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New York: Doubleday, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Later. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Doubleday, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book club. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Washington, DC; Columbia, SC: (J.G.B. Bulloch), 1911. Softcover. Near Fine. Four separately published works in printed wrappers, all first editions, housed together in a custom made slipcase. The third volume is Inscribed by the author on the first blank leaf. Volume one: vi, 222 pp. (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan, 1901). Volume two: 95, vi pp. (Washington, DC: Press of Byron S. Adams, 1911). Volume three:100 pp. (Washington, DC: April, 1908). Volume four: 17 pp. (no imprint or date), the last leaf (p.17) laid-in as issued. Housed in a contemporary brown cloth slipcase with an inner wraparound cloth chemise and red leather spine label. Near fine with a few small chips and rubbing to the slipcase.

New York: Prentice Hall, 1993. Softcover. Very Good. Later. Very good in wrappers. Paperback, lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover lightly flared, later edition. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Lockport, New York: Niagara County Historical Society, 1966. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 377pp. Illustrated. Printed blue wrappers. Modest wear on the wrappers, very good or better.

Red Bank, N.J.: Monmouth Boat Club / J. V. Gaphics, 1979. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Spiral bound illustrated wrappers. Owner signature in printed space provided, foxing on the foredge, else near fine. Briefly Inscribed by the editor. Copy 494 of an unspecified number of copies in a limited edition.

Phila: Countryside Press, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First thus. Fine in very good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has several short tears along top and bottom edges of front panel, rubs along top of rear panel; Former owner's name and date on front endpaper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Onboard U.S. Steamer Cosmopol, Saint John's River, Florida / Savannah, 1886. Unbound. Fine. Three leaves folded to make 12pp. Fine. A pencil-written four-page shipboard letter from Saint John's River dated on Wednesday, 11 April 1886, continued three days later in an eight-page letter written in ink from Savannah. Signed "Sister" and addressed to "Brother," both the writer and recipient were from the Pettibone family of Winchester, Connecticut. Old folds, some rubbing on one penciled leaf, but overall very readable and otherwise fine. "Sister" gives an account of going to Florida on her vacation from school. The first four pages tell of a group of fellow passengers, teachers and missionaries "...in our party are five ladies from Savannah, five from Hilton Head & six or seven from Charleston, &c." traveling with Louise and her father Rev. Ira Pettibone. They suffer sea sickness en route, and then arrive off Fernandina, only to be greeted by a shot overhead from the local Fort, bringing them up… Leer más

New York: Touchstone, 1972. Fine. First edition. Fine. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1922. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight soiling. Romance centered on the voyages of Columbus.

Pennsylvania: [Society of Friends], 1915. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 90pp. Folding map tipped in rear. Four photographic plates. Couple pages foxed, near fine. Event to take place at the New Garden Meeting House, on Sunday, September 18th, 1915.

(London, 1771. Softcover. Very Good. Autograph Letter Signed: "Hayley & Hopkins". Small quarto. 2pp., neatly written in ink on the first two pages of one folded sheet (bifolium) of laid paper. Datelined 11 May 1771. Includes a manuscript copy of a previously sent letter datelined "London, 27 April, 1771". Addressed on the final page "To John Hancock Esqr. at Boston". Docketed in ink above the address, likely by John Hancock: "Hayley & Hopkins, by Capt. White, 1771". Moderate toning, two small circular tears at left edge, two or three small splits along the old folds, very good. Hayley discusses the shipping status of some of Hancock's vessels as well as prices of goods: [27 April 1771] "There has been no arrival from Boston since our last ... the above is Copy ... we have therefore now only to enclose *Paoli's* [one of Hancock's ships] Acct Freight ... being £86,3,2 ... is Placed to your Debit, as will also £198 ... for Cost of 6 pipes of Wine shipped on board *Cayneau* ..." [11 May 1771] "...… Leer más

New York: Viking Press, 1975. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Small octavo. 171pp. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with black and white plates. Wraps and page edges with faint spotting and a bit of edgewear, the half title with a pencil tracing of "1776" from the title page, very good.

