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Adkins, Edwin P. Setauket: The First Three Hundred Years, 1655-1955. Setauket, New York: Three Village Historical Society, 1980. 2d edition, revised. xi, [1], 115 pages. Index. Bibliographical notes. Photographs. Maps. 325th Anniversary Edition, 1655-1980. First published New York: David McKay, 1955? Setauket is a community in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, along the north shore of Long Island, New York. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers, small spot near upper front cover where a label has been removed. #22046. $20
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Baker, W. Edward, with Bonnie Baker Soldano. The Way It Was: An Album of Port Washington Recollections. Foreword by Mildred G. Lee. Port Washington, New York: Dockside Books, 1989. 1st printing. 137 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. W. Edward Baker, 1906-1989, lived his entire life in Pt. Washington's Cow Bay, and called himself a 'down necker'. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #24065. $37.50
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Baldwin, Richard P. The Verity Family of Long Island, New York. Patchogue, New York: Richard P. Baldwin, 2000. 2d edition. 4to (large book). iii, 261 pages. Index. Photographs. Maps. Errata inserted on p. 167. Signed by the author. Genealogical research on the Verity family, one of earliest settlers on Long Island. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover), with plastic clamshell binding. Former owner's name on upper right hand corner of front cover. #25657. $25
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Bayles, Thomas R. During the Revolution in Brookhaven Town. New York: Town of Brookhaven Historical Advisory Committee, 1985. Reprinted & Revised. 16 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Brookhaven Town Bicentennial Commission. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #25566. $7.50
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Bayles, Thomas R. Early Mills, Roads and Industries in Brookhaven Town. New York: Brookhaven Town Bicentennial Commission/Town of Brookhaven Historical Advisory Committee, 1985. Reprinted and Revised. [12] pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #25812. $7.50
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Bayles, Thomas R. The Early Years in Brookhaven Town. Coram, Long Island, New York: Brookhaven Town Bicentennial Commission / Brookhaven Town Historical Advisory Committee, 1983. Reprinted & Revised. 12 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. First published in 1975. The Town of Brookhaven is located in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #25535. $10
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Bayles, Thomas R. The Ten Towns of Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. Middle Island, New York: Thomas R. Bayles, 1964. 16 pages. Reproductions of Long Island Sound ferry services inside front cover, Long Island Rail Road 1947 announcement inside rear cover, and a 1903 Montauk Steamboat Company advertisement on rear cover. 'Suffolk County was established November 1, 1683, composed of the Towns of Brookhaven, Southampton, East Hampton, Shelter Island, Southold, Riverhead, Smithtown, Huntington, Babylon and Islip.' - Front cover. Good pictorial soft cover, corners slightly creased. #22344. $30
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Beers, F. W. Stony Brook and Port Jefferson, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County [Long Island, New York] double-plate colored map, maps 164 and 165. New York, N.Y.: Beers, Comstock, & Cline, 1873. Colored map. Stony Brook (left hand panel) engraved area 38.5 x 17 centimeters. Port Jefferson engraved area 35.5 x 35.7 centimeters. From F. W. Beers, Atlas of Long Island, New York, 1873. Folds as issued. Blank on verso. Good. #18039. $190
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Beltrone, Art. A Rural Heritage for Today: A Guide to Old Bethpage Village Restoration. Additional text by Harrison Hunt. Illustrations by James Feriola. Syosset, New York: Friends for Long Island's Heritage, 1990. Reprinted. 47 pages. Illustrations. Old Bethpage Village Restoration is an open-air museum and represents a typical, rural Long Island, New York, farm village of the mid-19th century by using historic structures moved from throughout the Island and carefully restored to some period in their history. - p.4. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Gift inscriptions inside front cover over and around 'Index of Buildings'. #23780. $7.50
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Bennett, Diane Tarleton, and Linda Tarleton. W. C. Bryant in Roslyn. Roslyn, New York: Bryant Library, 1978. 1st edition. 127, 32 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Index. A biography of William Cullen Bryant, a resident of Roslyn, Long Island, New York, which includes excerpts of some of his works and a 'Bryant Photo Album'. Very good pictorial stiff wrappers. ISBN 0960224211. #21797. $7.50
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Boesch, Mary Jane. Sojourns. Introduction by Rufus B. Langhans. Huntington, N.Y.: Town Historian, 1980. [32] pages. Illustrations. An illustrated listing of places of historic interest spread over a large area of the Town of Huntington on Long Island's North Shore. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Very good. #17330. $20
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Brady, Kenneth. The History of the Consolidation and Centralization of the Sachem Schools. Part Two: 1948 to 1955. Holbrook, New York: Local Studies Committee of the Sachem Schools, 1981? 4to (large book). 53 pages. Photocopied typescript. District plans. Holbrook is located in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. Very good pictorial soft covers with plastic comb binding. #25163. $20
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Brookhaven Town Republican Committee. Testimonial Roast in Honor of The Honorable Leon E. Giuffreda, Senator of the State of New York, Tuesday, September 21, 1976. New York: Brookhaven Town Republican Committee, 1976. No pagination. Photographs laid in. Program consist primarily of complimentary advertising. Mr. Giuffreda represented eastern Long Island, New York in the state legislature. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover); some pages have come loose; front cover wrinkled. #25818. $15
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Cassedy, David, and Gail Shrott. William Sidney Mount: Works in the Collection of The Museums at Stony Brook. Edited by Janice Gray Armstrong. Introduction by Susan Stitt. Stony Brook, New York: Museums at Stony Brook, 1983. 4to (large book). 96 pages. Bibliography. Color and black-and-white illustrations. Describes holdings in what is now The Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages, located in Stony Brook, Long Island, New York. Good pictorial stiff wrappers. Edges and corners slightly worn. ISBN 0943924065. #22245. $12.50
