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American Greetings, 1993. Embossed Card & Envelope with Scuff where it had been sealed, Card Fine Condition, 14 X 9 3/4 in., Card reads The White House, The State Dining Room, 1993 & message Our Family wishes you & Yours a Joyful Holiday Season & New Year Blessed with Health, ........ First Edition. Unbound.

Boston, Mass.: Sampson & Murdock Co.. Very Good+. 1926. Hardcover. Clean tan cloth with black lettering. Text tight, clean & intact. Frontispiece, a large fold out map. Pink, blue and white pages. Business, house, street directory and miscellaneous information. Manchester, New Hampshire ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 900 pages .

Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Leather rubbed and flaking at edges.. 1897. Hardcover. Original brown pebbled and blindstamped leather with decorative gilt titles on front boards and spine. Gilt-stamped turn-ins, all edges gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Index, 28 portrait plates. Surprisingly tight and clean. A compilation of biographies of upstanding male citizens of Hillsboro and Cheshire Counties in New Hampshire, most notably home boy Horace Greeley, newspaperman and politician. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 481 pages .

Albany, NY: The Argus Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, light foxing and soiling to . first and last several leaves, two plates have 2 inch tears, one plate has . one inch tear, some light wear to edges of plates.. 1870. Hardcover. Green blindstamped cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Annual report to the New York State Legislature by the Board of Canal Commissioners discussing construction, maintenance, and improvements to the Erie Canal, Champlain Canal, Black River Canal and other waterways throughout New York State. Contains three large engraved folding plates of: Aqueduct Across Wood Creek at Fort Edward on the Champlain Canal, Plan of Bulkhead for North Branch Reservoir, and Otisco Lake Reservoir. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 174 pages .

Albany, NY, 1902. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. Staple-bound pamphlet. 9"x5 3/4". 8 pp. No wraps as issued. Small chip to upper right corner of first page. Light toning to edges and margins. 1" closed tear at bottom of crease. This is a report read at a New York State conference on penal reform in 1902. It was prepared and presented by committe chariman and progressive reformer Eugene Ambrose Philbin, cowritten by 8 other noted activist leaders, including Josephine Shaw Lowell and William Church Osborn. The report admonishes the presence of politics and profiteering in the administration of prisons and charitable organizations, the first seeds of corruption that have now blossomed into America's billion dollar prison industrial complex. The pamphlet reads today as an early warning and somewhat naive call to action, concluding with the hope that if earnest workers were to make a "black-list, which would contain the names of all politicians who sought to use the alms of the poor for their… Read More

Amenia, N. Y.: Charles Walsh. Near Fine. 1898. Third Edition. Hardcover. Clean blue cloth decorated with gilt lettering. Decorated endpapers. Pictorial frontispiece. B/W photo illustrations. Text tight, clean & intact. Prior owners bookplate inside front cover. Connecticut, New England; B&W Photos ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 202 pages .

New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1900. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. Very Good condition. SEE PHOTOS. This is the SCARCE original 1900 HARDCOVER first edition -- not a cheaply-made modern reprint. NOT a library discard. Inner hinges are sound. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO margin notes. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece and 12 other plates. Bound in the original gray boards with a cream-color parchment spine, stamped in shiny gold on the spine and front cover.. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. 133pp. + 12 plates.

Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson, printers, 1850. Paperback. Very Good. 32 p.; 23 cm. Green wrappers with black wrapper title. The Union Benevolent Association was established in 1831 to provide assistance to Philadelphia residents by lending stoves to help heat their homes during a harsh winter, along with wood and coal. The intention was to help the "worthy poor" without regard for religion or race. The activities of the organization have evolved since 1831; today it provides grants to projects to fight poverty. This report contains a list of people who contributed to the Union Benevolent Association for the previous year with the amount given, as well as detailed data about the people with whom the association had worked. The (male) officers of the Association are listed; none of the members of the Ladies' Board of Managers are named, although the majority of the report is theirs. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: wrapper is lightly soiled and creased; 3-cm. closed tear… Read More

Indianapolis: Union Direct Co, 1902. Octavo. 284 pages. A very scarce Indiana directory covering towns and villages in 19 contiguous counties around Indianapolis with thousands of ads from the items of the era; bicycles and horse-drawn wagons in an age just before the automobile appeared on the scene in Indiana even before 1900. Dr. W.T. McCarthy's full-page ad on how he can cure cancer. This informative directory provides an insight into what Indianans' were interested in at the beginning of the 20th century. The inserts bound into the book include Dr. Bush's Gasaway, Gas Belt. This has the Library of Congress copyright stamp which shows it is one of the two copies, deposited to secure copyright. Bound in 1/4 red cloth over printed tan paper covered boards, spine lettering black, wear to corners, light wear, and soiling to spine. A very good copy.

David McKay Company, Inc, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. Collectible first edition, first printing of Hall of Fame inductee Rogers Hornsby's baseball how-to, My Kind of Baseball, one of the best ever published. Tip after tip after tip from the master. Per David McKay's practice of designating first editions, no additional printings indicated on copyright page. Includes scarce dust jacket with $2.50 price intact. 185 pp. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4". Tight, unmarked copy with minimal shelf wear and very light wrinkling to head and tail of spine panel. Unclipped dust jacket with two tiny tears to edges. A presentable copy of an early and important baseball instructional. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.