Search Results: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) from Tangible Tales

Philadelphia: Spangler & Davis, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt titles. A very good copy of this scarce title with bending at the spine tips and two spots of mild discoloration to the covers - one spineward on the front cover, visible in the photo and one beneath the titles on the spine cap. Previous owner's name neatly to the top of the front pastedown, otherwise and unmarked copy. Hinges and binding are solid. 235 pages.

Pennsylvania: Published by the author, 1970. Hardcover. Good. Reddish brown cloth hardcover wtih gilt titles - generic craft paper dustcover, probably laid on by the previous owner. Signed without inscription by the author at the top of the front pastedown. A good copy - covers clean and straight with minor shelf-wear at the edges. Interior has some underlining and notation from the previous owner's genealogical research, and a few imprints from paperclips now removed. Binding and hinges are solid. 171 pp., indexed, some black and white photos. A solid genealogical resource for the Frankling County Pennsylvania area.

Pennsylvania: Valley Sentinel Office, 1877. Hardcover. Fair. Blue hardcover lacking dustjacket, no additional printings listed, so probably first edition. A fair to good copy with heavy wear to the extremeties, most pronounced at the spine ends. Both hinges are split and fragile, but boards still attached. Front free endpaper detached, otherwise all pages bound in and intact. Previous owners inscriptions to the first blank - one from 1881 and one from 1968 - otherwise an unmarked copy. Pages with age toning and a bit of foxing, text clean and legible. 263 pp., indexed, ahistory of the church's first 100+ years. Laid in at front is a newspaper article from the local paper about a man who brings his chair to the Presbyterian Church to spend the day after the local benches were all removed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Black hardcover 3rd printing in dustjacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, "To Don Stiffler - Happy Father's Day! David Brinkley." Included in an envelope affixed to the front pastedown is a card providing provenance (pictured). General shelf-wear to the boards and a bit of bending at the heel of the spine. Text clean and tight as if unread. Unclipped jacket with matching shelfwear at the edges and a bit of browning to the extremeties. 286 pp., some black and white photos.