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Number 53 of a limited first edition, signed by author. Octavo. Dark blue pebbled cloth over limp boards with gilt stamped front cover and spine. 296pp with b/w photographs. Light water mark to gutter corner of preliminary pages. light crease to corner of rear cover. Hinges firm. Good.Yesterdays on Brooklyn Heights is history of a sort. It tells in rather casual manner of early settlement in Brooklyn, describing the Dutch houses and manners of dress, and the shift from Dutch to English presence by the time of the Revolutionary War. But Callender was writing less a history in any currently accepted sense of the term than an elegy to a place he loved, and which he saw losing much of the charm he treasured. He rued the coming of apartment buildings and the telephone, which "began to curtail the running in and out of each other's [sic] houses at all hours. … And one morning we woke up to realize that our Golden Age had vanished, never to return." - Henrik Krogius, Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
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Yesterdays On Brooklyn Heights
by Callender, James H.
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Pioneer Pottery
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Hard cover. Oversized octavo. [xv] 327pp. Signed and dated by author on ffep Boulder/1978. Also a handprint in clay to the title page. Previous owner's name to corner of ffep. Near fine in a very good dust jacket which shows tears to top edge.Michael Cardew has been described as "one of the finest potters of the century and one of the greatest slipware potters of all times." There are collections of his work in museums in Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
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Winter Camping
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Small hard cover 7 3/16" x 4 3/4". Publisher's green cloth binding. 164pp. Very good condition throughout with light shelf wear only to covers. An early instructional manual on the pleasures and practicalities of camping in cold weather with chapters on Personal Equipment, Food, Shelter and Beds, Campfires and Stoves, Wildlife in Winter etc.The design on the front cover, which wraps around the spine is of a stylized forest with a top border of geese and lower border of salmon.
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Reminiscences of Levi Coffin: The Reputed President of the Underground Railroad
by Coffin, Levi
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Hard cover. Octavo.[viii] 712pages with two frontispiece portraits of Levi and Catherine Coffin. Beautifully rebound in half calf over marbled boards by Period Bookbinders Company, UK. A touch of foxing to frontispieces otherwise clean and unmarked throughout."A brief History Of The Labors Of A Lifetime In Behalf Of The Slave, With The Stories Of Numerous Fugitives Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, And Many Other Incidents."
Levi Coffin was an active leader of the Underground Railroad in Indiana and Ohio, some unofficially called Coffin the "President of the Underground Railroad," estimating that three thousand fugitive slaves passed through his care. The Coffin home in Fountain City, Wayne County, Indiana, is now a museum, sometimes called the Underground Railroad's "Grand Central Station." Howes B923.
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Kennebec
by Coffin, Robert P. Tristram
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Maitland De Gogorza. . Hard cover 8vo. Illustrated by Maitland De Gogorza. Very good in a good price clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name to front free end paper. .First volume in the Rivers of America series.
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Colorado: Its Manufactures
by Colorado Promotion and Publicity Committee
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Denver: Colorado Promotion and Publicity Committee, 1904. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Good. Soft cover. 7 9/16" by 5 1/4" Staple bound grey wrappers with black and orange illustration and title to front. 39pp illustrated with photographs and stressing the diversity of manufactures within the state other than gold and silver mining.Faint vertical crease to covers. Last page torn vertically with some loss. Clean and unmarked.
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New York of To-Day
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Portland, Maine: L.H. Nelson Company, 1909. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Very good. Soft pictorial color wraps, center stapled oblong souvenir booklet consisting of an introduction and 47 pages of b/w captioned photographs.Staples rusted. Small tear to top edge of cover else very good.
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Bellifortis
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Two volumes in original glassine in plain slip case. Hard covers. Quarto. Half vellum with titles in red. Volume one is a facsimile of the original with 173 diagrams. Volume two is a translation into German of the original Latin text. Small mark to spine of volume one. Very good.Bellifortis ("Strong in War", "War Fortifications") is the first fully illustrated manual of military technology, written by Konrad Kyeser and dating from the start of the 15th century it summarises material from classical writers on military technology, like Vegetius' De Re Militari and Frontinus' anecdotal Strategemata, emphasizing poliorcetics, or the art of siege warfare, but treating magic as a supplement to the military arts; it is "saturated with astrology", remarked Lynn White, Jr. in a review of the first facsimile edition.
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The Anatomy of Love and Other Poems
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One of 1000 copies. Octavo in printed wraps. 86 pages. Review copy stamped on front free end paper. Very good.John William Corrington was an American film and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer.
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William Nicholson's An Alphabet: An Introduction to the Reprint from the Original Woodblocks
by Craig, Edward
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Number 207 of a signed limited edition of 300. Soft cover. Small folio. Mustard yellow sewn wraps with images of Nicholson's illustrated alphabet to the inside. [iv] 12pp Folded sheet with b/w photographs "Printing William Nicholson's Alphabet from the Original Woodblocks" laid in. Small crease to top corner of front cover else fine.
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Betty Crocker's New Boys and Girls Cookbook
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First Edition, fourth printing. Spiral bound hard cover. 156 pages illustrated throughout by Gloria Kammen. Over 275 recipes clearly and simply explained.
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The World Of King Richard.
by Cunningham, Scott (Photographer)
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Atlanta: Rand & Ezor Sports Enterprises, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Hardcover 4to. Inscribed by driver Richard Petty to the original owner on front free endpaper. A photographic essay on a typical week in the life of the King of Stock Car Racing, Richard Petty #43. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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