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Local History and More Porch Sale (Greece)
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Books, Yearbooks, postcards, old photos, ephemera, View Master reels, WBBF collectables,
38 Willmae Road, Greece 14616
Just one day only, Saturday 5/9, from 9am to 5pm.
On an enclosed porch so no problem if it rains.
Available as of 5/5/26
LOCAL HISTORY BOOKS
"History of Rochester and Monroe County, NY" by Wm. F. Peck (2 vols., 1908, HC) - $95
"History of Rochester and Monroe County, NY" by Wm. F. Peck (Vol. 1 only, 1908, HC, Ex-Library, only fair condition) - $30
"Landmarks of Monroe County, NY" by Wm. F. Peck (1895, HC) - $100
"Rochester and the Post Express" by Post Express newspaper (1895, HC) - $80
"Sketches of Rochester" by Henry O'Reilly (1838, 1984 reprint, includes map, HC, DJ, Ex-library) - $30
"Holland Land Purchase" by Paul Evans (1924, 1979 reprint, includes 2 maps, HC) - $30
"Dau's Blue Book of Rochester" 1908 (Society, HC) - $25
"Dau's Blue Book of Rochester" 1914 (Society, HC) - $25
"A Panoramic History of Rochester and Monroe County" by Blake McKelvey (1st Ed., HC, DJ, 1979) - $5
"The Book of the Rochester Centennial" (PB, 1934) - $15
"The Industries of Rochester" (1888, PB, missing 6 pages) - $30
Dedication program for the "Masonic Temple, Rochester, NY" (PB, 1930) - $10
"A River Ramble" by Arch Merrill (HC, DJ, 1st printing, fair cond.) - $4
"The Lakes Country" by Arch Merrill (HC, DJ, 1st printing) - $7
"The Lakes Country" by Arch Merrill (HC, 1st printing) - $6
"Slim Fingers Beckon" by Arch Merrill (HC, DJ, prob. 1st printing) - $9
"Slim Fingers Beckon" by Arch Merrill (HC, 8th printing) - $6
"The White Woman and her Valley" by Arch Merrill (HC, DJ, 6th printing) - $10
"Upstate Echoes" by Arch Merrill (HC, DJ, 1st printing, autographed) - $10
"Land of the Senecas" by Arch Merrill (HC, DJ, prob 1st printing) - $8
"Tomahawks and Old Lace" by Arch Merrill (1948, HC, 1st printing) - $6
"The Ridge" by Arch Merrill (HC, 1st printing, fair cond.) - $5
"The Image is Rochester" by Gabe Dalmath (HC, DJ, 1997) - $5
"Great Homes of Rochester" (HC, 1997) - $3
"A Century of Service; Rochester General Hospital, 1847-1947" (HC) - $5
"To Serve the Community: A Celebration of Rochester General Hospital, 1847-1997" (HC) - $5
"Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester: 150 Years of Faith, Hope and Charity" (HC, 2017) - $10
"Rochester Yacht Club 1877 - 2000" (2000, HC) - $8
"A Story of The Chatterbox" by Elizabeth Brayer (Club in Rochester, NY, HC, 2001) - $20
"In Celebration of Rochester" by Spinnard & Tanner (HC, DJ, 1988) - $4
"Capture Rochester (HC, DJ + pic DVD) by Democrat & Chronicle - $7
"Capture Rochester '09" (HC, DJ + pic DVD) by Democrat & Chronicle - $7
"Rochester; The Big Pictures" (HC, DJ, 1993) - $4
"Amazing Grace" (about Sister Grace Miller) (PB, 2000s?) - $3
"St. Luke's Church, Genesee Falls (actually Rochester), 1817 - 1967 (HC, 1967) - $6
"The Rochester Savings Bank, 1831-1981" by Susan Turri (PB, 1981) - $3
"100 Years of the Hard Working Dollar" by Richard Reiser (First Federal Savings, HC, DJ, inscribed) - $3
"The Story of Kodak" (HC, 1990) by Douglas Collins - $10
"Beside the Genesee" (Un. of Roch.) by Jan L. Waxman (HC, DJ, autographed) - $5
"The University of Rochester Medical Center: Teaching, Discovering, Caring" edited by J. Cohen & R. Joynt (PB, 2000) - $5
"The Gift That Grew" (Genesee Hosp. history) (PB, 1965) - $4
"This Great Contrivance; The First Hundred Years of The Telephone In Rochester" (PB, 1979) - $7
