Search Results: Authors starting with D from Michael Carroll Dooling

Saint Paul: White Pine Bureau, 1923. Printed Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume IX, Number 6 of this important publication. Bound in stiff printed wraps, b&w illustrations, 16 pp., minor soiling. Contains architectural information relating to Canterbury, Connecticut.

The Carrollton Press, 2009. First Edition . Illustrated Softcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Milford: Lost & Found re-discovers events that have been either lost in the dustbin of history or simply forgotten with the passage of generations and time. Some are historic, others just plain fun. All deserve to be remembered. Why were plays, novels, and romances banned from a Milford library? How did Milford receive the nickname "Sleepy Hollow"? What role did Welch's Point play in the history of camping? Why was the beach at Smith's Point once transformed into a desert, complete with camels? How did a constable cause a stir with fans before the Yale - Harvard football game in 1906? Why did boys from the Milford School parade downtown in their pajamas? Who was Laura of Lauralton Hall fame? When did Milford pass a modesty law requiring women to cover up on their way to and from the beach? What amusement sensation made its state debut here in 1939? Who… Read More

Warner-Lambert Company, 1994. First Edition . Illustrated Blue Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains 34 pp., monotone and color illustrations; traces the history of shaving, Schick Razor, Wilkinson Sword, the technology of making modern shaving systems; dermatological factors - hair, skin & pseudo-folliculitis barbae (ingrown hairs); shaving hints, care of razors. A fascinating look at shaving (if I do say so myself). SIGNED by Author on title page. This was written for Schick and Wilkinson Sword after Warner-Lambert acquired Wilkinson.

Carrollton Press, 2014. First Edition . Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains 193 pp., 50 illustrations (many in color or sepia). In 1854, a young man named Aaron H. Wood from Swansea, Massachusetts left the comfort of his family and farm and embarked on a lifetime journey. With William R. Gardner as master of the new clipper ship Monarch of the Sea, Aaron's maiden voyage brought him to the Black Sea at the height of the Crimean War. In his handwritten journal Aaron described life aboard ship, the Crimean battlefields, and a naval assault that used shell guns and iron-sided vessels for the first time. Over the next thirty years, Aaron sailed from one port to the next, eventually becoming master of his own sailing ships. As the ship's captain, he was accompanied by his wife Isabel and they raised their family at sea. Their son Oscar sailed around Cape Horn fourteen times by the time he was eight years old. Isabel's letters describe in great detail what it was like living for months… Read More

New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1915. Gilt & Blindstamped Red Cloth. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Printed from the Second Edition, 4to, bound in gilt-stamped red cloth, contains 20 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac, spine slightly faded, minor wear.