HARPER'S POPULAR CYCLOPAEDIA OF UNITED STATES HISTORY FROM THE ABORIGINAL PERIOD, ETC. Two Volumes by Lossing, Benson J - 1893

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).

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Very hard to find First Edition of this work in half red Morroco over marbled boards. Usually found in green decorated cloth boards. Gilt stamped titles and spine decoration. Top of pages gilt. Inside pastedowns and flyleaves also marbled. Six full page illustrations protected by tissue guards. Not paginated. Previous owners' signature and stamp on the first plain flyleaf, otherwise clean and unmarked internals. Except for slight shelfwear and scuffing of cover edges, in fine condition. Binding is square and tight.

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.

Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.

Never Say Die say Damn. From the writings of Maureen Hathaway. Buzza Motto 1925 .4,5x7.5

Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.: Traditional Publishers, 1988. Book. VG. Hardcover. Signed By 2 of 4 Authors. Limited/Numbered. The book is brown faux leather with gilt titles. The only defect to note is small bump on the front edge. The DJ has shelf wear and small tears. The book is SIGNED BY AUTHORS Bonnie Speer and Micah Smith on the Limited Edition page. This is book number 341 of a Limited, Deluxe Edition of 500 copies. Front end page is decorated with a map of the Five Civilized Tribe Territories and the back end page is a map of Cleveland County. There are numerous black and white maps, illustrations and photos. The author brings the history of this county to life..

Huntsville, AL: Strode Publishers. 1979. Third Printing. Hardcover. 0873970896 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. ; Signed and inscribed by author; B&W Illustrations and photographs; 158 pages; Signed by Author .

ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.

This volume contains a record of the "happenings" at a little white schoolhouse on two days separated by 50 years. It also includes letters from the "outside world" and contributed accounts of blizzards, storms grasshopper blights and fires. Acknowledgements made to local residents for pictures and stories.. special recognition to University Publishing Co.,Lincoln, NE for the use " Nebraska Old and New"and to the Rev Wesley children for use of their book, "A Frontier Life"

Farm land sales crowd on foot and in buggies