Aubigné, translated by H. White. The History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. New York, American Tract Society, undated [19th-century] revision, Vol. 4. Brown lined cloth with blind-stamped covers and gilt spine design, 12mo (19 cm), light yellow endpapers, frontispiece, 508 pp [2 pp ads]. Ex-library… Read more

New York: Greenwich House, 1984. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Alfred Eisenstaedt, intro by Philip Kunhardt Jr., Eisenstaedt's Celebrity Portraits: Fifty Years of Friends and Acquaintances, New York, Greenwich House, 1984, later printing. Photos and facsimile autographs from the collection of Alfred Eisenstaedt, "Father of Photojournalism" who worked for Life magazine from its beginning. The collection includes not… Read more

Little, Brown & Co., 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. James Silke, Here's Looking at You, Kid - 50 Years of fighting, working and dreaming at Warner Bros. [Brothers], Little, Brown & Co., 1976, First Edition. Red cloth hc with blind-stamped Warner Brothers logo on front, 4to (29 cm), 318 pp, heavily illustrated, no index; silver dustjacket with… Read more

New York: Bonanza Books, 1984. Reprint. Hardcover. Ex-Library/good +. John H. Kerr and Edward S. Wallace, The Story of the U.S. Cavalry 1775-1942, New York, Bonanza Books, 1984, reprint of 1953 book. Brown cloth hc, 8vo (23 cm), x, 276 pp with bibliography, bw illustrations and photos throughout; illustrated DJ on white. Ex-library (Very Good)/Good+: ex-library with stickers… Read more

Franklin Watts, 1983. Hardcover. Ex-Library/good. Red cloth hc, xvi, 208 pp with index, illustrated with bw photos and color poster images. Ex-library/Good: pocket and minor markings, tape marks edges wearing; DJ lightly bumped and scuffed, faded at top. Printed in Great Britain

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Cyril Aldred, Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1970 reprint. Stiff paper boards, 8vo, 144 pp with index and notes, illustrated. Good: lightly bumped and scuffed, po bookplate inside front cover, some foxing, no underlining. Printed in Great Britain

The History Press, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good +. Glossy paper covers, viii, 328 pp, map (not illustrated). Very Good+: lightly bumped in scuffed, pages crisp, no markings. (Seller bought this new in Ireland.) Printed in England

New York: Franklin Watts, 1971. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Pictorial covers, [vi] 66 pp with index, bw photos and illustrations. Ex-library (Good)/no DJ: corners worn, sticker residue, pocket and minor markings. Printed in USA

Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library/good. Chronicle of the author's sojourn among the Dodoth tribe of northern Uganda. Blue cloth hc, 8vo, xxviii, 258 pp, 32 plates of bw photos. Maps and glossary. Illustrated dustjacket. Good (ex-library)/Good: pocket and markings, no underlining; DJ has tape on spine, small tears at edge. Printed in USA

Boston: Ginn & Company, 1893. Hardcover. Good. P. V. N. Myers, President of Belmont College, Ohio; Outlines of Mediaeval and Modern History, A Text-Book for High Schools, Seminaries, and Colleges. Boston, Ginn & Company, 1893.One-quarter leather over dark brown cloth HC, 8vo, plain endpapers, xii, 740 pp with index, 13 color maps, Good-: covers worn with about half… Read more