Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1880, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 331 pages, with gilt top edge and titles. Minor corner and edge wear, light crack along spine but no loose pages, overall, clean and tight copy.
Softcover. Alexandria, Eyrie Publications, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in blue wrappers, 82 pages. B&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Previous owner's signature on top right corner of front cover. Minor rubbing to cover edges. SIGNED LETTER FROM AUTHOR LAID IN. A nice, clean copy.
Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 3rd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers. 558 pages, 240 b/w + 20 color plates. In this engrossing book, an eminent art historian surveys the ways that historians have made use of visual sources--sculptures, paintings, coins, and other relics--in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. Francis Haskell examines the specific objects that were used and discusses a wide range of historians - from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to later writers such as Michelet, Burckhardt, and Huizinga who made inferences from the visual arts to indicate the whole mentality of an age. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadlephia, Lippincott, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. hardcover with red lettering. Black & white illustrations by author. Cover has light edgewear.
Softcover. New York, Ballentine Books, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages. Top right corner edge wear with small page corner curling. Small chip missing from colored paper on top spine. Clean, tight copy featuring the 50's to the 80's of the TV show, American Bandstand. Includes photos.
Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 519 pages. Blue cloth with gilded lettering. Top edge gilt. Minor bump on edges and spine. Previous owner inscription on front fly leaf. Many b&w illustrations by various artists. Nice, clean interior.
Hardcover. Frankfort, KY, Robert's Printing Co., 1st, n.d., Book: Good, 219 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Top front corner heavily damaged. Signed and inscribed by Lydia Bond on front fly leaf. Front hinge tear at top. Soil to front cover.
Hardcover. London/NY, John Lane/ Harper & Brothers, 1st UK, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with embossed rules, gilt decoration and lettering. The letter code D-D appears on copyright page, probable first English edition. B&w halftones throughout, 306 pages plus additional pages with index, synoptic tables. Small signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Well preserved copy.
Hardcover. Geneva, Edito-Service, 1st English Ed., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pebbled red cloth with gilt decoration and color label on front cover. Good general overview of painting in Western Europe during the later Medieval period. Illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.
Softcover. Barton, VT, Crystal Lake Falls Historical Association, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and whit photographs throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 504 pages including index. Bright, square copy, no marking. important work. Concerns the Nativist Movements, the Klan, the Protocols, the Nazis, et al circa 1943. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Florida, Brevard County Historical Commission, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 271 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Gilt decoration on cover. Gilt titles on spine. Small tear to bottom corner of dust jacket repaired with tape. Light wear to dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Bristol VT, The Outlook Club of Bristol, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 115 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Green textured cloth covers with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, William Briggs, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Inscribed by author's son. 568 pages, b&w illustrations. Fold-out map in rear torn, but present. Bright blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light wear to corners; small stains on rear cover. Ex-lib with number on bottom of spine, embossed stamp on title page, pocket inside rear cover. Else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Kent, U.K., Midas Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 407 pages, with b&w illustrations throughout. Very slight foxing on top edge and minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Chesterfield NH, Chesterfield Historical Society, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth, 525 pages. published by the Chesterfield Historical Society in an edition of 500 copies (this is copy number 437). The book was originally published in 1882. Chesterfield is a rural hill town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Chesterfield was first settled in 1760 and was officially incorporated in 1762. It was named after the Earl of Chesterfield. The town center, established after the Revolution, has well-preserved Federal period houses along Main Road. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Corinth VT, Town of Corinth, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 508 pages. Front end paper Is a photo of the Village Of East Corinth. Comprehensive Index. Other b&w photos. Errata slip laid in. Mild soil to covers, clean otherwise.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 496 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in slipcase. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to slipcase edges. A tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Waverly, Everett C. Benton, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages plus section of ads. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON PRELIMINARY PAGE. Black & white illustrations. Four leaf clovers laid-in. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Rutland VT, Tuttle Co., 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 83 pages, b&w illustrations. This copy has an actual photo of Peck taped to the page opposite the title page (taken in March 1929, 3 years after this book was published). The author was the town clerk for 40 years, the first 58 pages devoted to Ira's history. The second part is Peck's recollections of his experiences in the Great West 1866-67. Some of the white lettering on the book's cover has been chipped off but the volume is in very good, tight shape.
Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Academy Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 162 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. Photo copies of newsclippings laid in. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Virtue and Yorston, 1864, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 477 pages plus index. Black & white plate illustrations with tissue guards. Leather spine and corners. Raised bands on spine. Tear to one illustration page. Rear fly leaf almost completely torn out. Previous owner's signature on front end paper and front fly leaf. Edgewear. Wear to corners. Soiling and tears to pages. Creasing to pages and tissue guards.