B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 350 pages; 1967 Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley. Eleven (+) volumes (of 12) bound in one. Hardcover bound in heavy red cloth, with title in gilt to spine. Booklets 1 through 11 (including supplement for Vol 7) bound together with original card stock covers bound in. Solid and neat with some superficial dust spotting front edge of the page block. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Each book paged separately. Roughly 350 pp total. VG+ View More...
Photographs and drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 88 pages; Published by the Family of the author. Bound neatly in original cream colored, flap-fold wraps with silk string, three hole binding. Original glassine dust jacket missing a swath along the lower edge and large chips from the top edge. Bright fresh contents, illustrated with photographic and drawn vignettes. Mild shelf rub to covers at edges. Uncommon. VG View More...
Lithograph; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 704 pages; Catalog EY. In heavy green cloth with company and title lettering embossed in yellow and black to cover and spine. A comprehensive catalog of industrial, hardware, tools and supplies from 1944. Profusely illustrated with mechanical lithograph printed detaisl and images of products. Short narrative history of the herr family and company at front. Slightly shaken in the spine but overall quite bright and neat. VG- to VG ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
24mo 5" - 6" tall; 248 pages; Small format HC in publisher's black cloth covered boards, backed with polished leather spine, unlettered, as issued. Scarce original edition is complete. Damp ripple to cloth over boards. Spinebacking loosed from binding but intact, save for a small chip missing at the crown. Page stock unevenly toned with some pages darker and feeling stiff while others are creamy and more supple. Apparent exposure to damp storage has introduced a wave to the pages, but they all remain complete and clean, and generally supple. Several small abrasions to the cloth over t... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 173 pages; Issued as a whole number of the Coming Kingdom Quarterly Vol I, No. 2: June 1897. Soundly bound in original decorative title lettered wraps. Covers with some several shallow chips at edges and a half inch chip from base of spine. Covers lightly toned. A few pencil brackets observed in text. Scarce; no copies found in a Worldcat search of world libraries. VG- View More...
B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 135 pages; Oversize paperback is tight, bright and fresh in pictorial card stock covers; spine unlettered, as issued. Looks and appears unread; about as new. Illustrated profusely with B/W photographs. #553 in a limited edition of 1000 copies. NF ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
Photographs and ads; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 152 pages; Oversize paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Bright tight and neat. No marks. Just trace shelf rub to edges. Illustrated with numerous photographs and local advertisements. NF View More...
B&W and Color Photographs and Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 418 pages; Oversize paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Signed by the author, editor and illustrator with inscription of several lines by the author to the title page. Snugly bound and neat. Just very mild shelf/handling evidence to covers at edges and superficial rub to front cover panel by the spine. Mild vertical storage king to the text block. Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs, facsimile documents etc. Feels and appears unread. VG++ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited... View More...
Community Historians Vol. 14, No. 5; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 34 pages; Community Historians Annual Vol. 14, No. 5. Paperback in light blue, title lettered pictorial wraps. Bright, fresh copy feels and appears unread. Illustrated with the author's portrait sketches of these thirteen area itinerant "tramps". Uncommon volume. About as new. NF View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 428 pages; (Printed by George Russell; Stereotyped by W.H. Tisson) Derby & Jackson; New York & Cincinnati. HC 1st edition. Snugly bound in original decoratively blind stamped green cloth with gilt title desing to spine dulled as usually seen. Tight fresh copy with just slight shelf rub to cloth at extremities. Closed partial tear in the gutter of the front pastedown. Otherwise splendid. Uncommon in condition. VG++ to NF View More...
Later Harriet Lane Johnston; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 23 pages; 1929 Lancaster County Historical Society Journal Vol XXXIII, No. 6. Paperback in title lettered card covers and saddle stapled binding. 16 page paper on Buchanan's niece includes several illustrations. VG+ View More...
Historical photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 236 pages; 1963 Schaefferstown Bicentennial Committee. HC in original dark blue cloth with titles in yellow gilt to cover and spine. Issued without dust jacket. Snugly bound and neat. Prior owner name penned to front endpage; text clean and unmarked. Few tiny flecks of foxing/dust spotting to page block edges. Profusely illustrated with historical photographs and reproductions of documents. VG View More...
Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 23 pages; [SIGNED] 1947 Self-published. Slim hardcover in original blue cloth lettered in gilt to cover with spine unlettered, as issued. Signed by the author to the front endpage. Cloth lightly shelf rubbed at spine ends and corners. History of the twon and it's institutions accompanied by b&w photos in text. Prior owner name/address label to front endpage. Uncommon in the original edition. VG-; Signed by Author View More...
1964 Lanc Cty Hist Soc. Vol 68 No. 1. Fresh and neat. No evidence of use or prior reading. 40 pgs. NF; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages; Paperback in original wraps with saddle stapled binding. The entire issue of the journal devoted to Hummel's long paper on Reincke Beck - 40 pp. Light shelf and handling evidence. VG View More...
Color Plates, b&w figures; Halftones; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 272 pages; [SIGNED Limited edition] 1914 Houghton Mifflin. Royal octavo HC in original creamy yellow heavy cloth with titles blockd in gilt to cover and spine and a pictorial pitcher in blue center of the upper board. Issued in an edition limited to 420 copies, this copy signed by the author on the limitation leaf but not numbered. Soundly bound and neat; mild shelf tapping bottom front corners; superficial toning to cloth at spine. Here and there a thumb smudge to a pgae; tiny spot of soiling front board. Illustrated with tissue ... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 372 pages; Trade size paperback in pictorial title lettered covers; spine unlettered, as issued. Soundly bound and neat with mild shelf eviodence to covers at edges and light shelf soiling to the white covers. Prior ownership stamp of St Anne Home in Columbia. Hard to find. VG View More...
