Softcover. Philadelphia, The Schwarz Gallery, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This 130 page catalog is beautifully printed in full color and features still-life paintings from 1795 to 1954. The cover features "Cutlet and Vegetables" by Raphaelle Peale. The cover has a few minor blemishes and the interior pages exhibit slight wear. The book includes the original cover-letter from Robert Schwarz.
Hardcover. Boston, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, pages. "I write of peoples and of a struggle." So begins A New World, an ambitious and extraordinary book that challenges conventional historical narrative by presenting episodes in North America's history through the eyes and voices of the Europeans who established the first colonial outposts here. Beginning with the swaggering John Smith at Jamestown and ending with the beleaguered Montcalm at Quebec, Arthur Quinn allows towering historical figures to emerge from an often beautiful, sometimes forbidding early American landscape and speak. An elderly William Bradford looks back with growing despair at the early promise of the Pilgrim colony at Plymouth. Governor John Winthrop tries to administer a dose of practicality to the Puritans of Massachusetts. Jesuit missionaries bring Christianity and disaster to the Huron Confederacy. A blustering Peter Stuyvesant watches Manhattan slip from Dutch grasp. William Penn's Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania goes increasingly awry. And, finally, the British and the French fight history's first world war for supremacy in the New World. Telling each story using the literary conventions of the day, Quinn casts North America's colonial beginnings as a multicultural epic, gripping the reader throughout with his uncanny eye and storytelling skill. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1993, Hardcover in brown cloth, 170 pages. No dust jacket. Beginning as a series of scattered rural riots in late 1323, peasant insurrection escalated into a full-scale rebellion that dominated public affairs in Flanders for nearly five years. Following their own leaders, peasants defied the authority of the Count of Flanders by driving his officials and their aristocratic allies from the countryside. In A Plague of Insurrection, William H. TeBrake has written the first full-length account of the rebellion. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, The Fine Arts Society, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages, hardcover. Decorated boards with gilted top text block. Illustrated by Elizabeth M. Chettle. Homes and memorials of the founders of Virginia, the New England states, and Pennsylvania. Also includes the universities of Harvard and Yale, the first president of the United States and other illustrious Americans. Fading and edgewear to spine. Light bumping to corners with mild fraying. Moderate spotting to text block edges. Weak spine at front endpapers. Unmarked. A clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages. "Set in a beautiful but dying Pennsylvania steel town, 'American Rust' is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises from its loss. It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia and the beauty around them who dream of a future beyond the factories, abandoned homes, and the polluted river. Isaac is the smartest kid in town, left behind to care for his sick father after his mother commits suicide and his sister Lee moves away. Now Isaac wants out too. Not even his best friend, Billy Poe, can stand in his way: broad-shouldered Billy, always ready for a fight, still living in his mother's trailer. Then, on the very day of Isaac's leaving, something happens that changes the friends' fates and tests the loyalties of their friendship and those of their lovers, families, and the town itself. Evoking John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, 'American Rust' is an extraordinarily moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence, and the power of love and friendship to redeem us."
Softcover. Philadelphia, Printer: Jane Aitken, 1st, 1804, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Disbound 36 page pamphlet. Cocke (1783-1856) received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania (by way of this thesis). He served as mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia from 1767 to 1768 and again from 1772 to 1773. Mild foxing.
Softcover. Philadelphia, Printed for the author by Hugh Maxwell, 1st, 1804, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Disbound paper pamphlet. 52 pages. With a view to prove that they are the same disease varied by climate and other circumstances. Jenks studied medicine with Dr. Benjamin Rush, graduating in 1804 with a diploma from the University of Pennsylvania. He began the practice of medicine under Dr. Isaac Chapman of Wrightstown Township. He was elected a junior member of the Philadelphia Medical Society in 1803. This was his thesis for his degree. Light foxing, this is the original printing extracted from a bound volume. INSCRIBED BY "THE AUTHOR" on a blank prelim page. Clean copy.
