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ADIRONDACK TRAILS
Books & Memorabilia of the Adirondack Mountain
Region & NY State items of special interest


THE GREAT OUTDOORS
It's just our Nature! Camping, Hiking, Exploring,
Fishing and everything else outside your door

OLD & CLASSIC ATTIC
Scarce, unusual and out of print
books, ephemera and collectibles

WHAT'S COOKING?
All kinds of wonderful dishes from original
recipes in regional and specialty cookbooks

NEWEST ARRIVALS
Scarce, Out of Print or Just Unique.
These are our newest acquisitions about
The Adirondacks, Sports and the Great Outdoors

SCENIC PORTAGES
Early picture post cards of people & places from
New York State's colorful & historical past

GREAT  ESCAPES
There is hardly a better journey than when your
imagination is traveling through a great book

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ADIRONDACK TRAILS:        (Click any picture for a larger view/more info)
SCAN Author Title/ISBN Date Condition Price
Bruce Wadsworth Guide to the Northville - Placid Trail
ISBN: 0935272127
1980
Adirondack Mtn Club
As New 9.75
Paul F. Jamieson Adirondack Canoe Waters - North Flow by Paul F. Jamieson
With a Chapter on Camping
By Robert M. Bliss
1975
Adirondack Mtn Club
Some pencil notes, else VG+ 7.75
Ann Stillman O'Leary; Photos
by Gary R. Hall
Adirondack Style 
ISBN: 0609802356
1998
1st SC Edition
Corner bump else
Near Fine
19.75
Trudy Healy A Climber's Guide to the Adirondacks - Rock and Slide Climbs 1972 Adirondack Mountain Club Slight cover soiling else clean pages and tight binding 35.00
Kimball Hart,
Chairman
The Adirondack Winter Mountaineering Manual 1957 Adirondack Mountain Club Light cover soiling else unmarked and VG+ 17.50
Betsy Tisdale Guide to Adirondack Trails:
Eastern Edition with Map
ISBN: 0935272410
1990
Adirondack
Mountain Club
Near Fine. No tears or marks. 7.50
Christine Jerome An Adirondack Passage: The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp
ISBN: 0060925825
1995
Harper Perennial
Near Fine.
Slight shelfwear
4.75
Michael G. DiNunzio Adirondack Wildguide - A Natural History of the Adirondack Park
ISBN 0961340312
1984 - 4th
Adk Conserv & Adk Council
Some shelfwear else like new. Photos & Illus 7.50
Bruce Wadsworth An Adirondack Sampler II - Backpacking Trips -Detailed w/Maps
ISBN 0935272151
1981 Adk Mtn Club Slight shelfwear else VG+ 8.25
Adirondack Museum, Blue Mtn Lake Museum of the Adirondacks
ISBN: 0910020361
1991 Near Fine 7.50
National
Geographic
The Iroquois: Keepers of the Fire
Vol. 172, No. 3
1987
Sept
VG - Small spine tear 7.95

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NEW YORK STATE:        (Click any picture for a larger view/more info)
Arthur L. Bensen The Story of a New York City Tenderfoot and His Adirondack Mountain Adventure 1970's
Frontier Town
North Hudson
New
(The making of the theme park)
59.75
Horses on Parade Rochester Foundation Horses on Parade
Rochester, New York
2001
High Falls Brewing Co.
Fine 25.00
FLCC
Foundation
Deer on Parade
Canandaigua, New York
2002
Finger Lakes Comm College
Fine 25.00
Lewis E. Lawes Strange Stories from Sing Sing 1934 VG - Slight Shelf Wear ON
HOLD
Central NY
Arts Council
Wood & Stone:
Landmarks of the Upper Mohawk Region
1972 SC, VG
Illus & Index
15.95

