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HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 1933.* Pub: F.G. Longman.* Binding and cover condition: Beige cloth covered boards with black title to face. Yellow cloth spine strip without title. No bumps, minimal wear at head and tail of spine. A few slight marks to boards, no other visible faults. VG+* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper as issued. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning. Some age darkening to top edge. VG++* Illustrations: Several b/w line drawings and photos within text.* Pages: 97 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: First developed as a series of talks on "Memorials of Wessex" broadcast from the Bournemouth Station of the BBC in 1926 and a paper read to the South Dorset branch of the Historical Association, the object was not to write a guidebook but to connect events with sites, buildings, ruins and other objects which survive in our… Read More

Chicago: Loree Company, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, 226,,16 pages, maroon cloth. Scarce. Inked name The American Aerial County History Series Indiana No. 1. "This is the first of a group of new-style Indiana county histories which will eventually include all of the 92 counties of the Hoosier State. Drury was a famed Chicago newspaperman and historian." Addendum of A BRIEF HISTORY OF INDIANA. By Donald F. Carmony and Howard H. Peckham. Fourth edition, illustrated by Clotilde Embree Funk. The main text is llustrated with maps and photographs of farms, also major county buildings.

Chicago: William Le Baron, Jr., 1879. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto; iv, 1078 pages, orignnal, stamped and bevelled covers, paper label remnants on front pastedown, later bookcloth tape on spine, titled on spine with embossed tapes; pencilled name on flyleaf of W. H. Anderson, Colfax, Illinois. [ Buck 939 ].

14 illus. & 11 maps With related papers compiled and edited by W. James MacDonald.The original edition, published in 1885 has been updated with appendices and footnotes. The dustjacket is decorated with a watercolour by Barry Gabriel based on a 19th century photo of South Haven.

Saint Jo, TX: Ipta Printers. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1957. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 184 pages; Dust jacket with chipping, light staining, rubbing and wear. Howes M731. Dust jacket has a mylar plastic cover around it that provides long term care, use as well as preservation. .

Edward Doty, Geneseo, 1876. 1st. hardcover. Lite to moderate wear at spine ends & corner tips, lite foxing on eps, a VG tight copy. 9 full page portraits.

Chicago: Biographical Publishing Company, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, 834 pages, bottom marginal tears to pages 513-522 (which had special interest to the prior owner), curios brown, powdery stains to some central pages, original covers, rebacked in 1959 with brown buckram with the original spine laid down. Surprisingly Rare. [ Buck 845 - citing only 1 location ] An excellent "mug book". Chock-a-block with portraits - including several women!! This work has been reprinted in this modern era, but the reprints do not do justice to these portraits of ancestors. Note: the first white settler in this county was a physician - but he had no one to dose! Includes a full-page lithograph portrait of Wa-bo-kies-shiek, or White Cloud, the Prophet of the Winnebagoes: the portrait faces his biography.