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Wilson, Philip Whitwell . AN UNOFFICIAL STATESMAN ROBERT C. OGDEN
Garden City 1924 1st Doubleday Page. Memoir of Brooklyn. Sm.4to., 285pp., photo illustrations, sketches by O. W. Wilson, hardcover. VG, spine faded. (a10537)
$29.00 Stratton, Leslie . OLD PRIEST'S PHILOSOPHY (signed)
NY 1927 Privately Printed. Copy No. 231. Octavo., frontis, hardcover. *Signed by Stratton, who was a writer for the Coney Island Times. VG, cover lightly soiled. (a12297)
$27.00 Brooklyn . THE RING 1913 BERKELY INSTITUTE
First annual issue of yearbook of this Brooklyn, NY, girls K-12 school. Group photos of younger grades, individual photos of graduating seniors. Oblong octavo, photo illustrations, stiff paper wraps. Good, light wear. (a13076)
$55.00 (trade catalogue) . CATALOGUE OF BLANK BOOKS
NY 1914. Manufactured by S. E. and M. Vernon. Office in Manhattan with a factory in Brooklyn. Stationery catalogue. Octavo., 178pp., red cloth hardcover. Good, long tear on cloth of rear cover. (a17647)
$35.00 Brooklyn Library . ANALYTICAL AND CLASSED CATALOGUE OF THE BROOKLYN LIBRARY. AUTHORS, TITLES, SUBJECTS AND CLASSES 1878 -1880
Brooklyn 1878 - 1880. Hardcover. Large 4to., 1110p., tan linen cloth with marbled boards and two mounted leather spine labels. Library numbers on lower spine end.Good plus, light wear. Binding very secure. (a23814)
$295.00King, Ethel. THE FOUR SEASONS
Brooklyn 1960 1st Rickard. Poetry. Octavo, 30pp, hardcover. Inscribed and signed by King. VG, lightly soiled cover, no DJ. (a26070)
$27.00 Hageman, S. Miller . SILENCE
Brooklyn 1870 Tenth Edition. D S Holmes. Poetry. 8vo., 107pp., frontis, hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt and black trim. VG minor cover soiling, some soiling on front pastedown and front blank flyleaf, frontis tissue chipped. "Silence" in gilt printed across front cover board. Pretty book. (a26710)
$45.00 Young, Sol . ORIGINAL MOUNTED PHOTOGRAPH OF WOMAN IN BLACK WITH STRIKING HEAVILY FEATHERED HAT C. 1890
NY (c. 1890). Sol Young, photographer with studios in the Bronx, New York, Jersey City, Newark and Philadelphia. Original photograph of woman, age about 30, fashionably dressed in floor-length black (or very dark) blouse and skirt with a large fether-bedecked hat. Image 4 inches wide by 5.5 inches high, mounted on professional card base. Fine. (a28716)
$25.00(brooklyn). NINETY-FIFTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF BROOKLYN - ACADEMY OF MUSIC
Brooklyn 1950. Commencment program. Held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. List of Graduates. 4to., 11pp., wraps. VG. ephemera. (a29392)
$29.00 (yearbook) . POLYWOG 1947
Brooklyn 1948. Yearbook of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Volume 51. 4to., unpaginated (about 250pp.), photo illus. VG. (a32427)
$50.00 (brooklyn) . 100TH ANNIVERSARY 1944 ST. JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH BROOKLYN AND GLENDALE NEW YORK
Brooklyn 1944. 4to., 44pp., photo illustrations, wraps. VG plus. No ownership marks. (a32702)
$49.00 Sarles, John W. . MEMORIAL OF MARY E. SMALLEY, LATE THE WIFE OF JOHN W. SARLES, PASTOR OF THE CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH BROOKLYN (ORIGINAL BOOK, NOT A MODERN REPRINT)
NY 1867 1st. Sm.8vo., frontis portrait, 217pp., hardcover. All edges gilt. Good, old dry water stain on first few leaves (including frontis), corners a bit worn. (a37004)
$39.00 (long island) . THE CHURCH MAGAZINE VOLUME 1 NO. 1 THROUGH VOLUME 1 NO. 5 1874
Brooklyn 1874. Much on Long Island Episcopal churches, articles on missionary work in Haiti, etc. Issues No. 1 through No. No.5 ( March, 1874 though November 1874) bound in one hardcover volume. Small octavo, 160pp., original dark brown cloth with gilt lettering. Good, heel of spine worn, corners lightly bumped and scuffed. (a41194)
$75.00Rosen, Aaron Tani. PROLEGOMENA
Brooklyn 1934 1st Domino. Poetry. Copy No. 121/300. 8vo., 69pp., hardcover. Poetry. Good, no dj. (a44445)
$24.00 Brearley, Harry Chase . THE PROBLEM OF GREATER NEW YORK AND ITS SOLUTION
NY 1914. New York Harbor problems and the development of Jamaica Bay. Hardcover. Octavo, 132pp., photo illustrations, index, printed limp leatherette. Brooklyn League Presentation bookplate. Lacks folding maps. Good, light wear, crease on front. Sold as is, text complete but lacking the maps. (a47558)
$28.00(brooklyn). THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INSTALLATION OF RICHARD SALTER STORR, D.D., LLD., LH.D. AS PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK NOVEMBER 19, 1896
Brooklyn 1897. 4to., 296pp., frontis, gilt stamped boards. Good, a few marginal stains to frontis, very narrow old stain at top margin of final few leaves, top part of spine rubbed (erasing part of title), light overall soiling. (a48014)
$44.00 (wells) . RECORD OF WELLS IN KINGS COUNTY, N. Y.
