![[AMERICANA] A BRIEF HISTORY OF MERCER COUNTY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/063/016/651016063.0.l.jpg)
[AMERICANA] A BRIEF HISTORY OF MERCER COUNTY
by Kyle McCormick (author)
Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. Light soiling to pamphlet; illustrated with map and black and white photographs. No markings in text. Very Good binding.
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THE CHILDREN’S LARK
by Leila France (author)
Los Altos, California: Elite Music Co, 1917. Hard Cover. Good+ binding. Presentation copy with authorial inscription to front free endpaper. Oblong 12mo. Binding protected in a hand cut mylar cover. Previous owner blindstamp to front free endpaper. Stain to bottom rear board, not affecting rest of book. Two small closed tear to front free endpaper. Slight superficial separation to bottom front hinge; binding still sound. Illustrated throughout. No markings to text. Good+ binding.
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LEAVES OF CONSOLATION FOR THE AFFLICTED, OR VOICES FROM THE SILENT LAND
by Mrs. H. Dwight Williams (author)
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, 1865. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding/no dust jacket. Small Octavo; sound binding; light rubbing to edges of spine and front cover; offsetting to pages 10 and 11 no markings in text. Page 49 has small chip to bottom corner (not obscuring text). This is a scarce item, protected in a hand-cut mylar cover. near Very Good binding / no dust jacket.
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EARLY GOTHIC MANUSCRIPTS 1250-1285
by Nigal Morgan (author)
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Binding sound; rear cover of dust jacket shows very light soiling; no markings in text; dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover; contains beautiful color facsimile plates. Very Good+ binding / Very Good+ dust jacket.
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WILDERNESS HUNTING AND WILDCRAFT: WITH NOTES ON THE HABITS AND LIFE HISTORIES OF BIG GAME ANIMALS
by Townsend Whelen (author)
Prescott AZ: Wolfe Publishing Co, 1987. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Half leather with cloth covered boards; gilt edge to text block; limited edition # 274 of 1500 copies. No markings of any kind; illustrated throughout. Very Good+ binding.
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REPORTS OF CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY, DURING THE TIME OF LORD CHANCELLOR THURLOW, AND OF THE SEVERAL LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF TEH GREAT SEAL, FROM 1778 TO 1794: VOLUME III, THIRD EDITION
by William Brown (author)
London: R. Brooke, 1801. Full Leather. near Very Good binding. Rubbing to binding; binding sound; bottom spine label partially chipped off; volume three only. previous owner bookplate and writing to front pastedown otherwise no markings in text (light toning in places). near Very Good binding.
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REPORTS OF CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY, DURING THE TIME OF LORD CHANCELLOR THURLOW, AND OF THE SEVERAL LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE GREAT SEAL, FROM 1778 TO 1794: VOLUME IV, THIRD EDITION
by William Brown (author)
London: R. Brooke, 1801. Full Leather. near Very Good binding. Front joint weak but holding; some rubbing to binding; chipping to bottom spine label; previous owner name and writing on front pastedown otherwise no markings in text. near Very Good binding.
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![[LITERATURE] THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SAM, IN VIRGINIA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/733/510/1504510733.0.l.jpg)
[LITERATURE] THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SAM, IN VIRGINIA
by A Virginian [Gardner, ----]
Richmond: A. Morris, 1856. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in publisher’s green embossed cloth; vii, 12-308 pages; there are no ownership marks of any kind in this copy.~~Described by Wright as a “post-mortem of the ‘Know-Nothing’ campaign in Virginia” (Wright II 976). The ‘Know-Nothings’ were a N~~This title is uncommon in commerce; we have seen it only once before.~ (Sabin, 41004. Wright, II 976.). Very Good binding.
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ALF’S CAT. SEPTEMBER, 1946-JULY, 1947. NO. 50-60. (ONE VOLUME)
by [Alfred Penn Babcock]
Cranford, N.J.: Alfred Penn Babcock, 1947. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Eleven issues of the humorous Alf’s Cat, specially crafted and printed by Alfred Penn Babcock and others, on miscellaneous paper with their footpress, “Josephine”. Numbers 50-60, bound together in one volume. Cocked. Blue cloth. Very Good. Very Good binding.
