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PrairyErth: (A Deep Map)

By: Heat-Moon, William Least

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1991

Seller ID: 013504

ISBN: 0-395-48602-5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean beige boards with black cloth spine, bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers (illustrated with maps). No names, writing or bookplates. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. 624 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, price clipped corner on front inside flap; removable sticker on front "Autographed Copy - Borders Book Shop". Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Large 8vo. Travel.
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Indian Scout - Western Painter - Captain Charles L. von Berg

By: Heerwagen, Paul K.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Little Rock, Arkansas, Pioneer Press: 1969

Seller ID: 022850

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, SIGNED by author, in original unclipped jacket. Very clean green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Signed by author on front fixed endpaper: "Paul K. Heerwagen." No other marks or writing. Printed on excellent quality glossy paper. Illustrated with black and white plates. 119 pages. Dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped (2.95 on front inside flap), clean and bright, very faint foxing to rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Reflections of Madison County: A Visual Journey

By: Heffron, Mark F.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Smithmark Publishers: 1994

Seller ID: 009410

ISBN: 0-8317-4866-4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean illustrated boards (photo of covered bridge). No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. 80 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, and enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Beautiful photographs of Madison County in Iowa. 6 x 8-1/2". Midwest.
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A Loiterer in New York - Discoveries Made by a Rambler Through Obvious Yet Unsought Highways and Byways

By: Henderson, Helen W.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran: 1917

Seller ID: 022841

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Probable second printing (no GHD symbol on copyright page). Decorated American trade binding. Green cloth boards with gold lettering, gold bridge decoration on cover. Slight surface wear to corners, no 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 photo illustration of the Plaza fountains in New York City, with tissue guard; 86 illustrations total. Preface by Paul W. Bartlett. 454 pages. A large book in which the author explores New York City's history, art and architecture, i...
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Lodgings In Town

By: Henry, Arthur

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, A. S. Barnes: 1905

Seller ID: 028074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition decorated American trade binding. Clean green buckram cloth boards with gold decorative title box, gold lettering on cover, gold lettering and door knocker on spine. No fraying or wear-through. Slight sunning to spine, but gold lettering and decoration remains bright and legible. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Small previous owner name is neatly ink-stamped on front pastedown, a few tiny spots to endpapers. Profusely illustrated with wonderful old photographic images of New York City. 327 pages. A nice little ramble around New York City just a...
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Great Resorts of North America

By: Hepburn, Andrew

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday & Co.: 1965

Seller ID: 013994

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Very clean rust brown cloth boards with black title box, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Hint of slightest surface wear to spine corners. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 229 pgs. with index. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has tiny corner chip at base of spine, slight wear at top and bottom spine edge, one short closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A visit to some of the greatest resorts in North America, illustrated with photographs. 8vo. Americana.
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The Horse and Buggy Doctor

By: Hertzler, Arthur E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York/London, Harper & Brothers: 1938

Seller ID: 011485

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean dark blue cloth boards has some paint on board bottom edges. Otherwise very clean with no wear or fraying. Small illustration in white on cover, gold lettering on cover, bright white lettering on spine. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name neatly penned on front free endpaper. 322 pgs. Dustjacket is not price clipped, has a few small chips and closed tears, 1/4" loss at top of spine.. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.
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The Doctor and his Patients - The American Domestic Scene as viewed by the Family Doctor

By: Hertzler, Arthur E.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1940

Seller ID: 017950

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

"First Edition" stated on copyright page. Clean unfaded dark green cloth boards with turquoise and gold title box on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 316 pgs. Unfaded illustrated dustjacket is not price clipped, has 3/4" piece missing at base of spine, a few additional chips and closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. By the author of "The Horse and Buggy Doctor", Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler now looks at life and love, at Am...
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Country Editor

By: Hough, Henry Beetle

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday Doran: 1940

Seller ID: 025115

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Stated First Edition in clean original unclipped dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with blind-stamped decoration on cover, gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean blank endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 325 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped (3.00 on front inside flap), has shallow chipping at top and bottom spine edge (max. 1/4"), a few very small edge chips. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Story of the twenty years author served as editor and publisher o...
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Voices of the Glen

By: Howland, Henry Raymond

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Knickerbocker Press: 1911

Seller ID: 020708

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Beautifully clean, unfaded green cloth boards with blind-stamped fern decoration on cover, bright gilt stamped lettering on cover. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt page edges. Clean chocolate brown endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with beautiful photographs, illustrations, page decorations, frontis illustration of the Glen Iris Inn with clean tissue guard. 97 pp. Scarce book, about the locality known as Glen Iris which embraces the Upper and Middle Falls of the Upper Genesee River and the adjacent scenery i...
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Reapers of the Dust - A Prairie Chronicle

