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Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company. Collectible-Very Good/No Dustjacket. (c1910). ........ Hardcover. Original decorated box missing a side piece. Also illustrated glassine dust cover. Cloth cover designed by "BS" - F. Berkeley Smith. . 4to., unpaginated, minor shelfwear .

--/No Dustjacket. 1715. Likewise one pound on shilling proclamation money for twenty eight years quitt rent for a lot of ground in the City of Albany ... 5th. day of Sept. 1715. We try to determine the names. Anthony Vanschyke received the money that was paid by Thomas Byerley. 6.5" X 8" ink on paper. Early Colonial document. .

NY: ***** Privately Printed *****. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1930. Buckram cloth. Tom Maloney of U. S. Camera and other photography fame was also a poet. His first commercial publication was published by Morrow in 1935. This book was copyright, 1930, Mountain Lakes, N.J. On the front fly leaf it is inscribed "For Bill and Ruth and food and fun not forgetting drink. Tom" . Sm 8vo., 60 pp. .

VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1848. Broadside. Broadside 11 9/16" X 7 11/16" once folded and mailed as a stampless cover to "Hon. Thos.Yates of Factoryville, NY"(Waverly, NY). Mr. Beebe is requesting the subscribers (39) the sum of $5 per year for 3 years. Thomas Yates is listed as one of the printed names. Reference - In EARLY OWEGO by LeRoy Kingman, Hiram Beebe became editor of the Gazette in 1843 for 37 years. pages 549-550. In OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE by Kingman, Mr. Beebe did have some financial problems and removed to Westfield, MA until he was requested by "thirty prominent democrats of Owego" to return. pages 202-204. . Minor stains and folds .

***** Privately Printed *****. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1920. Photograph. For more on this see The Cornell Countryman volume 18. E. R. Eastman plus 5 women served on the committee. The purpose was to improve the local school system to compete with the larger systems in the cities. Most likely the beginnings of the consolidation of the one room school houses. . 4to., Framed .

Milano [Milan]: per Paolo Gottardo Pontio, stampatore regio. A instantia di Pietro Tini. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1585. Hardcover. Second issue of this important Mannerist treatise written by a northern Italian painter and architect after he has gone blind at the age of 30. The seven books develop a broad analysis of the laws of colour, proportion, form, movement, light, perspective and the practice of painting, and add a short history of the art. - B. Weinreb Architectual Books Catalogue 39. Our copy collates with Fowler 186. . Modern velum and boards. Slightly trimmed to 20.5 cm or 8". Some stamp? has been removed from the title page. .

Northampton, Mass: Andrew Wright. FR/NO DUSTJACKET. 1798. First Edition. LeatherBound. Contains the songAdams and Liberty by [Smith, John Stafford?] -- 1750-1836 (author) [Paine Jr., Robert Treat] (lyricist) Created / Published A. Wright, for D. Wright and Company, Northampton, MA, 1798. "Adams and liberty" is written to the tune of the Anacreontic song, and this is believed to be the first American book publication of the music of that song. -  Published in "The American musical miscellany," pages 211-218. Author was christened Thomas Paine, and changed his name after the piece was published. This was the basis for the later Star Spangled Banner tune. Ref. - Dichter and Shapiro pp. 34; Library of Congress. . 16mo., (xii) 12-300 pp., Front cover loose, pages245-6 torn but complete. .

London: At the Florence Press Chatto & Windus. --/G. 1924. Reprint. Hardcover w/DJ. 8vo., dust jacket are 90% complete .

NY: Grosset & Dunlap. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1912. Hardcover. Illustrated by Cole Phillips including most likely book cover and gift box! . 8vo., 223 pp., Tissue covered cloth inside labeled box as issued. Early ownership date. .

Austin, TX: Von Boeckmann-Jones Co. . VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Warmly inscribed to fellow western author E[ugene] M[anlove] Rhodes. Ref. Howes G-177; Adams Guns 829; Adams Burs 148; Adams One-Fifty 62; Campbell, p. 78; Dobie, p. 59; Graff 1553 . Sm 8vo., 332 pp., First few pages were once partially folded. Some spots on cover. all 8 plates have tissue guards. Former owners bookplate. .

NY: J. W. Bell. P/NO DUSTJACKET. 1837. Pamphlet. Early American Traveling Circus - scarce! . Sm 4to., 24 pp., Original covers missing, last leaf loose, outer edges bent. .

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Page & Co. Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1907. Hardcover. Sm 4to., 1059 pp., Manuscript recipes and margin notes .

Island Heritage. Used-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1975. LeatherBound. Each volume is one of 5000 copies signed and numbered by the individual authors of each volume. This set is #2188. The full leather bindings represent a rainbow of the Hawaiiian landscape and people. . Former owner's inscription .

London, Champante and Whitrow, Undated, Presumed 1794 1st edition.. Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1794. First Edition. LeatherBound. Sm 4to., 395 pp. plus 76 pp., Front cover loose. Some foxing. Spine title faint. Cover rubbed. Complete with 30 plates. .

Collectible-Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Hardcover. 152 pages of pencil notes! A mention of West is West. 2 "EMR" initials and a few paste in clippings. The book is actually a dummy of Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Breaking Point. . 8vo. .