Category: New York

The Oracle 1941, Tully Central School.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Tully Central School, 1941.

Seller ID: qms1359

Quarto, yellow spiral bound & stamped brown cardstock, 68 pp + 4 pp signatures & cards. Very Good, with wear to spiral binding.
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New York.

By: A. Wittemann.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Brooklyn: A. Wittemann, (1915).

Seller ID: 61142bd

Oblong quarto, stiff wrappers with photo of Metropolitan Life Building affixed to front cover, string-tied, 76 leaves, each with a photogravure view, and a fold-out map at rear. Very Good; a few small chips around perimeter of front cover.
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How to Keep a Bank Account.

By: Alliance Bank.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rochester, NY: Post Express Printing Company, n.d. [ca. 1894].

Seller ID: 14000kms

12mo, paperbound (printed wrappers, burgundy cord), 16 pp. Very Good, with light wear to covers.
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The Rising Star. [Set of 12 issues]: Vol. I., No. 2; Vol. I, No. 3; Vol. I, No. 4; Vol. I, No. 5; Vol. I, No. 6; Vol. I, No. 7; Vol. I, No. 8; Vol. I, No. 8; Vol. I, No. 9; Vol. I, No. 10; Vol. I, No. 11; Vol. I, No. 12.

By: Bradner, John B. & Co.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Bellvale, Orange County, New York: John B. Bradner & Co., 1889.

Seller ID: 29010

One lot of12 issues of this monthly newspaper for the community of Bellvale, New York, including: Volume I, Nos. 2-12 (with 2 copies of No. 8), February-December, 1889. Each issue is octavo, 4 pages. Very Good. Each issue includes ads for local businesses, Marriage and Obituary Notes, notes about local residents, historical articles, etc. ÒThis little hill side village is situated in the southern part of Orange County, N. Y., on the American Trossach stage line between Warwick and Greenwood Lake. It is 3 miles east of Warwick, 3 miles west of Greenwood Lake, 9 miles west of Tuxedo Park, ...
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Life on Sunnyside Farm.

By: Bussy, Beatrice Clark.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Publihsed by the Author, [2002].

Seller ID: 17899scs

Signed by the Author, with her corrections to the text. Square octavo, paperbound (stiff yellow illus. wrappers), 51 pp. Illus. with numerous photos. Fine. ÒOur house faced the east and when the sun came up across the valley, behind the mountain directly across from us, the farm was bathed in its warmth. That is why our grandfather, john Clark, elder of the Old School (Primitive) Baptist Church, named opur place Sunnyside Farm...
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Dark Trees to the Wind: A Cycle of York State Years. Decorations by John O'Hara Cosgrave II.

By: Carmer, Carl.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: William Sloane Associates, (1949). Second Printing.

Seller ID: 9283gcs

Octavo, illustrated cream cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, top edge green, 370 pp. Very Good+, with light foxing to covers. ÒI have spent most of my life coming to know and trying to understand the people of the region where I was born and raised, the living and dead who have made York State what it is -- and while this book is not oa history, it is intended as a part of the world of history. People are both a region and a way of life. Landscape becomes a part of them and they become a part of each other. Generations and institutions enter into this developing pattern but the patte...
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A Fairy Tale of New York.

By: Donleavy, J. P.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Delacorte Press, Seymour Lawrence, [1973].

Seller ID: 30399s

First Edition. Octavo, green cloth, (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, 341 pp. Very Good+, with light fading to edges, in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes several chips. ÒIn the great sad cathedral that is New York City, Cornelius Christian returns to his native land from his university education in Europe...Cornelius Christian's whimsicalities called forth the strange humanity that lurks just below the surface of every New Yorker's unhappy face. In the city that is too rich to laugh at and too lonely and ruthless to love and where Happiness/Is/A Big Cat/With a Mouse/On a ...
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The Westies: Inside the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob.

By: English, T. J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1990). First Edition.

Seller ID: vas935

Octavo, red cloth & gray boards (hardcover), 384 pp. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. From dust jacket: In the tradition of Wiseguy and The Godfather, a powerful tale spanning sixty years. Along with a sprawling cast of characters that includes many of New York's most well-known underworld figures, The Westies explores the social and historical forces that helped turn a small-time Irish mob into what U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani branded Òthe most savage organization in the long history of New York City gangs.Ó Throughout the sixties, seventies, and eighties, while the Vietnam War ra...
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Around the ÒPanÓ with Uncle Hank: His Trip Through The Pan-American Exposition.

By: Fleming, Thomas.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: The Nut Shell Pub. Co., 1901.

Seller ID: vas807

Square octavo, red cloth (hardcover), 262 pp. Very Good+. From Foreword: This volume was constructed on the theory that it is far better to laugh than to weep. He who finds two laughs where only one had previously existed is a true benefactor to mankind; and realizing that information coming in a pleasant guise is always lasting and beneficial, its mission to amuse is doubly enhanced by its power to instruct. The saddest of all human complaints is the inability to laugh. If this book will tend in a measure to assuage this affliction, and incidentally impart a few lessons in philosophy an...
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Wyoming County, New York: Images of Our Past.

By: Herman, Mark.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Virginia Beach: Donning Company, (1991). First Edition.

Seller ID: 71518bd

Quarto, gilt-stamped white boards, 192 pp. Photographs throughout. Fine in dust jacket.
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Anglican Humanitarianism in Colonial New York. Publication No. 11.

By: Klingberg, Frank J., Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: The Church Historical Society, 1940.

