West Islip: Long Island Forum, no date. 12mo. hardcover cloth; Bailey was the founder of an Amityville newspaper and the L.I.Forum Magazine; some foxing on first few pages else very good in original sunned tissue dustjacket. More
Bayshore, NY: Paul Bailey,1939. Small 4to., stiff pictorial wraps, softcover magazine; 23 pages; black & white illustrations; articles include: “Rock, Hall, a Royal Manor”; “Weaving Long Island Sheers”; :South Haven’s Historic Church”; “Five Thousand Years of Relief”; “We the Taxpayers”: sunned pages else a very good tight copy. More
Bayshore, NY: Paul Bailey,1939. Small 4to., stiff pictorial wraps, softcover magazine; 23 pages; black & white “ illustrations; articles include: “ “The Shinnecock Canal”; “Pasteurization of Milk”; “The Benjamin Horton House”; “Relief Before the Pilgrims”; “Summer Visitors of 1773”; “America’s Last Frontier”; sunned pages else a very good tight copy..... More
Bayshore, NY: Paul Bailey,1946. Small 4to., stiff pictorial wraps, softcover magazine; 17 pages; black & white illustrations; articles include: “Singing Schools and the Old Fugue Tunes”; “East Norwich, Nassau County”; “Samp, Suppawn and Succotash”; “Thomas Hodgkins Gave a Library”; sunned pages else a very good tight copy. More
Bayshore, NY: Paul Bailey,1946. Small 4to., stiff pictorial wraps, softcover magazine; 23 pages; black & white illustrations; articles include: “Brooklyn’s Greenleaf Female Institute”; “1845 Preface to Pearl Harbor”; “Mills of Mill Neck”; “Montauk Ranch True to Tradition”; “’Smilin’ Through’ a Long Island Song”; “An Old Time No Good Schoolmaster”; sunned..... More
Bayshore, NY: Paul Bailey,1944. Small 4to., stiff pictorial wraps, softcover magazine; 23 pages; black & white “ illustrations; articles include: “Beach Plums and Fox Grapes”; “The Old House on the Hill”; “We’ve had our Blizzards”; “Dutch Houses of Kings County-Group IX”; “From Island Soul He Grew”; “New Jersey Miss Wins..... More
NY & London: Charles Scribner's Sons (1935). 2nd edition with B; small 4to; silver and blue clothe covered boards, hardcover; 256 pages; 120 full page black and white drawings by Bailey; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy in the rare red, blue and silver chipped and creased dustjacket... More
NY: Museum of the City of New York, 1973. small 4to; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 26 pages; a very good, clean, tight copy. More
NY: Dover Publications (1975). 4to.; stiff pictorial wraps; 304 illustrations from historical collections showing New York and New Jersey in their infancy; very good/o. More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1960. 1st edition, stated First Printing; 8vo. pictorial endpapers; 351 pages; color and black & white decorations; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a lightly edgechipped dust jacket with one small closed tear (see picture). More
NY: Columbia University Press (1994). 8vo; color pictorial stiff covers; softcover; 234 pages; black and white illustrations; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Valley Stream, Long Island, NY: Valley Stream High School, June, 1929. small 4to, faded blue wraps, softcover, 24 pages; small black and white illustrations; faded covers and light edgewear else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Albany: Van Benthuysen 1857. 8vo., yellow wraps, paperback; 43 pages; soiled and chipped covers else very good. More
NY: Carleton Publishers, 1864. 12mo; pebbled green cloth with gilt spine lettering, hardcover; 406 pages and 2 page Publisher’s book list; a very good, clean tight copy. More
NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 1950. Stated First Edition; 8vo.; green cloth covered boards with gilt on spine, hardcover; 262 pages; black and white frontispiece; back endpapers are sunned, on corner slightly bumped and boards are lightly rubbed on corners and spine ends else very good in an edgeworn..... More
New York: New York Marine Society of the City of New York 1995. 8vo., cloth covered boards, hardcover; 90 pages; map endpapers; foreword by Walter Cronkite; a fine, clean, tight, copy with no apparent flaws in a fine dustjacket. More
Smithtown, Long Island, NY: Rost Associates, 1984. 8vo. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 43 pages; b&w illustrations; separate folding map of Presbyterian Graveyard; inscribed by the author: “To Nancy + Sam Enjoy! Belle Barstow”; a very good, clean copy. More
Boston: David R. Godine (1998). Stated First edition; square 8vo.; cloth covered embossed boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; 93 pages; color illustrations; a very good clean, tight copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket. More
NY: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. First Edition, 8vo., cloth covered board,s hardcover; 248 pages; introductory note by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer; a very good, clean, tight copy in a soiled dustjacket. More
NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons (1973). First edition with a 1 present in the number line; Inscribed and signed by both authors on half-title page; 8vo.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 354 pages; black and white illustrations and illustrated endpapers; from the dust jacket “a history of eating, drinking and entertainments from..... More
Huntington, NY: The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (1992). 12mo., stiff decorative wraps, softcover; 177 pages; a very good clean tight copy. More
Port Washington, NY: Ira J. Friedman, Inc, 1962. 8vo., cloth covered boards, hardcover; vii, 424, ix; former owner’s name on front free endpaper else a very good, clean, tight copy in a very good dust jacket. More
New York: Brookhaven Town Bicentennial Commission, 1976. 8vo., stiff wraps, softcover, 12 pages; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws. More
Brookhaven, NY: The Town of Brookhaven Historical Advisory Committee (1985). 8vo; stapled stiff covers; softcover; black and white illustrations; Brookhaven Town Bicentennial Commission; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws. More
N/P: The Town of Brookhaven Historical Advisory Committee, 1975. 8vo; stapled stiff covers; softcover; 12 pages; black and white illustrations; Brookhaven Town Bicentennial Commission; a very good clean tight copy. More