Search Results: Authors starting with A from Digital Editions

Jakarta: G. B. Van Goor Zonen Neijenhuis & Co., 1953. Red cloth binding with gold lettering. 32mo (4.25 x 3), 436. Previous owner's name on endpapers and side of book block. Otherwise clean copy with toning.

This genealogy is the digital edition of a 138-page book by Matilda O. Abbey, originally published in 1888. It consists of one text file (864 Kb) in DOC format and five image files (299 Kb) in GIF and JPG formats, digitized in 2009 and issued on CD-ROM. Lt. Thomas Tracy (b. 1610) arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, 1637; relocated to Saybrook, Connecticut in 1640; and was instrumental, in 1660, in founding Norwich, Connecticut. The genealogical history of Thomas's family in this volume opens with an account of his ancestry from the Saxon Kings of England, and continues in the opening sections with pieces of the family (through the 1880's) that remained in England. Then follow extracts from the town records of Norwich and Preston, Connecticut, pertaining to the births, marriages, and deaths of the Tracys. The remainder of the work focuses largely on the descendants of John Tracy (1702-1786) and Margaret Hyde, in male and female lines. Closely related families include Waterman, Huntington, Hyde,… Read More

Paris: Mercure de France, 1966. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo, 5.5 x 8, 418 pages. Edition presented and annotated by Georges Mongredien Some minor penciled glossing.

Washington DC: Worldwatch Institute, March 1996. Trade Paperback. As New. 8vo, 5.5 x 8.5, 72 pages.

Washington DC: Worldwatch Institute, April 1998. Trade Paperback. As New. 8vo, 5.5 x 8.5, 84 pages.

New York: Avon Books (Equinox), 1972. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. 8v0, 5 x 8, x + 366 pages. Spine has several creases, but the binding is tight and the rest of the cover is minimally worn (except for one crease on the back). Interior is bright and clean.

Berkeley: University of California Center for Planning and Development Research, 1969. Paperback. Poor. 8vo, 6 x 9, vi + 44 pages. The wrap is intact, but all the pages have been cleanly detached from it. Several pages (particularly at the beginning and end) are wrinkled, but not serious torn. The book was damaged by a toddler, but none of it is missing.

Oceanport, NJ: Digital Editions, 2002. Reprint. CD_rom. New. Digital reproduction containing three text files in DOC format (2.6 Mb) and 30 image files (1.3 Mb) for MAC or PC and most current word processing programs. This is a reproduction of the first edition, 570 pages, originally published in Rutland, VT, 1900.

Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Printing Company, 1955. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. Hard-to-find first edition, 8vo, xvi, 738 pages. Binding is intact, but loose. Green cloth clover with silver imprint on spine and front board is in fair condition, except that about half an inch of the bottom of the spine has been torn off. Cover is partially detached at from hinge (easily repaired); pages are bright and clean. Atlas Folio - over 23" - 25" tall.

Oceanport, NJ: Digital Editions, 2003. Reprint. CD_rom. New. Digital reproduction containing three text files in DOC format (3.9 Mb), 21 image files (1.7 Mb), and lineage tracking hyperlinks. For MAC or PC and most current word processing programs. This is a reproduction of the first edition, 738 pages, and twenty-one interleaved images. Originally published in Salt Lake, 1955.

New York: The Modern Library, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 5 x 7.5, xvi + 517 pages. Introduction by James Truslow Adams; preface by Henry Cabin Lodge. Dust jacket has a small tear on front, edges lightly worn, spine has faded to yellow. Pages are very clean and bright, Stamp on title page.

n. p., n. d. (ca. 1907). Staplebound. Very Good +. 12mo, 5.5 x 7. Pamphlet in the form of an invitation to the Adams family reunion held in West Liberty, Iowa, on 8 August 1907. Four pages., plus cover, listing the children and grandchildren of Colonel John Emery and Sarah (Moody) Adams of Cleveland, Ohio.

Oceanport, NJ: Digital Editions, 2006. This new edition, published on CD_rom, contains four text files in DOC format (8.8 Mb) and 267 image files (29 Mb), for MAC or PC and most current word processing programs. This is a reproduction of the first edition, two volumes: Volume One, History, 955 pages; Volume Two, Genealogies and Biographies, 928 pages; a consolidated index for both volumes, 182 pages; and 267 images (illustrations and autographs). originally published in New York in 1904. It is based upon the manuscript collections of the Sherman W. Adams, recast, enlarged and edited by Henry R. Stiles.
Wethersfield was one of the first, and most likely THE first settlement of English stock in Connecticut. As such it deserved the monumental history that Henry Stiles put together from manuscripts and notes assembled by Judge Sherman W. Adams. For erudition, balance, and readability, we (Digital Editions) consider this the best (along with Memorials of Hartford) of the "local histories" we have published… Read More

Johannesburg: Umanyano Publications, 1994. 8vo, 9.75 x 6.75, vi + 148 pages. Preface by Nelson Mandela. As new but for a small bump on the bottom left corner.

Large format pamphlet (landscape 4to. 11.5 x 8, 34 pages, including covers, staple bound at the spine) containing illustrated instructions in Portuguese on growing, harvesting, and storing various crops; fertilizing; combatting aphids and rats; selling products; managing human waste; eating nutritious foods, etc. Intended for residents of Mozambique.

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1978. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo, 5.5 x 8.5, xl + 432 pages, profusely and beautifully illustrated

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo, 5.5 x 8.5, xl + 392 pages, profusely and beautifully illustrated Stamp of donor (Congresswoman Marjorie Holt) on inside of front board. Cover has minor soiling and minor cocking

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1985. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo, 5.5 x 8.5, vi + 410 pages, illustrated.

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1984. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo, 5.5 x 8.5, xlii + 646 pages, beautifully and profusely illustrated. Owner inscription on FFEP, else as new.

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1983. Hardcover. As New. 8vo, 5.5 x 8.5, xl + 572 pages, profusely and beautifully illustrated Stamp of donor (Congressman Joseph L. Fisher) and initials of owner on inside of front board.