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Old Bridges of France by: Emerson William and Georges Gromort
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Old Bridges of France
by: Emerson William and Georges Gromort

NY, The Press of the American Institute of Architects., 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Complete with 24 watercolor prints and 44 plates. Loosely bound in case with cloth ties which has cracking along spine. Interior very good. Number 677 of 1000. Elephant folio 23" tall. "A Series of Historical Examples from Roman Times to the End of the XVIIIth Century." An appreciation of historic French infrastructure that survived WWI. Beautiful large color reproductions of original watercolors of bridges by Pierre Vignal; 35 black and white drawings by Louis C. Rosenberg & Samuel Chamberlain; 44 measured drawings, photographs, diagrams, and maps. DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 381146

Price: $200.00
Price: $200.00 

Old Came Rectory by: Sedley Proctor
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Old Came Rectory
by: Sedley Proctor

Softcover. Leopard Publishing Ventures, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages, illustrated. Built in the cottage orne style from a plan by the Regency architect John Nash (1752-1835), Old Came Rectory is the historic home of the poet philologist, William Barnes (1801-1886), Thomas Hardy's mentor. Amid gatherings of poets, writers and historical figures, how many discussions around the fire of this homely home have gone on to shape the world we know today? INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on Dedication page.

Record # 373420

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Old Country Trade of the East Indies by: Coates, W. H.
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Old Country Trade of the East Indies
by: Coates, W. H.

Hardcover. London, Cornmarket Press Ltd., reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages + advertisement. Reprint of 1911 edition. Part of series of 50 books reprinted in facsimile from originals in the National Maritime Museum Library. B/W illustrations. Fold-out map at end of book. Dust jacket faded and lightly soiled otherwise clean.

Record # 802235

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Old English Songs from Various Sources by: Dobson (introduction by), Austin
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Old English Songs from Various Sources
by: Dobson (introduction by), Austin

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 163 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Hugh Thomson. Unfortunate foxing throughout text. Minor wear to illustrated boards with light soil to rear cover.

Record # 856820

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Old English Towns by: Andrews, William & Elsie M. Lang
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Old English Towns
by: Andrews, William & Elsie M. Lang

Hardcover. New York , F.A. Stokes , 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, boards with cloth spine. Color frontispiece, b&w Illustrations. Spine darkened, light foxing to a few pages otherwise clean. Hinge weak at title page. A descriptive and historical account of the more important old English towns.

Record # 100526

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Old Friends - Portraits of a Lively Intellectual Era by: Bell, Clive
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Old Friends - Portraits of a Lively Intellectual Era
by: Bell, Clive

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace , 1st US, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 200 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. This copy previously owned by author Roger Shattuck and includes his underlining and editing of text in various colors of ink. Upper right corner of front cover bumped. Foxing to endpapers and edges. Dust jacket quite worn.

Record # 608557

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Old Glory: The Story of our Country's Flag by: Ross, George Alexander
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Old Glory: The Story of our Country's Flag
by: Ross, George Alexander

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, rep, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate soil on covers. Light bumps on top cover. Tight copy. Profusely illustrated in b&w and colors, depicting the history of our flag.

Record # 368377

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Old Homes of Roxbury Township - Third in a Series of Books on the History of Roxbury Township by: Seraly, Ruthann/Frances Lyman
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Old Homes of Roxbury Township - Third in a Series of Books on the History of Roxbury Township
by: Seraly, Ruthann/Frances Lyman

Softcover. Roxbury NJ, Roxbury Township Historical Society, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 613456

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Old Iron Road, The: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West (SIGNED COPY) by: Bain, David Haward
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Old Iron Road, The: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West (SIGNED COPY)
by: Bain, David Haward

Hardcover. New York , Viking, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 434 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket; else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 809012

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Old London Coaching Inns and Their Successors: The London Midland and Scottish Railway and Travel and Transport in Four Centuries by: Groom, Arthur
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Old London Coaching Inns and Their Successors: The London Midland and Scottish Railway and Travel and Transport in Four Centuries
by: Groom, Arthur

