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Books: General 1 (196 items) |
We last updated our site on 31-Aug-2012. The next update is scheduled for 13-Oct-2012. |
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Books of a general nature. Some books are autographed or inscribed. These are so noted in the individual description.
Note: Books can also be found in a number of other subject area listings including Presidential Books, Social Issues, Celebrities, Health related, Religious collectibles, John Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Rickenbacker Library, School Items, Western, Royalty, Youth Organizations, Abraham Lincoln, Almanacs, Catalogs, Military, Paper Ephemera, Music, and Recipe books.
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B0003
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Book: Chamberlain and The Beautiful Llama and 101 More Juxtapositions, by Stefan Lorant, photobook published 1940 by Hulton Press Ltd, London. Anyone who likes juxtapositions (positioning two photo views of unlike subjects so they appear to look similar) will love this book! Spine is faded otherwise book is fine.
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$30.00
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B0003A
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Book: Bomber's Moon by Negley Farson, with 48 illustrations by Tom Purvis. Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1941. 1st American edition. Dedicated "To The Last Nazi". slight wear on cover edges but very good.
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$25.00
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B0007
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Book: "Haines' Township Organization Laws," a compilation of the laws of Illinois relating to township organization and management of county affairs, by Elijah M. Haines, 1883. 587p. leatherbound.
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$75.00
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B0014A
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Book: Annual yearbook, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia. 1955.
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$15.00
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B0014B
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Book: Annual yearbook, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia. 1956.
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$15.00
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B0014C
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Book: Annual yearbook, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia. 1957.
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$15.00
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B0014D
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Book: Annual yearbook, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia. 1958.
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$15.00
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B0016
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Book: 2 books. "Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, 1907 (pub. #12) and 1915 (pub. #21), both illus. Many papers & documents dealing with early state history. Covers soiled
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$28.00
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B0017
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Book: Midwinter Tales "The Artist and the Bear" by Uncle Chitty and other stories, fully illus. children's book, undated, circa. 1880. Some apparent insect damage last 20 pages not going into copy, otherwise good.
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$15.00
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B0020
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Book: "If You Need Healing Do These Things," by Oral Roberts. 1957, 126p. illus.
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$10.00
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B0023
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Book: "The Sunday Magazine, ed. by Thomas Guthrie, 1868. 774p. illus.
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$25.00
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B0024
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Book: "The Early Settlers," A Poem. by Riley Rover, Esq. Cleveland 1858. 32p. soft cover. Some wear.
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$15.00
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B0026
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Book: "The Naked Truth, Vital Issues Before the Country Clearly Analyzed and Discussed," by Charles H. Betts (Editor of The Lyons Republican), 1913, 92p. Inscribed: "Hon. William Gorham Rice, Compliments of Charles H. Betts, Lyons, NY May 8, 1918, He needs much fight to make true peace his own; He needs much combat might with might or might would rule alone."
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$40.00
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B0031
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Book: "The Commander's Year, Being Various Addresses," made by Lewis S. Pilcher, 1914. 80p.
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$12.00
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B0042
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Book: "A Southerner Discovers the South," by Jonathan Daniels, 1938. 346p.
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$20.00
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B0053
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Book: "Presidents on Parade, the Pictorial History of the Presidents," by Hirst Milhollen & Milton Kaplan, 1948. 425p. heavily illus, over-sized.
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$25.00
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B0054
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Book: "Our Presidents, Brief Biographies of Our Chief Magistrates," by James Morgan, 1926. (through Coolidge), 348p. illus.
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$20.00
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B0055
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Book: "The Twilight of the Presidency," an examination of power and isolation in the White House by George E. Reedy, 1970. 205p. DJ.
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$10.00
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B0056
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Book: "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Presidents and the People, 1929-1959," by Walter Johnson, 1960. 390p. DJ exlib.
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$10.00
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B0057
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Book: "The Confederate Nation 1861-1865," by Emory M. Thomas, 1979 lst ed. 384p. illus DJ, exlib.
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$10.00
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B0067
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Book: "Joseph Wellington Byrns, late a Representative from Tennessee, Memorial Addresses Delivered in Congress," 1938, 184p.
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$10.00
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B0068
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Book: "Henry T. Rainey, late a Representative from Illinois, Memorial Addresses Delivered in Congress," 1936, 95p.
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$10.00
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B0069
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Book: "Karl E. Mundt, late a Senator from South Dakota, Memorial Addresses & Tributes in the Congress of the United States," 1974, 38p.
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$10.00
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B0070
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Book: "John Joseph Dempsey, late a Representative from New Mexico, Memorial Addresses Delivered in Congress," 1958, 76p.
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$10.00
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B0071
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Book: "Nathan Lynn Bachman, late a Senator from Tennessee, Memorial Addresses Delivered in Congress," 1938, 49p.
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$10.00
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B0073
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Book: "The New Century Book of Facts," a handbook of ready reference. The Continental Publishing Company. 1,645p. 1935. Some excellent maps, photos & plates.
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$30.00
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B0074
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Book: "The American South in the 1960's," edited by Avery Leiserman 1964. 242p. DJ.
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$20.00
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B0081
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Book: "Inside the Democratic Party," by Jack Redding 1958 lst. Ed. 319p. DJ.
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$20.00
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B0092
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Book: "The Best Cartoons from Punch," 1952 1st printing.
