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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 60 Pages. Contents: Poisons and Treatment, Receipts, and Botanic Garden of Herbs. This book is dedicated to Grandmother Minnie Susan Decker who used this book second to the Bible in the raising of her twelve children. This is an example of how early pioneers handled their medical problems and are in no way to be construed for use as a substitute to modern medical techniques. This book was distributed by Aerial Photography Services, Inc. of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard Back. Condition: Good. No Jacket. good clean tight hardback with only very light overall wear. small notation in ink on front cover. pages clean and unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Good. - 12mo [5 inches high by 3-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in printed tan wraps. The wraps are lightly soiled with some small stains & with a light crease to the top corner of the front wrap. There is a small tear to the spine. 18 pages with an engraved tail-piece. There are small stains to the margins of a few pages. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1947. Very Good hardback book. No dust jacket. Just a touch of wear to the corners. It's square, tight and clean. Numbered and signed by F. Theodore Dexter, the compiler and publisher. Pages not numbered. Sm 4to. (Pp).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. B&W illustrations. Paper wraps are slightly age-toned; small inked gift inscription on upper left corner of front cover; else in very good condition. 100 pages.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Series; A Howard Baker book. Physical description; [6], 361 p. ; 23 cm. Notes; "Contains the names of well over two thousand authors and editors, together with biographical details of many of them, including the pen-names they used",-upper inside flap. "Bound by William Brendon & Son Ltd.",-t.p. verso. Blue paper case binding. Yellow illustrated dust jacket. Summary; A collective biography of all British authors who ever wrote for boys. Subjects; Authors, English Dictionaries. Children's stories, English Dictionaries. Authors, English Biography Dictionaries. Boys Books and reading Dictionaries. Authors, English Biography Dictionaries Biography Dictionaries. Children's literature Bio-bibliography. Children's literature, English History and criticism. Children's literature, English Bio-bibliography Dictionaries. Children's books. English fiction History & criticism. Children's books Authorship. Boys' stories Biographical dictionaries. Genres; Biographical dictionaries - England - 1970. Biography. Bookplates - England - (1960-1979). Dictionary. Dust jackets - England - 1970. Library (institution) copies (document genres) - England - (1960-1979). Paper (fibre product) case bindings - England - 1970. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. Copyright 1944. (88) pages. Many illustrations. 11 x 8.5", cloth, no dj. Plymouth Rock, Currier's, Novak's Terrace, Priscilla Beach Theatre Colony, Monponsett, Hotel Onset, Sandwich Glass, Coonamessett Club, Cape Codder, Old Silver Beach, Falmouth Manner, Aunt Tempy's Tea House, Colonial Candle, Lewis Bay Lodge, Club Panama, Herb Bradford, Cranberry Harvest, Cape Playhouse, Mayflower Shop, Peter Hunt's Peasant Village, Artists' Theatre, Provincetown, &c. Cover rubbed, text slightly scuffed, toned, VG/none.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Light, overall wear and aging with mild wear at corners and some toning on edges. Square and securely bound. VG. This is the first printing of Harry Dichter's guide to sheet music which has grown into a major reference work. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 111 pages. Some light pencil notations at the front, back and some places in the text. Index included. Private library sticker along the spine. Old paper clip and note clipped to the title page. Signed by the compiler at the top of the title page. Size: 8.5 x 11. Signed by Compiler. Early Virginia Marriages.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Series; A Howard Baker book. Physical description; [6], 361 p. ; 23 cm. Notes; "Contains the names of well over two thousand authors and editors, together with biographical details of many of them, including the pen-names they used",-upper inside flap. "Bound by William Brendon & Son Ltd.",-t.p. verso. Blue paper case binding. Yellow illustrated dust jacket. Summary; A collective biography of all British authors who ever wrote for boys. Subjects; Authors, English Dictionaries. Children's stories, English Dictionaries. Authors, English Biography Dictionaries. Boys Books and reading Dictionaries. Authors, English Biography Dictionaries Biography Dictionaries. Children's literature Bio-bibliography. Children's literature, English History and criticism. Children's literature, English Bio-bibliography Dictionaries. Children's books. English fiction History & criticism. Children's books Authorship. Boys' stories Biographical dictionaries. Genres; Biographical dictionaries - England - 1970. Biography. Bookplates - England - (1960-1979). Dictionary. Dust jackets - England - 1970. Library (institution) copies (document genres) - England - (1960-1979). Paper (fibre product) case bindings - England - 1970. 1 Kg.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 165 pages. Typed pages. Includes index. Bend on back corner and several adjacent pages. Bound with black tape along the spine with white sticker identifying the subject matter. Genealogy--Amelia Co., VA.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 112 pages. Typed pages. Signed and inscribed "Kitty Knorr". Bound with black tape along the spine, with a label with a brief description. Size: 8.5 x 11. Genealogy--Early Va. Marriages.