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DIE ALTEN STADTEBILDER: Ein Verzeichnis Der Graphischen Ortsanichten Von Schedel Bis Merian
by Friedrich Bachmann
Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1965. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. No pencil or ink markings in text. Text written in German. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering. Very light edgewear at head of spine. Light edgewear at head of dustjacket spine. DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / Very Good+ dust jacket.
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![[OUTDOOR SPORTS] THE WATERS OF YELLOWSTONE WITH ROD AND FLY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/077/218/1768218077.0.l.jpg)
[OUTDOOR SPORTS] THE WATERS OF YELLOWSTONE WITH ROD AND FLY
by Howard Back
New York: Dodd, Meade & Company, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Good dust jacket. Octavo; in the publisher's green cloth binding; 149 pages; complete with black and white photographic illustrations throughout; in an unclipped dust jacket; the jacket has some chips around the edges; some where at the folds; a bit of soiling on the back, there is a previous owners inscription on the front end paper. Very Good+ binding / Good dust jacket.
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![[MUSIC] [CIVIL WAR] THE MAIDEN’S PRAYER: COMPOSED FOR THE PIANO BY T. BADARZEWSKA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/397/735/1266735397.0.l.jpg)
[MUSIC] [CIVIL WAR] THE MAIDEN’S PRAYER: COMPOSED FOR THE PIANO BY T. BADARZEWSKA
by T. Badarzewska
Macon & Savannah, Ga: J. C. Schreiner & Son, 1860. A four page folio of Confederate sheet music. One of two editions of The Maiden’s Prayer, priority unknown. Some embrowning to the text and musical notation. Horizontal crease at the center of the leaves. (Harwell Confederate Music, p. 128. | Hoogerwerf Confederate Sheet-Music Imprints 3628 | Parrish & Willingham Confederate Imprints 7221).
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![[TRAVEL] RUSSLAND: HANDBUCH FUR REISENDE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/809/634/1677634809.0.l.jpg)
[TRAVEL] RUSSLAND: HANDBUCH FUR REISENDE
by Karl Baedeker
Leipzig: Verlag Von Karl Baedeker, 1888. Second Edition. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 18mo; in flexible red cloth boards with gilt titling; l, 1-442 pages including the Index; with 9 maps and 15 plans; lacking the end papers No pencil or ink markings in text; text written in German; boards slightly soiled and small stain at top corner area of front board; corners bumped; very small closed tears at top and bottom of spine; front and rear... Read More
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![[TRAVEL] BAEDEKER’S HANDBOOR FOR TRAVELLERS. 3 VOLUMES. I. SOUTHERN ENGLAND AND EAST ANGLIA; II. CENTRAL BRITAIN AND WALES; III. NORTHERN ENGLAND](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/651/004/1685004651.0.l.jpg)
[TRAVEL] BAEDEKER’S HANDBOOR FOR TRAVELLERS. 3 VOLUMES. I. SOUTHERN ENGLAND AND EAST ANGLIA; II. CENTRAL BRITAIN AND WALES; III. NORTHERN ENGLAND
by Karl Baedeker
Baedeker | The Macmillan Company, 1970. Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. 3 Volumes; in red flexible boards, with dustjackets; each volume with silk ribbon markers; the dustjackets are nice, though the jacket to Volume I has some trivial wear near the top of the spine; there are no marks in any of the three books; with maps and plans. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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![[VIRGINIA] [RICHMOND] [MENU] THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL HOUSE SOIREE. BELLA TUSCANY. AN ITALIAN WINE DINNER TO BENEFIT THE HISTORIC BOLLING HAXALL HOUSE. MAY 17, 2004](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/449/329/1693329449.0.l.jpg)
[VIRGINIA] [RICHMOND] [MENU] THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL HOUSE SOIREE. BELLA TUSCANY. AN ITALIAN WINE DINNER TO BENEFIT THE HISTORIC BOLLING HAXALL HOUSE. MAY 17, 2004
by Sally T. Bagley
2004. Stapled Pamphlet. Near Fine binding. 8vo.; in printed card stock wrapper with a detailed drawing of the doors of the Bolling-Haxall House on the cover. programs of a gala Italian wine dinner to benefit the Historic Bolling Haxall House; with a list of Donors. Contributors, Patrons, Friends, and the Committee; also contains the elaborate menu for the event. ~~An uncommon relic of an event at Richmond’s Woman’s Club.~~~~. Near Fine binding.
