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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Deseret News Press The Virgin River Basin: Unique Experiences in Mormon Pioneering. Dust jacket is price clipped with mylar over it, all very good condition. 681 pages with index. Black and white photos. Illustrated pastedowns. Title date 1961, CR 1961. The Virgin Basin was a village named Dixie, composed of cotton growers gathered into the gospel , transplanted into a land impregnated with alkali, to raise cotton by methods quite different from those followed in the South. This is a narrative of pion... (more information)

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Published by Bobbs Merrill, CR 1951, stated 1st edition. Blue covers with gilt lettering on spine, spine and part of the cover is discolored, 5 maps and 38 pages of black and white photos with frontis. Foreward by Rear Admiral Richard A. Byrd. Thomas navigated unprotected ships through ice of the Ross Sea at the bottom of the world - a convoy of 3 Naval supply ships, with their unprotected hulls, through 500 miles of ice. It was a landmark in ice navigation. Natural History, Ice Bergs, Arctic Ice, Naval Nav... (more information)

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New York: D. Van Nostrand CR 1946, title page date 1946, 351 pages with index of general and mineral categories. There are 28 color plates, the others are black and white. Blue covers, stained with something white and shows old water mark on front pastedowns, does not affect the color plates.. Believe to be a First Edition. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Virginia: Virginia State Chamber of Commerce and Virginia Commission on Status of Women. Dust jacket slight tears. Previous owner inscription on front endpapers. A Bicentennial Project. CR 1976, 307 pages with 16 plates of women featured in book. This book covers Virginia women who were famous and made a difference, like: Pocahontas, Martha Washington and Dolly Madison - but it also covers the lesser known women, like Mary Randolph who invented and named the refrigerator, Civil War heroine, writers, et... (more information)

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Iowa: Wallace Homestead Book Company History and Romance of Old China. CR 1971 with 228 pages with glossary. Color, black and white photos. Softcover. Features Oriental, English, German, and American China, marks, etc. White with black lettered covers. All Good+ condition.. Second Revised Edition. Soft Cover. ... (more information)

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New York: Rand McNally Boyce worked for "The Blade" a newspaper of the era. He was looking for something new - a new outlook. Roosevelt was in Africa big game hunting and photograaphing everything - so Boyce decided to take to the air in ballons and photograph the wild life of jungles and plains. He then wrote several other books on South Americ, The U.S. Colonies and Depenencies, Australia, and New Zealand. Then decided to write a one volume book on North Africa, Tropical Africa, and South A... (more information)

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Boston: Little Brown, CR 1988, 186 pages with index and notes. Illustrated by Charlotte Wess. Floral illustrated endpapers. Mylar cover over dust jacket, all very good. X-library with stamps, numbers and pocket in back. Garden layouts, black and white and color photos and color text cuts. A tour of the garden through the seasons, showing the effect of lighting, color sequence, etc. Ms. Jekyll is an excellent guide as her approach remains as fresh and relevant as it was in 1908 when she first wrote th... (more information)

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New York: Crown Dust jacket and book good+ condition. CR 1984, Design CR 1984, originally published in 1948 by Oxford University Press. 224 pages with sources for the illustrations. Exquisite full-page color illustrations. Designed by David Fordham, based upon Nicholas Thirkell's original design for the "Ilustrated Lark Rise to Candleford". Picture research by Jenny de Gex. Printed and bound in Italy. A return to the English countryside of the author's childhood. It paints an unforgettable ... (more information)

