The Wright Family history
no place: Martha Jean Bybee Vlahos, 1982. 74p., preface, photos, five nicely-printed folding genealogical charts, blank pages at end for adding information, very good in original wine cloth and gilt. More
Cat.No: 111721
no place: Martha Jean Bybee Vlahos, 1982. 74p., preface, photos, five nicely-printed folding genealogical charts, blank pages at end for adding information, very good in original wine cloth and gilt. More
Cat.No: 111721
New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. Hardcover. x, 694p. + 16p. photos, first printing, dj, very good. More
Cat.No: 75344
San Rafael CA: author, as Madeira Publications, 1993. Paperback. 57p., illustrated with numerous pen sketches by Everhart and a couple line maps, one a period county map in facsimile. Author Baptist has signed next his printed name on the titlepage. A sound copy-shop production, 11x8.5 standard leaves under decorated cardstock..... More
Cat.No: 318216
n.p. the authors, [197-?]. 347p., very good in wraps, black plastic comb binding. Cookbook compiled in memory of Fern Plummer Fenton by her children, with a preface noting that Fern had always wanted to write a cookbook but never did. Includes a genealogical section at the end. More
Cat.No: 193647
Honolulu: Hawaii Chinese History Center, 1981. Pamphlet. 32p., staplebound booklet, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Intended for Chinese Americans seeking to learn about their ancestral villages in Guangdong. More
Cat.No: 216559
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1988. Hardcover. 528p. + 16p. illustrations, endpaper map, hardbound first edition in 9.5x6.5 inch clothbacked boards and dust jacket. Nice clean copy. Chinese American's 34-generation genealogical reconstruction of his family's history. More
Cat.No: 9540
St. Louis: Christian Nationalist Crusade, [1944?]. Leaflet, printed on one side only, 11x8.5 inches, creased into thirds, paper toned else good condition. Alleged to have been prepared by "The Carnegie Institution," more likely from the ravings of Robert Edward Edmondson. From the leaflet - "Millions of dollars are being spent..... More
Cat.No: 220002
Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1985. Hardcover. 111p., frontis, preface, foreword, genealogy, photos, very good first edition in pictorial boards as issued. Signed by the author. Autobiography of San Francisco bibliographer of Californiana, with material on WWI. More
Cat.No: 156975
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1979. Hardcover. First edition in English: xii, 206p., illustrated with one folded route map, a family tree, a portrait, and a sketch of the Holy Shroud. Hardbound in Hakluyt's blue cloth boards gilt & blind and enclosed in the dust jacket. Top edge of casing bears..... More
Cat.No: 281092
Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum 'Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum', 1992. Paperback. 83p., illustrated with numerous b&w and full-color reproductions, softbound in 8x8.5 inch glossy pictorial wraps. Please note, the text is entirely in the Dutch language. A nice crisp clean copy, small spot of wear to cover's foredge else entirely sound. More
Cat.No: 264390
New York: William-Frederick Press, 1958. Pamphlet. 40p., wraps. 8.5x5.5 in. Very Good. Family history of the Van Hornes, with an emphasis on Elizabeth, whose father was an Army chaplain; the family was stationed in Alaska shortly after its purchase by the US government in 1867. More
Cat.No: 310897
Moyahua, Zac: Self-published by the author, 1999. Paperback. 92p., illustrated with four genealogical trees and color covers that reproduce period artwork showing peasants gaming, drinking, staging cockfights. Softbound in 8x5 inch glossy decorated wraps, a nice clean copy. More
Cat.No: 221671
Santa Barbara: Queretaro Research Project, Center for Chicano Studies and Department of Anthropology, UCSB, 1990. 14p., printed recto-only, appendices, 8.5x11 inches, text in Spanish, maps, list of the families of Quetretanos, stapled printed wraps. Queretaro Research Project Preliminary Report. More
Cat.No: 156057
npl: Self-published by the author, 1985. Paperback. 99p., wraps, illus., diagrams, very good condition. Text in Spanish. For a Mexican audience. More
Cat.No: 308009
Rio de Janeiro: Centro Latino-Americano de Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales, 1959. Paperback. 60p., sewn signatures paperbound in 9x6 inch printed wraps with rubricated titling; a little toned and worn, a sound copy with no ownership or other markings. Text in Spanish. Publicacion n.o 5. More
Cat.No: 216252
Fullerton, CA: Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research, 1994 and 1995. Paperback. Two volumes,8.5x11 inches, very good in wraps. Vol. I: 106p. Vol. II: vi, 232p. Articles on numerous genealogical topics, including many on Marranos. More
Cat.No: 120047
N. pl. Corvina Kiadó, 1979. Hardcover. 66p. + 56 color plates and other internal illustrations, a few pencil notations, 9x12.5 inch hardbound in lovely rough linen titled in black; has a very presentable dust jacket. This dj was once taped to book's pastedowns in a now-discarded brodart, the dj is..... More
Cat.No: 25056
Kaćuni, Bosnia and Herzegovina: UG Hastahana, 2008. Paperback. 125p.,wraps, illustrated with black and white photos and a fold out family tree, crease on front blank and title page, else very good condition. Text in Bosnian. More
Cat.No: 227791
Salt Lake City: USA Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1980. Paperback. Texts of 13 or 14 papers and panels variously paginated, softbound in substantial 10.5x8 inch dark blue wraps, one of a series, this complete in itself, Mild edgewear, back cover bears..... More
Cat.No: 228709
Madison WI / Berkeley CA: Self-published by the author, 1998 / 2005. Spiral_bound. 158p., illustrated with period photographs, softbound in 11x8.5 inch copyshop wraps comb-bound under green cover-sheets titled black. A perfect, unmarked copy. Peasant life amongst Catholic serfs under big thumbs: indifferent landholders and doctrinaire clergy. Subject immigrated to..... More
Cat.No: 237631
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxii, 178p., period photography and a genealogical tree, signed and inscribed by Hartfiel. First printing, dj, a very good copy. Hartfield's mixed-race mother grew up in the octoroon world of New Orleans, migrated to Bronzeville in the early 20th century. The author herself is..... More
Cat.No: 101326
Washington DC: Lambda Rising, 2001. Magazine. 52p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, news, articles, reviews, ads, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Started as a newsletter then became Lambda Rising Book Report, a tabloid, for volume one. More
Cat.No: 291200
Baltimore: Published for the author by Otter Bay Books, 2018. Hardcover. xiii, 445p., an expensive private production: excellent matte alkaline paperstock neatly provided with color and b&w period imagery, a heavyweight textblock bound securely in sturdy blue buckram boards gilt and enclosed in its similarly well-designed dust jacket. The single..... More
Cat.No: 309474
Copenhagen: Presswork by Bogtrykkeriet, 1959. Paperback. 147p., illustrated with numerous folding genealogical charts, softbound in 9.5x6 inch buff wraps titled in red and black. Inscribed and autographed on the half-title by Kjer. Cover bears a small ownership signature, an illegible rubber-stamp impression (institutional), several smudges and a faint line of..... More
Cat.No: 312106
Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1981. [12p.] including covers, 7x10 inches, illustrations, facsimiles of documents, three-hole-punched, stapled wraps. AASLH Technical Leaflet 135. A guide to beginning genealogical research for African Americans. More
Cat.No: 156075