Americana from William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
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Sketches of America. A Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through The Eastern and Western States of America; Contained in Eight Reports Addressed to the Thirty-Nine English Families By Whom The Author was Deputed, in June 1817, To Ascertain Whether Any, And What Part of the United States Would Be Suitable For Their Residence. With Remarks on Mr. Birkbeck's "Notes" and "Letters"
by Henry Bradshaw Fearon
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1818
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$100.00
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Rebound with blue cloth; acetate jacket. Some very minor foxing, but otherwise a nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
6 x 9.25 in Item Price
$100.00
![Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers [Senate 33rd Congress; 1st Session]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/483/803/1603803483.0.m.jpg)
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Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers [Senate 33rd Congress; 1st Session]
by Captain L. Sitgreaves
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1854
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$250.00
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Brown faded cloth with gilt title to spine. A total of 198 pages with 79 plates to rear and a large detached folding-map. One folding plate titled Buffalo Dance. The plates include botanicals, views of nature and indigenous people, ornithology, reptiles, mammals, and fish. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Loses to edges and centerfolds of map (see image). Some… Read more about this item Item Price
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Life of the Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890-91. A Graphic Account of the Life of the Great Medicine Man and Chief Sitting Bull; His Tragic Death; Story of the Sioux Nation; Their Manners and Customs, Ghost Dances and Messiah Craze; Also, a Very Complete History of the Sanguinary Indian War of 1890-91.
by W. Fletcher Johnson
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1891
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$200.00
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First edition with 587 pages (v-a-v later edition of the same year with additional pages). Decorative green cloth with some faded gilt particulars to front cover. Illustrated throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Some wear to cloth on corners, but otherwise a nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other defacements.
6 x 8 in Item Price
$200.00
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Uncle Sam and his Country; or, Sketches of America in 1854-55-56.
by Alfred Pairpoint
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1857
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$600.00
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Orange debossed cloth with a gilt title. Small previous owner's name to top of front endpaper. Some general wear and fading to cloth (see image). Text remains clean and bright with no defacements. Scarce.
5 x 7.5 in Item Price
$600.00
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The Visual Encyclopedia of American Landmarks: 150 of the Most Significant and Noteworthy Historic, Cultural and Architectural Sites in America, Shown in More Than 500 Photographs.
by Thomas W. Paradis
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- Used - Very Good
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- Collector's Edition
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- 2011
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$95.00
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Red leather with gilt particulars and a pictorial pastedown of the Capitol building to the front cover. Three raised bands. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers and a silk ribbon. No previous owners' names or other defacements.
9.25 x 12 in Item Price
$95.00
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History of West Point, and its Military Importance During the American Revolution: And the Origin and Progress of the United States Military Academy.
by Captain Edward C. Boynton
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1863
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$360.00
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Full blue debossed cloth with gilt particulars to front cover and spine. Colored fold-out plate View of West Point on the Hudson River is present to front, along with two fold-out maps in the text. More single page maps and illustrations throughout. Twelve pages of ads to rear. Wear to corners and to cloth at the head/tail of spine (see… Read more about this item Item Price
$360.00
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The Destructive Operation of Foul Air, Tainted Provisions, Bad Water and Personal Filthiness upon Human Constitutions; Exemplified in the Unparalleled Cruelty of the British to the American Captives at New York during the Revolutionary War, on Board their Prison and Hospital Ships, in a Communication to Dr. Mitchill, Dated September 4, 1807. Also a Letter to the Tammany Society, upon the Same Subject.
by Captain Alexander Coffin; Introduction by Charles I. Bushnell
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1865
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$700.00
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Half green morocco over marbled boards. Five raised bands and gilt particulars. Marbled endpapers. A total of 86 neatly handwritten pages with blank pages to rear. One black/white plate of the prison ship Jersey bound before the text, along with a frontispiece of the author. A unique and scarce title, measuring 5.25 x 8 inches including the following:
Letter to Samuel… Read more about this item Item Price
$700.00
![An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith, During His Captivity With the Indians, in the Years 1755, '56, '57, '58, & '59 [Ohio Valley Historical Series Number 5; Smith's Captivity with the Indians]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/805/515/1603515805.0.m.jpg)
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An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith, During His Captivity With the Indians, in the Years 1755, '56, '57, '58, & '59 [Ohio Valley Historical Series Number 5; Smith's Captivity with the Indians]
by Col. James Smith; with an Appendix of Illustrative Notes by M. Darlington
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1870
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$200.00
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Full green cloth gilt title to spine. Top edge gilt. Wear to front hinge as well as wear to head of spine (see image). Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper. Overall a nice clean copy.
