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Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume XXXIX June to November, 1869

By: N/A

Price: $42.50

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1869

Seller ID: 74482

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Six months of the venerable illustrated magazine bound together. With dozens of engraved illustrations scattered throughout. Volume is bound in quarter leather and with pebbled brown cloth-covered boards; covers worn at extremities. With a few loose pages at front of volume, otherwise textblock is firm and intact, though with tears, markings and occasional soiling. --- Harper's Monthly is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States beginning in 1850 and continuing into the 21st century. They often featured the debut of works by noted authors or illustrators.;...
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How to Trace Your Family Tree

By: American Geneological Research Institute

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., American Geneological Research Institute: 1973

Seller ID: 73115

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Basic reference work aids the beginner when researching subject. Softcover, with scuffed covers and creases at spine; volume otherwise solid and intact; interior with a few inked markings. Ideal starting point for genealogical research. ; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; 197 pages
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People of the Totem The Indians of the Pacific Northwest

By: BANCROFT-HUNT, Norman (text); FORMAN, Werner (photos)

Price: $19.50

Publisher: New York, Peter Bedrick Books: 1989

Seller ID: 74445

ISBN: 0872261999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

The way of life, artifacts, and beliefs of the native peoples of the northwest North American coasts are profiled here. With numerous full color photos by Mr. Forman. In excellent condition, published on quality papers and with clean, unmarked interior. Jacket has minor creases. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 128 pages
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Into The Wilderness Dream: Exploration Narratives of the American West 1500-1805

By: BARCLAY, Donald A.; MAGUIRE, James H.; WILD, Peter (editors)

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah U. S. A., University of Utah Press: 2002

Seller ID: 74350

ISBN: 0874804442

Binding: Trade Paper

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

The writings of early European and American explorers and travelers in the American West are offered here. With inked gift inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked and firm. Volume is faintly curled from improper storage. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 397 pages
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Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California

By: BARICH, Bill

Price: $17.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: 1994

Seller ID: 84361

ISBN: 0679421513

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

First printing. A transplanted New Yorker, author Bill Barich makes his home in San Francisco. In this work, he travels from the northern parts of California all the way to its border with Mexico. Along the way, he describes the people and places he sees, along with historical tidbits about California's past. With map of California to endpapers. --- In green paper-covered boards backed in green cloth, with spine titling and author initials stamped in silver. Jacket features color reproduction of David Hockney's Nichols Canyon. --- A very nice copy: clean, bright, and newish but with inked gift...
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Cowboying A Tough Job in a Hard Land

By: BECKSTEAD, James H.

Price: $68.50

Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah U. S. A., University of Utah Press: 1995

Seller ID: 74353

ISBN: 0874803780

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

3rd printing of work which was first published in 1991. With a foreward by Wilford Brimley. With very small inked gift presentation remarks on first page. With dozens of historic b&w and sepia photos of cowboys and their world in the American West, especially in the present-day state of Utah. In very nice shape, with minor rubbing to cover edges. In oversized (8-1/2 in. wide x 11 in. tall) format. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 283 pages
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When Beauty Rode the Rails: A Pictorial Album of Old-time Railroading

By: BEEBE, Lucius; CLEGG, Charles

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1962

Seller ID: 83017

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

A first edition of this account, in words and pictures, of the glamorous days of railroading, when ". . .the starred performer was the brave engineer". With 223 pages of black & white photos and illustrations of locomotives, trains, people, stations and rail-side sights, which artistically depict the strange beauty of these railroads. --- In full black cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations in gilt and silver on cover and spine. Jacket with color Howard Fogg painting of Pennsylvania & Reading RR train to cover. --- Once wrapped in an old-style Bro-Dart mylar dust jacket prot...
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The Last Ranch A Colorado Community and the Coming Desert

By: BINGHAM, Sam

Price: $35.50

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: 1996

Seller ID: 74443

ISBN: 0679422838

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Inscribed by author on half title page: 'To Bill Zananti with best/wishes/Sam Bingham'. First Edition, First Printing. In full grey paper-covered boards with titling in white on spine. Interior clean, bright and unmarked. Jacket is immaculate and bears original $27.50 flap price. Author's work examines the so-called 'desertification' of Colorado's San Luis Valley. ; 8vo 8" - 10" tall; 363 pages
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Intro. by Daniel J. Boorstin

By: BIRD, Isabella L.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Norman, Oklahoma U. S. A., University of Oklahoma Press: 1969

