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Prairie Women: Images In American And Canadian Fiction

By: Fairbanks, Carol

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New Haven and London, Yale University Press: 1986

Seller ID: 025474

ISBN: 0300033745

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First printing in clean original dust jacket. Clean unfaded green cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking; pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with photographs, drawings. 300 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, has slight wear at top spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. This book is based on an examination of over 100 works from the frontier era to the present, all written by Americ...
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Seeing The Eastern States

By: Faris, John T.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott: 1922

Seller ID: 022300

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean decorated American trade binding. Light brown cloth boards with blue line border, blue, black and brown illustration of seascape with lighthouse on cover, black lettering and small oval decoration on spine. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Color frontis illustration ("Morning at Seaside Park, New Jersey") with clean tissue guard. Illustrated with many black and white photographic plates throughout. 244 pages with index. Early printing; same date (1922) on title page and copyright page, no...
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American Guide Series: Rochester and Monroe County - A History and Guide

By: Federal Writers' Project Works Progress Administration

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Scrantom's / The City of Rochester and The Genesee Book Club: 1937

Seller ID: 028098

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean hardcover book with faux leather burgundy hardcover binding, gold lettering on cover and spine. No fading, bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean map-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Foreword by Harry L. Hopkins. Illustrated with three wonderful large fold-out maps (all present), smaller maps, photographs. 460 pages with index.
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Camels to California

By: Fowler, Harland D.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Stanford, California, Stanford University Press: 1950

Seller ID: 027834

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Beige cloth boards with brown lettering, camel illustration on cover; brown title box on spine; light soiling to rear board. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean map-illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated. Size approx. 7" x 10-1/2". Seventh book in the Stanford Transportation Series, designed by Arthur Lites, composed in Linotype Granjon type, printed and bound on the Stanford Campus. Calligraphic initials and titles were freely drawn from Legend type, with...
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Family

By: Frazier, Ian

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A., Farrar Straus Giroux: 1994

Seller ID: 016861

ISBN: 0-374-15319-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stated First Edition. Clean leather-look brown boards with stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. Hint of slightest surface wear to spine corners; no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 386 pgs. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A chronicle of the author's family in America from the early colonial days to the present--a poetic epic of facts, a chronicle of Protestant...
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Desert Mavericks: Caught and Branded

By: Ganson, Eve

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara, California, Wallace Hebberd: 1928

Seller ID: 019870

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition in clean unclipped jacket. Clean burgundy cloth boards with blue lettering on cover and spine. Hint of surface wear to corners, no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with drawings. Foreword by Dr. William T. Hornaday. Clean jacket with price intact (2.00 on rear inside flap), shallow chipping ata base of spine (1/4"). Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Humorous adventures with wild animals on the Sonora Desert illustrated with cartoons and drawings.
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Diamonds: The Evolution of the Ballpark, From Elysian Fields to Camden Yards

By: Gershma, Michael

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: 1993

Seller ID: 025888

ISBN: 0395612128

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First Printing (with full number line on copyright page) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Size approx. 9-1/2" x 12". Very clean green boards with green cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright with clean illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Beautifully illustrated with historical photographs. 259 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped.
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Headwaters of the Mississippi - Comprising Biographical Sketches of Early and Recent Explorers of the Great River, and a Full Account of the Discovery and Location of its True Source in a Lake Beyond Itasca

By: Glazier, Captain Willard

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago / New York, Rand McNally & Company: 1893

Seller ID: 024484

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Copyright date 1892; date on title page 1893. Decorated dark blue-green cloth boards with gold and silver illustration on cover (map of Lake Glazier and Lake Itasca), gold shield title box and Indian paddling canoe on spine, black lakes map illustration on rear board. Beveled board edges. Slight wear to corners and spine edges. Light soiling (a few very tiny spots). Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages are clean with clean floral endpapers; neatly ink-stamped previous owner name on blank front fly leaf. Frontis portrait of Willard Glazier with tissue guard. 527 pgs. with index....
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The Art of Colonial America

By: Glubok, Shirley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, The MacMillan Co.: 1970

Seller ID: 014747

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean, illustrated boards with black and white lettering on spine, black and red lettering on front cover. Very slightest hint of surface wear to bottom edges. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean, crisp and bright; no writing or marks. 48 pgs. Dustjacket is not price clipped, one 3/4" chip to top left corner of rear panel near flap fold. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Miss Glubok presents the rich artistic heritage - distinctively American - that developed from roots in England, Holland, Germany and France. Great for young readers. 10" x 10". Art.
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Elizabeth Visits America