"A History of the Harley School, 1917-1992" by Ruth Ewell (HC. 1992$15
"Rochester and the Passing Scene" by Fred H. Powers (HC, DJ, Picture Book) - $7
"A Celebration of 100 Years; Church of the Blessed Sacrament (PB, 2001) - $3
"100 Years" (Holy Ghost Parish) (PB, 1976) - $2
Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation (HC, 1967) - $4
"A Family Among Families, The Jewish Home of Rochester Since 1920" (HC, 1991) - $3
"Strengthening the Faith and Cherishing the Dead" (Holy Sepulchre Cem., HC, 2023, Ex-Library) - $2
"Lighting the Way" by Teresa K. Lehr (St. John's Home, HC) - $5
"Vibrant Silence" (Deaf community) by Carolyn Lyon Remington (HC, 1965, autographed) - $7
"Good Enough for Grandpa..." by Curt Gerling (HC, DJ, Mylar wrapper, 1958) - $4
"Good Enough for Grandpa..." by Curt Gerling (HC, DJ, Mylar wrapper, 1958, autographed) - $5
"Golden Jubilee Almanac 1938" by Rochester Chamber of Commerce (PB, 1938) - $3
"The Remaking City: Rochester, New York, 1964-1984" by Lou Huttino & Mark Hare (PB, 1984) - $10
:Rochester Eats" by Karen Deyle (PB, 2007) -$3
Publication Fund Series Vol. 6 by Rochester Historical Society (HC, 1927, Ex-library) - $3
Publication Fund Series Vol. 9 by Rochester Historical Society (HC, 1930, Ex-library) - $3
Publication Fund Series Vol. 14 by Rochester Historical Society (HC, 1936, Ex-library) - $3
Publication Fund Series Vol. 15 by Rochester Historical Society (Index to Vols. 1 - 14, HC, 1927, Ex-library) - $3
Publication Fund Series Vol. 17 by Rochester Historical Society (HC, 1939, Ex-library) - $3
"Eight Miles Along the Shore..." (Greece history) by Tomkiewicz and Husted (PB, 4th Printing, some stains on edges) - $4
"Eight Miles Along the Shore..." (Greece history) by Tomkiewicz and Husted (1st Ed.?, HC, DJ with tears) - $6
"Lost at Seabreeze" by Sally Valentine (PB, 2011) - $4 (inscribed)
"The Ghost of the Charlotte Lighthouse" by Sally Valentine (PB, 2010) - $4
"Gone with the Breeze" (Fast ferry) by Larry Dickens (PB, 2006) - $2 (inscribed)
"Souvenir and Other Stories: by Henry W. Clune (HC, 1990) - $5
"A Towpath Tale" by Donovan Shilling (PB, 2010, autographed) - $5
"They Put Rochester on the Map" by Donovan Shilling (PB, 2012) - $5
"The Fish Horn Alarm" by J. Sheldon Fisher (PB, 1994) - $2
"The Groaning Tree" by J. Sheldon Fisher (PB, 1987) - $2
"Monroe Country (1821-1971) by Howard Hosmer (PB, 1971) - $2
"Rochester on the Genesee, The Growth of a City" by Blake McKelvey (HC, 1973) - $2 (bad dust jacket)
"The Memorial Art Gallery 100 Years" (PB, 2013) - $4
"Chronicle of a Rochester Major Crimes Detective" by Patrick Crough (PB, 2011) - $5
"St John the Evangelist Church, Greece, NY" (PB, 2015) - $10
"The Collections of the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum" (PB, 1982) - $3
"State University of New York at Brockport" (PB, 2006) - $3
"Rochester's Downtown" by Donovan Shilling - Images of America series (PB, 2001) - $5
"Rochester's Downtown" by Donovan Shilling - Images of America series (PB, 2001) - $4 (inscribed)
"Rochester Neighborhoods" by Husted and Rosenberg-Naparsteck - Images of America series (PB, 2000) - $5
"Greece' by Shirley Husted - Images of America series (PB, 2001, inscribed) - $4
"Penfield" by Martin M. Wamp - Images of America series (PB, 2001) - $5
"Perinton and Fairport in the 20th Century" by Perinton Historical Society - Images of America series (PB, 2004) - $5
"Pittsford" by Johnson & Profitt - Images of America series (PB, 2004) - $5
