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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Used Genealogy Book Sale

Civil War Books

The Civil War Chronicles by J. Maurice Gallman, 544 pp., hardbound, jacket, Crown Publishers (2000), like new. - $25.00

How the North Won by Herman Hattaway and Arthur Jones, hardbound, jacket, 761 pp. - $30.00

Civil War Battlefields and Landmarks by Frank E. Vandiver, hardbound, jacket, 160 pp., like new - $20.00

The Civil War Dictionary, hardbound, jacket, 974 pp. - $30.00

The Army of the Potomac: A Stillness at Appomatto by Bruce Catton, Doubleday and Company (1953), hardbound, jacket, 438 pp. - $20.00

War So Terrible. Sherman and Atlanta by James Lee McDonough and James Pickett Jones, hardbound, jacket, like new. (1987), 385 pp. - $22.00


Virginia

Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Philip Aleander Bruce Volume II (1935), hardbound, 647 pp., good condition - $30.00


General

Early American Gravestone Art in Photographs, 200 Outstanding Eamples by Francis Y. Duval and Ivan B. Rigby, 810, paperbound, 133 pp. - $14.00

Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 17th edition, 1980-1981, hardbound, 863 pp., 1112 - $35.00

Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1988-1989, hardbound, 810 pp., 1112 - $35.00

Forever Diie. A field guide to Southern Cemeteries and Their Residents, paperbound, by Douglas Keister, 255 pp. Like new. $12.00

How to Trace Your Roots by Playle, paperbound, 32 pp.    Price: $5.00
 
Boston Marriages 1700-1809, 2 volumes, paperbound by Edward W. McGlenen, Clearfield Co., like new.       Price: $35.00

 A Gazetteer of the State of New-Hampshire by Moore, published by Heritage Books. Originally published in 1823. 79, paperbound, 299 pp.
      Price: $12.00

Irish Records. Sources for Family and Local History by Ryan, 1212, hardbound, jacket, (1997), like new. 668 pp.      Price: 49.95

The Famine Immigrants (1846-1851), Volume 3, 4, 5, 6, hardbound, good condition, $25.00 per volume.

Colonial Families by McKenzie, hardbound, good condition, 7 volumes. The Set: $300.00

New York Genealogical Research by George K. Schweitzer, Ph.D, paperbound (1988), 254 pp. Price: $8.00

Genealogical Research, Vol. II, American Society of Genealogists (1983), revised, 372 pp., hardbound. $8.00

Cavaliers and Pioneers by Nugent, 1690-92, Northern Neck, paperbound, 17 pp. $5.00


Georgia

Inventory of the County and Town Archives of Georgia. No. 17. Cook County by the Georgia Historical Society, 810, paperbound, 114 pp. - $11.00

Behind Those Garden Walls in Historic Savannah, paperbound, 811, 80 pp., photos of the gardens and layouts. - $11.00

Entry of Claims for Georgia Landowners, 1733-1755, printed Atlanta (1975), paperbound, 810, 254 pp. Cover yellow. - $35.00

An Index to English Crown Grants in Georgia 1755-1775 published by R. J. Taylor Foundation, 810, paperbound, 167 pp. - $24.00

Inde to Probate Records of Colonial Georgia 1733-1778, published by R. J. Taylor Foundation, 810, paperbound, 106 pp. - $24.00

Court Houses in Georgia (1825-1983), published by The Harrison Company, Norcross (1984), first edition, hardbound, 810, 216 pp. plus inde, black and white photos. - $18.00

Collections of the Georgia Historical Society, Vol. I, Miscellaneous Papers of James Jackson (1781-1798); correspondence regarding the Revolutionary War, hardbound, 109 pp. - $11.00

Department of Mines, Mining and Geology in Northwest, Georgia, published 1948 in cooperation with the Tennessee Valley Authority; geological maps and surveys.176 pp., paperbound, aged. $9.00

From Stage Coaches to Train Whistles. History of Gum Pond, Mt. Enon, Baconton, in Mitchell County, GA 1856 to 1976 by Mildred Jackson Colle, hardbound, 346 pp. - $22.00

1800 Census of Oglethorpe Co., GA; 28 pp., paperbound - $7.00

Atlanta 1847-1890, City Building in the Old South and the New by James Michael Russell, hardbound, jacket, 314 pp., like new. - $25.00

199 Years of Augusta's Library (Georgia), A Chronology by Berry Fleming (1949, University of Georgia Press, hardbound, 85 pp. - $9.00

Antebellum Athens and Clarke County Georgia by Ernest Hynds, hardbound, jacket, 196 pp., University of Georgia Press (1974) - 18.00

Post of Honor. The Pryor Letters, 1861-63 by Charles R. Adams (signed by the author). A story of the Pryor family and Capt. S. G. Pryor, commander of the 1st Battn. of Sharpshooters (1863, near Fredericksburg), hardbound, 456 pp.  - $15.00

Historical Account of Meriwether County (Georgia) 1827-1924 by Regina Pinkston, hardbound, indeed, 448 pages - $30.00

Historic Lott Cemetery, Waycross, Georgia, 810, 414 pp., hardbound, like new - $25.00

1860 Paulding County, Georgia Census (abstracted) by Jeannette Holland Austin, Willow Bend Books (2000), like new.     Price: $9.00.

The Creation of Modern Georgia by Bartley, hardbound, 279 pp. $18.00

Georgia Historical Quarterly Inde, Volumes I-L, 1917-1976, hardbound, vol one, 704 pp. $25.00

Fayette County, Georgia Probate Records 1824-1871 by Jeannette Holland Austin. Abstracts of court house records, 383 pp., hardbound, like new.       Price: $15.00
 
Darien by Spencer B. King, Jr., The Death and Rebirth of a Southern Town, hardbound with jacket. Mercer University Press (1981).       Price: $8.00

   
            Rare Books Collection

            Most of these books are very old and fragile and cannot ever be acquired ecept from an individual like myself. I have been collecting rare books for many years; the condition of the oldest books is fragile, with some covers torn, loose spine, etc.

      Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son by George Horace Lorimer, hardbound, 57 published 1905 by Small, Maynard & Company, 312 pp., good condition, ecept cover is faded.                Price: $8.00

   History of Henry Esmund, Esq. A Colonel in the service of Her Majesty Queen Anne written by himself. Published in Boston (1886), hardbound, decorated leaves, 409 pp. Good condition considering its age.                   Price: $10.00

       Great Palaces of Europe, 1212, hardbound (1965), 288 pp. Beautiful photographs.
                  Price: $10.00

                * It's A Changing World, 1995 yearbook of St. Thomas Moore school, Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta. Hardbound, good condition.                  Price: $7.00

         The Court of Richard II by Gervase Mathew, hardbound, jacket, good condition, 227 pp. (1968).               Price: $25.00
        
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      My Vagabondage by J. E. Patterson printed in England (1900), hardbound, 373 pp., photo of author, good condition.                   Price: $10.00

               * Benjamin Harrison, hardbound, 57 (1892)422 pp., includes photos. Rare. $25.00

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