Search Results: Local History from Brillig Books

Greensburg, PA: Westmoreland County Museum of Art, 1959. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Quarto, tan flexible stiff boards. 105 text pages by Paul A. Chew. perhaps the most knowledgable historian of Pennsylvania art. Follow by 211 black and whtie plates. A square, crisp, clean, unmarked volume. FINE. SCARCE in this excellent condition..

Kennikat Press, 1970. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition Thus. Octavo, brick red cloth covered boards with gilt spine title on black label. 664 pp. including index. A facsimile of the first edition of 1850. A very tight, clean, bright volume with very fresh cloth and sparkling gilt. Interior is bright white, crisp, sharp unmarked pages. Faint line and small abrasion on ffep and title page where pages were lightly stuck. A quite minor flaw. Very near fine, without dust jacket (as issued). A great copy which looks like new..

New York: Hastings House, 1957. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. First Printing. Quarto, black cloth covered boards with blindstamp decoraction and yellow spine titles. Illustrated endpapers. 153 pp Compiled under the auspices of the Maryland Historical Society. SIGNED BY AUTHOR Francis F. Beirne on verso of free front endpaper. Also SIGNED by James W. Foste, Director of the Maryland Hisorical Society. rVery generously illustrated throughout with vintage historic black and white photographs, maps and reproductions of early paintings and engravings. An excellent volume with very fresh, clean cloth, tight, bright, unmarked and apparently unread, in a clean, tight, sharp, unclipped dust jacket with a closed edge tear at rear spine corner and rear forecorner and a touch of light edgewear at rear bottom panel. Fine in very good plus dust jacket. A great copy with a scarce combination of signatures..

Harrisburg, PA: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs, 1966. Book. Fine. Wrappers in Portfolio. First Edition. Octavo, grey stiff wraps (paperback). 111 pp. including references. Illustrated with 19 figs.and maps, plus 3 large foldinig maps (Bedrock Geology of the McConnelsburg 7 1/2 Quadrangle [color], Geologic cross sections of the Mc Connellsburg quandrangle [color] and Surficial geology of the McConnellsburg quandrangle). Housed in grey cloth covered slipcase with spine title. A very crisp, tight, square, stiff, crisp, internally clean, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine and a 1" strip of light toning down fore edge of front wrap, All three maps fine, crisp, and apparently never unfolded. Surficial map has a strip of toning on one section correspongind to the cover of thre pamphlet. A near fine pamphlet with very near fine map set in near fine slipcase. UNCOMMON..

New York: Rinehart & Company, 1952. Book. Illus. by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, red cloth with gilt spine titles. 239 pp. including index. A tight, clean, unmarked volume with fresh, unblemished crisp interior. Slightly dulled spine else fine. Near fine. Uncommon..

Uniontown, PA: Heritage, 1975. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition Thus. Reprint edition. Octavo, black cloth covered boards. 266 pp. including selected bibliography. Illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams of coke ovens. The gritty down to earth story of coal mining, coke production and steel making along with the lives and struggles of the workers of Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania. A very bright, clean, tight volume with sparkling title gilt and fresh deep black cloth, completely unmarked and unblemished, in a tight, crisp, bright dust jacket with very minor edgewear at spine top and two inconspicuos small edge nicks. Very fine in near fine dust jacket. A virtually as new volume in a great dust jacket..

Bloomsburg, PA: Andre J. Dominguez, 1999. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. First printing. Quarto, original turquoise cloth covered boards. 882pp. including index and references. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A detailed genealogical study. A perfect unread volume. AS NEW. NO RETURNS ON GENEALOGY BOOKS..

Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, 1976, 1976. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, green cloth covered boards with gilt seal and gilt spine title. 178pp. including checklist. A bibliographicallhy detailed descriptive catalogue of the holdings of maps, charts etc. by the official Pennsylvania State Archives. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, fresh, bright dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually AS NEW. SCARCE..

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1936. Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth covered boards with red title decoration and spine titles. Map endpapers. 592pp. Top edge stained red. FIRST ISSUE with "Published May 1936" on copyright page. An excellent copy with clear red solid titles and only nominal dulling to covers and a couple of tiny spots of soil. Top edge rather faded. Printed book plate on front pastedown. A very attractive copy with very minor faults and scarce in the first issue. Very good plus to near fine..

Pittsburgh, PA: Self-published, 1992. Book. As New. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Quarto, pale blue wraps in black plastic coil binding. 107 pp. including index and selected bibliography. SIGNED BY McCOY on title page. A perfect, fresh, bright, unmarked and unblemished volume. Pristine. AS NEW..

