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Subject: Book Store Catalog Section: Immigration and US Regional/Americanna
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 22:22:45 -0400

THE GENEALOGICAL CENTER, INC. MARY MAHON, PRESIDENT PO BOX 17698 TAMPA FL 33682 (813)265-2191 9-5 M-F TO ORDER, CONTACT MARY at: FL RESIDENTS ADD 7% SALES TAX mailto: POSTAGE & HANDLING $4.00/BOOK $6.00/BOOK OUTSIDE THE USA... IMMIGRATION * "Locating Your Immigrant Ancestor";Neagles,1975; 149pp,index;HB:$10.00 * "IRISH PASSENGER LISTS 1847-1871";Mitchell,1988;333pp, Index,HB:$32.50 SOLD * "THE IMMIGRANT IN AMERICAN HISTORY";Hansen,1940;230pp, index,PB:$8.00 * "GOING TO AMERICA";Coleman,1972, 1st Amer. ed.;317pp, index,illustrated,maps;HBDJ:$15.00 SOLD * "FIRST GENERATION", In the Words of Twentieth-Century American Immigrants;Namias,1978;234pp,illus.;HBDJ:$10.00 * "EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA", VOL I & II;2ND ed. with improvements, reprint 1970 (1st print was in 1758)total 632pp,HB:$45.00 for 2 vols. * "GERMANY REDISCOVERS AMERICA";Beck, 1968;333pp,index, HBDJ:$20.00 * "THE ATLANTIC CROSSING", THE SEAFARERS;Maddocks/Time/Life; Beautifully bound, ex-lib;176pp,index, beautiful plates; simulated leather:$8.00 * "The Story of Ellis Island";Heaps, 1967;152pp,index, HBDJ: $15.00 U.S.REGIONAL/AMERICANA * " Personalities of the SOUTH, 1976-1977;1977;Biographical; 641pp,HB:$25.00 * "Blow Ye Winds Westerly", The Seaports & Sailing Ships of Old NEW ENGLAND;Gemming,1971;183pp,photos,indx:HBDJ: $8.00 SOLD * "NEW ENGLAND Worships", The Changing Face of Faith shown in Words & Drawings;Over 100 places of Worship, many faiths,described in text & drawings from Pilgrims to Present;Wedda, 1965, 1st Ed.;Approx 200pp,HBDJ: $20.00 * "Flowering of the CUMBERLAND" (Ky,Tenn,VA);some family information;Arnow,1963;441pp, index,HB:$21.00 * "SEEDTIME ON THE CUMBERLAND";Arnow,1960, 1st print;449pp, index,map;HB:$25.00 * "Great SOUTHERN Preaching", A Collection of Sermons, with short Biographies of the Ministers who gave them;Crowe, 1926;280pp,HB:$35.00 * "LAKE ONTARIO";A History covering areas of Canada and NEW YORK;Pound, 1945 reissued 1970;photos, maps and Black and white plates;384pp,index: $8.00 * "THE PLAINS STATES";IOWA,KANSAS,MINNESOTA,MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, N. DAKOTA, S. DAKOTA;Time/Life, 1968;maps, color photos;192pp,index,HB:$15.00 * "THE BORDER STATES",KY,N.C.,STN,VA,W.VA;Dykeman;Time/Life; ex-lib;192pp,index,photos,HB:$7.00 * "The Plymouth Adventure", A chronicle Novel of the Voyage of the Mayflower;Gebler;appendix contains list of those on the Mayflower and what happened to them;377pp, maps of Mayflower route,HB:$15.00 SOLD * "The Border SOUTH States", VA,N.C.,W.VA.,Ky.,Tn.;Peirce, 1975, 1st Ed., EX-Lib.;some maps;415pp,index;HBDJ:$15.00 * "This was...In Fact...THE WEST";Rosenburg,1960ish;67pp, illus.,PB:$8.00 * "The Frontiersmen",A Chronological History of the Explor- ation of the Northwest Territory;Eckert,1967;665pp,map, HB:$$8.00 * "The LINCOLN Country, In Pictures";Frazier,1963;ca 50pp, photos,HBDJ:$8.00 * "ERRAND