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  • U. S. Navy Department:  Report on Experiments in Boiler Bracing.  Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1879. First Edition, First printing. Good+ in purple, pebbled cloth covered boards with gilt text on the front board. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is heavily worn and rubbed. Without a dust jacket probably as issued. An octavo measuring just shy of 9" tall by 5 3/4" deep. 23 pages of text and tables followed by 45 fold-out isometric drawings.
    TB21310  $50.00



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    U.S. Army War College:  Historical Statements Concerning The Battle of Kings Mountain and The Battle of The Cowpens, South Carolina.  Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1928. First Edition. Fine in blue, ribbed cloth covered boards with gilt embossed borders and gilt text on the front board and blind embossed borders on the rear board. A small quarto of 10 by 6 3/4 inches with the boards very slightly bowed and faint spots of foxing to the lower edge of the text block. The contents are clean, tight and neat with no prior ownership markings of any kind. Without a dust jacket and perhaps as issued. [78] pages followed by three fold-out maps and three plates of images from black and white photographs. (Gephart, 6681)
    TB32163  $150.00



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    U.S. Department of Commerce:  United States Coast Pilot Alaska Part I Dixon Entrance To Kakutat Bay.  Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1943. Ninth Edition of 1943. Very good+ in light green cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and front board. A small quarto of 10 by 7 inches with the cloth on the spine faded, stains on the front and rear boards and a prior owner's name on the first free end page. Without a dust jacket. 466 pages of text and illustrated with 5 fold-out charts.
    TB31945  $20.00



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    Ubbelohde, Carl:  The Vice-Admiralty Courts and the American Revolution.  Williamsburg and Chapel Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1960. First Edition. Near fine in dark blue, smooth cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches with only a touch of rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and with a prior owner's, signed book plate on the front free end page. Without a dust jacket. 242 pages including an index and a bibliography. The history of Admiralty Courts goes back as far as the 1400's. It was a separate branch of the courts system in many European countries. They were used to adjudicate disputes over shipping, ships and collisions and their most illustrious work were the settlement of claims against ships and cargos taken during a time of war.
    TB32863  $65.00



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    Uncle Philip [Francis Lister Hawks]:  Sunday Evenings; or, An Easy Introduction To The Reading Of The Bible Part I..  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. Harper's Stereotype Edition. Very good+ in slightly faded brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine showing it as volume 4 in the Boy's and Girl's Library. A 24mos measuring 6" by 3 1/2" with light foxing throughout and with soiling to the end sheets and to the rear board. Without a dust jacket. 199 pages of text followed by a four page ad for other books in the series. Illustrated with a frontispiece, an engraved title page an numerous engravings within the text.
    TB26262  $75.00



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    Uncle Philip [Francis Lister Hawks]:  Sunday Evenings; or, An Easy Introduction To The Reading Of The Bible Part II..  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. Harper's Stereotype Edition. Very good+ in slightly faded brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine showing it as volume 13 in the Boy's and Girl's Library. A 24mos measuring 6" by 3 1/2" with light foxing throughout and with soiling to the end sheets and to the rear board. Without a dust jacket. 207 pages of text followed by an eight page ad for other books in the series. Illustrated with a frontispiece, an engraved title page an numerous engravings within the text.
    TB26263  $75.00



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    Uncle Philip [Francis Lister Hawks]:  History of the United States: No. III. or, Uncle Philip's Conversations With The Children About Massachusetts (volume I only).  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. First Edition. Very near fine in dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine showing it as volume 29 in the Boy's and Girl's Library. A 24mos measuring 6" by 3 1/2" with light foxing throughout with an early gift inscription on the front paste down. Without a dust jacket. This title consists of two volumes (29 and 30). This is volume I only of this set. 213 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece, an engraved title page and one engraving within the text.
    TB26261  $60.00