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$20.00
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B0095
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Book: "Misery is a blind date," by Johnny Carson. 1967. Picture of a young Johnny on both front & back covers. Illus. by Whitney Darrow, Jr.
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$10.00
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B0101
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Book: "A Guide for collectors of Oral Traditions and Folk Cultural Material in Pennsylvania," by MacEdward Leach & Henry Glassie1968. 74p soft cover.
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$10.00
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B0103
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Book: "Conquering the Wilderness" 715p. Great documentation of the movement west. Leatherbound. Front cover is loose and title page is missing, however rest of book is firm and in very good to excellent shape, including the many line drawings.
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$60.00
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B0118
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Book: Parade of the Presidents, by Charles Forrest Moore, 1928. 166p DJ
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$20.00
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B0130
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Book: Children in the White House, by Christine Sadler. 1967 316p. illus. DJ
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$15.00
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B0136
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Book: The Story of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1855. Ticknor & Fields. Boston. 316p. Gold trim. Some minor cover wear and top & bottom of backstrap have been taped. Binding firm.
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$150.00
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B0137
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Book: Better Dead, by J. M. Barrie 1888 2nd ed. Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., London. 127p. Marbled with leather backstrap & trim. Very minor wear.
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$90.00
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B0138
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Book: The History of the Devil, "containing his origin, a state of his circumstances, his conduct public and private; the various turns of his affairs from Adam down to this present time; the various methods he takes to converse with mankind; with the manner of his making witches, wizards, and conjurers; and how they sell their souls to him, etc. etc.; the whole interspersed with many of the devil's adventures to which is added a description of the devil's dwelling, called hell," by Daniel DeFoe (author of Robinson Crusoe & The Kingdom of Lilliput). 1859 Leary, Getz & Co. Philadelphia. 6th edition. 296+ pages. Cover wear/repair. Inside fine.
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$100.00
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B0139
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Book: A History of the World, with All Its Great Sensations, Together with Its Mighty and Decisive Battles, and the Rise and Fall of Its Nations from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, by Nugent Robinson. 1887. 2 Vol. 1,493p. Illus. & maps. Slight cover wear.
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$100.00
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B0141
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Book: Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer, by David Duncan, 1908. 2 volumes. Illus. 859p.
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$40.00
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B0161
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Book: The White House and Its Thirty-two Families, by Amy La Follette Jensen. 1958 lst. Edition. 280p. Illus. DJ. Oversized 12-1/4" book. (DJ ripped on back, otherwise book is fine.)
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$15.00
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B0163
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Book: Red Plush, The Story of the Moorhouse Family, by Guy McCrone 1947, First American Edition. 221p. Slight cover wear.
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$10.00
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BO164
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Book: The Honorable Mr. Marigold, My Life With Everett Dirksen, by Louella Dirksen (Sen Howard Baker, Jr's mother-in-law). (Autographed, "To Lelah Thomas, Louella Dirksen") 1972. 297p. illus. DJ
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$25.00
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B0165
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Book: The Devil and John Foster Dulles, by Townsend Hoopes. 1973 lst ed., 562p. illus. DJ
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$15.00
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B0166
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Book: Independent People, An Epic, by Halldor Laxness, translated from the Icelandic. 1946. 470p.
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$15.00
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B0170
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Book: William Lyon Phelps, Autobiography With Letters, 1939, Oxford U. Press, 982p, autographed "Wm. Lyon Phelps 1939"
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$25.00
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B0172
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Book: A Book of Toasts by Minna Thomas Antrim. Small sized 6" book with "party lady" pictured on cover with champaigne glass raised, undated but 1900 vintage. Over 100 toasts for the period, 1 per page. 112p hardbound.
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$22.00
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B0174
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Book: Rural Sociology. (4 books): "A Study of Rural Society, Its Organization and Changes," by J. H. Kolb & Edmund deS. Brunner. 1935 642p; "A History of Social Thoughtj," by Emory S. Bogardus. 1928. 666p; "A Systematic Source Book in Rural Sociology," Sorokin, Zimmerman & Galpin. Volume I. 1930. 645p; and, "Rural Problems of Today," by Ernest R. Groves. 1918. 181p. All 4 show some cover wear otherwise fine.
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$30.00
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B0175
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Book: This Fascinating Oil Business, by Max W. Ball. 1940. Illustrations by Jack Housez & maps by Sven W. Reims & C. G. Mundy. 444p.
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$30.00
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B0177
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Book: Only in New England, The Story of a Gaslight Crime by Theodore Roscoe. 1959. 241p.
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$10.00
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B0178
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Book: Man of the Trees, Selected Writings of Richard St. Barbe Baker, edited by Karen Gridley. 1989. 115+ pages, illus. DJ.
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$15.00
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B0179
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Book: The Shadow Warriors, O.S.S. and the Origins of the C.I.A., by Bradley F. Smith. 1983. 507p. DJ
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$15.00
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B0180
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Book: Employee Counseling, A New Viewpoint in Industrial Psychology, by Nathaniel Cantor. 1945. 167p. Slight cover wear.
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$10.00
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B0181
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Book: Fools Gold, by "The Senator from Alaska" Fred R. Marvin. 1936. 184p. (an expose of un-American activities and political action in the United States since 1860). Interesting. Some cover wear
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$18.00
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B0183
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Book: History of the World, 5 volumes. by Clement Wood & Victor Duruy. 1937 illus.
