Here's a
sampling of some of the hundreds of books we have for sale. If you
see anything you'd like, drop
us a line. We'll confirm its availability and tell you how
to buy it. If you are looking for something else that's not in print
(and who isn't) tell us what it is. If we have it, we'll let you
buy it from us. If we don't have it, we'll try to find it for you,
or tell you where you can get it.
Charles
Edward Potter, Genealogies of Some Old Families of Concord, Mass.,
and Their Descendants in Part to the Present Generation. 143 pages,
8x11, soft cover. This book is a facsimile reprint (Heritage Books,
1995) of a work originally published in 1887. It contains genealogical
information in tabular form concerning the earliest settlers of Concord
and their descendants (Barrett, Blood, Brooks, Brown, Bulkeley, Buttrick,
Conant, Davis, Farrar, Flint, Hartwell, Hayward, Hosmer, Hubbard, Jones,
Minot, Potter, Prescott, Wheeler, Willard, and Wood families) and biographies
of many of them (especially Barrett). Condition: new. Price,
postage paid: $23.00
William
Eleazar Barton, Doctor of Divinity, Lieutenant William Barton of
Morris County, New Jersey, and His Descendants (Vaile Press, Oak
Park, Illinois: 1900). 148 pages. A most charming, if
somewhat limited family history, by the biographer of Ms. Clara Barton.
One of our competitors is offering this book for $25 (plus postage) with
the following description: "Worn paperback with glue staining on spine,
binding cracked, covers loose at the top 4" or so. The book is water
stained at the spine edge of each page. Ex-Lib." Alternatively, you
can buy our copy for $20, postage paid. The binding is shot, but
the pages are clean -- an ideal candidate for rebinding (kidskin would
be nice). This volume is also avail on CD from Digital
Editions.
L.
Vernon Cabot, History and Genealogy of the Cabot Family, 1475-1927.
Two volumes; xxiv + 887 pages, 7x9, with index; published
in Boston, 1927, by Charles E. Goodspeed. A most interesting
account of the Cabots of Massachusetts and the closely related families,
most notably the Perkins family, with remarkable details as to the manner
in which these families accumulated obscene wealth in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, first through privateering, then through trade
in beaver pelts and opium, etc. ... You can buy inferior on-demand
reprints of these volumes for about $300; You can buy this first
edition from our competitors for $350. You can buy the all-electronic
CD version from Digital
Editions for $47 (shipping included). Or you can buy this clean
copy of the first edition from us, in red cloth binding with gold stamping,
in very good condition for $250, postage paid. These volumes
would be in fine condition, except that the gold stamping on the spine
is worn/faded.
Robert
Piercy Dow, The Book of Dow: Genealogical Memoirs. 1013
pages, 7x11. This heavy tome, published in 1929 by Robert P., John
W., and Susan F. Dow of Claremont, New Hampshire, gives us the history
of Henry Dow (1637), Thomas Dow (1639), "and others of the name immigrants
to America during Colonial times," and their descendants. We admit
to having purchased this volume accidentally -- we already owned a copy.
Condition: "good." Cover a bit soiled; one page torn (easily mended without
loss of integrit y). Price, postage paid, $90.00
Harry
Wright Newman, Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation.
590 pages, 7x9, indexed, published by the author in Washington, 1952, in
a numbered print-run of 350 copies. Subtitle: "A Genealogical History
of Mareen Duvall, Gent., of the Province of Maryland and His Descendants
With Histories of the Allied Families of Tyler, Clarke, Poole, Hall, and
Merriken." Our competitors offer a print-on-demand xerographic photocopy
with a generic paper-back binding for $200 or so. You can buy the
Digital Edition for
$40 (shipping included). The only other first edition we've found
on the market (no. 275 of 350) has a four-inch scratch on the front
cover, two white spots on the back cover, penciled notes in the text, and
inked "genealogical data" on the back end papers. It's priced at
$350. Or, you can buy our copy (no. 57 of 350), in unmarked, very
good (nearly fine?) condition (one of the tipped-in images has come unglued,
but can easily be reattached), with a clean, spotless red cloth cover
gold stamping. Our price is $250, including packaging and postage.
Richard
Gentry, The Gentry Family in America. 408 pages, 6x9,
indexed. This is an extraordinarily fine 1978 facsimile reprint
(by Goodspeed of Boston) of a volume originally published in New York 1909
by the Grafton Press.
Digital Editions is offering this volume on CD for $30 (shipping
included). The only other copies we've found in the marketplace are
xerographic reprints in "flex" or paper covers, ranging in price from $55
to $152.25. A copy of the same edition we are offering in red buckram
with gold stamping recently sold on eBay for $160. Its condition
was not nearly as good as ours. You can have our copy for $110, postage
paid. It's in fine, nearly mint condition. Only defects: slight
crinkling of the front cover end paper (a binder's gluing error) and a
previous owner's book plate.
Charles
H. Stone, The Stones of Surry, first edition (1951).
272 pages, 8x6. This volume has been in the family for years.
Mother gave it to us because she already had the second edition.
The second edition (which is now available on CD from Digital
Editions) updates the first edition with information about families
(mostly in the twentieth century) that somehow escaped the compiler's notice
when he put together the first edition. Condition: Good (mother
wrote in updated info on her family and the endpiece pedigree chart is
detached, but present). Price, postage paid, $40.00
William
Montgomery Clemens, North and South Carolina Marriage Records from
the Earliest Colonial Days to the Civil War. 305 pages, 6x9.
This book, published by the Genealogical Publishing Company in 1973, is
a reprint of a work originally published in 1927. Alphabetical by
surname (with entries under the names of both the husband and the wife),
showing both the date and place of marriage. Condition: nearly
fine (previous owner's rubber stamp impression in front and back and on
at least one (possibly more) pages within. Price, postage paid,
$40.00
Margaret
K. Fresco, Marriages and Deaths, St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1634-1900,
3d edition (1989), 527 pages, 7x11. This privately-printed volume
consists of three parts: marriages, deaths, and emigrants (i.e.,
persons who left the county), with entries in alphabetical order by surname.
It contains complete transcriptions of information found in original
sources -- all religious denomination. However, data Americans of
African ancestry is not included. Condition: mint in maroon, library
quality binding, gold stamped. Price, postage paid, $75.00
Jo
White Linn, Surry County, North Carolina Wills, 1771-1827: Annotated
Genealogical Abstracts. 227 pages, 6x9, indexed. This volume
was published in 1992 by the Genealogical Publishing Company (one of our
favorite publishers), but is now, apparently, out of print. An enlarged,
corrected version of the first edition, published by the author in 1974,
it contains not only wills, but also powers of attorney, bonds, inventories,
bills of sale, and other instruments, many of which have not been recorded
in other sources. At the date of its founding, in 1771, Surry
County included the present-day counties of Ashe, Alleghany, Wilkes, Yadkin,
Stokes, and Forsyth. Condition: mint in green buckram with
gold stamping. Price, postage paid, $40.00.
Eliza
T. Davis, Wills and Administrations of Surry County, Virginia, 1671-1750.
184 pages, 5x8, indexed, as reprinted for Clearfield, 1980, by the Genealogical
Publishing Company. This volume contains abstracts of more than 1,200
of the county's earliest wills and administrations. It is in print
(last time we looked) and available from Amazon and B&N for $21.50.
Or, you can buy this mint-condition copy from us for $21.00 postage
paid, and get it by return mail.