  • United States Department of Commerce and the Civil Aeronautics Administration:  Fundamentals of Elementary Flight Maneuvers (Civil Aeronautics Bulletin No. 32 June 1943).  Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1943. First Edition, First printing. Good in stapled heavy paper covers with a stapled and braided cord binding. The corners of the covers are heavily worn, creased and chipped and show mild dampness staining. The title page shows a column of numbers in ink and a number of the pages in the body of the text have folded corners. Nevertheless, all pages are present. A small quarto containing 82 pages of text illustrated with line drawings and cartoons.
    TB22103  $10.00



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    United States Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, Inc.:  United States Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, Inc. Manufacturers of Sporting and Defensive Arms.  Hartford, Conn.: United States Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, Inc., c 1998 revised Jan. 1998. Fifth Anniversary Edition, Revised Jan. 1998. Fine in heavy, black paper wraps over a double stapled binding with metallic red text on the front cover. An oblong octavo of 8 1/2 by 11 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 64 pages of text and illustrated throughout from black and white and color photographs.
    TB30861  $45.00



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    United States Senate:  Trial Of Andrew Johnson President Of The United States, Before The Senate Of The United States. On Impeachment By The House Of Representatives For High Crimes And Misdemeanors.  Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1868. First Edition. All three volumes of this complete set are in very good to good condition in their original stamped, black and brown cloth covered boards with the remnants of gilt text on the spines. Each is an octavo of 8 3/4 by 5 3/4 inches with heavy wear and rubbing to the cloth at the heads and heels of the spines. The front and rear end sheets for all three volumes show spots of foxing. The cloth of volume II is worn at the front joint with no weakness to the hinge itself and there is a 1/2 inch deep chip to the cloth at the head of the spine. Volume III has had the backstrip of the spine professionally replaced. Volume I contains 741 pages of text which includes an index to this volume only. Volume II contains 498 pages of text which includes an index to the first two volumes. And, volume III contains 401 pages of text. With an index for all three volumes at the front of this volume.
    TB32450  $225.00



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    United States War Department:  Regulations For The Army Of The United States.  New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1857. First Edition. Very good in its original vertically ribbed, dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and elaborate blind embossing on the front and rear boards. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 4 1/2 inches with the cloth worn through at the head and heel of the spine, soiling to the upper quarter of the front and rear boards with occasional foxing throughout. Without a dust jacket. 457 pages of text followed by an appendix of 21 pages. The page following the title page states that these regulations have been approved by the President of the United States and is published over the name of "Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War". The verso of that page contains errata. At least half of the content contains examples of the forms the Army is to use.
    TB30780  $90.00



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    Unknown:  A New Plan of ye Great Town of Boston in New England in America With The Many Additional Buildings & New Streets to the Year 1760.  n. p.: not stated, . Facsimile Reproduction. A fine map of the town of Boston, reproduced from an engraving in the collection of Ambassador and Mrs. J. William Middendorf, II. The sheet measures 22 1/2 by 17 1/2 inches and the image measures roughly 20 1/4 by 15 inches. An extremely detailed map showing streets, wharves, houses and buildings. This image is ready for matting and framing and will be shipped in a reinforced mailing tube.
    TB23435  $75.00




  • Unknown artist:  A Plan of the River St. Lawrence, from the Falls of Montmorenci to Sillery; with the Operations of the Siege of Quebec.  London: London Magazine, 1760. . A fine, uncolored map measuring 6 7/8 by 9 1/2 inches, professionally matted and framed. The outside measurements of the frame are 15 3/8 by 17 1/4 inches. The map is extremely detailed showing lines of fire on Quebec from the southern shore of the St. Lawrence, fleet locations for Admiral Homes' Division, Admiral Suanders' Division, General Wolfe's incampment as well as the French incampments. In the upper corner of the map is an inset titled "A Plan of the Action Gained by the English near Quebec, Sep. 13, 1759". Printed for the London Magazine.
    TB29122  $350.00



