In Memory of David Archer
by Barker, George
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x0x7. Signed by author. First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('George Barker, for Mike'). Top edge faintly foxed, three tiny spots on fore-edge, tiny sticker on jacket spine base. 1973 Hard Cover. 77, [1] pp. 8vo. Barker was part of the New... Read More
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Fatal Caress (Dell 733)
by Barker, Richard; Boucher, Anthony
New York: Dell, 1947. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Pages toned, light edge wear some creases along front edge. 1947 Mass Market Paperback. 222, [2] pp. A collection of true crime writing from the 17th century to the present, with a preface by mystery writer Anthony Boucher.
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The Blockade Busters
by Barker, Ralph
New York: Norton, 1977. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. First American edition. Jacket price clipped, page ridges foxed. 1977 Hard Cover. 224 pp. Contains a detailed account of three important British naval blockade-running attempts from neutral Sweden during WWII.
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The World is My Oyster, Volume 1: From Iceland to The South Pacific
by Barker, Thomas B
Rochester: Thomas B. Barker / Mercury Print Productions, 2009. Large Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 0x0x0. An exceptional copy. 2009 Large Hardcover. 100 pp. Oblong. 8 3/4 x 11 3/8. A stunning collection of landscape and wildlife photography taken by the author during his travels.
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Newspaper Boy
by Barker, Thomas B
CreateSpace, 2011. Trade Paperback. Fine. 6x0x9. New. 2011 Trade Paperback. 94 pp. Travel to the 1950's with Tom Barker as he takes you on his Rollfast Bicycle for a ride back in time when the minimum wage was $1 an hour, a stamp cost 3 cents and a newspaper was a nickel. Tom takes you on a visit... Read More
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The Legend of the Pikesville Cave
by Barker, Thomas B
CreateSpace, 2015. Trade Paperback. Fine. 6x0x9. Brand new from author, an exceptional copy. 2015 Trade Paperback. iv, 235, [1] pp. In this fiction/fantasy novel follow a seventeen year old mercenary from Germany as he fights in the Civil War, blows up ammunition trains, and through his experience with the newly patented dynamite builds railroads across America. Along the... Read More
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Gustave's Children: Growing Up in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries - The Legend of the Pikesville Cave, The Legend Continues
by Barker, Tom
Webster, New York: Self-Published, 2017. Trade Paperback. Fine. 6x0x9. First edition - a paperback original. Brand new from author. 2017 Trade Paperback. iv, 241 pp. This book will have you laughing. It'll have you crying. But most of all you will be fascinated by the events and the people you meet in this sixty-six year span of American... Read More
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Kentucky's Pioneer Lithotomists
by Barkley, A.H
Cincinnati: C.J. Krehbiel & Company, Publishers, 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Signed by author. First edition. Inscribed & signed ('To Cap. F. Houston Shaw with the compliments of the author, A H Barkley, 4-16-19') on title page, with an additional credential ('FACS.') added by author next to his name. Boards faintly rubbed. 1913 Hard... Read More
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![The Water Scandal: A Story of Political and Municipal Graft and Corruption [The Decade]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/143/922/1375922143.0.m.jpg)
The Water Scandal: A Story of Political and Municipal Graft and Corruption [The Decade]
by Barnaby, Horace T
Grand Rapids: Shaw Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First thus. Former library copy with usual marks. First gathering slightly sprung, indicating it may have been repaired at the binding at some point. 1910 Hard Cover. 325 pp. A novel about political corruption, originally published under a different title in 1908 (see below), and inspired... Read More
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Extracts from the Journal of Nathaniel K. Fairbank, 1850-1852 (Rochester History, July, 1978, Vol. XL, No. 3)
by Barnes, Joseph W
Rochester, New York: Rochester Public Library, 1978. Stapled Binding. Very Good. Wrappers toned. 1978 Stapled Binding. 24 pp. Nathaniel Kellogg "N.K." Fairbank (1829 - 1903) was a Chicago industrialist whose company, the N.K. Fairbank Co., manufactured soap as well as animal and baking products in conjunction with the major meat packing houses of northern Illinois. The company had... Read More
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From Books to Multimedia: A History of the Reynolds Library and the Reynolds Audio-Visual Department of the Rochester Public Library (Rochester History, October, 1974, Vol. XXXVI, No. 4)
by Barnes, Joseph W. & Robert W
Rochester, New York: Rochester Public Library, 1974. Stapled Binding. Near Fine. Minor general wear. 1974 Stapled Binding. 40 pp. Mortimer Reynolds, prominent lifelong Rochesterian and businessman, came to purchase the collection virtually intact. Reynolds sought to form a new library (comprised of the collection he bought) in honor of his father and brother, Abelard and William Reynolds, who... Read More
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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters: A Novel
by Barnes, Julian
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x8. First American edition. Jacket lightly toned. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 1989 Hard Cover. 307 pp. It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories... Read More
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Arthur & George: A Novel
by Barnes, Julian
New York: Vintage International, 2007. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. Sixth printing. Pencil name on front cover verso. 2007 Trade Paperback. 445 pp. As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later—one... Read More
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The Valley of the God-Almighty Joneses: Reminiscences of Frank Lloyd Wright's Sister
