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KILLING COUSINS.
Edition: First printing.
Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one which introduces Mort Sinclair, a professional genealogist who is hired as a consultant by the Bay City police. 254 pp plus 5 pp of genealogy charts, map endpapers. ISBN: -916489388.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the pages)
Book ID: 86636More details Price: $20.00 -
POWDER KEG: A Personal Memoir of Growing Up a Knickerbocker and the Family History of How They Came.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86104More details Price: $25.00 -
JEFFERSON'S CHILDREN: The Story of One American Family.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A journey across the country by Shannon Lanier, a descendent of Jefferson, and photographer Jane Feldmen, to meet the rest of his family, the descendants - both black and white - of Thomas Jefferson -and in some cases, of Sally Hemings. INSCRIBED on the half title page by the author, Shannon Lanier, and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated throughout with photographs in both color and black and white. Introduction by Lucian K. Truscott IV. Index. Large square format. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-375-805974.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 83154More details Price: $40.00 -
REVERSALS.
Edition: First printing.
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second collection of poems. A title in the Wesleyan Poetry Program. 67 pp.
Condition: Near fine in gray cloth, in a good only dust jacket (price-clipped, significant rubbing and a bit of dampstaining to the lower edge of the back cover)
Book ID: 69204More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARRIAGE OF JOHN J. AND SARAH ANN KNOX, OCT 7TH, 1873 together with SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JOHN J. KNOX WILLIAMS, Oldest Grandson of John J. and Sarah A. Knox, Who Fell in Defence of His Country at the Battle of Chapin's Farm, September 29-30, 1864.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Near fine in dark green cloth with gilt stamping on the front cover. Uncommon.
Book ID: 57603More details Price: $125.00 -
PEARL'S SECRET: A Black Man's Search for His White Family.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An autobiography and family history which "combines elements of history, investigative reporting, and personal narrative . . . Neil Henry - a black professor of journalism and former award winning correspondent for the Washington Post - sets out to piece together the murky details of his family's racial past" Ranges from the story of overseer and Confederate veteran who fathered both sides of the family in Louisiana in the post Civil War era to the present day. Photographs. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-520-222571.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant.)
Book ID: 56298More details Price: $15.00 -
MUNRO EAGLE, Fall 1980, No. 11.
Edition: First printing.
Dansville, NY: Clan Munro Association, U.S.A. 1980. First edition - Includes articles and general news about the activities of the association and its members.. Illustrated with photographs, Small format. 24 pp.
Condition: Near fine in stapled two-tone mauve wrappers.
Book ID: 53916More details Price: $12.00 -
CLAN MUNRO MAGAZINE, No. 15, 1979.
Edition: First printing.
Skinnergate, Perth: Clan Munro Association (Munro & Scott, printers.) 1979. First edition - Includes articles on agricultural improvement in the 1840s, on General Sir Charles Munro, recipes, and more, as well as general news about the activities of the association and its members.. Illustrated with photographs, Advertisements. Small format. 48 pp.
Condition: Near fine in stapled glossy white wrappers.
Book ID: 53912More details Price: $12.00 -
CLAN MUNRO MAGAZINE, No. 13, 1975.
Edition: First printing.
Skinnergate, Perth: Clan Munro Association (Munro & Scott, printers.) 1975. First edition - Includes articles on the ending of a steel factory, on the estate Balconie and more, as well as general news about the activities of the association and its members. Illustrated with photographs, Advertisements. Small format. 44 pp.
Condition: Near fine in stapled glossy white wrappers.
Book ID: 53911More details Price: $12.00 -
LAY DOWN BODY: Living History in African American Cemeteries.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Detroit: Visible Ink Press, (1996.). First edition - Foreword by Michael L. Blakey, preface by W. W. Law. Describes 300 cemeteries in the U.S. and Canada, ranging from the early slave cemeteries to the Sea Islands of South Carolina, Atlanta, Nicodemus, Kansas and Toronto and Los Angeles. Includes a description of the burial practices and stories of the people who founded the cemeteries, as well as a section on genealogy for beginners. An oversized trade paperback, illustrated with many photographs, bibliography, index. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-7876-06510.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 50459More details Price: $25.00 -
INHERIT THE EARTH: A Social History,
Edition: First printing.
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Using parish records, county records and rate-payer lists, Duffy "has evoked with consummate clarity the lives of these long-dead, unimportant, yet essential people." - the Jarvisses of Essex - not rich or important, but 'everyman' whose livers were a microcosm of the events in the centuries they lived through. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings by Gavin Rowe, who also did the painting on the wraparound dust jacket.159 pp,. ISBN: 0-241-102057.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 45256More details Price: $28.00 -
THE FRENCH IN AMERICA 1488-1974: A Chronology & Fact Book
Edition: First printing.
Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1975. Hardcover first edition - Ethnic Chronology Series, No. 20. Foreword by the editor and compiler. Focuses primarily on French influence on the United States (not on Canada). In addition to the chronology, this reprints several significant documents and includes a bibliography and index of important French names. vi, 154 pp. ISBN: 0-379005158.
Condition: Ex-library in red cloth with gilt lettering, with relatively few markings (pocket at back) - a tight and clean copy overall.
Book ID: 39880More details Price: $18.00 -
THE TENTH GENERAL CATALOGUE OF THE PSI UPSILON FRATERNITY, 1888.
Edition: First edition.
(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania:) Executive Council of the Fraternity (by The Comenius Press) 1888. Hardcover first edition - "published under the direction of the Executive Council in the 55th year of the Fraternity." Gives the complete roll of each chapter; according to the introduction it was the intention to provide accurate statistical and biographical information on each member from the time he left college until the present (or until his death, for deceased members.) Also includes statistical reports on geographical distribution, those who served in the Union and Confederate armies, a summary of occupations, a table of relationships, and an index. Engraved frontispiece and small vignette on the title page. A large and very heavy book at 1038 pp.
Condition: Very good- condition in dark red cloth with gilt illustration on front cover, gilt lettering on the spine (front hinge cracked, rear hinge partially cracked, some bumping to corners). An uncommon book, and one which would be valuable for genealogical purposes and to social historians.
Book ID: 33332More details Price: $100.00 -
GOLD AND SILVER COLOSSUS: William Morris Stewart and His Southern Bride
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 32689More details Price: $20.00