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[Aiken, C. S., Editor]. - Sunset: The magazine of the Pacific and of all the far West. Published: 1909.
Need complete original issue from May, 1909.

[Annapolis High School]. - The Wake. Published: 1969.
Annapolis High School Yearbook for 1969

[Annapolis High School]. - The Wake. Published: 1966.
Annapolis High School Yearbook for 1966

[Annapolis, Maryland].
Please quote any interesting or uncomon books and pamphlets.

Bacon, Thomas. - Laws of Maryland at Large, with Proper Indexes [1637-1763]…. Published: 1765.
Printed at Annapolis by Jonas Green, printer to the province.

Baldridge, Harry Alexander. - Washington's Visits to Colonial Annapolis. Published: 1928.
Published by the U.S. Naval Institute.

Barker, Chris A. - Tomorrow May Never Come. Published: 1982.
A Marine's love affair with a battleship--the USS Colorado.

Barrie, Robert and George Barrie, Jr.. - Cruises, Mainly in the Bay of the Chesapeake. Published: 1909.
Please quote any copy.

Beers, F. W. - County Atlas of Schuylkill, Pennsylvania. Published: 1875.
Quote any copy including modern reprints.

Behrens, Kathryn L. - Paper Money in Maryland, 1727-1789. Published: 1923.
Please quote any copy including later reprints.

[Benjamin, Park]. - Shakings: Etchings from the Naval Academy. Published: 1867.
Published by Lee & Shepard, Boston.

Blum, Isador. - The Jews of Baltimore. Published: 1910.

Bosanko, Ed. - Buckets to Pumpers: Firefighting in the City of Annapolis, Maryland, 1755-1992. Published: 1993.
Illustrated by Ann Crain.

Boucher, Jonathan. - A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution; In Thirteen Discourses, Preached in North America between the Years 1763 and 1775. Published: 1797.
Printed in London.

Bowie, Effie Gwynn. - Across the Years in Prince Georges County. Published: 1947.
A genealogical and biographical history of some Prince George's County, Maryland and allied families.

Bowie, Walter Worthington. - The Bowies and Their Kindred: A Genealogical and Biographical History. Published: 1899.
Need the original 1899 edition published by the Press of the Cromwell Brothers.

Brown, Ford Keeler. - The Annapolitan Library at St. John's College. Published: [1931?].
Published by the college.

Bryan, Wilhelmus Robert. - A History of the National Capital from Its Foundation through the Period of the Adoption of the Organic Act. Published: 1914-1916.
Two volumes.

Burgess, Robert H.. - Louis J. Feuchter, Chesapeake Bay Artist. Published: 1976.
Published by the Mariner's Museum. Newport News, Virginia.

Burke, Oliver J. - The History of the Catholic Archbishops of Tuam. Published: 1882.
Published by: Hodges, 1882.

Busch, Jim and Diane. - Jimmy Connors, a Biography: Eye of the Tiger. Published: 1998.

Butler, Smedley D. - War is a Racket. Published: 1935.
Slim volume (51 pages). Need the original published in New York by Round Table Press, Inc.

Central Freight Association. - Tank Gauge Hand Book. Published: ca. 1900.
Listing of U.S. railroad tankers and their capacities.

Channon, Bob. - The Cold Steel Third : 3rd Airborne Ranger Company, Korean War (1950-1951). Published: 1993.
Assembled from records and letters of company members, edited and compiled by Channon, 800+ pages.

Colton, G. W. & C. B. - Colton's New Sectional Map of the State of Nebraska. Published: 1867-69.
Large, colored map folded into 12mo cloth covers.

Cotter, Charles H. - A History of Nautical Astronomy. Published: (1968).
Please quote any edition.

Crothall, Allan C. - Wealth from the Sea. Published: 1993.
Book on sea salvage, with info on recovery operation over the Lusitania in 1955.

Crowl, Philip Axtell. - Maryland During and after the Revolution; a Political and Economic Study. Published: 1943.

D'Alton, Monsignor E.A. - The History of the Archdiocese of Tuam. Published: 1928.
Published by: Phoenix, 1928.

Dept of the Navy. - Description of Modern Gun Mounts in the United States Navy. Published: 1894.
Printed by the Government Printing Office.

Dixon, Norman F. - Preconscious Processing. Published: 1981.

Doyel, Ginger. - Gone to Market: the Annapolis market house, 1698-2005. Published: 2005.
Published by the City of Annapolis.

Evans, Ben. - Memories of Steamboats, Campmeetings, Skipjacks, and Islands of the Chesapeake…. Published: 1977.
Subtitle: "...a first person account of some pleasant experiences in an era fast disappearing."

Finney, Charles G. - Memorial Volume of Revival Sermons. Published: 1860.
Believe published by Bremner.

Finney, Charles G. - Sermons on Important Subjects. Published: 1836.
Published 1836 by John S. Taylor, New York.

