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Hardcover. Boston, Union Publishing Co., 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 366 pages, includes many ads with line illustrations. Black cloth spine with ad-illustrated cardboard covers, chipping to the paper covering the boards at edges. Hinges cracked otherwise clean, solid.

Softcover. Montpelier VT, State of Vermont, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original color illustrated wrappers. 89 pages of text interspersed with dozens of b&w photos of Vermont landscapes. The copy details all the hotels, resorts and bed and breakfast accomodations, town by town. Information on rates and proprietors. Great reference, Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Montpelier, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 409 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Montpelier, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Foxing and stains on covers. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, Revised Ed., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in dark green, 456 pages, b&w illustrations, map endpapers. INSCRIBED BY BEARSE opposite title page. Tight, clean revised second edition of this volume in the Works Progress Administration's admirable "American Guide Series". No dust jacket. Publisher's presentation copy with slip tipped onto inside front cover.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton and Mifflin, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green pebbled cloth, 392 pages, many b&w photogravures. Color map in rear pocket in excellent condition. Believed to be a first printing with the 1937 date on the title page. No dust jacket. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. East Burke VT, Historical Publishing Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages, notable for b&w portraits throughout of government officials and buildings. Green cloth with gilt lettering. There is a light water stain to the bottom of the book in the margin, text and photos not affected.

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 186 pages, b&w illustrations. Warm, wonderfully entertaining accounts by a general store proprietor, a basket weaver, a gravedigger, a town gadfly, and 34 others reveal how time-honored traditions are carried on in spite of the inroads of the 20th century. As colorful as the state's autumn hues, and, in the matter of opinions, as obdurate as mountain granite, these recollections are accompanied by candid portraits. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This lavishly illustrated book establishes the towering influence of the scientist Victor Regnault (1810-1878) in the earliest decades of photography, a period of experimentation ripe with artistic, commercial, and scientific possibility. Regnault has a double significance to the early history of photography, as the first leader of the Societe Francaise de Photographie (S.F.P.) and as the maker of more than two hundred calotype (paper negative) portraits and landscapes. His photographic and scientific careers intersected a third field with his appointment in 1852 as director of the Sevres porcelain works.Readers are treated to Regnault's own beguiling pastoral, garden, and forest scenes; striking portraits of the scientists and artists in his circle of friends; quirky images of acoustic experiments; and an insider's view of the Sevres porcelain works. Regnault's richly varied photographs also encompass perhaps the most extensive group of family portraits in early photography, and his romanticized landscapes reflect a moment when the rural outskirts of Paris were being aggressively suburbanized and industrialized.

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, First Edition, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 642 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Crisp dust jacket with only minor wear. Very clean & unmarked. Crisp, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Routledge, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author with a note by the author laid-in. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy. This book discusses the home life of Queen Victoria in the context of her marriage to Prince Albert and her relationships with her children. Whittle describes the purchase, remodeling and rebuilding of Osborne House and Balmoral Castle, a subject often given little attention in other books on the couple's life together.

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2nd imp., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 635 pages. Contains black and white illustrated plates, and a pull out family tree. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, 345 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine, faded. Covers have some age wear. Age yellowing to edges and pages.

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 252 pages. Attractive oversized monograph with 119 illustrations. Introductory essay by Lord David Cecil. Julia Cameron was acknowledged as one of the greatest portrait photographers of her era

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated with 208 b&w photographs. Dust jacket has some wear and rubbing, unclipped. Great pictorial reference. Introduction and commentaries on the pictures by Betjeman.

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages. Spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Stonehill Publishing/Chelsea House, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. This book presents a representative selection of the best work produced for children during the great flowering of the illustrator's art that began in England in the 1860s. Beautifully crafted drawings of such illustrators as Caldecott, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, and Richard Doyle are reproduced with painstaking fidelity to the originals. Commentary by Maurice Sendak.

Hardcover. London, Book Club Associates, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine , 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with a few color plates. Light wear to dust jacket with slight tape-residue on rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 397 pages. "Few works that I know convey the excitement of the intellectual life of nineteenth-century England as immediately as Gertrude Himmelfarb's Victorian Minds. The essays are remarkable no less for the cogency of their wit than for the range and precision of their scholarship" ` ~ Lionel Trilling. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 394 pages includes index. This is a study of the gathering and presentation of news in late 19th-century England, a time when the vote was given to a large section of the working class, when public interest in the British Empire was on the rise, and when technology enabled newspapers to be produced more cheaply, distributed more quickly, and read more widely than ever before. Using manuscript collections and newspaper archives, the author describes the production and readership of newspapers, and the journalists within the industry--how they were recruited, the organization of their work, the ways in which they acquired their information, and their access to people in positions of power. The book moves on to review changes in news presentation in the last decades of Victorian England until the appearance of such papers as the Daily Mail in the 1890s. Clean copy, like new.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 266 pages. Christian religion's influence on secular Victorian culture, especially literature. Clean copy.

Softcover. Ithaca NY, McBooks Press, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages. Unfairly forced out of the army for insubordination, Alexander Sheridan leaves Britain and his former life behind to command a unit of the East India Company. Despised by the aristocratic generals of the regular army, in the heat of the deadly battles of the Crimean War Sheridan and his corps of volunteers must face both the rigors of combat and the treachery of men who should be allies. First published in 1964 in London. Fading to spine otherwise a clean, tight copy.