Seller ID: vas773

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, x, 295 pp. Very Good, with darkened spine and light edgewear. From Preface: The author, while collecting materials in Great Britain for The Anti-Slavery Movement in England, A Study in English Humanitarianism, covering the years from 1770 to 1833, became convinced that a further analysis of earlier sources of humanitarian opinion was clearly indicated. The development of the eighteenth century humanitarian mood was not in itself sufficient to explain great reservoirs of sentiment favorable to the protection of native peoples. Organized amelio...
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A Maid of Old Manhattan. Illustrated by Emilie Benson Knipe.

By: Knipe, Emilie Benson and Alden Arthur Knipe.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Macmillan, 1917.

Seller ID: m1856

1st edition. Octavo, decorated blue cloth with circular paper label, [iii], 292 pp. Plates. Very Good; generally clean and tight with spine slightly cocked and former-owner bookplate.
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Across New York by Trolley: A Pictorial Review of the Third Avenue Railway System in Manhattan, The Bronx and Westchester.. Quadrant Press Review 4.

By: Kramer, Frederick A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Quadrant Press, 1975.

Seller ID: 18213scs

Oblong octavo, paperbound (full-color photo. illus. stapled white wrappers), 64 pp. Illustrated. Very Good, with wear to edges and spine.
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Pacific Mail Steamship Co. 1848 - 1925. Grace Owned 1915 -1925. Pacific Mail Steamship Co. 1848 to 1915: Includes Trans-Pacific service started 1867. Last owned by Southern Pacific Ry. since 1893. Comments on Central America early 1900s by passenger. Trans-Pacific Service: Grace owned 1915 to 1925. Grace development Oriental oil movement from containers to bulk. Panama Service: Grace owned 1915 to 1925. Comments passenger on Central America. Pacific Mail Ships -- Pictures. Ship Accidents and Shipwrecks. Telegraphic Code, Pacific Mail -- Sept 1, 1890: Extracts, listing ships, captains and pursers, shippers/consignees, steamship/railroad companies, banks, types of cargo, etc.

By: Lillevand, D. N.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: W. R. Grace & Co., 1919 - 1967.

Seller ID: 9764gcs

Quarto, cloth (hardcover), unpaginated. This is a bound book of articles relating to Pacific Mail Steamship Co., copied photographs, typewritten material, etc. Fine.
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The Way It Used to Be, Volume 2.

By: Lynch, Grace.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Fulton, NY: Fulton Historical Society, 1992. First Edition.

Seller ID: 9442gcs

Octavo, softbound (stiff tan black & white photo. illus. wrappers), vii, 90 pp. Fine. From Introduction: Grace Lynch had a strong affection for the community she grew up in, and its people. That affection was reflected in the many articles she wrote for The Fulton Patriot from 1962 to 1973. In her column, ÒThe Way It Used to Be,Ó she shared many of her precious memories and personal observations. Whether she was remembering a long ago Christmas eve with her family, the businesses and people of Fulton a half-century earlier, or her growing-up years in the sixthe ward, her memories became ...
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The Way It Used to Be.

By: Lynch, Grace.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Fulton, NY: Fulton Historical Society, n.d.[ca. 1980].

Seller ID: 9441gcs

Octavo, softbound (stiff tan black & white photo. illus. wrappers), vii, 90 pp. Very Good, with light speckling to upper cover and former-owner inscription, ÒTo my fellow Fultonians.Ó
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Seasons of Change: An Updated History of Tioga County, New York, by Tioga County Authors.

By: McEnteer, Thomas C.; Editor.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Owego, NY: Tioga County Legislature, [1990].

Seller ID: 00631sc

Octavo, hunter green cloth (hardcovcer), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, 816 pp. Near-Fine, with inked notation to ffep by former-owner, in a Fine dust jacket. ÒSeasons of Change is the first published book on the second 100 years of Tioga County history. Twenty-four Tioga County writers volunteered their time to research and write chapters of historical significance. Tom McEnteer has provided a chronological listing of events, 1550-1990, that will prove to be invaluable to future researchers. You will find the text to be interesting and the supportive photographs and illustrations de...
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The Power of the Crown in The Valley of the Hudson.

By: Mershon, Stephen L.

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 50470bd

Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decorations to upper cover, illustrations, 209 pp. Near Fine; photographs gladly provided upon request. Contents: The Inspiration; The Method; Dunkirk, A Colonial Parallel; Colonial History; Counties: Albany, Ulster, Duchess, Orange, Westchester, New York, Kings, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk; Rennselear, Greene, Columbia, Putnam, Rockland, Bronx; Cornwall, Dukes; Hudson River; Indians as Proprietors; Manors in the Province of New York: The Lordship and Manor of Rensselaerwyck, Livingston, Foxhall, Cortlandt, Phillipsborough, Morrisania, Scarsda...
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Ten Reasons Why. A Short Talk on a Business Subject. Presented with the Compliments of Rochester Trust and Safe Deposit Company.

By: n.l.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Rochester, NY: The Rochester Trust and Safe Deposit Co., 1893.

Seller ID: 12809ss

12mo, paperbound, 31 pp. Chipped upper cover detached but present; otherwise, a very attractive copy.
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Niagara in Summer and Winter: The Largest and Most Complete Collection of Views of this Superb Natural Wonder Ever Compiled.

By: Nicklis Co.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Niagara Falls, NY: Nicklis Co., n.d. [ca. 1890].

Seller ID: 51172fd

Oblong quarto, stiff illustrated wrappers, stapled, [56] pp. Photographs throughout. Fine.
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Category: New York