INTO THE WILDERNESS";Movement of European culture into the vacant wilderness of America;Miller,1956, 6th print, 1978;244pp,index,PB;Has chapters on "THOMAS HOOKER and the Democracy in CONNECTICUT", "Religion and Society in the Early Literature of VIRGINIA", "JONATHAN EDWARDS and the Great Awakening", etc.:$5.00 * "HISTORIES OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER, THE FARMER'S FRONTIER 1865-1900";Fite, 1966;272pp,index,HB:$5.00 SOLD * "THE YEAR OF DECISION 1846";DeVoto, 1943;524pp,index; HB:$5.00 * "A PIONEER'S HISTORICAL SKETCHES";Four Score and more years of American History in the Making;Bent,ca1928; 381pp,photos,PB:includes many biog.& autobiog. sketches, including:ANDERSON,AUGHINBAUGH,BAILEY,BATES, BENT,BISHOP, BLACKMARR,BRACE,BUSH,CHICKERING,COOK,COX,DANIELL,ELLSWORTH, FOSTER,FREDERICK,FRENCH,GRATTAN,JANSSEN,HOSWELL,LEONARD, MAYNARD,MORGAN,McALLISTER,OLSON,PARSONS,PAYSON,PRICE,RICE, SALYER,SCHNEIDER,SCHULTZ,SMITH,SPIVEY,MATRE,WOOD; also much history of Chicago:$24.50 * "LOW BRIDGE!,FOLKLORE AND THE ERIE CANAL";Wyld,1962,1st PB ed.1977;212pp,index,PB:$10.00 * "BETWEEN FRIENDS/ENTRE AMIS";A book about the border be- tween CANADA and UNITED STATES;The book chronicles the land and the people along both sides of that International Boundary.;The book was produced to honor the American Rev- olution Bicentennial and is a photographic essay;ca 270pp, HBDJ:$25.00 * "OLD MONEY, THE MYTHOLOGY OF WEALTH IN AMERICA";Aldrich, 1996;Biog.Hist. of the ALDRICH Family (Ch. 1) and much other hist. of American Families of Wealth;309pp,index, PB:$16.95 (new) * "AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY OF THE SIGNERS TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE"; 2nd ed, 1828, Vol II: Includes:SHERMAN, HUNTINGTON, WILLIAMS, WOLCOTT, FLOYD, LIVINGSTON, LEEWIS, MORRIS, STOCKTON, WITHERSPOON, HOP- KINSON, HART, CLARK, MORRIS; was leather bound, appears to have been partially burned on covers which are off, but present, spine in tact, several front pgs. loose, body of book in good condition with some water marking;435,pp, engravings;HB:$100.00, as is * "NEW ENGLAND INDIAN SUMMER 1865-1915";Brooks,1940;557pp, index;HBDJ:$10.00 * "SAINTS AND STRANGERS";Being the Lives of the Pilgrim Fathers & their Families, Frinds,Foes;Willison,1945; 512pp,index, map;HBDJ:$25.00 SOLD * "SAINTS AND STRANGERS";Williston, 1945, Time-Life reprint 1964,soft back;$5.00 SOLD * "THE OLD SOUTH, A PICTURE BOOK TO REMEMBER HER BY"; Gibbon,Smart & Beney,1979;beautiful colored pictures of many Southern homes (interior & exterior), some with names of former or early owners;HB:$10.00 * "GIVE ME THE HILLS";AN ACCOUNT OF ADVENTURES IN HIGH PLACES, INCLUDING THE ALPS,DOLOMITES,ROCKIES, WHITE MOUNT- AINS,N.H.;Underhill,1971 ed.;278pp,index,photos,HBDJ:$10 * "SALONS COLONIAL AND REPUBLICAN";Wharton,1900;Numerous reproductins of portraits and miniatures of men & women prominent in Colonial life and in the early days of the republic;286pp,indexed;HB:$60.00 * "THE LEGACY OF CONQUEST, THE UNBROKEN PAST OF THE AMERICAN WEST";Limerick, 1987;396pp,index,photos;soft cover:$15.00 * "TELEPHONE, THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS, THE WONDROUS INVEN- TION THAT CHANGED A WORLD AND SPAWNED A CORPORATE GIANT"; Brooks, 1976, 1st ed.;autographed by author;369pp,index, photos:HBDJ:$15.00 * "AMONG THE FOLKS IN HISTORY";by artist GAAR WILLIAMS,1935; Williams was a cartoonist who portrayed American life in pictures as well as text--He recorded things he knew and lived with even to specific pieces of furniture, gadgets. etc.;He was eminent historian;HB:$50.00 * "THE CANNING CLAN, A PAGEANT OF PIONEERING AMERICANS"; May, 1938;includes:UNDERWOOD,BURNHAM,APPERT,KENSETT, McMURRAY,CRARY,SEARS,ROACH,NORTON,HARLAND,JONES,EHMANN, MILLER,POLK,BENTLEY,DOLE,CHASE,PAGE,LATZER,BORDEN,MEYENBERG, STUART,SPRAGUE,TRENCH,SELLS,MERRELL,DORRANCE,HUME,SMITH, TIMMS,YOUNG,BRENZINGER,GRAHAM,AMS,BOGLE,COBB,EDGETT,KEMP, CHISHOLM,SCOTT,PALMER,ROGERS,RUSSELL,PRESCOTT,WILEY and others, with photos;487pp,index;HB:$35.00 * "AMERICAN BANKING STRUCTURE";Fischer, 1968;429pp,index, HB:$10.00 * "EXPLORING AMERICA'S BACKCOUNTRY";Nat'l Geographic,1979; ca.200 color photos,text;215pp,index;HBDJ:$25.00 * "THOSE INVENTIVE AMERICANS";Nat'l Geographic,1971;includes the likes of:BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,CHARLES TOWNES,JOHN FITCH, JOHN STEVENS, JAMES RUMSEY, ROBERT FULTON,OLIVER EVANS, ELI WHITNEY,CYRUS McCORMICK, CHARLES GOODYEAR,JOSEPH HENRY,SAMUEL MORSE,ALEXANDER G. BELL,THOMAS A. EDISON, WRIGHT BROS.,LEE de FOREST,VLADIMIR K. ZWORYKIN,ERNEST LAWRENCE,JOHN BARDEEN, WALTER BRATTAIN, WM. SHOCKLEY,and otheres;242 illustrations;231pp,index;HBDJ:$20.00 * "INTERVIEWS WITH MINING ENGINEERS";Rickard,1922;includes ARGALL,BRUCE,BRUNTON,BURCH,BUTTERS,CALLOW,CHANNING,FOOTE, JACKLING,JENNINGS,LEGGETT,LORING,LUCAS,MACKENZIE,MATHEWSON, MILLER,MOORE,MUDD,PERKINS,RICKETTS,RIORDAN,THACHER,WINCHELL, RICKARD;552pp,HB:$20.00 * "THE OREGON TRAIL";Parkman,illus. by Thomas Hart Benton, 1946;328pp,color illus.;HB:$35.00 * "OLD PLYMOUTH TRAILS";Packard,1920,illust.;351pp,illust. look like sepia photos;HB (cover has water or damp spots): $18.00 SOLD * "TWENTY YEARS OF CONGRESS:FROM LINCOLN TO GARFIELD, WITH A REVIEW OF THE EVENTS WHICH LED TO THE POLITICAL REVO- LUTION OF 1860", VOL I;Blaine,1884;646pp,fold out map of U.S. showing the area of the country at the time of Inde- pendence, engraved especially for this book;5 steel en- gravings;HB:$45.00 * "PIONEERS OF FRANCE IN THE NEW WORLD [HUGUENOTS]";Parkman, 1907;491pp,index;HB:$25.00 * "LAND OF THE INLAND SEAS, THE HISTORIC AND BEAUTIFUL GREAT LAKES COUNTRY";Ellis, 1974;285pp,index,maps,photos, text,history;HBDJ:$40.00 * "LOST HIGHWAYS, JOURNEYS & ARRIVALS OF AMERICAN MUSICIANS"; Guralnick, 1979;362pp,index,photos,soft cover;$12.00 * "GROWING UP WESTERN, RECOLLECTIONS BY:DEE BROWN,A.B. GUTHRIE,JR;DAVID LAVENDER, WRIGHT MORRIS,CLYDE RICE, WALLACE STEGNER,FRANK WATERS";Backes, 1991(1989);220pp, photos,soft back;These men, all octogenarians, write about growing up in territory barely tamed:$20.00 * "DUST BOWL, THE SOUTHERN PLAINS IN THE 1930'S"[includes KS,TX,OK,COL,N.MEX.];Worster, 1979;277pp,index,photos, bibliog.;HB:$25.00 * "MERCANTILE STORES COMPANY,INC.,A PROFILE OF A GROWING ENTERPRISE";1975;131pp,photos;includes biog.sketches and photos of:KINGSLEY,JOCKERS,SHAW,WINBIGLER;HB:$18.00 * "THE OREGON TRAIL";Parkman,npd;Caxton House,Inc.;blue cloth cover;some varmant has eaten through a few pgs in front and back of book;HB:$15.00 * "CITIBANK 1812-1970";Cleveland & Huertas,1985;456pp,index, photos,lists of directors since 1812;HBDJ:$25.00 * "TALES OF OLD NEW ENGLAND";Oppel, 1986;This is a compila- tion of articles from Journals,including:NANTUCKET,MONT- PELIER,HANOVER,DARTMOUTH,PROVIDENCE,MAINE COAST,WOODSTOCK, CAPT. JOSHUA SLOCUM, NEWPORT,BEVERLY,YARMOUTH,JONATHAN TRUMBULL, NASHUA, ETC.;Illustr.;474pp;HB:$48.00 MAYFLOWER * "MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS AND THEIR MARRIAGES FOR TWO GENER- ATIONS AFTER THE LANDING";Landis,1985;37pp,soft back:$8.00SOLD WHO'S WHO & SUCH * "Who's Who In the East",1995-1996;1328pp,New,HB:$35.00 * "BRIEF LIVES: A BIOGRAPHICAL COMPANION TO THE ARTS"; Kronenberger,1st ed.T09/71,2nd print;900pp,alpa,HB:$15.00 * "WHO'S WHO IN THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST,1991-1992":$25.00 * "WHO'S WHO IN THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST,1973-1974":$25.00 * "WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA 1974-1975" 2 VOLUMES:$40.00 * "WOMEN IN SCIENCE, ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE 19TH CENTURY, A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY";Ogilvie,1986, 1st ed.;254pp, index;HBDJ:$18.00 * "WHO'S WHO 1972-1973" BRITISH EDITION,pub. London;3555pp, HBDJ:$25.00 * "WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA:$25.00 each -VOL X:1918-1919;spine cover off, front cover loose -VOL 12:1922-1923;spine cover missing,front & back covers loose,otherwise intact - -VOL 13:1924-1925;back spine loose & unreadable,covers attached -VOL 14:1926-1927;1st few pgs.look like a mouse ate part of them (not part of the text);outside covers aged -VOL 15: 1928-1929;covers show age -VOL 17:1932-1933 (2 years);spine cover loose -VOL 19: 1936-19337;cover shows age -VOL 20:1938-1939;looks like new -VOL 24:1946-1947 -VOL 34:1966-1967 (2 years) * "WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA:1974-1975";Two Volumes,like new $40.00 (plus $10.00 P&H) FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS * "40 YEARS OF AZO", A complete & factual historyu of the events and activities of the ALPHA ZETA OMEGA, A PHARMA- CEUTICAL Fraternity, from its inception 1919-1960;1960; 335pp,photos,HB:$35.00 -- \\\|/// \\ ~ ~ // ( @ @ ) +------------------oOOo- (_) --oOOo-----------------+ |W*elch,W*ittwer,M*auchly,Z*immerman,S*tone,Z*eigler | |R*yf,A*mstutz,L*ewis,H*ardee,T*yson,S*chochli,W*eber| |Z*urfluh,S*pychiger,M*osser,A*mstutz,N*euenschwander| |N*ussbaum,S*hitz,H*enry,M*osteller,A*bel,M*ay,F*ish | |M*allory,M*etzger,M*organ,T*immons,B*rooks,L*eichti | |F*ields,C*herry,M*oore,R*ouse,McG*owan,M*oye,C*orey | +-----------------------------Oooo.------------------+ I'm ( ) Richard Welch .oooO ) / TAMPA ( ) (_/ \ ( Searchin' \_) ------------------------------