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$35.00
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B0185
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Book: The China Hands, America's Foreign Service Officers and What Befell Them, by E. J. Kahn, Jr. 1975. 337p DJ
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$15.00
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B0186
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Book: The Complete Works of Hannah More. 1843. 587p. gold leaf and leather bound. Some cover wear but binding good.
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$220.00
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B0187
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Book: Living Tomorrow-Today!, The Magic of New Science and Technology. Elmer J. Tangerman & Reynold Bennett 1969. 320p profusely illus. Limited edition bound in handcrafted mission leather. Oversized 11-1/2" book.
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$25.00
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B0188
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Book: Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Property, by Edward H. Warren, Story Professor of Law, Harvard University. 1915. Published by the editor. 856p. Some water stains, slight cover wear and weak binding, but good as a reference. As is.
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$10.00
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B0189
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Book: United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook of Agriculture 1933, Milton S. Eisenhower, editor. 789p.
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$15.00
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B0191
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Book: Elizabeth Fry, Life and Labors of the Eminent Philanthropist, Preacher, and Prison Reformer, compiled from her journal and other sources, by Edward Ryder. 1883. 381p. Inside cover binding loosening. Otherwise fine.
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$25.00
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B0192
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Book: Yankee From Olympus, Justice Holmes and His Family, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. 1944. 475p. illus. DJ
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$15.00
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B0193
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Book: Voice of Democracy, A Critical Biography of David Graham Phillips: Journalist, Novelist, Progressive, by Louis Filler. 1978. 206p.
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$20.00
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B0196
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Book: America In Midpassage, by Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard. 1939. 977p. DJ
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$12.50
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B0197
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Book: Cosmos, by Carl Sagan. 1980. 365p. illus. Some cover stains, but a great book!
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$10.00
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B0198
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Book: The Senator, a novel. By Drew Pearson. 447p. DJ
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$10.00
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B0200
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Book: Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-Religious Prose (1550-1600), by William Meredith Carroll. 1954. 166p. DJ
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$10.00
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B0206
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Book: Collected Speeches of Heber Holbrook Rice, 1947 (Past National President, Federal Bar Assn; Battalion Commander, World War I). 94p. Autographed "To my esteemed friend Robert Nelson Anderson with best personal regards, Heber H. Rice"
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$10.00
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B0208
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Book: Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio, published by the authority of the Legislature of Ohio, Columbus. 1873. Volume I, Geology and Paleontology, 680p; Volume I, Part II, Paleontology, 400p + another est. 100 pages of plates; Volume II, Palaeontology, 400p + another est. 100 pages of plates; Volume III, Peology and Palaeontology, 958p; Volume V, Economic Geology, 1,124p; Volume VI, Economic Geology, 831p; Volume VII, Economic Geology, Archaeology, Botany and Paleontology, 700p + another est. 100 pages of plates. All of these books are full of illustrations, some are foldout, a few are hand colored. A great Ohio reference, even though not complete with some volumes missing. Still alot of material (Stacked up, over 16" worth!). All contents very good, covers are dirty and two are missing backstraps. Seal of Geological Survey of Ohio embossed on front cover of each in gold.
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$170.00
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B0238
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Book: Gifts You Can Make Yourself by Isabelle Stevenson, 1947. 344p. illus. ex.lib. Wonderful ideas and patterns from the 40s, probably a couple of hundred. Everything from gingham aprons with rickrack trim to a bassinet skirt, from an Aunt Jemima Doll to popcorn pedals bedspreads. Cover has some wear but inside is fine.
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$25.00
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B0239
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Book: The Bluejackets' Manual 1940, United States Naval Institute, Annapolis. 784p. illus. Some pencil marks on inside covers.
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$25.00
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B0242
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Book: Our Literary Heritage, A Pictorial History of the Writer in America, by Van Wyck Brooks and Otto L. Bettmann, 1956. Interesting treatment on a thorough coverage of American authors from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, William C. Bryant & James Fennimore Cooper through Thoreau, Hawthorne, Lowell & Holmes, Meville and Whitman to Mark Twain, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Cather, London, Stein, Mencken, O'Neill and Sinclair Lewis, plus much more. Oversize book with slight edge fading otherwise fine.
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$25.00
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B0243
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Book: What a Salesman Should Know About Advertising, by J. C. Aspley, 1919. 112p.
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$10.00
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B0244
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Book: The Art and Science of Selling, National Salesmen's Training Association, 1918. This is a whole series of instructional books. All that is included here are 6 volumes. These volumes cover methods of distribution, the proposition, the territory, language and persuasion, personal efficiency in selling and selecting and securing the position. Each of the hardbound books is about 150p.
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$25.00
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B0245
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Book: Sermons and Soda-Water by John O'Hara, 1960 Random House. Set of 3 books in slip case.
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$15.00
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B0246
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Book: Princess Alice, a Biography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, by James Brough, 1975 lst ed., 335p. illus. DJ.
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$12.50
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B0247
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Book: Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Private Corporations, by Edward H. Warren, Professor of Law, Harvard U. 1922, published by the editor. 1,052p. Slight cover wear.