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Century of Progress. A Century of Progress, 1841-1941. Stony Brook, Long Island, New York: Compliments of P. W. Smith, 1941? Small 8vo (regular size). An 8-page pamphlet with six pages of text. This is a history of a butcher and meat market in Stony Brook, on the north shore of Long Island, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, operated in 1841 by George Hawkins. It was later owned and operated by Bennie Wells, Orlando Smith, Captain R. F. Wells, and Percy W. Smith, the owner at the time of the publication of this pamphlet. Good wrappers, with photograph of the horse-drawn 'Old Butcher Wagon' on the front cover. Some foxing. #22070. $25
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Chwatsky, Ann, Guest Curator. Out of Bounds: Contemporary Long Island Photographers. Acknowledgments by Helen A. Harrison. East Hampton, New York: Guild Hall Museum, 1989. Square small 8vo. 32 pages. Plates. Exhibition held 22 January - 5 March, 1989. 'This group is unified by their shared identification with the Long Island region.' - Introduction. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. ISBN 0933793111. #25631. $30
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Colyer, Virginia B. Dr. Muhlenberg's St. Johnland: An Informal History, 1866-1991. In Commemoration of the Society of St. Johnland's One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Anniversary in 1991. Illustrated by Byrd S. Platt. Kings Park, New York: Society of St. Johnland, 1992. vii, 78 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. The Society of St. Johnland was the creation of an Episcopal minister, William Augustus Muhlenberg. He was probably the first person to conceive of a Fresh Air fund, and founded the first order of Protestant Nuns in the United States. He also founded the first free Church for Episcopalians. He started the Flushing Institute, and many others. - From the Preface. Very good softcover. #22326. $45
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Cooper, Mary. The Diary of Mary Cooper: Life on a Long Island Farm, 1768-1773. Edited by Field Horne. Oyster Bay, New York: Oyster Bay Historical Society, 1988. 3d printing. 84 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. Map. First published in 1981. Describes life in the area of the peninsula of Cove Neck, which forms the south shore of the entrance to Oyster Bay Harbor. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers. ISBN 089062108X. #22807. $12.50
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Currie-Bell, Ann Hallock. Old Southold Town's Tercentenary. Cover design and drawings by T. Currie-Bell. Garden City, New York: Country Life Press, 1940. xii, 161 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Laid in: Dedication Services, The Old House, 1649-1940, at Cutchogue, July 1st, 1940, Tercentenary Celebration. 4 pages (folded 8-1/2 x 11 inches sheet of paper). The Southold Town Tercentenary Committee Sponsors the Publication of This Book. Photographs by Professionals and Amateurs of the Town. Good pictorial hardcover. Spine title slightly faded. Former owner's name on blank front flyleaf. #23221. $40
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Davis, Reverend Canon John W. Dominion in The Sea: History of The Diocese of Long Island. Hempstead, New York: The Georgin Foundation, 1977. 1st printing. 4to (large book). 227 pages. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. Inscribed and signed by the author. A history of the first 110 years of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, New York, by an ordained priest and scholar. Good pictorial stiff wrappers. #18169. $12.50
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Des Grange, Jane, editor. Folk Life of the Early 1800s. A Handbook Program of Home Crafts & Hand Crafts for the Early American Spring Festival, a Stony Brook fete, June 3rd, 1967. Stony Brook, New York: Suffolk Museum & Carriage House, 1967. 4to (medium-large book). 56 pages. Illustrations. Advertising. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #23732. $12.50
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Des Grange, Jane. Long Island's Religious History. Stony Brook, New York: Suffolk Museum, 1963. 54 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition of ecclesiastical art. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #23616. $15
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Dyson, Verne. The Human Story of Long Island. Port Washington, New York: Ira J. Friedman, 1969. 139 pages. Empire State Historical Publications Series, 78. Historical vignettes of Long Island, New York. Exlibrary. Call number on spine, stamps on top edge, stamp and pocket on front flyleaf. very good dust jacket. Good hardcover in pictorial dust jacket with clear library acetate cover. ISBN 0871980789. #23287. $30
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Edwards, Herbert, and Charles A. Riley, editors. A History of the Locust Valley Fire Department. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1981. 1st printing. xxiv, 168 pages. Photographs. Endpaper maps. A history of the Locust Valley Volunteer Fire Department, located in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, on the north shore of Long Island, New York. Very good hardcover. #22809. $12.50
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Ettlinger, Ken W. Long Island Groundwater: An Environmental Review. Farmingville, New York: Moraine Audubon Society, 1974. vi, 103 pages. Bibliography. Environmental Papers Series, 3. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #25365. $25
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Failey, Dean F., and Zachary N. Studenroth, with the assistance of Helen J. Batcheller. Edward Lange's Long Island. Foreword by Robert B. MacKay. Setauket, New York: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1979. Oblong 4to (large book). 67 pages. Bibliography. Portraits. Illustrations. Color and black-and-white plates. Edward Lange painted more than one hundred Long Island views over and eighteen year period, from 1871 to 1889. - Essay. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #23734. $30
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Fullam, Kathleen. The Adventures of the Setauket Spy. Book 1. Illustrated by Carol Owens. Setauket, New York?: Kathleen Fullam, 1972. 16 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #23537. $7.50
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Fullam, Kathleen. The Adventures of the Setauket Spy. Book II. Cover design by Carol Owens. Setauket, New York?: Kathleen Fullam, 1973. 15 pages. Illustrations. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #23538. $7.50
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Stoney Brook, StoneyBrook, Stoney Brooke, Sufolk
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