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Quilt That Walked To Golden: Women and Quilts in the Mountain West From the Overland Trail to Contemporary Colorado

By: ;Dallas, Sandra; Simonds, Nanette; Atchison, Povy Kendal (illustrator)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Elmhurst, Illinois, U.S.A., Breckling Pr: 2007

Seller ID: 9130

ISBN: 1933308176

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

Elmhurst, Illinois, U.S.A.: Breckling Pr, 2007. Second printing. New. Atchison, Povy Kendal. Inspiration drawn from letters, journals, historical sources, and quilts--essential vehicles of women's storytelling through the years--fills this narrative re-creation of the history of the West, from the time of the early pioneers to the present day. 70 color photos. 60 b&w photos. 20 line drawings.
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The History of Napolean Bonaparte, Complete in 2 volumes

By: Abbott, John, S. C.

Price: $130.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers: 1895

Seller ID: 11741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1895. Near Fine. A quite handsone set bound in deep blue cloth with bright silver design embossed on the front boards and the spines. Spinel lettering is in gold. Each volume has a frontis portrait with tissue guard. Numerous b&w illustrations and maps in each volume. Pages bright and clear. volume one has a few spots at the rear hinge wear the paper has broken, corners sharp.. Volume one is 611 pages, volume two is 666 pages
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History of Clearfield County Pennsylvania with Illustraions and Biographical Sketches of Some of It's Prominent Men and Pioneers

By: Aldrich, Lewis Cass (editor )

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Mt. Vernon, IN, Windmill Publications: 2005

Seller ID: 12354

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 2005. Fine. Reprint of the 1887 edition published by d. Mason & Co. an idex of names has been added to this edition, after the regular index. It contains 2,700 family names and hundreds of individual names. 731 pages plus the 51 page name index. Blue binding with gold lettering. As new.
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House of Goodyear

By: Allen Hugh

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Akron, Oh, Superior Printing & Litho: 1936

Seller ID: 8107

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Akron, Oh: Superior Printing & Litho, 1936. First printing. Very Good. 413 pages, illustrated with b&w photos, frontis portrait of P. W. Litchfield. Author signature and inscription on ffep "To A.D. Trembly with best regards, Hugh Allen, June 1936". Above this inscription is a former owner's name. There are no other markings. Pages clean, binding firm. Dark blue boards with gold lettering, light wear at corners, spine ends and edge of back board.
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Ghost Liners: Exploring the World's Greatest Lost Ships

By: Ballard, Robert D.; Archbold, Rick; Marschall, Ken (illustrator )

Price: $13.00

Publisher: New York, Little, Brown & Co.: 1998

Seller ID: 11863

ISBN: 0316080209

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/fine. Presenting the stories of five great ships lost at sea--including "Titanic"--Ballard and Archbold shows readers what it's like to dive down to a gigantic wreck. Marschall's thrilling color illustrations enhance the fateful tales of these majestic vessels
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Immortal Songs of Camp and FieldL The Story of Thier Inspiration together with Strikling Anecdotes connected with thier History

By: Banks, Louis Albert

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Cleveland, OH, Burrows Brothers Company: 1899

Seller ID: 12915

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Cleveland, OH: Burrows Brothers Company, 1899. Very Good. 298 pages, covering 25 songs. Contains 26 portraits and 30 illustrations (frontis included). Binding is firm, pages are clear and unmarked. There is a small newspaper clipping containing a poem that is taped inside the front cover, it's shadow is opposite. bound in green cloth with gold lettering and decoration. Light wear at spine ends, top edge gilt, rough cut pages. Two places within have a narrow crack in the gutter.
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Panama Canal

By: Barrett, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington D.C., Pan American Union: 1913

Seller ID: 8207

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good +

Washington D.C.: Pan American Union, 1913. Very Good +/good +. 120 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs, color frontis, color folod-out map of Panama Canal and Canal Zone, in the back. Unmarked copy bound in tan cloth. Jacket has two large chips missing from the lower edge.
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The Panama Gateway

By: Bishop, Joseph Bucklin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1913

Seller ID: 8379

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good++

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. First printing. Very Good++. 459 pages, indexed, illustrated with b&w photographs, fold-out map in the bak. Origianl owner's personal bookplate inside front cover, otherwise, unmarked, crisp and clean. Bound in deep red cloth with bright gold lettering on front and spine.
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Lift Every Voice and Sing A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem; 100 Years, 100 Voices

By: Bond;Julian; Wilson, Sondra Kathryn (editors )

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2000

Seller ID: 10071

ISBN: 0679463151

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good +

New York: Random House, 2000. Ex-Library Edition. Very Good +/very good +. Minimal library markings, pages crisp and fresh. Illustrated throughout with b&w photographs, 275 pages, bibliography. This collection of 400-word essays from a wide range of famous contributors--from Maya Angelou to former President and Mrs. George Bush--celebrate the centennial of the Negro national anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing". The Schomburg Center for Black Research has provided 100 photos for display.
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Lakewood: The First Hundred Years

By: Borchert, Jim; Borchert, Susan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Norfolk, VA, Donning Co: 1989

Seller ID: 7244

ISBN: 0898657741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Norfolk, VA: Donning Co, 1989. First printing. Fine/fine. 191 pages, indexed, illustrated throughout in b&w. A bookplate in the front contains the signature of both authors. Early maps of Lakewood on endpapers. As new.
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Life of Samuel Johnson (3 volumes)

