PLEASANTVILLE'S EARLY DAYS 1888-1988 de Arlan, Roger W. and Alice M. Foster - 1988

A substantial arts and crafts trade catalog for 208 bungalow style homes. Home pictures have been cut from 15 pages presumably for sales. Plans cost from $8 to $15 . estimated construction from $758 to $4000.Near fine, bright copy= good +

Privately Printed, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Jeffrey D. Brown and Raymond D. Fete's massive, detailed history of Meyers Lake Park, Ohio, a breathtaking entertainment complex in Eastern Ohio closed in 1974. Third and final edition, greatly expanded over previous editions and a culmination of seven years of research. Chapters include The Early Years, The N.O.T. & L. Years, The Sinclair Years, Picnics, Moonlight Ballroom and Gardens and Sports. 321 pages packed with hundreds of photos. Bonus: Includes three original $5 children's ride tickets. Scarce. 321 pp. 11" x 8 1/2". Tight, unmarked copy with minimal shelf wear. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

Buffalo, N.Y: Geo. H. Derby and Co, 1851. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Boards soiled, ink name on front paste down endpaper. 1851 Hard Cover. vi, 343 pp. 8vo. Includes fourteen plates and eighty wood engravings. From the preface: "... originally published in the Second Volume of the 'Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge,' in a form far too costly to be generally accessible... its officers have liberally assented to their republication in the present form, and permitted the use of the original plates and engravings... In preparing this edition, the author has added largely to the original Memoir, and has also appended a supplement, containing a resume or synoptical view of the Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. This will enable the general reader to institute all necessary comparisons between the aboriginal remains of New York, and those of the Western States.

California of the South: Its Physical Geography, Climate, Resources, Routes of Travel, and Health Resorts. New York: D Appleton & Company, 1888. With Maps (3 fold out originals) and numerous illustrations. 402 numbered pages includes alphabetical index. Plus 6 pages of Appleton's guidebooks.Great early guide to California with illustrations of known sights as well as well-known people's homes, ranches, etc. Covers climate, agricultural, plants, animals, topography and much more. Illustrations of the period not found elsewhere!Condition: In very good condition for its age. All original. One small stamp on front fly page about 1 inch square. Expected wear to spine and board edges, but all in all, a real beauty! The California fold out map has a couple of minor professional repairs. Please review all the photos carefully and ask for more information and/or photos if you need them to make a proper buying decision.*Please Note: This item will be shipped to your address of record AND will require a… Leer más

The Temperance Bugle Call, For use in Temperance Meetings, Public Schools, Normal Schools, Colleges and in the Home. By Lyman S Leason. Copyright 1916. First Edition. Published and sold by L.S. Leason and D.B.Gilbert. Lincoln, Nebraska: 1916. From "Beware of the Bottle" to "Our Glasses Upside Down" and "When We Vote Nebraska Dry" and some songs with new words to old melodies, this is straight out of the Prohibition Era. A piece of history that is scarce outside of larger rare book collections! ****************See Photos for full Index to titles.*************** Condition: NOT a library book. Good, complete condition as shown. Please review photos and ask for more if necessary to make your best buying decision! *Please Note: This item will be shipped to your address of record AND will require a verified signature upon receipt. Thank you for tracking your purchase and being available to sign for it upon delivery. We appreciate your business and hope to do business with you again! **Attention… Leer más

Appleton-Century, 1941, 1st . Hardcover . VG-/VG-. Spine cocked; trace of shelfwear; bottom corner bumped. DJ w/ some rubbing/edgewear/chips; 1/2in chip top rear; couple faint stains on spine; in new Brodart protector. Illustrated with B&W drawings by Edward Caswell.

Richmond, CA: Dietz Press, 1955. First edition. Hard cover. Published Richmond: Dietz Press, 1955, first printing. Thick 8vo., xv+934 pp., illustrated with 32 plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Slight spotting to the cloth, mild foxing to edges and pastedowns, name on pastedown. Very good, clean, tight, unworn.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Boston: From the Press of the Christian Examiner, 1828. Leather_bound. Near Fine. 6 x 8 1/2 inches. 368 pages. Bookplate of Elisabeth Fisher Everett inside front cover. Otherwise pages clean and free of marking, soiling or staining. All page edges gilt. Gilt bright. Bound in contemporary full black calf with gilt rolled borders to both boards and gilt dentelles. The spine has four (false) raised bands with gilt decoration, and additional gilt decoration at the head and tail of the spine. Spine also has gilt title ("Chapel Services"). Owner's name in gilt to front cover. Very light shelf wear to edges and corners. King's Chapel is the oldest church in America with continuous weekly worship services. Its liturgy is a unique hybrid that reflects this history, largely based upon the 1662 English Book of Common Prayer . A truly spectacular example of this scarce liturgical work in an unusually well decorated American binding.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1928. 8vo. 223, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates. Green publisher’s cloth, blue illustration & lettering front cover, illustrated endpapers (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing, very slight bumping to corners), w/ d.j. cover art of Curtis w/ teepees & US Capitol dome (minor chipping, tears, tear to foot of spine & lower back cover affecting some lettering, closed tears), still VG/G- copy. First edition of this surprisingly uncommon biography of the first Native American to become Vice President of the United States under Hoover, after becoming the first Republican Whip in 1915 in the US Senate. Curtis (1860-1936) lived from 1863-1868 with his maternal grandmother on the Kaw Indian Reservation near Council Grove, KS on the Santa Fe Trail, and after a raid by the Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Arapaho in 1868, and subsequent removal of the tribe to Indian Territory, he went to live with his paternal grandmother in Topeka, KS and was integrated into an Anglo-American… Leer más

n.p.: Myrtle Jones Longacre, 1963. Good. No DJ. Buckram cover is sunned and shows light soiling and shelf wear. Binding is split at title page. Interior is clean and without ownership marks. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. "A true account of the Jones family."