Finney, Charles G. - Prevailing Prayer-Meeting: a Sermon [on Acts. i. 1-14], etc. Published: 1859.
Booklet, published in London by Ward

Fleckenstein, Henry A. - American Factory Decoys. Published: 1981.

Gould, Rupert T. - The Marine Chronometer: Its History and Development. Published: [1923 and later].
Originally published in 1923. Please quote this or any later edition.

Gradidge, J. M. G.; J. M. Davis; and J. A. Whittle. - The Douglas DC-3 and Its Predecessors. Published: 1984.
Published by Air-Britain. Need the original 600+ page work, not the subsequent update supplements.

Hamilton, Charles. - American Autographs: Signers of the Declaration of Independence…. Published: 1983.
Two volumes. Quote any copy of this set.

Hance, Jesse S. - Two Days with Hitler in Yellowstone Park. Published: 1972.

[Hanson, Alexande Contee]. - Considerations on the Proposed Removal of the Seat of Government, Addressed to the Citizens of Maryland. Published: 1786.
Author is listed as "Aristides." Printed by Frederick Green.

Headley, Robert K. - Exit: A History of Movies in Baltimore. Published: 1974.
Self published, University Park, Maryland. Please quote any copy.

Henry, Mrs. R[obert]. G[oldsborough]. - Old Gardens of Talbot County, Maryland. Published: 1947.
Nineteen page booklet with illustrations and plans.

Hersey, John. - A Reporter at Large: Survival. Published: 1944.
Thin 10 page pamphlet on PT boats reprinted from a New Yorker magazine article for Elco Naval Division (of Electric Boat Company of Bayonne, NJ).

Herter, George. - Professional Guide's Manual.
Need volume 2 of the 7th Edition from 1965.

Hobbs, Peter. - Ice Physics. Published: 1974.
Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Hornung, Chuck. - The Thin Gray Line: The New Mexico Mounted Police. Published: 1971.
About the New Mexico Rangers. Published by Western Heritage Press, Ft. Worth, 202 pages.

Huffine, Robert G., et al. - History, 939th Field Artillery Battalion, 1941-1945. Published: [1979].

[Jacob, Edward J.]. - Washington's Farewell Address, 1796; Lincoln's Lyceum Address "The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions," 1838. Published: 1937.
Published by Edward J. Jacob at Peoria, Illinois, 1937.

Johnson, Robert J. - Gravesend: Serene But Still Profound. Published: 1975.
History of the Eastern Neck Peninsula and Rock Hall, Maryland.

Kelly, J. Reaney. - Quakers in the Founding of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Published: 1963.
Published by the Maryland Historical Society.

Kelly, Jacques. - Anne Arundel County, A Pictorial History. Published: 1989.

Keyser, Ephraim. - Catalogue of the 1937 exhibition at the Maryland Institute of Art.
Keyser was a Baltimore sculptor who died the year of this exhibition.

Knox, James William. - The Ol' Double Trouble. Published: [1949].
World War II tank landing ship LST-491. She participated in the Normandy landings.

Land, Aubrey C. - The Dulanys of Maryland. Published: 1955.
Subtitle: "A biographical study of Daniel Dulany, the Elder (1685-1783) and Daniel Dulany, the Younger (1722-1797)."

Leonard, Frances Wagner. - 'Old' Jacob Wagner of Davidson (Old Rowan) County and some of his descendants. Published: 1984.
Apparently published in Lexington, North Carolina in a limited edition. 429 pages.

Levi, Renato "Sonny". - Dhows to Deltas. Published: 1971.
By Nautical Publishing, 255 pages, illustrated with plans, etc. ISBN: 0245599568.

Lowell, Royal. - Boatbuilding Down East: How to Build the Maine Lobsterboat. Published: 1977.
Only interested in the original International Marine edition, not the 1994 reprint published by Simonton Cove.

Lull, Edward Phelps. - Description and History of the U.S. Naval Academy: From Its Origin to the Present Time. Published: 1869.
No publisher or place indicated.

Mackie, Richard. - Take this Job and Sell It!: the recruiter's handbook. Published: 1994.
By the Q E D Press, Fort Bragg, California. Approximately 160 pages.

Mackworth, Margaret Haig (Viscountess Rondda). - This Was My World. Published: 1933.
Autobiography. Mackworth was on the Lusitania when it was torpedoed.

Mariner, Essie L. - Christmas Story. Published: [ca. 1950s?].
Probably published either in Baltimore or on the Eastern Shore.

Marshall, Edward Chauncey. - History of the United States Naval Academy. . .. Published: 1862.
Published by D. Van Nostrand.

[Marylandiana].
Please quote interesting and uncommon books on Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay.

McGrew, Martha. - Paratroopers, Too, Rely on Reliance Quality. Published: [early 1940's].
Pictorial. Also titled "Parachute troops U.S.A.," or "Meet the Paratroopers." About the Reliance Mfg. Company in Chicago.

Merriken, John E. - Old Dominion Trolley Too: A History of the Mount Vernon Line. Published: 1987.
Published by Leroy O. King; Dallas, Texas.