Hardcover. Euston Station, London Midway & Scottish Railway Company, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 43 pages. Dark blue cloth covers, gilt titles to front and spine, 15 color and b&w plates including frontispiece, smaller b&w figures throughout. Light rubbing and edgewear to covers, mild foxing to endpapers, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 808161

Price: $24.00
Price: $24.00 

Old Louisville: The Victorian Era by: Samuel W. Thomas; William Morgan
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Old Louisville: The Victorian Era
by: Samuel W. Thomas; William Morgan

Hardcover. Louisville KY, Data Courier for the Courier-Journal, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bight, lightly worn dust jacket. 152 pages with many b&w historical photos of Louisville

Record # 381134

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Old Ocean City: The Journal and Photographs of Robert Craighead Walker, 1904-1916 by: C. John Sullivan
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Old Ocean City: The Journal and Photographs of Robert Craighead Walker, 1904-1916
by: C. John Sullivan

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. "Vacationers of today," writes C. John Sullivan, "can only dream of what this seaside resort was like for those who visited in the early 1900s." With Old Ocean City, Sullivan brings back those long-ago summers through the words and photographs of the Walker family of Washington, D.C. Avid photographers as well as sports enthusiasts, the Walkers preserved their Ocean City summers in hundreds of snapshots. And the Walkers' son, Robert, kept a detailed record of those days in a small leather-bound journal, titled My Vacation, in which he wrote almost daily from 1912 to 1916. In Old Ocean City, Sullivan mixes his own commentary and explanatory captions with excerpts from Robert Walker's journal and more than one hundred family photographs (discovered in 1994, Sullivan notes, in a sweltering attic in Berlin, Maryland). Views of handsome beach architecture and grass-covered dunes suggest an Ocean City almost unimaginable today. Rare photographs and accounts of shorebird hunting (banned in 1918 to protect sandpipers, plover, herons, and other species) are an arresting contrast to more familiar scenes of boating, fishing, and beachcombing. We see the Walker children growing up-and Ocean City growing up around them. The result is a surprising look at a place "far different than our memories would recall." Sullivan includes a time line of Ocean City history and Walker family visits, starting with the formation of the Atlantic Hotel Company in 1868 (the company's stockholders chose the name Ocean City at their 1875 meeting in Salisbury) and ending with the Walkers' sale of their beloved cottage in 1950.

Record # 362042

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Old Paris and Changing New York: Photographs by Eugene Atget and Berenice Abbott by: Kevin Moore
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Old Paris and Changing New York: Photographs by Eugene Atget and Berenice Abbott
by: Kevin Moore

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 156 pages, no dj issued. An insightful new look at two renowned photographers, their interconnected legacies, and the vital documents of urban transformation that they created. In this comprehensive study, Kevin Moore examines the relationship between Eugene Atget (1857-1927) and Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) and the nuances of their individual photographic projects. Abbott and Atget met in Man Ray's Paris studio in the early 1920s. Atget, then in his sixties, was obsessively recording the streets, gardens, and courtyards of the 19th-century city--old Paris--as modernization transformed it. Abbott acquired much of Atget's work after his death and was a tireless advocate for its value. She later relocated to New York and emulated Atget in her systematic documentation of that city, culminating in the publication of the project Changing New York.

Record # 377985

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Old Paris and Changing New York: Photographs by Eugene Atget and Berenice Abbott by: Kevin Moore
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Old Paris and Changing New York: Photographs by Eugene Atget and Berenice Abbott
by: Kevin Moore

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 156 pages, no dj issued. An insightful new look at two renowned photographers, their interconnected legacies, and the vital documents of urban transformation that they created. In this comprehensive study, Kevin Moore examines the relationship between Eugene Atget (1857-1927) and Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) and the nuances of their individual photographic projects. Abbott and Atget met in Man Ray's Paris studio in the early 1920s. Atget, then in his sixties, was obsessively recording the streets, gardens, and courtyards of the 19th-century city--old Paris--as modernization transformed it. Abbott acquired much of Atget's work after his death and was a tireless advocate for its value. She later relocated to New York and emulated Atget in her systematic documentation of that city, culminating in the publication of the project Changing New York.