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    Unknown Photographer:  Photograph of Henry Whitfield House, Guilford, Connecticut.  n.p.: unknown publisher, circa 1930s. . A near fine, original, black and white photograph of the Henry Whitfield House which is the oldest house in Connecticut as well as New England's oldest stone house. It was built in 1639, has undergone restoration and is now owned by the State of Connecticut as a museum. The photo dates from approximately the late 1930's. There is a slight blemish in the upper right of the image of the building in the sky area. And, the lower corner was cut and has been repaired. It is mounted on heavy card stock and measures 13 7/8 by 10 15/16 inches edge to edge.
    TB28685  $50.00



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    Untermeyer, Louis:  The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. Second Printing of November, 1963. Very near fine in heavy white covered boards with black and green text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 1/4 inches. In a very good+ dust jacket with the original price of $10.00 on the front flap and with light wear and rubbing at the ends of the spine area and at the fore edges of the panels at the folds to the flaps. Laid-in at the front of the book is a book review by the New York Times on the biography of Frost by Jeffrey Meyers. A compilation of a huge body of letters sent by Robert Frost to his friend Louis Untermeyer from March 22, 1915 to January 12, 1959 highlighting not only a deep friendship but many previously unknown facts about the great poet. 388 pages of text.
    TB31474  $15.00




  • Updike, John:  Rabbit, Run.  Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1977. Signed Limited Edition. Fine in gilt decorated bright red leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine and gilt edges to the text block with a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the top of the spine. Signed by the author on the third free end paper. Laid-in at the front of the book is the publisher's 22 page notes from the editors. One of the volumes in The Franklin Library's collection of signed limited books. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. 342 pages of text and illustrations. A bright clean copy with no prior owner's marks, names, dates or book plates.
    TB23899  $85.00



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    Updike, John:  Rabbit, Run.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf and by The First Edition Library, 1960. Facsimile First Edition Library Reprint. Near fine in 1/4 green cloth and blue-gray paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small octavo measuring 8 by 5 3/8 inches with an inch and 1/2 of the top stain dissolved from the top edge of the text block with minor light and shallow penetration of that color on to the upper edges of a few pages. In a fine, unclipped, facsimile dust jacket with the "FEL" logo on the lower end of rear flap. The book and its dust jacket are contained within a very good+ tan paper covered slip case with the front and rear panels of the dust jacket reproduced on the slip case. The top edge of the slip case is dust stained. Laid-in at the front of the book is First Edition Library's points of issue information card. This is the First Edition Library's exact (facsimile) reproduction of the first edition of the book. 307 pages of text.
    TB32926  $45.00




  • Updike, John:  Of The Farm.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in 1/4 green cloth and light green paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and front board with the upper edges of the boards slightly faded. In a very good-, price clipped dust jacket with a 1/3" deep by 1/2" wide chip from the upper edge of the spine area and a 1" deep by 1/2" wide chip at the lower edge of the rear panel and with several short closed tears at the lower edge of the spine area. One of Updike's earlier novels. 174 pages of text.
    TB17812  $28.00



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    Updyke, Frank A.:  The Diplomacy Of The War of 1812.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1915. First Edition. Very near fine in its original blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 1/4 inches with hints of rubbing to the cloth at the ends of the spine area and at the tips of the boards and with a prior owner's name neatly written on the first free end page. Without a dust jacket. 494 pages including an index and text. This is one of the volumes in The Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History.
    TB32867  $100.00




  • Utley, Robert M.:  High Noon In Lincoln Violence on the Western Frontier.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. First Edition (Book Club Edition). Near fine in 1/4 cream colored linen and paper covered boards with copper colored text stamping on the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with no clipped corners to the flaps but with light wear and rubbing with modest flecking of the colors at the ends of the spine area. Utley, one of today's most noted western historians, provides a thorough narrative history of the Lincoln Country War which spanned a two-year period of time in the 1870's of southeastern New Mexico. 265 pages including an index, text and illustrated with maps and photographs.
    TB17632  $17.50






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