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Lockport NY: Niagara County Historical Society, 1966. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, blue wrappers, 377 pages, black & white line drawings. Minor wear to covers, clean copy. Record # 378339

London: Clifton Books, 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 152 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 853919

NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005. 1st. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 424 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Traces the story of the physicists and their families who lived in the then-secret city of Los Alamos during the invention of the atomic bomb, years during which they lied to outsiders about their daily existences and endured harsh living conditions with minimal privacy. Name on prelim page, otherwise clean. Record # 382807

Vermont Woman's Suffage Assoc., 1899-1915. Softcover. Very Good/None. Minutes of their annual minutes held in various towns in Vermont, starting with the 15th meeting on June 1 and 2, 1899 to the 26th in 1913. MISSING 23rd, 24th & 25th. Also included: The Vermont Equal Suffrage Association Year Books for 1913 and 1915. All staple bound in very good condition. The booklet for the 22nd Meeting has detached covers but all there. Record # 384998

Ticonderoga : Penfield Foundation, 1999. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a small chip to bottom of spine. The 5th NY Volunteer Cavalry, Company H was organized in Crown Point, NY at the very start of the Civil War. Penfield's diary was kept during the years 1863-1864 covering his service primarily in the Shenendoah Valley and later imprisonment. He was captured during the pursuit of rebel troops after Gettysburg. Following capture Penfield was held in various Confederate prisons. Clean copy. Record # 381110

Chester, VT: National Survey, 1942. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 390 pages. Softcover with moderate wear to paper wrappers. Light soiling. Maps and ads inside. Tight copy. Record # 750311

Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene Press, 1974. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 194 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean, tight copy with light rubbing to cover edges. Dust jacket has crease and small closed tear on rear. Record # 750316

Brattleboro VT: The Book Celler, 1959. reprint. Very Good/None. Hardcover, yellow pictorial boards, 40 pages with b&w photographs. Clean copy. Record # 381667

Boston: Little Brown, 1961. 1st. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 279 pages. Light edgewear and chipping to dust jacket. Record # 202443

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 553 pages, b&w illustrations. A spectacular reading of Western philosophy, religion, and mythology that draws on early maps and atlases, Plato, Kant, and Wittgenstein, Thomas Pynchon, Gilgamesh, and Marcel Duchamp, Abysmal is itself a minimalist guide to the terrain of Western culture. Olsson roams widely but always returns to the problems inherent in reason, to question the outdated assumptions and fixed ideas that thinking cartographically entails. A work of ambition, scope, and sharp wit, Abysmal will appeal to an eclectic audience—to geographers and cartographers, but also to anyone interested in the history of ideas, culture, and art. Name written on front fore-edge of book, otherwise clean. Record # 382141

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1770. 5th Ed.. Hardcover. Hardcover set. quarter brown calf antique, marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco labels lettered in gilt. Covers worn, rubbed , leather spines worn with chipping, volume 2 has label missing, also front cover detached. HOWES B-974. "Best contemporary account. Actually written by William Burke, but usually ascribed to his more famous kinsman who gave substantial help." While the covers and spine are battered and worn, the interiors are very good. Both folding maps are clean and bright. Ownership name "L. Pillars/1857" on fly leaves and title pages, otherwise clean. Ideal candidates for rebinding. Record # 382688

NY: Atheneum , 1967. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Two paperback volumes, 469/514 pages. Mild wear to paper covers. Clean set. Record # 379203

Saranac Lake NY: Snowy Owl Press, 2010. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 360 pages, b&w illustrations. Ice has determined the course of Adirondack history in many surprising ways: from landscape to wildlife, harvesting to logging, barrel jumping to ice climbing and hail damage to ice storms. These accounts trace the history of that influence. The 360 page, soft cover book of personal stories, observations and over 200 photos, is the author’s tribute to a fast disappearing era. Cover wrappers with mild wear, corner creases. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Record # 374305

Ipswich MA: Ipswich Press, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 66 pages. Illustrated with b&w photos and drawings. The lively history of the summer camp founded in the early 1900s in North Belgrade, Maine. Dust jacket with mild wear. otherwise a tight, clean copy. Record # 377852

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 203 pages. Tan and black cover with illustration. Some fraying on edges and spine. Title on spine label slightly chipped away. Small stain on back cover. Pages untrimmed. Some foxing Inside, but otherwise crisp, clean and contains b&w illustrations throughout. Record # 852454

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 203 pages. Tan and black cover with illustration. Some fraying on edges and spine. Faint smudges on spine. Pages untrimmed. Inside crisp, clean and contains b&w illustrations throughout. Record # 852453

NY: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. 3rd pr. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Miguel Covarrubias. Hardcover, pictorial boards with a black cloth spine. 376 pages with illustrations, endpapers, and cover design by Miguel Covarrubias. Frontispiece loose, otherwise a clean copy. Record # 383767

New Hampshire: Dartmouth College, 1912. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 1912 Junior Annual of Dartmouth College. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles to spine and front cover, beveled edges. Light edgewear, mild foxing to page block edges, spine slightly cocked, ex-lib with bookplate to front endpaper, otherwise no evidence of ex-lib markings, pages crisp and unmarked; overall a very neat, tight copy in great condition. Record # 807112

Urbana: University of Illinois, 1971. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 212 Pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. EX-LIB with usual markings, stamps. Card residue on rear fly leaf. Tight copy. Record # 750334

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 592 pages. Map illustrations. A detailed history of three major campaigns conducted during World War II, mostly in Africa and the Middle East. Bookplate on half-title page, otherwise clean. Record # 384716