(Wilmington, DE): The Delaware Genealogical Society, (2013). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 487, (3) pages. Table of contents, introduction, select bibliography, index. A compendium of Delaware families based on research of members of the Delaware Genealogical Society. Maps. READ MORE about DELAWARE FAMILIES 1787-1800
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 135031
(Dover, DE: Delaware State Highway Department), n.d. 8vo. embossed cloth. variously paginated. Reports of the Delaware State Highway Department during the time frame of an ambitious effort to improve Delaware's highway system. Includes numerous financial statements and reports. Black and white illustrations throughout. Foxing on title. READ MORE about STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT REPORTS 1917 1928
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 135037
Wilmington, DE: H. & E.F. James, 1869. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 87+(1) pages. Lists of trustees, officers, visiting committee, and faculty. Includes a report of the Wilmington, Delaware, Board of Public Education, lists of students at Wilmington public schools, and rules for the government of the schools. Wrappers torn. READ MORE about THIRD ANNUAL REPORT AND CATALOUE OF THE STATE NORMAL UNIVERSITY, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135027
London, UK: Printed by J. M'Creery, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1815. large 12mo. full leather, four raised bands, gilt on spine. 128 pages. Extra pictorial title. Sixth edition. Text decorated with wood cuts. Spine separated, yet present. A lovely little book. READ MORE about BROAD GRINS; COMPRISING, WITH NEW ADDITIONAL TALES IN VERSE, THOSE FORMERLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 135022
(Baltimore, MD): Clearfield, (2008). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 9+(1) pages. Introduction by the author, list of shipping links, list of abbreviations. An alphabetical list of Dutch colonists to New Netherland in North America, Dutch colonies in the Caribbean and Surinam. Lists information such as dates, occupation, and religious affiliation when known. Black and white illustrations including frontispiece map of Paramaribo, Surinam. READ MORE about DUTCH COLONISTS IN THE AMERICAS 1615-1815
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135033
New York: Kunst Editions NY, n.d. 13"x 8" x 3 3/4" wooden box with wood veneer label. Limited to an edition of 36 signed and numbered copies of which this is one of 26 in the semi-deluxe edition. Arnon Grunberg, novelist, poet, playwright, and wunderkind of Dutch literature, won international fame for his debut novel written in 1993 when he was but twenty-two. Now living in New York, he has expanded his repertoire to include..... READ MORE about DRINK, A LOT OF WHITE WINE - VEEL WITTE WIJN
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 69938
(Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000). 8vo. paper covered boards. (x), 392 pages. B3-1999-2000. First edition. Biographical and genealogical information. Fine condition. READ MORE about FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS OF MARYLAND AND DELAWARE FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO 1810
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 99030
London: William Hone, 1823. 8vo. later cloth spine with original cloth covers preserved, new endpapers. Frontispiece; (iv), 300 pages. Contains numerous mysteries taken from old black letter books. Includes excerpts taken from various English plays. With engravings on copper and wood. Two engravings lacking (facing p. 263 and p. 270). Upper spine splitting. Light rubbing to extremities. White spotting to the rear panel. Bookplate on front pastedown of Edward Sothern Hipp. READ MORE about ANCIENT MYSTERIES DESCRIBED, ESPECIALLY THE ENGLISH MIRACLE PLAYS, FOUNDED ON APOCRYPHAL NEW...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 54227
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, (1974). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 199+(1) pages. Preface by the author, table of contents, selected bibliography, index. A discussion of prison problems by one with experience in the corrections field. READ MORE about PRISON LIFE AND HUMAN WORTH
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 135026
(Binghamton, NY): The Haworth Information Press, 2006. 8vo. illustrated paper-covered boards. xx, 256 pages. Table of contents, preface, index. A collection of essays dealing with bookbinding, conservation, and publishing. Color and black and white illustrations. READ MORE about THE CHANGING BOOK: TRADITIONS IN DESIGN, PRODUCTION, AND PRESERVATION
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 135008
N.P. n.p., 1986. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 97-106, 141-176a, (5) pages. Reprinted from the Swedish American Genealogist VI:3 and 4 (September and December 1986). Nordström's article translated from the Swedish by Richard H. Hulan. Craig's article signed by the author. Index. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about OLOF STILLE IN NEW SWEDEN and THE STILLE FAMILY IN NORTH AMERICA
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135029
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, (2011). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 358 pages. Acknowledgments, table of contents, introduction, epilogue, three appendices. A memoir by a three-time U.S. Senate candidate in Delaware. Color illustrations. READ MORE about TROUBLEMAKER: LET'S DO WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135036
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1927). 8vo. cloth. (vi), 305, (5) pages. First edition. READ MORE about TO-MORROW MORNING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68455
Warminster, PA: Cooke Publishing Company, (2006). 8vo. cloth. x, 598 pages. Signed by the author on title. First edition. Author's introduction, table of contents, index, biographical sketch of the author. Black and white illustrations. A sequel to an earlier work by the author on Roman Catholics on the Delmarva peninsula. READ MORE about CATHOLICS IN EARLY U.S. DELMARVA
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 135034
London, UK: J. Sharpe, 1809. 8vo. leather, five raised bands, all edges marbled. 349 pages. Later printing (first printing was 1805) of this title. A Poem By Walter Scott, Esq Illustrated With Engravings From The Designs Of Richard Westall. Leather boards scuffed at edges. Spine lacking the upper and lower portions. Front and rear covers are separated, yet present. READ MORE about THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 135021
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, (2010). thick 8vo. cloth. xiv, 353 pages. First edition, fourth printing. A companion volume to two earlier volumes on textual criticism by the author. Eight essays on the subject originally published from 1971 to 1983. READ MORE about TEXTUAL CRITICISM AND SCHOLARLY EDITING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135020
