[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]: [C.E. Auginbaugh, Printers], 1912. Hardcover. Dutch blue cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and keystone insignia of Pennsylvania. 60 pp. with bw frontis and 3 additonal bw plates. Published "to mark the positions as well as in memory of the Pennsylvania commands, engaged in the battle of cold Harbor, of June..... More

Harrisburg, PA: 1874. Softcover. Tan wraps, 56 text pp., plus many ad pages. On the cover: "The Behm Murderers. Trial, Conviction, Confessions and Execution of Rosentine and Moody. Executed at Harrisburg, July 9, 1874, with a full account of All the Executions in Dauphin County since 1797." It's almost difficult..... More

Harrisburg, PA: Telegraph Printing House, 1886. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding with faded gilt title on spine. 387 pp. illustrated frontispiece and one tipped-in folding lithograph Original Children's Souviner From the Centenary Tipped-In at Page 121 w/ Illustrations on Prominent Buildings (rear) and the Scene of the Attempted Burning of John..... More

Harrisburg, PA: B.F. Meyers, State Printer, 1876. Leather bound. 3/4 leather with marbled board covers and endpapers, marbled page edges, four raised bands. 811 pp., 1 illustration noted (map). In addition to the main event in this volume, which takes up the first 550 pages, there is also found: Narrative..... More

Breinigsville, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1973. Hardcover. Off-white cloth. 299 pp. Several bw ills. "The ABC Books of the Pennsylvania Germans", by Walter Klinefelter; "Abraham Harley Cassel; Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania German American Book Collector", by Marlin Heckman; and "Marriages performed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity..... More

Reading, Pennsylvania: Home for Widows and Single Women, [1911]. Original Edition. Paperback. Tan illustrated wraps, stapled. 96 pp. with illustrations only in advertisements. Three ephemeral bits laid in. A cookbook with practical and economical hints. Includes numerous advertisements from various local vendors. The cookbook was sold in aid of the..... More

Mohrsville, Pennsylvania, 1976. Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, 270 pp., profusely illus. in BW.; with ten-page stapled paper supplement. Title on front cover: Salem Belleman's Union Church, R. D. No. 1, Mohrsville, Pa., 1746-1976. A highly detailed and highly illustrated local church history, compiled at..... More

Philadelphia: 1797. Original (Not a reprint). Hardcover. Brown leather/boards. 5 raised bands. Decorative title block on spine; 913 + 64 + iv + (22). A few wildflowers and leaves pressed between some pages. No illustrations. Slightly heavy at 5 pounds and may require extra postage. Alexander James Dallas (June 21..... More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1918. First. Hardcover. Tan cloth/boards. Navy lettering and color image on front cover/spine. 336 pp. with color frontis and 100 bw illustrations from original photographs. Sales bill from 1965 purchase of the book laid in. Another in Faris's series about Philadlephia. A beautiful book about..... More

Norristown, PA: Herald Printing and Binding Rooms, 1892. Hardcover. Ivory cloth with gilt spine lettering and maroon front decoration. Decorative end papers. vii, 139 pp. + [1] appendix; bw frontis and several additional bw plates, tissue-guarded. An excellent volume for any Pennsylvania/Chester County/Reformed Church historian. Several specific churches are mentioned..... More

West Chester, Pa. Chester County Historical Society, 1971. Softcover. Printed stiff stapled wraps. 51 pp. illustrations in bw and one map. More

Philadelphia: Friends' Book Association, 1876. Hardcover. Terracotta cloth/boards. Blind-stamp design with gilt lettering and publisher's insignia. Beautiful, hand-painted snowdrops on front cover (added by an owner). 169 pp. with bw frontis/tissue guard. Contents include First European Settlements on the Delaware, several chapters on William Penn, Colonization of Pennsylvania, Legislation/Intercourse with..... More

Stevens, PA: Lancaster County Postcard Club, 1998. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt letters on spine and front cover, with gilt front cover decoration; 178 pp., 500 BW and color illus. What a treasure for Lancastrians, historians, and genealogists! 500 old postcards are reproduced here -- 48 of them in color. With..... More