Oblong large 8vo, printed wrappers, 52pp. Halftone illustrations throughout. VG copy.

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Good. No date, but 1919 (text). The Abbott Press. 9 x 29" sheet folding to 16 pages, 9 x 3.75". Few aerial halftones of city, Exposition Auditorium, Redwoods, Yosemite, downtown map, pictorial cover. 4" tear, rubbed, G.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Only. No Jacket. A very scarce volume. Rubbing, edge scuffs and wear on exterior; inner hinge splitting, with text block only attached with a few threads; typical library marks, including two cover sticker, as well as an interior bookplate and cardslip. Quotations regarding Jesus Christ. 38 pages. Book.

Wilmington, North Carolina, April 30th and May 1st, 1939. Historical Notices by Rev. Robert Brent Drane, D.D. 1843. (Wilmington: Wilmington Stamp & Printing Co, 1939). 31p. Halftones of church, ministers. 23.5x15.5cm, printed wrapper. Includes 'Old St. Philip's Church' by William B. McCoy, 'Sketches of Clergy & Laymen'. Slightly rubbed, soiled, Vg.

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Good. No date, ca 1900. (56) pages. Halftones of American Falls, Horseshoe Falls, Canada Fall, Goat Island, Willow Island & Luna Island Bridges, Prospect Point, Dixon Crossing on Tight-rope, Whirlpool, Table Rock, Lower & Upper Steel Arch Bridges, Cantilever Bridge, Brock Monument, Ice Pyramid, Bridge, Palace, Power-house, Wheel Pit, 1899 Suspension Bridge. 9 x 12", gold, black & red embossed wrapper. Marginal insect damage to 12 foredges, else VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Lacks front free endpaper, approx. 1" tear to lower end of binding there. Endpapers have been filled with arithmatic, ink stamps, and owner information. Covers have faint staining to the front which doesn't touch the inside, wear to the spine ends, light wear to the outer corners, and slight rubbing.

50th anniversary issue. 14 pages of local advertising following the front end paper +202 pages of text (including many agricultural, ocean shipping & demographic tables & statistics) + an additional 10 pages of local advertising following last page of text. Earlier crayon price on front cover & previous owner's ink stamp on page 1 otherwise a clean very good paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 138 pages. Index included. Black and red pencil markings throughout. Signed by the compiler on the title page. Red tape binding along the spine; about two inch break in the binding at the top of t he spine. Size: 8.5 x 11. Signed by Compiler. Early Virginia Marriages.