Albany 1937. Bulletin GW-3. 4to., 175 leaves (printed on rectos only), folding map (monotone, opens 19x12 inches) at rear, original printed wraps with black cloth spine. Bound in: original typed letter signed by R. M. Leggette, Geologist dated December 16, 1937. Good, light wear, corners bumped. (a48694)
$90.00Steinbach, Alexander Alan. MUSINGS AND MEDITATIONS ( inscribed and signed by Steinbach)
Mill Valley 1941 first edition. Wings Press. Steinbach was a Brooklyn rabbi. Lg.8vo., 94pp., cloth. ***Inscribed and signed by Steinbach on the front free blank. VG in VG DJ, closed tear at bottom of front, (a48727)
$59.00 (wells) . RECORD OF WELLS IN KINGS COUNTY, N. Y.
Albany 1938. Bulletin GW-5. 4to., 140 leaves (printed on rectos only), folding map at rear, original printed wraps with black cloth spine. VG. (a48859)
$90.00Windel, Theodore. SPECIFICATION OF LETTERS PATENT THEODORE WINDEL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. - AUTOMATIC STABILIZER FOR AEROPLANES
Patent issued by the United States Patent Office. Application filed October 8, 1912 (Serial No. 724, 524) patented November 18, 1913 (1 ,078, 888). Lg.4to., 2pp., 2 full page diagram, stapled, rebound in later wraps. Name and patent number written in ink on front (i.e, the blank verso of one diagram). VG, small closed tear at right margin. (a49814)
$50.00Smillie, James and Nehemiah Cleaveland ; James Smilie andd Cornelia W Walter. RURAL CEMETARIES OF AMERICA - ILLUSTRATED IN HIGHLY FINISHED LINE ENGRAVING, FROM DRAWINGS TAKEN ON THE SPOT - GREEN-WOOD ( Greenwood ) CEMETARY AND MOUNT AUBURN
New York 1847 first edition (both books are 1841 first edition). Martin. Hardcover 4to. Two books bound as one. (1) Smillie and Cleaveland's Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Pictorial plate map as frontispiece and an engraving on tp; 91p. and 19 plates.(2) Smillie and Walter's Mount Auburn Cemetary in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pictorial plate map as frontispiece and engraving on tp. 119p. 19 plates. Both books begin with a fullpage pictorial map and an engraving on the titlepage map and 19 fullpage steel engravings. Plates are finely engraving, some quite stunning , on heavy stock. Some plates have light foiixng most plates just have none or light foxing in margins. All have original tissue guards. 3/4 brown leather with marbled boards. Good, end papers foxed, one outer hinge cracking but still holding on well, one inner hinge lightly tender but paper has not yet cracked; binding secure . No owner marks. Pictures available on request. (a50135)
$100.00 Brooklyn Methodist Home . A COOK BOOK SPONSORED BY THE MANAGERS OF THE METHODIST HOME BROOKLYN NEW YORK
1939 first edition. Recipes in reproduced handwriting of donors, with donor's name given. 8vo., 320pp., illustrations, wraps with metal spiral binding. VG. (a52470)
$37.00(brooklyn). MANUAL OF PUBLIC WORSHIP AND PSALTER - CLINTON AVENUE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Brooklyn 1886 NY 1886 A. S. Barnes. Clinton Avenue Congregational Church. 2 parts bound in one volume. Sq.8vo.,xiii pp., 145pp., original printed hardcover. Page removed from front (frontis?) o/w Good plus, spine ends and corners worn. (a55261)
$40.00 Anderson, John E. . THE OLD FIRST CLASS OF WILSON STREET SCHOOL P.S. NO. 16 BROOKLYN, N. Y THE RECORD OF HALF-CENTURY 1873-1923
NY 1924 1st Privately Printed. Large octavo, 273pp., frontis photo of the school as it was in the sixties, photo illustrations, hardcover. Good, some cover wear. Rare. (a57937)
$150.00 (medical) . THE LICHONIAN 1931 YEARBOOK OF THE LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL
Brooklyn 1931. Hardcover. 4to., 353pp., photo illustrations, original decorated boards. VG. (a58327)
