Search Results: Titles starting with C from Tannery Books

Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1991. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. A Calendar of Delaware Wills New Castle County, 1682-1800, Abstracted and Compiled by the Historical Research Committee of The Colonial Dames of Delaware, Bowie, Md., Heritage Books, 1991 reprint of 1911 book. Laminated orange paper covers, 8vo, [iv] [7]-218 with index. Very Good: lightly bumped and scuffed, a few corners curling, no markings.

New York: The Dial Press, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. Good/good. Burke Davis, The Campaign That Won America: The Story of Yorktown, New York, The Dial Press, 1970, First printing. INSCRIBED by author to po on half-title. Glossy dark blue hc, 8vo (23 cm), [xii] 320 pp with index, 16 bw plates; glossy illustrated dustjacket. Good/Good: lightly bumped, shaken at head of spine, plates corner damp-stained with no loss; DJ dampstained on rear corners, unclipped.

New York: Knight & Brown, 1896. Leather_bound. Fair. Rossiter Johnson, Campfire and Battlefield: History of the Conflicts and Campaigns of the Great Civil War in the United States, New York, Knight & Brown, undated with 1896 copyrights (published after Matthew Brady's death in Jan. 1896). Red leather hc with blind-stamped designs on covers and gilt soldier with lettering on front, folio (33 cm), green floral endpapers, bw Lincoln photograph and color Grant painting frontispieces, 560 pp with index [2, ads], 7 color plates. Account of the American Civil War with text, songs, and including a chapter on women's contributions. Illustrations and photographs, which drew heavily from Matthew Brady's photographs then in possession of the government. Fair: covers detached and spine leather missing, pages loose but all present, up to 2-inch tears with no loss except minor on p. 513 (through picture and text on pp 260, 479), po bookplate on front pastedown, no other markings.

Greensboro: North Carolina Yearly Meeting, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good +. Edited by Seth Hinshaw and Mary Edith Hinshaw, Carolina Quakers: Tercentenary 1672-1972, Greensboro, North Carolina Yearly Meeting, 1972. A cache of special hardcover editions of this out-of-print book. Green cloth library binding (no library markings) with pastedown cover, 4to (28 cm), iv, 160 pp, many bw photos. A comprehensive, easy-to-read history of North Carolina Quakers, including early settlement and history, a history of each monthly meeting (church), activities and people including missionaries. Very Good+: Covers lightly bowed, light shelfwear. Otherwise like new, tight, some pages unopened.

Crazy Horse, SD: Korczak's Heritage, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. Robb DeWall, Carving a Dream: Crazy Horse Memorial, Crazy Horse, SD, Korczak's Heritage, 1999, 8th revised edition. Color stapled paper covers, 4to, 60 pp, many color photos. VG: light scuffing and bumping, no markings.

New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Marc Eliot, Cary Grant: A Biography, New York, Three Rivers Press, 2004. Classy paper covers with bw portrait on white, 8vo (23 cm), [xii] 436 pp with index, bw photos, plus 16 glossy pp bw photos. Very Good: lightly bumped, no markings. printed in USA

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. Good/good. Lionel Godfrey, Cary Grant - The Light Touch, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1981, First Printing. Light blue-gray cloth hc with silver lettering on spine, 8vo (21 cm), 224 pp with index, 24 pp bw photos; color dustjacket. Good/Good: spine and corners bumped, spine starting to skew but tight, po name in ink on ffep, no other markings; DJ lightly bumped and scuffed, unclipped.

Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Mary Carr Hanna, Cassie and Ike, Winston-Salem, NC, John F. Blair, Publisher, 1973, no other editions mentioned. Dark red cloth with white lettering on spine, 8vo, 216 pp; paper DJ with Quaker illustration and red lettering. VG/G: corners lightly worn, wrinkle in top of spine, endpapers very light tanning, foxing on top page edges, clean, crisp, no markings; DJ spine and edges lightly tanned, corners bumped, unclipped, small tear on front edge, chip/tear on bottom

Sotheby & Co., 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. Sotheby & Co., Catalogue of a Collection of Highly Important Oriental Carpets, Part I, Sold by order of the Kevorkian Foundation, Friday, 5th December, 1969. White boards with green border and carpet medallion on front, royal 8vo (about 7.5 by 10 inches), Part 1 only, 20 color plates. Prices in pounds and dollars written in ink on each page; typed price list with date of sale laid in. Fair: Ink notation on cover and throughout, front joint cracked halfway up spine, bumping and scuffing on cover, residue spot on front edge, pages bright.

Washington DC, 1950. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Mary Elinor Lazenby, Catawba Frontier 1775-1781 Memories of Pensioners, Washington, D.C., 1950, First printing. Brown paper covers rebound in green cloth hc, 8vo (21 cm), x, 110 pp with index. Short biographies, mostly of service in the American Revolution. Very Good: light corner wear, po bookplate on front pastedown, light scuff marks on pastedown and first pages, crisp, no other markings.

Lexington, N.C.: The Genealogical Society of Davidson County, 1986. First printing. Comb-bound. Very Good. The Genealogical Society of Davidson County, Cemetery Records of Davidson County, N.C., Volume I, Western Section, Lexington, N.C., 1986, First printing, no. 101 of 300 copies. Comb-bound book with glossy green covers, 4to, vi, 286 pp with index, bw photos (photocopy quality). Very Good: covers lightly bumped and creased, pages crisp, no markings.

