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Fine Food, Wine, and Pickled Pine - The Story of Coventry Forge Inn

By: Cole, Ann Kilborn

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, David McKay: 1962

Seller ID: 026563

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Stated First Edition in original dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Light dust soiling to cloth boards. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 211 pages. Dust jacket is clean, has small edge chips, closed edge tears, price clipped at upper corner of front inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. How the author and her son turned an old country house in Pennsylvani...
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Liberty and Property

By: Coleman, R. V.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner: 1951

Seller ID: 023684

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, Firt Printing (with "A" on copyright page), in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean red cloth boards with gold sailing ship design on cover, gold lettering and decoration on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 62 illustrations from original paintings and engravings. 28 full page maps. 606 pages with index. Clean dust jacket has slight edge wear, no chips, not price clipped (5.00 on front inside flap). Enclosed in new archival quality removabl...
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Stars in the Water: The story of the Erie Canal

By: Condon, George E

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday: 1974

Seller ID: 028133

ISBN: 0385066422

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Stated First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean gray cloth boards with brown cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean with clean map-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Black and white illustrations. 38 pages with index. Clean illustrated jacket has very shallow chipping at spine ends, a few short closed edge tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Stars in the water: The story of the Erie Canal

By: Condon, George E.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday: 1974

Seller ID: 026480

ISBN: 0385066422

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Later printing of the first edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean gray cloth boards with brown cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean map-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with drawings. 338 pages with index. Clean illustrated dust jacket is not price clipped, hint of very slight fading to spine, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Fascinating history of the construct...
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A Ride to Niagara in 1809

By: Cooper, Thomas

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rochester, NY, George P. Humphrey: 1915

Seller ID: 023767

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed, limited edition (This is no. 18 of two hundred copies). Clean gray paper-covered boards with gray cloth spine, unchipped and clean original paper title label on cover. Wear-through to corner tips and to a few spots along board edges. Binding is tight, no cracking; pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers. Fold-out map of Niagara and Finger Lakes region. Signed on the title page "Thomas Cooper" just below the initials T.C. 49 pages.
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Romantic Days in Old Boston

By: Crawford, Mary Caroline

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Boston, Little Brown: 1910

Seller ID: 007962

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Ex-library with light library markings. Clean green cloth boards with paste-on illustration (portrait) on cover (unchipped), gilt decoration, white lettering. Light wear to corners. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Gilt top page edges. 411 pgs. with index. Illustrated with photographs. 8vo. Massachusetts.
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The Great North Trail: America's Route of the Ages

By: Cushman, Dan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York - Toronto - London - Sydney, McGraw Hill: 1966

Seller ID: 014466

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean sky blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine and three small silver, gold, and green illustration on front right corner. Slight fading to spine and board edges. Binding is tight and square. Pages, edges, and endpapers are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no writing or marks. 383 pgs. with index. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped with a few very short closed tears. Jacket designed by James Craig. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8 Vo. Americana.
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Cow Country

By: Dale, Edward Everett

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press: 1945

Seller ID: 024029

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Third printing, published July, 1945, inscribed and SIGNED by author. Beige cloth boards are unfaded and clean except for faint number at top edge of spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by author: "To Mr. Elmer Barnes with all good wishes of Edward Everett Dale - Sept. 10, 1969." 265 pages. Author's essays on cowboy life in the American West.
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The Tennessee (Two volume set complete, in dust jackets)

By: Davidson, Donald

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Rinehart & Company: 1946

Seller ID: 026468

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Two volume set, complete, from the "Rivers of America" series. Each volume is in its original dust jacket. Both are illustrated by Theresa Sherrer Davidson. VOLUME I: The Tennessee - The Old River - Frontier to Secession. Has clean turquoise cloth boards with burgundy title box, gold lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. First edition, with publisher's "R" in a circle on copyright page. Clean illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Two page map of the river. All pages and edges are clean. ...
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Exploration in Texas, Ancient & Otherwise with Thoughts on the Nature of Evidence

By: Davis, John L.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: San Antonio, TX, The University of Texas: 1984

Seller ID: 010903

ISBN: 086701-018-5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, signed by author, in clean dust jacket. Very clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. No previous owner names or bookplates. Clean orange-brown endpapers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. 136 pgs. with index. Illustrated with maps, photographs and drawings. Clean dustjacket has slight edge wear, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8-1/2 x 10-1/2".
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The West from a Car-Window

