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(Poster) The Message of Franklin D. Roosevelt
by (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
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- No Jacket, As Issued
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- First Printing
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- 1945
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$225.00
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(New York): Thom McAn Shoe Company, 1945. Poster. Illus. by Overend, W. H.. Very Good. One Page. First Printing. SCARCE WWII era poster to commemoorate the death of Franklin Delano Rooselt, the 32nd President of the United States. 22' hi x 32" wide, Very Good, small chips and tears at edges, not affecting omage, faint crease bottom left corner, the… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE NORTHERN LIGHT; DEVOTED TO FREE DISCUSSION, AND TO THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, MISCELLANEOUS KNOWLEDGE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Volumes I - III
by Edited By John A. Dix
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Printing
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- 1841
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$1,500.00
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Albany, NY: Printed by Charles Van Benthuysen, 1841. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Volumes I - III, April 1841 - April, 1844. Bound in contemporary quarter leather over marbled boards, tan end papers, Very Good, 3" chip front end paper, wear at edges of boards, front board recently professionally reattached, marginal dark… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1763 (Volume 6). The Fifth Edition
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Fifth Edition
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- 1782
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$700.00
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London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Fifth Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [2], 307, [5], pp/ with 4 maps at end. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, marbled end papers and edges, Near Fine, light rubbing at edges, the front board recently professionally reattached, a quite handsome copy, this year of… Read more about this item Item Price
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(contains Early Printing of U.S. Constitution) The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1787 (Volume 29)
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1789
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$1,500.00
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London: Printed for J. Dodsley (vols. 1 and 2) and for W. Strahan, T. B, 1789. Book. Near Fine. Half Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains perhaps the first English printing of the U.S. Constitution - "Articles of the New Constitution of the United States of America, entered into by a Convention of all the… Read more about this item Item Price
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(Railroad - Printing)- Currency) The Kendall Bank Note Co. 155 Broadway New York "We respectfully solicit the engraving and printing on steel of certificates of stock and bonds, for railroads."
by The Kendall Bank Note Company
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- Used - Fine
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- First Printing
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$150.00
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New York: The Kendall Bank Note Company Paper. Fine. Single Sheet, Folded. First Printing. 9" x 7". Single sheet, center fold, stiff paper, 9" x 7", folds to 4 1/2" x 7". Fine, as issued. No date circa 1877-1887, the company founded 1877 by George H. Kendall, it was renamed the New York Bank Note Company in 1887. With lovely… Read more about this item Item Price
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Works: Final Report, Part 1 (1890), Part 2 (1892), New Mexico Pueblos & Pecos Pueblo, Vol. 1 (1881), Hemenway Expedition, Vol. 2 (1890), New Mexico (in Bulletin of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1883), and Index to Final Report (1942)
by Bandelier, Adolph F.
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- Used - Fine
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$1,250.00
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Cambridge/ Boston/ Albuquerque: Printed by John Wilson and Son / Published by A.Williams and Co. Book. Fine. Buckram. First Printings. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Six volumes handsomely bound in recent tan buckram, with the original front wrappers attached at front paste downs of each volume. A Fine and lovely set of original publications of Bandelier's works, with… Read more about this item Item Price
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(Miniature Book) Addresses of Abraham Lincoln
by Lincoln, Abraham
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- Used - Fine
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- Good
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- First Edition
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- 1929
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$400.00
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Kingsport, Tenn.: Training Division, Kingsport Press, 1929. Book. Fine. Leather. First Edition. SCARCE with a custom handmade walnut two-piece case and with original glassine unprinted jacket. 7/8" x 5 /8", [3]-139 pages, (1), colophon page ("These miniature editions of Lincoln's addresses originated with the students of the Training Division of the Kingsport Press. The initial edition won a… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his Life, written by himself : together with Essays, humourous, moral and literary ; chiefly in the manner of the Spectator. : In two volumes. Volume I [-II].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/599/347/1530347599.0.m.jpg)
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Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his Life, written by himself : together with Essays, humourous, moral and literary ; chiefly in the manner of the Spectator. : In two volumes. Volume I [-II].
