NY:: Funk & Wagnalls,, 1902. Hardcover; gilt-stamped printed cover & spine, two-word ink correction of Methusaleh's age to 969 years; otherwise, condition quite good.. 8pp. book ads. Published May 1902 a month after death of his father, Rev. Thomas DeWitt Talmage. ||| 16 chapters--Autumnal Leaf; Wild Flowers; Mighty Hills; Eternal Stars; Migrating Doves; Protecting Eagle; Hunted Stag; Tireless Ant; Conquering Locusts; Royal Spiders; Singing-Birds; Morning Clouds; Peaceful Streams; Vanished Sea... (more information)

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NY:: Scribner,, 1926. Hardcover; partial seminary library rubberstamp inside front cover; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends + cover tips lightly worn; otherwise good.. + index. With 8 portrait photos, including frontispiece caricature by `Ape' (Carlo Pelligrini) taken from `Vanity Fair.' Honored luminary of the English Court recounts activities of `vagabonds & rogues' whose life travels were eased by duping the gullible. ||| Factual tales--Arthur Orton, impostor claimant to Tichborne es... (more information)

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NY:: Random House,, 1958. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; lacks triangular piece 1x1.5-inch from upper corner of blank front endpaper; both covers lower tips bumped; otherwise, good condition.. With b&w in-text + full-pg. color drawings by Robert Ball. Thackeray (1811-63), `offers particular pleasure to the reader who enjoys sensitive pictures of the human scene by an artist of acute & ironic sensitivity.'--Ency. Brit. ||| `Vanity Fair' put Thackeray on a solid financial footing, establish... (more information)

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NY:: Knopf,, 1939. Hardcover; name on front endpaper verso; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise good.. With map endpapers. Jules Romains was the pseud. of Louis H. J. Farigoule (1885-1972). ||| His novel `Verdun' is military fact-correct in describing the longest, bloodiest WW-1 fighting in France (21 Feb. 1916 to early September) before the Kaiser & his generals finally admitted they could not win the strategic success they had been so certain of achieving before they began the war. ... (more information)

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Chelsea, Vt.:: Chelsea Green Publishing,, 1989. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; condition good.. index. Bryan & McClaughry--one a Prof of Political Science at Univ. of Vermont, the other an advisor to Ronald Reagan--both view how Vermonters historically governed themselves; their heritage of Ethan Allen's thinking; the eroded & eroding (as they see it) freedoms in America; what they believe will restore earlier-day liberty & freedoms; etc. ... (more information)

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Lexington, Ky.:: The Blood Horse,, 1958.. With in-text drawings + b&w photos. Maiden, barren & foaling mares; care of newborn foals; stallions; parasite control; various unsound conditions; wound treatments. ... (more information)

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Lancaster Pa.,, [1906]. Individual 6x9-inch sheets bound in wrappers with tied cord; Hamilton College (NY) rubberstamp on front cover; owner rubberstamp on first sheet; title pg. fingermarked with upper corner bumped; card pocket removed; no spine marks/label; otherwise, internal condition good.. 7pp. With 31 full-pg. b&w photos + one full-pg. of drawings (versos blank). One pg. of drawings--Franklin College, Lancaster 1787; Marshall College, Mercersburg 1836 [now Mercersburg Academy]. 31 photos-... (more information)

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Norwich, England:: Cundall Miller Leavins-Printers,, 1865/1863. Vol. 1--fragile wrappers; Hamilton College (NY) rubberstamp on front wrapper; untrimmed; lacks spine; BOUND WITH: Vol. 2--some sections unopened; untrimmed; lacks spine; crude card pocket was not removed due to fragility of back wrapper; both vols. contents clean; otherwise good.. + 16 + 32pp. Vol. 1--`Pedigrees collected...are of very considerable importance to the genealogist...British Museum [has] a fair copy of the Visitation of Norf... (more information)

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NY:: Chemical Catalog Co.,, 1922. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends + cover tips lightly worn; otherwise good.. + bibliography + author & subject indexes. With several in-text b&w charts + 4 full-page b&w photos. In 1913 Casimir Funk gave the name `vitamine' (sic) to unknown food elements that remedied beriberi, pellagra, scurvy, & polyneuritis. ||| Here, food chemists Sherman & Smith summarize research in vitamins A, B, C, and... (more information)

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NY:: Harper,, 1932. Hardcover; spine ends worn, otherwise good.. Blunden (1896-1974), poet, critic, on staff of London Times Literary Supplement; offers T.L.S. articles on Skelton, Breton, Randolph, Defoe, Steele, Southey, Gibbon, et al. ... (more information)

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