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New York: Published by Century Company CR 1897, 1900, this is 3rd edition, 517 pages with index. Fold-out color map in back of book, corners bumped, slight loosening but all good+. This 3rd edition has been revised to reflect the war between Britai n and her South African colonies and the territories and the South African Republic Orange Free State. Contains The Transvaal Conventions of 1881 and 1884. History, South Africa, Great Britain.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Published by Fleming Revell, CR 1915, probably a 1st edition, 245 pages w/4 ads. Maroon and white decorated covers, all good+. Illustrated with B&W photos. Comanche and Apache Indians. Southwest, Indians, Comanche, Apache, Native American s, Southwest Missions, Missionaries.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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New York: Random House A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. CR 1965, maroon covers with initials "TC" on front cover, no dust jacket, front pastedown the front left maroon paper has ben torn out, 343 pages, all clean and good+ condition.. Stated first Edition. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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College Station, TX: Texas A & M University The Journal of Eduard Harkort 1832-1834. CR 1986, dust jacket and book mint condition. 194 pages with index, bibliography, and notes. Harkort, a middle-class German mining engineer, wrote this journal during his two years of fighting and imprisonment in Mexico. He reveals the activities and feelings of a brave and multi-talented man who withdrew from the 19th-Century corporate life and found himself in battle, before a firing squad, and then in prison.. St... (more information)

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Published by Charles Scribner, MDCCCXCVI, CR 1887, 1892, 1896. Decorated covers with white vertical floral designs on cream cloth, slight fading, overall good+. Illustrations by W.T. Smedley, B.W. Clinedin, C.S. Reinhart, A.B.Frost, Howard Pyle and A. Castaigne. Dedication is "To My People - This Fragmentary record of their life is dedicated". Written in black dialect of the South before and during the civil War. This was the author's first book. Civil War, Historical Fiction, fiction, Southern hi... (more information)

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Published by T. Crowell, CR 1898 with 399 pages. Gray illustrated covers, all good+. A story of Naval adventures in the Civil War 1861-1865 about a son who fought for the Union and a father who was a Confederate soldier on the inland wate rs of Virginia and North Carolina. He was in the 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. New England, Americana, History, Civil War, Massachusetts, Regimental histories, Virginia, North Carolina, Confederate soldiers, Union Soldiers.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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New York: Doubleday Southwestern Menus from the World-Famous Pink Adobe Restaurant. Dust jacket and book very good condition. CR 1993, states first edition, October 1993, 152 pages with index. Sixteen (16) full-page color paintings by author and text cuts throughout the book. 141 recipes into 28 complete menus for brunch or lunch, picnic, barbecues, parties, and buffets, all with cocktail and wine selections. Covers Southern recipes, Latino, Creole, Southwestern, etc.. Stated first Edition. Hard Cover.... (more information)

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California: A.S. Barnes Mountain Ascents Past and Present. Dust jacket has slight tears, the flaps are pasted down. Overall good+ condition. CR 1981, stated first edition. Photos and sketches by author, unless otherwise indicated, 287 pages with index. A colorful recreation of great climbs that capture the spirit of challenge and discovery at the heart of mountaineering. Provides historically accurate accounts back in time to observe first ascents of the most famous peaks in the world and to share in t... (more information)

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Published by Wilfred Funk, CR 1940, CR 1940, 1st edition, 415 pages with index. Dust jacket slight tears, corners slightly bumped B&W photos all good+. Was there more than one plot? Was Booth killed or did he escape? Was Mrs. Surratt tortured be fore she was executed? Here are new long-buried revelations fully substantiated by documented evidence. Abraham Lincoln, Civi War, John Wilkes Booth, Mary Surratt, assassination, presidents.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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New York: W.W. Norton The true story of a friendship between man and wolf. Dust jacket good+, cover and contents also good+ condition. CR 1974, 190 pages. Map on pastedowns of North Central Wilderness of British Columbia. In 1970, a yound Indian, Gregory Tah-Kloma, met the author and told him his remarkable story of his devotion to a pack of timber wolves and their female leader, Nahani, the one who sleeps.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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New York: W.W. Norton True story of Sheriff France and the capture of the mountain men. Dust jacket has tears, otherwise good+ condition. CR 1986, 285 pages. Black and white photos in center of book. A young woman, Olympic athlete Kari Swenson, was kidnapped at gun point. A manhunt that featured FBI teams, helicopters, electronic aids, and massive manpower, ended with the local sheriff, Johnny France, tracking Kari and the two mountain men who had taken her.. Stated first Edition. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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