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$15.00
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B0249
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Book: The Justices' Manual of Statute, Judicial and Elementary Law, with Appropriate Forms, for the use of Justices of the Peace, Constables, Notaries Public, Commissioners, Lawyers and Business Men, by Charles S. Bundy, of the District of Columbia Bar. 1880. 496p. Leather bound but binding loose and part of backstrap missing. Contents fine.
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$20.00
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B0250
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Book: Politics and Poverty, by Lewis C. Ord, 1948. 188p. Compares post-war workers' benefits between America and Europe and why there is such a difference.
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$15.00
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B0251
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Book: Laws of Wisconsin Concerning the Organization and Government of Towns, and the Powers and Duties of Town Officers and Boards of Supervisors, with Forms. by Charles E. Estabrook, 1907. 819p. Slight cover wear.
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$30.00
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B0252
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Book: The History of the United States, 12 volumes, by the editors of LIFE Magazine. Hard bound, approx. 175p per volume with many illus. Well done. 1963.
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$30.00
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B0254
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Book: The Films of Steven Spielberg, by Neil Sinyard, 1986. 128p. colored illus., oversize 12-1/4" book, DJ.
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$10.00
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B0256
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Book: Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis by Hon. John A. J. Creswell, 1866, delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives. 44p. hard bound.
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$15.00
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B0257
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Book: Danger is My Business, by John D. Craig, 1938. Hollywood film producer, deep sea diver. Interesting personal story from hunting tigers to killer whales.
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$15.00
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B0260
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Book: The Institutions and Civil Government of Maryland, by Bernard C. Steiner, 1899. 408p. illus. Some wear, probably used in schools as a civics book.
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$10.00
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B0261
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Book: The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, by Lothrop Stoddard, 1920. 320p w/maps. A fascinating book considering it was written on a couple of years following World War I.
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$40.00
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B0263
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Book: A Gift of Prophecy, The Phenomenal Jeane Dixon, by Ruth Montgomery, 1965. 182p. DJ
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$10.00
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B0264
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Book: American Album, How We Looked and How We Lived in a Vanished U.S.A." rare photographs collected by the editors of American Heritage, 1968. 352p, illus. Large size 14" book. This is a fascinating photo book of 75 years of photography--from the first surviving daguerreotype taken at Philadelphia in 1839 to the era of World War I.
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$25.00
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B0266
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Book: The Hopefuls, Ten Presidential Campaigns, by Lloyd Robinson, 1966. 192p. illus. DJ. Chapters on each of the elections from 1928 with Al Smith through 1964 with Barry Goldwater.
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$15.00
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B0267
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Book: World Power Up Close, candid conversations with 31 key leaders, by Allen H. Neuharth, USA TODAY 1989. 202p. illus. Basically covers the world leaders from Mubarak of Egypt, Thatcher of United Kingdom, and Gorbachev of Soviet Union to Arafat of Palestine, Mitterrand of France, and Castro of Cuba. Interesting to read these leader's beliefs of the world situation only a few short years ago and the world as it exists today.
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$15.00
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C121
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Book: A Wanderer Among Pictures by E. V. Lucas, 1924. 289p illus. Covers the great art of galleries, mostly in Europe including London, Paris, Madrid, Milan, Florence, Rome, Venice, Vienna, Munich, Dresden, Berlin, Amsterdam, The Hague, Antwerp and Brussels.
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$25.00
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C122
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Book: The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick, 1927 Doubleday. School edition 349p.
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$10.00
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C123
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Book: Bystander by Maxim Gorki, translated from the Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, 1930. The Literary Guild. 729p. Back cover is loose on inside.
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$10.00
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C124
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Book: When Knighthood Was in Flower, or, the love story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor, the King's sister, and happening in the reign of his august majesty King Henry the Eighth, by Charles Major. Marion Davies Edition, Grosset & Dunlap. 358p.
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$10.00
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C125
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Book: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini translated by John Addington Symonds, 1927. 403p.
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$15.00
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C126
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Book: Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne, misadventures of an English General in the Revolution, by F. J. Hudleston, librarian of the British War Office, 1927. 367p. illus.
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$15.00
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C8398
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Book: My Life by Golda Meir. 1975. 480p illus. DJ. Dust jacket has some wear.
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$15.00
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B0342
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Book: Animal Farm, by George Orwell, 1946. Harcourt, Brace and Company. 118p DJ. (Dust jacket has 2 small tape repairs on inside jacket).
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$110.00
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B0343
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Book: Flashes of Wit, Selections from The National Gloom Chaser, the Arkansas Traveler, 1945. Introducting the quaint wisdom of Opie Read--jokes, monologues, funny anecdotes, flashes of wit, original cartoons. 127p soft cover. Some cover wear.
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$15.00
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B0344
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Book: Harvard University Register 1919-1920, 353p illus.
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$15.00
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B0377
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Book: A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900-84 by Chris Cook. 1984 2nd edition. 188p soft cover.
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$15.00
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B0378
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Book: The Religious Beliefs of Our Presidents by Franklin Steiner. 1936 Haldeman-Julius Publications. soft cover. 190p
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$10.00
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B0380
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Book: Investigation of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Hearing before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director. Nineth-fifth Congress. 1978. 4 volumes. Vol. 1 autographed by Blakey. 1,829p.
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$85.00
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B0381
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Book: The Story of an African Farm by Ralph Iron (Olive Schreiner), a novel. A. L. Burt Company. 380p Circa 1915.