$65.00 (college yearbook) . THE NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY NINE SOUND. ANNUAL PUBLICATION OF THE SENIOR CLASS OF THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY
Brooklyn 1949. 4to., 190pp., photo illustrations, original leatherette binding. Owner name printrf on front. VG, a few spots on cover. (a59175)
$75.00 (yearbook) . THE LICHONIAN 1929 YEARBOOK OF THE LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL
Brooklyn 1929. Hardcover. 4to., 301pp., photo illustrations, original decorated boards. VG, some foxing. (a59485)
$65.00 (yearbook) . THE LICHONIAN 1930 YEARBOOK OF THE LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL
Brooklyn 1930. Hardcover. 4to., 246pp., photo illustrations, original decorated boards. VG, some foxing. (a59486)
$65.00 Clarke, Reverend L. Mason . SERMONS SELECTED AND PRINTED PRIVATELY BY A MEMBER OF HIS CONGREGATION
NY c. 1916. Sermons preached at the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, 1905-1916. Octavo, 150pp., full limp red leather with gilt lettering. Owner signed. Near Fine. Scarce. (a61108)
$140.00 (brooklyn) . CONSTITUTION OF THE CLINTON DRAMATIC READING SOCIETY OF BROOKLYN, L.
NY 1869 Trafton. E. L. Perot, Ppresident; A. B. Keeler, Secretary and R. A. Davison, Treasurer. 12mo., 7pp., original printed wraps. Good, light wear. (a61991)
$45.00 Spear, Samuel T. . OUR COUNTRY AND ITS CAUSE. A DISCOURSE PREACHED..SOUTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BROOKLYN
Brooklyn 1864 Union Steam. Octavo, 37pp., original peach printed wraps. Good, faint vertical crease. Good. (a62112)
$35.00Farley, Frederick A.. A DISCOURSE ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PREACHED AT THE CHURCH OF THE SAVIOUR..1848
Brooklyn 1848 Lees & Foulkes. Octavo, 31pp., original tan printed wraps. Inscribed and signed to D. A. White from Seth Low. Good, light wear. (a62311)
$48.00 Schroth, Frank D. . FLATLANDS
Brooklyn Eagle Press c.1946. Section of Brooklyn adjacent to Flatbush. Octavo., 48pp., monochrome photo illustrations, original wraps. VG, slight discoloration on rear cover. Scarce. (a63185)
$85.00 (brooklyn) . LIST OF ASPHALT PAVED STREETS IN THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN CITYOF NEW YORK ON JANUARY 1, 1906
1906 Press of Martin B Brown Co. Alphabetical listing of hundreds of streets giving exact location, kind of asphalt, final estimate, width of roadway, length, square yards, price of asphalt, cost of repairs. Oblong octavo, 82pp., original hardcover. VG. (a63214)
$150.00 (New Jersey) . DAU'S NEW JERSEY BLUE BOOK 1916
NY 1916 Dau's Blue Books Inc. Containing the names and addressesof twenty thousand prominent residents and much other valuable social information. Octavo, 298pp., hardcover. Good, rear hinge cracked, slight water wrinkling on lower corner throughout, light water stains on lower cover corner. (a63222)
$175.00 Kropp, Heinrich Arend . HUNDERT JAHRE DEUTSCHE EVANGELISCH-LUTHERISCHE ZIONS-GEMEINDE IN BROOKLYN IN WORT UND BILD - DEUTSCHES ZION IN BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, NEW YORK 1855 - 1955
Brooklyn Heights 1955 Brendecke. In German. Hardcover. Octavo, 133pp., monochrome photo illustrations by Hans von Behr, cloth. Near Fine. (a63226)
$26.00 (brooklyn) . EAGLE ALMANAC 1926
NY 1926 Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Much information on Brooklyn residents, shops, businesses, politics, clubs, societies. Octavo, 592pp., original red cloth hardcover. Good plus, lacks map in front rear pocket. (a63227)
$50.00Rosoff, Benjamin Wolf . PSYCHOLOGY OF TEN DEGREES OF THE LORD GOD (signed)
Brooklyn (?) 1949 Author. Octavo, 297pp. in English, 25pp. in Hebrew, photo portrait of Rosoff, hardcover. **Signed by Rosoff. VG, light cover soiling, no DJ. Scarce, (a63772)
