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You Are Special
by Fred Rogers
The beloved host of PBS's Mister Rogers' Neighborhood offers warm words of advice and encouragement, along with reflections on his own childhood Fred Rogers and his Neighborhood have been a presence in millions of homes for more than twenty-five years, educating, comforting, and influencing three generations of Americans. This compilation of his signature sayings and wise, succinct, straightforward thoughts is organized by themes—such as “Relationships,” “Childhood,”...
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Pittsburgh Sesqui-Centennial Celebration, 1758-1908, Official Account, July 4, September 27- October 3, November 25, 1908
by George; City Of Pittsburgh Guthrie
Pittsburgh Books & Ephemera
Response to The Blue Juniata" and Other Poems, Sentimental, Historical and Religious
by Cort, Cyrus
Cleveland, OH: Central Publishing House, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. c.1902. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt titles. Poet from Westrmoreland County, PA. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, top corners bumped, spine lightened, moderate soil to cloth, occasional smudge marks to contents.
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CA$16.60
Pittsburgh in 1816: Compiled by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Granting of the City Charter
by The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Library, 1926. Paperback. Very good. Printed paper wraps, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild chips to spine ends, toning to edges, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
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CA$24.89
Bound volume of 1925-1939 sermons by Pittsburgh clergyman, many preached on the nation's first radio station KDKA
by (Early radio) Orr, John Alvin
Pittsburgh: Various, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, charcoal gray cloth, very good, light wear and soil to covers. Bound volume of several sermons, some of them among the first sermons to be broadcast by radio (the pioneering KDKA rose to early prominence thanks to the work by nearby Westinghouse Electric: they were the first station to broadcast the results of the 1920 Presidential election live and went on to several other "firsts."). Inscribed on the flyleaf by Orr, who was pastor at the First...
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CA$380.32
Recollections of Seventy Years and Historical Gleanings of Allegheny, Pennsylvania
by Parke, John E
Boston: Rand, Avery, & Company, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, 1886, hardcover with green cloth boards, octavo, 385pp., frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book VG with mild rubbing and edgewear, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but carrying faint smokey odor. No DJ.
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CA$47.02
The Steelers Encyclopedia, signed in black and gold!
by Finder, Chuck
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012. First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Quarto, publisher's black boards in dust jacket, about fine, very light wear to upper part of spine of jacket. Signed on title page: "Move along. Nothing to see here...like the great photots and tales over the next 300+ pages. Enjoy and GO STEELERS, Chuck Finder." The last two words plus his name overwritten in gold pen. 346 pp, illustrated. Finder was one of the best sportswriters in Pittsburgh when he was in...
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CA$55.32
The Politics of Place: Contentious Urban Redevelopment in Pittsburgh (inscribed by Crowley)
by Crowley, Gregory J
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. First printing. Paperback. Fine. Inscribed by Crowley! Printed paper wrap, octavo, 207pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome wrap and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
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CA$34.58
Pittsburgh Then and / & Now
by Kidney, Walter C
San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition, 2004. Oblong quarto, pictorial hardcover in dust jacket, 144 pp., heavily illustrated (some in color), clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, light age-toning to some pages, a bit of creasing to the tips of the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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CA$31.12
Fourth Report of the Young Men's Western Auxiliary Bible Society of Pittsburgh (1821)
by (Pittsburgh imprint)
Pittsburgh: Isaac Harris (?), 1822. Paperback. Good. Probably published 1822, self wraps, 7 pp, good copy with soil and tanning, light wear. During the meeting the following were elected to positions for the ensuing year: John Tassy, Pres., Harmar Denny 1st VP, Samuel Thompson, 2nd VP, Henry Sterling, Treasurer, John R. Stockman, Secretary, Isaac Harris, Corresponding Secretary. No copies located by OCLC.
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CA$103.72
Women's General Missionary Society of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, Foreign Department Reports of Missionaries and Institutions 1912
by (Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh: Headquarters, 1912. Paperback. Very Good. Published 1912, pale blue printed wraps, 51 pp, quite a number of photo plates. VG some fading to covers.