South Brunswick and New York: A.S. Barnes, 1980. Book. Fine. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, charcoal gray cloth covered boards with silver spine titles. Map endpapers. 277 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR MARCIA BONTA. A personal memoir of Marcia Bonta's return to the land; specifically the mountain farm which she discovered in an isolated corner of Pennsylvania. Like Aldo Leopold, Ms. Bonta gives an authentic lyrical record of her experience of living with the land. This volume is tight and clean, with fresh cloth and sparkling spine titles. The interior is bright white, unmarked, unblemished and apparently unread. In a tight, very good dust jacket, with the dollar price-clipped but not the British price clipped. A couple of small edge nicks and a touch of rubbing. Fine in very good dust jacket. SCARCE SIGNED..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). Later Printing. Later printing. Octavo, grey cloth with green tittle iside the light outline of a pickle and light greenand silver spine titles. 297 pp. including iindex, bibliography and notes, Illustrated with 45 black and white photographs including a frontispiece of founder of H. J. Heinz company, Henry Heinz and including his early relatives and officers of the firm, his grand mansion, photographs of the employees at work in the first plant, sdevertising ephemera, and an interesting photograph of a huge electric sign occupying most of the side of a building in New York, which was erected in 1900 and said to be New York's first large electric sign. BOLDLY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON THE HALF-TITLE BY BOTH THE AUTHOR ROBERT C. ALBERTS AND HIS WIFE ZITA D. ALBERTS. "To Mary Patricia Smith on the occasion of her marriage, January 12, 1974, from Robert C. Alberts and Zita D. Alberts her first sousins once… Read More

Waterbury Center, VT: Green Mountain Club, 1985. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. Small quarto, sky blue cloth covered boards with gilt spine title. 96 pp. Illustrated throughout with vintage black and white and sepia photographs and maps. A tribute to this very old and historic hiking trail in the Green Mountains of Vermont. A tight, clean volume with very fresh cloth and sparkling spine gilt, unmarked and unread in a very tight, crisp, sharp, fresh unclipped dust jacket. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Flawless. AS NEW..

New York: Basic Books, 1978. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth covered boards. 276 pp. including index. An historical novel about the massacre of the workers of Lattimer Mine, Pennsylvania and a watershed in union organizing for the Slovak, Polish and Hungarian coal miners of the deep anthracite mines. A beautiful collector's copy. Very tight, clean, bright, unmarked volume with very fresh cloth, in a crisp, sharp, tight, sparkling dust jacket protected in a mylar protector. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Flawless. AS NEW..

Pittsburgh, PA: Self-published, 2003. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Quarto, white printed stiff wraps (paperback). 68 pp. including bibliography and acknowledgments plus biographical note on the author. Generously illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs, facsimile documents and a map. The story of Dr. Buchanan's experiences doing relief work at the Hopital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti. With a lengthy INSRCIPTION and SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A tight, clean, fresh, crisp, square, unmarked and apparently unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. FINE. Uncommon..

Claremont, N.H.: Printed For The Town Claremont Manufacturing, 1876. Book. Fine. Full Leather. First Edition. First Edition. Thick quarto, full navy blue morocco with gilt decorative borders and corner stamps, gilt spine titles and decorations and gilt dentelles. Decorative endpapers in navy blue with small white diamonds and a curious mottled silvering. 726 pp. including index and extensive Historical Miscellaney which includes rolls of citizens on an annual basis since the founding. Illustrated with 23 full page black and white photographs, (6 buildings, 7 landscapes and 10 portraits of leading citizens). An excellent source for genealogical studies as well as a complete history of a New England township for the first century of its history from the American Revolution. A very nice, clean, solid volume with excellent attractive smooth and almost completely unblemished leather and clear bright, gilt decorations and titles. A handful of tiny neat pencil notations, and a couple of small spots of foxing… Read More

Philadelphia: Unigraphic, 1976. Book. As New. Cloth. Very thick quarto, maroon buckram with gilt spine titles. 727pp. plus a 113 page index. A facsimile edition of the 1882 edition. Illustrated with engravings, portraits and maps. A history of the early days of this important Western Pennsylvania County and its community from the revolution through the Whiskey Rebellion and the Civil War including prominent families from German, Scotcth-Irish and French Huguenot extraction. A very tight, clean volume with very fresh cloth and a pristine, bright, fresh, crisp, unmarked, unread and unblemished interior. VERY FINE. Flawless. AS NEW..

Houston, TX: ttweak LLC, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong octavo, black coated paper covered boards with black and white photographic HIWI letters across the front and full tilte on spine in white. 303 pp. A diverse, colorful, unconventional photographic tour of Houston, TX her buildings, neighborhoods, people and events. On the model of the "Day In Life" photo books but more whimsical. A tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unblemished copy. No dust jacket (as issued). FINE.l.

Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, 1967. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Imperial octavo, tan cloth covered boards. 294 pp. including index and section of black and white maps. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of historic buildings, public, commercial and residentiall by some of the most renowned American architects. An essential record of landmarke architecture in the City of Pittsburgh and the surrounding County of Allegheny. A very tight, clean, unmarked and unblemished volume in a tight, bright, dustd jacket with one short closed edge tear and some light edgewear. Fine in very good plus to near fine dust jacket. UNCOMMON..

Praha: Gallery, 2000. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Quarto, black and white photo-illustrated stiff wraps (trade paperback). 181 pp. including colophon. Translated from the original Czech by Barbara Day and Gerald Turner. A very comprehensive treatment of the history, traditions, living conditions, trades, music, lifestyle and culture of (especially) the Roma (more often known as "gypsies") of Czechoslovakia. Very generously illustrated throughout with striking black and white modern and vintage photographs of the Roma in their indigenous conditions. Many full page and a few double page edge to edge photographs mostly by Jindrich Streiy and Eva Davidova plus a number of vintage photographs and even some musical scores of traditional Roma songs. A series of essays on the various facets of Roma life from music, to crafts and even diet. A very scarce intimate look into an infamously closed and self-protective culture. A very tight, clean, fresh, stiff, crisp, unmarked, unread volume… Read More