$35.00 Frost, Josephine C; Edwin R Deats and Marry Macy Jr (editors) . UNDERHILL GENEALOGY VOLUMES I - VI (COMPLETE SET OF 6 VOLUMES)
Six large hardcover volumes. Volumes 1 through 4 are edited by Frost and are bound in blue cloth with half red gilt printed spine. Volumes 5 and 6 are edited by Edwin R. Deats and Harry Macy and are in all red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Volumes 1- 4 are published privately by Mryron C. Taylor in the Interest of the Underhill Society of America in 1932; Volumes 5 and 6 were published in Baltimore by Gateway Press in 1980. All Volumes have some photo illustrations. All 6 volumes are Fine, without ownership marks. 6 volume, complete. (a64527)
$695.00 Wagner, Marion Loder; Lulu Heitkamp Miller and R. Huntington Woodman . PACKER SONGS
Brooklyn 925 Packer Collegiate institute. 4to., 171pp., red cloth hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a64569)
$28.00Armbruster, Eugene L.. FIVE PRINTED PAMPHLETS: LONG ISLAND, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
New York Printed by the Author. 5 Titles: Eastern Pioneers, 1929, 20pp.; Montauk, 1923, 8pp.; The Indians of New England and New Netherland, 1918,11pp.; Bruijkleen Colonie 1638-1918, 1918, 12pp.; The Olympia Settlement in Early Brooklyn 1929, Sm.4to. (one is small octavo), 35pp. original printed wraps. VG. 5 pamphlets. (a65263)
$60.00 Post, Mrs. Mary A. . POVERTY HOLLOW, A TRUE STORY
Brooklyn 1887 1st Ventres. 12mo., 59pp., hardcover. VG. (a65476)
$35.00 Verona, Stephen and Gayle Gleckler . SEXUAL FREEDOM IN BROOKLYN
1971 Verona Films. Screenplay. 4to., 145 leaves, mimeo on rectos only, pinned wraps. Good. (a6785)
$95.00 Boughton, Willis . THREE VOLUMES OF MANUSCRIPT DIARY 1899-1924
Group of 3 volumes : February 1, 1899-June 30, 1924; July 1 1924-January 7 1932 ; January 8 1932-May 1924. Ink entries. About 100 pages per volume. Messy but legible. Boughton, born in 1854, lived in Brooklyn, went to Amherst. He become a teacher at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. Later he moved to central administration for New York City Schools. An active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Son, Willis A., graduated from Harvard in 1907. The diary is in fair condition, all 3 volumes are becoming disbound, have letters and newspaper clippings stuck in, and covers are very worn. But appears to be complete for the years given. (a68327)
$650.00 Pierrepont, Edwards and Robert E. Lee . TWO PRIVATE LETTERS FROM EMINENT MEN TO THEIR SONS
Brooklyn 1885 Wm. B Boorum. In deciding on the best way to preserve these letters for the benefit of my own family, I concluded to print and bind a number of copies that i might present them-Boorum. 12mo., 24pp., red thread machine-sewn in later wraps.wraps VG. Scarce. (a68693)
$100.00 (literature) . BROOKLYN LITERARY REVIEW NUMBER 5
Brooklyn 1984 Brooklyn College. Includes and interview with Virgil Thomson at 87, as well as poems , stories, essays and a short Memoir by Carl Solomon. Octavo, 352pp., original illustrated wraps. VG. (a70091)
$35.00 Pope, Helen (of Brooklyn, New York) . IVY LEAVES
1948. Home-made book, mimeographed, stapled, hand-lettered cover. Dedicated: To our beloved Mayor Fiorello La guardia, megalopsychos. Octavo, 40pp. Very intelligent set of two essays on Classical Greek theatre focusing on Aristophenes. VG. (a70185)
$125.00 (brooklyn) . ASTERISK 8, 9 AND 10 (1958, 1959, 1960)
1958, 1959, 1960. Three separate issues of this student magazine from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Octavo, about 40pp., per issue, original wraps. Good and VG. 3 issues. (a70486)
$29.00 Ardron, Samuel . SONGS, POEMS AND SKETCHES BY SAMUEL ARDRON
