GUIDE TO NANTUCKET by Massachusetts, Nantucket / Robinson, J.H - 1948

Hornellsville, NY: Tuttle & Bunnell, Printers, 1902. Original manuscript. Full-Leather. Good. pp: 45 + 97; engraving of locomotive. Bound in the original wallet-style case of cordovan leather; carried in a pocket and showing some signs of use. 6.5" x 4" Begins with 45 pages of printed text, "...giving the Proper Method of Firing both Bituminous and Anthracite Coal, together with Rules for Operating the Westinghouse Air & American Steam Brakes...also Rules regarding Accidents to the Locomotive." Following the text are 97 pages of handwritten time and cash accounts, kept by Engineer G.C. Northrop, giving day-by-day details of engine numbers, miles run, times, names of conductors and engineers/firemen, embarkation points and destinations. Also filled in is the section of cash accounts (dates, amounts owed and received, payees, etc.). Finally, several pages contain notes on railroad happenings in 1905-1906 (personnel hurt, killed, buried).

Philadelphia: Barker Moore & Mein Medicine Co.. Very Good+. ca. 1910. Softcover. No date: Ca: 1910. Clean soft pictorial covers with cloth spine. Text tight, clean & intact. . Pages lightly age toned. B/W drawing illustrations. Humor based on ethnic, racial or sexual stereotypes. Comic book filled with cartoons, stories & jokes - all have one of Barker's products as the punch line. Humor; B&W Drawing; Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Unpaginated pages .

New Orleans: Selbstverlage, 1897. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: (iv), 136, folding table at back. Spine neatly repaired, some edge wear to covers. Text in German. 9.25" x 6" The author of this history of the German society in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been described by scholars as the leader and "standard-bearer of culture for the German community of New Orleans.

Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 224pp; frontispiece, tissue guard. Blind-stamped, pictorial brick cloth, gilt-stamped spine; light wear to spine ends. 7.5" x 5" [Wright III, 6123: "Authorship not firmly established."].

New York: J.W. Schemerhorn & Co., 1870. Third edition. Hardcover. Fair. New York: J.W. Schemerhorn & Co., 1870. Third edition. Fair. Covers and spine are soiled and faded, a couple of tears in the cloth on the spine cover, bumping. Front hinge coming loose but pages tight in binding, some foxing to contents.

Hornellsville, NY: Tuttle & Bunnell, Printers, 1902. Original manuscript. Full-Leather. Good. pp: 45 + 97; engraving of locomotive. Bound in the original wallet-style case of cordovan leather; carried in a pocket and showing some signs of use. 6.5" x 4" Begins with 45 pages of printed text, "...giving the Proper Method of Firing both Bituminous and Anthracite Coal, together with Rules for Operating the Westinghouse Air & American Steam Brakes...also Rules regarding Accidents to the Locomotive." Following the text are 97 pages of handwritten time and cash accounts, kept by Engineer G.C. Northrop, giving day-by-day details of engine numbers, miles run, times, names of conductors and engineers/firemen, embarkation points and destinations. Also filled in is the section of cash accounts (dates, amounts owed and received, payees, etc.). Finally, several pages contain notes on railroad happenings in 1905-1906 (personnel hurt, killed, buried).

Philadelphia: Barker Moore & Mein Medicine Co.. Very Good+. ca. 1910. Softcover. No date: Ca: 1910. Clean soft pictorial covers with cloth spine. Text tight, clean & intact. . Pages lightly age toned. B/W drawing illustrations. Humor based on ethnic, racial or sexual stereotypes. Comic book filled with cartoons, stories & jokes - all have one of Barker's products as the punch line. Humor; B&W Drawing; Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Unpaginated pages .

New Orleans: Selbstverlage, 1897. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: (iv), 136, folding table at back. Spine neatly repaired, some edge wear to covers. Text in German. 9.25" x 6" The author of this history of the German society in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been described by scholars as the leader and "standard-bearer of culture for the German community of New Orleans.

Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 224pp; frontispiece, tissue guard. Blind-stamped, pictorial brick cloth, gilt-stamped spine; light wear to spine ends. 7.5" x 5" [Wright III, 6123: "Authorship not firmly established."].

New York: J.W. Schemerhorn & Co., 1870. Third edition. Hardcover. Fair. New York: J.W. Schemerhorn & Co., 1870. Third edition. Fair. Covers and spine are soiled and faded, a couple of tears in the cloth on the spine cover, bumping. Front hinge coming loose but pages tight in binding, some foxing to contents.