Washington, D.C.: Blair and Rives, 1841. First Printing. Hardcover. Fair. Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services; with Their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshals of the Several Judicial Districts, under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. Washington, D.C., Blair and Rives, 1841, First Printing. List of American veterans and widows living in 1840, by state and county. Quarter leather over paper boards, 4to (28 cm), 196 pp. Ex-library (Fair): taped spine with hole cut to see red leather title block, front board detached after ffep (showing original, cracked spine and chipped title block), ex-library with bookplates and stamps, fragile endpapers tearing, minor pencil markings, main text block and several pages loose but all present.

Greensboro: Centre Friends Meeting, 2008. First printing. Hardcover. New. Kay Davis Coltrane, Centre Friends: The Legacy of the Meeting on the Hill, Greensboro, N.C., Centre Friends Meeting, 2008, First Printing (500 copies). Hardcover with illustration of meeting house on the front, 4to (28 cm), 408 pp. History of colonial American Quakers and settlement at Centre Friends Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina, slavery and manumission (abolition), meeting (church) history, genealogy of families including Quaker records, index, bw photos. New.

Greensboro: United Society of Friends Women, 1964. First edition. Paperback. Good. Mary Edith Hinshaw. United Society of Friends Women, Children of Light - Blueprints 1964-1965, Vol 21 and Program Calendar 1964-1965, Greensboro, N.C., ca 1964. Both booklets have gray stapled paper covers with illustration of Quaker women on front by Mary Edith Hinshaw. Blueprints is trade pb (8vo), 84 pp. Articles include "Indians Yesterday and Today" with transitional times of tribes being "freed" by government reservation control but land being sold, and Quaker involvement in Oklahoma; "Spanish Americans in the USA," "Ramallah - 75 Years Ago and Now," "Tea Time in Kaimosi" [Africa], and more. Good: covers scuffed and tanned especially spine, minor pencil markings. The program calendar is 12mo, 24 pp. Good: Heavily annotated including the names of the women on the cover, lightly scuffed.

Philadelphia: Friends' Book-Store, ca 1879. Hardcover. Good. Christian Advices Issued by the Yearly Meeting of Friends held in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Friends' Book-Store (The Book Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends), undated with 1879 Minute. Textured dark-brown cloth hc with blind-stamped plain border and gold title on spine, small 8vo (18 cm), i-viii, 9-144 pp. Guidance on how to live for Friends (Quakers), from books to burials, and speaking " 'Thou' and 'thee' when speaking to one, and 'ye' or 'you' to more than one, is according to plain grammar rule" (p. 27). Good/no DJ: bumped and lightly scuffed with spine fading, minor po markings.

North Carolina Friends Historical Society. Pamphlet. Good. Henry J. Cadbury, The Church in the Wilderness: North Carolina Quakerism As Seen By Visitors, The Historical Lecture delivered at the Two Hundred and Fifty-first Session of North Carolina Yearly Meeting, Eighth Month, the Fourth, 1948, "Second Publication of the North Carolina Friends Historical Society" [founded in 1940], undated [ca 1948]. Gray stapled paper covers, 8vo, 14 pp. History with extracts from travelers, including an English visitor who described a large meeting and what the N.C. Friends wore in 1845. Good: covers worn with a scuff on the front, pages crisp, no markings.

Boston: Unitarian Sunday School Society, 1889. Hardcover. Good +. Charles V. Dole, The Citizen and the Neighbor; or, Men's Rights and Duties As They Live Together in the State and in Society, Boston, Unitarian Sunday School Society, 1889, sixth edition. Dark green HC with gold lettering on front and blind-stamped border, 12mo (18cm), [i]-viii, 9-100 pp. Good+/no DJ: covers lightly worn and scuffed, still tight, no markings.

Washington, D.C.: American Ordnance Association, 1967. Third printing. Paperback. Ex-Library. Fairfax Downey, W. T. Adams, John D. Hayes, F. W. Foster Gleason, Donald B. Webster Jr., Frank Cunningham. Civil War Ordnance - I, Washington, D.C., third printing, August 1967. Nine articles including small arms, rotating cannon, Navy/ship-to-shore battles, and the Union Air Force or Balloon Corps. Stapled paper covers, 4to (28 cm), 32 pp, drawings. Ex-library (Good): ex-lib with stickers (bookplate covers TOC), light warping and tanning, no internal markings. -

New York: Arms and Armour Press, 1996. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Philip Katcher, Civil War Uniforms - A Photo Guide, New York, Arms and Armour Press, 1996. Laminated HC, larger 8vo (24 cm), unnumbered pages. Includes Part One: Confederate Forces, with 83 bw photos, sketches and notes on accessories and weapons; and Part Two: Union Forces, with 87 bw photos, sketches and notes on uniforms and weapons. Ex-library (Very Good): ex-library with stickers and minor markings, pages crisp.

Orange, Va.: Publisher's Press, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Edited by Nancy Dearing Rossbacher, Civil War Collector's Price Guide, 8th edition, Orange, Va., Publisher's Press, 1997. Glossy illustrated paper covers, 4to, 256 pp, heavily illustrated. Very Good: covers lightly bumped and scuffed, no markings.