By: Glyn, Elinor

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Duffield & Co.: 1909

Seller ID: 025340

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition - very clean green cloth boards with unchipped white lettering, small crown and line border on cover, crips white lettering and small crown on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages are clean, with slight browning to endpapers. "Snow Ranch - Aladdin, Wyo." neatly penned on front fixed endpaper. 350 pages.
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The Pennsylvania Reader

By: Goho, Stephen O.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: American Book Co.: 1897

Seller ID: 008989

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near FIne

Very clean tan cloth boards with decorative title box, bright gilt lettering on cover, gilt lettering and small decoration on spine. No fraying, very little wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, no foxing. No names, bookplates or marks. 207 pgs. Illustrated throughout with engravings. An exceptionally nice copy of this book.
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Forgotten Pioneer

By: Golden, Harry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cleveland / New York, World Publishing: 1963

Seller ID: 020777

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

"First Edition" stated on copyright page, in clean unclipped dustjacket. Beige cloth boards with small illustration in brown on cover and spine, black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Offset (brown shadow) to a few pages from an enclosed newspaper article reviewing the book. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated by Leonard Vosburgh. 157 pp. + bibliography. Clean illustrated dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The ...
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Forgotten Pioneer

By: Golden, Harry

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cleveland / New York, World Publishing: 1963

Seller ID: 023220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Stated First Edition in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean beige cloth boards with small brown illustration on cover, black lettering will small illustration on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated by Leonard Vosburgh. 157 pages + Bibliography. Dust jacket is not price clipped (4.00 on front inside flap), very tiny chip at top edge of front panel (1/4" depth). Author's photo and brief bio on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cove...
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Westward with Fremont: The Story of Solomon Carvalho

By: Greenspan, Sophie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America: 1969

Seller ID: 006739

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean blue cloth boards with white lettering on cover and spine. Very little wear, some fading to extreme edges. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages are clean and bright. Maps on endpapers. No names or bookplates. 164 pgs. Clean dustjacket is price clipped, has two 1-1/2" closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Exploration.
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Clothespins and Calendars: Recollections of the Past

By: Halfmann, Eunice K.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Canaan, NH, Phoenix Publishing: 1985

Seller ID: 015223

ISBN: 0-914659-11-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Clean beige and brown smooth boards with portrait of author on cover. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers illustrated with old group photo. Inscribed and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page: "To John and Barb from Eunie - Eunice K. Hoffman". 91 pgs. illustrated with photographs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has a few tiny edge nicks and tiny closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Nostalgic story about the everyday world of a woman whoses life spanned the era of pioneer living and our 20th century world...
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Handbook of Yosemite National Park - A Compendium of Articles on the Yosemite Region by the Leading Scientific Authorities

By: Hall, Ansel F.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam: 1921

Seller ID: 025434

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition, decorated American trade binding. Green ribbed cloth boards with white title box and green, white and black mountain-forest-stream decoration on cover, black lettering and tree on spine. Very tiny spots of surface wear to spine ends, no fraying, no wear-through. Extremely light soiling to rear board (slight loss of sheen in one area). Decoration and lettering is crisp, no wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with blank endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Frontispiece illustration of Yosemite Valley with clean tissue guard; 27 ...
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Tales of the Gold Rush

By: Harte, Bret

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Heritage Press: 1944

Seller ID: 026516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very clean unworn book in unworn slipcase. Illustrated by Fletcher Martin, with an Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Clean gold marbled paper-covered boards with yellow cloth spine, brown lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. "Sandglass" pamphlet still enclosed (no. 8H). 223 pages. Slipcase is covered in woodgrain-like paper, no wear, no cracking.
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A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk: A Boy's View of the Great Depression

By: Hastings, Robert J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University Graphics and Publications/Souther Illinois University: 1976

Seller ID: 006666

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean brown boards with small gold illustration on cover, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. 149 pgs. Clean brown slipcase with small gold illustration (boy holding a bucket)--no chipping, fading, cracking or wear. 8 vo.. American History.
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The Heartland

By: Havighurst, Walter

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1962

Seller ID: 022608

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition in original unclipped jacket. Clean red cloth boards with black title box, gold lettering on spine. Small dent to title box on spine. No fraying, no bumped corners. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean map-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 400 pages with index. Illustrations and jacket design by Grattan Condon. Dustjacket is not price clipped, clean, with several closed edge tears up to 1-1/4". Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Buggies, Blizzards, and Babies

By: Hawkins, Cora Frear

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ames, IA, The Iowa State University Press: 1971

Seller ID: 005273

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean blue boards with black lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Very small P/O label at inside edge of front free endpaper. Illustrated with old photographs. CLean bright dustjacket has not been price clipped, is unchipped and enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.
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Category: Americana