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CA$34.58
1920s folio photo album of The Superior Court of Pennsylvania, copy of Judge W. D. Porter
by Trinity Court Studio
Pittsburgh: Trinity Court Studio, 1925. Hardcover. Very good. Folio, 17 x 15 inches, brown cloth stamped in gilt on front cover, with 9 photos on paper measuring 13.5 x 9.5 inches, the images themselves measuring 9 x 6.5 inches, showing the 7 judges individually plus two group photos. Photos appear to be signed faintly in pencil by R. Johnson. On the brown pages on which these photos are mounted, the individual judges are identified in Conté crayon. Very good, with 1921 certificate broadside from the...
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CA$345.75
1900 linen-backed 28 x 22" map: Pittsburgh Strip 27th to 22nd Sts
Philadelphia: Griffith M. Hopkins, 1900. From "Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, Vol. 3, comprising the 1st to the 12th Wards and 15th, 16th, & 17th Wards." Linen backed map, light surface soil and faint stains (more visible to linen side than map side). Shows Strip from 27th to 22nd Sts.
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CA$62.24
The March of the Boomers, An Echo of the Last Commercial Expedition of Pittsburgh Trade Boosters, Gathered Along the Line, on the Special Train, Conducted by the Chamber of Commerce Pittsburgh (Blue Book of Live Wires, Who Electrify Pittsburgh Industries)
by Golder, G
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Printing Co, 1916. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 1916. Blue tie bound wraps, 8vo. Unpaginated, printed on blue paper, illustrated, with folding panorama portrait of the Live Wires. Very good. Shallow chipping and wear to wrap extremities, edges toned. Internally bright and unmarked.
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CA$69.15
1899 large double-page color map of LINCOLN-LEMINGTON, Pittsburgh
by Hopkins, Griffith M
Philadelphia: Griffith M. Hopkins, 1899. Very Good. Map from "Real Estate Plat Book of the City of Pittsburgh, East End, Vol. 2, comprising the 18th, 19th, 20th & 21st Wards." Map measures 28.75 x 22 inches, very good with light edgwear. Shows Lincoln, Lemington, Westmoreland, Broadhead, etc.
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CA$62.24
Photograph of a House on Chislett Street, Pittsburgh, ca. 1910
by n/a
1910. Very Good. ca. 1910. Original 7 x 5 inch photograph of the house at 749 Chislett Street, in Pittsburgh's Morningside neighborhood. Mounted on decorative card, 10 x 8 inches. Identified on a post-it on the verso of the image: "Our house on 749 Chislett St". In very good condition with light shelfwear scuffing/dusting.
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CA$17.70
Fahnestock's Pittsburgh Directory for 1850; containing the names of the inhabitants of Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Vicinity, their occupation, places of business and dwelling houses; also, a list of the public offices, banks, &c
by Fahnestock, Samuel
Pittsburgh: Geo. Parkin & Co, 1850. First Printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, publisher's cloth, recent cloth over spine, good copy, folding map present but detached; has some light tissue repairs to some tears and splits. With chromolithograph frontispiece advertising Schuchman's lithographic printing company, 118 pp, 3 plates of floor plans for the courthouse and jail, plus dozens of pages of advertising printed in various colors of ink. Uncommon!
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CA$242.02
Salvatore and Maria: Finding Paradise (Signed first edition)
by Gentile, Paul L
Huron, OH: Bottom Dog Press, 2015. First edition. Paperback. As New. 8vo, paperback. Illustrated in b&w. This copy is unread with author's signature to title page. Otherwise, contents are bright and clean. Family memoir of Italian immigrants who travel from Pacentro to Aliquippa, PA.