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$45.00
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B0382
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Book: The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise by Dante Alighieri, translated by The Rev. H. F. Cary, John Wurtele Lovell, publisher. 1881. Gold trim.
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$35.00
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B0384
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Book: Quo Vadis, a narrative of the time of Nero, by Henryk Sienkiewicz, translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. 1897. Little, Brown. 541p
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$35.00
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B0385H
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Book: The Arts, written & illustrated by Hendrik Willem van Loon. 1937. Simon and Schuster. 678p very good.
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$30.00
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B0386
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Book: Sonnets to Steve and other poems, by Wilbert Snow, autographed. 56p DJ.
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$15.00
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B0387
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Book: Pleasant Reflections, a collection of personal tributes interspersed with trifles of fancy, by Orrin Chalfant Painter, 1906. Inscribed "J. Norris Herring, from your friend Orrin C. Painter. Christmas 1906" 50p
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$15.00
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B0388
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Book: The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy. 1922 Harper & Bros. 485p.
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$35.00
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B0389
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Book: The Tales of Hoffmann, stories by E. T. A. Hoffman, translated out of the German by various hands, illustrated with lithographs by Huge Steiner-Prag together with a prologue from the illustrator. 1943 Limited Editions Club, Heritage Press. 344p in orig. slip cover. Slip cover (which is plain) has some wear on back side.
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$45.00
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B0392
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Book: West Virginia Blue Book 1951. 904p. Covers just about anything you want or need to know about the state of West Virginia.
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$10.00
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B0393
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Book: West Virginia Blue Book 1952. 872p. Covers just about anything you want or need to know about the state of West Virginia.
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$10.00
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B0394
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Book: West Virginia Blue Book 1981. 1,144p. Covers just about anything you want or need to know about the state of West Virginia.
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$10.00
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B0417
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Book: The Face of Rural America. 1976 Yearbook of Agriculture. 284p Beautifully illus.
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$15.00
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B0437
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Book: The Social List of Washington, D.C. 1953 by Carolyn Hagner Shaw. 495p. Green velvet cover, gold embossed. The "must" list for Washington in those days. Backstrap faded.
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$35.00
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B0438
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Book: The Social List of Washington, D.C. 1953 Executive and Congressional Supplement by Carolyn Hagner Shaw. 48p. Green velvet cover, gold embossed. 1-1/2" Ink stain on cover.
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$30.00
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B0439
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Book: The Social List of Washington, D.C. 1954 by Carolyn Hagner Shaw. 512p. Green velvet cover, gold embossed. Some cover wear. The "must" list for Washington in those days.
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$45.00
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B0440
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Book: The Social List of Washington, D.C. 1961 by Carolyn Hagner Shaw. 554p. Green velvet, gold embossed. Backstrap faded. The 'must" list for Washington in this era.
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$45.00
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B0464
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Book: Black on Red, My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union, an autobiography by Black American Robert Robinson w/Jonathan Slevin. 1988 illus 436. DJ Signed, inscribed & dated by author.
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$30.00
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B0481
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Book: In the First Watch, by Willian McFee. 1946 Random House First Printing. 333p
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$20.00
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B0482
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Book: Parlor Comedies, by Charles R. Talbot. illus. by Francis Miller and H. Pruett Share. 1883. approx 100p Delightful "humorous" stories or plays of the era. Fancy embossed Victorian cover. Inside cover loose but intact.
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$25.00
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B0483
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Book: Richard Dimbleby Broadcaster, 1966 British Broadcasting Corp. Autographed by Dimbleby on affixed card in front. 172p illus. soft cover. A tribute to one of Britian's foremost broadcasters by his colleagues following his untimely death in 1965.
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$20.00
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B0484
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Book: The Last Time I Saw Paris, by Elliot Paul. 1942 Random House. 422p
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$12.00
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B0485
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Book: More Misrepresentative Men by Harry Graham. 1905. Absolutely great caricatures by Malcolm Strauss of each of the presentations in the book, including Robert Burns, Herlock Holmes, Andrew Carnegie, Omar Khayyam, Alton B. Parker, Joseph F. Smith, William Waldorf Astor, Henry VIII, J. M. Barrie and others. 112p Cover slightly worn on edges.
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$15.00
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B0486
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Book: A Treasury of the Theatre, from Ghosts to Death of a Salesman. Edited by John Gassner. 1950. Has some underlining in it, but a good reference. 1,120p.
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$12.00
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B0487
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Book: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, with an account of his life and writings. edited by Washington Irving. Complete in 1 volume 1836. J. Crissy Philadelphia. Leatherbound, scuffed cover w/portion of backstrap missing. Binding basically tight.
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$100.00
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B0494
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Book: Past and Present of Warren County Illinois 1877, a history of the county, its cities & towns, a biographical directory of its citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, general and local statistics. 352p. Some very nice line art and engravings of prominent citizens. Embossed gold lettering on cover. Cover has some edge wear and scuff marks on back side. Binding is tight. Excellent local history book.
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$60.00
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B0495
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Book: Very large 14" x 13-1/2" book, circa 1900, "Othello" totally in braille.
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$35.00
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B0496
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Book: Two large books, 13-1/2" x 11", circa 1920 or earlier, two volumes, "Aids to Medicine" Vol 1 & 2, totally in braille. Book plate states originally from National Institute for the Blind, London.