Softcover. Philadelphia, Printed for the author by Hugh Maxwell, 1st, 1804, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover pamphlet, 30 pages. Submitted to the Examination of the Reverend John Andrews, D. D. Provost, (Pro Tempore), The Trustees, and Medical Professors of the University of Pennsylvania, on the Sixth Day of June, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Four. Light foxing. The original printing extracted from a bound volume, clean copy.
Softcover. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2nd pr., 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 266 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY KELLEY on the title page. Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813-1884) was a prominent African American businesswoman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime housekeeper, life companion, and collaborator of the state's abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens. In his biography of this remarkable woman, Mark Kelley reveals how Smith served the cause of abolition, managed Stevens's household, acquired property, and crossed racialized social boundaries. In the last years of Stevens's life, as his declining health threatened to short-circuit his work, Smith risked her own well-being to keep him alive while he led the drive to end slavery, impeach Andrew Johnson, and push for the ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Outing Publishing Company, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, 177 pages. Green cloth cover with black lettering and design. Corners and edges of spine are bumped. Some faint staining on back of cover. Previous owner's inscription and library date stamp on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-Lib copy with only one sticker on board spine and one sticker on rear cover board. Dust jacket has no evidence of ex-lib. Tight, clean copy, otherwise.
Hardcover. The Pennsylvania Academy of Science, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Brings together in one volume a comprehensive overview of Pennsylvania's avian communities, current and emerging conservation issues, and the specific contributions Pennsylvania biologists, avian ecologists, and conservationists have made to the science of ornithology. Clean.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribners Sons, reprint, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket. Two-color illustrations by Helen Sewell. School stamp on front end paper, otherwise clean. Newberry honor book based on an old Pennsylvania folktale about bears on Hemlock mountain.
Softcover. Mount Vernon NY, Consumers Union, 1st wraps, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages, numerous b&w photo-illustrations. Pictorial stiff wrappers. A very good copy with a corner crease to the rear cover.. The author/photographer recorded his visits to the poor in: South Dakota, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Tennessee, Illinois, Wyoming, New York City, Arkansas, Boston, California. Includes interviews and commentary by Richards; edited by Christine Bird; story researcher by Janine Altongy. Winner of the 1987 International Center of Photography Journalism Award. Richards is often overlooked as one of America's best photojouralists.
Hardcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 490 pages, b&w frontis. Rush, the Philadelphia doctor who signed the Declaration of Independence, was an energetic, ambitious man given to devising reforms and, as the author puts it, meddling in politics. He studied medicine in Edinburgh and London, meeting Hume, Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, et al. and, Hawke thinks, solidifying his republican disposition. Back in Pennsylvania he agitated for independence, made friends with John Adams, urged Paine to write Common Sense, and entered Congress. Apart from the recurrent epidemics of the age, the practice of military medicine and propaganda for resuming debt payments occupied Rush during the war; afterwards he turned to progressive education, speculated in land, fought paper money, equivocally supported the abolition of slavery, declared that tobacco is unhealthful, and boosted the Constitution before it was even written. Dust jacket chipped, faded in parts, clean internally.
University Park PA, Pennsylvania State University Press , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Weintraub's compilation of Shaw's diaries reveal the day to day life of one of Britain's most famous playwrights. 558 pages. Vol. 1 only of a two volume set. Clean.
Hardcover. Phiadelphia, University Of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a peach-colored dust jacket with mild fading to spine, 116 pages with a reproduction of a Morley inscription as frontispiece. The fifth in the series of Rosenbach Fellowship Lectures. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 142 pages, Preface by Farrell. Green cloth binding with gilt on spine. Some light pencil marks in margins, on rear end papers.
New York, Coward-McCann, 5th pr., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 223 pages. Black & white illustrations by Lynd Ward. Dust jacket with chipping. Brodart cover. Brady learns the importance of keeping a secret when he discovers a runaway slave in pre-Civil War Pennsylvania. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Pennsylvania, Hermes Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Featuring artwork by the legendary Jerry Iger Studio and Brenda Starr Creator Gale Messick, this volume presents the remaining four Brenda Starr Pre-Code books, issues #9-12, and the very mod and 1960's version of Brenda drawn and scripted by Dale Messick. In addition to presenting Brenda Starr stories, this reprint also boasts all of the scintillating back-up features.
