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Priests’ Prisons for Women, or A Consideration of the Question, Whether Unmarried Foreign...

Andrew Boyd Cross

Priests’ Prisons for Women, or A Consideration of the Question, Whether Unmarried Foreign Priests Ought to Be Permitted to Erect Prisons, Into Which, Under Pretence of Religion, to Seduce or Entrap, or by Force Compel Young Women to Enter, and After They Have Secured Their Property, Keep Them in Confinement, and Compel Them, a Their Slaves, to Submit Themselves to Their Will, Under the Penalty of Flogging or the Dungeon? In Twelve Letters to T. Parkin Scott, Esq., Member of the Baltimore Bar, and Vice Consul of the Pope

Baltimore: Sherwood & Co., 1854. First Edition. Octavo. 47 pp. String-bound printed wraps. Early waterstaining and browning of title leaf; portion missing from title; front and rear wraps detached but present. Binding otherwise holding. Scarce pamphlet from the Baltimore-born temperance advocate, pamphleteer, and all-around industrious reform advocate Andrew..... More

Price: $150.00

Miss Susie Slagle's [Signed]. Augusta Tucker

Augusta Tucker

Miss Susie Slagle's [Signed]

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First Edition. Signed by Tucker on blank preceding title page, dated November 18th, 1939. Octavo. 332 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth-covered boards with gilt and brown lettering. Price-clipped jacket is chipped and worn along edges with a couple closed tears..... More

Price: $75.00

Pieces of Eight [Nos. 1-10]. Boy Scouts of America - Troop 8

Boy Scouts of America - Troop 8

Pieces of Eight [Nos. 1-10]

Worcester, MA?: Boy Scouts of America Troop 8, 1949. Ten volumes; small 12mo (18cm.); each issue comprised of a single sheet folded into 4-paneled brochure; text and illus. printed mimeograph. A hint of wear, else a Very Good or better collection. Possibly unrecorded newsletter issued by the Boy Scouts..... More

Price: $150.00

Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Brenda Richardson,...

Brenda Richardson; Gertrude Stein

Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art

Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985. First Edition. Quarto (32x26x2cm); 203pp, including chronology for the Cone acquisitions. Eighty-one reproductions of the pieces in the collection; over 50 documentary photographs. Cochineal red boards with silver stamping on spine and front panel. No jacket, as issued. Note that the photographs show..... More

Price: $40.00

The Susquehanna. Carl Carmer, Stow Wengenroth

Carl Carmer; Stow Wengenroth [illus.]

The Susquehanna

New York: Rinehart & Co., 1955. First Edition, First Printing with "R" present on title page verso. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xiii,[1],493pp.; pictorial double title-page printed in green and black, illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with coin-sized loss at top..... More

Price: $45.00

Commercial Motor Transportation. Charles A. Taff

Charles A. Taff

Commercial Motor Transportation

Chicago: Richard D. Irwin, 1950. Stated First Printing. Signed by author with inscription to Dr. Harry Clifton Byrd, then president of the Univ. of Maryland. Blue boards tight and square. Pages clean and unmarked, tight in binding. Taff, a longstanding economics professor at the University of Maryland, served as..... More

Price: $40.00

The War Came By Train: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad During the Civil War [Signed]. Daniel...

Daniel Carroll Toomey; Courtney B. Wilson [fwd.]

The War Came By Train: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad During the Civil War [Signed]

Baltimore: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, 2013. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xii,292pp.; illus. throughout, chiefly photographic. Chip at top fore-edge corner of front jacket panel, tiny dents along board margins, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Signed by the author on title page. More

Price: $60.00

Baltimore Album Quilts. Dena S. Katzenberg

Dena S. Katzenberg

Baltimore Album Quilts

Baltimore: Baltimoire Museum of Art, 1981. First Edition. Quarto (28x23x1cm); 124pp, including bibliography. Illustrated throughout in color and B&W with quilt images, details, and documentary illustrations. Illustrated coated card wrapper; textblock of coated off-white stock. Card spine has been creased along left vertical edge, but not cracked; only slightest..... More

Price: $60.00

This Was Potomac River [Signed]. Frederick Tilp

Frederick Tilp

This Was Potomac River [Signed]

Alexandria, VA: Frederick Tilp, 1978. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xv,[1],358pp. & [5]ll. photographic illus., additional illus. throughout. Light shelf wear and wrinkling to jacket, jacket extremities a bit toned, especially spine panel, contemporary ownership label to front free endpaper verso, else Very Good and..... More

Price: $150.00

Presentation Binding] Italian Paintings XIV-XVIIIth Centuries from the Collection of the...