"Greater Rochester, A Century of Progress" by Michael Leavy - Postcard History series - (PB, 2002) - $5
"Irondequoit Centennial Album" (PB, 1939) - $7
"Irondequoit Story" By Maude West (1967, 2nd Ed., PB) - $5
"Parma and Hilton" by Shirley Cox Husted - Images of America series (PB, 2000) - $5
"Pittsford Scrapbook" (All 5 volumes, HC) - $35
"Pittsford Scrapbook; Vol. 2" (HC, 1977) - $7
"Pittsford Scrapbook; Vol. 3" (HC, 1980, 4 creased pages) - $6
"Pittsford Scrapbook; Vol. 4" (HC, 1982) - $7
"Pittsford Scrapbook; Vol. 5" (HC, 1985) - $7
"Pittsford Scrapbook, Stories of Early Pittsford" by Paul Spiegel (PB, 2000) - $5
"Penfield's Past: 1810-1960" by Katherine W. Thompson (HC, 1960 ed.) - $4
"Penfield's Past: 1810-1960" by Katherine W. Thompson (HC, 1990 ed.) - $4
"Rush" by Susan Mee - Images of America Series (PB, 2014) - $5
"Webster ... Through the Years" by Esther Dunn (HC, DJ, 1971) - $12
"4 Score & 4 Rochester Portraits" (1984, PB) - $4
"Belcoda; A Biographical and Historical Story of a Country Church" by Harriet Brown Dow (Wheatland, HC, 1920) - $10
"Rochestrivia" by Pete Dobrovitz (1st Ed., 1984, comb binding) - $4
"A Resident's Recollections" by Lloyd E. Klos (All 7 vols but inscribed) (PB) - $20
"A Resident's Recollections" (Book 1) by Lloyd E. Klos (PB, 1987, inscribed) - $3
"A Resident's Recollections" (Book 2) by Lloyd E. Klos (PB, 1989, fading on spine) - $3
"A Resident's Recollections" (Book 6) by Lloyd E. Klos (PB, 1993) - $5
"The Seneca Army Depot" by Walter Gable & Carol Zogg (PB, 2002) - $5
"Where They Fell" by Robert Marcotte (Civil War hist.) (HC, autographed) - $10
"History of the Town of Ontario" (HC, 1957) - $20
"The Wadsworths of the Genesee" by Alden Hatch (HC, 1959) - $8
"The Hands that Feed Us" by Nancy Rosin (Rochester Public Market, PB, 2005) - $3
"Genesee Country History" by Jim Nicoll (2 vols., comb binding) - $5
A 1922 Catalog from Chase Brothers - $10 (missing a few pages)
"Genesee Valley Club 1885 - 1985" (PB, 1985) - $10
"The George Eastman House and Garden" (PB, 1992) - $5
"Milestone along the Way, A History of the North Greece Fire Department" (PB, 1982) - $10
"Manitou Beach Trolley Days, 1901-1925" by Wm. Gordon (1st Ed., 1957, Pb) - $10
"Ninety Four Years of Rochester Railways" by Wm. R. Gordon (Vol. 2 only, PB) - $10
Tombstone inscriptions from Monroe Co. cemeteries - by Town - price varies
"Silver Seasons, The Story of the Rochester Red Wings" by Jim Mandelaro & Scott Pitoniak (PB, 1996) - $4
"Baseball in Rochester" by Scott Pitoniak (PB, 2003, autographed) - $5
1996 Rochester Red Wings Yearbook + Last Game TICKET and roster - $15
"from Little Acorns, The Story of Oak Hil" Country Club - (2 vols. HC, 1976 & 1986) - $20
"The Crown Jewels of Oak Hill" by Donald Kladstrup (PB, 1989) - $5
"The Evolution of a Legacy" (Oak Hill) by Donald Kladstrup (PB, 1995) - $5
62nd PGA Program at Oak Hill - (PB, 1980) - $7
The 31st Ruder Cup Matches program (PB, 1995) - $3
The 1998 US Amateur Championship Program (Oak Hill) - (PB, 1998) - $3
69th Senior PGA Championship Program (Oak Hill) - (PB, 2008) - $3
The 85th PGA Championship Program (Oak Hill) - PB, 2003) - $3
Rochester LPGA program - 2000 (PB) - $3
Rochester LPGA program - 2001 (PB) - $3
Rochester LPGA program - 2002 (PB) - $3
1988 Rochester Red Wings Yearbook (PB) - $3
A Catalog from a George Eastman House Benefit Auction (PB, 2010) - $10
Information book on "Crossman, Models 111/112/115/116 CO2 Pistols" by D. T. Fletcher (Comb binding, 1996) - $5
"Gideon Granger" (of Canandaigua) by Arthur Hamlin (PB, 1982) - $1.50
