The History of Pittsfield, (Berkshire County) Massachusetts from the Year 1734 to the Year 1800 by Smith, J. E. A - 1869

Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Leather rubbed and flaking at edges.. 1897. Hardcover. Original brown pebbled and blindstamped leather with decorative gilt titles on front boards and spine. Gilt-stamped turn-ins, all edges gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Index, 28 portrait plates. Surprisingly tight and clean. A compilation of biographies of upstanding male citizens of Hillsboro and Cheshire Counties in New Hampshire, most notably home boy Horace Greeley, newspaperman and politician. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 481 pages .

Boston: Dutton and Wentworth. Very Good with no dust jacket; Minor wear to boards, pages toned.. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. A married set of first editions with Volume One bound in brown blindstamped cloth and Volume Two bound in maroon blindstamped cloth. 350 pp; 351-698 pp, index. Vol. I bears armorial bookplate of T. Bigelow Lawrence on front pastedown and has engraved frontispiece of man at desk with books and engraved title page featuring man digging in graveyard. A collection of essays, previously published in the Boston Evening Transcript, which discuss burial and funeral practices of various cultures and eras, his opinions and prejudices about various ethnic groups, criminal justice, Boston society, ghosts, literature, and social history. Gilt titles on spines. Sabin 77004. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company. Good with no dust jacket; 2 inch tear to map, library stamps and markings, . pages toned, some stains to pages, wear to spine extremities, rear hinge . cracked. Describes geography, settlement, land availability, and other . attributes of the Territory of Minnesota.. 1857. Hardcover. Handcolored folding frontispiece map by J. H. Colton of Minnesota measuring 13 x 15 inches. Original brown cloth stamped in blind and in gilt. Howes P 84, Sabin 58723.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages .

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, bookplate on front free endpaper, sectional maps waved at top edge. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth titled in cloth and photo reproduction mounted to front boards. Top edges gilt. xii, 590pp. Index. Folding sectional maps in pocket at rear. 100 black and white illustrations and photos. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Glenville, NY: Glenville New York Town Board. Good; Covers toned, staples rusty.. 1937. First Printing. Softcover. Stapled printed tan card covers. Black and white photo, bibliography. A solid copy of this regional history of the Town of Glenville in Schenectady County, New York. Relevant newspaper clipping laid in. WorldCat locates eight copies. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 15 pages .

Montpelier, VT: Vermont Watchman and State Journal Press. Good with no dust jacket; Library stamps and markings, spine sunned, . boards heavily worn, spine cracked.. 1882. Hardcover. Subtitle: Including a County Chapter, and the Local Histories of the Towns of Montpelier, -- Capital of the State, East Montpelier, Barre, Berlin, Cabot, Calais, Fayston, Marshfield, Middlesex, Moretown, Northfield, Plainfield, Roxbury, Waitsfield, Warren, Waterbury, Woodbury and Worcester. Hayes Lord, Col. James and Nabby Langdon, Gen. Ezekiel P. Walton, Mrs. Prussia Persons Walton, Samuel Prentiss, and many others. Numerous other illustrations of Vermonters and buildings. Maroon cloth titled in gilt on spine. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1200 pages .

Northampton [MA]: Picturesque Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn at head and tail of . spine and corners, faint soiling to front endpapers, toning to pp. 10-11 . (as from newspaper clipping, but no clipping laid in at present).. 1917. Hardcover. Blindstamped black cloth binding with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Top edges gilt. Many photos. Publisher's note at rear indicates that this is Volume I of what is hoped to be a multi-volume series that will include 200 or more families, but WorldCat does not show any subsequent volumes having been published. Northampton notables include Jonathan Edwards, Chauncey H. Pierce, General John L. Otis, The O'Donnell Family, Richard W. Irwin, Haynes H. Chilson, Edward H. R. Lyman, Christopher Clarke, and many others. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 411 pages .

NY: Andrews' Printer, (38 Chatham St. ). Very Good; Some light creasing and toning. Faint penciled name (A. M. . Catton? ) on top border.. N.D.. Ephemera. Circa 1858 handbill. Printed song lyrics with decorative border. Printed on 9.5 x 6 inch sheet on verso only. New lyrics to the old nursery rhyme with references to Queen Victoria, Battle of Sebastopol, Napoleon, and the prohibition law passed in the State of Maine. Last verse reads: “Mayor Wood has put the rumsellers through, The Maine Law’s a sad evil, We cannot get our toddy now; Pop goes the weazle. ”A nearly identical version of this ditty, with the “z” in weazel replaced with an “s”, can be found in Beadle’s Dime Song Book, A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs (1857). According to Grosvenor Library Bulletin: An Indexed Catalogue of Books in the Department of Local History and Genealogy (Mar. 1900) : Volume 1, Mayor Wood refers to New York City Mayor Fernando Wood,… Read More

Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Leather rubbed and flaking at edges.. 1897. Hardcover. Original brown pebbled and blindstamped leather with decorative gilt titles on front boards and spine. Gilt-stamped turn-ins, all edges gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Index, 28 portrait plates. Surprisingly tight and clean. A compilation of biographies of upstanding male citizens of Hillsboro and Cheshire Counties in New Hampshire, most notably home boy Horace Greeley, newspaperman and politician. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 481 pages .

Hartford, CT: Self Published. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Lower front corner bumped. Jacket tattered . and toned with some internal tape repairs and chips at spine and corners.. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Navy decorative cloth binding with titles and decorations in gilt, top edge gilt, deckled fore-edge and bottom edge. Black and white frontispiece illustration and other black and white illustrations and portraits. A history of early Hartford, Connecticut, the Wadsworth family, and the Connecticut River Valley area with a focus on the earliest land grants, social history, and political environment. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 399 pages .