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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Hamilton, Harlan. Lights & Legends: A Historical Guide to the Lighthouses of Long Island Sound, Fishers Island Sound and Block Island Sound. Edited by Julius M. Wilenski. Stamford, Connecticut: Wescott Cove Publishing Company, 1987. 1st edition. 285 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Frontispiece portrait. Signed by the author. History and legends, complete descriptions of 39 lighthouses. Photos of all, and tells how lighthouses work. A valuable resource for mariners, history buffs and lighthouse aficionados. - Front cover. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0918752086. #26492. $20
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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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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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