Record # 377986

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Old Penn Station (SIGNED COPY) by: Low, William
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Old Penn Station (SIGNED COPY)
by: Low, William

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY WILLIAM LOW ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 610518

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Old Public Schools of England by: John Rodgers
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Old Public Schools of England
by: John Rodgers

Hardcover. London, B.T. Batsford, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale red cloth stamped with black lettering, 112 pages. Color frontis, 119 b&w plates, endpapers map. Lacks dust jacket. clean copy.

Record # 387024

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Old Saint Augustine - A Story of Three Centuries by: Charles B. Reynolds
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Old Saint Augustine - A Story of Three Centuries
by: Charles B. Reynolds

Hardcover. St. Augustine FL, E.H. Reynolds, 5th Ed., 1893, Hardcover, Original tan decorative boards, maroon cloth spine. 161 pages, Index. B&w photos, maps. Gilt spine title. Previous owners bookplate on front flyleaf. Gilt title on spine. Mild wear to cover edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 385476

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Old Times in the Adirondacks: The narrative of a trip into the wilderness in 1873 by: Seneca Ray Stoddard
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Old Times in the Adirondacks: The narrative of a trip into the wilderness in 1873
by: Seneca Ray Stoddard

Hardcover. Saranac Lake NY, Adirondack Yesteryears, 2nd pr., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 152 pages, b&w illustrations. Edited and with Biographical Sketch by Maitland C. De Sormo. Endpapers map.

Record # 399935

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Old Times in the Colonies by: Coffin, Charles Carleton
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Old Times in the Colonies
by: Coffin, Charles Carleton

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, expertly rebound green cloth with original gilt and black design inlaid on front cover. New color pattern endpapers, 460 pages, plus publisher's ads. Frontis w/ tissue guard many b/w engravings throughout. Various artists. illustrated tale of the triumphs and tragedies of the formation of the English colonies through the French & Indian War. Light shelf wear, no marking.

Record # 381848

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Old Times: Relics, Talismans, Forgotten Customs & Beliefs of the Past by: Meller, Walter Clifford
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Old Times: Relics, Talismans, Forgotten Customs & Beliefs of the Past
by: Meller, Walter Clifford

Hardcover. London, T. Werner Laurie Ltd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover red cloth covers in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 264 pages, b&w plates. No date, appears to be circa 1920s. Subjects include: old stone crosses, sanctuaries, English bells, holy wells, misericords, the holy grail, etc. Cloth has

Record # 380953

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Old Violins by: Haweis, Rev. H. R.
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Old Violins
by: Haweis, Rev. H. R.

Hardcover. London, George Redway, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 292 pages, b&w illustrations. Green cloth wrappers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rough-cut pages. Edge wear, rubbing, soiling to covers; spine yellowed. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851001

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

On earth's furrowed brow: the Appalachian farm in photographs by: Barnwell, Tim
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On earth's furrowed brow: the Appalachian farm in photographs
by: Barnwell, Tim

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. For over twenty-five years Tim Barnwell has explored the southern Appalachian region, documenting the farm culture, visiting with and photographing the people of its isolated mountain enclaves. The photographs in this collection provide a window onto a world that is quickly fading. Barnwell honors the richness and rhythms of everyday life-people in their homes and at work in the fields-and captures the beauty of the North Carolina mountains. These intimate portraits are complemented by oral histories, derived from conversations between the author and his subjects, through which individual stories unfold, rich in humor, joy, loss, and wisdom. 100 duotone photographs

Record # 352351

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

On Horseback: A Tour in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee with notes of travel in Mexico and California by: Warner, Charles Dudley
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On Horseback: A Tour in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee with notes of travel in Mexico and California
by: Warner, Charles Dudley

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1889, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green with drawing of two riders on horseback. Gilt title on spine. Bookseller's sticker on inside front cover, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 411708

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

On Hundred Years of Tokyo Lawn Tennis: Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club Centennial 1900-2000 by: Sugihara (Chairman of the Board), Yasuma
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On Hundred Years of Tokyo Lawn Tennis: Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club Centennial 1900-2000
by: Sugihara (Chairman of the Board), Yasuma

Hardcover. Yokyo Japan, Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Signed letter by Chairman of the Board presenting book to previous owner inserted. Very clean inside and out. Covered by plastic bookcover/sleeve.

Record # 354111

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00