1781. Unbound. Very Good. Manuscript Document. Oblong quarto (13 ½" x 9"). One manuscript page of accounts listed from April through July (1781) in two columns under the title: "Schooner Catey in Acct. Courant with John Hall". Docketed on verso: "Acct. Current of Schooner Katey, July 16, 1781". Old folds, small tear at lower right corner tip, very good or better. Included among the list of supplies and cargo is an entry "To: paid Jeremiah Wadsworth Esq. for [16?] Swivel Guns"; together with four other debit entries of amounts owed to Wadsworth. The Connecticut born Wadsworth (1743-1804), celebrated today as "a key player in the military victory in the Revolution," served as a soldier and applied his experience as a successful Hartford merchant to securing essential supplies for Continental Army troops and, later in the war, for America's French allies. In 1781 he was agent to French Soldiers at Newport, Rhode Island: there are two entries from April 10th for "freight to Middletown [Connecticut],"… Leer más

Trenton, N. J.: Printed at the True American Office, 1867. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 48pp. Buff printed wrappers. Faint spot on front wrap, else near fine.

Trenton, N. J.: Printed at the True American Office, 1867. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 48pp. Buff printed wrappers. Small chips on the wrappers, very good.

Boston, Massachusetts, 1797. Very Good. Letterpress document printed and completed in manuscript on both sides (18½" x 15"). Full title: *Passport and Roll of Equipage, Agreeably to the 25th and 27th Article of the Treaty between France and the United States, made the 6th of February, 1778*. Dated 22 September 1797. Signed by James Lovell, former delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1782, and a signatory to the Articles of Confederation. Lovell was appointed naval officer of the port of Boston and Charlestown from 1789 until his death in 1814. Additionally signed by Benjamin Weld, Collector of Customs at Boston, and Samuel Cooper, Notary Public. With a long manuscript note written in French on one side (23 lines), signed by Charles Théodore Mozard, former printer and bookseller at Saint Domingue (Haiti), and French consul to Boston. The document has three embossed seals affixed next to the signatures of Weld, Cooper, and Mozard. A few small closed tears and chips at… Leer más

[Maryland?], 1822. Good. Broadside. Tall folio (7" x 12¼"). Text printed in two columns. Signed in letterpress: John Rentch. July 20, 1822. Moderate toning, a few small stains at the margins, some creasing along two old horizontal folds, a few small nicks and closed tears along the bottom horizontal fold with slight loss of one printed word, good overall. An address by John Rentch, a member of the Troop of the Washington Hussars, concerning two elections for officers of the Troop, the first of which was postponed by the active commander, Capt. John V. Swearingen: "But as soon as we were ready to proceed with the election, Capt. Swearingen stated to the Troopers, that he was not ready to give up the command on that day ..." Apparently, at the second election, John Rentch was elected as Captain, but the election was later overturned by petition of John Swearingen. Rentch presents his case for re-instatement. Scarce. No copies in *OCLC*.

New Haven: Published by N. & S.S. Jocelyn, 1827. Hardcover. Very Good. Blank book. Quarter leather and marbled papercovered boards with red morocco label gilt on front board, small label on the front pastedown of Durrie & Peck: New Haven binders, stationers, and blank book manufacturers. Re-spined, edgewear, else a very good or better copy. Handwritten name of J.W. (James Woods) McLane on the label on front board. McLane was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1801. He made a 1000 mile trip on horseback in order to attend Phillips Academy, Andover, graduated from Yale in 1829, and then graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1835. He rose to prominence, and was the first Minister of the Madison Street Presbyterian Church in New York City. In 1852 he was named chairman of the important Commission on the modernization of the authorized version of the King James Bible for the American Bible Society. He also served as director of the Union Theological Seminary. He died in New York in 1864.… Leer más

Albemarle, North Carolina: Stanley County Genealogical Society, 1983. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition(?) Quarto. 78 leaves printed rectos only. Quarter canvas and printed blue wrappers. Corners a little bumped, near fine. Several pages of notes in an unidentifed hand, but almost certainly that of poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, from whose library it came. Very scarce. *OCLC* locates no copies.