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Little Brown & Co, 1885. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. 8 volume set. Includes both the 6 volume works of Daniel Webster and 2 volume Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster. Half calf leather, in good condition. Gold gilt decorative spines. Blue marbled cover and blue marbled edges. All the books exhibit very limited cover wear. Library markings, with book plates and stamps on the first and last pages. Marginal stain to volume 1 (does not affect text) Scattered spotting/foxing through some volumes. Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 19th edition, 1885 and 1875 printings respectively. Pictures available on request. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
The Memorial History of Boston Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts 1630- by Winsor, Justin (editor) - 1880
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The Memorial History of Boston Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts 1630-
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Ticknor & Co, 1880. Complete 4 volume hardcover set bound in tan leather along the spine and at the corners over marbled paper covered boards, all edges marbled with a matching pattern, titles and volume numbers are in gilt in black boxes on the spines, volume I has a 2-page colored map before the title with all other illustrations black and white. The 1880 copyright was held by James R. Osgood and Co but the set was published by Ticknor and Co. The volumes are: Volume I. The Early and Colonial Periods. 596 pages. Volume II: The Provincial Period. 577 pages. Volume III: The Revolutionary Period and The Last Hundred Years, Part I. 601 pages. Volume IV: The Last Hundred Years, Part II: Special Topics. 713 pages. All of the volumes are worn in spots along the edges, leather worn at the tips of the corners, end papers show darker areas where they came into contact with the leather of the binding, occasional soiled spot on a text page, all pages lightly age toned, volumes I and II have heavier wear from damp along the lower margin resulting with some wrinkling of the paper, damp stain shows on the lower portion of the leather on either side of the spine, volume II has heavier edge wear and damp wear which shows on the exterior panels and the first and last few pages which also have small chips near the heal of the spine. Images available. USPS tracking used on all domestic shipments. This set weighs more than 20 pounds and will require considerable additional postage for Priority or International shipment.. No Edition Stated. Half-Leather. Good/ .
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The Works of Daniel Webster 8 Volume set
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An Act to Impower His Majesty to Secure and Detain Persons Charged with, or Suspected of, the Crime of High Treason, Committed in any of his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, or on the High Seas, or the Crime of Piracy
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London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1777. Near Fine. [2], 311-312 p.; 31 cm. (folio). Disbound. Title page reads "Anno Regni Georgii III. . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth Day of November, Anno Domini 1774, in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third . . . And from thence continued, by several Prorogations, to the Thirty-first Day of October, 1776; Being the Third Session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain." Woodcut royal coat of arms above the imprint. Woodcut headpiece and historiated initial at the beginning of the act. "Whereas a Rebellion and War have been openly and traiterously levied and carried on in certain of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, and Acts of Treason and Piracy have been committed on the High Seas, and upon the Ships and Goods of His Majesty's Subjects, and many Persons have been seised and taken, who are expressly charged or strongly suspected of…
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MYSTERY PICTURE-MAKER Pictures of America
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Peace War and Adventure - an autobiographical memoir
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London: Longman Brown, 1853. 2 volumes bound in 1. xi and 282 pages; viii and 325 pages. Later cloth. Including his time with the Field Train of the Royal Artillery in the Peninsula and in the New Orleans campaign, as a volunteer with the Army of Columbia under Bolivar, and as Governor of Cold Bath Prison. (For other books about the Napoleonic Wars please search my stock using the codeword napoleonic.)
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Fifty Reasons Why the Honorable Henry Clay Should be elected President of the United States. By an Irish Adopted Citizen.
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DAVIS, Thomas T. Address and Poem Delivered Before the Associate Chapters of the Sigma Phi Fraternity, At Their General Convention Held in Williamstown, Mass August 16, 1853 Williamstown: Published by the Alpha of Massachusetts, 1854, 37 pp.… Read More
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Little Brown & Co, 1885. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. 8 volume set. Includes both the 6 volume works of Daniel Webster and 2 volume Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster. Half calf leather, in good condition. Gold gilt decorative spines. Blue marbled cover and blue marbled edges. All the books exhibit very limited cover wear. Library markings, with book plates and stamps on the first and last pages. Marginal stain to volume 1 (does not affect text) Scattered spotting/foxing through some volumes. Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 19th edition, 1885 and 1875 printings respectively. Pictures available on request. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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An Act to Impower His Majesty to Secure and Detain Persons Charged with, or Suspected of, the Crime of High Treason, Committed in any of his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, or on the High Seas, or the Crime of Piracy
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London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1777. Near Fine. [2], 311-312 p.; 31 cm. (folio). Disbound. Title page reads "Anno Regni Georgii III. . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth Day of November, Anno Domini 1774, in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third . . . And from thence continued, by several Prorogations, to the Thirty-first Day of October, 1776; Being the Third Session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain." Woodcut royal coat of arms above the imprint. Woodcut headpiece and historiated initial at the beginning of the act. "Whereas a Rebellion and War have been openly and traiterously levied and carried on in certain of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, and Acts of Treason and Piracy have been committed on the High Seas, and upon the Ships and Goods of His Majesty's Subjects, and many Persons have been seised and taken, who are expressly charged or strongly suspected of…
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MYSTERY PICTURE-MAKER Pictures of America
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Empire Builder.