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THE GREAT OUTDOORS:        (Click any picture for a larger view/more info)
SCAN Author Title/ISBN Date Condition Price
Eric A. Weiss, M.D. A comprehensive Guide to Wilderness and Travel Medicine
ISBN: 0965976807
1997
Softcover. By
Adventure Medical Kits
Water stain inside cover else Like New 7.75
Frederick Lincoln Migration of Birds 1950
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Near Fine
Slight sun fade of spine
7.50
John & Mildred Teal Life and Death of the Salt Marsh
Illus by Richard G. Fish
1969
Ballantine
Pbk, VG 7.50
A. R. Tarr A Complete Guide to Survival and
Adventure Unlimited
384pp
1968, Lyle Stuart, NY HC. Book is VG+ in a Fair DJ 8.00
Richard H. Pough Audubon Bird Guide Eastern Land Birds - 4.5" x 7.5" - 312pp, indexed,. Don Eckelberry color illus 1946 Doubleday HC. Some out- ward soiling & age.
Overall Good+
7.50
Harmon Henkin Fly Tackle: A Guide to the Tools of the Trade. Illustrations by Jeff Johnson
0397010729
1976
1st Edition
Near Fine in Near Fine DJ 9.95
Ellsworth Jaeger Tracks and Trailcraft
(Wonderfully Illustrated)

1967
Macmillan
HC, VG in Fair DJ 9.95
Roger M. Latham Complete Book of the Wild Turkey
0811704149
1976
Stackpole
VG+ w/DJ
Slight shelf wear
15.75
Series,
Six Books
The Basic Essentials Series for the Outdoors Survival, Canoeing, Camping, Biking, +2 1988 - 89 SC, VG w/small address label in ea 9.95
Gaylord Johnson The Nature Library - Nature's Program
A year's look at Nature, Indexed
1926 Some age spotting else VG 9.75
Alexander Wetmore National Song & Garden Birds of North America w/ 550 photos & vinyl records 1964 Nat'l Geographic Slight age spotting else VG 12.25
Donald H. Robinson Hiker's & Camper's Guide to the Blue Ridge Parkway 1971 Chatham VG+ Light Shelf Wear 9.75
Edwin Teale Near Horizons - The Story of an Insect Garden 1942 1st Ed
Dodd Mead
VG No DJ Minor scuffing, age tint 39.95

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CLASSIC ATTIC:        (Click any picture for a larger view/more info)
SCAN Author Title/ISBN Date Condition Price
Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Signed by the Author
1972 VG+ 75.00
Colin Simpkin (Ed) Currier and Ives' America -
A panorama of the Mid 19th Century
1952
Crown
HC, 80 Prints are VG+ 17.45

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WHAT'S COOKING?:        (Click any picture for a larger view/more info)
SCAN Author Title/ISBN Date Condition Price
Sue Schildge Famous Adirondack Restaurants & Recipes 
ISBN: 0961559500
1986 Schildge Publishing, Plattsburgh, NY Some cover soiling but inside tight and bright 22.75
Cookbook Bless This Food Cookbook - Recipes from St Luke's Church, Fairport, NY 1999 Rasmussen SC, VG+, Spiral Bound 7.95
Cookbook One Pot Dishes Cookbook, Rochester Folk Art Guild, Middlesex, NY 1975 VG+ on nice card stock 7.95
Cookbook FAVORITE RECIPES from the kitchens of the Taylor & Great Western Wineries c 1985 Taylor Wine VG Well used but no markings 5.95
Leo Cotton (Ed.) Old Mr. Boston De Luxe Official Bartender's Guide 1965 Mr. Boston VG+ -No markings 6.75
Burros & Levine Come for Cocktails, Stay for Supper
Over 200 Cocktail - Buffet Recipes
1970
Macmillan
VG+ - Minor Shelf Wear 9.95