by Barney, Maginel Wright; Burke, Tom
New York: Appleton-Century, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x6x1. First edition. Jacket price clipped, ink name on front endpaper, jacket a bit toned. 1965 Hard Cover. 156 pp. Memoir by Frank Lloyd Wright's sister, who was notable in her own right as a children's book illustrator and graphic artist. Her daughter, Elizabeth Enright, was an... Read More
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The Suburban Gardening Guide
by Barnes, Parker Thayer
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Rear board staine, some loss of titles and decorations from spine and front board, edges faded, rear hinge weakening. 1913 Hard Cover. 147, [7] pp. An alphabetic guide for the home gardener, with a helpful appendix providing planting tables for flowers, vegetables, and bulbs,... Read More
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4 Score & 4 Rochester Portraits 1984
by Barnes, Joseph W.; Stevens Heineger, Mary Lynn
Rochester: 1984 Rochester 150, 1984. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Spine lightly worn. 1984 Trade Paperback. 172 pp. This collection of sketches of 84 Rochesterians is part of the city's 150th birthday celebration, and an outgrowth of the Sesquicentennial Parade. The Parade Committee was charged to create a people's parade which would elicit and encourage participation from the... Read More
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Gwenda
by Barnes-Grundy, Mabel
New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1910. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Gilt titles and white title panel a bit rubbed with minor loss, edges foxed. 1910 Hard Cover. 361 pp. EXCERPT: "When you command, I always obey. Perhaps you haven't noticed this, but it is true nevertheless. And I don't think I am... Read More
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![Compendium Logic, seu Dialectica, tradita a Rev. Josepho Barns, scripta vero ab Auditore ejus Obsequentissimo Phil Warham, inchoate die 14 Julii Anno 1740. [Leather-Bound Antiquarian Manuscript]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/980/371/1504371980.0.m.jpg)
Compendium Logic, seu Dialectica, tradita a Rev. Josepho Barns, scripta vero ab Auditore ejus Obsequentissimo Phil Warham, inchoate die 14 Julii Anno 1740. [Leather-Bound Antiquarian Manuscript]
by Barns, Josepho; Warham, Phil
S.N, 1740. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Lacks leather title label, joints weakening but binding holding firmly, edges rubbed. 1740 Full-Leather. About 240 pages, unpaginated, of neatly penned manuscript, bound in full calf with five raised spine bands and gilt decorations in compartments. 16mo. An eighteenth century volume dedicated to formal logic and the art of dialectic, with several diagrams... Read More
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A Prince of Good Fellows
by Barr, Robert
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1902. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Sullivan, Edmund J. 2nd printing. Spine a bit toned. 1902 Hard Cover. x, 340, [2] pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and plates by Edmund J. Sullivan. A historical novel set in Scotland by the Scottish-Canadian author, journalist,... Read More
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Physical Ethics or The Science of Action. An Essay
by Barratt, Alfred
London: Williams and Norgate, 1869. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Binding shaken, pencil underlining and marginalia, rear endpapers lightly stained. 1869 Hard Cover. vi, 387 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles, black stamped borders. The first book by the Oxford-educated barrister and philosopher. An examination of ethics discussing humanity's moral sense as informed by the nature... Read More
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Physical Ethics or The Science of Action. An Essay
by Barratt, Alfred
London: Williams and Norgate, 1869. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition. Top corner of rear board bumped. 1869 Hard Cover. vi, 387 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles, black stamped borders. The first book by the Oxford-educated barrister and philosopher. An examination of ethics discussing humanity's moral sense as informed by the nature of society, emotions,... Read More
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Christine: A Fife Fisher Girl
by Barr, Amelia E. [Edith]
New York / London: D. Appleton and Company, 1917. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Mulford, Stockton. First edition. Light dent on front board, rear board lightly soiled, pencil marginalia and underlining. 1917 Hard Cover. 372 pp. Color frontispiece by Stockton Mulford. The story is about Christine, the sweetest lass in the entire village, and is set... Read More
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The Forms of Water: A Novel
by Barrett, Andrea
New York: Pocket Books, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x6x1. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Jacket reverse a bit toned, otherwise an excellent copy. 1993 Hard Cover. 292 pp. "Brendan Auberon, an eighty-year-old man living in a nursing home, longs to see his two hundred acres of... Read More
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Ship Fever and Other Stories
by Barrett, Andrea
New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1996. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 96x16x137. Signed by author. Second printing. Signed by author on title page with inscription, "For Dave, with best wishes." National Book Award Winner sticker on front jacket panel. Minor general wear. 1996 Hard Cover. 254 pp. National Book Award winner. "A collection of stories... Read More
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Hanover, New Hampshire, Volume II (Images of America)
by Barrett, Frank J. Jr
Arcadia, 1998. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 6x0x9. First edition. Minor edge wear, page ridges very faintly foxed. 1998 Soft Cover. 128 pp. To Hanover residents past and present, to the tens of thousands of Dartmouth College graduates around the world, and to the thousands of visitors to the town and college campus each year, Hanover is... Read More
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