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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972 Very Good-. Part of Studies in Canadian Geography series, edited by L. Trotier. With graphs, charts, and maps. Faint spine edge wear and some fade to 1/2" area at edge of cover illustration.. Trade Paperback. ... more information

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New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946 Cloth. During World War II, the author led a psychological warfare team into Germany at Aachen and stayed on the job until they reached Weisbaden seven months later. His job was to "investigate the state of mind of an enemy nation at war." Publisher's statement on the front flap concludes that Padover's stroy will "undoubtedly remain. . .a permanent source book on the strange German mind and what may be expected of it in the years ahead." Faint... more information

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New York: Harper & Row, New York , 1971 Very Good. Previous copyrights 1939, 1970. Small hole punched upper front cover and through page 10 of Foreword; text unaffected. Otherwise clean and tight with only faint cover edgewear.. Trade Paperback. ... more information

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Washington D.C.: Washington College Press , 1940. Cloth Very Good/No Jacket A scholarly review of various theories. Irregular quarter-sized patch of moderate discoloration of cover cloth. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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New York: Reynal & Company, 1959 The search for the legendary mountain prison of the royal princes of Abyssinia as described by Dr. Samuel Johnson in his eighteenth century novel "Rasselas." Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, map drawings, and decorative chapter drawings. Light foxing to fore edge page block. Otherwise clean and tight in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

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New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc. , 1966. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Biography intended for young readers. The last 20 pages of the book are devoted to "Nature Projects You Can Do" which relate to the study of insects. Prior owner bookplate inside front cover. Dust jacket heavily rubbed and with some stains, but intact and only very lightly edgeworn.. Hard Cover. KATHLEEN ELGIN. ... more information

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New York: Praeger Publishers, 1984 Part of Studies of Influence in International Relations Series, edited by Alvin Z. Rubinstein. Light shelf dust along lower page block. Faint sticker imprint copyright page. Otherwise clean, tight, and only faintly edgeworn.. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. ... more information

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New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation , 1978 Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Laminated pictorial boards. Intended for juvenile readers. Numerous color illustrations, including 16 detailed cutaways of 16 machines. With accompanying experiments and projects. Clean and tight.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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Washington D.C.: Pan American Union, 1911 Red cloth; gilt title, cover illustration, and spine; decorated endpapers. Errata slip bound in at front. "This Handbook of Mexico has been prepared to meet the great demand which is made upon the Pan American Union for comprehensive and specific data regarding Mexico." With numeorus black-and-white illustrations and three color fold-outs: one climatological chart; a second with map and chart depicting state capitals, area, and 1920 census population; th... more information

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Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1992 Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with black-and-white reproduction text plates and musical notation excerpts. The author, an accomplished pianist and Professor of Music at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, in this work describes the political passions and pressures that composers were responding to when they wrote instrumental works on the model of ballads. Chopin, in composing four "ballades" for piano in the 1830s and 1840s, "stretched the capacity... more information

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Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1983. Oblong format. Black-and-white photographs which capture scenes, animals, people, and patterns of Maine. Introduction by Jane Day. SIGNED by the author on half-title page. Light cover edgewear, including creasing to lower front cover corner. Clean and tight.. ISBN: 0892721456. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by The Author. ... more information

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Great Britain: Newman Neame Ltd, 1953 Very Good+. Limited. Original card wraps with orange paper self-cover. One of 100 copies privately published "as a personal expression" and printed by Will Carter in Cambridge, England, at the Rampant Lions Press, February 1953. "The prayers collected and recorded here were written in France and England during the last three years of the war in Europe. With 20 unnumbered pages.. Soft Cover. ... more information

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Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company , 1960 Good+/No Jacket. Ex-Library. Part of the Basic Science Education Series, intended for "junior high" audience. With color illustrations. Pictorial hardcover with reinforced binding. Only library marks are inkstamps of library name and "discarded" to inside front cover and "discard" inkstamp/small catalog notations to inside rear cover. Rear endpaper removed. Clean and tight.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1922 Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket With black-and-white plate illustrations. Very light rubbing to cover extremities. Clean and tight.. First Edition. Hard Cover. ... more information

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Boston: Rufus Leighton, Jr., 1859 Original blindstamped green pebbled cloth; gilt cover decoration and title. The author, minister of the 28th Congregational Society of Boston, sets forth the traditional religious story of the first Christmas, followed by a second story set "in the little town of Soitgoes, in Worcester County, Mass.," with numerous pronouncements and preachments throughout. The second story carries an anti-slavery message. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Spine faintly ... more information

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Boston: Rufus Leighton, Jr., 1859 Original decorative brown cloth. Account by the Massachusetts Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian Church. Forced to retire because of tuberculosis in 1859, Parker (1810-1859) comunicated with his followers through some short letters and then the lengthy memoir presented here. Includes a Preface--which includes a short letter in which Parker notifies his congregation of the onset of his illness--a Farewell Letter, a Letter to Mr. Parker from his followe... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. Very Good-/No Jacket Blue cloth, gilt title and spine. Biography of the poet. Illustrated with half-tone portraits. Light-to-moderate wear of cover extremities. Minimal library marks as follows: spine lettering; bookplate and "Rules" slip affixed to inside front cover; pocket strip inside rear cover; "date due" slip remnant top rear endpaper. Clean and tight.. Ex-Library First Edition. Hard Cover. ... more information

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New York: Fleet Publishing Corporation, 1961 Light gray cloth. Fourth printing in copyright year. Memoirs by the author, who served as a maid and seamstress at the Executive Mansion before her retirement, following in the footsteps of her mother, Number One White House Maid for thirty years. Very liight rubbing to cover extremities. Very faint age darkening of spine cloth. Small, neat prior owner inscription to upper front endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight in a bright but moderately-to-heavily edgewor... more information

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New York: W. Robinson , 1844 Original Cloth. Good-/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Blindstamped brown cloth, gilt spine lettering. Volume II of Family and School Library containing two separate sections (gazetteer and dictionary). Reprint; original copyright 1840. Dictionary section contains [few] illustrations of "Arts, Manners, Customs, Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and other things mentioned in the Bible." Woodcuts throughout. Ex-Universalist Sunday s... more information

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Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1881 Second printing; copyright 1880. Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece chromolithograph and text engravings. Contents cover the gamut, from identifying and purchasing cuts of meat, to care of food, to numerous recipes/receipts of the period. The author, who previously wrote the "Appledore Cook Book," provided most of the book's recipes, but many in the "Preserving" and "Pickling" chapters were contributed by Mrs. E.C. Daniell of Dedham... more information

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