No edition/printing statement provided. 511 pages. Hardcover: H 19cm x L 21.75cm. Dust jacket with large losses to front panel and spine ends; other lesser chips, jagged tears, and creasing; some toning to flaps; front flap's bottom corner is clipped; dj presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Paper boards; small losses to spine ends with heel also bumped; glue repairs to surface paper tearing along front and rear joints; slender wear to boards' top and bottom edges. Text block edges toned with several stains. Personal bookplates of two different owners on front endpapers; toning to pages 100-101 from removed newspaper clipping; paper clip impressions at tops of pages 362-363, 404-405, and 428-429. Binding is firm. Page 511 notes that the publishers of the Looking Glass Library are Jason Epstein, Clelia Carroll, and Edward Gorey with consulting editors being W.H. Auden, Phyllis McGinley, and Edmund Wilson. Book's spine heel notes "LGL | 14" with page 511 listing fifteen books in the series (but citing "The Looking Glass Book of Stories" as twelfth sequentially) which may or may not be an issue point although it seems unlikely that the book would have enjoyed more than one printing. Edward Gorey (Edward St. John Gorey, 1925-2000) is credited as the illustrator of the dust jacket and boards (which share a matching design) as well as the title page and the four section titles on pages 9, 61, 255, and 403. An anthology of short stories compiled by Yale graduate and Phillips Andover Academy English instructor Hart Day Leavitt (1909-2008) which features thirty-three contributions by James Thurber, John Collier, Robert M. Coates, William Carlos Williams, E.B. White [Elwyn Brooks White], Saki [H.H. Munro - Hector Hugh Munro], Oscar Wilde, Stephen Vincent Benet, Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Frank R. Stockton, Fitz-James O'Brien, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekov, Conrad Aiken, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells [Herbert George Wells], Shirley Jackson, Frank O'Connor, et al.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1875, First Edition, Good/no dj, 12mo., 42pp., rebound in plaina reddish-brown cloth hardcover, original paper wraps somewhat chipped at corners are bound-in, binding tight, 2 owner's inked names on title page o/w text generally clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Book in dark blue boards has rubbed corners, top and bottom of spine, tight and unmarked. Protestant hymns in English and Italian on facing pages. No date, but post-1935.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, map, plates ; 32 x 28 cm. Issued in a worn card slip case. Summary:A selection of rubbings taken by Merle Greene from outstanding Maya monuments, primarily of the classic period.

104pp, oblong (11.25 x 8.5 inches), 50 b&w photos, printed one side only. Good condition in gray wrappers (soft covers) with black titles and illustration (a b&w drawing) on front cover. The covers are worn, with creasing and a one inch tear at top edge of front cover and two more at head and tail of spine. The spine is chipped, three little pieces missing. The pages show some yellowing, with very light foxing to title page. Corners are rubbed, lower corner is bent, pages are all affected. There is a one inch tear at top edge of title page, and the first two pages are creased at lower corner. Despite this brutally honest description, the contents (photos) are still clean, crisp, no tears or creases to the pages, no markings. Except for the title page and a one page introduction, the book is composed of black and white photos of buildings and landscapes in the vicinity of Alexandria Bay. Each photo is identified, but there are no other comments and no mention of a photographer. The introductory page is attributed to "The Board of Trade of Alexandria Bay, New York." Digital photos available.

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. Chicago: Cushing Printing Company, 1893. 111 pages. 2 small maps: World's Columbian Exposition, city. 6 x 3.75", printed wrapper. Tiny corner nick, crease, VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Condition. B/W Photo Illustrations (illustrator). Dark blue cloth binding rubbed and bumped at all edges but still intact. 944pp. Indexed. Content clean, bright and sound. Rubber stamped name on front flyleaf. The George M. Wisner Memorial Library Baie Comeau, Que. The book is large and may be overweight for regular shipping and may require additional postage. Photos available on request.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good Plus. Edition Not Stated. 96pp, bw ills, maps, ads. Or pictorial stapled card. Rear cover creased, some even toning to pages, stain at top right corner of title page, wrinkling to several pages (NOT from damp). Lots of info on local attractions, numerous local street maps and some interesting advertisements. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in publisher's blue cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Edge wear. Spine ends chipped. Owner's name on verso, else unmarked. Some pages uncut. 252 pages ; 23 cm.