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London:Hunt & Co, 1876. 4th Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. With Notes and Additional Chapters by a Clyde Yachtsman. Fifth edition. London:Hunt & Co. 1876. 165pp. with 2 folding plates. Binding cocked, blue cloth boards worn at edges and gutters. Hinges cracked, but binding is tight and the pages are clean, save for two previous owners bookplates on inside front board. S013.

Charles E. Lauriat Co, 1925. Limited edition. hard cover. Very Good. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2018/06/0_dsc06195.jpg. Signed by authors. Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1925. Limited Edition. Signed by all three authors. xxii+335pp. Hardcover in slipcase. Deckled fore-edge. Top edge gilt. "This Large Paper issue, on imported Normandy Vellum paper, with extra plates and with frontispiece in colors, is limited to three hundred and seventy-five copies, of which three hundred and fifty are for sale, this being No. 280". Very Good condition. Slipcase lightly shelfworn. The frontis has foxing, also affecting the facing pages including the title page. Otherwise a very handsome copy, clean and tight.  The story of the yacht after which the America's Cup is named. (cfm)  S123

Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1879. 2nd Edition. hard cover. Fair. Hartford, CT; Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1879. Second Edition. Hardcover no dj. xxii+13-106pp+3pp adverts. Condition is Fair only. Black boards are very worn and soiled, the fabric is cracked in places, and there is bumping and fraying at the extremities.  Penned owner markings on front pastedown and ffep. Pages are still held by the binding, but there is a large binding crack at the title page.  There are black marks, primarily to the margins of the endpapers, and to the page edges that make it appear that this book was near a fire at some point. Internally reasonably clean considering the other problems, with toning and some minor foxing. "The author...experience of nearly thirty years coasting and yachting...felt the need of some suitable reference book which would correctly answer the multitude of questions tthat are constantly arising with reference to courses,… Read More

Annapolis:Naval Institute Press, 1985. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Annapolis:Naval Institute Press. (1985). 343pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is lightly worn at the edges but otherwise in very good condition. Book itself shows only some mild shelf-wear. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy.

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (1941). hard cover. Very Good/Fair. New York:Liveright Publishing Corporation. (1941), 319pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Red boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with light wear along edges, spine ends and edge points gently bumped and lightly worn.  Top page edges stained red, soiled and unevenly faded. Internally, end-pages age toned with some browning along spine edges, and some offset from the dust jacket.  There are no previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact.  The dust jacket is in fair condition, still in one piece but heavily worn, with tears along edges and folds. It is not price clipped.

The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway Co., 1930. First Edition. hard cover. Fine/No jacket. (Narrated by Walter Prichard Eaton). The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. (1930). Illustrated. Covers mildly shelf-worn with some soiling, otherwise, a very good, clean copy. No previous owners marks or signatures.

Boston:Little, Brown and Company, 1948. hard cover. Very Good/Good. Boston:Little, Brown and Company. 1948. 430pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is moderately worn at the edges with some fraying along with several chips and tears. Some soiling also to covers. Book itself is only lightly shelf-worn. Interior is clean and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy.

Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1966. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Providence, RI:Brown University Press. 1966. 1st edition. (xv)+243pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Boards clean with text on spine still bright. Page edges lighlty soiled. Internally end pages slightly age toned but otherwise clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The dust jacket is lightly shelfworn along edges but otherwise in very good condition. *"A political and constitutional cause celebre of the formative years of the Republic followed a gigantic, fraudulent speculation in Yazoo River lands. The Yazoo affair scandalized the state of Georgia for three decades and troubed the administrations of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison before it was settled, in 1810, by the Marshall Supreme Court's precedent-making decision in Fletcher v. Peck."

n.p., n.d.. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. (Charleston, S.C.): (n.p.). (n.d.). 354 pp. Hardcover. Boards show only light shelf wear to edges and spine -- otherwise in very good condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings save for one bookplate on the inside front board. All folded tables present and intact. A very good copy.

