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Annapolis, Maryland: National Service Publishing Company, 1926 Eighth edition, revise; previous copyrights 1921-1925. This revised edition conforms ". . . exactly to the War Department's requirements." Contents of this volumes are "Command and Leadership," "Rifle Markmanship," "Military Courtesy," "Military Hygiene and First Aid," and " Physical Drill," by several different authors. With numerous illustrations and diagrams. Heavy rubbing to co... more information

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Annapolis, Maryland: National Service Publishing Company , 1925. Cloth. Good-/No Jacket. Seventh edition; previous copyrights 1921-1924. "A new curriculum for the Infantry R.O.T.C. authorized by the War Department for the college year 1925-6 has made necessary a Seventh Edition . . .conforming exactly to the War Department's requirements." This volume contains Chapters VI-X: "Map Reading," "Scouting and Patrolling," "Musketry," "Interior Guard Duty," and &qu... more information

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New York: Oxford University Press, 1975 Cover edges lightly-to-moderately worn, including bump and small chip to top rear spine; faint soil to cover. Interior clean and tight.. Trade Paperback. Good +. ... more information

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Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc , 1979 Cloth. For grades 3-8. Illustrated by Bill Gow, with photographs by Paul Jacobs. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn with tape-mended 1" closed tear at bottom front edge. Light vertical crease along front panel of dust jacket; small waterstain at bottom spine. Otherwise clean and tight.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good +. ... more information

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Springfield, Massachusetts: McLoughlin Bros., Inc. , 1940 MB Books Little Color Classics. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Interior clean, intact, and tight. Cover heavily worn at corners, tattered at tail of spine; top 2" of spine cover missing, and there is a corresponding triangular scar to upper rear cover where the area was ripped away. Cover illustration bright and intact, but scuffed.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket, as Issued. 16mo - over 5&fra... more information

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Boston: Ginn & Company, 1907. Green cloth; gilt title and spine. Part of the Selections and Documents in Economics Series of texts by this publisher, edited by Ripley. Collection of cases in railway economics of the period, stripped of legal material, reprinted from books and technical journals. With black-and-white map line drawings, charts, and tables. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities; spine darkened (light varnish coating by library); lower rear corner bumped. Library marks: spine label; ink... more information

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Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: : Penguin Books , 1984 Very Good. Copyright 1974. Upper corner of first two pages clipped. Clean and tight.. Mass Market Paperback. ... more information

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931 Cloth. With color plates at the front of the book and black-and-white photographs (plates) within text. Front panel and small portion of one dust jacket flap have been clipped and laid-in. Heavy rubbing to cover extremities. Prior owner bookplate inside front cover. Clean and intact.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good +/No Jacket. Illus. by The Author. ... more information

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Berkeley: University of California Press. 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0520044975 Cloth. Fine/Very Good+ Illustrated with some black-and-white photographs. . ... more information

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London: Virtue and Co.. No date; circa 1870. Original green cloth with blindstamped black and gilt decoration, illustration, title, and spine. Illustrated with two hundred and fifty-nine wood engravings from original sketches by the artist, including tissue-guarded frontispiece "The Great Horse," from an allegorical engraving by Albert Durer. This collection of papers originally appeared in the "Art Journal," for which they were specifically written by antiquary Fairholt (1814-1866). ... more information

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Brattleboro, Vermont: The Book Cellar, 1962 Staple-bound; pictorial light card covers; 44 pages. Second printing. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs and one map drawing. Very light cover edgewear.. Original Wraps. Very Good. ... more information

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Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida . 1978. Soft Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 081300618X Very Good. Series editor: Peter C.H. Pritchard. Published for the State of Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. Range maps and black-and-white photographs. Faint cover soil. . ... more information

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Newport, Rhode Island: Fred A. Pratt & Co., City Printers, 1859 Original blind-stamped brown cloth; gilt spine. Compiled and printed by order of the "General Committee of Arrangements," this volume contains detailed correspondence, descriptions of decorations and all features of the celebration (speeches, parade, poetry, songs, etc.) and evening festivities, along with numerous historical references. Single illustration of re-union seal/banner reproduced twice, pp. 21 and 22. Cover extremiti... more information

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New York: Chautauqua Press, 1887 Very Good-/No Jacket. Green cloth with gilt and blindstamped cover design featuring CLSC insignia; gilt spine lettering. Light cover edgewear; light-to-moderate cover discoloration. Interior pages browned with age, but clean and tight.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1963 Many black-and-white diagrams/illustrations. Very small amount of dampstaining to tail of spine and corresponding corners of pages; half-title page corner clipped.. Trade Paperback. Very Good -. ... more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. Translated from the Spanish. Novel dramatizing the hardships and persecution of native Tsotsil Indians--the last surviving Mayan tribe--of Mexico, subject to enslavement by large landholders. Light rubbing to cover cloth; spine somewhat darkened. Clean and tight.. First U.S. Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. ... more information

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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1970, 1970 Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Post World War II Europe. Bears library sticker inside front cover, page block inkstamps, pocket inside rear cover, etc. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.. Ex-Library First Edition. Hard Cover. ... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934 Very Good-/Good Red cloth, gilt spine and cover decoration. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. Light browning to lower edges of cover cloth. Bump/crease at upper center spine (manufacturing defect?) Bump to lower front cover corner and faint corresponding irregularity to lower corner of first 100 pages. Prior owner name, date and statement "Catholic Book Selection") neatly written on front endpaper. Dust jacket moderately-to-heavily edgeworn and chip... more information

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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918 Decorated turquoise cloth; gilt title and spine. Some of contents previously copyrighted by The Atlantic Monthly Company, 1913. With an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones. Personal diary of a young Quaker who was drafted for service in the Union Army in 1863. Unwilling to engage in war, and also unwilling to pay the existing commutation fine of $300, Pringle started down the "hard path of duty." Light rubbing to cover extremities. Irregular patch of white mild... more information

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Washington D.C.: Regnery Gateway Inc. , 1988 Describes "the terror, corruption and absurdity" of Maurice Bishop's regime.. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. ... more information

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