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Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, 2007. 224p., 11" x 8 1/2", boards, illustrated (most colored), fine. First edition. Signed by both authors. A documentary history of the phonograph. With a price guide.

Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 2001. 192p., 8 1/2" x 11", glossy pictorial boards, illustrated (most colored), dust jacket, vg. First edition. Signed by the authors on the title page. "A Schiffer Book for Collectors. With Price Guide." A visual study of phonograph design in the 20th century.

Chicago: Albert W. Landon, 1883. 95p, cloth, illus., covers worn and soiled, good+. Inscribed by the author. Stories and poems in support of the animal protective movement, with an opening chapter on the development of the Movement.

London: The Sylvan Press, 1945. 131p, cloth, illus., vg+ in dj. Later printing.

Paris: B. Le Franq, 1784. 204p, disbound, illus. (4 of 9 plates), spine broken, leaves loose, text worn, 5 plates missing, poor. 1st edition thus. See Blackwell's Catalogue 949, no. 704. The folded table is present. Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819) was a noted geologist and traveler, an expert on volcanoes. He took a great interest in the balloon experiments of the brothers Montgolfier and wrote this very comprehensive work about those experiments. In French.

Greenich, CT: Gold Medal Books, Fawcett Publications, 1959. 142p, paperback, light wear and browning of paper, very good. First printing.

Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1998. 255p, paperback, illustrated, very good. First paperback edition. Focuses on migration to Ashtabula County.

London: Holland Press, 1959. 2 volumes with various pagination, cloth, dampstained, good. 1 of 350 copies.

Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1890. 299p, cloth (probably rebound but not recently), inner hinges cracked, endpapers browned, good. Xlibrary. First edition. (Howes. U.S.IANA.) Munsell's Historical Series, No. 17. Contains much on Indian tribes, forts, settlements, etc.

2000. Ferrini, Bruce. BOOKS OF HOURS, Livres D'Heures. Akron, OH: By the Author, (2000). 157p, 10 1/2" X 8", cloth, color illustrations, fine. Text in English and French. Price list laid in.

1967. Fielding, Henry. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF HENRY FIELDING, ESQ. With an Essay on the Life, Genius and Achievement of the Author. By William Ernest Henley. NY: Barnes & Noble, (1967). 16 volumes, cloth, illustrated, name on endpapers, vg. a reprint of the New York 1902 edition. Contains Fieldings great novels, plays and poems, miscellaneous writings, and legal writings.

New York: David McKay, 1977. 226p, cloth, illus., very good in dust jacket with light edge wear.

J. F. Wright & L. Swormstedt. 432p, leather with new cloth spine, original label laid on, new endpapers, some wear to edges, foxing, signature of former owner on front fly leaf, good. First edition. USIANA F144. Finley was a famous Methodist circuit rider who served the Ohio Conference beginning in 1809. He was a missionary to the Wyandots from 1821 to 1829 and later served as chaplain of the Ohio Penitentiary.

1967. Firestone, Harvey S. Jr. MAN ON THE MOVE, The Story of Transportation. NY: Putnam, (1967). 318p, cloth, illustrated, a few small tears ti dust jacket edges, very good. First edition.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1968. 25p., cloth, color illus, near fine in price clipped dust jacket with very slight edge wear. First edition. Lovely color illustrations by Marie Angel.

Akron, OH: The Summit County Historical Society, 1982. 305p, cloth, illustrated, very good. Xlibrary- pocket on front free endpaper only. Barber founded the city of Barberton in 1890 and moved the Diamond Match Co. there in 1894.

New York: Abrams, 2007. 200p, 11 1/2" x 9", color pictorial softcover, color plates, fine. Index.

Hartford: Cooke and Co, 1833. JUVENILE, TEXTBOOK, SURVEYING, GEOMETRY, TRIGONOMETRY. Full leather, diagrams, pages damp stained with light foxing, cover worn, label on spine missing, book plate, fair. Seventh edition. Publisher Edward P. Cooke expanded on Flint's (1765-1825) original work to provide a practical handbook for surveyors.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. 380p, cloth, very good in dust jacket with faded spine. First edition thus. Edited with introduction by C. Harley Grattan. Reprint of the 1826 edition (USIANA F-204). Recollection of a missionary's travels from 1815-1825 up and down the Mississippi Valley. Excellent source of Midwest history with 1 chapter on Cincinnati.

1979. Floyd, Charles F. and Peter J. Shedd. HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION: The Tnvironmental Movement's Greatest Failure. 183p, cloth, illustrated, slight loosening, o/w vg. Bibliography.