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![[RELIGION] LA SAINTE BIBLE | THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE POLYGLOTT BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS ..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/585/927/1113927585.0.l.jpg)
[RELIGION] LA SAINTE BIBLE | THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE POLYGLOTT BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS ..
by Samuel Bagster
London: Samuel Bagster, 1828. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A most attractive Bagster Bible in a signed binding of embossed dark green morocco; raised bands with titling in gilt; dentelle turn-ins; printed on “Bible paper” with all edges gilt. Bagster’s monumental “Biblia Sacra Polyglotta Basteriana” appeared between 1817 and 1828 with most copies of the four volume edition being destroyed by fire. Bagster carried on, issuing different texts and transtlations in various combinations. This copy in French and... Read More
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![[VIRGINIA] A SKETCH OF OLD SAPPONEY CHURCH. DINWIDDIE COUNTY, VIRGINIA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/165/282/1681282165.0.l.jpg)
[VIRGINIA] A SKETCH OF OLD SAPPONEY CHURCH. DINWIDDIE COUNTY, VIRGINIA
by [Clarence L. Bain]
Stony Creek, Virginia: [Committee on Restoration], 1945. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. 12 mo.; pamphlet with printed cardstock wrappers, and housed in a mailing envelope from Sapony Episcopal Church; [16] pages; accompanied with a typed letter soliciting a contribution from one Clarence Bain, who as treasurer of Committee on Restoration at the Sapony Church.~~The church was seeking to restore the church to the state of it in the time of its rector, Devereux Jarrett. Very Good binding. ... Read More
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![[THE WOODLAWN SERIES, COMPLETE] BERTIE’S HOME. OR, THE WAY TO BE HAPPY. | BERTIE AND THE CARPENTERS. | BERTIE AND THE MASONS. | BERTIE AND THE PLUMBERS. | BERTIE AND THE PAINTERS. | BERTIE AND THE GARDENERS. (SIX VOLUMES)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/249/308/1275308249.0.l.jpg)
[THE WOODLAWN SERIES, COMPLETE] BERTIE’S HOME. OR, THE WAY TO BE HAPPY. | BERTIE AND THE CARPENTERS. | BERTIE AND THE MASONS. | BERTIE AND THE PLUMBERS. | BERTIE AND THE PAINTERS. | BERTIE AND THE GARDENERS. (SIX VOLUMES)
by Mrs. Madeline Leslie [Harriette Newell Woods Baker]
Boston | New York: Woolworth, Ainsworth & Company | A. S. Barnes & Company, 1868. Hard Cover. Good binding. The Woodlawn Series by Harriette Newell Woods Baker, complete in six volumes. Engraved frontispiece, title page, and additional plates in each volume. Front hinge of Vol. VI cracked but holding, and closed tear to the front endpaper of volume IV. Significant silverfishing to the bindings, and sunning to the spines. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Good binding.