"A Victor Album" by Fisher & Fisher (PB, 1981) - $10
"Ontario County Cobblestone" (inc. a map) by Barbara Swartout (PB, 1981) - $3
"The Tall Ships' (Rochester Sesquicentennial 1984, PB) - $3
OTHER BOOKS & BOOKLETS
"The Illustrated History of Methodism" by Rev. W. H. Daniels (HC, 1887) - $10
"Coronation Souvenir Book 1937" (George VI) (HC, 1937) - $10
"Historic Photos of Syracuse" (HC, 2008, autographed) - $15
"The Buffalo Club, 1867 - 1967" (HC, 1967) - $20
"The Hotel Lafayette" (Buffalo, PB, 2014) - $7
"Exploring 200 years of Oneida County History" by Donald F. White (PB, 1998)
"Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories" by J. B. McClure (HC, 1879) - $15
"100 years of service, 1872-1972; Firemen's Association of the State of New York" (HC, 1972) - $20
"100 Years of Dedication 1892-1992; Volunteer Firemen's Home Centennial Yearbook" (HC, 1992) - $15
"Firemen of Industry 1854-1954" by Frederick T. Moses (HC, 1954) - $5
"The Beauty of Golf in New York State' (HC, DJ, autographed by Patty Sheehan on cover) - $5
"Those Wonderful Old Automobiles" by Floyd Clymer (HC, DJ, 1953) - $3
"Pioneers of Photography" by Aaron Scharf (HC, DJ, 1975) - $4
"The Birth of Photography" by Brian Coe (HC, DJ, 1976) - $4
"Professional Portrait Photography" by Lou Jacobs Jr. (PB, 2008) - $2
"Digital Photography for Children's and Family Portraiture" by Kathleen Hawkins (PB2008) - $2
"Close-Up Photography" (from Kodak) by Wm. White Jr. (PB, 1984) - $2
"Photography with Large-Format Cameras" by Eastman Kodak (PB, 1988) - $3
"Ships of the Great Lakes" by James Barry (HC, 1996, Signed Limited Edition) - $15
"The History of the New York Central System" by Aaron E. Klein (HC, DJ, (1985) - $5
"Picturesque Itinerary of The Hudson River" by J. Milbert (HC, 1968, translation of diary from ca. 1826) - $20
"Theodore Roosevelt and his Times" by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (2 vol., HC, 1920) - #15
"Delaware and Hudson; The History of an Important Railroad..." by Jim Shaughnessy (PB, 1997) - $8
"The Interurban Era" by William D. Middleton (HC, DJ, 1961) - $8
"The Rockefellers at Williamsburg (VA)" by Donald J. Gonzales (HC, 1991) - $5
"The World of Toys" by Robert Culff (HC, 1969) - $2
"State Fair Stories" by Judith L. Rivette (PB, 2005 ) - $4
"Keuka College, A History" by Philip Africa ((HC, 1974) - $15
"The Titanic Disaster" by Dave Bryceson (HC, DJ, 1997) - $3
"Titanic, 100 Years Below" (Book, DVD, CD & ephemera in slip case) - $7
"The Rocky and Bullwinkle Book" by Lewis Chunovic (HC, DJ, 1996, first printing) - $6
HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE YEARBOOKS
1933 "The Arete" Yearbook - Aquinas HS - $6
1942 "Witan" Yearbook - Charlotte H. S. (missing faculty pages) - $2
1948 "Witan" Yearbook - Charlotte H. S. - $5
1950 "Key" - Ben Franklin HS, Rochester - $5
1951 "Key" - Ben Franklin HS, Rochester - $5
Jan. 1920 "The Colossus" - East High School - $5 (no covers)
June 1921 "Orient" Yearbook - East High School - $12
1943 "Orient" Yearbook - East High School, Rochester, NY - $5
1939 "Surveyor" Yearbook - Washington- H. S. (William Warfield senior picture) - $15
1947 "Commet" - Harley School - $5
1959 "Clavus" - Allendale (private) School - $2
1959 "Crossroads Yearbook - Brighton HS - $4
1963 "Junction" Yearbook - Penfield HS (musty smell) - $2
1985 "Junction" Yearbook - Penfield HS - $5
1986 "Junction" Yearbook - Penfield HS - $5
1987 "Junction" Yearbook - Penfield HS - $5
1987 "Junction" Yearbook - Penfield HS (water stains) - $1
1935 "The Batavian" Yearbook - Batavia HS - $7