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$35.00
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B0497
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Book: Large book, 13-1/2" x 11", circa 1920, circa 1920 or earlier, "Aids to Surgery" totally in braille. Book plate states originally from National Institute for the Blind, London.
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$40.00
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B0498
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Book: Hawaii and Its Race Problem, by William Atherton Du Puy (Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior). 1932. 132p illus. Cover has some dirt stains.
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$20.00
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B0506
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Book: The Speaker's Ideal Entertainments for Home, Church and School, consisting of recitals, dialogues & dramas. by George M. Vickers. 1892. A prospectus, excerpts from the original book, used as a type of "salesman sample". Approx 100 pages including many of the main features, plus some tremendous full page photos of actors & actresses. Gold embossed cover. Interesting.
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$25.00
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B0529A
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Book: Hunza, Adventures in a Land of Paradise, by John H. Tobe. Rodale Books, 1960. 646p illus. DJ.
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$8.00
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B0529B
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Book: Alexander Hamilton, A Biography, by Forrest McDonald. W. W. Norton & Co. 1979 1st Edition. 464p. DJ.
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$15.00
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B0541
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Book: Airborne, A Sentimental Journey by William F. Buckley, Jr. 1976 Second Printing. MacMillan Publishing Co. 253p. illus. DJ
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$7.00
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B0545
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Book: Gunman's Bluff, Edgar Wallace. 1929 1st ed. The Crime Club. 300p. Slight cover wear. Very Good.
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$15.00
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B0546
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Book: Lee the American, by Gamaliel Bradford. 1940 Houghton Mifflin Company. 324. DJ has some edge damage.
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$10.00
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B0547
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Book: Illinois and the Nation, by Oliver Trowbridge. 1887. 234p illus. (from back when elementary & high schools taught civics)
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$15.00
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B0548
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Book: Last Days of Pompeii by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. Henry T. Coates & Co. Philadelphia. Circa 1900. Colorful cover with pasted on colored scene. Excellent.
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$15.00
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B0549
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Book: Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. 1955. 128p. DJ included but damaged. Book very good.
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$15.00
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B0550
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Book: Martin Merrivale, His X Mark, by J. T. Trowbridge. 1884. 558p.
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$20.00
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B0551
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Book: American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964, by William Manchester. 1978. 793p.
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$10.00
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B0552
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Book: The Day I was Proudest to be an American, by Donald Robinson. Sixty-nine Americans recount stirring episodes that reflect our coutry's greatness, some of the absolutely greatest short 2-page stories you will ever read. 1959 Book club edition. DJ.
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$18.00
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B0553
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Book: Take Nine Spies, by Fitzroy Maclean. 1978. 341p illus. Nine fascinating, true spy stories. DJ.
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$14.00
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B0554
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Book: Konrad Adenauer Memoirs 1945-53, translated by Beate Ruhm von Oppen. 1965. 478p.
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$10.00
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B0555
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Book: The Story of Everest, by Captain John Noel. Blue Ribbon Books. 1931 Reprint. 257p. Backstrap badly faded otherwise fine.
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$10.00
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B0556
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Book: Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia & Register of Important Events of the year 1877. New series, Vol. II. D. Appleton & Company, New York. 1878. 790p illus. Leather & marbled combo cover. Leather has some scrapes. Binding very good.
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$35.00
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B0557
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Book: The Masters of Power, Brian Crozier. 1969. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London. 416p DJ. Some of the power leaders are pictured on dust jacket, including John Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Mao, Khrushchev, General de Gaulle.
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$15.00
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B0558
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Book: Peter the Great, His Life and World, by Robert K. Massie. 1980 1st Ed. 909p illus. DJ
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$15.00
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B0559
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Book: Official Manual and Constitution Book, Ordnance Mutual Relief Association, United States Navy Yard, Washington, DC 1900. 170p all about the association & many portraits & illustrations, from the Sec. of Navy to the U.S. Battleship "Kentucky" and new protected cruiser, "Denver". Great illus. advertisements, from life boats to firearms to typewriters. Backstrap has some severe damage, however front & back covers are fine and binding is tight.
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$25.00
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B0560
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Book: Navy Boilers, a Text-Book for the Instruction of Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy, by F. C. Bieg. 1906. 372p w/many illustrations and foldout charts & diagrams. (Bookplate shows this copy was at one time part of the ship's library, U.S.S. Yankee.
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$35.00
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B0561
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Book: Men of Art, by Thomas Craven. 1931 illus. Simon & Schuster. 524. Ex. Lib. shaken.
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$5.00
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B0562
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Book: The Engineer's Encyclopaedia, containing a history of the discovery and application of steam with its application on land and sea, by John G. Winton & W. J. Millar. 1890. 794p including some great illustrations and foldouts. Leather front is gold embossed with illustrations of ships. Front & back covers OK but loose with backstrap basically missing.
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$45.00
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B0563
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Book: Living Philosophies, A Series of Intimate Credos. 1931 Simon and Schuster. 334p. Full page glossy photo of each author which includes: Albert Einstein, John Dewey, Sir James Jeans, H. G. Wells, Theodore Dreiser, H. L. Mencken, James Truslow Adams, Julia Peterkin, Sir Arthur Keith, Irving Babbitt, Beatrice Webb, Joseph Wood Krutch, Fridtjof Nansen, Lewis Mumford, Robert Andrews Millikan, Hu Shih, Hilaire Belloc, H. B. S. Haldane, George Jean Nathan, Irwin Edman, Bertrand Russell and William Ralph Inge.