By: Davis, Richard Harding

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper and Brothers: 1903

Seller ID: 019706

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean blue cloth boards with red title box, gold lettering and decoration on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt top page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Frontis illustration of a bucking bronco by Frederick Remington with clean tissue guard; many illustrations and photographs throughout. 243 pp.
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The West from A Car-Window

By: Davis, Richard Harding

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1892

Seller ID: 027632

Condition: Good

First Edition, published 1892. Illustrated with photographs, drawings by Frederick Remington. Deep blue cloth boards with silver lettering and small illustration on cover, silver lettering on spine. Shallow chipping and wear at top and bottom spine edges. Very light hint of soiling. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - previous owner name in very light pencil on blank fly leaf dated "Xmas, '92." 243 pages.
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Dem Good Ole Times

By: Dooley, Mrs. James H.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Co.: 1906

Seller ID: 026049

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Lovely condition First Edition, First printing (Published October, 1906) in scarce original dust jacket. Decorated American trade binding - pink cloth with blue green and light pink decoration on cover, stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt top page edges and unmarked endpapers. Full color illustrations by Suzanne Gutherz; decorations by Cora Parker. 151 pages. Original brown paper dust jacket with darker brown title, author and publisher's name on front panel; very...
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Wild, Woolly & Wicked - The History of the Kansas Cow Towns and the Texas Cattle Trade

By: Drago, Harry Sinclair

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Clarkson N. Potter: 1960

Seller ID: 018160

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition in original dustjacket. Clean mauve cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean map-illustrated endpapers. Small previous owner name on half-title page; no other marks. 354 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has very shallow chipping at top spine edge (under 1/16"), hint of very light rubbing. Author's photo on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Complete and accurate story of the hell-roaring Kansas cowtowns--the brief violent lives ...
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A Hoosier Holiday

By: Dreiser, Theodore

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, John Lane/The Bodley Head: 1916

Seller ID: 011442

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean green paper covered boards with stamped gold and brown lettering and small illustration on cover, olive/beige cloth spine with stamped gold lettering. Slight wear to spine edges and some wear-through to corner tips. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean illustrated endpapers. Tasteful privately printed bookplate on fly leaf. 513 pgs. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Franklin Booth.
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Passenger Terminals and Trains

By: Droege, John A.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kalmbach Publishing Company: 1969

Seller ID: 028857

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean hardcover book in unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in 1916 by McGraw-Hill, this edition was republished in 1969 by Kalmbach Publishing Company, with a special Introduction by George W. Hilton. Dark blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages are clean. Clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs. fold-out diagrams showing layout of important terminals throughout the U.S.. 410 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, has two short close...
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Skyline Camps - A Note Book of a Wanderer in Our Northwestern Mountains

By: Eaton, Walter Prichard

Price: $20.00

Publisher: U.S.A., W. A. Wilde Company: 1922

Seller ID: 024033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Brown cloth boards with large unchipped paste-on illustration on cover, stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. Slight bumping and wear, tiny puncture to rear board near spine edge. A solid reading copy. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Full page photographic illustrations with descriptions from beautiful locations in the Northwest U.S. such as St. Mary Lake, Lake Chelan, Glacier Park, Crater Lake, Mount Jefferson, the Continental Divide and many more. 245 pages.
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Leschi of the Nisquallies

By: Emmons, Della Gould

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, T. S. Denison & Co.: 1965

Seller ID: 013184

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean rust brown cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Hint of surface wear to corners, no fraying. Binfing is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers are ilustrated with maps; no names, writing or marks. 416 pgs. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on back of front free endpaper; also inscribed and SIGNED by C. E. Hutchin, Jr. to whom the book is dedicated by the author. Dustjacket has very light soiling, very small chip at lower spine corner and lower spine tip, small price clip to front inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. The story of Leschi, th...
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Life Was Simpler Then

By: Erdman, Loula Grace

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd Mead: 1963

Seller ID: 021247

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Third printing, in original unclipped jacket. Clean red boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 186 pages. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped (5.95 on front inside flap), has slight edge wear and short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Charming book of personal recollections of the author's childhood in western Missouri, told with humor and pathos.
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Papa Was Positive

By: Estey, Emily

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sherburne, NY, Heritage Press: 1966

Seller ID: 022704

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition in unclipped jacket, SIGNED by the author. Clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers. Inscribed and signed on the half-title page by the author: "Best wishes to Aunt Ethel - Emily Estey - 1966." Line drawings by Hilda Faulkner. 160 pages. Dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, a few faint spots of light soiling. Author's photo and short bio on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Author's story of growing up in the countrysid...
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Category: Americana