10 Volumes.
London, England: Henry Colburn, 1845. 8vo. later leather, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. variously paginated. 10 Volumes. 20 volumes in 10. Translated from the French and edited by D. Forbes Campbell. Editor's preface, table of contents in each volume. Author was Premier of France in the early years of the Third Republic, and a member of the Académie Française. Frontispiece portrait of the author in first volume. Later binding by Roof and Sons of London..... READ MORE about HISTORY OF THE CONSULATE AND THE EMPIRE OF FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON FORMING A SEQUEL TO "THE...
Price: $500.00 Order nr. 134997
(Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1993). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 122 pages. Facsimile reprint from the Army and Navy Journal,, November 13, 1880. Preface by Donald Odell Virdin, table of contents. Black and white portrait of Gen. Tobert. READ MORE about MAJOR GENERAL ALFRED THOMAS ARCHIMEDES TORBERT: DELAWARE'S MOST FAMOUS CIVIL WAR HERO
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 135038
(Newark, DE: College of Education, University of Delaware, 1968). 8vo. cloth. xii, 99+(1) pages. Dedication, foreword by George H. Henry, The story of the role of Service Citizens of Delaware in shaping the state's public education system from 1919 through the 1920s. Letter from then Director of Alumni and Public Relations Elbert Chance laid in. READ MORE about THE STORY OF DELAWARE'S EFFORT TO AWAKEN ALL OF HER PEOPLE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135028
Ithaca, NY: (Elfriede Abbe, 1958). folio. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards. (iv), 42 pages. Limited to 135 numbered copies. Woodcut illustrations by Elfriede Abbe. Woodcuts and chapter initials printed from the original blocks. Printed on Taireishi paper. Covers sunned at edges. Front and back inside hinge cracked, leaves separating from spine. READ MORE about THE REVELATION OF JOHN THE DIVINE
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 135085
Chelsea, London, England: Ashendene Press, 1903. 8vo. limp vellum. 48 pages. One of 150 copies, printed in 'Subiaco' type, with one initial in red, on Japanese paper. With the famous woodcut frontispiece of a man fishing and decorations after the text of Wynkyn de Worde in 'The Boke of St. Alban's empynted at Westmester in the yere of thyncarnacion of our Lorde mcccclxxxxvi (1496 by St. John Hornby and Meysey Turton. Fine textual illustrations throughout..... READ MORE about A TREATYSE OF FYSSHYNGE WYTH AN ANGLE
Price: $2,250.00 Order nr. 134846
Shelly House, Chelsea: The Ashendene Press, 1930. folio. full white pigskin with seven raised bands. (ii), 363+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 260 copies by St. John Hornby at the Ashendene Press. (Hornby, no.37; Franklin, pp.170-173). Spine showing only the slightest hint of age darkening. Corners lightly bumped and worn (not through to the boards though). Very intermittent spotting to the front and rear covers. An absolutely beautiful copy. Translated from the original..... READ MORE about HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
Price: $4,000.00 Order nr. 44089
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 8vo. cloth. 188 pages. This work is the third volume in the series, The Bible as Book. It investigates the rich history of the Bible during the turbulent years of the Protestant Reformation era. Bible as Book was sponsored by the Van Kampen Foundation and The Scriptorium: Center for Christian Antiquities. This collection of essays originated at a conference held at Hampton Court, Hereford, England. Bumped at corner..... READ MORE about THE BIBLE AS BOOK: THE REFORMATION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 108156
Toronto, ON, Canada: The Canadian Bookbinders and Artists Guildq, 1993. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 128 pages. Text in English and French. Commemorates the guild's tenth anniversary. Table of contents, foreword by Alan Horne, essay by Diana Patterson, artists' statements. Color illustrations and descriptive text about each entry. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK '93
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135050
(San Francisco, CA): The Book Club of California, 2008. 4to. two foldouts in envelope. unpaginated. Foldout, with color illustration, catalogue of selected works. A second foldout with biographical sketch of Fisher. READ MORE about DELICIOUS OBSESSION: COLLECTING THE WORKS OF MFK FISHER A CENTENARY SHOW OF BOOKS, PERIODICALS...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 135043