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Tacoma, Washington:: Anagram Press / Goat Back Press,, 2015.. Edition of 50. 7 x 9" closed, extends to 15 feet; 20 pages including pastedowns. Accordion structure. Digitally printed from watercolor illustrations on archival, 100% cotton paper. Handbound paper over boards. In paper slipcase. Signed by both artists and numbered. Empire Builder is a collaboration between artists Carol Inderieden and Chandler O'Leary; both contributed text and illustrations. The two artists lament the changes they have seen in the American West, changes driven by the thirst for oil and natural gas, changes spawned by fracking in North Dakota and ending in oil refineries of Washington. It is the story of tunnel vision and the attendant environmental consequences. The book "reads like a map - tracing both the route of the Empire Builder train and the path of industry and destruction, in one long, unbroken line." Colophon excerpts: "Seeing the Elephant was a figure of speech that came to…
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Fifty Reasons Why the Honorable Henry Clay Should be elected President of the United States. By an Irish Adopted Citizen.
by [Sammelband, 14 pamphlets]. [COLLINS, George C. and others.
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The Nassau Rake: Edited and Published by the Sophomore Class of the College of New Jersey Princeton, June, 1856, 83, [1] pp.
The Nassau Rake: Edited and Published by the Sophomore Class of the College of New Jersey Princeton, June, 1857, 112 pp.
Memorabilia Sophomorum Edited and Published by the Freshman Class of the College of New Jersey, Princeton, New Jersey, June, 1856, 55 pp.
DAVIS, Thomas T. Address and Poem Delivered Before the Associate Chapters of the Sigma Phi Fraternity, At Their General Convention Held in Williamstown, Mass August 16, 1853 Williamstown: Published by the Alpha of Massachusetts, 1854, 37 pp.… Read More
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Memorial History of Boston Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880: Volume III: The Revolutionary Period, and The Last Hundred Years, Part I
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James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, hardcover. No dj, black cloth. Vg condition. Front cover cloth slightly fraying at gutter, binding still sturdy and secure, with no cracking at endpaper seams.. Covers and contents clean, no marking or writing. 691 pp.
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The Memorial History of Boston, Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts 1630-1880, Vol. II: The Provincial Period
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The Memorial History of Boston, Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880 In Four Volumes
by Winsor, Justin (editor)
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Boston: James R. Osgood and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, hinges cracked, dampstain at top . and bottom margins, Volume three and four boards dampstained and bowed, . volume three noticeably more sunned at spine.. 1881. Hardcover. Complete in four quarto volumes. Uniformly bound in full dark brown leather with all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Six compartments on spine stamped in blind and in gilt. Gilt-stamped turn-ins. Numerous illustrations, signature facsimiles, heliotypes, maps, index in each volume. A handsome set. Volume I: xxxii, 596pp, later printing; Volume II: lviii, 577pp, first edition; Volume III: xii, 691pp, first edition; Volume IV: x, 713pp, first edition. A sweeping history of the Boston area and sketches of some of its most famous citizens from the colonial era through the late 19th century. Howes W 576. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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The Memorial History of Boston, Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts. 1630-1880. In Four Volumes: I. Early and Colonial Periods; II: Provincial Period; III: Revolutionary Period. Last Hundred Years, I; IV: Last Hundred Years, II. Specific Topics.
by Winsor, Justin (Librarian of Harvard University) Editor
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Ticknor And Company. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. A nice complete Four (4) volume set in quarter calf and burgundy marbled boards, matching endpapers. The set shows some rubbing and edge wear to boards. Contents all tightly bound. Volume One (I) has a split to front gutter at spine and spinal leather thus loose (attached rear). Volume Four (IV) front board is detached but present. All pages edges marbled. Seller, also a bindry, can repair errant volumes for additional cost upon request and prepayment. .