1942 "Ramikin" Yearbook - RIT (some water stains) - $2
1925 "Chesbronian" Yearbook - Roberts Wesleyan - $10
1926 "Chesbronian" Yearbook - Roberts Wesleyan - $10
1990 "Jo Roffs" Yearbook - St John Fisher College - $5
1946 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $4
1947 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1948 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1949 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1950 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1951 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1954 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1955 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1956 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1963 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1964 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1965 "Sigillum" Yearbook - Nazareth College - $5
1966 "Sigillum" Yearbook - Nazareth College - $5
1967 "Sigillum" Yearbook - Nazareth College - $5
NEWSPAPERS
12 issues of the “Rochester Daily Democrat” (1860s & 70s) - $50
One issue of “Rochester Daily Advertiser” (8/19/1851) – $5
7 issues of the “Rochester Daily Democrat and American” (1850s) - $30
One issue of “Rochester Daily Union & Advertiser” (9/27/1881) – $3
“Holiday Supplement 1881-2” - $1.
3 issues - Kennedy Assassination newspapers - $3
21 issues - "Rural New-York" (from 1800s) - $75
45 issues - "Rural New-York (from 1940 & 1950s) - $60
Bound volume of “Rochester Times-Union” for Nov. 1932. Each issue missing the comics page. Cheap at $35.
EPHEMERA
47 issues of 'The Cine-Kodak News' from 1930s and 1940s - $200
31 issues of Rochester TV magazines from 1952 & 1953 - $150
35 'Studio Light' magazines from Kodak for Professional Photographers - $140
Collection of "The Youth's Companion" from the 1870s & 1880s - $150
29 'Kodak" Employee magazines from the 1930s & 1940s - $115
"Kodakery" (Amateur photo mag., random from 1920s) - $4 each
'Popular Science' magazines from the 1930s - $4 each
'Popular Mechanics' magazines from the 1930s - $4 each
2 lots of Rochester Transit tickets (1 from 1930s & 1 from 1940s)
6 Short Wave magazines from the 1930s - $40
3 children's booklets in French from 1919 - $15
14 GEVA Theatre Programs - $7
26 Broadway Playbills - $40
RG&E Recipe Booklet - lots of 4 - $2
13 issues of "Gas and Electric News" (1920s & 1930s) - $20
Many 8x10 inch Hollywood photos - $3 each
Other Ephemera - some individual starting at 25 cents; some in lots
PHOTOS
400+ Snapshots - $1 each
Photos of Rochester area - $1 each
Boarded photos - $1.50 each
Cabinet cards - $2 each
CDVs - $2 each
Vintage album with 26 cabinet cards & 8 CDVs - $60
Vintage album with 28 cabinet cards - $60
Tintypes (most 1/6 plate) - $4 each
ARTWORKS
Framed Coca-Cola ad from 1923 'Ladies Home Journal' - $10
Framed Dodge auto ad from 1923 'Ladies Home Journal' - $5
Dianne Dengel print of old couple - $20
Sesquicentennial (1984) poster photo of Rochester - $20
Framed photo of Charlotte Lighthouse (10.5 in. square) - $30
OTHER
Old Postcards (Rochester & NY State) - $1 each
Other postcards - $2 - $10 each
View Master reels - Single reels $2 ea. & sets of 3 reels - $5 each
Sawyer View Master - $10
GAF View Master - $5
Rochester area maps and other vintage road Maps
WBBF radio collectables - from $1 to $5 each
WBBF oldies album - $5
Naomi Silver Bobblehead (2024) - $25
Set of 4 - Star Wars, Return of the Jedi glasses - $30
Barnard Fire Dept. T-shirt from 1987; size XL - $10
Matthews & Fields nailer apron (prob. early 1960s - $5