Moore, Philip C.. - Yachts in a Hurry: an illustrated history of the great commuter yachts. Published: 1996.
By W. W. Norton, 224 pages, ISBN: 039303576X.

[Naval Academy]. - Fag Ends from the Naval Academy: A Collection of Naval Poems, Songs, and Autographs, Chronologically Arranged. Published: 1877.
Printed by the Homer & Lee Bank Note Company, New York.

Navy Office of Information. - Biography of Commander Ernest E. Evans. Published: 1961.
Thirty page book issued by the Biographies Branch, August 29, 1961.

Niles, Alfred Salem. - Maryland Constitutional Law. Published: [1915].
Published by Hepbron & Haydon, Baltimore, 1915.

O'Dell, Cecil. - Pioneers of old Frederick County, Virgina. Published: 1995.
Published with 3 maps on 2 folded sheets laid in, and these must be present.

Ogorkiewicz, Richard M. - Technology of Tanks (2 vols). Published: 1991.

Payne, Peter R. - Design of High-Speed Boats. Published: 1988.
Published by Fishergate Publishing, Annapolis.

Pendel, Thomas Franses. - Thirty-Six Years in the White House. Published: 1902.
Neale Publishing Co., Washington, DC. Pendel was White House doorman during the administrations of Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt.

[Prussian Army] Translated by Sir William Fawcett. - Regulations for the Prussian Infantry. Published: 1754, 1968.
18th century German military treatise, reprinted in 1968 by the Greenwood Press. Quote any copy.

Riley, Elihu. - Pictorial Annapolis, Anne Arundel and the Naval Academy. Published: 1906.
Published by King Brothers, Printers, Baltimore.

Schlerf, Gary W. - History of the Canton Railroad Company, Artery of Baltimore's Industrial Heartland. Published: 1996.
Published by the company.

Scott, Harry Fletcher; Annabel Horn; and John Flagg Gummere. - Latin Book Three. Published: 1939.
Part of the "Language, Literature and Life" series published by Scott, Foresman. Need this title and not the subsequent "Using Latin, Book Three."

Shore, Fred B. - Parthian Coins and History. Published: 1993.

[Spangler, A. M.]. - A Paradise for Gunners and Anglers. Published: 1883.
Hunting and fishing on the Delaware/Maryland peninsula in the Chesapeake Bay. Large folding map.

Speck, Frank Gouldsmith. - The Nanticoke Community of Delaware. Published: 1915.
Reprinted in 1981 by AMS Press. Please quote any copy.

Sprouse, Deborah A. - A Guide to Excavated Colonial and Revolutionary War Artifacts. Published: 1988.
Published by Heritage Trails, Turbotville, PA.

Steiner, Edward J. and Henry W. Howard, Jr., Editors. - King's Cliffe: the 20th Fighter Group and the 446th Air Service Group in the European Theatre of Operations. Published: 1947.
More interested in the original 1947 edition rather than the 1983 reprint, but will consider all quotes.

Stuart, Charles B. - Naval and Mail Steamers of the United States. Published: 1853.
Quote any copy, including modern reprints.

[Unit History, World War II]. - 389th Bombardment Group: a pictorial review of operations in the ETO. Published: 1946.
Also known as "the blue book," published in 1946 by Newsfoto of San Angelo, TX.

[USS John F. Kennedy]. - USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) 1967-1997: 30 Years of Proud Service. Published: [1997?].
Cruise book for 1997. Title on exterior front cover reads "United States Ship JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) Mediterranean/Arabian Gulf Cruise April-October 1997." By Taylor Publishing, Houston.

Utley, George B. - The Life and Times of Thomas John Claggett, First Bishop of Maryland and the First Bishop Consecrated in America. Published: 1913.
Published by R. R. Donnelley.

Vallette, Elie. - The Deputy Commissary's Guide Within the Province of Maryland. Published: 1774.
Quote any copy.

[Vietnam War]. - Sky Soldier, 1968. Published: 1968.
The yearbook of the 173d Airborne Brigade in Vietnam for 1968.

Walworth, Mansfield T.. - Lulu, A Tale of the National Hotel Poisoning. Published: 1863.
Author believed he and other guests were victims of a plot to poison President-elect Buchanan.

Warnick, Walter L.. - Warnick Families of Western Maryland. Published: 1995.
Originally distributed by the author.

Washington, John E. - They Knew Lincoln. Published: 1942.
Published by E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. Recollections of Blacks who personally knew the Lincolns in Washington and Illinois.

Welcome, Verda F. (as told to James M. Abraham). - My Life and Times. Published: 1991.
Verda Welcome was the first African American woman elected to the Maryland General Assembly.

Weslager, C. A. - Delaware's forgotten folk: the story of the Moors and Nanticokes. Published: 1943.
Reprinted in 1972 by University of Pennsylvania Press. Please quote any copy.

Whitney, Ralph E. - Sea Queens in Exile. Published: 1941.

Williams, Harold A. - A History of Eudowood Sanatorium 1894-1964. Published: 1964.