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CA$27.66
1919-1923 large volume of notes on titles, surveys, etc., for properties in Pittsburgh
by (Pittsburgh - Estates)
Hardcover. Good. The property of John P. Baker, 902 Union Arcade Building. Quarto, half leather, 300 pp, mainly all filled in with pencil notes on properties throughout Allegheny County, recording prices, transfers, lot sizes, sometimes with drawings and plans detailing the area and location of properties, all done in pencil. Baker was an attorney and was apparently a well established one in estate and property management. We have no idea whether he did these notes himself, or one of his clerks or...
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CA$276.60
The Relation of Art to Nature
by (Pittsburgh - Bruce Rogers) John W. Beatty
New York: William Rudge, 1922. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. One of 950 copies, designed by Bruce Rogers. Cloth backed boards, a nearly fine copy with top edges of pages uncut and unopened, in very good original plain dust jacket with light wear (and unfortunately, penned on spine by some previous owner, 'Bruce Rogers item'). Scarce in such condition, in even scarcer jacket. John W. Beatty was the Carnegie Museum's first director in Pittsburgh, friendly with Childe Hassam and others, and...
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CA$69.15
Besides, the Wench is Dead
by Ullin, Robert
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1935. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Very good, light wear and edgeloss to jacket, and slight abrasions to top edges of boards owner's name on flyleaf. Set in boardinghouse Pittsburgh, depression era novel of life dictated by the steel industry.
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CA$69.15
Address Delivered at the Opening of the Session in the Theological Seminary of the First Associate Reformed Synod of the West, November 10th, 1847
by Pressly, John T
PIttsburgh: William Allinder, 1847. First printing. Paperback. Good. Wraps, good with light wear and soil to covers, some chipping and loss to rear cover. 13 pp. With list of students enrolled at the seminary. Pressly was one of two full time faculty members there at the time. From the covenanter organization website: John Taylor Pressly (1795-1870) was born in Abbeville District, South Carolina, March 28, 1795. He graduated from Transylvania University, Kentucky, in 1812 and then went on to study...
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CA$41.49
Gedenkschrift zur einhundertfuenfund-zwanzig-jaehrigen Jubel-feier der Deutschen Ev. Prot. (Smithfield) Gemeinde zu Pittsburgh, Pa. (1907)
by Smithfield German Evangelical Protestant Church, Pittsburgh; Carl August Voss
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Print Co, 1907. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, turquoise-green cloth, very good, light soil and wear, with an inscription to W. J. Holland from the Church. 157 pp., illustrated. Holland, the recipient, was a friend of Andrews Carnegie and one of the first directors of the Carnegie Institute's collections and museums. A draft in German of his reply in thanks for this book is affixed to the verso of the flyleaf. Text of book in German, recounting its history from 1782...
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CA$69.15
North Braddock 1897-1997
by n/a
Braddock, PA: The Book Committee of the North Braddock Centennial, 1997. Paperback. Near fine. RARE! Printed paper wraps, quarto [8.5" x 11"], 96pp. + ads at rear, illustrated in b&w. Book has mild rubbing, wear to corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
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CA$110.64
Urban Redevelopment Authority, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania: 1960 Annual Report
by n/a
Pittsburgh: Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, 1960. Paperback. Near fine. Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, oblong quarto [11" X 8.5"], illustrated in b&w. Book has toning, hint of wear to corners, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
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CA$24.89
The Trust Company and the Individual
by Commonwealth Trust Company
Pittsburgh: Commonwealth Trust Company, 1904. Paperback. Fine. 1904. Wraps, 8vo. measures 6.5 by 8.5 inches. 14pp. with photographic illustrations. Fine. Of local interest.
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CA$36.30
An Original Exhibition of Some of the Difficulties of Westminster Calvinism
by Jimeson, M. P
Pittsburgh: N. M. Poindexter, 1845. Hardcover. Good. Small 8vo, cloth backed boards, good copy, solidly bound, light wear and rubbing to binding, lacking paper spine label, contents very good, endpapers foxed, light occasional foxing to text, rear flyleaf with some loss and light staining to outer edges of last few pages. 133 pp, index. OCLC records six copies in libraries including Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and AAS.
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CA$103.72