Seller ID: 72718

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

An English lady's travels through the American West in 1873 (alone, on horseback) were captivating to readers in England in the 19th century. This 5th printing of the US edition in good shape; with many b&w engravings. Clean and bright, with minor soiling lower edge. Dust jacket a bit faded at spine; w/a tear and a crease at lower edge. ; 12mo 7" - 7¾" tall; 254 pages
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The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After (Lakeside Classics No. 98)

By: BOK, Edward W. (author); LEWIS, W. David (editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Lakeside Press/R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company: 2000

Seller ID: 81952

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

A Lakeside Classic edition, presenting the autobiography of Edward W. Bok (1863-1930). Born in the Netherlands, he immigrated to the United States as a child and went on to be a successful author and editor of Ladies Home Journal. Mr. Bok is credited with inventing the term "living room". --- This deluxe edition edited and introduced by W. David Lewis. Includes a frontis photographic portrait of Bok, several additional illustrations and photos. --- Number 98 in a series of annually published works continuously produced since 1903 by R. R. Donnelley & Sons, owners of the Lakeside Press....
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Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline

By: Bork, Robert H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 1996

Seller ID: 71052

ISBN: 0060391634

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

In black half cloth w/black paper-covered boards; DJ small tear top of spine and bearing retailer's sticker bottom of spine. Author's work analyzes the increase in immorality in the US. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 400 pages
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A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People

By: BOTKIN, B. A. (editor)

Price: $11.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 1944

Seller ID: 83270

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

A compendium of all manner of American folk songs, stories, ballads and traditions of the people. With snippets from famous writings, musical notations and excerpts of dialogue. The stories are organized loosely by topics, such as "Pseudo Bad Men", "Liars", "Ballads and Songs", etc. Edited by B. A. Botkin, with a foreword by Carl Sandburg. --- In red cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped dragon/horse image to cover, titling in gilt to spine. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With a loosened rear cover, a tear to cloth at head of spine, prior owner's inked name to front...
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I Love Your Style: How to Define and Refine Your Personal Style

By: BROOKS, Amanda

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, itbooks / HarperCollins Publishers (Harper Collins): 2009

Seller ID: 84538

ISBN: 0061833126

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

This softcover work provides ideas for developing one's individualized fashion style, especially for women. With dozens of black & white and color photos, many displaying celebrities and their own personal fashion tendencies. Includes a foreword by Diane von Furstenberg. --- In simple cream wraps with author photographic portrait to back cover. --- A clean, bright, newish copy.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; 288 pages
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume LXXXI, June to November, 1890 (With contributions by Henry James and Frederic Remington)

By: DAUDET, Alphonse et al.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1890

Seller ID: 74481

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Six months of the venerable illustrated magazine bound together in a rebound edition, formerly property of the library with lending pocket at front pastedown and rubberstampings. With dozens of engraved illustrations scattered throughout. In full blue cloth-covered boards. Textblock is firm and intact, though with dampstains and warped pages. --- This volume contains installments of the serialized novel by Alphonse Daudet: "Port Tarascon", translated by Henry James and illustrated by various artists (which is likely the first appearance in English of this novel); as well as numerous en...
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club ("The Pickwick Papers") (Edition de Luxe of the Works of Charles Dickens, Number 131 of one thousand copies)

By: DICKENS, Charles

Price: $230.00

Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall: 1881

Seller ID: 84541

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good+

A deluxe, illustrated Chapman and Hall four-volume set offering the complete text of the first novel by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), first published serially in 1836. With engraved illustrations by Robert Seymour and 'Phiz' [Hablot Knight Browne], many are tissue-guarded. Numbers 1 through 4 of a 30-volume limited Edition de Luxe of the Works of Charles Dickens. Number 131 of one thousand copies. --- In full brown leather with gilt fillets, decorations and titling to covers and spine, two raised bands to spines, gilt dentelles to cover inside edges and all edges bright gilt. Lovely marbled end...
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The Onion Presents: Our Dumb Century, 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source

By: DIKKERS, Scott (editor)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Three Rivers Press / Crown Publishers, Inc.: 1999

Seller ID: 82967

ISBN: 0609804618

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

A collection of faux newspaper stories purportedly from the beginning of the 20th century until the end. The Onion lampoons milestone events in their unique style, ". . .misinforming half a million readers a week. . ." with these hilarious revsions of political news, many with accompanying photos or artwork. Includes an introduction that claims to be by T. Herman Zweibel, "Onion Publisher". --- A softcover, in wraps with sample "newspaper" pages to covers. --- An excellent copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked.; Small Quarto (9 to 11 in. tall); x, 164 pages
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The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library #91.3)

By: EMERSON, Ralph Waldo

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1955]

