Attleborough, MA: Perry & Barnes, 1886. First Edition. Original Cloth. 130pp; five plates, illus in text. Lists many donations of antiques and books, texts of addresses, etc. in one of the oldest townships in the country. 8.5" x 5.5" More
Washington DC: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1822. First Edition. Softcover. 4pp. "[86]" printed above title, changed by an old hand to "(54)". Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.5" [WorldCat finds only the Hagley Library holding of this pamphlet. ] The..... More
Washington DC: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1820. First Edition. Softcover. 15pp. "[59]" printed above title, and changed by an old hand to "(17)". Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.5" [American Imprints 3875. WorldCat finds two library holdings; add the LC..... More
Washington DC: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1820. First Edition. Softcover. 15pp. "[59]" printed above title. 9.75" x 6" [American Imprints 3875. WorldCat finds two library holdings; add the LC deposit copy and the AAS copy.]. More
Springfield: Board of Trade, circa 1920. First Edition. Pictorial Stiff Wrappers. 24pp + (24)pp views from photographs on coated stock, showing public buildings and residences. Gilt-stamped tan wrappers with view of Springfield municipal buildings on cover. 8" x 5" [WorldCat locates seven holdings of this title: Yale, Cornell, Boston Athenaeum..... More
Springfield: Board of Trade / Press of F.A. Bassette Co., 1900. First Edition. Decorative Wrappers. (36)pp. Contains 14 full-page plus some smaller views from photographs, and running text. Views include: Art Museum; Union Railway Station; Main Street Looking South; Post Office; Main Street Looking North; Court Square; Public Library; Science..... More
Westford, MA: Published by the editor, 1994. First Edition. Original Wrappers. 117pp; many full-page views from photographs, three maps. The design of this book presents Westford public buildings and street scenes originally photographed in 1899, with 1994 views of the same subjects on facing pages. Bound in brown stiff wrappers..... More
Yarmouth-port, MA: W.S. Fisher, 1845. First Edition. 4pp, newspaper format, 24" x 17". Contains: "Uncle Abel and Little Edward" by Harriet Beecher Stowe; A Noble Name for A Noble Ship; "Lucy Dutton" by Fanny Forrester; The Mutiny on Board Ship Sharon; Marine Hospital at Hyannis; Town Officers for 1845; Local..... More
Boston: Boston & Portsmouth Steamship Co., 1891. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. (35)pp; 17 views from photographs, descriptions on facing pages; folding map bound at back, opens to 8" x 16". Printed by Thomas H. Brackett, Boston. Pictorial light-board covers; lower portion of spine roughened, else clean and tight. 5.75" x...... More
Lansing, Michigan: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., State Printers, 1922. First edition thus. Original Wrappers. 55pp with index. Printed green wrappers. Removed from bound volume of pamphlets: three small stab-holes in spine. 9" x 6.25" [WorldCat locates four holdings: NYPL, Harvard, Library of Michigan, U Illinois-Urbana.]. More
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1910. Softcover. Full-color map of southern Michigan, opens to 27.5" x 20.5"; census figures on verso. Folds into printed tan wrappers, 5.5" x 2.5" More
Detroit: Wayne State Univ Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. pp: 331 with index, (3)publisher's ads. Bound in blue cloth, copper lettering on spine, decorated dust wrapper. 9.25" x 6". Signed by the author on the title-page. "...a guide to more than one thousand literary and dramatic works set in Michigan..... More
Baltimore: Publish America, (2012). First Edition. Softcover. 301pp with bibliography; occasional illustrations from photographs. Bound in pictorial stiff wrappers. 9" x 6" More
Jackson, Michigan: Drake's City Waiting Room, 1917. First Edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. Map folded inside card covers, "Street Map of the City of Jackson, Michigan," opens to 22" x 24". Inset is a table of street names and coordinates, "How to Find the Location of Any Street." Archival repairs to..... More
Des Moines.Iowa: Kenyon Company Map Makers, 1916. First Edition. Softcover. Full-color map, opens to 18.5" x 32", including margins. Place-name index, census figures, shipping & postal guide on verso. Folds into printed, red card covers, 5.5" x 3". Printed inside front cover: "Don't waste time looking at poor land...come to..... More
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Co., (1915). 1915 edition. Original Wrappers. 54pp, including ads for six hotels, etc. Full-color map, opens to 21" x 28". Folds into tan card covers, printed in black. 6.5" x 4" [OCLC cites two holdings: Minnesota Hist Soc and Penn State.]... More
Washington DC: Committee on Rivers and Harbors, 1899. First Edition. Softcover. 7pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 9" x 5.75" More
St. Paul: State Board of Immigration, 1878. First Edition. Softcover. 88pp; small railway map in text; large, folding map of Minnesota shows towns, county lines, railroads, post offices, &c., detached from binding and laid in. Bound in printed green wrappers; lower tip chipped from cover, no text loss. 8.5" x...... More
1900. Original document. Advises a Mr. Purtleman that "B.N. Merrill lives here. He is married and works on a farm." Signed by O.C. Enge, P.M. 8" x 3.5" in the original mailing envelope. Some soiling. More
St. Paul, Minn. McGill-Warner Co., 1941. First Edition. Softcover. Map by M.J. Grindhem, opens to 17.5" x 12.5", printed in black and red. Folds into printed stiff wrappers, 7" x 4.5" More
Detroit: Detroit Publishing Co., circa 1905. Original document. Unused, without address or message. More
Chicago: Curt Teich, 1914. Original document. 1914 postmark on verso. Addressed to an Ohio woman. Handwritten message on verso, reporting on good weather on the South. More
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. pp: viii, 61 with index; text illus from photographs. Bound in pictorial wrappers. 10.25" x 7.5" Contains 125 annotated entries. More
Chicago: Curteich, circa 1950. Original edition. Postcard, illus in color. 3.5" x 5.5" This card has views of Dulany Hall, Goodwill Hall, and Lake McKay Community Club. Laurence C. Jones (1884-1975) was Founder and Principal of The Piney Woods Country Life School, near Braxton, Mississippi. Jones and his school were..... More
Philadelphia & NY: Draper, Toppan, Longacre & Co., 1839. Original document. Engraved note with vignette and Mississippi seal, accomplished by hand, in part: "The Real Estate Banking Co. of Hinds County will pay two dollars to [S.F. Clark?] or bearer at their Banking House Clinton Jan 1, 1839 [J.P. Eleton?]..... More