Lighthouses

Carse, Robert. Keepers of The Lights: A History of American Lighthouses. New York: Scribner's, 1968. 1st edition. 176 pages. Photographs. For young adults. Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. #10606. $22.50
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Clifford, Mary Louise, and J. Candace Clifford. Women Who Kept the Lights: An Illustrated History of Female Lighthouse Keepers. Williamsburg, Virginia: Cypress Communications, 1993. 3d printing. Small 4to (medium-large book). v, 183 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Very good large pictorial trade paperback. Rear cover creased. ISBN 0963641204. #22872. $12.50
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Koppers Company. Lighthouses: Chronicles of Construction on Coastal Promontories and Wave-Swept Rocks. Tangents XIX. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Koppers Company, No date. Narrow 4to (large book). 6 folded leaves (12 pages) with text and facsimile plans. Nineteenth in a series of discussions from Koppers for the building design profession. Contains a Prologue and folding plans of the Eddystone Light; Skerryvore Rock Lighthouse and Barracks; Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, Massachusetts Bay, near Cohasset; Wolfrock Lighthouse, Land's End, England; The Tillamook Light, Tillamook Rock, Oregon; Lighthouse at Spectacle Reef, Lake Huron. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover), light crease in front cover. #25336. $20
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Majdalany, Fred. The Eddystone Light. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. 1st printing. 215 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Good hardcover in Good dust jacket. #14611. $20
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Muller, Robert G. Long Island's Lighthouses Past and Present. Patchogue, New York: Long island Chapter of the US Lighthouse Society, 2004. 383 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. 'The culmination of over five years of research and study from a wide variety of local and national sources. [The book] covers over 25 sites and surrounding communities. In addition to the history of the lighthouses and lightships themselves, it tells the stories of many of the area's lighthouse keepers and their families.' - Rear cover. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0974534706. #24792. $62.50
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Parker, Tony. Lighthouse. New York: Taplinger, 1976. 1st U.S. edition. 288 pages. Diagrams. Reminiscences of a British lighthouse keeper. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0800848535. #13150. $10
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United States President. Light-houses in Oregon, Washington Territory, and Alaska: Message of the President of The United States in Relation to Points upon The Coasts of Oregon, Washington Territory, and Alaska, for Light-houses. Washington, D.C.: US Government, 1869. 12 pages. U.S. 40th Cong, 3d Sess., Ex. Doc. no. 53. Caption title. Published February 24, 1869. Disbound. Good. #11792. $50
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