Unbound Two Page 1875 Map of Part of Ward 16 City of Rochester [New York]
. S.N., 1875. Unbound.
Some chips to edges, not obscuring map.
Unbound. two page 1875 map of Part of Ward 16 City of Rochester, New York.
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A Memorial of Rev. Horace Eaton
Boston: C.B. Botsford, 1886. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. Presentation copy from author's wife, given 40 years after Eaton became a pastor in Palmyra, NY. Boards lightly soiled, hinges starting.
vi, 306 pp. Horace Eaton was the pastor at the Western Presbyterian Church from 1849-1879. He was greatly revered.....
The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, in Two Volumes
London: Methuen & Co., 1901. Hard Cover.
Stained, general wear.
lxxviii, 416, 3, 3, 47; 502, 3, 46 pp. Two volume set. Edited with new introduction and notes. Philip Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield, in full Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield, (born September 22, 1694, London, England—died March.....
The Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. Hard Cover.
Jacket heavily rubbed with multiple chips and tears, jacket base stained, front jacket flap price-clipped.
xx, 362 pp. A biography of the jazz-age writer, with plenty of new information gathered from the archives of Fitzgerald's daughter.
Kit Carson: The Happy Warrior of the Old West, a Biography
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. General wear.
xii, 297 pp. "Christopher Houston Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868), better known as Kit Carson, was an American frontiersman. He was a mountain man (fur trapper), wilderness guide, Indian.....
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1882. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Some wear to spine base, first and second blank clipped.
xiv, 573 pp. Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, née Elizabeth Payson, (born October 26, 1818, Portland, Maine, U.S.—died August 13, 1878, Dorset, Vermont), American writer of popular children's books of a pious.....
Dr. Johnson: His Religious Life and His Death
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. Hard Cover.
Rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Stained, edges rubbed, pages foxed.
405, 2 pp. Samuel Johnson, byname Dr. Johnson, (born September 18, 1709, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England—died December 13, 1784, London), English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer, regarded as one of the.....
George the Fourth
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some tears, front jacket flap creased. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
x, 334 pp. "The classic biography by the brilliant English historian Roger Fulford has been hailed as one of the best royal biographies.....
Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1963. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Jacket edges rubbed, light stain and chip on jacket spine.
245 pp. Francis Bacon, in full Francis Bacon, Viscount Saint Alban, also called (1603–18) Sir Francis Bacon, (born January 22, 1561, York House, London, England—died April.....
Monument to the Memory of Henry Clay
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Duane Rulison, 1858. Hard Cover.
Edges rubbed, stained, pages foxed.
515 pp. All edges gilt. Henry Clay, byname The Great Pacificator or The Great Compromiser, (born April 12, 1777, Hanover county, Virginia, U.S.—died June 29, 1852, Washington, D.C.), American statesman, U.S. congressman (1811–14, 1815–21, 1823–25), and U.S. senator.....
Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
New York: Random House, 1966. Hard Cover.
Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips, front jacket flap creased. Ink gift note and bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
x, 304 pp. Includes black & white photographs. "Between 1948 and 1961, Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner traveled together from New York.....
The Novelist of Vermont: A Biographical and Critical Study of Daniel Pierce Thompson
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine lightly foxed, frontispiece loose but included.
xxiv, 329 pp. Daniel Pierce Thompson (October 1, 1795 – June 6, 1868) was an American author and lawyer who served as Vermont Secretary of State and was New.....
Memoir of Abner Kingman Nott, Late Pastor of the First Baptist Church in the City of New York; with Copious Extracts from His Correspondence
New York: Sheldon and Company, 1860. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Some loss to spine head and to spine base, some spots on top page ridge, ink name and pencil notes on endpapers.
395 pp. Includes frontispiece. Abner Kingman Nott, at the age of twenty-three years, having just completed.....
Over the Jungle Trails; or, Ted Scott and the Missing Explorers (The Ted Scott Flying Stories Book 10)
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Rogers, Walter S. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Early printing of MAD 56900-10-1 - lists through book 12 on jacket flap and book 10 on copyright page. A few tiny spots on boards, jacket spine foxed, jacket edges rubbed, 1 inch closed tear on rear jacket.....
The African Queen (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 102)
New York: The Modern Library, 1940. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1944-53 printing of Toledano 102.3, 8h, 95 cent jacket price, 303 titles on verso, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Very good in good jacket. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with loss from corners.
[iv], 307, [1] pp. 8vo. Originally.....
The Crisscross Shadow (The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories Book 32)
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1953. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Carpentieri 1953B-2 (red price code on front flap, 8 Ken Holt titles on rear flap). Very good in fair jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, stains on jacket spine ends, ink gift note on front endpaper.
213.....
Down Among the Dead Men: An Inspector Henry Tibbett Mystery
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Jacket spine faded, light edge wear.
Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett, vacationing in Berrybridge Haven, is convinced to reopen an old case when another person is killed in a similar manner.
The Devious Ones
New York: Lippincott, 1964. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Small tear to rear jacket.
A woman wakes up not remembering her day, only to find out that her uncle has just been murdered.
The Dancing Man
New York: Atheneum, 1971. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Atheneum 1971 Book club edition. Edge wear to jacket.
Mark Hawkins is an engineer and a loner, who has always resented his adventurer-archaeologist brother, Dick. But when Dick vanishes, allegedly dead in a climbing accident, Mark starts investigating the site his.....
Death Knocks Three Times
New York: Random House, 1949. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Ink name to endpaper, jacket rubbed.
Fashions may change in rather a startling way, but Crime Club readers eagerly look forward each season to the New Crook, and here comes Anthony Gilbert again with a diabolically ingenious crime story featuring our.....
Death Walked In (Death on Demand No. 18)
New York: Willliam Morrow, 2008. 1st Printing. Hard Cover.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
Max Darling hasn't been interested in crime since his brush with a seductive young woman put him in danger of losing his freedom. He even refuses to talk to a woman who calls for help and.....
A Family Affair: A Nero Wolfe Novel
New York: Viking Press, 1975. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Jacket rubbed, faint edge wear.
A bomb explosion down the street from Nero Wolfe's apartment kills an acquaintance of his, which leads Wolfe on the hunt for the killer.
The Sanctuary Sparrow (Brother Cadfael No. 7)
New York: William Morrow, 1983. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Jacket has faint edge wear.
Number 7 in the Brother Cadfael series. A young traveling minstrel is accused of murder and theft in the town of Shrewsbury, both capital offenses in 12th-century England.
I Am the Only Running Footman (Richard Jury)
New York: Little, Brown, 1986. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Jacket spine faded.
The garroting death of a young woman near Berkeley Square may be connected to the year-old murder of another woman, a connection that leads Superintendent Richard Jury to look for a sinister stranger who.....
Write Murder Down
New York: Lippincott, 1972. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Faint edge wear to jacket.
A dead woman is found in the bathtub of a Greenwich Village apartment with her wrists slashed. Lt. Nathan Shapiro discovers she is the author of a best-selling novel, and his investigation takes.....