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$10.00
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B0564
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Book: The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, by Dmitri Merejkowski. Garden City Publishing Co. 1928. 574p. Previous owner's ID on inside front cover.
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$7.00
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B0566
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Book: Hand Book of Caculations for Engineers and Firemen relating to the Steam Engine, the Steam Boiler, Pumps, Shafting, etc. by N. Hawkins. 1898. 330p. Many charts and illustrations. Inside binding slightly loose, otherwise very good.
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$25.00
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B0574
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Book: The Works of Henrik Ibsen. One Volume Edition. Walter J. Black, Inc. NY, NY 1928. 679p. Leather bound. Gold embossed. Very slight edge wear. Still excellent.
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$65.00
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B0586
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Book: Northwood; or, Life North and South: showing the True Character of Both, by Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale. Illus. H. Long & Brother, New York. 1852. 408p. Some very slight foxing. Cover wear on corners & edges of backstrap. Hale's first book, leading to her editorship of "Ladies Magazine," the first periodical in America devoted to women.
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$100.00
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B0618
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Book: Black History. 4 books. "Jim Crow Guide to the U.S.A. by Stetson Kennedy (author of "I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan") printed by Lawrence & Wishart LTD, London, 230p title page missing, some wear; "Soledad Brother, The Prison Letters of George Jackson" w/introduction by Jean Genet 1971 Penguin Books, 292p PB; "Three Lives for Mississippi" by William Bradford Huie, w/introduction by Martin Luther King Jr. 1965 William Heinemann Ltd, London. 254p. Title page partially missing, some wear; "Nobody Knows My Name, More Notes of a Native Son" by James Baldwin. 1964 Michael Joseph Ltd, London. 196p ex.lib. Slight wear.
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$65.00
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B0619
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Book: Anatomy of Hatred, The Wounded Land, by Hans Habe, translated from the German by Ewan Butler. Author has great admiration for John Kennedy and disdain for America. 1964 George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, London. 296p Slight wear, primarily on inside covers, may have been ex.lib. Otherwise fine.
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$25.00
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B0620
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Book: The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, (excluding Shakespeare) edited by William Allan Neilson. 1911. Houghton Mifflin Company. Includes selected plays by Lyly, Peele, Greene, Marlowe, Kyd, Chapman, Jonson, Dekker, Marston, Keywood, Beaumont, Fletcher, Webster, Middleton, Massinger, Ford, Shirley. 880p. Very slight cover wear.
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$30.00
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B0621
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Book: Science Remaking the World, by Otis W. Caldwell and Edwin E. Slosson. 1923. 292p illlus. Covers everything from gasolene and coal-tar to public health, evolution, and our food supply. Very interesting reading. 292p
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$25.00
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B0622
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Book: Klondike Mike -- An Alaskan Odyssey, by Merrill Denison. 1945 Forum Books Edition. Some cover wear.
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$18.00
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B0623
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Book: The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art, by Charles Mills Gayley. 1939. Ginn-Blaisdell. 597p
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$12.50
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B0624
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Book: Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier. 1944. 402p. Some cover wear, backstrap faded.
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$12.50
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B0625
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Book: Hong Kong Holiday by Emily Hahn. 1946 1st edition. Doubleday & Co. 305p. DJ is badly worn.
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$10.00
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B0626
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Book: Captain from Castile, by Samuel Shellabarger. 1946 Sun Dial Press Reprint Edition by special arrangement. 503p. Slight wear.
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$10.00
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B0627
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Book: The Play of Animals, by Karl groos, Professor of Philosophy in The University of Basel. Translated by Elizabeth L. Baldwin. 1898. 341p. Good.
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$17.50
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B0628
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Book: The Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham. 1944. The Blakiston Company. 250p.
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$28.00
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B0629
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Book: High Towers, by Thomas B. Costain. 1949. 371p. DJ. Dust jacket has wear.
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$14.00
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B0630
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Book: Johnson and Boswell, The Story of Their Lives, by Hesketh Pearson. 1958. Harper & Brothers. 390p DJ.
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$12.50
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B0631
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Book: The Blast of War 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. 1968 1st edition. 623p illus. DJ
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$20.00
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B0632
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Book: Group of political conspiracy novels and miscellaneous books, some very scarce. Over a dozen total, most printed in Great Britain. The 65th Tape, by Frank Ross, 1979. First published in Great Britain by MacMillan London Limited. 331p DJ; Executioner 29: Command Strike, by Don Pendleton. 1977. Corgi Books, London 180p PB; The Hired Killers, by Peter Wyden. 1964. W. H. Allen & Co. 1st British edition. 185p illus; The Judas Hour, by E. Howard Hunt, a novel by former CIA Agent and Water Conspirator. 1951. Paramount Books, London. 190p PB; Shall We Tell the President?, by Jeffrey Archer. 1977 The Viking Press. 241p DJ; An Agent on The Other Side, by George O'Toole. 1974 Futura Publishing, London. 255p PB; 22 Fires, The Shocking Psychological Thriller About the Accidental Murder of an American President, by Jerome Agel & Eugene Boe. 1977 Corgi Books, London. 246p PB; Illuminatus!, The Eye in the Pyramid, by Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson. 1975 Dell. 304p PB; Executive Action, Assassination of a Head of State, by Donald Freed and Mark Lane. 1973 Dell Publishing. 252p PB; Famous Mysteries of Modern Times, by Leonard Gribble. 1976. Frederick Muller Ltd, London. 150p DJ; The Fear of Crime, by Richard Harris. 1969. Frederick A. Praeger, Inc. 116p PB; The Spy Trade, an anthology of International Espionage in fact and fiction, by Leslie Frewin. 1966. First published 1966 by Leslie Frewin Publishers Limited, London. 248p illus. DJ; Where Death Delights, by Marshall Houts. 1967 Dell. 302p PB.