Published by Geo. C. Wolven but no place or date given, Prefatory letter is dated 1888 and introduction is placed in Brooklyn, New York. Introduction by Rev. G. E. Strobridge. Two pages of music. Lyrics and music written by Ardron, are arranged by Prof. Charles G Spross. Lg.4to, 30pp., pale green cloth with green lettering. VG, a few small ink stains on cover but little wear. Rare. (a70656)
$250.00(coney Island). ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF MOTHER AND SON IN BATHING SUITS (JULY 1918)
Original photograph of unidentified young mother and her son (about 6 yrs old) taken at Coney Island, July 1918 (date on rear of photo). 5-1/2 x 3-1/3 inches. Postcard size. Laid in original souvenir folding paper case (split at spine.) VG. Charming. (a71272)
$24.00 Blumberg, Irving . THE WIND THAT BLEW FROM CANARSIE, STORIES, ESSAYS AND POETRY (signed)
Flushing 1982 Paul and Robert Blumberg. Blumberg's fictionalized autobiography of a impoverished immigrant Jewish family in Brooklyn in the early years of the 20th century. Hardcover. Octavo, 280pp., cloth. **Signed by Blumberg. Fine Iin Near Fine DJ with photo illustration of Blumberg on the front and historical view of Pitkin Avenue on the rear panel. (a71516)
$50.00 Brown, Rosellen . STREET GAMES. ISBN 0-385-09897-9
NY 1974 1st (stated) Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-09897-9. Brooklyn novel. Hardcover. Octavo, 287pp., black cloth with silver lettering on spine. Signed by Brown. Fine in VG plus DJ, slight wear, price not clipped. (a72179)
$49.00 (art) . EXHIBITION OF WATER COLOR PAINTINGS BY AMERICAN ARTISTS, BROOKLYN MUSEUM NOVEMBER 7 - DECEMBER 18, 1921
1921 Brooklyn Museum. John Singer Sargent, etc. Octavo, a few illustrations, wraps with illustration of Brooklyn Museum on front. VG, a bit worn. Scarce. (a72570)
$75.00 (americana) . CATALOGUE OF THE MAGNIFICENT LIBRARY OF THE LATE HON. HENRY C. MURPHY OF BROOKLYN, LONG ISLAND CONSISTING ALMOST WHOLLY OF AMERICANA
NY 1884 Geo. A Leavitt & Co., Auctioneers. Hardcover. Octavo, 434pp., half maroon cloth. Good, spine ends slightly worn down and fraying along outer hinge. No ownership marks. (a72932)
$195.00 Lacey, T. J. Rev. PhD . BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM, STUDIES IN HISTORIC COMMUNIONS OF CHRISTENDOM
NY 1909 Author and Edwin S. Gorham. Lacey was Rector of church of Redeemer, Brooklyn, New York. An effort to unify Catholicism, Anglicanism and Orthodoxy Christianity into one Church. Hardcover. 12mo., 66pp., maroon cloth. Signed by Lacey. VG. Rare. (a74700)
$150.00 Grim, Jessica and Melanie Neilson (editors) . BIG ALLIS 7
Brooklyn 1996 . Poetry Journal. Octavo, 79pp., wraps. Near Fine. (a74904)
$25.00Spear, Rev. Samuel T. IN MEMORIAM MRS. MARIAMNE FITCH STRANAHAM (first edition)
NY 1867 1st edition. C. A. Alvord. Mrs. Stranahan was active member of Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn and very active in social work and philanthropy. Hardcover. Octavo, 112pp., original brown cloth. All edges gilt. Good, occasional light soiling, light wear, front hinge just beginning to crack. (a75046)
$35.00 (booklyn) . BULLETIN THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DECEMBER 1947
Brooklyn 1937. Sm.4to., 31pp., illustrations, original wraps. VG, light wear. (a78018)
$35.00 (brooklyn) . CHARITY CONCERT FOR THE LADIES AID OF THE OLD FOLKS HOME SOCIETY OF BROOKLYN
April 20, 1922. Conductor: Hugo Steinbruch. Kathryn Meisle, Contralto, Evelyn Phelan, Pianist, with Manhattan Quartette and Liederkranz Orchestra. Sm.4to., about 30pp. of advertisements plus concert program, original wraps. VG, light wear. (a78019)
$35.00(brooklyn). EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH IN BROOKLYN, N. Y. YEAR BOOK 1940-41
Brooklyn 1940-1941. Ministers: Rev. Wayland Zwayer and Rev. Raymond Cornish. 12mo., list of members, original wraps. VG. (a78020)
$45.00(brooklyn). EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH IN BROOKLYN, N. Y. YEAR BOOK 1938 - 1939