Seller ID: 84747

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair in Fair dust jacket

A heavily-used Modern Library edition presenting a comprehensive compendium of the writings of the great 19th Century American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Edited, and with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson, and with a foreword by Tremaine McDowell. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket with snowy scene to front panel, lists 374 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1955, though 1950 date appears in book. ML #91.3. --- A Fair-only copy, with inked underlinings and yello...
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. . "Some of My Best Friends . . ." : The First Fully Documented Story of a Shocking Evil in American Life, Furtively Practiced and Pervasive

By: EPSTEIN, Benjamin R.; FORSTER, Arnold

Price: $11.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy: 1962

Seller ID: 71193

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Stated second printing. An examination of anti-Semitism in the U.S., as detailed by the authors in the early 1960s. Various means of anti-Jewish discrimination in American life are discussed, such as in social settings, housing, higher education and employment. Indexed. --- In full black cloth-covered boards with spine titling in gilt, wrapped in simple black and white jacket. --- With gift inscription and prior owner's bookplate affixed to front free endpaper, otherwise a sound, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped dust jacket with chipping and small tears along edges; ink-stains to front flap but r...
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Country School Memories

By: FALK, Bonnie Hughes

Price: $10.00

Publisher: White Bear Lake, Minnesota, BHF Memories Unlimited: 1990

Seller ID: 74329

ISBN: 0961410817

Binding: Trade Paper

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Signed by author on first page. With illustrations by Nancy Delage Huber. Stated Fifth Printing, 1990. 'A collection of heartwarming stories from individuals who experienced the one-room school...'. A nice copy; with inked gift remarks on half title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 97 pages
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Image for Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep Roots and Tangled Branches. Charles City County-Prince George County, Virginia. Volume II

Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep Roots and Tangled Branches. Charles City County-Prince George County, Virginia. Volume II

By: FOLEY, Louise Pledge Heath (compiler & publisher)

Price: $57.00

Publisher: Richmond, Louise Pledge Heath Foley: 1978

Seller ID: 75990

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

[Genealogy] 1978 edition. A follow-up volume to author's Volume I of the same title offers names of residents gleaned from Land Patents (abstracts) and Rent Rolls. With Virginia river drainage map at front endpaper and with a rear endpaper pocket containing a 19 in. x 13-1/2 in. folded map of Prince George County. The author has included a foreword offering historical background of the area. --- In maroon cloth-covered hardcovers with titling stamped in gilt on cover & spine. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A bright, firm, complete copy; with discreet penciled notations & yellow highlighting at var...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Now printed for the first time from the Manuscript as Franklin wrote it, and including his Preliminary Outline

By: FRANKLIN, Benjamin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1951

Seller ID: 81730

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

American founding father Benjamin Franklin's famous autobiography in a handsome reprint hardcover in slipcase. With drawings by William Sharp and an introduction by Carl Van Doren. --- In green/blue/yellow marbled paper-covered hardcovers backed in pale yellow cloth, w/titling and decorations gilt-stamped on navy spine block. All textblock edges stained in maroon. Sandglass flyer laid in (No. XVII: 15, New York). Volume protected in maroon paper-covered slipcase. --- A clean, unmarked, firm copy but with a little rubbing to spine. Some scuffing and sunning to structurally sound slipcase.; Tall...
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

By: GLADWELL, Malcolm

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 2000

Seller ID: 75483

ISBN: 0316316962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Stated 14th printing of author's popular work. In white paper-covered boards with titling in black on spine. Dust jacket bears original $24.95 flap price. Volume is clean, bright and unmarked inside and out. Jacket in nice shape, but with minor creasing at spine ends. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages
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Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West

By: HASSELSTROM, Linda; COLLIER, Gaydell; CURTIS, Nancy

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1997

Seller ID: 71481

ISBN: 0395837383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

Collection of works by dozens of women writers from the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska features stories and poems. In black paper-covered covers; interior has prev owner's signature and sticker remnant front free endpaper; otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket chafed and chipped at edges; now in removable mylar protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 388 pages
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

By: HOLMES, Oliver Wendell

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1955

Seller ID: 76609

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

A famed collection of essays, first published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine from 1831 to 1832. Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.] was the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. who was a well-know Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This deluxe edition features R. J. Holden illustrations and an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. --- In full grey cloth-covered hardcovers with Holden illustations affixed to front & back covers; titling in gilt on maroon spine block. Interior leaves of a buff colored stock; textblock edges all w/spatterings. In black paper-covered slipcase. Sandglass flyer laid in. --- Wi...
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Wagner Nights: An American History

