Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishers. Two volumes in one book. CR 1963, title date 1963, previous owner has glued in his family crest on the endpapers along with address label and calling card. He has put the family crest throughout the book, not affecting text. (Name was Shelburne from North Carolina). First published in 1859 it is indispensable for anyone intereted in researching heraldry. Also a source for the artist, craftsman and designer and is a means of identification in portraits, heraldic b... (more information)

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New York: Stein & Day The Curious Story Behind the Revolutionary Rotary Engine. Dust jacket with mylar, X-library with the usual markings, all good+ condition. CR 1975, 249 pages with index and a few black and white illustations. This story provides the basic technical detail for the layman to understand the engine and its development.. First Edition. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Pubished by Winchester Press CR 1971 with 318 pages with index. First edition, dust jacket has tears, overall good+. Sensible expert advice on everything that really matters from selecting the puppy to advice on field training. Black and whit e photos. Natural History, Hunting, hunting dogs, dog training, dogs, canines.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Published by Sound View Press, CR 1991. 1,023 pages with bibliography. Maroon with gold lettering covers, all near mint condition. Art, Antiques, Prints, price guides.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Published by Marine Research Society, CR 1924, CR 1924 with 335 pages w/index. Fanning was a native of Stonington, Connecticut. Blue covers, all good+. B&W photos. This is the 1st reprint of the original work in 1833. This reprint is missing the last 3 chapter s of the original work. Voyages for seal skins and continued his voyages and discoveries for 25 more years. Published #6 for Marine Research Society. Illustrated endpapers. Exploration, New England, t ravel, voyages, Australia, Falkland Islands, P... (more information)

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Published by Lippincott, CR 1922, 1st edition with 244 pages w/index. No dust jacket, covers illustrated w/lighthouse picture, x-library with stamps and numbers, pocket torn out in back. Illustrated spine, covers show wear, corners bumped. Frontis color and 91 doubletone illustrations. New England, travel.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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The Knight of Liberty in Two Worlds and Two Centuries. Published by T. Crowell, CR 1888, 473 pages with 1 page ad. Illustrated front cover and spine, tan with gold, all very good. Illustrated with bla ck & white illustrations. Gathered from French works never before translated and are now out-of-print, and original files of newspapers and various manuscripts written by members of LaFayette family. History, New England, Americana, LaFayette family, France, biography.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Coward McCann, 1946 Cloth, Slightly Bumped Corners. Believe to be a 1st Edition. believe 1st edition with 430 pages with index. Dust jacket slight tears, B&W photos and illustrations, corners slight bump, overall good+. History, Americana, Railroads.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Published by Collier Books, CR 1968, this is the first by Collier in 1980. PAPER covers, all good+. Map on frontis. A History of Texas and the Texans. 761 pages w/index. History, Texas, Texans, Americana, Western Americana.. Soft Cover. ... (more information)

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New York: Al. Knopf, CR 1996, dust jacket with mylar, all very good condition, 419 pages with index, sources, notes, and epilogue. Black and white photos in center of book. April 1865, Union troops, unimpeded, marched into the charred city of Richmond. The author conjures up wartime Richmond with its bread riots, hospitals crammed with amputees, rat infestation, etc., but despite universal hardship, Richmond crackled with spirit. The theaters kept showing plays, taffy parties, faro parlors and sewing ci... (more information)

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Second Edition. Published by The Pemberton Press, Jenkins Publ., Co, Austin, Texas. This published in 1969, 2nd edition. Dust jacket and book are very good condition. Black and white frontis of Abraha m Lincoln, with other black and white illustrations. 63 pages. Ferguson was the call boy and bit actor at Ford's Theater and was on the stage when Booth shot Lincoln. Also in the book are his memoirs of Washington and the surrounding area during the Civil War.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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New York: Al. Knopf, Dust jacket with mylar, x-library with usual stamps, markings, etc. Revised and brought up-to-date.Title page date is 1966, CR 1951, 59, 64 third printing, 1966, 408 pages with vi index. Three peoples - rites of pre-historic indians, and of Europeans of the Middle Ages are still practiced here. The two frontiers - Spanish and United States met and fused in New Mexico. They have successfully worked out a life together. Black and white photos, Good+ condition.. revised Third Printin... (more information)

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Washington, D. C.: U. S. Department of Interior Historic Places Associated with their Transcontinental Exploration 1804-06. National Park Service, CR 1975. Volume XIII National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings. Color frontis of Charles M. Russell's painting of "Captain Lewis Meeting with the Shoshonis". 429 pages with notes, art and pictures credits and bibliography. Black and white photos, sepia maps. A wonderful guide to locations of Lewis & Clark sites - text gives all the history... (more information)

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Published by Century Co., CR 1924, CR 1930, stated 1st printing, 203 pages. Red covers, illustrated front cover with bucking bronco, slight stain to covers o/w good+. Introduction by Will James,, illustrated by Eve Ganson. Author's experiences on a dude ranch, the people, cattle roundups, etc. Western Americana, dude ranches,cattle, roundups, biography.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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New York: Free Press/MacMillan A Carolina Memoir. Dust jacket with mylar, X-library with numbers, stamps, etc. CR 1983, 250 pages with genealogy guide and epilogue. Black and white photos. She grew up in South Carolina, daughter of a gifted slave, Thomas Middleton, who insured that she grew up with artisans and professors. A look back on this all but forgotten community of family and friends, and on the wide social landscape of the segregationist South of her youth.. First Printing. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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: John C. Winston Illustrated by Henry C. Pitz. CR 1938, frontis color illustration, others are black and white. 340 pages, illustrated pastedowns, textcuts, and full page black and white illustrations. Green covers with blind stamped bucking bronco rider on front cover. Western fiction for juvenile children. All very good condition.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Milan, Italy : P. Beccarini No date, circa 1900's. Former owner's name "Harry Tsoumas, Pompeii, Jan 16, 1944". Its principal monuments as they are and as they used to be reproduced and restored from photographs and original sketches by Fischetti, Professor of Architecture and Deco Art, Royal Naples University. Also has "The Myth of Dionysus and the Villa of the Mysteries.". Fold-out map frontis of "Pompeii Plane of the Excavations." In back is a fold-out of "The Genera... (more information)

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Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society CR 1992, 1998. Photos by Richard Alex. Cooke, III, over 100 full page color photos and maps with first hand information. 200 pages. All very good condition. From Pennsylvania to Northern Georgia, three gentle mountains, the New River, America's oldest stream flows across the entire range. Meet Cherokee indians who continue the artistic traditions of their ancestors.. Paper Covers. ... (more information)

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New York: Dodd Mead, The Greatest Period in the Life of a Great American. Dust jacket has tears, red covers, all good+. 242 pages with index, black and white photos in the center. Lee resigned from the US Army in 1865 and was branded as a traitor and he seemed destined to spend his final years as a prisoner on parole - but he refused to do that and went on to become the President of Washington College and left a deeper mark on history in the four years after Appomattox than he and his troops made during ... (more information)

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Boston: Published by Houghton Mifflin CR 1897, 1889, 296 pages with index. This is 16th thousand. Red covers, slight wear o/w good+. Fold-out map of "Epitomized Map of New England in 17th Century" in color. Puritan theocracy in its relation to civ il and religious liberty. New England, History, Americana, religion, Puritans.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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