By: Hudson, Lois Phillips

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co.: 1964

Seller ID: 019943

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Later printing in clean unclipped jacket. Clean cream cloth boards with brown lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Previous owner name at top edge of front free endpaper. 173 pp. Clean jacket is not price clipped (4.75 on front inside flap), unchipped, with a few short closed edge tears.
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The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate, 1889

By: Hufsmith, George W.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Glendo, Wyoming, High Plains Press: 1993

Seller ID: 028063

ISBN: 0931271142

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, SIGNED by author, in clean unchipped dust jacket. Clean purple cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 368 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, has two 1" closed edge tears near base of spine. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The lynching of Cattle Kate (Ellen Watson) and Jim Averell by six politically powerful Wyoming catt...
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The Forty-Niners: The Chronicle of the California Trail

By: Hulbert, Archer Butler

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Blue Ribbon Books: 1931

Seller ID: 016069

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Orange ribbed cloth boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Some fading to edges, slight wear to corners. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 340 pgs. with index. Illustrated with black & white plates, drawings and maps. Clean dustjacket has moderate edge chipping, 2" curved closed tear at top edge of back panel. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A complete chronicle of what happend to the thousands of men and women who took the Overland Trail to California in the days of the Gold ...
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Wells Fargo: Advancing the American Frontier

By: Hungerford, Edward

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1949

Seller ID: 009683

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near FIne

Clean illustrated cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or bookplates. 274 pgs. with index. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has one small chip at top rear edge, a few very short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Americana.
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Peninsula Pilgrimage: An Off-beat Journey Through Stately, Historic Virginia

By: Huntley, Elizabeth Valentine

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Princeton, The Pyne Press: 1974

Seller ID: 011626

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean turquoise cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. 398 pgs. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. An unabridged and unaltered republication of the original edition (originally published by the Press of Whittet & Shepperson, Richmond, 1941). 7-1/2" x 10-1/2". Virginia.
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One Man's Montana: An Informal Portrait of a State

By: Hutchens, John K.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J. B. Lippincott: 1964

Seller ID: 008515

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Very clean brown marbled boards with rust-color cloth spine, black and silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Illustrated endpapers. Small previous owner name on half-title page. 221 pgs. Clean unchipped dustjacket is not price clipped, has light foxing to front and rear flaps. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. American West.
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Henry Walton - 19th Century American Artist - December 9, 1968 - January 4, 1969

By: Ithaca College Museum of Art

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ithaca, NY, Ithaca College Museum of Art: 1968

Seller ID: 027611

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Catalog from the first major exhibit of Walton's works which opened at Ithaca College's Museum of Art on December 9, 1968. Very clean catalog with color illustrated cover (illustrated with Walton's "View of Addison") and a mylar cover bound over that (stapled binding). No fading, creasing or chipping. As new. 76 pages. An article about the show from the Ithaca Journal (Saturday, December 7, 1968) is laid in, along with a Geneological Chart showing the descendants of Cruger, the son of Henry Walton. No one knows what Henry Walton looked like, but, because of his artistry, we know a...
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Charlie the Mole and Other Droll Souls

By: Jacobs, Howard

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Gretna, LA, Pelican Pub Co Inc: 1973

Seller ID: 018283

ISBN: 0882890018

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, signed by author, in original dustjacket. Clean bright orange cloth boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Tiny bump with light wear at top board edge; very light bumping at top and bottom spine edge. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages are clean, with slight dust-speckling to outside page edges. Light yellowing to endpapers. Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper: "To James S. Augustes, Regards, Howard Jacobs 5-2-74. 152 pgs. with illustrations by Eldon Pletcher. Dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, with faint soiling to rea...
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Our American Wonderlands

By: James, George Wharton

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Chicago, A. C. McClurg: 1920

Seller ID: 028514

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Later printing of the first edition, first published in 1915, this copy published in 1920. Clean midnight blue cloth boards with small geyser and mountain backdrop decoration on cover, stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. Light surface wear to spine corners; no fraying. Binding is tight, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean, with small ownership indication ink-stamped at top text block edges; small return address label at top corner edge of front free endpaper. A few paper fragments remain from removal of an old book plate on front pastedown. Map-illustrated endpapers; illus...
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Horses I Have Known

By: James, Will

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner: 1940

Seller ID: 028987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, First Printing (with "A" on copyright page) in original illustrated dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with rust red lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers (small previous owner name neatly penned at top edge of front free endpaper). Beautiful illustrations by the author. 281 pages. Dust jacket is quite clean (a little light dust soiling) has small corner chips, short closed edge tears, price clip to upper corner of front inside flap. Enclosed in n...
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Category: Americana