By: HOROWITZ, Joseph

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press: 1994

Seller ID: 80146

ISBN: 0520083946

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

First printing. In this work, the author traces the powerful influence of Richard Wagner's music in America, and tells of his principal proponent, conductor Anton Seidl of New York. Includes a section of black and white photos. An entry in the publisher's California Studies in 19th-Century Music series. --- In red paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth, with red spine titling. Jacket bears an image of Brighton Beach on Coney Island on the front cover. --- A clean, sturdy, unmarked copy. Jacket with some creasing to flaps, otherwise undamaged.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); xiv, 389 pages
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Image for Rocky Mountain Empire: Revealing glimpses of the West in transition from old to new, from the pages of the Rocky Mountain Empire Magazine of the Denver Post. (with signed letter from the editor and publisher of The Denver Post)

Rocky Mountain Empire: Revealing glimpses of the West in transition from old to new, from the pages of the Rocky Mountain Empire Magazine of the Denver Post. (with signed letter from the editor and publisher of The Denver Post)

By: HOWE, Elvon L. (editor); HOYT, Palmer (foreword and signed letter)

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1950

Seller ID: 77399

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Stated First Edition. A collection of feature stories which first appeared in the long-published Sunday Denver Post newspaper supplement: Rocky Empire Magazine. Includes a TLS presenting this book as a gift to "Mr. McCullough" by the editor and publisher (and writer of the foreword to this volume): Palmer Hoyt. --- In reddish-brown cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations on spine in gilt and black. Endpapers with map of the 'Rocky Mountain Empire' that the magazine sought to cover. --- A firm, clean copy but with prior owner's embossed seal on front free endpaper. Somewhat so...
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The Best in the World: A Selection of News and Feature Stories, Editorials, Humor, Poems and Reviews from 1921 to 1928 [The New York World]

By: HUTCHENS, John K.; OPPENHEIMER, George (editors)

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1973

Seller ID: 78290

ISBN: 0670159158

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good dust jacket

First Edition. A collection of highlights from these seven years, which occurred near the end of the long run of this once-influential New York broadsheet. With newsclips and editorial cartoons at endpapers. --- In full yellow cloth-covered boards, in mock front page design jacket. --- Book with remainder mark to lower textblock edge, significant top corner bumps; otherwise clean, firm and unmarked. Jacket with tear near center of spine (with corresponding blemish to underlying cloth), some light chafing and soiling and bearing orig. $12.50 flap price. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxx, 465 pag...
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine May 1883 through October 1883 Vol XXVI - New Series vol. IV

By: JAMES, Henry; BEWICK, Thomas et al.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: New York, The Century Co.: 1883

Seller ID: 74924

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor with no dust jacket

Six months of the magazine bound together by the publisher, The Century Company, in tan quarter leather and marbled paper-covered boards. Includes the months of May, 1883 through October, 1883. With 6-page table of contents inserted before first month. Volume has detached front cover, loose spine backing and missing back cover but with firm textblock. Interior has some yellowed interior pages with minor soiling on some pages and textblock edges. --- Each issue of The Century Magazine includes non-fiction articles and stories, often by well-known authors, as well as dozens of illustrations, ph...
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San Francisco: The Painted City

By: JONES, Harvey L.

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Salt Lake City, Gibbs-Smith Publisher: 1997

Seller ID: 84241

ISBN: 0879054816

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Stated first edition. Locales in and around San Francisco are presented in this collection of 40 splendid paintings. With description of the locations, and biographical information about the painters. Errata slip laid in. --- In white textured paper-covered boards with titling and decoration in yellow to cover and spine. Dust jacket with Lee Blair watercolor of a cable car to front panel. --- A tightly-bound, bright newish copy lacking damages worthy of mention. Excellent, bright unclipped jacket with a small rear panel tear.; Square Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (8), 88 pages
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On the Couch Great American Stories About Therapy

By: Kates, Erica (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press: 1997

Seller ID: 71427

ISBN: 0871136627

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

An offbeat work featuring noted writers' takes on therapy. Edited by Kates. With large red remainder mark lower edge, marks on front pastedown, first front free endpaper is torn and is nearly detached from vol, else clean and tight. Dust jacket has price clipped flap, cover scuffing; otherwise clean. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages
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A Hilltop Summer

By: KEITH, Alyn Yates

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard Publishers: 1894

Seller ID: 81993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Early printing of the author's possibly fictional sketches of a summer spent in a small New England town. With several pleasant black & white drawings by unattributed artist(s). These sketches were first published in the New York Evening Post. --- In brown cloth-covered boards with illustrations and titling in brown and gilt to cover and spine, black endpapers and brown topstain. --- With slight wear to edges of cloth, else a clean, unmarked, firmly-bound copy.; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); (10), 110 pages
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Ski-Faring Guide to Ski Areas and Lodging: 8th Annual 1965