by Franklin, Benjamin; Price, Richard; Stueber, Henry
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- Used - Very Good Minus
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- No Jacket, As Issued
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- Later American Edition
- Published
- 1800
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$1,000.00
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Huntingdon, (Pennsylvania): [publisher not identified] Printed for the proprietor,, 1800. Book. Very Good Minus. Full Calf. Later American Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Two volumes bound as one in original calf, Vol 1, vi, [1], 8-156 pages; Vol. 2, 117 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Franklin in beaver skin hat engraved by J. Bannerman. Preface includes a… Read more about this item Item Price
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(WWI Broadside) for the Boys at Camp Fremont * Mammoth Patriotic SONG FESTIVAL Stanford Stadium, Palo Alto SUNDAY JUNE 9th, at 2 P.m. * SCHUMANN-HEINK World's Greatest Contralto Soloist * Greatest Open Air Concert Ever Held in America
by (Schumann-Heink, Ernestine)
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Printing
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- 1918
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$900.00
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San Francisco: Walter N. Brunt Press, 1918. Book. Very Good. Newsprint. First Printing. 14" x 10 1/2". 14" h x 10 1/2" w World War One broadside printed on newsprint by Walter N. Brunt Press, 880 Mission St., S.F. No year given, but (1918). Very Good, small edge tears and chips, light creasing. Billed as the "Greatest Open Air… Read more about this item Item Price
$900.00
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New Frontiers
by Wallace, Henry A.
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1934
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$300.00
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New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1934. Book. Very Good. Cloth. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at front end page, and SCARCE thus. First Printing, no additional printings stated. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket, small stains at fore edge, discarded from the library of Winter Park Towers, a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Historical and Genealogical Records of the Devenish Families of England and Scotland ; with an Inquiry Into the Origin of the Family Name and Some Accounts of the Family Lines Founded by Them in Other Countries
by Devenish, Robert J. and McLaughlin, Charles H.
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- Used - Fine
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- Limited and Numbered First Edition
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- 1948
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$500.00
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Chicago: Privately Printed/ the Lakeside Press, 1948. Book. Fine. Cloth. Limited and Numbered First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. An unnumbered copy of 100 copies "Presented with the compliments of the author". xvii, 409 pages. Fine in original blue cloth, gilt rules bordering covers and gilt lettering at spine, top edge gilt. With 8 illustrations and 11… Read more about this item Item Price
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A History Of The American People, In Five Volumes, Illustrated With Portraits, Maps, Plans, Facsimiles, Rare Prints, Contemporary Views, Etc.
by Wilson, Woodrow
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- Used - Good
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- No Jacket, As Issued
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- First Edition
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- 1902
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$500.00
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New York and London: Harper & Brother Publishers, 1902. Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Complete five volume set bound in original red cloth lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, Near Fine, the spines a shade sunned, light rubbing at edges. Volume I: The Swarming of the English; Volume II: Colonies and Nation;… Read more about this item Item Price
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![[Ledgers] Original Manuscript Store Ledger for J. W. Beaman General Merchandise (also Beaman & Mosher), Wells, PA 1880-1884](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/422/441/1515441422.0.m.jpg)
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[Ledgers] Original Manuscript Store Ledger for J. W. Beaman General Merchandise (also Beaman & Mosher), Wells, PA 1880-1884
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket, As Issued
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- 1880
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$700.00
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Wells, PA: J. W. Beaman, 1880. Book. Near Fine. Leather. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Folio ledger book bound in quarter polished calf over suede, four raised bands with black morocco labels in gilt, marbled end papers. (52) alphabet index pages followed by 525 numbered pages. With 4 pieces of ephemera laid in, 3 receipts for J. W.… Read more about this item Item Price
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![[Works.] (The Works of William H. Prescott); Illustrated Cabinet Edition. In 16 Volumes](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/885/958/1514958885.0.m.jpg)
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[Works.] (The Works of William H. Prescott); Illustrated Cabinet Edition. In 16 Volumes
by William Hickling Prescott; George Ticknor
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket, As Issued