6.5 x 9.5 in Item Price
$200.00
![Manual for the Use of the Legislature of the State of New-York, for the Year 1855 [with Colton's Railroad & Township Map of the State of New York with Parts of the Adjoining States & Canada Map]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/453/515/1603515453.0.m.jpg)
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Manual for the Use of the Legislature of the State of New-York, for the Year 1855 [with Colton's Railroad & Township Map of the State of New York with Parts of the Adjoining States & Canada Map]
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1855
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$400.00
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Red morocco with gilt particulars to boards and spine. Hand colored folding map to rear (Colton's Railroad & Township Map of the State of New York with Parts of the Adjoining States & Canada 1855), with the two fold-outs to the front present as well. W. Wallace Perkins in gilt to front cover. All edges gilt. A remarkably clean, supple… Read more about this item Item Price
$400.00
![Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States [Two Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/778/513/1603513778.0.m.jpg)
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Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States [Two Volumes]
by Henry Lee
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1812
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$700.00
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Two volume set. Full brown calf with red labels to spines. Previous owner's small bookplates to front pastedowns. Wear to leather on corners and spines, including to the hinges of Vol. I (see image). Toning and foxing throughout, with the usual toning from the frontispieces. Overall they remain clean copies with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
Vol. I 423;… Read more about this item Item Price
$700.00
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Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom: A Traveler's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author.
by Frederick Law Olmsted
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1861
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$800.00
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Two volume set. Full blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. Colored folding map The Cotton Kingdom and its Dependencies in America to front of Vol. I derived from the U.S. census of 1850. Previous owner's stamps to title pages. Wear to head and tails of spines (see image). No previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
Vol. I [viii] 376;… Read more about this item Item Price
$800.00
![Lindbergh of Minnesota; A Political Biography [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/968/070/1603070968.0.m.jpg)
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Lindbergh of Minnesota; A Political Biography [Signed]
by Bruce L. Larson; Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1973
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$400.00
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Signed by the author, Bruce L. Larson, and the subject's aviator son, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., to the title page. Full blue cloth with title to spine. Previous owner's name to top of title page (see image). A tight clean copy.
5.75 x 8.5 in Item Price
$400.00
![The Gregarian Invasion [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/715/564/1602564715.0.m.0.jpg)
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The Gregarian Invasion [Inscribed]
by Edgar F. Seney Jr.
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1964
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$125.00
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Inscribed by Seney to the front pastedown. Blue cloth with pasted label to spine and an unclipped dustjacket wrapped in mylar. Foxing and toning to endpapers. Loss to jacket to bottom right of the rear cover and the tail (see image). No previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
6 x 8.75 in Item Price
$125.00
Dighton Rock
by D.C. Fabronius
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1864
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$275.00
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Scarce lithograph of Dighton Rock sans upper left corner measuring 11 x 9 in (28 x 23 cm). See image for condition. Item Price
$275.00
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The Corolla for 1945; University of Alabama Yearbook
by Edited by Willis Darby; Managed by Tyler Hegenwald
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- Used - Very Good
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- co-ed edition
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- 1945
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$105.00
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A 1945 yearbook vol. 53. Faded blue cloth covered boards with black and pink lettering. Advertisements to rear. Minor foxing to first and last few pages, with some staining to foredge not affecting text. No signatures present. Clean copy with no defacements.
9.25 x 12.25 in Item Price
$105.00
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Education for Citizenship; A Foundation's Experience
by Carl Tjerandsen
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1980
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$400.00
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Red cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Previous owner's inscription to half title; otherwise a nice clean copy. Scarce.
6.25 x 9.25 in Item Price
$400.00
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Report of the Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Convention of the National Railroad Master Blacksmiths' Association Held at the Sherman House, Chicago, Illinois- August 21, 22 and 23, 1906.
by J.S. Sullivan; Edited by A.L. Woodworth
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1906
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$100.00
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Dark brown cloth with gilt title to front cover and spine. A clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
6 x 8.75 in Item Price
$100.00
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Report of the Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Convention of the National Railroad Master Blacksmiths' Association Held at the Grand Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana- August 16,17 and 18, 1904.
by T.F. Keane; Edited by A.L. Woodworth
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- Used - Good
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- 1904
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$100.00
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Dark brown cloth with faded title to spine and front cover. Moisture marks to bottom edges affecting title page and text, along with some wear to foredge. Creasing to top corner of first few pages. No previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
6 x 8.75 in Item Price
$100.00
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The Picture of New York; or the Traveller's Guide, Through the Commercial Metropolis of the United States.
by Samuel Latham Mitchell
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- Used - Fair
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- First Edition
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- 1807
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$400.00
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First edition of the earliest known guide book to New York City. Worn half calf over marbled boards sans map. The contents pages 217- 223 are inserted before the text. Wear to tail of spine and corners (see images). Previous owner's name smudged to front pastedown. Samuel Mitchell was a U.S. senator from New York from 1804 to 1809, as… Read more about this item Item Price
$400.00
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Puck Magazine April 4th, 1900; Vol. XLVII No. 1204 "The Cleansing of New York. Why Not Make a Clean Job of it While We're at it?"
by Louis Dalrymple, Joseph Keppler, John Samuel Pughe et al.
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1900
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$180.00
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Stapled paper wraps. The cover illustration depicts Joseph Pulitzer (left) and William Randolph Hearst excoriated by their peers for yellow journalism (and worse) & held up by the white-gloved hand of the law. Includes doublepage colored lithograph titled Opening of the New Republican Cafe by Keppler to center (see image). Colored lithograph The Milk Punch Knockout; or, the Finish of… Read more about this item Item Price
$180.00