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![[ART] PAOLO SERRA: OPERE 1961-2007](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/384/325/1579325384.0.l.jpg)
[ART] PAOLO SERRA: OPERE 1961-2007
by Paolo Serra; Kenneth Baker
Prato: Gli Ori, 2007. First Edtiion. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Quarto; in the publisher’s colored pictorial boards, with dustjacket; 173 pages, with color illustrations. ~~An important and uncommon monograph of Serra’s layered works, both monochromatic and dichromatic. Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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SANTA CLAUS COMES TO AMERICA
by Caroline Singer | Illustrated by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. A theme appropriate of to the patriotic spirit of the World War II years -- how Saint Nicholas “made the jump across the ocean, and how, once over here, he got all mixed up with Christmas until he became our own jolly, round, red, American Santa Claus”. By the husband and wife team, Caroline Singer and her illustrator husband Cyrus Baldridge. A... Read More
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![[HORROR] THE SHADOW ON THE BLIND AND OTHER GHOST STORIES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/263/995/1568995263.0.l.jpg)
[HORROR] THE SHADOW ON THE BLIND AND OTHER GHOST STORIES
by Mrs. Alfred [Louisa] Baldwin
London; New York: J. M. Dent & Co.; Macmillan & Co, 1895. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in publisher's olive green pictorial cloth, with front cover and spine stamped in white; title page in red and black; with frontispiece, and additional illustrations throughout, several full page; rear joint reinforced by a conservator; with loss to the binding at the head and tail of the spine, and spot of loss to the rear joint; there is... Read More
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![[VIRGINIANA] SOUTHHAMPTON COUNTY & FRANKLIN A PICTORIAL HISTORY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/968/689/1682689968.0.l.jpg)
[VIRGINIANA] SOUTHHAMPTON COUNTY & FRANKLIN A PICTORIAL HISTORY
by Daniel T. Balfour
Norfolk: The Donning Company, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Signed. 4to; in full green leatherette; with titling on the upper board and spine in gilt; 192 pages including the Index; with color and black and white photographs throughout; with maps on the paste downs and ends papers; in a bright dust jacket.~~Inscribed by the author on the title page “To Causey with best wishes - Daniel Balfour”. Near Fine binding / Near... Read More
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![[THEATER] [PROGRAM] THEATRE DE LA CHAUVE-SOURIS. CINQUIEME PROGRAMME](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/627/860/1508860627.0.l.0.jpg)
[THEATER] [PROGRAM] THEATRE DE LA CHAUVE-SOURIS. CINQUIEME PROGRAMME
by Jean Berniet | Nikita Balieff
Paris: Comoedia Illustre, 1921. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Folio; theater program, tied with silk cord; 14 pages plus wrappers; the front wrapper is a stunning silk-screeen by Remisoff.~~Le Theatre de la Chauve-Souris was an artistic and theatrical troupe from Moscow. The artistic director was Nikita Balieff. It was known as The Bat Theatre of Moscow. Very Good binding.
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![ADVENTURES OF AN ENGLISH SOLDIER [THE MEXICAN WAR BY AN ENGLISH SOLDIER COMPRISING INCIDENTS AND ADVENTURES IN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/368/484/1389484368.0.l.jpg)
ADVENTURES OF AN ENGLISH SOLDIER [THE MEXICAN WAR BY AN ENGLISH SOLDIER COMPRISING INCIDENTS AND ADVENTURES IN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY]
by [George Ballentine]
New York: W. A. Townsend & Company, 1860. Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher’s embossed brown cloth binding with titling in gilt to the spine; xii, 288 pages; followed by 19 pages of ads for the wildly popular James Fenimore Cooper; with the top of the front endpaperr and the first blank leaf torn out; the top corner of the rear endpaper is torn out as well.~~First published as “Autobiography of an English... Read More
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![[RELIGION] A SERMON, DELIVERED AT THE DEDICATION OF THE UNIVERSALIST MEETING-HOUSE, IN CAMBRIDGE-PORT, ON WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18, 1822](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/575/272/1677272575.0.l.jpg)
[RELIGION] A SERMON, DELIVERED AT THE DEDICATION OF THE UNIVERSALIST MEETING-HOUSE, IN CAMBRIDGE-PORT, ON WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18, 1822
by Hosea Ballou
Boston: Henry Bowen, 1822. 8vo; missing wrappers; (3) 4-16 pages; the text is complete according to OCLC; the pages are toned; the first signature is partially attached but the second has completely separated; there is a trivial tear with no loss to leaf 15-16, housed in a protective Mylar sleeve.~~A very uncommon copy with no other copies in commerce and only 5 copies in OCLC as of 4/3/2025.
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