Search Results: Titles starting with Y from R & A Petrilla

Provincetown, MA, 1940. Original document. Very Good. On the recto is a photograph of the "Cee Jay" with a party aboard. Text on the verso, in part: "Fishing Trips on Yacht 'Cee Jay' ... Bait and Lines Free ... $4.00 per person ... For safety, by far, the fastest big boat in Provincetown Harbor ... A real fisherman--who's been taking out fishing parties longer than any other man on the pier ... Cap't Bill Cabral, 122 Commercial St., Provincetown, Mass." "From the 1940s through the 1960s, Commercial Street and Whorf's Court was the hub of the large and very active Cabral clan. This was home to the patriarch, William P. "Captain Bill" Cabral (b ±1899) and his wife, Mary (Taves) Cabral (b ±1900). Captain Bill was a fisherman who moved into the party boat business in the 1940s and 1950s, sending groups out aboard the 60-foot cabin cruiser Katherine II, the 57-foot cruiser Caroline, and the 60-foot cruiser Cee Jay." [Online article, Building Provincetown].

Yarmouth-port, MA: W.S. Fisher, 1845. First Edition. Very Good. 4pp, newspaper format, 24" x 17". Contains: "Uncle Abel and Little Edward" by Harriet Beecher Stowe; A Noble Name for A Noble Ship; "Lucy Dutton" by Fanny Forrester; The Mutiny on Board Ship Sharon; Marine Hospital at Hyannis; Town Officers for 1845; Local Marriages and Deaths; Marine List [ships and their voyages]; ads for local businesses; ads for proprietary medicines and curatives; etc. Two original folds, sound and clean. The H.B. Stowe contribution appeared first in THE GIFT for 1839 [Blanck, BAL 19325].

Los Angeles: Westerners, Los Angeles Corral, 1949. First edition thus. Pictorial Paper Covers. Fine. (8)pp; illus with silhouettes. Keepsake No. 3, Los Angeles Corral of The Westerners. 8.5" x 5.5" First published at Philadelphia in 1878 by Upham, a self-described '49-er.

Richmond, Virginia: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1904. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. pp: xvi, (i), (9)-366 w/index; frontispiece and 20 plates from photographs, rubricated title-page. Gilt-stamped red cloth with Tower of Pisa photo mounted on cover, t.e.g. 8.25" x 5.5" In the format of letters-home, the author tells of his experiences on the North Atlantic and while visiting villages and cities in England, Scotland, Holland, and Italy.

Marietta, Penna: John J. Reinhold Co, 1920. First Edition. Fine. Broadsheet, printed in black and red, illustrated. "...Don't allow the other fellow to drag you into danger ... Safety the first consideration ... When danger approaches you--then just a slight pull on Trip Cord "T" held by the operator of auto being towed and the Tow Line Is Instantly Released....Style "A"...$2.00 ... Style "B"...$2.50...." The central illustration shows a locomotive approaching two cars, one being towed. The verso contains detailed text on towing and safety, printed in blue ink. 12.5" x 8.25" [Unrecorded by WorldCat.] Reinhold also registered other inventions with the US Patent Office.