By: Leonard, Joan F. (editor)

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Chicago, Ski-Faring, Inc.: 1964

Seller ID: 72735

Binding: Trade Paper

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Throwback copy of guide features US & Canadian ski areas from coast to coast. The relevant data for each ski area is offered, including, for instance, daily lift ticket prices at Vail for $6. Dotted throughout with advertising. Dampstained lower edge of some of the first few pages; scuffed covers...otherwise a tight, intact copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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America: Then & Now

By: MARKER, Sherry

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Barnes & Noble Books: 1993

Seller ID: 82971

ISBN: 1566192218

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

A view of important American sights from two perspectives: that from the early days of photography and from a 1990s viewpoint. Most of the early photos in black & white, while the recent ones in full color. --- In textured blue paper-covered boards. Dust jacket with comparative images to front and back. --- An about Near Fine copy: bright, tightly bound and sound. Dust jacket also very nice, but with two-inch tear to rear edge.; Oblong Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); 224 pages
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Back Home

By: MAULDIN, Bill

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, William Sloane Associates: 1947

Seller ID: 82860

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Book club edition. Bill Mauldin was a much admired 'soldier-cartoonist' who conveyed the realities of World War II back to the USA with his humorous cartoons. Upon returning home at war's end, he attempted to portray life at home in words and cartoons in this lighthearted work. --- In full green and black paper-covered boards with white spine titling. Jacket with photographic portrait of the author to back panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound, unmarked copy but with slight yellowing to leaves. Dust jacket with chipping and small tears along edges (many tape-repaired), spots of soiling to back pan...
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Firewater and Gas

By: McGRADY, Don

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago, Adams Press: 1972

Seller ID: 75877

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Inscribed and signed by author. Stated Fourth Edition. A collection of author's 'cowboy poetry', dedicated to the memory of his brother Neil. In good shape, but with some soiling to covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 60 pages; Signed by Author
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They Came Here First: The Epic of the American Indian (The Peoples of America Series)

By: McNICKLE, D'Arcy

Price: $30.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1949

Seller ID: 84791

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Stated first edition. A sympathetic examination of American Indians, telling of how they lost their lands to incoming white settlers. Includes a section of black & white plates. An entry in publisher's "The Peoples of America Series," edited by Louis Adamic. --- In black cloth-covered boards with spine titling in gilt. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- Loosened front and rear hinges have been carefully reinforced prior to this listing; also with inked gift inscription to front free endpaper, and with additional inkings to perhaps as many as 10 leaves. Spine titling has flaked away, making it m...
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The Highland Scots of North Carolina

By: MEYER, Duane

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Raleigh, State Department of Archives and History: 1968

Seller ID: 75959

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

An abridgement of author's 1961 work, 'The Highland Scots of North Carolina 1732-1776', which traces the settlers from the Highlands of Scotland who migrated to North Carolina in the 18th century. An abridgement of author's 1961 work, 'The Highland Scots of North Carolina 1732-1776'. Published as part of North Carolina's tercentenary observation in 1963 and reprinted in this edition. --- Softcover work in stiff cream wraps. Some penciled underlinings.; 75 pages
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Massachusetts Beautiful: Illustrated by the author with 304 pictures covering all the counties in Massachusetts.

By: NUTTING, Wallace.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Framingham, Massachusetts, Old America Company: 1923

Seller ID: 75750

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Formerly property of the library, with pocket at rear and white lettering on spine. With drawings and attractive b&w plates. In green cloth-covered boards. Lacks a dust jacket. A good copy, with minor cover discoloration and edgewear. Interior clean and firm, but front free endpaper has been torn out.; Ex-Library; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 301 pages
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Ex-Friends : Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt and Norman Mailer

By: PODHORETZ, Norman

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Free Press: 1999

Seller ID: 31183

ISBN: 0684855941

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Third printing. A memoir by the former editor-in-chief of Commentary magazine. Mr. Podhoretz was a leftist intellectual who underwent a shift in his philosophy toward conservatism. When he did, his leftist friends abandoned him, based on his beliefs. --- In cream and red paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket features Michael O'Neill photographic portrait of the author. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy but with a remainder mark to lower textblock edge. Jacket is intact and bright and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (8), 244 pages
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Cajun Sketches from the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana

By: POST, Lauren C.

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA, Louisiana State University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 74229

ISBN: 080711605X

Binding: Trade Paper

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Vignettes and stories from the cajun country of southwest Louisiana; includes many old photos from the 1930s. In nice shape, a clean, bright and firm copy. Sm. crease, upper cover corner. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 215 pages
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