Search Results: Titles starting with M from Michael Carroll Dooling

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

Boston: Bradlee Whidden, 1892. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains 338 pp. plus 10 pp. ads in rear, numerous b&w illustrations, some rubbing at extremities, previous owner's signature on front pastedown. A nice copy of this important book.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1874. Reprint . Blue Cloth. Good Plus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Contains 364 pp., top and bottom of spine worn, 1.5" split to upper front joint. This was a very popular title by Soyer who in the 1850s helped Florence Nightingale transform the health of the British and French troops in the Crimean War.

Tuskegee, Alabama: Tuskegee Institute Press, 1936. First Edition . Red Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains 170 pp., b&w illustrations, frontispiece has some light foxing which has offset onto title page; a nice, tight, bright copy.