Brooklyn 1938-1939. Minister: Rev. Lohn Leslie Hart. 12mo., list of members, original wraps. Ink note on rear cover. Good, light wear. (a78021)
$45.00 Cameron, Rev. Archibald A. . CHRISTIAN WOMEN AND LEISURE HOURS
Brooklyn (c. 1900) Orphans' Press, Church Charity Foundation. An address delivered before the Women's Baptist Home MIssion Society of L. I. while celebrating its Twentieth Anniversary. 12mo., 8pp., original wraps. VG, light wear. (a78022)
$27.00 Olshanetsky, Alex (music); Lyrics by Jacob Jacobs . MEIN SHTETELE BELZ
Brooklyn 1932 (copyright) Kammen. Music and piano score. 4to. 5pp., pictorial wraps with photo portraits of both Olshanetsky and Jacobs. Fair, folded in half vertically, stained and worn, but still usable and intact. (a79097)
$35.00 Huntley, Stanley . SPOOPENDYKE SKETCHES
Brooklyn 1899 1st Eagle. "The humorous productions of the late Stanley Huntley compiled from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle." Brooklyn humor. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 224pp., index, green cloth. Good, leaves browned, inner hinges cracked. Scarce. (a80932)
$90.00 Howell, Hon. James . ANNUAL MESSAGE OF HON. JAMES HOWELL, MAYOR OF BROOKLYN TOGETHER WITH REPORTS OF THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS FOR 1878
Brooklyn 1879 1st The Corporation. Hardcover. Octavo, 198pp., bright blue cloth with black trim and gilt lettering. All edges gilt. Owner signed by William D. Winter of Brooklyn. About 40 pages of text have contemporary newspaper clippings carefully tipped in. As a result a few pages have stuck together from the glue seepage with a handful of pages showing light effects in top page margin with no loss of text. Good, front inner hinge just beginning to crack., light cover wear. Binding secure. Scarce. (a82485)
$300.00 Ginsberg, Leonard . OF TIMES REMEMBERED AND OTHER WRITINGS (signed)
Chicago 1988 1st Adams. Poetry and prose by Brooklyn man. 12mo., about 20pp., original wraps. Signed by Ginsberg. Near Fine. (a82549)
$27.00 (high school yearbook) . POLYGLOT VOL IX 1908
Brooklyn 1908. Yearbook of Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School, Brooklyn, New York. All-male high school. Hardcover. 4to, 126pp., many photo illustrations, local advertisements, blue cloth with gilt lettering and linear design on front board. . No signatures. VG plus. (a82556)
$75.00 Morse, Charles H. (editor) . A MARCH ALBUM FOR THE ORGAN
New York 1894 (copyright) Schirmer. Morse was organist and choirmaster at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, New York. Music score. Music by Anton Rubinstein, Handel, Gounod, Adolf Jensen, many others. Oblong 4to., 141pp., wraps with cloth spine. Good, text gently rippled throughout. (a82862)
$110.00 Fuchs, Daniel . 3 NOVELS SUMMER IN WILLIAMSBURG, HOMAGE TO BLENHOLT, LOW COMPANY
New York 1961 Basic. Jewish life in Brooklyn in 1930s. "A minor American classic" (jacket). Hardcover. Octavo, 380pp., 302pp., 314pp., red cloth. Fine in VG DJ. (a83425)
$85.00 (yearbook) . THE LICHONIAN 1962 YEARBOOK OF THE LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL
Brooklyn 1930. Hardcover. 4to., 246pp., photo illustrations, original decorated boards. Name of Leonard Davis, M.D. printed in silver on front. VG, light smudge on on rear cover. (a83855)
$65.00 Storrs, Richard S. . FIRST THE NATURAL: AFTERWARD THE SPIRITUAL A SERMON PREACHED IN THE CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
1898. Octavo, 23pp., original printed wraps. Good. a bit worn. Not a modern reprint. Scarce. (a84056)
$125.00 Mumford, John Kimberly . OUTSPINNING THE SPIDER - THE STORY OF WIRE AND WIRE ROPE
