Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishers Dust jacket with mylar over black covers, all very good condition. Inscription front endpapers "Presented in grateful appreciation to Richard Amacher adviser, teacher, frind - Jerry Wilson November, 1972". 1969 title date, CR 1969, this is a reprint of the original from 1891. 335 pages with index. No illustrations. One of the most accurate and thoroughly engrossing account of church customs in America during the 17th century. Virrtually very facet o... (more information)

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New York: Published by Doubleday, CR 1989, stated 1st edition, 177 pages. X-library with everything. Dust jacket has plastic over it, overall good+. A Double D Western. Starr was one of the most notorious criminals of the Old West - a bank robber that robbed 2 banks in the same town at the same time. A Cherokee cowboy/outlaw who received a death sentence by "Hanging Judge" Parker, to his final days playing the bad guy in Hollywood movies. Western Americana, Outlaws, cowboys, bank robbers, thieves... (more information)

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New York: Published by Frederick Fell, Dated 1969, believe 1st edition. 220 pages with 3 appendices and bibliography. Illustrated by Ernest Reedstrom. Dust jacket and book very good. Story of the Colt Single Action Army Revolver from 1863 to date. Col t Firearms, Connecticut,Firearms.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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New York: Published by Charles Scribners, CR 1934 - 1957, with "A.7.57{M#}" on CR page, 407 pages with index and notes. Dust jacket is bad, blue covers are good+. Boom Days In Virginia City, Nevada. Introduction by Senator Richard Neuberger. Black and white illustrations. Western Americana, Nevada, history, Americana, Virginia City, Nevada, mining, Gold mining, silver mining.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Published by Sheridan House, CR 1899, CR 1899, 1900 by Century Co., CR Renewal 1927 Henrietta M. Mayhew, CR 1954 by Sheridan House, this is 1995 reprint, 294 pages. Dust jacket has slight tears, top and bottom of front cover and is price clipped, dark blue covers, good+. Introduction by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian. Maps and black and white sketches. Slocum, in 1895, was a merchant man who was the 1st man to circumnavigate the globe single -handed and in a 37-foot sailboat which he himself had rebuilt f... (more information)

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Best of Samuel Eliot Morison. Published by Houghton Mifflin, CR 1977, title date 1977, 1st edition, 431 pages. Dust jacket has tears, overall good+. Foreward by Walter Muir Whitehall. Author is daught er of Samuel E. Morison. Morison finished the introductory notes for this seletion of his writings shortly before his death in 1976. Literature, New England, Authors, explorers.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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The Life of Isaac Jogues. Published by Harper & Brothers, CR 1935, with M-B on CR page, 466 pages w/index. Blue covers, slight wear, overall very good. Signed by Talbot with inscription to Tom Leach d ated April 11, 1935. A biography of a Jesuit Priest who spent his life working with the Huron Indians, the Mohawk Indians, etc. History, Native Americans, Mohawk Indians, Huron Indians, New York, Upst ate New York, Indians, Indian wars, Jesuits, Jesuit Priests, religion.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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New York: W.W. Norton Dust jacket and book good+ condition. Previous owners name on front endpapers. On title page it is Signed and dated by author, March 5, 1998 with inscription, For Hunter "and all shall be well",. Stated first edition. CR 1998, 487 pages. Historical fiction set amid the rise and fall of the Third Reich, a profound drama of the intertwined meaning of faith, morality, and love of country. It is centered around the life of the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, would-b... (more information)

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London, England: Published by Colliers CR 1982, 1st edition with 160 pages. Dust jacket slight tears, covers and contents very good. Foreward by Lord Home. Sutherland eschews remedies for frostbite, description of latest gadgets in favour of entert ainment, recipes to cook salmon, complexities of the salmon fly and accounts of fishing expeditions. Fishing, angling, salmon.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Brattleboro, Vermont: Publshed by Stephen Day, CR 1939 with 247 pages w/index. B&W photos, all very good. Chronicling glorious chapter in American marine history of "Sound Lines". Steamboats, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New England.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Published by Stephen Daye Press, 1939 Cloth. Revised & enlarged Edition, 1957. 1957 for revised and enlarged edition. Dust jacket has slight tears overall good+. Black and white photos. Colorful saga of steamboating and the famous skipper s who sailed Long Island Sound. The era of New England steamboating and the vigorous capable skippers who sailed the queenly ships are recalled vividly in author's nostalgic history of a golden age. Steamboats, Long Island Sound, New England steamboats.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Published by G. Doran CR 1915 with 348 pages. Cover dark, inside front hinge loose but good. History, Fiction,Historical Fiction, Fiction, Virginia.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Published by Robert B. Luce, CR 1962, CR 1962 with 712 pages w/index. Believe 1st. Dust jacket does have tears and edge wear. Blue covers with gold lettering all good+. Ten (10) illustrations. Houston's personal life was tumultuous and as eventful as his public life. Marriage scandal, alcoholism, disappearing into Indian territory for long stretches of time, his refusal to join the clamor for secession, Houston emerges as a man of indomitable courage and endured crises that would have submerged lesser men i... (more information)

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Published by Plimpton Press, Christian Herald, Ny, CR 1911, 349 pages. Black and white illustrations. Tan covers illustrated with black lettering and blue colors, slight soil, bumped. Americana, humor .. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Pubished by G. W. Dillingham CR 1904, issued November 1904, 312 pages. Green covers with white lettering and illustration of Samantha on front cover. Slight wear to covers and inside hinges, back and front. Illustrated by C. Grunwald. Ame ricana.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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By Josiah Allen's wife. Published by Funk & Wagnells, 1896, CR 1896, 714 pages with 1 page ad. Green covers with gilt lettering, illustrated in silver, green and black with an ocean liner, Leaning Tow er of Pisa, Arch de Triumpe,and soldiers. Spine illustrated also. Slight soil and scuffing. Frontis and front endpapers are loose. Illustrated by C. DeGrimm. Americana.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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New York: Viking Photography by Hugo Van Lawich. Dust jacket and book very good condition, dust jacket is price clipped. CR 1981, 213 pages. Color photos. This is the account of a remarkable trip into the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, one of the largest yet least known strongholds of wild animals left on earth.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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New Y: Random House, 1945 Illustrated Cloth Covers. Slight Soil to Covers. Good+/No Jacket. First Printing. 1st printing, 465 pages with index. Illustrated endpapers, B&W photos, covers show slight soil o/w good+. Western Amer icana. History. Americana. Railroads, New Mexico.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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London, England: Published by Methuen, London, 1930, Dated 1930 with 344 pages with index and 4 pages of ads of books. Foxing on front 4 or 5 pages and then scattered throughout the book, slight wear. Overall good+. Americana, History, Fairy tales, proverbs, folk songs , customs, rituals, mineral lore, magic, folk dance, plant lore, etc., Also has a bibliography. Folklore, myths, plants, botany, magic, rituals.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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Published by Hastings House, CR 1961, CR 1961 with 308 pages with index and bibliography. About J. Henry in the North and Matthew Maury in the South. Joseph Henry invented the electromagnet. Gray blue covers with blue lettering. All good+. Civil War, Confederacy, Union, Scientists, wars, Americana.. Hard Cover. ... (more information)

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