Gertrude Rosenthal [ed.]; Glen Alan Ruzicka [binder]

[Presentation Binding] Italian Paintings XIV-XVIIIth Centuries from the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art

Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1981. Uniquely bound copy. First Edition (of which 3000 copies were printed); this copy bound as gift presentation in 1981, upon first publication. Octavo (27.5x21x3.5cm); 334pp, including artist-specific bibliographies and index. Multiple paintings reproduced in B&W for each of the 27 painters within the Baltimore..... More

Price: $250.00

Baltimore & Ohio Passenger Service, 1945-1971, Volume 1: The Route of the National Limited. Harry...

Harry Stegmaier, Jr.

Baltimore & Ohio Passenger Service, 1945-1971, Volume 1: The Route of the National Limited

Lynchburg: TLC Publishing, Inc., 1993. [Visually Redesigned Edition, 1998]. Octavo; vi + 114pp. 200+ documentary and photographic illustrations in B&W and color. Full color glossy boards with pictorial front panel painted by Andrew Harmantas; photographic rear panel. Photographic double-spread front endpapers; rear endpapers reproduce train menu and tabulate historical..... More

Price: $30.00

Maryland Deponents, 1634-1799. Henry C. Peden Jr

Henry C. Peden, Jr.

Maryland Deponents, 1634-1799

[Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1991]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's grey pictorial glossy card wrappers; vii,[1],241pp. Very light wear from handling, else Fine. More

Price: $25.00

Life of Whittier's Heroine, Barbara Fritchie. Including a brief but comprehensive sketch of...

Henry M. Nixdorff

Life of Whittier's Heroine, Barbara Fritchie. Including a brief but comprehensive sketch of Historic "Old Frederick"

Frederick, MD: Great Southern Ptg. & Mfg. Co., 1897. Second Edition. Small, slim octavo; publisher's maroon cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt; 88pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear to spine ends and corners, contemporary ownership ex libris to front pastedown, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Short biography of..... More

Price: $45.00

Manly Deeds - Womanly Words: History of the 6th Regiment Maryland Infantry. James Fisher

James Fisher

Manly Deeds - Womanly Words: History of the 6th Regiment Maryland Infantry

Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books, 2003. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers; [4],ii,207pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear, else Just About Fine. More

Price: $45.00

Tess Monaghan [Limited Edition, Signed]. Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman

Tess Monaghan [Limited Edition, Signed]

New York: Mysterious Bookshop, 2006. First Edition, Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 95. Small, slim 12mo (18cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; 35pp. Fine condition. Signed by the author on colophon. Issued as Mysterious Profile #2. More

Price: $60.00

White April and Other Poems [Signed]. Lizette Woodworth Reese

Lizette Woodworth Reese

White April and Other Poems [Signed]

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. First Edition with FR symbol on copyright. Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Small octavo; [xii], 67pp. Printed green dust jacket with original $1.50 price intact; book in green cloth with blue lettering. Jacket heavily faded and split..... More

Price: $35.00

Elders in Each Church. Roy Moab Showalter

Roy Moab Showalter

Elders in Each Church

[Maugansville, MD]: Mennonite Historical Association of the Cumberland Valley, [2004]. First Edition. Large, thick quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; v,[1],78pp.; facsimiles, tables in text. Light dust-soil, a few faint surface scratches to rear cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. More

Price: $50.00

The Maryland Line in the Confederate Army: 1861-1865. W W. Goldsborough

W.W. Goldsborough

The Maryland Line in the Confederate Army: 1861-1865.

Gaithersburg, MD: Butternut Press, 1983. Reprint. Large octavo. 371 pp. + index and publisher's advertisements. Blue-gray cloth stamped in black and silver. Dark green endpapers. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Light edgewear to boards and joints with some faint rippling to spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More

Price: $75.00

The Government of Kent County, Maryland: Historical And Descriptive. William R. Howell

William R. Howell

The Government of Kent County, Maryland: Historical And Descriptive

Chestertown: Washington College, 1931. First Edition. Signed twice by author: blue ink "Sincerely yours, William R. Howell" under photographic frontispiece; specific inscription on front free endpaper: "To Harry Clifton Byrd, President, University of Maryland, With highest personal regards from the author, William R. Howell." Octavo; xiii + 199pp, including bibliography..... More

Price: $70.00

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