New York 1921 first edition Stillson. Story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the role wire played in the construction. Octavo, 137p., original brown wraps with mounted drawing of the Brooklyn Bridge on front. Good, some light wear and light staining. Original printing of this pamphlet. (a84366)
$45.00 Devignes, Alexandre . ISHTAR OF THE SEVEN GATES (signed)
Brooklyn 1930 first edition Arthur W Littlefield. Hardcover. 12mo., 45p., greenish paper covered boards with blue lettering and blue drawing of twisting man on front. **Presentation copy to John signed by Devignes. Good, light toning and light wear on cover, no DJ. (a84998)
$45.00 Pascual, A. S. . THE SONG HAS MANY VERSES - A SATIRIC COMEDY - A FULL LENGTH PEACE PLAY IN TWO ACTS
Brooklyn c. 1950. Self published. Original typescript on rectos only. 4to., 138 leaves, blue buckram. A few ink corrections in text, presumable by Pascual. VG, come fading on cover. (a85150)
$95.00 Worman, E. Clark . HISTORY OF THE BROOKLYN AND QUEENS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 1853-1949
NY 1952 1st Association Press. Hardcover. Octavo, 256pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. VG, no DJ. Scarce. (a85627)
$45.00(brooklyn). BROOKLYN ENGINEERS' CLUB ANNUAL REPORTS 1913
NY 1914. Many interesting articles: Resurfacing Large Areas of Asphalt Paved Street by the Burner Method; Sewer Siphons in Connection with Subway Construction in New York City; Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad Cutoff; Shore Road Improvement Borough of Brooklyn; Brooklyn Water Supply System. Hardcover. Octavo, 316p., monochrome photo illustrations of Brooklyn, 25 pages of advertisements at end, index, cloth. Owner name stamp (Philip P. Farley). Near Good, cloth a bit worn, inner hinges cracked. (a86668)
$60.00 Brooklyn . LAIN'S ELITE DIRECTORY OF BROOKLYN, SEASON OF 1894
Brooklyn 1894 Lain & Healy. Hardcover. Small octavo, about 300p., original orange cloth boards fully printed with black ink and black gilt printed cloth spine. Includes 25,000 names of householders classified by streets and 1000 names from miscellaneous streets. Some illustrated advertisements at beginning and end. Good, inner hinges cracking but still holding, binding secure and text clean. No ownership marks. Rare. (a86676)
$350.00 Electric Railway . PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ELECTRIC RAILWAY ENGINEERING ASSOCIATION 1911
New York 1911 first edition American Electric Railway Association. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 974p., charts, text illustrations, photo illustrations, index, cloth. Near Good, inner hinges cracked, corners and spine ends worn and frayed. No ownership marks. (a86686)
$95.00Mount, William Sidney. MOUNT- CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS AND PAINTING BY WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT 1807-1868.
1942 Brooklyn Museum. 8vo., 31pp. plus plates, wraps. Good, light wear. (f236)
$23.00Armbruster, Eugene. THE OLYMPIA SETTLEMENT IN EARLY BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
NY 1929 1st Private. Limited to 300 copies. Sm.4to., 35pp., original printed wraps. On early families settling in Brooklyn. List of families and addresses included. Near Fine. no wear, no owner marks. (ny24)
$27.00 (brooklyn) . JUBILEE MEMORIAL OF THE THROOP AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND MISSION.
Brooklyn 1899 1st Devinne Press. Hardcover. Small octavo, 190pp., 5 fine photo illustrations, gilt printed maroon cloth. Top edge gilt. Good plus, spine faded, light soiling on cover. (ny320)
$45.00 (brooklyn) . BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE TRAVEL TOURS 2 pamphlets listing itinerary and tour members. 1
2 pamphlets listing itinerary and tour members.1922 tour to Brazil and 1925 tour to Mediterranean countries. 12mo., 25pp., 32pp., wraps. VG. Pair: (ny53)
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