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A History of American Art
by Daniel M. Mendelowitz
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This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine, edges and corner of the cover. There is some dog-earring on the right corner pages of the book. The pages are white, crisp and clear of any markings. "This is a history of the visual arts produced in the geographical area that now constitutes the United States. Such a book is difficult to title. A History of United States Art sounds awkward and logically might even be construed to exclude the arts of the colonial period. Thus, with apologies to our northern and southern neighbors, I use the title A History of American Art, knowing full well that the terms America and the United States are not synonymous...." - Preface from A History of American Art
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Vietnam: A History
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This book is in good condition. There is a lot of wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. There is also a substantial amount of staining on the cover boards. The pages are yellowed and tanned. There are also markings throughout the book. "The roots of this book reach back to the early 1950s in Paris, where I began my professional career as a journalist. France, supported by the United States, was then fighting to retain its hold in Indochina against the Vietminh, the Communist-led nationalist movement there. As I reported on the French end of the war, I soon became acquainted with the names and places in Vietnam from a distance, But I scarcely imagined that they were to be part of my own experience. Then, in 1959, I was assigned to cover eastern Asia; the region that included Vietnam became my beat for more than two decades. I visited Vietnam most recently in 1981 for seven weeks, the longest permitted an American correspondent since the Communists gained control of the entire…
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Beeswax: Production, Harvesting, Processing and Procuts
by Coggshall, William L & Roger A Morse
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New York: Wicwas Press, 1984. 8vo size trade paperback; 192 pages with a few illustrations and photographs Contents include: Beeswax Grading and Economics Harvesting Beeswax Commercial Preparation of Beeswax for Market Testing Beeswax Beeswax in Comb Foundation Beeswax in Candles Beeswax in Art and Industry Showing and Judging Beeswax Home Products including Candles and Car and Floor Polishes Moderate wear and edgewear to covers, light soil to top of book and shelf soil to bottom fore-edge. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Samuel The Seeker
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp
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William R. Gillis. Goldrush Days with Mark Twain (H. Glintenkamp woodcuts). Copyright 1930. Albert & Charles Boni, NY. With an into by Cyril Clemens. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS 6 woodcut illustrations included, Twain frontis (Three old friends), and 5 other historic and realistic woodcut illustrations. MEMOIRS. HISTORY OF NEVADA GOLDRUSH. Summary: Mr. Gillis was a friend of American author/humorist Mark Twain and was with him at Virginia, Nevada in the Goldrush days. In 1859 placer miners in the Great Basin discovered the largest gold and silver strike that had happened in the United States up until that time. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS. Used. Good- Condition. 264 pages. Used. Good condition. First few pages are loose. Frontis is still affixed to binding. Green cloth boards gold titling. No titles left on spine. Spine is sunned.
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A Rebel Came Home: The Diary and Letters of Floride Clemson, 1863-1866
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Top edge of jacket slightly flared but overall in excellent condition. Book itself is clean and free of any markings except for previous owner's name on first page (Jeanne M. Nixon). Book has some light shelf wear to corners and spine is slightly canted. Solid binding. 189 indexed pages. 0.75" X 6.25" X 9.25" 2cm X 16cm X 23.5cm Part of the series "Women's Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth-Century South". Illustrated by Olivia Jackson McGee with additional black and white photo reproductions. Includes a family tree. The Revised edition includes additional material in the form of letters between Floride and her mother Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson between July-October 1863 at the height of the Civil War. The main body of the book is Floride's journal from January 1863 until 1866. The main sections concern Florida's trip to Niagara in summer 1863, the journey form Beltsville Maryland to Pendleton South Carolina at the end of the 1864, and the last says of Floride's grandmother Mr.s John C. Calhoun in…
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America's War for Humanity: Including a Complete History of the World War Up-To-date
by Russell, Thomas H
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USA: L. W. Walter, 1917. Hardcover with no dust jacket, 1917. Book has heavier corner wear to board corners and edges, and spinefoot, and aging and some soiling to cloth. This book has blue cloth with navy and red text and design. Tipped plate of American flag on center of front board. Interior tanning heavily from age and book has light warping from age and moisture. Has small bookworm hole affecting the upper right corner of pages 23- 83, completely out of the way of any text and only about 1/2 inch in depth. Missing page corner as depicted, affecting the first front illustration page, affects a small amount of caption text, and the edges of 2 photos. Book generally lays flat and is readable and is fairly supple, Binding is decent and will permit reading. Fair condition, but not terrible for its age. 100+ illustrations. A peice of history, as this was basically news when this was printed. RARE EDITION: NOT A REPRINT. THIS IS THE REAL DEAL.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo -…
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Volunteers in the African Bush: Memoirs from Sierra Leone
by David Read Barker
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Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Fine. Slight reading wear to corners, otherwise pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. Suitable for gifting. 163 pages. The 25 authors of this book were volunteers in the first Peace Corps rural community development project in Africa: Sierra Leone, 1965-67. They are also the first group to tell a collective story of Peace Corps volunteers, anywhere. The Peace Corps was in its infancy then, and memories of John Kennedy were strong among the young volunteers. Sierra Leone was also in its infancy in the first few years after independence, before military coups and tribal warfare became common. The authors forthrightly recount their feelings of loneliness and isolation, and their frightening experiences with secret societies and witchcraft, but their uniquely optimistic "can-do" American attitude brought most through a great life experience.
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The Lick Observatory of the University of California, Eleventh Edition, 1947
by Lick Observatory
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University of California Press, 1947. 11th. Paperback. Author unstated : The Lick Observatory of the University of California - A Brief Descriptive Account Prepared at the Observatory. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1947. Eleventh Edition. Stapled booklet, size is demy octavo (8vo), 8 1/8"/21cm h. Bound in publisher's dark green wrapper stapled to textblock. [vi] pp prelim material, 47 numbered pp, plus three blank. Glossy paper. In addition to many b&w photos, included is information for visitors, organizational info about the observatory, its Chile station, its students, features it observed, acknowledgments. Condition notes: Staples rusted, but holding, moderate wear and scuffing but no tears to wrappers. No notes or highlighting. The observatory is on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, CA. We learn that the observatory was the gift of James Lick, who also left money to support building of a monument to Francis Scott Key in San Francisco, "...a Home for Old Ladies in San Francisco..." and…
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