[Charleston, S. C.]:, (nd). hard cover. Very Good. [Charleston, S. C.]:(nd). 423pp. A very good copy. Includes A HISTORICAL OF ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH; EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF REV. OLIVER HART FROM 1740 TO 1780; SNF REMINISCENCES OF OLD CHARLESTON by William G. Whilden. TS027. AMERICANA; SOUTH CAROLINA; RELIGION; COLONIAL HISTORY

1962. First Edition. hard cover. Fine/Fine. New York:Julian Messner. (1962). 189pp. 189pp. With dust jacket, now enclosed in brodart. The dust jacket has a hint of fading but otherwise, both book and dust jacket in fine condition. Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is the scene for Prue Prescott's year of discovery. Compelled to undertake a series of self-financed tests on food containers he has invented, Prue's father is unable to scrape up what is necessary to send Prue to Wellesley in the fall.

Boston:Houghton Mifflin Company, (1930). hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Boston:Houghton Mifflin Company. (1930). Early printing but not 1st. 581pp. Hardcover.  Black boards with red lettering soiled, rubbed and shelfworn along edges and spine ends, with most of the print rubbed of spine strip and some rubbed from front cover. Edge points gently bumped and worn to boards. Internally, end-papers lightly age toned, with a previous owners name inked to top of 1st free end-page, otherwise pages clean. The binding is tight and hinges intact. *Won the Pulitizer Prize in 1931.

Chicago:The Reilly & Lee Co., (1930). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Chicago:Reilly & Lee Co. (1930). 1st edition, Binding A, with brick red cloth, cover label in full color and imprint on spine in boldface. 275pp. Illustrated with 12 color plates and many black/white illustrations in text. Hardcover.  In very good condition. Boards just slightly soiled, with the rear board having a bit of paper stuck to the bottom edge. Internally, pages, including black/white end-pages, are slightly age toned, but free of any previous owners marks or signatures. Color plates in very good condition. Binding tight and hinges intact. A very good copy.

New York:St. Martin's Press, 1980. Limited edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2016/06/0_02594.jpg. Signed by authors. New York:St. Martin's Press. (1980). Limited, signed edition, #94/250 copies, numbered and signed by the Author with an additional plate (also numbered and signed) laid in. Bound in white covered boards, lightly soiled, with decorations in gilt on spine, with a white slipcase.  The book is in very good, clean condition. The slipcase is slightly shelf-worn, but soiled and lightly foxed as well.  

hard cover. Good. NY:McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. (1989). 241pp. With dust jacket. 1st. ed. An excellent copy. A first-person accocunt of Yogi Berra's life and tumultous times in major league baseball.

Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press, 1966. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press. 1966. 1st edition. viii+309pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Book in very good clean condition, free of previous owners marks or signatures, with a very good, clean but slightly edgeworn dust jacket. 

Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1958. First Edition Thus. hard cover. Very Good/Good. Eastern National Park and Monument Association. (1958). 206pp. With dust jacket. Reprint of 1881 edition. Dust jacket frayed, otherwise a very good copy. S001.

Modern Age Books, 1939. First Edition. soft cover. Very Good. New York: Modern Age Books. [1939]. First Edition. Softcover. x+308pp. Very Good condtion. Covers show a bit of grime, light creasing, and shelfwear; there is a 1" closed tear at top left of cover.  Some dust spots to top edge. Inside its clean, square, and tight. "My purpose...is to give...the main reasons that prompt contemporary Americans from every walk of life, including members of the upper and middle class, to adopt Socialism ..." (cfm)

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1918. First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. New Haven, CT:Yale University Press. 1918. 1st edition.  95pp. Hardcover. Gray boards soiled with edges age-toned and worn, label on spine strip soiled with spine ends worn and edge points worn to boards. Internally pages age-toned, with a lightly penciled inscription to 1st free end-page, but otherwise clean. The binding is tight and hinges intact.

Norman:University of Oklahoma Press, 1949. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Norman:University of Oklahoma Press. (1949). 435 pp. First edition. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows wear at the edges and spine, with several small chips and tears. Binding is only lightly shelf-worn and in very good condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings, save for a previous owner's signature on the first free end-paper. Overall, a very good copy.