By: Boswell, James; Railton, Herbert (illustrator)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, J. M. Dent & Co.: 1901

Seller ID: 000847

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1901. Very Good. Railton, Herbert. Three volumes, bound in green cloth with giilt on front covers and spines. 'about 100 illustrations by Herbert Railton and many portraits'. Maps on endpapers, clean set, no markings. Front hinge cracked on volume 1 and ffep along with frontis portrait, loose.. Front hinge starting on volume 3.
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Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living

By: Brkic, Courtney Angela

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A., Farrar Straus & Giroux: 2004

Seller ID: 004108

ISBN: 0374207747

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. Signed by the author. When she was 23 years old, Brkic joined a UN forensic team in eastern Bosnia. Here, she describes the gruesome work of recovering remains and transcribing the memories of survivors. She also explores her family's history in Yugoslavia.
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City of New York

By: Brown, Henry Collins

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, J. F. Tapley Co.: 1917

Seller ID: 004365

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good +

New York: J. F. Tapley Co., 1917. Very Good +. Small (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") book with history of New York plus many statistics, illustrated throughout with b&w photographs from private collections. Some of the photos are early 1900's but many are New York in the 1800's. 287 pages, unmarked. Binding is dark green with lettering and coat-of-arms in gilt on the front cover. Top edge gilt, very light edgewear on cover. A fascinating little book.
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Image for Letter from the Rt. Honourable Edmund Burke to His Grace the Duke of Portland, on the Conduct of the Minority in Parliament. Containing Fifty-four Articles of Impeachment Against the Rt. Hon. C.J. Fox

Letter from the Rt. Honourable Edmund Burke to His Grace the Duke of Portland, on the Conduct of the Minority in Parliament. Containing Fifty-four Articles of Impeachment Against the Rt. Hon. C.J. Fox

By: Burke, Edmund

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, 1797

Seller ID: 6712

Binding: Original wraps

Condition: Good

London, 1797 Wraps Good 94 pages, unmarked, marbled edges, wrapped in a plain sheet of paper, which has edgewear and a 1" tear on the back The first two sheets, consisting of the title page plus page one and page two are separated from the rest of the the booklet Printed by J Owen
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Mistress of the Seas

By: Carlova, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Citadel Press: 1964

Seller ID: 12861

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good++

New York: Citadel Press, 1964. First Edition. Very Good++/very good. Stated first Edition. Unmarked, firm binding. black boards with red cloth spine. Jacket has light wear along the top edge and a 4" closed tear on the back. A dramatic biography of Anne Bonny, the lusty eighteenth century beauty who became a pirate queen.
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Letters to His Son on the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, Two Volumes Complete

By: Chesterfield, Earl of

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Washington DC, M. Walter Dunne, Publisher: 1901

Seller ID: 9501

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Washington DC: M. Walter Dunne, Publisher, 1901. Near Fine. IUniversal Classics Library, each volume with photogravure frontis on Japan vellum, plus one other photogravure plate. Each illustration with tissue guard. Title page decorated with ornate red border. Each volume with personal bookplate inside the front cover and no other markings. Pages bright an clear. Bound in green cloth with sharp corners, paper spine labels are intact with some of the lettering faded. Edition DeLuxe. Top edge gold, other edges rough-cut.
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In the Evening of My Thought 2 Volumes

By: Clemenceau, Georges

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1929

Seller ID: 002181

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good +

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Very Good +/Very Good. Translated by Charles Miner Thompson and John Heard Jr.. A clean, firmly bound set. Former owner's person bookplate and small bookstore stamp inside front cover of each. B&W frontis portrait in volume one. Boards are blue with gold lettering. Jackets are plain with lettering and decoration on spines. Jacket of volume one has a 1/2 inch chip at the top and a vertical tear of 1 1/2 inches, now in mylar.
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Lands and Peoples of the World in Color, 7 Volumes plus Index.

By: Clewell, Gladys D., Editor

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, Grolier Society: 1949

Seller ID: 002148

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

New York: Grolier Society, 1949. Near Fine. Beautiful set, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Many are historical photgraphs of people wearing the traditional clothing of their culture, including many of Native Americans. Maps on endpapers, glossy paper. Pictorial embossed covers in three colors, each one is different. Gold lettering on spines. The 7 volume set is unmarked. There is a paperback index, which has library markings, marked 'non-circulating''.
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Illustrated Atlas of Native American History

By: Crompton, Samuel Ward

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Chartwell9: 1999

Seller ID: 11551

ISBN: 0785811184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

New York: Chartwell9 , 1999. Fine. 9 1/2" x 13", 272 pages, indexed, bibliography. Illustrated endpapres. Unmarked, clean and crisp.This indispensable reference traces the movement of North America's native peoples from 20,000 BC to the present day.
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Debate On Prohibition

By: Darrow, Clarence; Holmes, John Haynes

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New york, The League For Public discussion: 1924

Seller ID: 9425

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New york: The League For Public Discussion, 1924. Very Good. 74 pages plus 3 pages of ads. the complete text of the the public debate between Darrow and Holmes on Prohibition. Introduction by Hon. Royal S. Copeland. Unmarked with clear pages, Bound in green card boards which have a bit of discoloration around the edges on the front, blue cloth spine.
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Category: History