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Last updated January 15, 2008


1. (Massachusetts-Revolutionary War). MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. Complete set of 17 volumes. Boston, Wright & Potter Printing Company: 1896. Complete set of 17 volumes in original blue cloth bindings. Many of the hinges have been archivally repaired. Former small library labels on bottoms of spines. Slight fading to gold titles on some of the spines. Shelf wear and rubbing to the spines and the corners. A few volumes are missing the blank endpages. Pages are clean and tightly bound and complete. Overall a very nice set of this of this important Massachusetts and Revolutionary War work. Lists detailed information for thousands of men. $975.00

2. Azoy, A. C. M. THEY WERE NOT AFRAID TO DIE, 1775-1781. Harrisburg, PA, Military Service Publishing Company: 1939. 303 pages. Shelf wear and rubbing to spine and corners. A few lightly soiled spots to covers. Former library ink stamp internally in several places. Binding slightly cocked. $10.00

3. Crockett, Walter H. SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BURIED IN VERMONT, AND ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS RELATING TO SOME OF THEM. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co.: 1973. 82 pages. Softbound covers. Wear and some chipping to paper spine. Binding is tight and contents complete. $20.00

4. Darwin, Gertrude B.-compiler. LINEAGE BOOK. NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DOCTORS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Volume XXIX (29). Washington, D.C., National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution: 1910. 408 pages. Rebound in plain blue cloth covers. Binding is tight and the contents are complete. A few pages have pencil notations in the margins. $20.00

5. Dillon, Sir William Henry. A NARRATIVE OF MY PROFESSIONAL ADVENTURES (1790-1839). Two volume set. Volume I, 1790-1802. Volume II 1802-1839. [n.p.], Navy Records Society: 1953-1956. 468 pages. Two volume set. Shelf wear and rubbing to spine and corners. Volume II has library ink marks on spine and card pocket inside front cover. Corners slightly bumped. Text clean and binding is tight. A scarce narrative of the author's many years in the British Navy, including the Revolutionary War. $145.00

6. Fitzpatrick, John C. THE SPIRIT OF THE REVOLUTION: NEW LIGHT FROM SOME OF THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF AMERICAN HISTORY. Boston, Houghton and Mifflin: 1924. 300 pages. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners. $10.00

7. Lyford, James O. OUR DECEASED MEMBERS, 1911-1914: SKETCHES OF THEIR HONORED LIVES. Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire. Concord, New Hampshire, State of New Hampshire: 1914. Some wear and rubbing to spine and corners. Slight soiling to covers. $15.00

8. Scribner's Magazine. SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE. Volume XXIII (23). January 1898 to June 1898. New York, Scribner's: 1898. 768 pages. This is volume 23 bound in 1/2 leather. Shelf wear and some scuffing. Some wear and scuffing to the leather spine. Corners are worn at the edges. Former owner's name embossed on bottom of spine. Binding is tight. This volume contains numerous historical articles, about the Revolutionary War. Also illustrations and articles by Charles Dana Gibson, Richard Harding Davis. A.B. Frost, Thomas Nelson Page, and others. $100.00

9. Steele, Matthew Forney. AMERICAN CAMPAIGNS. Volume II (2)-Maps. Washington, United States Infantry: 1939. This is volume II (2) only. Some shelf wear. Corners slightly bumped. 1939 edition. Volume II Only. $12.25

10. ter Braake, Alex L. THE POSTED LETTER IN COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA. College, PA, American Philatelic Research Library: 1975. Corners slightly bumped, else VG. $50.00

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