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$128.00
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B0653
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Book: First edition of "An American Doctor's Odyssey," by Victor Heiser, M.D. "Adventures in forty-five countries." 1936 1st Edition. W.W. Norton & Co. Inc. 544 p. Back, inside binding very slightly shaken.
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$15.00
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B0655
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Book: "The Human Comedy," by William Saroyan. 1943. Harcourt, Brace and Co. 291p. Inside bookplate of former owner. Very good.
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$20.00
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B0656
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Book: "The Greek Coffin Mystery," by Ellery Queen. 1932. Triangle Books. Reprinted 1941. 370 p. Very good.
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$10.00
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B0657
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Book: "Philadelphia Lawyer...An Autobiography," by George Wharton Pepper. 1944. J.B. Lippincott. 407 p.
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$12.50
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B0660
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Book: "The Virginian," Owen Wister. 1904. The MacMillan Co. 504 p. Over-all cover wear.
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$10.00
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B0661
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Book: "A Mind That Found Itself," by Clifford Whittingham Beers. 1935. Doubleday, Doran & Coompany, Inc. 434 p.
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$15.00
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B0662
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Book: "The Birds' Christmas Carol," by Kate Douglas Wiggin. 1886.Houghton Mifflin Co. 69 p. Cover faded; pages very slightly stained.
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$18.00
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B0663
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Book: Review copy of "They Told It to the Chaplin," by Padre. 1953. Vantage Press, Inc. 138 p. Small chunck missing from front cover at binding.
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$10.00
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B0664
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Book: "More Letters From Billy," from the anonymous author of "A Sunny Subaltern." 1917. George H. Doran Co. 121 p. Cover has slight stains.
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$10.00
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B0665
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Book: First edition of "The Turmoil," by Booth Tarkington. Nice illustrations by C.E. Chambers. 1915 Harper & Bros. 349 p.
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$15.00
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B0666
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Book: Autographed copy of "Purple Peaks Remote," by John Merritte Driver. Signed: "With many, very merry, pleasant memories-John Merritte Driver." 1905. Laird & Lee. 418 p.
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$20.00
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B0667
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Book: First edition, autographed copy of "A Story About Great Oaks and Little Acorns," by Raymond Clifford Brehaut. Signed: "To Miss Louise Doty with my best wishes-Raymond C. Brehaut. 1977. Great Southern Printing & Manufacturing Co. 135 p. DJ. DJ has a few small stains.
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$20.00
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B0668
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Book: "Lost Horizon," by James Hilton. 1933. Readers League of America. 270 p. Readers League of America. Very slight edge wear on cover. Very good.
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$50.00
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B0669
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Book: "Many Waters," by Sally Bruce Kinsolving. 1942. G.P. Putnam's Sons. 203 p. DJ. DJ has tears throughout.
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$10.00
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B0671
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Book: "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," by Betty Smith. 1943. Everybody's Vacation Publishing Co., Inc. 443 P. DJ. DJ torn in places w/a chunk missing over the binding at top.
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$20.00
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B0672
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Book: "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," Thorton Wilder. 1927. Grosset & Dunlap. 235 p.
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$35.00
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B0673
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Book: "Spare Hours," by John Brown, M.D. 1863. Ticknor and Fields. 458 p. Cover faded.
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$25.00
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B0675
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Book: First edition of "Dr. Ida," by Dorothy Clarke Wilson. 1959. McGraw-Hill. 357 p. DJ. DJ very slightly torn in a couple of places.
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$15.00
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C8399
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Book: It's A Long Way to Guacamole, The Tex-Mex Cookbook by Rue Judd and Ann Worley. 1978. 106p of Tex-Mex from before Tex-Mex became so popular. And, autographed by both Rue Judd and Ann Worley.
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$22.00
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C8388
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Book: American Bistro, "A personal sampling of the best new recipes adapted for entertaining at home" by Irena Chalmers and Friends. 1986. Many full color photos. DJ. This book is outstanding, originally sold for $35. Autographed by Irena.
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$20.00
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J9025
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Book: Price Guide to American Cut Glass by Dorothy Daniel, 1967. 115p.
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$10.00
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B0674
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Book: A Slaveholder's Daughter byBelle Kearney. 1900 Abbey Press. 269p. Some cover wear.
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$7.50
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J2136
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Book: Alexander Hamilton: A Study of the Revolution and The Union, an Address Delivered before the Students of the Univesity of Michigan, December 10, 1880. by Joyn clark Ridpath. 1883. 43p. (Another lengthy handwritten speech of unknown origin is tucked into the book.
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$15.00
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