Softcover. NY, Girl Scouts of America, 9th pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. Folded map of Hickory Run State Park in Carbon County, Pennsylvania laid-in. A comprehensive guidebook for camp counselors, written by Catherine T. Hammett. The book is designed to help counselors prepare for and manage all aspects of camp life, from setting up camp to leading activities and dealing with emergencies. The book is organized alphabetically, with each chapter covering a different topic related to campcraft. Topics include everything from "A is for Administration" to "Z is for Zip Lines." Throughout the book, Hammett provides practical advice and tips for counselors, based on her years of experience in the field. She covers topics such as camp safety, communication skills, leadership, and team building. The book also includes numerous illustrations and diagrams to help counselors understand key concepts and techniques. Overall, Campcraft ABC's for Camp Counselors is an essential resource for anyone working in a camp setting. Small ownersip signature on title page, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages. Minor creasing in top right corner. B&W and color. Internally clean. Overall tight copy. Illustrated wraps. Introduction by Frank H. Goodyear, Jr. Foreword by Richard J. Doyle, Director. Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA 1974-1975. Bibliography. Index of Illustrations. [
Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 398 pages. Colorfully depicts colonial life in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Maryland as reported in the newspapers and journals of the region. 'Feel the pulse of the people by reading the same items and advertisements presented in their weekly newspapers; the same words, the same spellings, the same compositions as they were written by Colonial compositors and publishers.' These pages are 'filled with newspaper abstracts concerning runaway slaves and indentured servants, the near frontier, piracy, ships and mariners, plantations, land and home sales, and many more happenings and items of interest to the highborn as well as the common tradesman.
 "150 Years of Philadelphia Still-Life Painting by: Schwarz, Robert")
 "A New World: An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec by: Quinn, Arthur")
 "A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328 by: William H. TeBrake")
 "American Pilgrim's Way in England, The by: Huish, Marcus B.")
 "American Rust: A Novel by: Meyer, Philipp")
 "An Attempt to Ascertain the Cause of the Extensive Inflammation, Which Attacks Wounded Cavities and Their Contents by: James Cocke")
 "An Essay on the Analogy of the Asiatic and African Plague and the American Yellow Fever by: Phineas Jenks")
 "An Inaugural Essay on the Supposed Powers of Nature in the Cure of Disease by: Whitmell H. Pugh")
 "An Uncommon Woman: The Life of Lydia Hamilton Smith (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Kelley, Mark")
 "Apple Growing by: Burritt, M. C.")
 "Art Held Hostage: The Battle Over the Barnes Collection by: Anderson, John")
 "Avian Ecology And Conservation: A Pennsylvania Focus With National Implications by: Majumdar Shyamal K.; et al")
 "Bears on Hemlock Mountain, The by: Dalgliesh/Helen Sewell, Alice")
 "Below the Line: Living Poor in America by: Richards, Eugene")
 "Benjamin Rush: Revolutionary Gadfly by: David Freeman Hawke")
 "BERNARD SHAW: THE DIARIES 1885-1897 VOLUME II by: Shaw Bernard; edited and Annotated by Stanley Weintraub")
 "Bibliography and pseudo-Bibliography by: Newton, A. Edward")
 "Bibliography of James T. Farrell's Writings 1921-1957 by: Branch, Edgar")
 "Birthplace of an Army: A Study of the Valley Forge Encampment by: Trussell, John B.B., Jr.")
 "Brady by: Fritz/Lynd Ward, Jean")
 "Brenda Starr Volume Two: Good Girls, Cheesecake, and Other Delectable Things by: Iger, Jerry")
 "Campcraft ABC's For Camp Counselors by: Catherine T Hammett, Zelda Atkins (Illustrator)")
 "Cecilia Beaux: Portrait of an Artist by: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts")
 "Central Colonies Chronicle: The Freemen, The Servants, and The Governments, 1722-1732 by: Armand Francis Lucier")