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- Illustrated Cabinet Edition
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- 1837
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$2,000.00
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New York: Merrill and Baker, 1837. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Illustrated Cabinet Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1837-1886. v. 1-2. The Conquest of Peru.--v. 3-5. The Conquest of Mexico.--v. 6-8. Ferdinand and Isabella.--v. 9-11. The Reign of Charles V.--v. 12-14. The Reign of Philip II.--v. 15. Miscellanies.--v. 16 Life of William H. Prescott, by George Ticknor.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Army, Through the Revolutionary War; and the First President of the United States . In Two Volumes
by Bancroft, Aaron
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- Used - Very Good Plus
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- No Jacket, As Issued
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- Later American Edition
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- 1826
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$500.00
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Boston: T. Bedlington, 1826. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Later American Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Two volumes, finely bound in 19th c. half red morocco over marbled boards. From the collection and with the book plate of H. O. Havemeyer, Jr. designed by J. W. Spenceley Boston 1905 on the front paste down. Havemeyer was… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Missouri Land & Live Stock Co. Have for Sale a Large Amount of Fine Fruit & Agricultural Lands in Stone and Christian Counties MO. At Low Prices and on Easy Terms
by John M. Purdy, Manager
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$700.00
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Neosho. Missouri/ St. Louis: Missouri Land and Live Stock Company/ Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co Book. Very Good. Single Sheet, Folded. 16 1/2" x 16 3/4". No date, after 1881, circa mid-1880s to mid-1890s. Single Sheet, Folded, 16 1/2" x 16 3/4" folded 4 times to make a 4 1/4" x 8 1/2" brochure. Verso a single map -… Read more about this item Item Price
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Gold Rush Steamers {{of the Pacific}}
by Wiltsee, Ernest A.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket
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- Limited Edition
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- 1938
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$225.00
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San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1938. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 500 copies printed at The Grabhorn Press. Near Fine, two small spots of browning to spine label. x, 367 pages, original white quarter cloth over peach buckram boards. A lovely copy.. Item Price
$225.00
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Golden Jubilee Catalog Sears, Roebuck and Co., Fall and Winter 1936-1937n, No. 173
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket, As Issued
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- First Edition
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- 1936
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$300.00
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Chicago: Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1936. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. In publisher's original cloth bindingstamped in gilt, gold end papers, Very Good, with original paper wrappers well preserved, several pages noted with old tape repairs, one page noted with 4" bottom corner chip, lacking the table of contents page, rear order… Read more about this item Item Price
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No More Vietnams
by Nixon, Richard
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- Used - Fine
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- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1985
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780877956686
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- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$250.00
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New York: Arbor House, 1985. Book. Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing, SIGNED and Dated BY AUTHOR former President Richard Nixon at half title page "Richard Nixon 1-15-90". The First Trade Edition in dust jacket, not the ubiquitous Presidential Edition in blue slipcase. Fine in a… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
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Message to America, Delivered on the 107th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation at Washington, D.C., Capitol of Babylon, World Racism and Imperialism, June 19, 1970.
by The Black Panther Party, ( Eldridge Cleaver and Huey P. Newton,)
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- Used - Very Good Plus
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- No Jacket, As Issued
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- First Printing
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- 1970
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$400.00
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Washington, D.C.: The Black Panther Party, 1970. Book. Very Good Plus. Newsprint. First Printing. 11 3/8" x 17 1/2". A proclamation that was issued for a rally at the Lincoln Memorial, attended by about 1,000 people on Juneteenth (June 19), 1970, on the occasion of BPP's call for a " Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention". The purpose for the convention was… Read more about this item Item Price
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