Recent Arrivals from The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)

New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. fine/fine. First edition stated. Fine (humorous notation in red pencil on the fropnt free endpaper, "This book stolen from Nick Boros". We didn't do it. Promise.) in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 252 pp. with index. Noted boxing sportswriter Barney Nagler bemoans the level to which boxing fell by 1964--riddled with… Read more about this item

Washington DC: National Education Association, 1956. Revised. Softcover. Very good. Very good with light edgewear and spine wear. Clean and tight. A revision of the 1944 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development publication, revised by Sybil K. Richardson. Softcover pamphlet. 64 pp. A guidebook for teachers who are curious about their role in disciplining young students. Offers methods… Read more about this item

Bridgeton, NJ: George F. Nixon, 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Hardcover in original black cl;oth with spine letteerd in gilt. 142 pp. with index. Deaccessioned from a county historical society, with only a bit of white lettering foot of spine and their ownership sticker rear freee endpaper; 1/2" chip to the bottom of the spine… Read more about this item

Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine. No dust jacket. Oversized. First edition. Hardcover. 48 pp (w/ bibliography). The story of thirteen colonies declaring independence from England, and the revolutionaries who put their minds to writing the Declaration. With fold-out documents, excerpts from John Adams's diary from a 1774 session of the Continental Congress,… Read more about this item

Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 8vo. Royal blue blindstamped cloth with gilt image of thr title vessel front board snf spine lettered in gilt. 353 pp. plus 22 pp. of publisher's ads at rear. 16 plates with tissue guards including frontis portrait engraving of Cornelius Vanderbilt , illustrated title page and… Read more about this item

mclaughlinbooks, 2021. Softcover. Fine. Color illustrated softcovers. 252 pp. Generally fine with just a slight evidence of use at the tips. An innovative story of seduction and murder that is becoming a cult classic (it was first copyrighted in 2011), "Who is the Satin Strangler and how many men did she seduce and kill?" A media frenzy surrounds… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Shelbourne Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition (no statement). Hardcover. 246 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Inroduction by Dr. Leonard A. Lowag. Fine but with a previous owner name and address on the front free endpaper. In bright, crisp dust jacket, touch of toning to the white top edges. Autobiographical acount by the almost-forgotten pioneer… Read more about this item

Moorestown, NJ: by the author, 2012. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover in emerald green cloth lettered in gilt. A fine, fresh, unsued copy. Issued without dust jacket. 399 pp. with index. A work that traces the history and accomplishents in America of William Biddle (b. 1633) and his wife Sarah Smith Kempe Biddle ((1637/8- 1717). William, the third of that… Read more about this item

London: Ward, Lock, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardcover in patterened bkue paper covered boards lettered in black. 256 pp. Very good, lightly rubbed at the extremities, neat birthday gift inscrition front free endpaper. In the original color illusytrated dust jacket, very good with some rubbing to the spine ends. No. 7 in the publisher's "Royal Series", no… Read more about this item

New York: Nova Science Pub Inc, 2010. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine. No dust jacket. Unstated, presumed first edition. Hardcover. 138 pp (w/ index). An examination of instances where seafood companies have deceived customers and public health regulators, putting the public at risk of food poisoning by ignoring crucial regulations. Seafood marketing and FDA regulations are also… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Genealogical Pub Co, 1986. Second printing. Hardcover. Fine. Thick hardcover in colonial blue cloth letteerd in gilt. xxviii+ 1246 pp. with bibliography, extensive index by Judith McGhan. A tight, clean, generally fine example, couple small spots to the rear board. Issued without dust jacket. Massive, invaluable reference work on the soldiers of local militias in the Southern… Read more about this item

London: Making of the Crow Incorporated, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First and only printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 272 pp. Illustrated with photos. The story behind the making of the now cult classic movie "The Crow". On March 31, 1993, while "The Crow" was in its final days of filming, in a strange accident on… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition stated. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 270 pp. Fiction. "Hitler Dead In Chancery Bunker. Britain To Insist Germany Show Hitler's Body When War Ends" read the headlines on May 2, 1945. But the body of Hitler had never been found. The author presents a shcking,… Read more about this item

Arcadia Publishing, 2006. First edition. Softcover. Fine. Illustrated softcovers. 128 pp. Fine. First printing. A photographic history of LaSalle University ( originally the Christian Brothers Academy located in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia).

New York: Penguin Press, 2012. First edition. Hardback. Fine/fine. Fine (rem. stripe) in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 524 pp. with index. Illustrations. The true story of Jeffrey MacDonald, a Green Beret doctor stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina who, in 1970 arrived home to find hid pregnant wife and two young daughters murdered; with… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing of the true (UK) edition of the 12th Brother Cadfael medieval mystery. Fine in crisp dust jacket but with sunning to the spine. Hardcover. 201 pp. In this entry, it's Christmastime, 1141 AD and monk/apothecary/sleuth Brother Cadfael of the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Shrewsbury has… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Bros, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Hardcover in forest green cloth lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. 297 pp. with index. Frontis portrait of Henry Carroll and fifteen additional full page reproductions. Fine, Spring 1915 gift inscription front free endpaper. Lively survey of what like in America was like… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1960. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. Adrienne Adams. Very good, with light bumping to the spine tips and some fade. Ex-library, with library pocket on front free end and library stamp on title page. Otherwise, tight and clean. Fifth printing. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Unpaginated. A little boy takes the reader through the… Read more about this item

New York: American News Company, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 12mo. hardcover in chocolate brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Title page printed in black and red. 274 pp. Cloth on the front board is rippled, small taer fera foot of spine and there is tidemarking on the first front blank; gift inscription on thge… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape/Penguin, 2020. Later edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Later printing. Hardcover. 354 pp (w/ index). This is an account of the imperfect, complicated, and volatile women who fought each other while they fought for equal rights. Helen Lewis argues that these inter-personal conflicts have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for… Read more about this item