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SCENIC PORTAGES:        (Click any picture for a larger view/more info)
SCAN Author Title/ISBN Date Condition Price
Postcard Linen Finish Hotel Athenaeum, Chautauqua, N. Y.
on Lake Chautauqua
Curteich
Chicago
Postally Unused, Inked Message 5.25
Postcards Women's Club & Shore Drive plus Lake Chautauqua View 1950's VG- One postally used/2 cent stamp 5.25
Postcard Waterloo Pharmacy, Waterloo, NY 1946 Postmark VG - Messages & 1 1/2 cent stamp 7.50
Postcard Ansco Camera Works
Johnson City, NY
1919 Postmark VG, Postally Used w/messages 9.25
Postcards President McKinley - Site of assassination & Death, Buffalo, NY, Two Cards 1916
Postmark
Good, One used w/1 cent stamp 7.50

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GREAT ESCAPES -  Good Authors, Imaginative Reads, New Journeys:
SCAN Author Title/ISBN Date Condition Price
Norton Bus Bird Changing Times in the Adirondacks: Portraying the Extraordinary Life of a True Adirondack Native 2000
 
Light shelfwear,
VG+
12.75
Anne LaBastille Woodswoman: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness
ISBN: 0140153349
1991
Penguin
Softcover
Corner bumps & light shelfwear 6.50
Anne LaBastille
Signed
Women and Wilderness
ISBN: 871562340
by the Adirondack Woodswoman
1980
First Printing
Sierra Club Books, San Fran
VG+
See Description
25.00
Anne LaBastille
Signed
Assignment Wildlife
ISBN: 0525059105
by the Adirondack Woodswoman
1980
First Edition
EP Dutton, NY
VG+
See Description
27.50
Anne LaBastille Beyond Black Bear Lake
ISBN: 0393023885
by the Adirondack Woodswoman
1987
First Edition
WW Norton Co.
NY
VG+
See Description
9.50
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David J. Pitkin
**New Book**
(Signed)

The Highest Mountain (A Mystery)
Death and Life in the Adirondacks
9780966392555
August 2007
Aurora
Publications
New 17.95
Free
Ship
Russell Banks Cloudsplitter: A Novel - John Brown, From the Adirondacks to Harpers Ferry 1999
Harper
VG+ w/DJ 5.95
Ron Feulner Adirondack Justice - a novel set in the Southern Adks during WWII
ISBN 0976442728
2005 Like new 9.75
Lynda Macken  Adirondack Ghosts - Stories of Spirits in New York State's North Country  0970071817 2000
Black Cat
Fine 5.95
Bob Lonsberry
Talk Show Host
Bob Lonsberry The Early Years, A collection of columns - Autographed 1995 VG+ - Corner Bumps 19.95
Jacob Abbott Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal
0932334997
1987 VG - Slight corner bump 5.75

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THE COUNTRY STORE:        (Click any picture for a larger view/more info)
Frontier Town, NY Frontier Town Bumper Sticker
North Hudson, NY in the Adirondacks
1970's New 9.95
+1.75
Frontier Town, NY Frontier Town Gazette
Western Theme Park Newspaper
North Hudson, NY
1992 New 7.50
+2.25
Lake Placid, NY Olympic Winter Games III 1932
Witold Gordon Seal   1 3/16" x 2"
Jan 25, 1932 Unused Adhesive Backed 5.50
+1.25
Lake Placid, NY Olympic Winter Games III 1932
First Day Cover (FDC)
Jan 25, 1932 Postmarked -
Cancelled
9.25
+1.75
Handmade in the
Adirondacks
Wooden Toy Gun - Ping Pong Shooter 12" long New Made in the Adirondacks 7.50
+4.75

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HOW-TO REFERENCES:        (Click any picture for a larger view/more info)
SCAN Author Title/ISBN Date Condition Price
John Corderoy Bookbinding for Beginners
104pp indexed, illustrated.
1967, Watson Guptill Some fading & spotting. Text bright & tight 7.50
S. Blackwell Duncan How to Make Your Own Hiking & Camping Gear 1978
1st Edition
VG+, No DJ, Small edge spot 15.25
Weber & Bailey Landscaping Plans for Small Homes
Illustrated by Sigman-Ward
1954 First Edition VG, Some Shelf Wear & Scuffing 12.95

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